Transportation and parks make it a very tempting target for many of the speculators out there that are looking to quote u. N. Quote flip buildings and evict people. The high concentration of seniors in our district, i know theres a number of seniors who will be testifying in the Inner Richmond about 18 percent of the population are seniors in the Outer Richmond its about 18. 5 percent, way above the citys averages, so i know there are a high number of seniors that are renters in our district. Currently theres a building at 15 ogt and anza thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. In this 4unit building Michael Winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. If the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. Russos report
Of individuals are in fact struggling to stay in San Francisco, as supervisor mar noted in the numbers that the rent burden in terms of the percentage of people or households who are spending more money on housing, that number is pretty high, its close to half of the city thats facing that challenge. And in some neighborhoods like bayview, viz valley, you are talking close to 60 percent spending more on their housing. Thats why i believe we must act urgently to address this crisis which i believe is a crisis and the fact we havent reached the levels that we saw in 2000 doesnt mean that we are not facing a crisis and in fact i dont think that we have to wait for things to get so bad for us to act. Not only is this effecting the 116 individuals and other individuals that are directly being displaced, but what were seeing is creating havoc in individual lives throughout the city, its creating havoc in individual communities, it is truly changing the character of these neighborhoods and i
Condition, the pressure on the Real Estate Market and why there may be more ellis act evictions occurring and other types of evictions. Just from 2010 to 2012, the population has increased in San Francisco by 20,400. There are 40,817 new jobs and during the same period theres only been 122 new Housing Units added to the Housing Stock in San Francisco. So theres great pressure on rents and sales prices, it means you can command a much higher price of course if you are trying to sell a unit and could explain some of the interest on the part of landlords and Property Owners in ellis act evictions where they can turn their rental housing into another purpose or sell it at a steeper price than they might have got a year or two in the past. We attempted to get demographic information on people who have been evicted. Its not something the rent board collects, though they track all the evictions but they dont keep statistics on the demographic makeup of that population. We did go, though, to a
Jennifer low and david larson. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted 209 clerk. Items acted upon today will appear to the november 18 meeting unless otherwise stated. If you can please call item 1, which is the only item on todays meeting and we have been joined by eric mar. Item 1, hearing on the budget and legislative analysts report to further understand the level of San Franciscos housing crisis. I want to thank all the members of the public here at the meeting and all the people who have been contacting my office the last few weeks about the displacement that is happening. I do want to make some introductory comments but before i do that i would like to ask the budget and legislative analyst to a very brief presentation on the report and what i would say about this report is the way this report came ba is that in the last few weeks, we in my office and i know that my colleagues in other offices have been hea
Thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. In this 4unit building Michael Winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. If the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. Russos report identifies in San Francisco and they would likely be pushed out of the city. These stories are not unique to the mission, to russian hill, to the castro, but the Richmond District has huge stories as well of people displaced by the ellis act and other nofault evictions and in fear of their residence in our city. I did want to say from the sf appeal article its very clear who the culprits are as well in whos driving the fear and the displacement. The eviction according to the appeal article is driven by a group of speculators, craig good m