the tenant to vacate the unit. the legislation would allow the attempted to file a complaint with the rent board that would schedule a hearing before a law just between the tenant and landlord would believable to present their case. this judge would present 9 board with a summer so the rent board could decide and make a referral to the city attorney to initiate civil altercation or the zake district attorney to initiate criminal procedures. it creates an immediatey step that doesn't exit to the only recourse is presently the case the tenant goes to court. i want to thank all the advocates that have been working on this to address the issue of placement in the housing crisis. i want to thank the folks for the advocate work and working with my office to introduce this. again, i want to thank my co-sponsors and clearly this is not a panacea but an important step of a larger strategy. i also want to note we have reached out to the san francisco tenants - apartments association and we appreciate their comments and their

either the tenant shall certify to the planning commission that the original tenant reply or the applicant shall send to the planning commission that even though tenant choose not to reoccupy it >> i guess my question is so in terms of i guess know if the board is here? no it is that would be helpful in the rent board we are were here when i have a situation when the at that particular time is temporarily evicted and then in terms of what the process is right now they have a right to return. and assuming they could bring a cause of action if not given the right in the landlord fixes the unit over the tenants objection. but how the rent board determines whether the tenant has a deserve to return or wave that right do they require a declaration. i ask only because we have a situation where a tenant has not decided to return and didn't want to sign a declaration obviously ideally it would be great to sign a declaration whether or not to return but that's in light of not also going to happen. i don't know how the practice is determined >> john gibb in her again, i can't speak to that off the t

harassment to recover possession of the tenant's unit]sponsors: campos; avalos, mar, chiu, cohen and kimordinance amending administrative code, chapter 37, "residential rent stabilization and arbitration ordinance," by providing for hearings at the rent board on tenant allegations of landlord harassment constituting a wrongful endeavor to recover possession of the tenant's unit.1234 item 42: 42.131149[adding the name "donaldina cameron alley" to old chinatown lane]sponsors: chiu; marresolution adding the name "donaldina cameron alley" to old chinatown lane in recognition of donaldina cameron and her many contributions to san francisco president david chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor david campos: thank you very much. i would like to thank my colleagues who are sponsoring these items, supervisor mar, chiu, supervisor cohen and kim. i have been talking for some time about how we've had a tale of two cities in san francisco and how with all the prosperity there are many people being left behind. and as part of our discussion of the affordability crisis that we are facing, one of the

i'm with the san francisco tenants union. thank you supervisors so far bringing this legislation back. harassment is definitely on the increase and a fashd way to get tenants out of their part times. as supervisor campos note it's a difficult issue for tenants to deal with. senile they need to live with harassment long enough until an attorney feels their suffered medical bills and that sort of thing enormously to say most tenants can't survive through the harassment and it's an effective way of getting tenants out. this legislation corrects the issue of prop m passed by the voter that denied and prohibited harassment but unfortunately, the courts throw out the issue. this denies harassment an illegal evict attempt and go to the rent board and have it investigated. in addition to being a city attorney and district attorney prop a put in the statute for $200 a day so tenants can go to small claims court and get a monetary settlement. so thank you supervisors >> any >> prayer by the chaplain. >>. seeing none, public comment is

and how it hurts tenants. maybe i should have asked this before coming here today, but i wasn't -- it felt like the explanation is that there is an owner move in. the owner may want to, i guess create one unit out of two. and i'm thinking to myself, okay, is this really speculation or not? because if i were an owner, for instance, and went into to sell the place, it seems like the owner would probably be better off not creating a larger unit, but actually selling the building with several units if they want to do the type of tic [speaker not understood]. i'm not too sure who i'm supposed to ask on this, if there is any explanation on this. >> well, if i may respond. >> supervisor avalos. >> we [speaker not understood] cover evictions as well. if there is a merger of a building, even for an omi eviction, we are taking rental property off the market, [speaker not understood], most often the case it's rent controlled. it's also a place where r an eviction happens. we want to look at how we can best of all preserv

only 20 units can be used for the preference and tenant have to meet the eligibility requirements. from my prospective i building there is a critical measure to stop people from becoming homeless in inform. we need to make sure that your residents don't fall through the crack. i wanted to thank the co-sponsors and my colleague and the chinatown development center folks and the tenderloin clinic and the san francisco tenant union for their work on this legislation. i also want to mention i have two technical amendments we want to clarify the first is to closure there are several years of review to look at how this new preference is doing so we're adding 3 additional years to the process. that was language that was suggested by the planning commission and from the rent board it was suggested we clarify that it turns out someone resends their notice the tenant would not be impacted by that. so with that, i'd like to ask the planning department for comments and thank you, mr. ram and planning staff for being here today >> good afternoon chair wiener. sophie hayward we considered the dr

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. would you do if you get one of these notices? if you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program -- which i recommend you do -- you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. we call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. there are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the ca

harassment to recover possession of the tenant's unit]sponsors: campos; avalos, mar, chiu, cohen and kimordinance amending administrative code, chapter 37, "residential rent stabilization and arbitration ordinance," by providing for hearings at the rent board on tenant allegations of landlord harassment constituting a wrongful endeavor to recover possession of the tenant's unit.1234 item 42: 42.131149[adding the name "donaldina cameron alley" to old chinatown lane]sponsors: chiu; marresolution adding the name "donaldina cameron alley" to old chinawn lane in recognition of donaldina cameron and her many contributions to san francisco president david chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor david campos: thank you very much. i would like to thank my colleagues who are sponsoring these items, supervisor mar, chiu, supervisor cohen and kim. i have been talking for some time about how we've had a tale of two cities in san francisco and how with all the prosperity there are many people being left behind. and as part of our discussion of the affordability crisis that we are facing, one of the th

>> but really it relate to how long the tenants feel they are going to be displaced? is that not the case. >> it all goes back to the tenants yes. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> i think that there are a few discreet issues that need to be cleared up. firstly, i think that it is important to note that this is a new owner of the building and what happened in the last 11 years, is a different issue. this owner has come in and is trying to fix a very dangerous situation. i can address the issue, of notices posting, and i have photos and i can share and talk about all of that. but, i think that it has been noted that this is really an issue of the tenantcies and the rent board. and if more time is needed than the 2 and a half months than we forecast if they need more time in the three months, that is under the rent board jurisdiction and they will have to ask the rent board for permission to do that so there is a whole other process that will have a hearing that is just not an issue at this point. and we really do think that it is going to be two and a half

move out of their unit in other words, a tenant in the future would have the protection if the tenant after receiving a ellis act is fortunate enough not to be evicted arrest on page 5 this is to add that the board of supervisors shall hold a subject hearing within 3 years in which the rent board shall report incomes for at that particular time preference system. the purpose is to educate us who this is legislation that is working and if we need to make adjustment we can go forward and do that. let me ask the city attorney and department is there any thing else you want to add to those comments >> mr. chewing i'm with the mayor's office housing development. the only item that might be taken up for additional discussion we are that going to clarify the language in the proposed legislation regarding the requirement that tenant can violative if their suffering from a life-threatening disease they can live in the opt up to 5 years. this is for our office because it seems as if that standard is slightly different from the standard currently administered by the rent board for people disable

. >> good evening, with the housing klen clinic on behalf of the tenants of 1980 golden gate and lion street, and so we sought to revoke this permit because the work seemed to piece meal soft story work and now there is an attempt to expand the scope of the permit to include the soeft story work, and we are not opposed to that, because it makes sense to do both together. and the building definitely needs work. we are not disputing that. the dispute is that today for the first time that we have heard that all of the tenants have to move out of the property and prior to today, it had just been the down stairs unit and the story that is being presented is that there is certain for the safety of the tenants but that is under mined by the fact that they have owned the property for over a year. there is connection between the urban green and the prior owner and we have the same engineer and we have the same law firm, and so we don't believe that these are truly brand new people to this property. for the past eleven years that i have been involved with this property, they have done nothing t

in our office to keep tenant stable in the buildings. and knowing low south market long before it came a cool place to be. i think it's important to acknowledge that diversity. when we first introduced the tax aversion we wanted to help with the buildings that were vablt historically. and the buildings that were vacant from 50 plus years they had the highest vacant rate. our intention was not to give into buildings with occupants but they have covert uses and we are not able to exclusive them from the mid-market exclusion. this will help with that. i want to thank colleagues. i'd love our support in moving forward with full representations to the full board >> thank you, president chiu. >> thank you and i'm happy to add myself as a co-sponsor. we're having to make sure that the successes we've seen in this blighted area are shared with everyone. last week the board of supervisors had asked our controllers and city attorney to look at the increase in property tax values in that area. i'd like to propose a supplemental legislation to assis