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Transportation and parks make it a very tempting target for many of the speculators out there that are looking to quote u. N. Quote flip buildings and evict people. The high concentration of seniors in our district, i know theres a number of seniors who will be testifying in the Inner Richmond about 18 percent of the population are seniors in the Outer Richmond its about 18. 5 percent, way above the citys averages, so i know there are a high number of seniors that are renters in our district. Currently theres a building at 15 ogt and anza thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a sto...

Of individuals are in fact struggling to stay in San Francisco, as supervisor mar noted in the numbers that the rent burden in terms of the percentage of people or households who are spending more money on housing, that number is pretty high, its close to half of the city thats facing that challenge. And in some neighborhoods like bayview, viz valley, you are talking close to 60 percent spending more on their housing. Thats why i believe we must act urgently to address this crisis which i believe is a crisis and the fact we havent reached the levels that we saw in 2000 doesnt mean that we are ...

Residents. Though were hopeful all of them will be able to return to 24r units weve seen as supervisor campos has mentioned as many buildings are not repaired in a timely manner and tenants give up and move away but its one of the ways that land lords instead of evicting people use different tactics to push them out and its another example of why we need better data gathering as well. Lastly, im aware of a number of landlords that carry out what i would call unnecessary construction in order to make it for difficult for tenants to live peacefully in their units. It may not be to a level of har...

Yee, asked, where does this all come from, it makes me think of caberet, money money money money makes the world go around. This city is not a place where middle class people can live. This city is not a place where families can live. When we talk about beautiful schools in the richmond district, theres nothing sadder than schools without children. Theres nothing sadder than neighborhoods without children. And you, david campos, when you talked about fighting for the soul of the city, that is exactly what we are doing here. We need places where families can live. We need to keep our diversity....

Thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. In this 4unit building Michael Winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. If the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. Russos report identifies in San Francisco and they would likely be pushed out of the city. These stories are not unique to the mission, to russian hill, to th...