Today whose first language isnt english. I told her to register seeing as i was available as an option. And she has set her requirement plans based on the rules, the way they are right now. She was one of the first to comply and register and shes made a lot of changes to her living situation and investments based on the current rules. We are certainly very encouraged that there seems to be stability in the way the rules are set up for hosts who have always intended to comply and play by the rules. And hope that there will be stability of the rules in the future. Thank you so much. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. After the next speaker, joe lighthouser, kevin cred it. Public good morning. Im in district eight and proud to be a registered host that fully complies with all the laws that this legislation has set forth. We accurately report to each quarter all of our data and i use that data in those reports to then be able to calculate metrics that help me in becoming a better host. And we comply with any audits that we ever receive. I love that being a host brings the world to my door. Ive had guests from every continent except antarctica. Im still waiting for a profile picture of a penguin to come in. 30 plus countries, 30 plus states here in the u. S. And i get those people that come and experience the city through my eyes. We make recommendations to local businesses like momma gs, all the little spots in the castro that we love that these guests might not ever see if they were to stay in other places. And we support local businesses ourselves with all the handy men and work that weve done in our home to make it more accommodating for guests. Im supporting the local Business Economy as we continue to make improvements to our hundredyearold home. I thank you for helping get the ptr process online and for this service because hosts like us want to be in the good graces of the city and are happy when the bad actors are removed from it. We just ask that you give this registration process enough time and space to determine its successes before proposing any new legislation. Thank you very much. Supervisor breed next speaker please. Public thank you. Im impressed with some of the things they seem to be doing in terms of enforce. And i want to applaud the city for creating this environment through the settlement. And i also echo the idea that i think we need to see if this works. Im kind of surprised and shocked to be honest with you from the three of you that we havent been hearing more congratulations to his office. Half of the listings have been removed. Half. In a city of almost a million people. We have 2,500 hosts. And yet the questions have focused on what could they be doing wrong, how could they be cheating the system. It seems like theres a sense of distrust. I would urge you to try to give this a chance to work. Let the platforms and office of shortterm rental see how this all plays out. Yes, there may need to be adjustments made but we have made huge progress. Im shocked that doesnt seem to come across. I just want you to maybe reflect on that a little bit. I think that while some there were a lot of people doing this illegally, we have got them covered. And those Housing Units will likely come back on the market. But the people who are doing it now are doing it for legitimate reasons like the two previous speakers that you heard from. I just want to sort of echo that i think this is a good thing and we should see how this all plays out. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. I think i complimented mr. Guy both online and offline and noted the progress in this and i also note that had airbnb not litigated this, we wouldnt have had to have this hearing at all. Next speaker please. Public hi. I would give you my certificate number but in view of the falsification of numbers, this may not be the proper forum. But we have been registered in anticipation of hosting for very early on in the process. We have not hosted yet. My wife and i have not hosted yet because we are waiting to remodel our house. That is going along. I would echo the benefits to all local merchants and construction people in the process. We hope to begin hosting in march of this year. I want to assure you and mr. Guy and anyone else that it is our firm intent to find a way to do this to the benefit of ourselves and others and to the detriment of nobody within the confines and structures of the current legislation. We hope to do this hope we can be counted among those people who may be honorably trying to do this right way. We have been registered for two or three years waiting to see how it settles out. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. After the next speaker, eric. Public good morning. Im from district four. I host with my wife and two kids on the sunset district. Youve heard all our stories many times. I wont bore you with that. The important point, im very happy that this legislation is in place and that youve reached and agreement with the flat forms. I think it is very reasonable for all of us. And asking a lot of Great Questions today. I just want to give it a try and if things need to change in the future, they can change them. But its always important to remember were not a city about walls. Were a city known for our bridges and i think home sharing as a lot of great benefits for everybody for the community when done right. And were all about doing it right. Thats why we registered and glad to see a lot more people registering and complying and youre doing your job to enforce those actors who arent doing things the way they should. Thank you for your support and hope to continue the support. Appreciate it. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker please. Public good morning everyone. Im a single mother of a 9yearold son. Immigranted over several years ago. My current occupation is to being a host with spare room in my home. I love being a host and its the only income i have right now to support my son and covering expenses. I have been glad to hear the city and airbnb Work Together to make registration and hosting easier for all hosts in the city. I want to continue seeing that fair and easy to follow regulations for hosts like myself who rent out spare rooms to afford living in San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speak. If there are any other members of the public that would like to testify, if you would line up on the right. Public hi. Im from district three. While my apartment and my roommate and i have been using airbnb since 2010, so it has been quite a while. Like some of the other people have mentioned, weve had some wonderful guests. I appreciate the legislation to deal with shortterm stays because it is a new concept and it just blossoms in the last eight years or so. It is essential that we as a city and as a group of people learn how to work with new things. I work with startups a lot and i can tell you that many startups doing some innovative and crazy things seek out and want to see proper legislation because they need guidance. And for the city to provide that guidance is very helpful. At the same time, theres guidance and theres keep changing the rules and it makes it tough for them to be able to work with us. We really like to urge the board of supervisors to really look into making model legislation so good that other cities around the world will want to copy it. And i think you can do that because we have a lot of people here with all the concerns who will help you make those legislation work. Thank you. Supervisor peskin for the record, we have been contacted by in cities. I know mr. Guys office and im sure my colleagues since the settlement. I think it is actually being replicated in other municipalties. Mr. Carlson. Public i want to congratulate you on this legislation that you passed in 2016 is indeed model legislation for cities all around the country and indeed all around the globe. Thats a little ironic considering that platform accountability, which has brought us this Great Success along with the good efforts of mr. Guy and his office, platform accountability was at the heart of proposition f. When we brought platform accountability to you and you passed it unanimously, airbnb sued and yet now they praised us as the greatest thing San Francisco has ever done. Im happy everybody is happy. There are still problems with shortterm rentals. The hosted and unhosted rentals is still not enforceable. We are concerned about the proliferation of large apartment buildings that are becoming part of airbnb so called friendly buildings program. When you have a hundred buildings and every single one is eligible to be used, seems to be it should trigger some safety concerns. Concerns about how the ada applies. Those are all questions worth exploring. While we have seen number of listings switched to being available on a 30night minimum, we keep hearing people are saying its 30 days, wink, wink. Come stay for a week and if you leave early, no problem. I think thats a problem. So, i think a lot of great work has been done and were moving in the right direction. I hope you continue to stay on top of this. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Public calvin welch. Its important to make this simple point that roughly 50 , somewhere between mid40s and 50 of all the listings were listed illegally. About half of the listings have been taken down. And those of us in share better basically started the campaign three years ago on the notion that the overwhelming a significant number of shortterm rentals were being done illegally. I think our data, the city and countys data has shown that unlike any other city in the world let me say that again. Unlike any other city in the world, when you have adequate legislation, you reduce by almost 50 the number of shortterm rentals. And that is significant in a city facing the housing crisis that we face. In the housing balance report, shortterm rentals are not even listed. And if they were listed, we would see that we are producing fewer affordable units than we lose to shortterm rentals or evictions. I support the supervisor acting president acting mayor breeds position that the assumption should not be in an industry that we have demonstrated 50 of the time is wrong, the presumption should not be when you apply, go ahead and started doing this. No. You should only be allowed to do shortterm rentals once you have been certified. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. And if there are any other speakers after this one, please line up. Otherwise this will be the last speaker. Public thank you, supervisor breed, president breed for making the point that calvin welch just said reiterated. People should be licensed, registered before they start collecting money. A lot of people have made money illegally on airbnb, hosts and investors. So, lets set things up properly. Lets tighten the rules where they need to be tightened. Id like to see the unhosted cap, which is still unenforceable or the hosted cap of how many days a year. Weve got to get that tighter. I remember seeing advertising of a program that said heres how you can rent out two or three apartments and sublet them on airbnb. Hopefully thats been changed. But theyre still saying you can rent your apartment on airbnb and go stay in another airbnb apartment while youre ostensibly hosting in your own. Theres a lot of unverifiable issues with hosting and unhosting and the number of days. I would like to see more clear protocols about the auditing, how often its done, the methods of verification and public hearings for these reviews of cases where theres enforcement issues. I went to a few of the hearings and i was amazed by the desire of the city to make it easier for those people being caught doing something wrong. So, those are some changes. Lets tighten up on the Good Behavior your. Thank you for the improvements already. Lets do better. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Public im robert. Im host that registered immediately. I believe that the regulation is good. It supports a good start where everyone is hosting with better standards and creates a better share. For me trying to retire allows me to stay in San Francisco. Im a california native and i would probably have to leave if i wasnt able to do hosting. Its been beneficial. Perhaps to work less some day. I think it is good for the city of San Francisco to have people staying in neighborhoods versus the official hotel industry. I think the money that may be diverted from the hotels, the people that stay with airbnb, the money actually goes into the community. I appreciate your work and im glad that the home sharing the signup is working and it keeps the start keeps everyone more responsible and creates a better standard. Thank you. Supervisor peskin seeing no other members of the public on this item, madame chair i would request that we close Public Comment. Supervisor kim Public Comment closed. Supervisor peskin i think everything that needs to be said has been said. I would like to continue this item. Supervisor breed i just had one question before we continue this item to the call of the chair. A point was brought up by one of the first Public Commenters about hosting waiting months for approval. Mr. Guy, can you address that . Certainly, mayor breed. Thank you. So, theres a number of reasons that hosts may need to wait longer than typical for the approval application. The most basic reason is again when we hit these peaks of applications which in the past was something we were striving for, it would have been an enviable problem. But we have a lot of lastminute applications coming in the door prompted by the deadline of last night. So, that will take some time to go through. On individual case by case basis, though, every application is different. We have some applications where certainly the basic submittal requirements are met. People submit proofs of residency, id and things like that. We do our sort of deep dive and scrutinizing of that application. Everything checks out. Everything looks clean and its easier to approve. We have situations where we want more documentation or a site visit. There could be individual circumstances of individual applications aside from any sort of pending application backlog. Just plain by the nature we have questions and they take longer to get through and approve or in some cases denied. Supervisor breed thank you. I just wanted clarity on that. Those are my two outstanding issues at this time. As i mentioned in my opening comment, if we are going to make changes in any way to this law, i do want to make sure that we have the appropriate data to do so. So, what would also be helpful, you know, i understand and respect and appreciate the feedback from members of the public, specifically those who have to wait some time for their application to be processed. But i also just dont think its appropriate to allow someone who doesnt have a approval from the city to move forward. So, fb theres something that we if theres something that we can do to make the process easier, speed up the process or what have you, that would be helpful to understand. But i do and let me just back up. I know i have said this a few times. Your office has done incredible work. I appreciate you keeping me informed of whats happening. I appreciate your Rapid Response to help address issues with some of my kon stitch wants who have had constituents who have had challenges. I think youre very organized. You are doing a great job and very responsive and you have really good information to help me as a member of the board make good policy decisions around this particular issue. So, i just want to thank you again because weve come a long way. A lot of this work i know there are people who are advocating, share better and others, but more importantly, i really do appreciate the work of the City Attorneys Office because of this lawsuit and the situation that happened there. I think this really set in motion the ability to implement these policies appropriately. And so, now, data is so important in understanding whether or not these policies are working to the satisfaction of the intent of what were trying to do here. And that is make sure that we balance the desire for home sharers to use their places of residence as a way to host individuals, but also with those who are the bad actors in breaking the law and making sure were doing everything to crackdown on that because it is not fair to those people who we know rely on this platform to, you know, support themselves in various capacities. Thank you again. Thank you to my colleagues for sharing in on this hearing. I look forward to seeing that data in february and understanding it and also the hearing we have upcoming in march. With that, ill turn it back over to the chair. Supervisor kim thank you president breed and mr. Guy. After i think about three years of debates and negotiations on this very issue, shortterm rentals, i think its actually a positive thing as mentioned by one of the members Public Comment, that we are all on the same page how we would like to see legalized shortterm rentals move forward here in San Francisco and its truly shortterm rentals People Living in their homes, just sharing their experiences with those visits San Francisco versus what we feared, which was fulltime hotels in residential units that should be homes. Thank you for all the work and glad to see that our shortterm rentals platforms with working in partnership with the city. I think it is an incredible thing to know that many illegal listings are no longer being provided online and that we are really focused on residents that are doing shortterm rentals and providing great experiences for those visiting San Francisco, from supervisor peskin we have motion to continue this to the call of the chair and we can do that without opposition. Clerk call item two. Clerk hearing on the 20162017 civil grand jury report taking accountability and transparency to the next level. Supervisor kim thank you. The next two items are i believe the last two of the civil grand jury reports. I just want to welcome cassie lowery, the foreperson here again today. And also recognize lawrence grew, the chair of the committee. I want to give you both the opportunity to make brief remarks. I know you are available to answer questions from committee. In addition, we do have a member of the Mayors Office as well as the Controllers Office to respond and answer any questions from members of this committee. So, to ms. Lowery and mr. Grew, come up and make brief comments. Want to