Chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional leg
Us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional legislation in conjunction with our increased work load. So, the net result of this in terms of the impact on our budget is a 6. 3 increase this
Im not sure we made things easier by showing off. Thank you for the handout and thank you for being here. My pleasure. ~ ms. Lowell. My pleasure. My apologies. [speaker not understood] the executive director. This is my Deputy Robert collins. And in a second were going to have a slide to show you the mission of the rent board. I always come before you saying that my goal is to be the least of your problems, but not this year. I think [speaker not understood] were experiencing a bit of an affordability crisis in San Francisco. The mission of the rent board we can just follow along, if you dont mind. The mission of the rent board is basically to protect tenants from excessive rent increases while ensuring landlords fair and adequate rents for trying. In order to do that, our two basic services are Public Information and counseling and administrative hearings. And at the moment we have a 2 to 3 month backlog for priority cases for hearing and a 5 to sixmonth backlog for all other cases. I
In addition, in addition, this chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impact
Our total [speaker not understood] is the twoyear total. Our petitions, total petitions have gone up 26 in the last two years. Now, some categories have gone down. For example, tenant petitions two years ago went down 4 . But guess what . This year it went up 24 so we have a 20 increase in tenant petitions orbv the last two years. Our other major category of work is landlord petitions, of course ~ and the good news is those went down 1 this year, however, they went up 37 last year. So, we have a net increase of 36 in landlord petitions as well. The next category is ellis and were not going to talk about ellis. We all know way too much about ellis these days. In addition, in addition, this chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff.