How you say in english. Im a property homeowner. This law makes landlord cannot sustain. If it passes, we just withdraw from the rental market. Make rental apartments further decrease availability, and please, do not scapegoat small Property Owners for city halls mistakes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy; Community Partnership homes homeless people. We retain our tenants. We dont evict our tenants. We create a climate of trust with our tenants, where when someone makes minor lease violations by putting something out in the hall and making too much noise, we talk with them like adults. We do not rush to eviction notice. If we can do it with our 1400 residents, i think just about anyone else can do it. That is why we have signed on to the letter with 44 very diverse organizers from all over, which i will submit to this committee. I also wanted to add one factoid, one that has been going around from the landlords side that is frankly incorrect. The thousands of units being held off the unit, according to the census. I worked very hard on the census, through the city, through the office of Citizen Engagement and immigrant rights and that 31,000 were the amount of units, amount of homes that were forrent on april 1, of 2010, that were vacant, but not abandon order held off the market for the most part. Thank you. Good afternoon, speakers. I am here with the antieviction project. Very much supporting eviction protections 2. 0. Over the last couple of years, the mapping project has done a lot of work, calling attention to how deadly ellis act eviction and other nofault evictions, but how deadly eviction and other forms of evictions in San Francisco. Looking at the recent surge of evictions in San Francisco for the last five years found that breach of evictions have been rising more steadily than any other type of eviction. We found in 20 12 468 breach eviction and in 2014, 738 breach evictions and that number has risen dramatically over last two years, very much responding to the fact that San Francisco is now the most expensive city in the United States and landlords are very eager to evict tenants for small, lowfault things to profit. We have been collecting data through the project the last two years and we have a survey administered online and through the San FranciscoTenants Union and tenants are constantly submiting their eviction stories to them. I was going through them to find of the most egregious ones, but one story of a woman who was evicted because she and her partner had a fourbedroom unit in the castro. They had a roommate that they had changed a couple of times during the time they lived there. The landlord knew about this and the relatives of the landlord knew it, but this past year they were evicted because it wasnt in monitoring. They installed a Security Camera [speaker not understood] so there are cases like this happening all the time and uno, who was a teacher with the Unified School District couldnt find a place to live in San Francisco and is in portland, oregon. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. My name benito santigo. Thank you, supervisor jane kim for the residential rent stabilization arbitration ordinance. I have focused this on what i hear my colleagues mentioning to lowfault grievances that should be different time for arbitration for people to talk as adults, to clear out things, like shoes in the hallway, or laundry on the clothes line, what have you. The people those that i heard also, that have really you that really need to be evicted like the drugdealer and prostitutes and what have you . That i can see their side on that. But for minor instances of putting shoes in the hallway, Something Like that, that should be we should be treated as adults and not just for the underlying premise of kicking out rentcontroled persons like myself for the greed profit of the greedy speculators that sometimes they sell it for, like what happened with me. Our landlord sold it to a speculator and they raised the rent. Thank you supervisor jane kim for the ordinance and i support you 100 . Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. Hi, good evening, council. My name is miguel with ace. I am a veteran, a straight male and here to talk about why its important to pass this legislation that supervisor jane kim wants to do. For those who came out here to San Francisco to seek a new life or for a better workplace, as a tenant its meaningful for you to pass something to help us out. Know some have demonized us as drugdealers and hookers and all of this stuff. You can look out in San Francisco to people who arent tenants who do that already. That comes with the territory, you know . Its an adult disneyland out here. Besides that, i feel there isnt anything to help the kids in the mission who are out there on the streets, slumming and living out of their cars. There are 8,000 kids who dont have a place to live and a lot of people homeless in San Francisco. Part of it is driven by greed and more money. Obviously the field for housing is getting smaller and people can make more profit, but there has to be some sort of law, something to help the people out. And to help the community out of the because there being a standstill with the people that actually own property who want to rent it pore for high and no Affordable Housing to be built. You have a problem with no solution. There are people here who come out here to help out the community, as well as take way from the community. I strongly feel passing what supervisor kim says is going to benefit families and benefit people of color and is going benefit the city. Thank you very much for your time and stop evictions and help san franciscans. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is lee anderson, small Property Owner in San Francisco. Small Property Owners already carry substantial financial burden because of the existing rentcontrol ordinances that are in place. Many Property Owners are paying thousands of dollars a month for mortgage, insurance, property taxes, city assessments, utility and building repairs and maintenance. Because of the rentcontrol ordinance the rent received is often quite low the operating costs of the building not to mention the current market rate for comparable units, forcing landlords into a negative cash position is no longer enough. Now supervisor kim and her comrades are conspiring with this legislation. If such an outrageous law should park the city will squeeze the landowners carrying below market rate units. With no hope of rising rents to carry it, victims the kim legislation would be left with the foing choices to a, perishally subsidize their you lifetimes in San Francisco by paying for the lions share of costs rest of their lives. B stop paying building and default on property taxes due to lack of income. C completely give up and defaulted on the mortgage and walk away on the building. D, put your build up for sale for discount, et cetera. Just who might want to buy a building like that . Why its the city itself. Yes, the city would be creating a whole new department of bmr building. Its already happening now. That is too bad for the small guy who put his butt on the line for investing in San Francisco. Please dont pass this legislation. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is julie and i grew up here in San Francisco. I represent my parents who are elderly, who cannot be here to speak for themselves. So i am speaking on their behalf. I want to ask one question of supervisor kim, to maintain the base rent of the tenant, even once the tenant has moved out. Can i ask you what will protect the landlords base payments for the property tax or the insurance . Would you be willing to protect the base payment when the tenant moves out also . So i hear that your intentions for supporting this ordinance has come from your social justice. I am afraid that you are overshadowed by a lot of Horror Stories of tenants, that this ordinance will take care of the social justice. But my feeling is that this ordinance will only create social divide because the haves and nothaves. The haves being the tenants and the nothaves as the landlord. I hope that you really take our word thoughtfully and listen to a lot of the homeowners, the landlords, the small Property Owners who actually provide housing for the needy. We over the years didnt become horrible landlords. We were once renters at one time. My parents were renters at one time and we became landlords after years of savings and hard work and knowing that a good investment in real estate. We are good landlords, otherwise are tenants why would they want to stay in our property . Please do not on the ruin that. Please listen and think about our reasons. Thank you. Thanks, next speaker. Good afternoon. [str frpblgts ] i am a victim of a homeowner who lost a lot of money to a tenant, to bad tenants. Translator so i just wanted to tell you one other situation. Reality is that some of the owners own property, but they are so afraid of renting it out, because of their tenants protectionlaw. This is why the demand is way higher than supply. So supervisor, please, please consider on the homeowners side and please treat them fairly. And make some better laws, so the landlord will make a better place also for the tenants. So maybe they can motivate homeowner to rent out again. Please dont create law to on the surface it looks like its helping the tenant. However, on the other hand, its hurting their rights, because its discouraging rental properties and decreasing the number of rental units. Please make law that the homeowners and tenants can survive and live peacefully in such a nice place in San Francisco. That is why i am opposed to this law. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is im Vice President of the chinese Realtor Association of america. I opposed to this law personally i was a tenant for more than 10 years, and my parents were firstgeneration to come to the u. S. They worked as laborers, workingclass. They make minimum wage to support me to go to college, to have an education. As part of an immigrant and minority in San Francisco, we want to have a piece of property to call a home. That is why we saved up every single penny that we earned, after 12 years of living in San Francisco. Finally we became homeowners to own a piece of property here. However, the current tenant situation and then the current lawmaking it really hard, even for us. We were a tenant before and i have really Good Relationship with my past landlord. However, it makes it really hard for me to rent out some of the space in my house to benefit some of the tenants, because such a move might cause me tens of thousands of dollars in return. As i have spoken to many homeowners in San Francisco, they have been victims of some of the bad tenants. However, were all grassroot homeowners and please make the law fair to both sides, tenants and Property Owners. I am strongly opposed to this law, because i dont believe it will help to create a better housing situation in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is theresa. Im a parent of three wonderful children and soma tenant resident. I wanted to ask you questions, because i do feel bad to some of the small Property Owners, but im also a tenant. Do you have familis . Im sure you do. Kids . Parents . Grandparents . Uncles . Have you ever thought about your family as future . I am sewer you do. Have you ever thought of what food put on your table for your family, when you dont have enough financial means . But we pay our rents ontime. We pay our bills ontime. Do you know how it feels when you are being ellis act evicted four time through different owners tenants here in San Francisco, we wouldnt be like this if all of our landlords are good landlords, just like i think some of them who are here. But have you observed the daily activitis . Do you know our hurts, our pains and what our needs are . I want to know i want to let you know, first, when we had our first new landlord after our original landlord passed away, they cut off they had our water main closed and the San FranciscoWater Department at that time didnt even bother to investigate why. One of the previous owners went to the point of suggesting to us that we should put our seniors in a senior home, because that is where they should be. You do not say that to a filipino family, to a chinese family maam, your time is up. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board of supervisor. My name is trudy. Im a family organizer. I am here to support the passage of this tenant protection 2. 0 proposed by supervisor jane kim. Recently we have families individuals, seniors and persons with disabilities who have been harassed, intimidated, evicted and are displaced now. We are glad that this most urgent reforms in the city to control laws addressing the eviction crisis is being done. We need to pass this legislation for the protection of our tenants, and to stop the arbitrary evictions of greedy landlords. Lets ensure that San Francisco remains a city for everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is raymond castillo. I work with Community Network and bayview resident, tenant there. At somcan, we work with youth and families in the neighborhood. I want to go over this year alone we worked with a lot of different eviction cases from ellis act eviction to omi, and that is only this year alone. The year is not even done yet and we have so much eviction and housing crisis in the city that im glad that supervisor kim has brought this legislation up and im all for it. I do want to talk about so of my youth. I work with around 1520 youth, and for the past this year, i have about six youth that just got evict order currently going through eviction. And they are moving to oakland august 1st. Just imagine how they feel. They go to balboa high school. They are involved with all of the afterschool volleyball to football, and they are good kids. A yearago they just found out their mother has cancer. And now they are going through eviction. In a couple of days they are moving to oakland. The school year is coming up they are going to have to travel that far to go back to balboa. Just imagine how they feel. This whole process, knowing about their mother and all of this and this whole eviction thing. This has got to stop. If this thing was passed before they should have been protected and they wouldnt have to move out. Thank you, again, supervisor kim for bringing this and thank you for taking your time and please consider passing this, because its really getting too much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, again, supervisors. My name san fernandoo, with the council of Community Housing organizations and we are one of the 44 organizations that have signed on to support this very needed measure for tenant protections. I have a question for the small Property Owners, for the landlords and realtors, do you evict people without proof of violations when they pay their rent dutiful every month . If not, i would hope that you would support this legislation. Do you find an excuse to move in a son or daughter for a few years just to evict the tenant and then jack up the rent . If not, would i hope that you would support this legislation. Do you refuse to let your tenants understand you with translated notices . If that is not something that you oppose, i would suppose that would you support this legislation. Those are the three simple things that it does. One more thing, i heard a few folks talk about means testing. I would like to see tenants be means tested. Bring it on. Lets see means testing for landlords . Lets see means testing for the income tax mortgage deduction, the single largest subsidy that government does for housing. If you are not lowincome, strike that. Lets do means testing for prop 13, if you are not lowincome, pay your taxes. I dont think that is where you want to go. Once again, i think its an important piece of legislatings that closes some very simple loopholes that nobody should be opposed to. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is galina freedman. I am 69 years old. And my husband is 80. For the last almost ten years we live in a house in a building which has 52 units. For the last in the last 1. 5 years this house, this building was sold and the new Building Owner refused to take our rent for 1. 5 years. We collect this rent. It became almost 30,000 in 1. 5 years and the landlord complains of lowincome to paying his expenses. Our unit, our building has 52 units and if you say that two people live in each unit, its 104 people are thrown out on the streets. For the last 2 years, i witnessed four buildings of the same capacity like ours being demolished in front of our eyes. And in this place, four new condominiums were erected, each one with a price 1. 5 million. My husband is disabled. We tried to find a new place, but each place is much more than what we pay right now. We cant afford a new rent for about 4500. We cant afford to buy a condominium for 1. 5 million. The only place we could afford in the nearfuture, if this harassment doesnt stop is a grave in the cemetery. I am for this to pass. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisor. Steve collier, te