jane kim 22%. >> in an unusual recall campaign, santa clara voters deciding whether to remove the embattled judge in the stanford sex assault case, judge aaron persky from the bench. the yeses have it with 69%. >> kpix 5 emily turner begins our team coverage live at gavin newsom's campaign headquarters in san francisco. emily? >> reporter: you know what, it is a big party here. not just because there were 400 people packed into this bar, but because people are thrilled. not that they were surprised to be honest. this is not a nail biter for many of these folks. they came in tonight conservative, but they do say, you know what, we had a good feeling about it. not even what's going on in los angeles county. they could ruffle their feathers. i was talking to the campaign manager earlier tonight. we feel really good about our numbers. when gavin took the podium tonight at 10:00, he was introduced by his wife. he says very clearly this is not a victory speech though. this is a half time report right now. things look good. but we have to get to work because time has never been more crit

tenderloin to thank you, supervisor jane kim. the past year you do a lot for us, you know? you save the housing for the seniors and low-income family, and we have a free city college, and now my daughter is going to the city college. so really appreciate, yeah. i don't know how to, you know, do -- say something, but right here we have some flowers to bring you today for our supervisor jane kim. [ applause ] >> clerk: thank you, and next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. as you guys know, i am a public employee. i am ellen, and i'm a team member. i want to acknowledge malia cohen, who has been serving our neighbors for the last eight years. i remember she lost her house when she got on board, and we have many agreements and disagreements, but i want to acknowledge you that you have helped many of us who are in a situation that needed help. and you also have stood up for us. last time we came to you about public workers being discriminated, and i also want to acknowledge supervisor jane kim. even though she has the chinese property owners and many people hated her so much,

supervisors which would be supervisor jane kim. jane kim has had a long history of passing bold legislation that affects the entire city, of having a bold vision for our city. i'm going to city college for free, which as a low-income californian, really, really resonates with me. my mom was a preschool worker. so prop c, the passage of prop c and thank you, supervisor, for that as well, was substantial to a lot of preschool workers as well. i know the current makeup of the board makes my request kind of shooting for the stars, but i really hope that you consider supervisor kim. if we are going to be looking at what the ideological makeup of the board is now. my recommendation from that ideological makeup would be supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen, thank you for your hard work on accountability. i am very pleased with the recent budget work that was done. i think we have a long way to go before we're able to have a police force that we can have faith in, and your work has been great on that. so jane kim, that's my number one choice, but my second choice would be supervisor cohen

was tonight, shouting his thanks to the crowd for london breed and jane kim and to the late mayor ed lee for their contributions to the city. and their concerns for the city's problems. he was counting on his legislative experience, name recognition, image as a gay trailblazer, small business owner, to carve a path to the mayor's office. it still could because the effect of ranked choice voting as candidates are eliminated through e tally tonight and volts -- votes role to the next candidate. we have to wait and see and they have broken down the stage here because they are not planning to come back tonight as it stretches out. >> deborah, thank you. >>> we want to go toamber lee who is with supporters of the jane kim campaign and she joins us from party headquarters. >> reporter: jane kim is scheduled to take the stage at any minute. behind me, you can see this enthusiastic crowd, people listening to her campaign staff and volunteers being thanked for the work they have done. there is no time -- after she has been trailing -- the people taking the stage include sammy glover, rap a

should not in any way underestimate jane kim. she will eat your lunch if you are not careful. and she will read you the riot act when you need it read to you. and i just want to say, as we are at the one-year anniversary of ed lee's passing and rose pack, who was my on-and-off-again friend and jane's dear friend, i know how much she adored you and she would be, i think, remarkably proud of the eight years you've had on the board of supervisors. and it's funny. i've been watching some of my colleagues and members of the public and folks that surround the board. a lot of people want to be you. but you are one of a kind. irreplaceable. and i want to end by saying, this is her 760th meeting of board of supervisors or committee, excluding transportation authority, excluding m.t.c., bcdc, and she took more than 11,700 votes in the last eight years. >> supervisor yee: i want to say of all three of you, you have such a thing in common -- tenacious, really organized, passionate people. so i want to just put it out there that all three of you are that way. and three very smart human beings

teaming up with jane kim. >> you and all voters have the opportunity to vote for up to three candidates. i am a voter, too. i voted number 24 -- number two in favor of jane kim. she voted in favor of me for number two. it is being transparent and accountable about how i voted. that is what it was and that is how it is. >> they teamed up during the campaign asking their supporters to vote for each other as second choice, hoping to gain an advantage in the voting system. >>> london breed gathered with her supporters. all night she was leading the race but she knew that could change after the ranked-choice system started. when ktvu talked to london breed late last night, she was focused on the future. >> at this time, the campaign is over, the votes have been counted. we are needing to come together. no matter who becomes mayor of san francisco, we have a lot of work to get done. i will be here doing the work in my leadership capacity. i am planning to continuing to work and work with whomever, whether it is me or anyone else, i want the board of supervisors and the mayor to wor

jane kim for all of her wonderful work. jennifer fremont from the coalition on homelessness and our other folks, and i think, you know, i think a lot of people think about jane kim's legacy and free city college and childcare for all, but there's a lot of work that you did that didn't get as much recognition. and a lot of that work that is really important that had a really tangible impact on the lives of the most destitute san franciscans. much of that work centered around the shelter system, and early on jane had spent the night in a shelter and really, i think, took a lot of notes about what was happening there. she was really critical in us getting a changed shelter access system and getting a medical shelter for folks who were actually xed out of the system because of their needs and were on the streets and opening that up. and i think there's a lot. i don't want to go on too long, but i think one of the things that struck us as we were talking about what everyone wanted me to say, was that jane really listens to folks and really, when we would take her out or have a community

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. based on something that happened to me that i feel makes a good quality, and that's jane kim. i recommend jane kim to be the next board president because she stopped when she was really super busy when i was having a crisis right there in the embarcardero center at nighttime about 10:00. she stopped and listened to what i had to say. that's what matters to me. other human beings paying attention to what really matters to other humans. so let's not focus on what our skin looks like. let's focus on what our heart looks like. and my heart says jane kim for the board of supervisors president and jane kim for senate. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i have to say this to all of you. if you don't know anything about jane kim, you ask her residents. i am one of them. i recommended every one of you. she can be the best example for our city. jane kim, in my deep heart, i believe so. and -- >> thank you for your comments. are there any other members of the public who would like to address this item? please come to the podium. >> good afternoon. members of the board

mark leno and jane kim. rounding out the top six, we have angela alioto, and richie greenberg. >> they're looking to fill the seat left vacant by the unexpected passing of mayor ed lee, who died in december. let's get more political insight on what's happening. >> our panel of experts is upstairs at our roundtable desk. led by randy. >> thanks, we are with scott wilson of the washington post, michael walkie, severs supervisor, and tom w carl, the former state chair of the republican party. san francisco mayor, -- if you were to look at the results now, you would think london breed is in good shape . with ranked choice voting, she's not necessarily in good shape. she is leading, but in a week or two , she may be in second or third. >> what's interesting is that she is ahead by 12,000 votes, but behind the first two -- there 42,000 votes that have yet to be transferred. if we recall the oakland mayor's race, where don parada had a 12,000 lead after the first round and ended up losing, i don't think anyone can feel comfortable yet. >> london breed any second now, we will stop tal

side-by-side and call on supporters to vote for both of them. jane kim and mark leno hopes the political union is a winning strategy on june 5th. well,, i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm alex savidge. this year in san francisco, a first with two candidates teaming up in their campaign. >> we are live with more on this strategy. >> reporter: if you take a look, you can see signs of the new strategy starting to pop up around the city. you can see these posters in san francisco's chinatown with the two candidates. jane kim and mark leno on one poster, either backing the other in the election. most candidates feature one or the other. but at a joint news conference on the steps of san francisco's city hall, mark leno and jane kim announced each was backing the other as a viable second choice. >> that's why i'm running for mayor and why i'm endorsing state senator mark leno as my number two endorsement. >> i am proud and pleased to stand by the side of supervisor kim, and offer her my endorsement. >> reporter: if a candidate in the race wins the majority first-place votes, they win lik

candidate jane kim who came in third place, encouraging each other's supporter to list each other as the second place choice. leno wound up with 77% of jane kim's votes. the strategy paying off. >> what i did was announce that i voted number 2 for jane kim. jane kim made mention that she voted number 2 for me. i don't know that that's tag teaming. it is using the dynamic of rank choice voting and being transparent and accountable about how i voted. >> no matter who becomes mayor of san francisco, we have a lot of work to get done. i'm still going to be here doing the work in my leadership capacity. so i'm planning to continue to work and working with whom after, whether it's me or anyone else. >> reporter: this was a dramatic race from the start, prompted by the sudden death of mayor ed lee back in december of last year. no matter who winds up coming on top, it will make history. leno will be the first openly gay mayor of san francisco, and breed, the first african american woman. there are no planned updates on election results until 4:00 this afternoon. >> alex, you may not have th

. let's begin. thank you, angela alioto, michelle bravo, richy greenberg, jane kim, mark leno, amy far avenue weiss, and michelle bravo for attending the forum tonight. let's start with angela alioto. >> thank you, everybody. first thank you to everybody for coming out tonight. first, let's just say how amazing it's been the last two or three months. this is a crucial you electiel crucial election. san francisco's never had so many poor people on their streets. san francisco's never had such dirty streets. san francisco's never had such crime like it is having right now, and the affordability of housing is almost impossible to live in san francisco. i'm a third generation -- i was going to say italian. i'm a third generation -- much more than three generations italian, but i'm a third generation san franciscan born and raised. i'm a civil rights attorney, and i fight in the courtrooms, both state and federal courtrooms because of who they are, because of how they are, because of who they are or where they live, because of their disability. i want to fight for all of you as mayor of san

- thousand second- place votes from san franciscans who had jane kim number one on their ballots... if he wins, leno ul san 's first openly g he received more than 25,000 second place votes from san franciscans who had jane kim as number one. so if he wins, leno would become san francisco's first gay mayor. he said last night that this would be his last run for public office win or lose. >> when i arrived here as a gay jewish boy looking for a safe place to land on planet earth, san francisco welcomed me as i know it has welcomed so many of you. >> yes! >> and so this is our home. and we want to keep it our home. we want to keep the character and quality of this neighborhood and so many of our neighborhoods that we want to keep this a place for working people to afford to live. >> london breed's campaign rally felt like a celebration. friends, family and many of the neighborhood activists she worked with for years flocked to her side to congratulate her for a campaign well done. breed thanked supporters for hard work over the last few months. >> this campaign is a winning campaign beca

jane kim about development plans in the city. (catherine) today... homeowners from the eastern section of paradise are getting to go home... at least temporarily... to check on their properties. for many people it's the first time they've been allowed to return since the camp fire. (ken)the camp fire.return since allowed to they've been first time they've been allowed to return since the camp fire. (ken) residents of the west side of paradise... still need a police escort to return to whatever might be left of their homes... and gather belongings. reporter laura eng has that part of the story. paradise officers are working around the clock, wittling down a list of thousands of people looking to get back home temporarily.sot: hi this is rick. hi rick this is officer honea with the paradise police department. hi how are you? i'm well how are you? i'm doing good. i'm calling in regards to your request to get escorted to paradise. yes that would be awesome.officer kassidy honea said she's escorted so many people back home she's lost count honea: these people are getting things like

: supervisor jane kim started talking about affordable housing when several spost supporters of london breed crashed the event. >> wasn't invited to the invite. >> we think you need to go home. you need to go home. >> during the exchange someone made derogatory comments about supervisor jane kim's ethnicity. >> i was not personally offended by comments made and won't stand for campaigns to be divided because of statements that were made in the heat of the moment. >> board of supervisors president london breed was not invited to the event but has seen the video. >> i've had attacks of this nature against me as well and it doesn't feel good. and i do not support this behavior in any way. >> this mayor's race includes some of the most diverse front-runners ever. london breed is san francisco and jane kim is asian american and mark leno is opening gay. >> we have enough dif advivisiv comments made out of the white house. we here in san francisco are better than that. >> what's most important to do, not focus on what divides but what brings us together. >> sergio quinn tan na. "today in the bay."

tonight.supervisors london breed and jane kim, state senator mark leno, former board of supervisor angela alioto.. and community activist amy farah weiss. they focused mostly on the issues of homelessness and affordable housing.jane kim/mayoral candidate:60-percent of all san franciscans are eligible for affordable housing under federal hud guidelines that's how expensive our city has become.london breed/mayoral candidatewe gotta get creative and find sites that are underutilitzed like i did with mcdonalds at stanyan and haight we are going to build 120-160 affordable units that are both low and middle income angela alioto/mayoral candidate you don't put someone in a place for six months then put them back in the same street that they came from. you transition them in to permanent supportive housing. breed addressed being voted out of the interim mayor position by her fellow supervisors.. and said she's moved on.david halenda/supports jane kim for mayori loved to see london breed sort of own that whole moment and let it pass. jane kim really answered some amazing questions in particular t

to thank jane kim for everything she's done for san francisco. i didn't know who she was two and a half years ago, but what i did know was who her opponent was, and that was more than enough for me. and i really quickly realized how amazing her work has done to help and elevate the lives of all san franciscans. i could list everything that she's done, but there's only two minutes of time. and then i have to say, and a lot of people don't know this, maybe other people on the campaign do, i don't think jane does, but very early on in the mayoral campaign i was a little bit torn, because i did like mark, too, but i remember phone banking for him one night and the last person who i talked to was a very enthusiastic jane supporter, and she said, oh, jane is so inspiring, has done so much for san francisco. and i just remember not even thinking and shouting back, i agree! and then i realized right then and there where my heart and passion belonged, for which candidate, and thank you so much for everything that you have done. and it's -- and the other thing that i really like about jane i

we're hearing from the audience, especially focused on jane kim, that deserves every ditto from every person here today, including bringing criminal justice to the fore of our agenda. so, thank you. and you, president cohen, the breakthrough that you brought to us around criminal justice reform, focused on police reform, will never be forgotten. thank you very much. and cannabis and a few other things. supervisor tang, thank you for today, and thank you for bending towards justice around maternal and child health, antitrafficking, some other stuff around homelessness i wish you could have done more in your district, but i understand the district, so we look forward to some of those bending towards justice for the whole community and your district included. thank you, and best to all of you. keep pretrial independent, nonprofit, it's innocent until proven guilty. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kate monaco kline. i'm a member of the board of the san francisco pretrial diversion project. additionally, i was a staff person at pretrial 40 y

supervisor jane kim is in third with 22.84% of the vote. however, when you take ranked choice into consideration, the numbers get closer because voters can rank their top three candidates. so state senator mark leno leads with less than 2,000 votes and 50.42% of the vote. board president breed has 49.58%. we were at london breed's election watch party last night where it was a celebration. early indicators showed her with a lead over leno. if she would win, breed would be the first black woman elected as mayor of san francisco. >> we all have a voice. and i don't care what neighborhood we come from. we c do anything want to do. >> yeah! >> that's what this campaign shows! >> reporter: leno does have a narrow lead over breed. there are still more mail-in ballots that are expected to men it cogok and rth several t if leno won, he would be the first openly gay mayor in san francisco. we caught up with him and asked him about his campaigning. >> we have been in every neighborhood around this town. and everything i hear from folks is, we want some change. we want some new direction at c

. >> thank you very much. jane kim is challenging in the mayor's race tonight. >> we are live at kim's headquarters for the night, and we will check in with her. allie, what are you hearing? >> reporter: the doors will open in about 10 minutes, those doors behind me. jane kim's campaign staff and volunteers have been out working to the very last minute when the polls closed. in the meantime, they have the foundry all set up for her watch party. they been working toward this night for some time, and the hope is that all the work kim has put in over the years resonated with voters. with more than a decade of service on the board of supervisors and the education board, jane kim calls herself a progressive. she fights for renters, tenant protection, low income housing, and minimum wage. she also led the initiative that made san francisco the first city in the nation to make city college free for its residents. her team of volunteers have knocked on 100,000 doors and held over 100 house parties. they believe she is the candidate they can create change in the city. >> it's not an easy proble

male announcer: you're special report: "kicked out." angelique rochelle: well, 10 years of my kids in school, and my whole community there. bigad shaban: your whole life was there. angelique yeah, my whole life was there. announcer: families torn apart, evicted from their homes. female: cut, cut, i shouldn't have brought that up. announcer: we review hundreds of government records for evictions all across san francisco. michael bott: what we found, you know, was pretty astonishing. announcer: we spent 6 months going door to door to expose a loophole allowing some landlords to make big bucks while getting away with fraud. male: i don't know anything about it. announcer: tonight, we hold the powerful accountable. bigad: can you tell me how many cases you've actually looked into? alex bastian: i don't have a number for you, unfortunately. bigad: is it possible that it's zero? announcer: our investigation prompts government hearings and new laws. female: without objection, the ordinance finally passes unanimously. announcer: marking one of san francisco's biggest housing reform efforts in recent history. aaron peskin: until nbc bay area came along, city hall wasn't doing its job. announcer: major changes are now in store for hundreds of thousands of renters. here's investigative reporter bigad shaban. bigad: here in san francisco, an average 2-bedroom apartment will cost you about $4,500 a month. rent prices in this city are the most expensive in the country, but much of san francisco is under rent control. so if you've been living in your place for a couple of years, chances are, you're paying a lot less. so there's a huge financial incentive to evict long-time tenants in order to charge new tenants a lot more. last year, san francisco's eviction rate was the highest in a decade. now, we're exposing how some landlords are profiting off a loophole that may have led to hundreds of wrongful evictions, families that once called san francisco home now kicked out. angelique: all righty, you can have this. you wanna eat this first? bigad: angelique rochelle and her daughter leona have lived in this oakland apartment for 2 years, but they still don't consider it home. this is where they say they should be living, a san francisco apartment that was their home for nearly a decade until they were forced to leave. angelique: i was trying to do my best to stay there with 10 years of my kids in school, and my whole community there. bigad: your whole life was there. angelique: yeah, my whole life was there, and it's still there. bigad: in san francisco, landlords can legally kick out their tenants if they, or in some cases, their relatives, want to move in. it's called an owner move-in eviction, and when rochelle, a single mom, got her eviction notice, she and her three kids had to leave their home that had been under rent control for 10 years. bigad: you couldn't find a place that you could afford that could fit all of you after that. angelique: yeah, it'd been impossible. bigad: her two oldest children went to live with their dad in san francisco, and rochelle moved to oakland with her youngest daughter. angelique: it's kinda like having your kids taken away from you, it's hard. bigad: san francisco is home to 348 owner move-in evictions last year. that's 155% spike from just 5 years ago. to find out what's behind the increase, we obtained city records for an entire year's worth of evictions. the hundreds of pages list every landlord or family member that was supposed to move into a home as part of an eviction in 2014. by law, they had to intend to live there for at least 3 years before renting to someone new. but our investigation uncovered what appears to be widespread abuse. michael: what we found, you know, was pretty astonishing. bigad: that's my producer, michael bott. we, along with other members of our investigative unit spent 6 months traveling all across the city. we went door to door to nearly 300 of those homes to find out who's actually living there. we interviewed more than 100 people about their living situation, and in 24 cases, that's nearly 1 in 4 of all the evictions we looked into, the landlord or family member was not living in the home, an apparent violation of the city's own housing laws. that rate of abuse means hundreds of people may have been wrongfully evicted just over the past few years. bigad: does anyone actually check if the people that should have moved in are the ones actually living there? robert collins: no, we don't check. bigad: robert collins is the executive director of the san francisco rent board, the agency in charge of investigating wrongful evictions. the office doesn't require any proof of residency after an eviction, but does investigate cases when someone files a complaint. bigad: so, the people who were evicted basically have to take it upon themselves to be their own sort of private investigator. robert: at this point, yes. bigad: collins says the best option for people is to take their landlords to court. if you've been wrongly evicted, san francisco law allows you to collect hefty damages that can total millions of dollars. male: we are talking about people's houses, people's homes, if you would, and we're facing an affordability crisis. so, you know, there's really no way to minimize how important that is. jane kim: it's tragic and very unfortunate. bigad: we showed our findings to san francisco supervisor jane kim. bigad: where has the city been? why doesn't there appear to be oversight? jane: like many laws on the books, we are a complaint-driven enforcement system. but i think it would help if we started doing these random audits and prosecuting owners that we're finding that are flagrantly evading the law. bigad: each month, the san francisco rent board submits a random sampling of owner move-in evictions to the district attorney's office so they can investigate whether landlords are illegally evicting tenants. bigad: it doesn't seem to be working. alex: i'm not necessarily disagreeing with you at all on that point. bigad: alex bastian is an assistant da. he says a decade-old supreme court ruling makes it nearly impossible to prove a landlord actually intended to commit fraud. plus, he says the random list of evictions his office receives each month doesn't actually provide any leads. alex: we need to have a reasonable suspicion that a crime is occurring. bigad: the whole reason they're giving it to you is so that your team can investigate and find criminal wrongdoing. alex: correct, and we do look into the forms, and we do look into this area of the law to see what we can do as far as prosecuting cases. bigad: can you tell me how many cases you've actually looked into? alex: i don't have a number for you, unfortunately. bigad: is it possible that it's zero? alex: i wouldn't say anything is-- i wouldn't say that's correct. bigad: but you can't tell me what the number is. alex: i can't. bigad: but he could tell us how many landlords the da's office has prosecuted for using this kind of eviction to wrongfully kick out tenants, zero. over the past 10 years, not a single person. announcer: coming up, the financial and emotional cost of battling a wrongful eviction. bigad: how much have you spent fighting this over the years? elizabeth lee: i'm up to $42,000 for sure. i used all my savings, and so it's been really difficult. announcer: and still ahead, frustration fills city hall. female: we need to catch these bad actors, and we need to make them pay. announcer: lawmakers call a special hearing after our investigation exposes what's likely widespread abuse. aaron: until nbc bay area came along, city hall wasn't doing its job. full of nightmares. the stacks of documents include eviction letters and lawsuits, all involving her landlord, who has repeatedly tried to evict her from her san francisco home of 27 years. elizabeth: where would i go? i mean, there's no way i could afford to live in the city. bigad: lee is under rent control, paying just $1,200 a month for her 2-bedroom apartment. she says her landlord, martin eng, started trying to get her to leave soon after he bought her building. he sued her in 2010, arguing the long-time flight attendant violated several parts of her lease, including using her home for illegal activities. bigad: he said you were using this apartment to run a prostitution ring, basically? elizabeth: yes, yes, and drug use. bigad: lee denies the accusations, but says to avoid a pricy legal battle, her renter's insurance decided to settle that lawsuit, which allowed her to stay in her home. but the landlord didn't stop trying to kick her out. bigad: you started getting eviction notices in the mail. elizabeth: yes, in the mail, taped to my door, you know, slid under the door. bigad: her landlord served her four different eviction notices over 2 years, telling her she had to move out because now he wanted to move in, but lee didn't believe it. elizabeth: in the middle unit, middle floor, no, he would--he has no intention of moving in. bigad: our series exposed a critical lack of oversight that allowed landlords to abuse the system. we revealed how rent-controlled tenants, potentially hundreds over the past few years, were wrongfully kicked out in order to have new people move in at a much higher rent. female: we need to catch these bad actors, and we need to make them pay. bigad: after our first few reports aired, frustration filled city hall when more than 60 renters and housing advocates lined up to share their eviction stories. male: though i'm suspicious of the landlord's motives, i don't wanna fight her in court. bigad: lawmakers called this special hearing after our investigation revealed nearly 1 in 4 owner move-in evictions appeared to violate the city's own laws. female: and while they are not a city agency, i should also recognize and thank nbc investigative unit for taking the time to do the work that i would hope that we would be doing, but clearly helping us to highlight this issue. bigad: remember, our investigation revealed that during the past decade, the district attorney's office hasn't prosecuted a single landlord for abusing these kinds of evictions, which amazes elizabeth lee, since the san francisco rent board actually recommended the da's office consider taking action against her landlord. a judge for the rent board found he engaged in fraud, intimidation, and coercion. taking her landlord to court kept lee in her home, but she was still left with a mountain of legal bills and the lingering fear that her landlord will try to evict her again. bigad: how much have you spent fighting this over the years? elizabeth: i'm up to $42,000 for sure. i used all my savings, and, you know, so it's been really difficult. bigad: lee's landlord, martin eng, told us he'd sit down with us for an interview, but then stopped returning our calls. over the phone, he told us, "i'm probably one of the best, honest landlords in san francisco. they're trying to say i had bad intentions, but how do they know if i'm gonna move in or not? this is a tenant from hell... she is as nasty as anything." announcer: coming up, forced out and fed up. nicole delisi: until the laws are changed to protect us, it's going to continue. announcer: a schoolteacher tries to fend off her eviction in court. why she says winning can still feel a lot like losing. nicole: it was one of the worst experiences of my life. and then open the book. bigad: long-time teacher nicole delisi says talk of the bay area's housing crisis has even reached her 4th-grade classroom. she's overheard students and their families chatting about soaring rent and the fear of being evicted from their rent-controlled apartments. bigad: how often would you hear parents talking about it? nicole: regularly. bigad: but it still came as a shock when those fears became her reality. nicole's san francisco apartment was sold to a new owner, who decided to evict nicole about a year later. nicole: there's not a day that goes by i don't miss it. bigad: so, what was the reason your landlord gave for evicting you? nicole: his brother-in-law was going to move in. bigad: landlords and their relatives haven't had to provide any proof they actually moved into their home after evicting their tenants. we discovered san francisco hasn't seen this kind of surge in owner move-in evictions in more than 15 years. mark farrell: no one tolerates fraud. bigad: san francisco supervisor mark farrell posed a new law to fight illegal evictions. the changes would make it easier for the district attorney's office to file criminal charges against landlords who wrongfully try to kick out tenants. mark farrell: it was the great work of nbc that really turned up the volume, i think, to really talk about and identify and expose the amount of fraudulent practices that is happening in this area. bigad: nicole delisi was only paying $1,450 per month for her 1-bedroom apartment, so she says it was clear her landlord could have made a lot more money by renting to someone new. nicole: the people above me that had recently moved in were paying over $3,000 for the exact same unit. i wondered if there was any ulterior motive. bigad: so, to find out, nicole's only option was to sue her landlord, which meant her attorney got to question the brother-in-law to see if he really was going to move in. male: i don't know anything about it. bigad: neither he nor the landlord would talk to us for our story, but when questioned by nicole's attorney, the brother-in-law couldn't answer basic questions about the apartment he was supposed to be moving into. mark hooshmand: have you ever been told about the layout? male: no. mark hooshmand: have you ever been told how many bedrooms it is? male: no. mark hooshmand: he hadn't seen the unit before moving in. bigad: mark hooshmand is nicole's lawyer. mark hooshmand: i think this is a way that landlords are circumventing the rules to maximize their profits. bigad: he ultimately won nicole's case. she won't reveal how much she was awarded, but says no amount of money makes up for being forced out of her home. nicole: it was one of the worst experiences of my life. bigad: nicole says she couldn't afford to stay in the city. she now lives across the bay in alameda, but believes more oversight could have kept her out of court and in san francisco, her home of 15 years. nicole: until the laws are changed to protect us, it's going to continue. announcer: coming up: female: please call the roll. announcer: a major vote to rewrite san francisco's housing laws. bigad: what's at stake here? aaron: what's at stake is people's lives. announcer: and still ahead, then mayor ed lee on san francisco's housing crisis and his own legacy in his final sit-down interview before his death. bigad: was the previous system essentially set up to fail? mayor ed lee: we didn't think people would abuse their own--and use their own families to abuse the system. bigad: in a united and symbolic vote, the san francisco board of supervisors made way for sweeping changes. female: the ordinance as amended passes unanimously on the first reading. bigad: that will soon affect hundreds of thousands of renters and landlords across the city. mark farrell: these reforms take away the incentive to turn a quick buck and put people over profits. bigad: supervisor mark farrell authored the legislation that aims to reduce the number of fraudulent evictions in the city. mark farrell: and i believe we have to do everything in our power to stem the tide of wrongful evictions and to give tenants a fighting chance of staying in our city. bigad: the new law requires homeowners to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that they intend to move in within 3 months of the eviction and stay there for at least 3 years. landlords will also have to submit an electric bill or voter registration as proof they moved in. aaron: until nbc bay area came along and actually gave us some hard numbers, city hall wasn't doing its job. bigad: supervisors aaron peskin and jane kim helped develop many of the ideas now included in the legislation. they originally pushed their own competing plan, but a board compromise melded their legislation with farrell's. they hope the reforms make it easier for the district attorney to prosecute landlords who evict tenants but never actually move in. aaron: this is now the most expensive place to live in the united states of america, and that has given incentive for speculators to unceremoniously kick people out in any way that they can. bigad: what's at stake here? aaron: what's at stake is people's lives. because san francisco has rent control, there's a profit motive, and so you have landlords who come in, claim that they're going to move in to the unit or move their parents into the unit, but it's just a ruse in order to get a tenant out. bigad: over the past few months, dozens of tenants and housing advocates testified at city hall. female: no one disagrees with the findings of the nbc television investigation, and no one disagrees that these omi evictions have skyrocketed. bigad: crowds even rallied on the front steps of city hall to support reform. female: the nbc story last fall shocked many people, including our political leaders. female: because we need effective legislation. and when do we need it? all: now! bigad: and even if you haven't been kicked out of your home, the new law could impact you too. if you're renting where someone was wrongfully evicted, you're entitled to their cheaper rent for up to 5 years after that eviction. that means some tenants could cut their rent by half or even more. the legislation also allows nonprofits to sue landlords on behalf of tenants who believe they have been wrongfully evicted. mayor lee: there is a housing crisis in san francisco. it's been a crisis in the making. bigad: just 2 months before his sudden death, then mayor ed lee spoke with us during what would be his final sit-down interview. we discussed our investigation and the legacy he hoped to leave after signing the housing reforms into law. mayor lee: we believe that the protections that we're putting in will help seriously curb abuse. bigad: why wasn't anything done before our investigation? mayor lee: i simply think that both the board of supervisors and the mayor's office believed when owners said they had a relative to move in that that was, that's a legitimate reason. based on not only your investigation, but

supervisor jane kim. jane kim of district 6 has been a fighter as we know, for all of the citizens in the supervisor district 6. her integrity is up the charts. she represents some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the city, treasure island. in the tenderloin, et cetera. and we're just really happy and pleased and we feel honored to have her. so without further ado, supervisor jane kim. >> thank you for that super kind introduction, michael. i live across the street from the source office, he has to be kind because i might give him a hard time when i walk to work to city hall. it is a pleasure to be here today. ground breaking are a time that we can really celebrate our achievement as a city and being able to win funding for 100% affordable housing, which everyone here under this tent knows how difficult it is to accomplish. i am proud to represent this district which includes mission bay. i'm proud of the fact that this city has fought to ensure before my time in office, that this redevelopment area plan would be 30% affordable. ranging from households that are formerly homeless

. >> hi. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm noel young, administrative assistant on behalf of jane kim, here to speak on behalf of her. this will allow the park to be maintained in a way that is beneficial to all. it's a huge benefit to district six community, it's going to host free activities and events regardless of residency or income. our office has very much appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with tjpa staffing and leadership as well as the community on this ordinance, and we hope that you vote in support of it today. thank you so much for your time. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. so we're now open to public comment. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm andrew robinson executive director of the east cut district. cbd will be contributing a signature amount of their budget to the operations and maintenance of the park. we have parked with the tjpa team to really communicate out this code -- code of conduct for the facility, but also what the park rules and amendments are. we're facilitated focus groups, put it out on social media. there's been lots of dialogue about it over the l

, michelle bravo, richie greenberg, jane kim, mark leno, ellen lisa. some high profile candidates are district 6 supervisor jane kim. >> we have a lot of work to do. >> reporter: attorney and former supervisor angela alioto. >> here are the multiple signatures. >> reporter: former state assembly member, mark leno. >> i'm declaring my candidacy for mayor.>> reporter: abortive supervisor president london breed. >> i will run for mayor. i am excited. >> reporter: the race is already contentious. classic the board of supervisors reported to replace breed as interim mayor and appoint mark farrell. to move is intended to keep a level playing field during the race. it was not of popular vote to some in the room. all eyes will be in the city by the bay when voters go to the polls for special election on june 5. also, a primary race for mayor in san jose before the election in november. in, sam ricardo seeking reelection. right now only one person has filed paperwork for their intent to run against him. mn -- there are rumors former congressman mike me throw his hat into the ring. finally in o

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events, that was before today. coming up next, why mark leno and jane kim were standing by together at city hall today. >> and a possible ban on all flavored tobacco products in san francisco. coming up. he's been called a rockstar lawyer. he tops the charts on progressive causes... winning pro bono battles for immigrants and the homeless. defending gay rights and gun control. democrat jeff bleich. after columbine, bleich led president clinton's youth violence initiative. with joe biden, bleich took on domestic violence. served president obama as special counsel and ambassador. maybe bleich can't pull off the rockstar look... but his progressive record is solid gold. >>> san francisco supervisor and mayoral candidate london breed took advantage of early voting and voted for the june 5th election accompanied by young new registered voters. she was all smiles as she voted and submitted it to elections officials. the native san franciscan said never in her wildest dreams did she think she would one day be casting avote for herself as a candidate for mayor. the city began offering early vo

. jeff key is that by -- vice chair, james davis, greg hopper, supervisor jane kim, boris linkedin, ed risk in, nadia's essay, bruce r. instead, lisa ortiz, to me chan chan and former board member from transit. [applause] >> also i would like to give a shout out to the project team which was guided by the tjpa and ron alameda from public works as well as all the staff from all the various agencies who worked on this project. let's give them a round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> this project, as many of you no kak has serious financial and schedule challenges that required a deep design or construction experience-based leadership approach. the creation of the salesforce transit centre provided san franciscans with thousands of new permanent jobs and tens of thousands of union jobs. in fact, between workers and materials, nearly every single state in the united states contributed to this project in some way. more than 5 million -- [applause] >> more than 5 million work hours where we logged for this center and we exceeded our city's a local hiring requirement. how about another a