Welcome the june 3, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor row nan. Supervisor marhas asked to be excused from todays meeting. His daughter is having her eighth grade graduation. Congratulations. I want be to thank supervisor brown for agreeing to substitute. The clerk is mr. Young. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mar . Without objection that motion passes. Mr. Clerk any announcements . Please make sure to silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items today will be on the june 19th agenda unless otherwise stated. Please call item one. Ordinance to amend the administrative code to cover tenants where the university is not restricted by regulatory agreements or other restrictions and the landlord has increased the rent to be more than 40 of the tenants gross household income. Supervisor brown opening remarks . Commissioner brown thank you, chair row nan. This legislation expanding the success of the displaced tenant preference to give applicants higher priority in housing lotteries. It is only available to tenants displaced by ellis act or owner move in evictions or fire. My legislation will expand to protect tenants living in housing where affordable restrictions expire including former redevelopment and hud finance projects including affordability restrictions only lasting for the term of the loan or contract. Other older housing projects subject to 20 to 30 year affordable restrictions. As the restrictions expire Property Owners no longer under any legal or contract all requirement for below market units. They can raise rents to market rates to existing tenants. We have seen examples in South Beach Marina and bay side village in district 6 and 737 post in district 3. In district 5 affordability expires at Fillmore Center in december of 2017. It has expire and will expire in other projects over the coming decades. These projects represent hundreds of affordable units. Mohcd has been working hard to ensure permanent affordability for as many tenants of fillmore as possible. For those who cant stay, we need options. I want to make sure we are providing this Affordable Housing preference for tenants through no fault of their own face a loss of Affordable Housing simply because an affordability restriction expired. My legislation proposed expand the displaced tenants to include those whose rents increase 40 or more of income due to lost of government issued affordability restrictions. Thank you supervisor peskin for cosponsoring. I look forward to passing this as quickly as possible. We are under a timeline. This is important that additional protections are in place for tenants when they need it. Thank you. I think m. Ochd is here to answer questions. About morning. How are you . I am well. Thank you. Maria benjamin. I am happy to give background on the current status of the displaced tenant Housing Preference and talk about the proposed amendments and what they would mean. Currently, as supervisor brown spoke about, currently there are three categories of displacement or eviction that would qualify a household for the displaced tenant housing tenants. One is because of ellis act because of rent controlled unit. Another is owner move in. Third category is by fire where you cant return to your unit within six months. The proposed category would also add that same set aside in Affordable Housing lotteries to folks who have the affordability restrictions to fire. What does it look like now . So far since late 2015, we have had over 1,000 applications for displaced tenant Housing Preference. There are about 365 of those came from owner move ins, ellis ability 462, fire victims 78. Of those over 1,000 people, 82 of those people who apply actually qualify and get these certificates. The displaced tenants applicants in new construction, between the fiscal year july 2016 and then the end of june 2018, there were 47 developments that qualified for displaced tenant. 1368 units in those developments. The set aside for dhp was in 38 developments. You have to have at least five units in a building available in the lottery to apply the displaced tenants. There were 224 Units Available to folks. As you can see, as the evictions are, they are in many districts across the city. These are Home Ownership units and rental units. There are only 9 of the displaced tenants developments that were ownership units. The vast majority is rental units. Occupancy. What all these applicants, who is getting in using this preference . There were 100 households during that time period that used the certificate. 70 of those households took occupancy in newly constructed buildings. 30 certificate owners took occupancy in rerentals or resales of affordable units. The occupancy by category. Ellis act vacation 43, 8 fire victims. What we are looking at now with the restrictions expiring, there are in hud or state funded projects, there are 15 buildings current currently at risk of losing affordability restrictions. That totals over 1500 units between 2021 and 20 2029. Inclusionary 45 buildings totals 500 units expiring between 2028 and 2064. There is room in the displaced tenant Housing Preference for this amendment. There were 56 of the units set aside for displaced tenant Housing Preference were not filled by those applicants. There are many reasons. Because someone is evicted and gets the certificate does not mean they meet eligibility for Affordable Housing. Also, there are some buildings that are set aside for seniors or set aside for transitional age youth or return es like the Alice Griffith buildings. Those were set aside for those people. Displaced tenants did not apply or qualify. Also, the reason why the applicant numbers are higher is because what happens when someone gets the certificate and they are desperately searching for housing they apply across the board to many different developments at one time and they select the one they get in. The applicant number is higher than the occupant number because of do doily another was another wa the number of people applying. The number is slowly decreasing from the time between 2016 and 2017 there were over 800omi evictions in the city. In the current year, current fiscal year ending this month, there have been about 350omi evictions. 350 omi evictions. There are many reasons. In part because of the eviction representation the city is offering now to tenants that they are not as easily evicted. That could be one of the reasons. We are because there is capacity in the preference, we think that this much needed assistance as supervisor brown mentioned ask, you know, it is life or death for those folks in restricted units now they will not have a place to go once their rent goes to market rate rent. That is my presentation. Thank you. Supervisor brown do you have questions or comments . Commissioner brown i have a few questions. How can we make sure tenants have time to exercise the preference to ensure they can transition smoothly from current housing to new Affordable Housing . I think if we allow tenants i think what you are asks is like when they get to the end, when suddenly the restrictions ex prior and they have a expire and the market rate rent goes up or they get eviction and they have eviction on the record before they have time for Affordable Housing. I think we can add just that by making it available to them now and not waiting until the rent goes up. If they are in a building that has market rate units, they know what the market rate rent will be, and we can qualify them now based on their current income and based on what the market rate units are going for in the building that they are in. Because i know in the Fillmore Center, i think what is it . 103 are staying because you negotiated and seniors and those with disabilities are able to stay to have their lifetime. Thats correct. There is 1205 that ha 105 that have to go within five andahalf years. I want to make sure we give people time because, you know, i know a lot of people want to stay in the neighborhood. Will they be able to use neighborhood preference also to be able to have much more of a chance to stay in the neighborhood as developments coming up . Definitely. So i know when they were negotiating these contracts 20 or 30 years ago that sounded like a long time, right . Now it has hit us square in the middle of the eyes. When we are negotiating the contracts with the new developments, there is no expiration date. We discontinued that, correct . That is correct. Perfect. That is something i feel like we would have to change if that was the case. Also, can we make it so that tenants can qualify by showing that the current market rates for comparable apartments in the same building are 40 or more of their income . That is a great idea to be able to, first of all, help people. It is not instant because you have assertive cant th thesertive cant debt mean you will get right in. It will help those that havent moved in a long time. They might need to fix the credit or other issues to be able to move. Because of this, i think i will have to amends the legislation, correct. As it stands. As it stands now, i am going to ask this body if we could and i think my aid is getting the amendments. I thought you were going to bring them. Here he is, thank you, carlos. I would love if we could agree to continue this but then also look at these amendments to accept the amendments. I also had one more question. What about the hud properties . I know i have the largest amount of hud properties and supervisor walton has the largest amount and you have the third. We are all lined up. I didnt know that, supervisor. Good to know. I will talk about that . Meetings. What is the danger here . I know a lot of them, for me, in my community in the Western Addition we see developers circling around these developments because there are a lot of two story, a lot of land, parking, and looking at trying to redevelop them. I am worried to make sure that we keep the affordability there, and, hopefully, if they want to develop they have to do more afforaffordability. Can you tell us a little more about that. I cannot really go into that. I dont have that information. Amy is the one. Thank you for that question. There are hud properties that do not have city subsidy in them. In those cases as an agency we dont have direct oversight of affordability. We are watching those properties with hud and have worked with you, supervisor brown, to make sure there is Technical Assistance for the tenant associations and for residents to be aware of the affordability restrictions and helping folks understand that renewing their contracts when they come to expire and renewing the permanent afford ability is in the best interest of the tenants. We are working to provide that outreach and education to the residents. We dont have direct oversight over many of the properties because we dont have funding for those properties. We dont have there is no more city funding in the properties. We dont have direct oversight over affordability restrictions. If they want to sell we have first right ever right of the re city . Is noticing requirements around sales of publicly assisted properties. The owner must give us notice, and i think we can obviously work with our Affordability Housing providers to come in and make an offer. Because i know what happened with fd haynes a couple years ago it was on the mls and it was 90 of the people that lived there were extremely low or low income, and so i want be to make sure that we are looking at how do we protect. I know we dont have the money in there to have that control. I think at least making sure the city has first right every few safirst right refusal to purce the property. We know the city doesnt move fast. Having time to purchase it, also. Just, you know, looking at that because i just feel that i think all of us have that worry that once and especially my hud properties were the first to pay off all of the hud loans. Now they are more of an independent body. I think that is first one coming up that we have to really look at with development. To your question. I was thinking about long standing state and city requirements of noticing for sales of publicly assisted properties the board passed the Community Purchase act recently and our office is in the process of implementing that legislation to require the properties with Properties Three units and up to notify them so that law will soon be implemented. Thank you. Is that all . Just a question to city attorney. This will have to it is another week in committee. Okay. Can i have a motion. So moved to continue. To accept the amendment. To accept the amendments. We have to open up for Public Comment first. If any member of the public would like to speak, now is your chance. You have two minutes. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor walton made a motion to continue this item to the next rules Committee Meeting next monday. That would be june 10th. Without objection that motion passes. Thank you so much. Can you please call item number two. Item two. Hearing considering pointing a member term ending march 192022. One seat mar2022 one seat one applicant. Do you have any comments, supervisor walton . If we can call up nur jehan khalique. Good morning. Good morning, supervisors, how are you today . Good. Go ahead. I am, i guess, what do you call it, nominee to be a part of the cpac committee again. I have served on the committee for two years. I should start introducing myself would be a good start. I am nur jehan khalique. I am currently executive director of Early Childhood schooling programs in San Francisco unified School District. I am also a resident of district 10 in the bayview and having since 2006. I am very aware of educational issues in San Francisco unified as well as being a Community Member understanding many of the issues facing parents that have young children. In addition to that, i will briefly go over some of my call fixes because i have been my call fixes. I have been in education for 30 years. I dont want to bore you with those details. In my career, i have been principal of i was one of the first principals of a colocated site in the San Francisco school dresdistrict. I was one of the first schools to embrace having an Early Childhood classrooms at my school. In addition. I had one of the First Special ed includes classrooms at sheridan school. Also, i was early child heard principal at stand alone site in sunnydale. You know some of the challenges of our families in these areas and the importance of making sure the families in the San Francisco community, especially in our challenged areas like bayview know about the Early Childhood resources and get the support they need so they can actively participate in educating their young children. I think the some of the other challenges they have is just, you know, having access. We have a lot of resources in the city. It doesnt mean they are getting to everyone they need to get to. In addition, i have actively participated in Early Childhood issues in the School District whereas just bringing in more programs such as San Francisco public montessori rewhich came in under my leadership where we brought the montessori into San Francisco. That gave our families in San Francisco another program to access in addition to all of the other programs available in the city. In doing this, i worked closely with carla bryan, some of our Childhood Development centers in the city just to understand, you know, what their issues were so we can work in partnership with our stand alone sites as well as school sites in our district. I am trying to think of what else. I think that is probably a good brief of my experience with Early Childhood. Thank you so much. Supervisor walton amazing appointment. I will open this for Public Comment in case anyone wants to speak. Thank you so much. If any member of the public would like to speak now is your chance. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor walton. Commissioner walton i did want her to come up and talk about her credentials so you could hear about the work she has done and how important it is to have someone for me from the district with a wealth of experience in working with our youngest children who definitely need it the most and definitely need the support so they can have a life time of successful Education Opportunities and nur jehan khalique that been doing that for the School District for a long time. I was proud to nominate her to serve on cpac. As a mom of 6yearold who recently actually graduated from kindergarten tomorrow i want to thank you so much for your incredible work. We know how important Early Childhood education is to the future of our children. Thank you for being willing to serve in this role. We are grateful for your work. I would be happy to make the motion to send this forward with positive recommendation if i can take that without objection. That motion passes. Clerk item three. To clarify you are appointing nur jehan khalique without objection. Eye team 3 mot