186 and 192 goth street and weve been there 23 years and 25 years in rent controlled flats and we started out a month ago yesterday by being threatened with an ellis act eviction. We were given an opportunity, you have the letters there, to negotiate but i can tell you the negotiation lasted less than 48 hours. They went right to threatening us with an ellis act. Its clear that this is the intention unless something changes. The building across the street from us they have already cleared out the residents of the two flats that we look directly across at. There are two restaurants on the corner, that building is going for, want to guess . 2. 8 million dollars. Of course within a week our land lord, our owner, the owner of our building, sent us, contacted his attorney and had them send us this letter. So this is the heart and soul of the city. I want to share my time with jackie but certainly she has time of her own. Weve never been late on our rent, weve never asked for any big improve
Transportation and parks make it a very tempting target for many of the speculators out there that are looking to quote u. N. Quote flip buildings and evict people. The high concentration of seniors in our district, i know theres a number of seniors who will be testifying in the Inner Richmond about 18 percent of the population are seniors in the Outer Richmond its about 18. 5 percent, way above the citys averages, so i know there are a high number of seniors that are renters in our district. Currently theres a building at 15 ogt and anza thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. In this 4unit building Michael Winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. If the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. Russos report
Of individuals are in fact struggling to stay in San Francisco, as supervisor mar noted in the numbers that the rent burden in terms of the percentage of people or households who are spending more money on housing, that number is pretty high, its close to half of the city thats facing that challenge. And in some neighborhoods like bayview, viz valley, you are talking close to 60 percent spending more on their housing. Thats why i believe we must act urgently to address this crisis which i believe is a crisis and the fact we havent reached the levels that we saw in 2000 doesnt mean that we are not facing a crisis and in fact i dont think that we have to wait for things to get so bad for us to act. Not only is this effecting the 116 individuals and other individuals that are directly being displaced, but what were seeing is creating havoc in individual lives throughout the city, its creating havoc in individual communities, it is truly changing the character of these neighborhoods and i
Residents. Though were hopeful all of them will be able to return to 24r units weve seen as supervisor campos has mentioned as many buildings are not repaired in a timely manner and tenants give up and move away but its one of the ways that land lords instead of evicting people use different tactics to push them out and its another example of why we need better data gathering as well. Lastly, im aware of a number of landlords that carry out what i would call unnecessary construction in order to make it for difficult for tenants to live peacefully in their units. It may not be to a level of harassment but at times it is. It pressure people to get the hell out or to move out of their units so they can be rented at much higher rentals. This is happening not opl the push out from ellis act units where you have some buildings vacating before others and the owner wants the units vacated as quickly as possible and were working with different tenant organizations that would help address this p
Condition, the pressure on the Real Estate Market and why there may be more ellis act evictions occurring and other types of evictions. Just from 2010 to 2012, the population has increased in San Francisco by 20,400. There are 40,817 new jobs and during the same period theres only been 122 new Housing Units added to the Housing Stock in San Francisco. So theres great pressure on rents and sales prices, it means you can command a much higher price of course if you are trying to sell a unit and could explain some of the interest on the part of landlords and Property Owners in ellis act evictions where they can turn their rental housing into another purpose or sell it at a steeper price than they might have got a year or two in the past. We attempted to get demographic information on people who have been evicted. Its not something the rent board collects, though they track all the evictions but they dont keep statistics on the demographic makeup of that population. We did go, though, to a