fit all we all have diversity different issues when we bought our house in noah valley we were told it was a single-family home we had anlogically in-law unit we legalized it and were able to rent it out plus provide housing for our friends and family out of town because we didn't have enough space in and out now, it's legalized did owner we've used air b and b and been happy, however, to put a 90 day limit on our use would not be helpful we're both retired and use that in case the remainder of the year but if you limit it to 90 days we couldn't rent it out the remainder of the time because people don't rent long term for 9 nos to from our prospective we like the 90 days to be lifted also i'm not i'm not sure i agree with the registry situation i've had difficulties with building and planning and not to give them another layer to spicket and that would be a disservice and not a good use of typewriter money thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm patrick a business owner in west selma and a business owner now people are using air b and b home sharing whether or not it's there we would have a housing shortage and evicts on the table from a business prospective in west selma air b and b significantly we have visitors there are no hotels in west selma where broichs or pamphlets so we definitely see thousands of dollars positive impact for our business in the lower haiti love home sharing my family can stay with me there's no hotels this is a service we provide and as a landlord that doesn't have eviction i think it's unfair to put a 90 day limits how i want to rent out my home that's not a rental property today. that's it thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is is jim i'm. >> native san franciscan and i first want to say supervisor chiu if you lived next door to a our apartment building you wouldn't be carrying had legislation i've had personal experience with air b and b with problems near the union square building we had a young lady that rented the studio building they're she was in the hospitality industry i rented her place out to a full-time air b and b i was getting complaints from people in the building that those people from air b and b using the water and got complaints there was noise and you have david you haven't thought-out the legislation make note it was difficult to prove that a person is a full-time resident in similar cases we've had to hire detectives we have no idea of the visitors that were coming in as the building manage i'm responsible for the safety of all the residents and their peaceful environment thought and this puts the burden on the landlords you have the issues that have not been address and the sub lease who knows two years from now that might be completely gone and a hotel is different than a multiple building there's a hotel staff to make sure the hotel resident is - >> thank you, mr. chair i want to respond briefly i understand and appreciate our frustration but part of why i want to move this legislation forward if the legislation passes the scenario you laid out wouldn't be able to happen that woman wouldn't be able to do that it she'll have to register with the city and if placements we'll have staff to go after that person but at this moment we don't have the tools part of the legislation is - >> it's not going to work the city doesn't have a staff or organization to enforce that this is a whole new before us you're opening a panning demeanors box and the problem too when the host is absent from the housing unit you've heard a lot of good testimony from successful air b and b hosts they were present on the premises to supervisor i direct their air b and b visitors so that's a key here when someone a tenant is absent from the tenant and passed out keys to strangers it's going to cause problem and skirt issues it takes one bad incident to create a serious problem if someone is attacked or a unit is robbed or broke into yes true 9 out of 10 air b and b are no problem but it's that 10 percent that of concern to us we have a great responsibility by the way, who pays for the extra utilities that are used that falls on the tenants that shares the common utilities water and gas and electricity and garbage are expensive there's no way to enforce conservation when you have air b and b guests this is a great concern and sometimes, i lie awake thinking about the problems so i haven't heard anything that gave me any confidence today. >> thank you the. >> next speaker. >> hi, i'm alex ami i've been a fourth-generation san franciscan my love is deep for this city thank you for your time i want to share my story i'm 39 since 23 i've been taking care of my parents i write checks for my care of my parents for $10,000 a year i don't know if you know how that feels. air b and b has quite literally saved our family and not only that the type of people that rent my home in noah valley are a different sclera of folks their executives and folks coming here to make investment i can share 56 cases but i'll share 3 in 2011, the executive vice president stayed at hi. my home she and i took the tour of the city because of what i to the give her a tour the largest food company in india recycle nestle came here 4 months ago and ceo stayed at my home i took the gentleman and his aid across the city he was going to use washington, d.c. but uses san francisco in february will be a $62 million investment at hunters view i fulfill support under legal provision that renter do so and why limit it to 90 days the list goes on and on i wish i could thrill how many investors have made investment in our city because of the home sharing (clapping.) hello laenl so san francisco resident i've at that particular time in a couple of meetings are mr. chiu already just a couple of points i realize this is a big debate and has a couple of different angles i hear a lot of scary stories about people coming in and using more water and parties and all the stuff that can go wrong but the kind of the analogy of guns don't kill people people kill people people that use air b and b don't terrorize the homes people do that. whether they use craigslist or whatever kind of home sharing. i yes, ma'am e mean it's been going for decades i see air b and b since their cleaver in their market to be able to offer the world an easier platform to use and, of course, people are making money. but a couple of points it's not a new phenomena craigslist i've been doing it for years but a lot of people are saving people are profiting there's i don't believe a certain amount that are not preventing i go to a festival and someone gives me thirty daisy dollars i'm not president's report because i put that in for our gas. this renterstions seems like an easy solution and lastly technology you can't stop it, you know. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> supervisors my full name is sarah short i'm the director of the housing rights commission in san francisco. it's interesting i've heard home sharing folks talk and the common theme about using this system to be able to stay in san francisco and be able to stay in their homes the reason it's interesting this same system those folks that benefiting those people are taking advantage to roost their victorian home to be able to travel that stage system is wrecking harmonic on our communities it's why we're seeing the loss of thousands of rental housing from our city that same system is leading to the evictions of long term san francisco renter that are disagreement and low wage working for them to not connect the dot it's problematic that side of this system that the need for f this legislation exists i want to remind people this didn't regulate the short term industry it's illegal what people are doing today what this legislation does allow you to do this in a legal manner which is what you all are asking for. our one concern we don't think it's time for prime time all of those folks are nice and seem liepg their voluntarily do the 90s days but believe me because of the lucrative profits thousand of folks that are not in the room will continue to operate in an illegal manner in this legislation. >> thank you. next speaker. (clapping.) good afternoon. my name is is tony carol i live with my girlfriend an owner occupier we use a semibedroom for hosting investors and a we support home sharing and against the multiple property owners who are evicting tenants and removing affordable housing stock from the market. we too share the concerns of our opponents regarding the safety and cleanliness and character of our neighbors we too have a vested interest as well as maintaining our homes and our neighborhoods and public spaces and supporting our local businesses, however, we disagree with the proponents that fair and responsible human resources will threaten their way of comfortable and security we strongly disagree with measures that require nor short time renters in particular public registry it leaves us to unwanted and unfair civil prosecution and monetary penalties and jail time and threatening threaten our homeowner rights and which our proponents seek to protect. why not require air b and b to make the host prove their boyd by the rules of the city wouldn't it be more proficient to allow the businesses to collect the taxes and collecting money from individual home sharing if it's to be remilled to the city wouldn't it be more cost-efficient to occur no costs to spend energy to purchase equipment, hire - >> thank you very much. thank you very much appreciate it. >> next speaker >> thank you for calling my card i'm bryan mcmutton a homeowner with my wife in the bay area. what on amazing opportunity i've been here since the beginning felt proceedings and took a lift to get here from bay area $6 exciting times i think this is where the invasion of the body snatchers was filmed happy to be on that set of that film. i'm excited i've heard zero objection to the idea of people doing what many of us do with the air b and b to open up our single-family homes that we 0 own rooms that wouldn't be rented out to people that need to stay forage. my house used to be an unlistens grappling shack the one house me and my wife could afford it's not a room that i would want to live but a perfect place to crash with your your exploring this get out to boyfriend folks it's an an amazing place i'm a list driver and it's been running on air b and b for over 4 years the question i get about behaving i live in behaving well gee do you get tired of dodging the bullets i have two boys it's my favorite place ever to live in the of states i've lived in and check it out bayview is where it's at folks and thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi thank you for your time today. my name is melanie this is my home sharing in 1983 i raised my only drought despite working as a waitress he couldn't afford here i slept in a ham i can and rented out my bedroom we moved away under dress when i returned in 1998 this hardly made a difference i wish i hadn't of left any rent controled home. i current serve homebound patience treating residents and admit i jumped the line i still wyoming have one more 3 years i purchased my flat borrowing for a loss for the do you only payment. soon after moving water damage cost me money. unfortunately, i have an extra bedroom and host folks and students on sdrirmz. new caregivers have gone up on balboa street it prompted sustainability and maximized our abilities of moan kind i feel satisfactory with the screened guests for reasons i don't have time to talk about. san francisco benefits from human resources is that the intention of legislation who can fully - >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good evening. and i do want to thank you for your efforts in making this legislation happen i'm doug in light homeowner in district 8 where i have an in-law unit i rent. this is a space that would go unused if i didn't have this business i've been doing this for the past 2 years and hosted over one hundred and 50 guests i have had no problem and optional had support from any neighbors that are are good source of business for me. between 16 and 75 percent of my guests have kids and grounded kids they come to see i you want to make sure that they came back again and again and able to they were able to do this on a frequent basis the majority of our guests come from the the other majority of our guests come from all over the global and they stay because of affordability of overnight stays i'm retired from the hospitality industry and marketing hotel and work to the san francisco customers bureau. the cottage business that - now allows me to continue to sell the city through the relationships i've established established with my guests we have thousands of other hosts but selling san francisco as a designation the great point is selling the neighborhood that is so important to san francisco and to the tourism industry and negatively the city and my business supports that - >> i want to call some additional names. (calling name names). >> thank you go ahead. >> i'm another retired homeowner that is renting out homes if air b and b to hopefully pay my mortgage and property taxes. i've lived in san francisco more 40 years and adapted 4 children and bought a how many in the 80s i don't have enough money to pay the mortgage and thinking about my mother lived during the depression and during the depression when so many people didn't have enough money they used their houses to get an income they called them boarding houses and it's what i'm and a lot of people doing here there needs to be space in san francisco and i'm concerned about those in poverty my own family is in poverty and i want to thank you for trying to make this work for everybody thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. . >> hi, i'm indian i ask you to please let me share my guest room without limits i've lived here with my wife we live in grandmother type of places and learn about their lives. so we learned about home sharing we have an empty guest room we started hosting over 5 years ago and have had hundreds over the years guests here for work or at a convention and a quarter of the hosts are parents or friends of the people that live near us they also comment but 80 how to stay near nearing we share with our parks and neighborhood local information this clearly helps local businesses and helped me start a smsh. we wrote a story about how to share and thanks to hosting i had the freedom and finances to do it, i can put this here. i found four local artists and tinder my sisters story and it sells at local bookstores and in hard book had get it we have a 4 photograph that inspires us to donate our profits so at the keeps on spreading to the local charities please let it continue. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi. i ask you to forward the recommendations that that he legalize home sharing 2, 3, 4 san francisco and that those recommendations not put a hoist at risk either physically or financially i'm a native san franciscan my entire family died i need to reinvent myself there was not much work for a person of a certain age so i became is a short time host with the help of my neighbors who were doctors and lawyers here in san francisco the short time rental has not forced the sale of my single-family home and paid my property taxes and allowed me to keep what is left of my family intact i can share the families history with many guests my major concerns is regarding the registry for the safety and security of my guests and myself if i have a posted registry number that's connected so people can find out my address they can find out my name and age and marital status and they can see my calendar online know when people are in my house and see pictures within my house you're asking this registration creates easy information i'm going to rob here on tuesday. please don't limit the ability of a person it allowed to make a living and will hear in san francisco for the rest of their life thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you i want to take the opportunity to speak today i've been a tenant, homeowner and landlord and taxpayer in san francisco i work full-time and took time off to be here because hrgdz is an important issue i support i've worked hard and verified to be a homeowner in san francisco. i currently rent a flat out long-term to a young couple in the