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\"Former

Former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin announced Monday his candidacy for District 3 Supervisor. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 31, 2015<\/p>\n

Former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin sent a shock wave through the San Francisco political establishment when he announced yesterday his candidacy to retake the District 3 supervisorial seat he previously held for two terms beginning in 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m running for supervisor because the challenges facing San Francisco and District 3 are simply too enormous for me to sit on the sidelines,\u201d Peskin said to a throng of enthusiastic supporters across the District that includes Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Chinatown, Nob Hill and Russian Hill. \u201cDistrict 3 is being ravaged by the affordability crisis and that\u2019s why we need experienced, effective leadership and not a rubber stamp at City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"As

As many 100 supporters from across the District attended the announcement.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Supporters

Supporters held signs that read, “We need Aaron.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Known for his creative legislative talent, oration skill, and for a Machiavellian style of politicking to achieve results, Peskin made the announcement outside the Nob Hill apartment building where 18 months ago an elderly Chinese-American couple and their disabled daughter was evicted<\/a> after living in the building for 34 years. \u00a0The Lee family was ousted by their landlord using provisions of California\u2019s Ellis Act, taking advantage of the soaring costs of housing due to the influx of highly paid tech workers seeking housing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe facts are stunning and frightening,\u201d Peskin lamented. \u201cEvictions caused by the Ellis Act have doubled every year for the past three years. Median rent in San Francisco today has shot up to over $3,500 per month. Homelessness, always a vexing issue, is growing and seemingly more intractable each cycle. And it\u2019s not just renters and the poor; the middle class is rapidly disappearing from San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seventy percent of District 3 residents are tenants, the highest ratio of renters to homeowners in the City.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year alone, some 2,000 tenants were evicted, told to pack up, get out and move \u2013 and after eviction they faced rent prices that could be double or triple what they could afford,\u201d Peskin added. \u201cOf the 14,448 housing units approved, but not yet built in this city as of the third quarter of last year, only 839 (units) are to be affordable to the middle class \u2013 that\u2019s just 6 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peskin\u2019s candidacy has the full support of Mayor Ed Lee booster and Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak who is at odds with the mayor over his appointment of Julie Christensen to the D3 seat vacated by former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu following his election to the California Assembly. Pak, who has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the election and re-election of Mayor Lee, supported Planning Commissioner Cindy Wu for the appointment.<\/p>\n

Calling Lee\u2019s appointment of Christensen over Wu \u201cworse than a betrayal,\u201d Pak said she is supporting Peskin\u2019s candidacy because he is a \u201ccapable, talented, hard working individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he was the supervisor for eight years, every time the community needed something, he came through,\u201d Pak added.<\/p>\n

Asked if technology angel investor Ron Conway, a Republican, has the mayor\u2019s ear on appointments and public policy, Pak said, \u201cRon Conway just goes along with whatever he can buy and then he does the mayor\u2019s bidding, spending millions to defeat who they don\u2019t like,\u201d a reference to the multiple independent expenditure campaigns funded by Conway to defeat progressive politicians and candidates who stand in the way of turning San Francisco into a dormitory for tech workers, or interfering with his portfolio of tech interests.<\/p>\n

\"Chinatown

Chinatown community leader Rose Pak takes questions from reporters.<\/p><\/div>\n

Help on the way<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peskin, 50, said his goals include pursuing an affordable housing policy that seeks a minimum of one-third of all large housing developments to be affordable, to protect non-profit commercial spaces, to identify surplus public lands for the development of affordable housing, to continue the fight for Ellis Act and Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act reforms to ensure housing units built after 1979 are also protected by rent control, and to fund and reform Muni, congruent with population growth.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Peskin seeks to \u201cfix the flawed Airbnb legislation that is, in its current form, unenforceable and doing nothing to stop the bad actors who are exploiting home sharing by illegally stealing affordable housing from the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In closing, Peskin referred back to the Lee family\u2019s speculative eviction, \u201cStanding here today, it is heartbreaking to say that it\u2019s too late for Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their daughter, like it\u2019s too late for thousands of others who have been evicted and displaced, but it\u2019s not too late for us to make a difference \u2013 it\u2019s not too late to take action to contain this raging crisis and bring relief to those who need it and deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s take a stand to make San Francisco more affordable and livable and retain its essence, its soul and history,\u201d Peskin added.<\/p>\n

More photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bobby

Bobby Coleman (left), a tenants rights activist, said Peskin\u2019s \u201ctrack record is obviously far more consonant with the Tenants Union than Julie Christensen. Julie opposed last year\u2019s anti-eviction ballot measure and, so, by her own admission, she is not aligned with the Tenants Union.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rose

Rose Pak and SFDCCC member Hene Kelly strike up a conversation following the announcement.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Peskin

Peskin with his wife, Nancy Shanahan (left) and Rose Pak.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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