Did some research with the Mayors Office and we found that in 2012 the average price of a multiunit Apartment Building between five and 30 units, the average per unit price is between 200 and 2,000. That price has gone up to 323 per unit. Thats a 60 increase. I have a document here with a two unit apartment that was put on the market in february. That kind of price escalation is driving instability in communities and we need this tax to slow that market down and bring some sanity back to San Francisco. Thank you. Hello, my name is terrance jones. Im the unintended bicatch of this legislation. My wife, daughter and i in 2012 invested our retirement in her Education Fund in an Apartment Building. As this legislation is written, we havent evicted anyone, we dont intend to, were good landlords. We chose to invest in rent control apartments in San Francisco. Hoping to grow that at a reasonable incremental investment so we could use it for our daughters education and my wife and my retiremen
[inaudible] real estate i suggest you pick up the phone and call the owners over there and tell them the problem and bring them in they need to solve that problem. Thats the way the problem gets solved. Doing Something Like this solves nothing, solves no speculation, saves nobody, but hurts a lot of homeowners that live here that are struggling to take care of their families too. None of us can afford to pay in much in a tax if we sell our property. Its ridiculous. My question to all of you since supervisor campos indicated were trying to build a record, were trying to build a record for our Successful Campaign against this, were trying to build a record because and we will do that just like we successfully defeated the ellis bill in sacramento. Until you show some lieder ship and bring both sides together to solve these problem, we will continue to enforce our rights as given to us in the United States constitution. I would like to know from the City Attorney, since nobody else brough
Daily struggled to function going to school here playing in ore Orchestra Center and working and my daughter missed out on healthy happy events experiences that many children have in a normal childhood not enough accurate omaha of Affordable Housing my daughter and i went through several years of homelessness living separately until 2 and a half years ago my son in his 30s a veteran that serves his country has been homeless for 2 years ago seniors and families and disabled low income veterans face similar obstacles in locating Affordable Housing as we look at the vitality of our neighborhood it is important to see in our local community with the transcripts of this Information Planning and development of hows for all can be better balanced we ask that you support of the housing balance ordinance supported by supervisor kim thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Dont be bashful. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Members of the Planning Commission im thomas ray a native san
Supervisor yee. Our next is by supervisor cohen and myself. Supervisor cohen do you want to make introductory comments. Supervisor malia cohen thank you very much. Please come to the podium. Thanks. So, happy mentor ship month, everyone. January is National Mentor ship month and we are taking a moment to recognize big brothers and big sisters in the area. Earlier today supervisor chiu ands i announced a partnership with big brothers and big sisters of the bay area to reduce, what is a travesty, a waiting list in San Francisco of 83 students waiting to be partnered up with a mentor. Our goal is to go from 83 to 0. No person can do this alone. The Partnership Brings together the government and the private sector together to satisfy this need. This lady that i brought up to the opposed the podium is kathy bella. Shes going to talk about the mentor ship program and shell talk about that. My Program Began in january at the library. Out of the 83 students that are on the list waiting for a b
Their kickoff last week for their bill board and bus campaign on sugary drinks, but also the department of Public Health staff, university of california San Francisco, ucsf, San Francisco Health Improvement partnership, especially arial vargas who has been a Great Community asset in building broader alliances, especially in lowincome communities. And i also just wanted to say on the National Level besides ucsf the center for science and the public interest, the California Center for Public Health advocacy, Harold Goldstein and others, and Roberta Friedman and kelly from the yale rec center for food policy and obesity have been really great advisors. I also wanted to say on supervisor avaloss introduction to hearing on the Childrens Fund i hope i can be added as a cosponsor as well. And i know that from your work with coleman and margarets efforts over now 23 years ago with the original prop j which i was strongly supported in the Richmond District from 1991 when norman yee led the camp