The united educators of San Francisco, the over 6,000 teachers and school staff who work in our schools everyday. This thursday, uesf is hosting an emergency town hall on how the pandemic, the crisis of the pandemic is going to affect the work of educators and the lives of our students. Its clear to educators that the last thing that our students who are now suffering through the pandemic need is to be put in a situation of housing insecurity and potentially homelessness due to the economic duress of the pandemic. So when educators get together this thursday, theyll be brainstorming ways to help our students get through this both economic and health crisis. On top of this, we also recognise that the students most vulnerable to the pain and suffering of the pandemic and the economic insecurity are a te black and brown students. While were marching in the streets to find justice for george floyd and to make sure that black lives matter, the least we can do is to provide housing security to our most vulnerable students. We enthusiastically endorse supervisor prestons legislation and we open that the board of supervisors follows suit. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll hear your line is unbeautied anunmuted and youo minutes to speak. Im a district 7 resident and a San Francisco native in favour of helping landlords and tenants Work Together. Most landlords are good and most tenants are good. We have to make sure the majority are not penalized for the minority. I do noii have worked with tenao set up a payment plan on casebycase victims. They have committed to damage. Wilthe first step is forebearane when appropriate. Not all hardships are the same and not all are in the same financial position. So are capable of paying rent and not every landlord is in the position to shoulder that burden. During the shutdown, although its tough for everyone, renters still enjoy the apartment and landlords have to pay the bills and dont forgive on their obligations. Not all landlords are wealthy and some live on that money and need it month to month. What are the suggestions . Put in place a meins testing. Landlords need to have a way to get it back if and when its time to collect. Thank you for your Time Partnership appreciate it. Hello, can you hear me . I live in district 5 and im in support of dean prestons bill. We need to protect our renters. I have a good renned tha friends in San Francisco. He got laid off due to covid19 and hes not able to pay his rent for the next three month. I communicate with him and hes terrified of losing his rentcontrolled apartment hes been in for 15 years and for the moneygrubbing hungry landlords that want to evict these people, its ridiculous. We need to make sure they dont evict. Shame on you if you dont and we will vote you out of office. Im in support of this and thank you so much for district 5 and i wasnt a big supporter of dean preston but im hoping hes pushing this through and thank you so much. Thank you to for your commen. Next speaker. Youll have two minutes. Hello, caller . We have workers struggling to feed their families and pay rent and many airport workers who work two or three jobs struggling to get by on unemployment which is not enough to afford that high cost of ren. Rent. We have many who dont qualify and when this crisis is over, workers wont be able to pay back month and months of rents, even when they get wanting to b. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. indiscernible . This is a reasonable proposal and i think theres a lot of information promoted to individual Property Owners, perhaps by people who testified by earlier. Lets be clear, they did not refuse payment of rent. This is not an invitation to not pay rent. This requires establishing substantial loss as a result of the emergency. It doesnt prevent tenants and owners to make an amicable plan. This is only about evicting tenants who dont have the means to pay. They need to Work Together with supervisor preston to pass a programme to help address your needs. indiscernible . Thank you for your comments and we have 113 listeners with 33 in queue. Next speaker, please. My husband and i are small Property Owners of a twoproperty house, a neighborhood we love for friendly neighbors and hardworking citizens. We both work and rely on the rent we get to pay our bills. Currently my tenant lost his job and we are working together as we figure out a way to keep ourselves financially afloat. Without recourse to collect the rent in the months ahead, we will be unable to pay mortgages, property taxes which will put the house we provide in jeopardy. If hes allowed to stay in the apartment longer without my ability to recoupe payment, it will impact my finances and likely cause us to have to sell our property causing hardship to both us and our tenant. Please vote for 200375. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes and youll hear your line has been unmuted. Am i able to be heard . Yes, you have two minutes. Thank you so much. Im a resident of district 8 and i have the incredible privilege of living in a home that was bit by my great grandfather. I am a disabled person and im not able to work a traditional job and so ive seen this impossible privilege as my way to give back to my San Francisco community by maintaining these buildings and taking care of the properties. And i want to urge everyone who is listening and the supervisors to remember that there are two types of landlords in this city. There are mean live in the city, often living in the homes they are taking care of and who are essential to providing the service of property management. Specifically, that is the job of the landlord. There are landlords who own buildings who are not owned by a Single Person but owned by conglomerates and investors. These people do not care about their buildings and their neighborhood. And they are not subject to rent control. That is the most vital and glaring issue. And i think to protect diversity in the city and to protect buildings that have people who own the building and people renting and work out things together and have amicable relationships and to support the smaller renters, we dont want to replace, quote, mom and pop shops with giant groups of investors who do not care about the city and have the resources for tonights of lawyers to make sure they are not subject to loss protecting tenants and our city like rent control perform. I want to thank everyone who shared because i think its important they listen to each others concerns and see where each other is coming from and most importantly, making sure that the quality of the city and the humans that live here are thank you to for your commen. Next caller, please. You have two minutes. Ive been listening to this phone call for an hour and a half, and so, supervisors, why dont we just indiscernible . They go to 16 of incomes for the landlords. And they didnt put that in. And supervisor really want to help, they take a pay cut of 15 and the landlords can keep two months rent and everybody is happy. Otherwise its just wasting everybodys time. Its not doing any good. I dont think the supervisor has any intention of passing the bill or helping the small indiscernible . If they ca cannot pay their ren, maybe they should rent a smaller place and they cannot get employment, they should look for help. You have two minutes to speak and you may begin. We believe there will be a cruel hoax of renters hit with more rent payments because of the Court Decision rendering it unconstitutional. We know you as a board have been given this opinion and we ask that you consider it. This is also disappointing to hear the demonization of all landlords by many of the participants of this hearing. Most of our community have spent the last month working to help our tenants stay in place, forgiving some and postponing others, but working to keep people where they are. We, too, are people from San Francisco and we love the city as much as anybody else and we want to work to help displaced tenants because of the covid crisis and have been working with a number in your office to do just that. I want to thank show thank those supervisors who have reached out to us and express or concern that the sponsor of this legislation did not bother to reach out and discuss how we could come to some kind of compromise that will hold up in court. And we urge that you consider that alternative. Thank you. Thank you tor you for your c. Youll have two minutes to speak and next caller, please. Your line has been unmuted. Thank you. Im racquel fox. Im a native sanfranciscans, born and raised here and ive seen the displacement of tenants rampant for decades. And now people need to come together and stop further deterioration and homelessness. The people that i represent currently, theres a handful of people thatless their jobs and thethat lost their jobs andtheye cleaners, janitors and some undocumented or unqualified in other areas and they cant go back to work until something changes. Some of them, these people are now in a position that they currently cannot pay the rent and if something is not done to prevent enough eviction, there will be more people homeless, more people infected with the virus thats still rampant in the entire United States and anyone who doesnt believe theres a problem with homelessness, i welcome you to go down hide street writ where e a look out the window at work and i see more and more people there and more and more homeless people, teac people that need h. I fully support them and i think everyone involved in this, thank you. We have 110 listeners with 30 people in queue. Youll be notified when your line is unmuted. You have two minutes. Im mohen and i would say my heart goes out to all of the tenants who are affected by the covid19, but i hope the tenants also think about the difficulty that the landlords are facing. Im a landlord in San Francisco and im against the proposed policy. This is something we have all suffered during the covid19. We have worried that if we are laid off, we will suffer like the tenants. There is all different kinds of help for them. We can delay payment. However, landlords are not exempt from paying mortgage and prompt tax, not to mention the utilities. How do you expect them to pay all of these when we cannot pay rent . indiscernible . Please consider a way to help landlords. This goes hand in hand and should responsible to help all equally. This could put the burden on the landlords who have suffered huge financial distress during this kuhn. Kuhn. Covid19. If we cant pay property tax and mortgage, we will lose our property, too. It may take years and years to collect the debt. The landlord should step in and help tenants during these tough times. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Hello. Hi. I live and work in San Francisco in district 11 and im with the unfair housing legislation with over 3500 members and im calling on behalf of the 1100 people who have signed letters in opposition of this bill, many who are immigrants and unable to call in. I oppose this and implore you to say no. A lot of people have said that Property Owners have making a ton of monies and its often enough to just coverage maintenance. You hear about forebearance programmes but that doesnt mean the mortgage is forgiven. The money is still owed and due to the beijin bank. If a Property Owner does not receive rent, the Property Owner may not be able to pay the mortgage and this will lead to foreclosure and bankruptcy. As a Property Owner, i am working with my tenants unable to pay. Everyone needs help but not just on the backs of Property Owners. There should be a fund the tenants can access to pay the rent. This needs to be more balanced and the government can reimburse the lost income or the city should stop charging Property Owners property tax and get banks to forgive our mortgage. This will prevent Property Owners from losing their home. I urge you to oppose 20075, the preston conviction bill, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. We have 111 listeners with 30 in cue. Queue. Hello, caller. Im teresa wall and im opposing this bill. A lot of tenants will informed they would be convicted after the covid orders but the rent was due after six months after the order was expired. In general general eviction cast takes one year. So many would call in and why are they are not informing the tenants it will take up to one year . I was just receiving a letter this morning and my rent is onethird of the mortgage. indiscernible . Preston, youve done nothing about this. How dare some of you saying the owner was not good at their business. The owner was being able to pay for their down payment and caused generations of saving. The housing is not only the human right to tenant. This is to the landlord and everybody have to go to work. I am a 1099 person working at the court. indiscernible . I wont pay the upcoming tax. This will be a longer time than anyone to get my job back. Please, do not just think about yourself. Think about all of the small Property Owners. We sell the house, but even we sell the house we are the housing protecter and the protecter for most of the tenants. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Two minutes and youll be notified your life is unmuted and you may begin. I am an accountant and have been a resident of San Francisco and renter for 37 years here in north beach. Im calling to express my View Opposing this legislation about the ordinance 200375. I think this ordinance penalizes the landlord for this pandemic, not all of the landlords have deep pockets. So are some business operators. I personally know three landlords who are elderly widows and collecting their rent for livelihood and to maintain their property. They do not own the property outright and so they have to pay their mortgage. If the landlord does not pay the mortgage, she will lose her own house and their own livelihood. If the tenant does not have to pay the rent during this pandemic, the landlord still have to come up with the money for the mortgage, for the property taxes and utilities and where that come from if the landlord is not paid . They depend on their rent and some people that have called say they can collect back rent after this pandemic is over but if this pandemic will last more than one years as suspected, the loors anlandlords and the tenand be evicted together. The banks will foreclose on the landlords. Thank you very much for your time. Have a good day. Thank you. Next speaker, please, two minutes. Can you hear me . Im jose, a renter in district 8 and im speaking in support of this measure. San francisco politicians left to tout themselves as champions of progressive action and as we face the greatest Economic Disaster in history, now is the time for drastic and compassionate action. I have heard many landlords speak to the unintended consequences of this ordinance but none of us know for certain what the socalled unintended consequences will look like. We know what mass evictions will look like. It will look like more squaller and devastation on our streets and erasure of our black and brown communities and people who are barely making ends meet. We are all feeling the devastation of covid19 and landlords are not exempt because of their wealth. Buying a home to rent is an investment and investments come with risk. We have heard from socalled mom and pop landlords who believe they will fail into unrecoverable financial ruin if they are unable to collect rent. They are forget this forcibly removes then from their home through no fault of their home. Lets not forget the multidollars hedge funds are the biggest landlords in the bay area. 10,000 of backrent or whatever the case is nothing to the predatory investors or even to the owner of a single Million Dollars house but an insurmountable economic burden for some people. Now, in this climate, where theyre advocating the stop violence against black and brown people, we must remember eviction is violence. Forcibly removing people from homes is violence and black and brown people will be the victim. Vote yes on to proposal. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Caller, you have two minutes. Hello, is there someone on the line . speaking Foreign Language . Thank you, caller, unfortunately our interpreter for spanish had to leave 30 minutes ago and we dont have anybody to interpret those comments but we appreciate them. Next caller. You can hear me . Yes, please proceed. Im a small landlord in district 2, 5 and 8, 40 years, business other than and employer citywide and 40 year resident of district 8. As a tenant while complying with San Francisco softstory requirements, im not pro eventingioeviction, im opposeds bill. This has caused a financial crisis for all citizens. The community embraced consequences with a slogan and attitude. As employers and landlords we have kept employees to the payroll working out goodwill concession with tenants. This mirrors the position of every landlord we represent. The mutual good will was not mandated by the government. When the government pulls together, we allow supply and demand to find balance and equilibrium. There are higher vacancies and rental rates are decreasing upwards of 25 . The community will find solutions if you let them. Landlords and tenants need each other. This proposal makes the assumption that only tenants are impacted by covid19. It is wrong for our mutually elected supervisor to consider a law that addresses only a fraction of its constituents and not all. You have making the assumption the Property Owners have deep pockets and unless you propose legislation to address mortgage payments, insurance, homeowner, dues, maintenance repairs, property taxes and Property Owners income, this law will not serve all constituents unless relief is provided to landlords as part of this proposal and not by a separate legislation. Where does your ordinance address small Property Owners from foreclosure . Theyre showing most tenants are receiving