because we re also paying our dues. we re also part of the city. we re also civilians and we re just trying to live our lives. so, thank you. thank you. next speaker. my name is sarah sherman [speaker not understood]. i m also a renter in san francisco. and thank you all for sitting around for the comments. as you hear that the reality of half the housing situation now in san francisco is many tenants are being pushed out of their homes. many of these are elderly long-term tenants, but because of the amount of money speculators can get out, some of the front lines are being pushed out. and recently i was talking to a man who lived in the unit 18 years and had given the notice, a choice of a buyout or an ellis act. and instead of going to a tenants right appeal, he went to a tenants warrior. and what they told him was that they could ellis act him, that he should take the buyout. so, it was only a matter of time. by the time i had talked to him, he had already signed the
juncture. right now we have such a severe housing crises, rents are sky rocketing. we have 2200 children in san francisco unified schools that are homeless. just last year, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of households were displaced. we need to draw a line in the sand. we need to halt it and we need to try to preserve as much as we can every household in san francisco. the fact that during this time that this legislation was introduced was frankly pretty flabbergasted. i want to talk about just my block, and i actually wrote, you know, put together a graph that was so crowded with information it was unreadable. i m going to try to summarize it a bit. on the 2700 block of harrison on just the east side of the block, we ve had four households that were bought out. we ve had one ellis act eviction and those buyouts were under threat of ellis act. we ve had four households that were tic d. all nine household were people of color. almost all of them were families.
good evening, supervisors. my name is melli [speaker not understood]. we are facing a housing crisis in our communities. rents are sky rocketing and [speaker not understood] are increasing. [speaker not understood] we know will reduce the supply of department when we need more. it is wrong policy at the wrong time. supervisor chiu, [speaker not understood] and supervisor norman yee, please vote no on any amendment, and do not send this to the full board. thank you. ~ supervisor jane kim. thank you. the next speaker, i have one more card and i m sorry i cannot read your name. but you know who you are. you can come on up. go ahead, sir. hello, supervisors. i am a minority here because i am a property owner and i m also a landlord. i just wanted to say that i m happy to be a landlord. i do appreciate the hardships the tenants have under these circumstances, but hardships are not only for tenants. property owners can also have their own hardships. right now i m very happy to be
we don t know exactly when the first approval is. we don t know what organization makes the first approval. and we don t have a chance to appeal the process or the project after that first approval. it just doesn t make sense to me and i think that we deserve to have a full discussion of two alternative ways of reforming this process. i m not against development. i m for fair and reasonable development in the city. and i m also hoping that public participation not only continues in this process, but is made more robust rather than being cut off. thank you very much. thank you. ms. hillson, i think we re ready now. can i talk from this mic? thanks. so, the first slide you re seeing [speaker not understood] coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. first slide you re going to see is this house on 44 9 [speaker not understood] district 8, supervisor wiener s district. and it s a 1-1/2 story, one and a third story house that was built in 1900s, and then it got transformed in
development in the city. and i m also hoping that public participation not only continues in this process, but is made more robust rather than being cut off. thank you very much. thank you. ms. hillson, i think we re ready now. can i talk from this mic? thanks. so, the first slide you re seeing [speaker not understood] coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. first slide you re going to see is this house on 44 9 [speaker not understood] district 8, supervisor wiener s district. and it s a 1-1/2 story, one and a third story house that was built in 1900s, and then it got transformed into this, which is the raising of the house [speaker not understood] and building setback. and then this is the area it s not showing, but there is an aerial view slide that comes after this and it shows the whole aerial there it is, so, it s delayed. so, my number of seconds is ticking faster. this slide shows the process by which planning and dbi went through cat exing november 2007 wit