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 wintered firsthand the devastating affect
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
The bed bugs, they dont care. They just want to feed. Thank you. [ applause ] next speaker. Hi. My name is kathy galvez, i wanted to show people what it looks like to be attacked by bed bugs. See all of these marks here on my arm . Let me see if i can turn it around so you can see. Let me see where the camera is . We can see it. Thank you. And i got them on my legs, my arms, my back and they hit me on my head. And i didnt know what to do so i notified management. They sent an email to the owners of and nothing has happened exempt i have been harassed since friday of last week. My slipping through the cracks part, your legislation is aimed at other than where i am living. I have been evicted from my house for 40 years and im living at travel lodge hotel, a choice place. So you are not going to tourist places, but people that live there, if they stay in San Francisco, they end up going to other places and if they have bed bugs in their luggage or something, they are bringing to the place