Is illegally raising the rent you should see the rent board and final a petition for illegal increase and have a hearing. If he is calling you homophobic names check in with the Human Rights Commission because they handle those situations and there are organizations that testified here today that do that. Yes organizations are all fine. Ultimately it depends who you talk to. I went to the rent board with this problem. There are a lot of rent increases i dont have because at one point charging 200 more than the market rate. When i got the apartment in 87 i was happy to find a home, and like i said i laifed in the hague for 40 years and loved it. I now tell people i live on corner of hague and resentment. Its not the summer of love. Its thank you for having me. I have the two wherein testimonies and i was going to read them into the record before they cut me off. Do you have a question . This is very quick. I want to say one thing that is lacking is there is a lot of people being ellis a
francisco rent to section eight tenants. they are interested in going after the corporate dollar and the new legislation passed regarding this prohibits less than 30 day rentals as 30 days is not considered short term in san francisco. ridiculous if you ask me. hasn t stopped the conversion in my building and i am sure others. they have basically taken the units off the market for san franciscans and one worries that the landlord will not comply with hud and with no one rent to section eight where will i go? they got rid of the rats here and over flowing bathtubs and et cetera and i am in a building that has rentals for over $2,000 in the tenderloin. how can a senior utilities afford to live here in this is not workts the price tag that the authority agreed to v it s over the payment standard. hud has raised the standard in reason 10 years but rent is going up. historical they re charging so much rent here. i have lived here 11 years and inundated with construction and much
get a hearing for this case. they said i had no right but then gave me a hearing and the person representing the housing authority said it was ridiculous we were there because hud rules say i don t get a hearing for this. the argue was august 31, 2012 and the officer made her decision and that the housing authority does have to take the condition of the building in consideration with this. i do have a roof over my head for now but a low income tenant with no resources is also fearful of losing their home. fortunately i won t be ellis act out because of the size of the building and one always feels the push and they want the apartment soy they can make more money. these days there are so many trying for the apartment and the landlord could give a number of reasons and one reant know if they were discriminating. i would be happy to move into a mixed increase building one for lgbt seniors and one take my section eight voucher and i could really feel at home. terry frey. the seco
paperwork, so hopefully we are here for another 15 minutes. good morning. i just wanted to share with you some of our latest numbers from the annual eviction report that the rent board publishes every march for data that goes from march 1 in this case of 2012 to the end of february 2013, and so some key highlights. the number of eviction notices this year was up 26% to 1395. those are the eviction notices that are filed with the san francisco rent board, and then the second page has some highlights of the kinds of evictions that went up and down [inaudible] somebody has the cell phone on. mine s off but who knows. and it went up to 116 this past year with the year that ended on the end of february, so we re seeing increases in room rate evictions, illegal rentals and as well as nuisance so i wanted to give those highlights. i will say in general all sort of traffic and distance picking up at the rent board if you would. rent petitions show a similar thing and the ec