Such an emphasis on improving the environment for us. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call up a couple more name cards. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon supervisors, thank you, my name is jorge potio, a lifetime resident of San Francisco and i want to start by recognizing the hard work that has been put into the legislation. To those affects and to those who are supporting the people affected by this issue, really, its serving as kind of a buffer to what could have been a real crisis. As a housing rights advocate for the Mission Collaborative for the past five years and a friend of many people who have had bed bugs i have wintered firsthand the devastating affects on lives. And so i can really appreciate this a[prorb ] and thank you to the working group that put this together. It puts in place procedures and policies that make it easier for housing advocates and tenant communitis to navigate this process, but we know we can put what we like on paper and promise to follow it
Firsthand the devastating affects on lives. And so i can really appreciate this a[prorb ] and thank you to the working group that put this together. It puts in place procedures and policies that make it easier for housing advocates and tenant communitis to navigate this process, but we know we can put what we like on paper and promise to follow it to the best our abilitis and commit to the law whenever necessary, but unless fund exists to support this work, what we say what we commit to is different than what we can do. Many of those severely affected by this issue represent some of the more marginalized and disenfranchised groups in our community. So much of this work as you see requires also dollars outside of just writing this policy. In the past, supervisors the San Francisco department of Public Health and Environmental Health division used to provide this kind of funding. This funding was used by the collaboratives and was spread very, very far and we used it for the last two yea
Department. So he couldnt even sleep well at night. So we are really hopeful that the legislation will help people to understand how they are treated and get better. We are living in a pretty bad situation once you have bed bugs. So we hope that we could get this legislation done really fast, so things will get better for us. We thank the supervisors to put such an emphasis on improving the environment for us. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call up a couple more name cards. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon supervisors, thank you, my name is jorge potio, a lifetime resident of San Francisco and i want to start by recognizing the hard work that has been put into the legislation. To those affects and to those who are supporting the people affected by this issue, really, its serving as kind of a buffer to what could have been a real crisis. As a housing rights advocate for the Mission Collaborative for the past five years and a friend of many people who have had bed bugs i have
We had stakeholder meetings and Public Comment and public hearings and all of those were wrapped up into our new regthat has been mentioned effective july 1st. Since that time i have been working with the advocates who are speaking here today to increase public awareness. As an example there we go. We have been collaborating on an interior bus placard advertising at muni that will be out in three different languages. The emphasis is that bedbugs dont discriminate and what you can do to look for bugs and if your property manager or landlord doesnt respond you should be calling 311. We have communicated with the Government Library Communication Center so hard copies will be available at their [tkefpg ]s and our website is listed for those who use the internet. The rule that the ordinance that has been added today by introductions by supervisor kim is very important, because our current legislative authority doesnt go beyond making specific buildings habitable and by adding this ordinance