Review the work of the planners and the Planning Department who apparently couldnt care less, i hope im wrong about that, if tenants are in or were in a building. Some speculator now wants to virtually reconstruct for an over the top project. We need to get cost of hawkins and have right to counsel and scale up acquisition programs and the city should lean on the tech ceos for real money and they have been the biggest player in the housing imbalance status. While they have been generous to health care the corrections to housing is not equivalent to their wealth and power. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im a Third Generation san franciscan and medical student. The affordability of the Affordable Housing is a critical issue for tenants and generations Old Community then cries are not new but the prevalence is. The call for Affordable Housing is linked to the gentrification movement. What often gets left out of the conversation is the affect they have on the health of communities. I met patients who have died after being evicted. Its no doubt gentrification has been associated with an increase in pre term berth rates and toxin exposure. Cost of hawkins and the ellis act are linked to the health outcomes. Cost of hawkins is one of the focal points of the social illness. It has have enormous impacts on health and theres exacerbation of Health Conditions and drug abuse and more Mental Health and a can go on. What is clear in the city of San Francisco is our city is suffering. The do no harm correlation are fighting oppression and its impossible to predict how many more cases we will have to have of seniors being evict and dying in our hospitals before the city takes the Health Crisis seriously. We need an increase in Affordable Housing and marketrate housing will not solve the problem and we need to repeal cost of hawkins. Thank you. Supervisor next speaker. And please come to the mic after the last speaker speak. Thank you for letting me speak. Im judy stocker. I appreciate youre giving eight of time to the report and to the issue. And i cant stress enough the importance of not just losing Affordable Housing but losing the richness and strength of community. Ive lived in my home in the upper haight for 29 years and we were served with an ellis act eviction in december and we were devastated and we need your help. This is not just attorney generalic tragic because were losing our homes but being forced from our community. We have a diverse great community. We help each other and care for each others children and pets and homes and gardens and cars. When someones away we lend a hand when theres a crisis. We celebrate holidays and Exchange Information and guests and help each other if someone is sick or injured or dying or distressed and we come together to grief the loss of community members. Weve been able to stay because of rent control but we can lose the place we have established and safe and embedded. Im urging you to, please, disincentive the ellis act and look at rates with high rates of nofault evictions. If you compare the map for Affordable Housing in San Francisco with the map with ellis act evictions where there isnt Affordable Housing. Good afternoon. Im janine and thank you for the opportunity to speak. Im 66. My life partner is going to be 69 next week. We had been together as a lesbian couple in our San Francisco rentcontrolled apartment since 1980. This drunk idiot rearended my partner and he was driving a 5,000 pound car and she was severely injured but her injuries were invisible. I struggled to get her the health care she need and timely got her to uc center and they dont care the color you are they just want to help you so she finally got help because shes black and the rent control has been essential to us because im the sole worker and now our building has been bought by speculators and theyre the rudest people you can ever imagine and want us out pronto and its devastating because i cant afford anything else and i dont want to take my partner from her doctor. The only other place is a Big University understand and Im University center and please do something about speculators and get them go away and get rid of the ellis act. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im alexandra colton. I want to thank you for your care and attention on this committee. Like judy i live in shradar street in ashbury. We all got the 120day noticed meaning get out in 30 days unless one can successfully petition for an extension. Our building if our building is ellis acted, seven units of Affordable Housing are going to vanish forever. I want to emphasize how important this is to preserve existing Affordable Housing stock to use a homeland analogy, if you already have cookies on hand, its a very simple matter to frost them. Having to bake cookies from scratch and then frost them takes a hell of a lot more work. Building Affordable Housing is highly complex and very slow, as you well know. You have to go through lots of committees, permit processes, union negotiation, purchasing supplies and thank you. Supervisor peskin next peek, please. Thank you. Im going to talk about the housing balance report briefly and make two main points relevant to the tenants. The first is uplifting previous points about the loss of units in push outs. It shows up in serious harassment including threats to call ice, physical harassment, also through bad building conditions. In the past, not making necessary repairs and an extreme delay and an illegal eviction and buyouts. The other point i want to make is the report references housing produced. Almost none of the produced housing applies to tenants. Through our work city. Most make about 5 ami and it has low income and very low and extremely low income people and theyre 30 ami and under. It doesnt cover the very specific needs of the population. And when we talk about Affordable Housing i think its critical to talk about the most vulnerable populations and the places where its most needed. If were serious about lowIncome Housing as a solution to homelessness we have to build it and not water down the definition of Affordable Housing so our city policies look good. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Tony robles senior disability action. This report is just to con confirm in writing what tenants and tenant advocates already know. Theres data and data is important but we cant lose sight of the fact that data has a human cost and human impact and very human consequences. Where some are taxed more than others. Some are made to pay more than others in many different ways. We were recently in sacramento where the urban displacement project at uc berkeley spoke on the impacts of displacement. There are many layers. Again, it is the big landlord speculators that are really the true culprits of this imbalance where youre producing, quote, unquote, affordable units but were losing more than were gaining. Its causing San Francisco to feel less and less like a community. I would argue its no longer a community but a population of customers. If you cant afford it thats tough luck. Thats not a way for San Francisco to be or any city. The consequence on people, seniors and people with disability people are frightened and very scared. Its a bad situation. I commend the efforts to try to rectify it and repeal the states ellis act for all of this. Thank you. Supervisors, good afternoon. At the top of the housing balance report it says a stated purpose is to ensure data on meeting Affordable Housing city wide inform the new approval process. Not only does planning ignore the purpose of the housing balance when new marketrate projec projects come up for approval and fails to look at the schedule mandated by the voters in april and october. Why is this important . The displacement is a crisis. Loss of rentcontrolled Housing Stock is a crisis. Instead, it prioritizing policies that streamline demolitions of existing housing to replace them with monstersized homes and Market Rate Development at all cost and rewriting zoning regulations and areabased plans in order to do it. Despite the it helps make the housing imbalance top heavy. Whats the result . We can see over time planning continues to act as facilitators rather than stewards of good housing policy and other cities are starting to look at San Francisco as the epitome of what not to do to control housing costs. I want to thank supervisors kim and farrell to call the meeting and looking at how to evaluate the policies of this city and how theyre implemented because the question of who gets to live here is fundamental to who we are as a city. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Im sean mckeon. Ive been here since Hurricane Katrina sent me from new orleans. Ive used my money to pay my deposit and get in the department i moved into in 6th avenue where i ran into in habitability issues and harassment from the landlord and we finally settled for a substantial sum. I moved into 2nd avenue and i lost my partner and home but here we go again. Looking forward to over the course of three years the building languished and there was a fire. I tried for three years as a new owner to do what i could and play nice and get inhabitability issues taken care of and my neighbor wanted to sleep on the sofa because of the sewer leaks. I called the department and filed a complaint. The building was labelled a public nuisance and took them over 97 days to abate the problems and i withheld rent and they sued me for an lawful and nonpayment of rent. I was able to make up that settlement and they took 25 and gave it to their parents in january along the same repiling and they filed an omi against them. I defeated them in their first omi because the parents didnt even know the notice was given to me and didnt know the eviction had been filed against me and the owner admitted to it in his deposition. They served me a week later with the second notice. [no audio] supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Im speaking for myself. Im going to reserve the majority of my comments for the next item but i want to say that when theres a housing imbalance the end result is 1,000 rents plus 1,000 deposit with a small room with a shared kitchen on 6th street. Is that the path we want to go on . And like hotels and other rentcontrol units burning down. Lets try to correct this, thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hi, my name is sam. I work at the coalition on homelessness. I was born and raised in San Francisco in the coleman district and still live there today. The report shows theres not Affordable Housing to keep up with needs. Now that we have this valuable information and data we know what we must do as a city. Thats increase our Affordable Housing production. We can do this by securing more sites and a permanent Affordable Housing for new development. Every day im forced to ask who has the right to live in the city and in San Francisco. Right now only the people can afford to live here and afford 3500 in rent per month and ive seen so many friends move because its no longer affordable. People arent just being displaced. At work i meet Homeless People every day who end up on the streets because of eviction and renting in san france is unaffordable. I think the city has a huge opportunity to push for more Affordable Housing and protect tenants through the repeal of cost of hawkins. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. My name is gilbert weapons of mass destruction the chair person of aslo. I want to speak to the problem of gentrification Everybody Knows is out of control. We lost 8,000 latinos and the african americ African American population is going down. The mayor and everybodys sitting on their hands. Whats going on . People are losing their homes and getting evicted. We have people that come to us, seniors, getting kicked out of their homes. This is a crisis, people. We need to get on it. Thats all i got to say. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker. Im leslie with housing rights committee. I want to reiterate things my comrades have said about the necessity of preserving currently deeply affordable rent controlled house. I want to thank you for the report that shows the buildonly solution is not a solution if were losing Affordable Housing sffz were getting it. If you take into account that get past and pushed out and since we dont have vacancy control it goes to market rate. You can double that and would have a negative balance for your affordable balance rates. I want to say for current rent control tenants they cant afford to lose their Affordable Housing and get in a lottery system. Theyll get kicked out. We need to prioritize people in the community that have build them to stay in their homes. Thanks. Supervisor peskin next speaker. Laura clarke, mb ac. A real danger with the housing balance report is it suggests either or. Well build market rate or affordable when we should do everything to build both. Also stabilizing people in rent control housing and theres not a conflict between market rate and affordable. We should look at total numbers and how we drive up total numbers and protect tenants through cost of hawkins reform. The report is clear that we are having jobs and wages increase this is rarely a bad thing. It means your policies are bad if you cant grow and we should be able to accommodate growth and so people are not causing evictions. When wages increase it doesnt mean something bad is happening but something good is happening. We can do that if we build housing in district 4 and district 1 where were seeing the least amount of housing get build. In in district 11 theyre lowdensity district can accommodate more. St. Francis moore can accommodate a lot of apartment. I just moved into district 6 and there are eight parking lots on my block. It would not displace anybody and district 6 is showing a lot of and it can accommodate pore the city can build a lot of housing without tearing down a single rentcontrolled unit. Thank you. Supervisor peskin next speaker. Good afternoon. Im jarrod marcu. Im a longtime resident of had haight street. The area is being turned to playground for rich white people many of whom dont even live in the city. They dont even come here theyre just speculators buying for investment properties. The only neighborhoods are not changed is china town and bay view and if somethings not done theyll be changed. They can get around rent control technicalities or harassment. Cost of hawkins not only needs to be repealed, we need a rent control ordnance with vacancy control and protect the diversity of San Francisco before its too late. Thank you. Supervisors, thank you for hosting the committee today. The housing report is an important document in San Francisco. Its looking at what we build and as many people before me have called it a housing imbalance. It shows we build tens of luxury buildings you can see by getting around the city tower after tower on valencia street and luxury units. Many sit empty. We see tenants who receive their notices from their landlords who tell them when new luxury housing is built they should be able to get more rent now. As we are told we need to build more housing for homeless folks the reality is the housing, we are seeing tenants evicted theyre being pushed out to compete for what few fordable units we have or affordable like controlled nonprofit units. Most affordable units in San Francisco is because of the success of rent control. It is only because of things like we dont have vacancy control that a landlord can get you out and double your rents. Most tenants we see evicted especially seniors cant afford the Affordable Housing units being built. [no audio] supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. I have three points. One is the google busses. We have real physical proof of people dumping their Housing Needs from San Mateo County every day into the city and thats not factored into the housing reports. The non production of housing has reper repercussions in San Francisco. So theyre changing the whole city because of regional non growth of affordable house. Second, we need housing auto built to see what houses are being sold for. The Planning Department needs to have tracking ability in there in front of them and units were build in what they were sold for. The second thing is the Planning Department talk the planning because you dont have a Planning Department. They ned to have someone on staff that doesnt process cases just is the for rent control and Residential Hotel control nep Planning Department doesnt look at the housing loss that exists outside th