Real money. [ music ] this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up on facebook. Most americans agree the middle class is in crisis. Squeezed by years of job lose, rising costs and stagnant wages, 40 of americans say they belong to the middle class, down by 53 in 2008, when the recession hit. There is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists define it by income. We define americas middle class as households with incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,000, based on analysis. That encompasses middle income families with similar dreams and pierations, securing a job, home, health care add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough for retirement. They are becoming harder to achieve. Median Household Income in the United States was 53,171 a year in 2012 thats the most recent year for which we have data. Half of all households earn more, half less. This number is 7 lower than i
As an independent contractor so the extra income of being an airbnb host has helped me to pay my mortgage and property tax and homework associations i have a safe home Carbon Monoxide unit so its safe for my guest i have concerns about the registry as a single woman i also feel that i dont want my details out in public to be gotten through the online portals and airbnb helps with the security and ive had extraordinarily experiences they use businesses in the neighborhood its been nothing but a positive experience for the 4 some odd years and tomorrow will be the 35 years living in San Francisco and 18 years on katrero hill thank you find a acceptable not too intrusive way to get this legislation passed thank you. Thank you very much you can leave that with the others. Next speaker. Hi, everybody im nelson i was born and raised in city of San Francisco and my family has rented an apartment in chinatown my family runs a restaurant in the excelsior it is a kramentd Small Chinese fast food
Monthly income to stay here home sharing fits us youve heard about the benefits of home sharing for the community the local businesses and struggling families like my own one thing i think it is important to mention its that by home sharing were addressing a problem that providing affordable stacey space for travelers to stay not downtown you take the mission no or yes to hotels that accommodate the amount of visitors we receive were cafe using the existing resources to accommodate this need i hope you will protect families like mine and support the fair home sharing in San Francisco thank you. Im sorry can you repeat our name, again. Next speaker and hi, im sherry i live in district 9 i lived in San Francisco and represents the extra room i have two major issues the 90 day cap and registry i adopt to go into the home sharing thats a helped me in San Francisco i shouldnt have to okay. The voices that have come to the meeting regarding the issues the new economy as the United States dea
Effort to keep the great jobs in the state but have the balance between growing the economy and protecting the environment thats essential and the mayor said its nonld essential in the balance we should chief but a formula for connect all the things were talking about are done in the virl assigned way were talking about reducing emissions about moving people taking them out of their cars and moving people all of it as ed said buy american the labels buy in america we want those to be Green Technology at the end of the day so we have a cash foot to the extent possible this is not only a one of the considerations its a fundamental vail fundamental value of how we do this in a village sound way. I also think that infrastructure you know for california now, its also going to be the Water Infrastructure that we need to really think and fund thats a current debate in sacramento but i agree whooeld r wholeheartedly with leader pelosi position and the manufacturing for the future the Green Hou
Monthly income to stay here home sharing fits us youve heard about the benefits of home sharing for the community the local businesses and struggling families like my own one thing i think it is important to mention its that by home sharing were addressing a problem that providing affordable stacey space for travelers to stay not downtown you take the mission no or yes to hotels that accommodate the amount of visitors we receive were cafe using the existing resources to accommodate this need i hope you will protect families like mine and support the fair home sharing in San Francisco thank you. Im sorry can you repeat our name, again. Next speaker and hi, im sherry i live in district 9 i lived in San Francisco and represents the extra room i have two major issues the 90 day cap and registry i adopt to go into the home sharing thats a helped me in San Francisco i shouldnt have to okay. The voices that have come to the meeting regarding the issues the new economy as the United States dea