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Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certa ....
Follow the law. You cannot do false advertising of it illegal units if people have not registered. As a staff member of senior disability action, i also speak for the seniors who i know have lost their homes in those homes have indeed become shortterm rentals. Ive only to think of the 22 units that are still being used as Vacation Rentals in my neighborhood. We are actually talking about one block, 22 units, and those are free of the buildings were there had been [inaudible] seven years ago and this is a way to bring in the platform to hold them accountable and to stop our seniors from being evicted for greed and so, i want to really support this and i hope everyone will support this. This is so important to our communities, to our city, to maintain neighbors and neighborhoods. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Testifier good morning, supervise. Im marla night. Im cochair of north beach tenants committed to living in north ....
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 respo ....