Fwd: [Market Street for the Masses! MSMC] FW: Updates and talking points for Wed. 10/9 nonprofit rent hearing
Ilana Lipsett
From: Hatty Lee <hl...@tndc.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:55 PM
Subject: [Market Street for the Masses! MSMC] FW: Updates and talking points for Wed. 10/9 nonprofit rent hearing
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Hi community,
Please find attached a flyer for the upcoming hearing on displacement of community facilities. MSMC is supporting the Human Services Network (a lot of our members are part of HSN after all!) to bring our clients/members/tenants to speak from their experiences what it’s like to lose the vial services they need to stay in the Central Market community.
TNDC will host a quick speaker’s training right before the hearing at 11am in front of City Hall to go over the talking points with tenant leaders. Please forward widely and encourage your folks to come out!
Hatty
From: Debbi Lerman [mailto:debbi...@sfhsn.org]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 2:17 PM
To: Hatty Lee
Subject: Updates and talking points for Wed. 10/9 nonprofit rent hearing
To San Francisco Human Services Network members and friends:
Public hearing on rising nonprofit rents and displacement
Board Budget and Finance Committee; Board Chambers
Wed. October 9, 2013
Committee meets 10:30am; Hearing will start after 11:30am
Agenda: http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=46701
Supervisor Jane Kim (D6) is working with HSN to address the displacement of nonprofit organizations due to the rapid rise of commercial rents and early lease terminations, including the discussion of potential solutions to stabilize and support nonprofit
service and arts organizations.
If your organization is experiencing the impacts of a recent, current or potential upcoming commercial rent increase, please send one or two people to this hearing to share your most compelling story!
In addition to public comment, the Budget and Legislative Analyst's office will present a report of information they have gathered on commercial rent increases. This report will include the results of the survey that HSN sent out to nonprofits a couple weeks
ago. Many thanks to those of you who completed the survey, which received well over 100 responses out of 160 surveyed organizations! This response rate really speaks to the depth of concern in our community around this issue.
Please include the following talking points in your comments to the Supervisors:
* The important contribution your organization provides to the San Francisco safety net for vulnerable populations, and to our economy by providing jobs;
* Specifics of the threat to your organization:
Amount / percent of rent increase;
If applicable, the importance of remaining in your current neighborhood, and why;
Will you be able to stay, or must you move?
If staying, how will this impact your organization, budget, services, clients, workers;
If moving, have you found a new space, and at what cost? How will this impact
your organization, budget, services, clients, workers;
* Do you provide your services in partnership with the City and County of San Francisco through grants and/or contracts? If so, please mention the impact of flat funding and insufficient
cost-of-doing-business (CODB) increases that fail to keep up with rising costs.
* This hearing is the first step in working with the city to develop both short and longterm mitigation strategies to prevent displacement and save community-based services. Please
be solution-oriented in your comments. We have a lot of great ideas on the table, many of them considered during the last dot-com boom in the early 2000's. They include incentives for property owners to offer below-market rents to nonprofits, building
acquisition, loan assistance, and more. Longer term ideas include development fees and nonprofit inclusionary requirements. We are asking for
a commitment from the city to flesh out these ideas in the next couple of months, and begin implementing some of them immediately to mitigate the short-term crisis while studying longer term solutions.
Hope to see you on Wednesday!
-- Debbi Lerman, HSN
Debbi Lerman
San Francisco Human Services Network
Administrator
3310 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: (415) 668-0444
Fax: (415) 668-0631
debbi...@sfhsn.org
http://www.sfhsn.org
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