That they have no control over. I strongly encourage you to pass this bill, and thats it. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Youll have two minutes. Hello, caller . Hello, caller . Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Hello . Clerk hi. You have two minutes to speak. Hello. I am a resident of San Francisco living in district 1 examine would like to express and would like to express my full support of this ordinance. The opposition to this ordinance from landlords we have heard who supposedly oppose eviction demonstrate their lack of integrity to hold their fellow Property Owners accountable to value human life over the finances. I want to make it absolutely clear, the potential life or death situation for these disadvantaged communities is in no way similar to the financial discomfort to the several landlords that we have heard from. Housing is a human right, and i urge you to support this ordinance. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes, and youll be notified that your line has been unmuted. Hello, caller. You have two minutes. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. You have two minutes. Yes. I am a San Francisco resident and ownermanager of 40 Apartment Units here in San Francisco. And because of covid19, i have five vacancies and im not sure if i should rerent these vacancies because of this ordinance. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Youll be notified that your line has been unmuted. Hello, supervisors. My name is chelsea wight, and im a renter who has been impacted by the covid19 emergency. I moved to San Francisco six months ago and because of this unprecedented pandemic, i cannot get out of my lease. I am also being threatened by my property manager that they will be coming after me for money owed once the emergency is lifted. I am now in a position unlike ever before in that i am simply defaulting on my payments because i cannot afford them. I simply will not be able to catch up on my rent. The cost of living in San Francisco was exponential before this crisis, and now i, like many others, are in a position pigeonholing themselves because they cannot afford to live in San Francisco. I do not deserve to have these financial implications because of a pandemic that was out of everyones control. This city needs to focus on caring for its residents and making sure that every person has a roof over their heads and to feel safe in their homes. I strongly ask that you pass this ordinance in solidarity with the publics best interest, not for landlords to continue to take advantage of their tenants. Their position has been clearly stated on this call, working individuals dont matter or referring to tenants as leeches of society. They agreed to take on these costs when they agreed to become landlords, and we as tenants did not bring on covid19, and they need to put Public Opinion over profit. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you, caller. We have 86 listeners with 12 in queue. Again, press starthree if you have not already, and you will be notified that your hand has been raised to speak in Public Comment. For those still waiting, we appreciate your patience, and well get to your soon. Next caller, please. Youll have two minutes, and youll be prompted that your line has been unmuted. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Yes, im here. Good afternoon. My name is robert link, and i am a native san franciscan. I grew up in district 4 and currently reside in district 7. Im a Property Owner and a property manager and responsible for approximately 275 Apartment Units in the, most of which are rent controlled. I am calling today because i am opposed to the ordinance on the grounds that it is overreaching and violates the Governors Office by precluding a landlords ability to recover rent from a tenant through an unlawful detainer process effectively rendering the value down to zero. I think the landlord community sympathizes with hardship that many of our tenants are experiencing right now, and i see, and i feel like many of my colleagues too do, too, see the relationship between landlord and tenant as complementary, and its something that many other callers this afternoon have not displayed. We as a company have responded to a number of hardship requests. I personally have written 25 to 30 forebearance requests for our tenants and commercial tenants, which only about 10 to 15 weve granted rent forgiveness, 25 to 50 for almost all of them, so theres a huge outreach thats being missed, the outreach of the landlord community to the tenants. And i fear that this legislation is overreaching and could cause a bigger problem than what we have now. I think possibly an unintended consequence here, if this happens, people could otherwise withhold payment of rent, thus creating a larger problem clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Hi. Well, im here to let the board now that im opposed to the ordinance. First, pandemic is actually affecting everyone one way or other. He believ second, theres so many assistance programs for people that lost their jobs, such as e. D. D. And employment, as well. Second, theres assistance for Small Businesses, but landlords, i have nothing. We can get s. F. Water if we apply for, but landlords do not get a break from paying property taxes. Tenants are already paying under fair market value, but still, the city want to put the burden onto landlords. I dont think this is fair. Some people would say forebearance helps the landlord, but its only temporary. Its not a solution because the landlord still has to payback the interest with a higher rate. And with this action in the courts, it further divides the relationship between tenant and landlord and the landlord has to assume all the burden. And again, this is not the landlords responsibility to make sure everyone has a roof over their head. Tenants have to Work Together to build a relationship, and this is also what we have to do, not dividing them. Again, i ask the board to oppose this argument. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Again, press starthree to be added to the queue. For those waiting, please continue to hold. Next caller, please. Youll have two minutes. Hello. My name is andy, and im calling in enthusiastic support for this legislation. Evictions can mean death in the best of times, and this time of global pandemic, evictions will mean death for many people in an unprecedented way, and so this legislation has to be passed to help save lives literally, and to save our community. So i am so thankful to supervisor preston and his staff for introducing this, and i encourage this committee to support this legislation and for the board of supervisors to pass it unanimously because its the right thing to do, its the necessary thing to do. And then, i encourage the entire board of supervisors to take the spirit of this legislation and demand it of our national leaders, as well. In San Francisco, we can lead the country in this. We should be pressuring our representatives in congress, speaker pelosi, to be caring, supporting on ilhan omars rent cancellation ask and we can save many lives respond San Francisco, as well. Clerk thank you. We have 87 listeners and 12 in queue. Next caller, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. Id like to state my opinion. I strongly oppose this bill since its not fair and its not representing everyone in the Current Situation in San Francisco. It kind of represents one side. [inaudible] taking care of the situation, you know, the human right for everybody. The lessor and lessee have their human rights. You know, if one side has problem, you need to step in, helping in those situations, not just for the problem on one side. Its not fair. You know [inaudible] to get help by somebody, so then, they help the lessor directly and for wider assistance to the landlord, and then helping the tenant. No one wants to evict everybody, so as long as they get fair help from the city hall, theyre going to really help the tenant to stay, so just do a balanced, you know, action, please. So consider, you know, put more fair condition. If this bill pass, you know, add the condition helping of landlord to not evict anyone. No landlord want to evict anybody, okay . Thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Again, the public call in number is 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Press pound, and pound again. Press starthree to be added to the queue to speak, and you will be notified by the system when its your turn to speak. We have 85 listeners and ten in queue. Next caller, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Hi. My name is maria, and im a renter in the 8. I support this ordinance because housing is a human right. It is not incumbent upon the city to bail out Property Owners or to not owe the return on their investment. However, the city must do everything to protect our most vulnerable, which is really working class residents, to protect them from the pandemic. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Again, youll be notified that your line has been unmuted. Hello. I can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Hi. Im a Property Owner and manager of 60 units across three buildings, and i strongly oppose this legislation. We have been lucky that the majority of our tenants that have continued to pay rent, but we do have some tenants who have admittedly refused to pay rent because of the virus. They say their income has not suffered because of the pandemic, but they refuse to pay rent because they say theres nothing we can do. Regardless of what some people think, we are not raking in cash. We would never turn out someone who is struggling, but we are working with several who need rent reduction and forebearance, but i think an ordinance who fore that forbids rent is unfair. Despite what some people say, we are not monsters, and we are a family run business. We pay taxes, pay sizeable mortgages, by extensive building repairs, trash, new roofs, and weve also completed the city mandated seismic retrofits. Were good landlords, and we do this because this allows us to live in the city. This is a hard job, and it is not a lot of income. We are not rich. We drive cars that are 15 years old, toyotas, not ferraris. I am not a predatory investor. I dont own diamonds, i do not travel to europe. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller. My name is barbara dwyer. I am a small Property Owner, three rent controlled units, and i am also a renter. I vehemently oppose this ordinance. I am a retired r. N. , and my rent is my income. In 30 years of ownership, ive never evicted anybody. Id like to make a few points. If housing is a human right, so is food, water, heat, and medicine. All cost money. This ordinance asks small owners to be the bank and to make substantial interest free loans with low likelihood of repavement. Small owners cannot spread their rosters across 50 or 100 units. One unit lost means 25 to 50 loss of income. My building was not rent controlled when i bought it, but supervisors have changed the rules in the middle of the game. I worked with it, but this legislation really makes me want to rethink owning property in San Francisco. I cannot even occupy one of my units if the need arises. If more small owners exit the businesses, our properties will be bought by corporations and developers. This bodes ill for the future of Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes. Youll be prompted that your line is unmuted. Hello. This is salman. Im a Property Owner as well as property manager for several units in San Francisco. Ive been on this call for several hours. Id just like to say that we should all look to ourselves and to not look to divide. We see whats happening with that on the National Level with a divisive leader and administration. First and foremost, this legislation, my biggest concern with it, its not helping the constituents. Some of the other areas, specifically, san jose and others, they say its not constitutional to enact Something Like this. If it does go through, were looking at itll be repealed in the courts in six months, and a lot of tenants will not have saved up for that rent that they owe, and i dont want to do that in the city of San Francisco unless its absolutely the last option. What i think this board of supervisors is theyre kind of creating a plan to make the landlords look bad within a few months, and thats maybe a year, eight months. Thats something we dont need. It doesnt direct the service to the constituents and the people in these homes. The threeday notice is something that keeps policies in structure. By removing that ability for a landlord to do you know, a lot of landlords arent going to do that, but youre undermining the legislative system. Its bad government. Going to get redone, and youre going to have a lot of evictions after something we need to avoid clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You all have two minutes to speak. Youll all be notified that your phone is unmuted. Hello. I am a landlord, and i own a property in San Francisco. I rent at a price so people can stay in this people. I wanted to be as a landlord to stop the pushing out thats going on. These laws are going to be the norm of the future. We cant be talking about opposing this legislation without thinking about we are going to have to change the whole system of how landlords and tenants and the banks relate to this whole issue. Something has got to change. We have to come together to figure out how we can make housing as a human right and for landowners and landlortena be able to come to a solution together. I am in support of all this. Its not calling for a whole lot, its just calling to stop the evictions. I could not live with myself if i had to eviction a young person. The rent pays for my mothers care in a nursing home, so i have a lot at stake. But we have to change the way we are looking because the world is changing around us. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Youll be notified that your line is unmuted. Hello. My name is lisa, and i am a strong small Building Owner in district number 2 in the marina, and i strongly oppose 200375. I take pride in the fourunit building i own, and i always keep it in tiptop shape for my renters. I pay all my utility bills, mortgage bills, property taxes, and maintenance bills on time. This bill will make it nearly impossible for small Property Owners like myself to recoup the rent, and it places the financial burden of covid19 on Small Business owners who have fixed mortgages, employees, property taxes, and maintenance expenses. It is not fair and equitable to the Property Owner and puts the burden of this pandemic solely on the owners. The Water Company is not supplying water without taking payment. The Mortgage Company is not foregoing payments. Owners of rental properties are providing a much needed safe home for so many residents, and this proposal is putting them in jeopardy if it passes. This, along with the closure of the court system, would allow tenants to live rent free till possibly september 2020 and beyond. To me, this seems to unfair and punishes the owners of properties. I think the board of supervisors could not and should not prohibit Housing Providers who have been financially impacted from covid from using California Law to enforce our rights. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Good afternoon. This is pahan. I am 76 years old. My wife and i had retired, and all we have is Social Security income, and we used all our savings to buy three condos in the city. They provide us our daytoday living expenses. Now, if the tenants stop paying rent, we cannot afford to be in our house. In fact, well have to move out, and we will be homeless. So my question really, to all of you two questions. Is it right and is it fair to throw me out of my own house for making an honest living, paying all of my bills . And then, i would ask, the solution i think would be, one, for the city to either come in and help tenants and i want to help them. And the second the most important question is if all these people who are proposing that the landlords pay for the rent, why dont they forego their salaries and house the tenants, instead of making some landlord, old people like me, suffer the burden . Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. We have 83 listeners and nine in queue. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please . Hello . Clerk oh, hi. Hello. You have two minutes to speak. Hello, caller . Hello . Clerk you have two minutes to speak for Public Comment, maam. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . Clerk yes. Im the owner of a rental in San Francisco. I am the first generation who squirrelled away funds for a down payment. I made sure i upheld all of my objections, and i make sure that im up to date on all the rentals and maintain the building in the standard that i would live in, which is a high standard, by the way. When the moratorium on evictions passed, i made sure that i didnt put