Housing the weve been building, we lose three units of rentcontrolled housing. Thats not quite standing in place. If not a terribly impressive track record. Not one we should accept as a continuing trend. Why those units are being taken off the market is of course because of a number of speculative forces but we know the shortterm rentals being so unenforceable such a lack of compliance is a right opportunity for speculation removal of those units we have to but not all. This legislation is a very simple step forward what puts accountability on the businesses were making a nice any Profit Office as well as the clients to ensure the simply complying with local laws. If everybody was like misnomer we would not have the kind of housing affordable to crisis with this industry that we do. So, please, supervisor this is really low hanging fruit. They shouldve been and are legislation in the first place asking the businesses to take responsibility for only listing registered host is a very simple step. They should be accountable and frankly should be happy to show their Corporate Responsibility to protect her housing supply. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Testifier i am deeper, San FranciscoTenants Union and i was canvassing in district 5 last weekend and i had the chance to speak of a bunch of folks on the street and everyone wanted to know how the cities going to regulate air b bs and other candidates in that district are going to have a feel about your b b and other correctly shortterm rentals generally. They told me their concerns were what is happening in their neighborhood. I told him id see the same thing in my neighborhood in district 9. The neighbors are being replaced by forests. Were experiencing is a community hollowing out and when that happens is not a community anymore. I do respect the need of six income folks lovely folks people that cannot use computers but i want to point out the number those people are tenants they havethe kind of burden that are tenants face and pushed out when theres increased pressures to find new housing are so much worse for the elderly for the fixed income for the folks who cant use computers. I also want to point out that there is, while i feel for some of the concerns of the host, i dont believe that the issues that were raised is in the legislation before you today. This is really just about holding air b b itself accountable theyre not here right now to tell you why you should not pass this legislation it thats because theres no good reason. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier very concerned about the shortterm rental. Person might name is tony what was and i represent senior disability action. Im very concerned about this Business Model shortterm rentals how to impacted up to the degree it impacted seniors in particular have lost homes because of speculators that have taken entire buildings of the market to pursue air b b. And other shortterm platforms and other shortterm online platforms. You know, the numbers speak for themselves. I think Something Like 7000 unregistered hosts. It seems to me a matter of wanting to have your path and eat it too. We are cannibalizing a lot of Housing Stock in San Francisco i would liken this to what i call homicide we take somebodys home, degree of senior thats been there for many many years and they get evicted. They end up house less than weve seen at least in our organization, many Horror Stories seniors wouldve ended up homeless or in substandard housing and that comes with many many ramifications. So, i wouldve strongly suggest or strongly support the legislation that is before you today. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, tony. Next speaker, please. Testifier thank you mr. Chairman and thank you board of supervisors for letting us all speak today in favor of the legislation to have regulation and Corporate Responsibility requirements for those Large Companies that are in fact making money from shortterm rentals. I want to address an issue my name is mark brunoi apologize i work with [inaudible] in north beach and have done for 15 years although not speaking on behalf of the society, we do is work with the poor and homeless and many those who come to our society for help people have in fact lost their places, the rentals, because of shortterm rentals. I want to address a slightly different issue thats very specific to our neighborhood in one incident. At 525, 535 street which the city itself is determinedive no letters from short term rental officecity has determined that this is an illegal shortterm rental of five unit building. Its never been properly registered. So what on november 13, up with this. You can show this to everybody on the screen, we had a fire on the building and we had a fire because it turns out,is a betteryou can see the date and incident number infected 10 copies to leave with a bottle board of supervisors with all the fire people came out men and women that we had today as taxpayers because this area the building shortterm rental being denied proper permits, number one to do the work in the top of the building which i could see from two blocks away have started the fire. Well, somebody had been living in the building where the tenants or residents, anybody living nextdoor who own their own property, it wouldnt much care about a fire on the roof of the building was nobody to care because im a particular date nobody was there. You can see in this last display here, to do this work is in fact three days later and three days later. Wouldve cost of fire and a lot of damage to the neighborhood had in fact somebody, me in this case just by coincidence not seen this fire. The point is when you dont have People Living in building took about the neighborhood you are inviting is unsafe, on habitable and inhumane ways of affecting the neighborhood. So i think were doing more than asking them to pay their fair share as ruskin to be Good Neighbors and i appreciate you doing that supervisor peskin. Thank u so much supervisor peskin i do, sir and just by way of background because i know that building. The famous [inaudible] in what beach, actually was being advertised on a different platform not air b b but was we should remember there are other hosting platforms and that one actually come after doing some research was not listed on your b b. Was listed on a different site. Testifier supervisor peskin ms. Lederman and after the next speaker, [calling names] testifier thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is Lori Lederman resident of the inner sunset. I urge you to support this legislation. The galatian without enforcement is meaningless without the required tools enforcement is ineffective. The evidence is in. According to the citys own office of shortterm rentals only 75 of hosts are registered. The opposite attributes this in large part to a substantial number of hosts were not eligible to operate shortterm rentals under the law. Since their inception, the shortterm rental behemoths and many of the hosts have ignored existing law and mrs. Accountability. So its pretty clear opposition to this legislation only serves to protect the legal shortterm rentals to generate you profits for the platform. Against urban environment cannot be a freeforall where corporations foster and egos of individual time and that breaks down the social conjugate weve traffic and parking laws. We have rules and regulations for Small Businesses. Violations are subject to fines. This is not a new concept. Excepting shortterm rentals from enforceable rules is a slap in the face to every Small Business in the city, a slap in the face to every neighborhood has de facto been rezoned commercial for shortterm rentals and important, most important, is problematic motivator to continue converting Housing Stock to shortterm rentals. I like to note, the speakers here today were posted this legislation are all registered house. Proven the operation of the city office of shortterm rentals is necessary, but its a separate issue from this legislation not impaired by this legislation. This legislation is in the Public Interest among corporations great facts on the ground recruiting stakeholders with a personal best interest then become lobbyists for corporations does not make good Public Policy. Your job is to make good Public Policy could please, support this simple by the legislation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin think. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning, supervise. Minus dennis must cozy night to live in the inner sunset. This reminds me of the banks that were too big to fail. We have air b b and other sort of too big to fail to but i think we have to look at is when the corporations like this are challenged to change the subject. Today, a lot of the discussion was about the details of the client application process and i understand if thats all accurate, then it needs to be improved, but the real issue is, its fantasy to imagine that forprofit corporations, whether its air b b or have is the chief motive responsibility to the communities they suck money from. That is just unreal. I think we should just look at it correctly. The government, our government, has responsibility to all of the various people in its jurisdiction. 12 businesses. Your b b has responsibility to itself. To its cheat investors. To expect them to behave in a way that corresponds to the needs of the people address the fact that theyre impacting the housing situation negatively is unrealistic. I think its all responsibility and youve taken it up in this legislation that the government is close to take care of establishing these regulations that shouldve been done a year and half ago, and the message is in, and now we know that in fact the corporations will not take care of this responsibility by themselves. So, i strongly encourage all of you to pass this on to the full board with a strong positive recommendation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. Its good to be had. I know its a very different attitude in this room from last year. At these hearings. My name is Kathy Lipscomb among the board of senior and disability action we are very grateful to supervisors peskin and campos who persistently push this kind of legislation, which is so drastically needed. This industry has definitely negatively impacted the rental market. A report to supervisor campos dated 51315 evictions in major neighborhoods reveals a correlation between elections and neighborhoods. Examples the intermission, the numbers of commercial hosts were 315. The numbers of deductions, 323. Pretty close. He got very, 193 hosts, to 12 evictions. Then, theres a scandal of the sro, the poorest people being pushed out for shortterm rentals. Citizens were told last year, justin a lot time to work it just give a lot time to work. We have. We have. The shortterm rental office now seems to throw up its hands upon admitting as many as 8000 people have not registered. What does this mean for city taxes . Senior disability action strongly supports the registration process in hopes that the numbers of days that people post is closely monitored. Host must have a valid number to get on a platform and were this world really fair, those the liquid once would have to pay some retroactive fines. Also, i agree that the registration process must be simplified. Too many people have found fault with it. No excuses. Thanks again for your hard work is very important issue. The world is watching us. The custom thank you. Before the next speaker i want to say that resident breed needs to leave so i want to afford her a moment to make some comments in an supervisor campos were take her place as a member of the committee. Supervisor breed president breed thank you. I want to just a couple words because i do appreciate a lot of the folks whove come out and express concern, not just about the legislation but the process. I just wanted to add a couple of things. Number one, ive heard time and time again that the process is problematic. I do think that, especially because many of the people that ive interacted with use their bedrooms for your b b purposes seven seniors we do have challenges with computers, and i want to make sure that this process is fair. We talk about accessibility. We go out of our way as a city to provide different languages on our ballots and to do other things to make sure that people feel included and are able to use our systems and processes fairly, and so i do think that we have got to do a better job with the process and make the process work. But i do think that overall, we do need to make sure that there is accountability. I think this is really a simple fix to that accountability. The situation of the landlords tenant is illegally renting out an air b b , renting out a unit, is a prime example of why registration is so important. Because, if you are tenant you have to get permission from your landlord. Clearly, this system is rogan and we have to do a better job of regulating it. Getting folks who are breaking the law with this particular platform should be done in such a way like getting a parking. As soon as the meter is about to expire, you know here comes the meter maid. Giving you a ticket it is consequences. If you dont feed the meter. We need to make sure that we have consequences for people who are not following the law. This is really, i think, a first step. I know theres more work to be done with this platform, and i want to commend kevin god for the work he has done with trying to crack down on people were taking entire units aftermarket and using them for the sole purpose of shortterm rentals and that should not be happening in our neighborhoods. But i also empathize and support many of the folks in the city who use this is extra income. If you are wealthy you probably wouldnt even bother with this platform, but then again, you do also have individuals were using this as a way to just, basically, exist and have a business for this particular purpose and it should not be the case either. I want us to strike the bounds. I dont think this legislation is unreasonable and i think that im definitely just to be clear, i will be supporting the legislation and i will be working with many of my home shares with concerns about this , especially about the process. Working to try to make the process work, especially, especially, for senior population. So i just want to say that this is not the first time that weve looked at legislation and brought it back to the board and made a fix to make it better legislation. We may be before the board there may be additional legislation because i feel strongly that we have got to have a stronger system in place that goes after people who have entire units off the market for this purpose. That is definitely a huge problem in the city and we know this doesnt necessarily address it and we have more work to do, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. I dont think its so overwhelming that it should be opposed because its just, i think, common sense. I appreciated supervisor campos and supervisor peskins leadership on this particular issue because it does make sense. I do want to express that one of the things im also concerned about your there are hosting platforms where this would be required. I want to make sure that theres other platforms that are not necessarily shortterm rental type platforms that the door can be open for abuse on those platforms as well, so i think accountability across the board is going to be important and were bringing in now a decent amount of revenue because of this. We should definitely work with kevin guy and his office to make sure we have adequate resources to get this process to work for people but more poorly, adequate resources to make sure enforcement is done on a regular basis. So, with that, thank you again i apologize but i do have to leave. As supervisor campos we taken my place in 042 watching this hearing later and getting more feedback from members of the public about this. So, thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you mdm. Pres. Thank you for your patience. Testifier hi. My name is alicia sandoval. The were for Housing Rights Committee. I see many changes in the midmission district. I remember there being not a lot of b b but as i see, right now we are facing a housing crisis. But i also want to bring out to you what happens when families, when seniors, are being displaced by fires by the actions. Its not fair. Then sleeping in cars, being homeless,. Thats a crisis. To me, thats a crisis. We need to help. We need help. These Families Committee seniors need help. They have been displaced. I see this legislation as a way to build in accountability to a whole structure, to assist them. Making sure that the landlord, the owners from buildings are not even take people, and i know its happening. Its imperative there be a system of structure that they will be accountable. So, it makes it a little harder to register. But imagine all the people who are homeless, all the people are being displaced. That is much harder to deal with. Testifier supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier my name is in the choir and i live in north beach. I too would like to thank supervisor campos and supervisor peskin for taking leadership in this very important legislation. I think many of the speakers before me express very eloquently why its needed. Particularly, the lady with a long white hair and a gentleman next to her. So i wont take my whole 2 min. I been following error b bs path for number of years. I dont think they know what Corporate Responsibility is all about. I dont think 1000 a day fine will then much of their budget says they were able to spend 8. 9 million to defeat proposition f. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier hi. My name is peggy grasso. Im in support of the legislation could overcome i dont feelsorry. Can you coming out supervisor peskin yes, perfect. Testifier name is Peggy Gosselin 11 hazed out. I support the legislation being proposed but as it stands now i think its a start. Many people mentioned about the current enforcement and its lack of backbone or efforts run as a effort. But meet or responsibility. We have a situation where i live on our street that the people have incited off of it are being beaded seized intermediate debate open