Residents. Though were hopeful all of them will be able to return to 24r units weve seen as supervisor campos has mentioned as many buildings are not repaired in a timely manner and tenants give up and move away but its one of the ways that land lords instead of evicting people use different tactics to push them out and its another example of why we need better data gathering as well. Lastly, im aware of a number of landlords that carry out what i would call unnecessary construction in order to make it for difficult for tenants to live peacefully in their units. It may not be to a level of harassment but at times it is. It pressure people to get the hell out or to move out of their units so they can be rented at much higher rentals. This is happening not opl the push out from ellis act units where you have some buildings vacating before others and the owner wants the units vacated as quickly as possible and were working with different tenant organizations that would help address this p
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
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
Mentioned as many buildings are not repaired in a timely manner and tenants give up and move away but its one of the ways that land lords instead of evicting people use different tactics to push them out and its another example of why we need better data gathering as well. Lastly, im aware of a number of landlords that carry out what i would call unnecessary construction in order to make it for difficult for tenants to live peacefully in their units. It may not be to a level of harassment but at times it is. It pressure people to get the hell out or to move out of their units so they can be rented at much higher rentals. This is happening not opl the push out from ellis act units where you have some buildings vacating before others and the owner wants the units vacated as quickly as possible and were working with different tenant organizations that would help address this problem as well. I want to thank the tenant organizations and Community Groups and supervisor campos as well. Thank
With each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Chairman, thank you very much. Shortly before the july fourth break, we had three marines from camp lejeune, which is in my district, were killed during combat operations in afghanistan. Sergeant davis stewart, Lance Corporal brandon garbrandt, and Lance Corporal adam wolf. May i at this time extend my deepest condolences. Much attention has been given to the chaos building in iraq. However, we must not forget there is chaos in afghanistan. In june of this year, i visited Walter Reed Medical Center in bethesda, maryland. I met through soldiers from fort bragg who lost one leg each in afghanistan. I met two marines from my district, camp lejeune, one marine, 23 years old, had lost two legs