>> good morning i hope everyone had a great pride and the mayor is unhelp with mow for doing a monday morning press conference. we had a great, amazing time y. congratulations mayor on a wonderful day >> today, we are with much provide and happy ness and excitement. announcing that due to a state law that i senate bill 423,

today a nice post pride gift to san francisco. today san francisco goes from the longest period of time to get a housing permit in the state of california of all 500 cities to one of the shortest. [applause] it will do so by removing housing permitting approvals from the hyper political mosh pit of san francisco. where if you follow all the rules, around zoning and everything else this does in the money you get a permit it means that you are now entitleed go in this political pit and fight for a number of year bunkham may be you get it and may be you will not. no more. now we are doing good governmentful means we set the rules ahead of time this is the zoning. these other design standards. here other rules. if you meet those rules with your project, you get your

permit in a matter of months. no discretionary hearings. no ceqa lawsuits. 91 of the politics of the board you get your damn permit. period. mruz mrauz when we talk about the housing crisis in california, you know we are here talking about technical stuff. discretionary approvals and ministerial approval and ceqa and zoning and sb. a number after temperature it is so important always, always. when we talk about housing that is off the technical words are really about people. and weather people are going to be able to afford housing in san francisco and in california. about weather people are going to continue to be pushed out of california, middle and work

class family who is decide they can no longer make a run of it there is no pregnant for them to get the housing they need. it is about people as a bottom rung of our economic leader. low income renters, who understand this if than i lose their apartment they can't do when normally we expect people to do you lose your apartment you find a different one. they understand this than i then may have i choice between leaving san francisco or becoming homeless. in san francisco. it is about people, young people who want to make their home and life in san francisco and don't see a path to be able to do this. these other young people who are the future of our city. the creativity and innovation and energy for the future and we are pushing them out. so, we are talk a lot of technical stuff it is about

people, that's when sb423 is about and the good news is about. we spent decades in san francisco lierring process after bureaucracy after obstacle after process, one after the other for the left 50 years. and have made it hard or impossible to build a number of hope this is we need t. is not coincidence that san francisco is literally before today the slowest permitting time line in the entire state of california. and so the last 7-9 years my clothes and i and two fwonors in a row worked pleasant the seeds to have housing be depoliticized and permits happen faster. change zoning so we zone for enough new homes. to make it possible to dig ourselves out of the massive

shortage we dug for ourselves. and we are making progress. well are other issues somewhere beyond our control we can't control interest rates. when than i come down, we need to make sure that our structure that we have empowerhouse the building of new homes. so specific low on friday, the california department of housing community development declare had san francisco is the first city to be stream lined under sb423. you may recall for those following it. i include a specific amendment for san francisco in sb423 so it would take affect quickly in this city and would not wait another couple years. reason dithat is because san francisco had the slowest permitting time line. san francisco was an end and needs extra help to play catch up.

we know this this the predecessor of the senate bill 35 which i offer in the 2017 was being used in san francisco for a handled % affordable to great affect this is successful. thousands of new subsidized affordable home in san francisco had been permitted over the past 5-6 year in i matter of month its has been a game change fer subsidized affordable house nothing san francisco this is 10% of the new home in san francisco temperature is great but not must have. and had this this bill will do is mean instead of 10% of new homes subject to the acceleration for permitting it will be 75%. of new homes. [applause]. basically all new housing in san francisco other than the megadevelopments those have

development agreements this deal with their approvals. so, you know i want to note t s and they have become more organized and louder these days. and than i even have a patron saint in city hall the president of the board of supervisors and their goal is to shut down and stop housing production in san francisco. they don't want classic mem biism. don't want new homes near where than i live them don't want multiunit apartment buildings near single family homes. and am here to say that does in the represent the majority of you in san francisco. a large majority want more housing. a learning majority understandses building new housing does in the harm existing neighborhoods. it makes existing north

americaeds better, i have scombrant diverse. more people to shop at local stores. this is what this is about and i'm very excited that we are here today. i want it bring up mayor breed. i want to siaha it is much more fashionable to be now than 6 years ago. it was tougher then. the approximately ticks were hard exert perception it was a losing political argument. everyone says they are now and that is great like welcome. join the movement for a brighter housing future. there are some people who got it early on and mayor breed was one of those people. and i want to remind people that in 2018, i was authoring the big rezoning bill. sb827, sb50 and rezoning, it was a big huge scombil it sparked a political fight throughout

california. asked goners were asked about it at every debate. it was infusing political dialogue in california. and in the middle of this press, we had an unexpected major's race in san francisco because mayor lee passed away. and of all the major candidates everyone of them except one came out and opposed our bill. and the only one who came in favor television in 20 ain't was london breed. a lot of people told her not to do it. and she did it and did can with support. and won that race and that's the volume about where the people of san francisco are, so mayor breed thank you for taking riskos house and for your, mazing leadership for the future of san francisco and with this, mayor london breed.

>> thank you. so much senator wiener it is great to be here to talk about housing and senator brings sba27. i remember when i was here in san francisco in fact on the west side of town during a mayor's debate talking about sba27 and the question i asked to the people who were there and in explaining my support for sb a27 was how many of you have been in san francisco your life and born and raised or raised your kids and been here for 50 years and everybody hand goes up. how many of you raised y■&our children here? my kids were born and raise in the san francisco. how many of your kids still live here. hard low any hands went up. public housing that i grew up in spent 20 years of my life living there my mother grew up in

public housing had 300 units. that were taken down and 200 built. point is there have been really many mistakes made in the past. and the fact is, all roads lead to housing. if we want to be able to attract and retain city employee who is can afford to live in san francisco we have to build housing, construction work torse afford to live here the housing units than i build here we need to build more. when we talk about the folk who is work in san francisco how do i get talent to stay here in it is so expensive to build here? it is all about housing. get people autopsy the streets we gotta put them somewhere temperature all starts with housing. and for a decade, this city has said no to housing. they talked about it. but then here come another policy. here come another obstructionist and creative two people in the

neighborhood. to stop a development. and the fact is, we have tried to issue executive directives. make changes to local laws we are not giving up. but because of senator scott wiener, we are final low now seeing real opportunity. not just with sb423 but sb35. already 3500 affordable housing units have gone through a process without the obstruction it has had in the past. and for the first time, we built i broke ground last week on 90 new units of affordable housing in the sunset! [applause] for seniors. for families. enough is enough. san francisco is not a museum. that should be stuck in time of

it is a city with actual people. and opportunity for people to live here and we'll always be a beautiful city. and there is no hrm that will come to a neighborhood if we build 6 or 8 stories of housing in those neighborhoods in opportunity cites. no redevelopment 2. 0 and bulldoze people neighborhood we are not going back. we have to move the city forward. the way we do it is is we have to get honest about our horrible process here and get job done. the fact this you can go from years, years to build units and there is a unit a building is 100%, 100 units of affordable housing for families that took 10 years from the time we identified the property until we went through this ridiculous

process. this legislation is a game changer. it is going to stop the obstruction so we can move housing forward in san francisco. for the people the next generation san franciscans the poke who is want to work and live here. want to raise kids here. how do we make it affordable? we build more housing. hudo we make it affordable. get oust way of being obstructionists. we can't control interest rates but the ridiculous fees and layers of bonjourockacy if i have my may i would take all the housing pop3s put them in chat gpt and type and up start from scratch with something this makes sense this get its moving you can't say you want more house and brag about being a housing leader when you are not willing to take risks to get the job done that's what senator

wean cert doing every day and when we have to do here if we want to make sure this our city employees and construction workers, kids growing up now. we gotta think about the future and when this means for san francisco. it means, build housing now. thank you senator wiener for your leadership. [applause] >> and before i bring up the next speaker, i want to acknowledge you see we h bunch of carpenters back here. i really the nor cal carpenter we have fight in sacramento for years around labor protections and not whether to have them but what should they be. and created paralysis and then the carpenters showed up and changed everything and i game change and played a critical role in passing us and a strong

forum. i want to thank the carpenters -- [applause] next i want to bring update guy who implementing the sb423. the director of the san francisco planning department rich hill us. >> thank you all, thank you mayor and senator wiener. we are truly in a new era at the planning department and how we approve projects. so 423 applications are alive. operators are standing by and planners are standing by you can come in today online and apply for a housing project. this will be approved by the end of the summer. and that is [applause] that is truly a game changer where this would have normally taken a year or two as the mayor pointed out.

10 years or more ceqa and appeals involved. so between this legislation and then local low the mayor's constraints legislation, which passed again we'll able to approve project in weeks and months. instead of years. it truly is that is -- it allows us at plan to focus on the work that planners came to san francisco or go in the profession to do instead of project by project refereeing. and this is how planning works in most cities. it is important for us and staff to work on learning are planning issue this is we are facing whether it is climate change and, dapping for sea level. reimagine magging the downtown and filling vacant commercial space. fill in the i world class transportation system or rezone

negligent city that has not seen housing that is the role of planning. and when we should be doing. i want to thank senator wean and mayor breed and advocates who have been push for these changes so we can focus this work. thank you very much. [applause] >> so, next want to bring up 3 great housing leaders. who helped play us critically in geting and many other piece of housing legislation pass said. we have a really amazing prohousing coalition and we are winning. so we will hear from brian the executive director and will you evera foot the executive director of action and corey smith housing action coalition.

[applause] >> across california cities like san francisco have failed to approve new homes in a timely manner the delays lead to less house and higher costs. research shown that california ranks the slowest and most expensive states to get permission to build new home and the ascertain mentioned, san francisco has been the slowest in the state. permitting delays cost a lot of money. and every penny goes to rent we pay or the cost purchasing a new home. faster approval process created will not solve all challenges but it it is a major contribution. san francisco and other cities can now dramatically stroll line the permitting of new homes leading to approvals in months or faster instead of years that monies more housing, low are

cost and affordable california. on behalf of california i extend my thanks to senator wiener for strong leadership on housing including authorship of sb423 cosponsored with our partners at the california carpenters. the california housing consortium and the law center. thank you. [applause] >> back to the short people. i was at a park with my po 2 kids and an older woman sat down and we talked and she told me it takes her 2 houros the bus to commute in from the east bay where she had to move she had mobility issues and was not able to find an apartment in san francisco where her kids live and grand kids are thriving but

she could not find an affordable apartment on a fixed income. she is commuting 2 hours on the bus to visit grand kids and 2 back. if she was able to live here she would be able to baby sit the kids. more present in their lives. and she can't go to a planning commission hearing. she is not going to show up at a meeting where supposed lite voice of san francisco people who are invest in the the projects where we make the politicized debates about whether we'll build a housing project or not. she can't participate in that process. but she matters as much as everyone who has 3 hours to kill on a thursday afternoon. which is a very specific demographic. this bill allows us to give voice to so many of the

voiceless. they matter in our process. they should matter in our goal this is we set for meeting the housing goals. i want my kids to be able to live in san francisco. and the trajectory we have been on that is in the like low. we have to change the game here. and i want top thank not only mayor breed and planning department, when we make the luin sacramento it does matter if you are city shows and up says we want to follow the law. we want to implement the policies. we want to make sure we meet the housing goals. it is planning upon department is taking an active role in saying how will we make sure we make good on the promises we have made to have an inclusive san francisco. how do we use the snat laws to hit the goelsz this are there for i reason. they are there to give voice to the people who will be excluded from the city and pushed out. men we can stop tuck burglar

displacement and do something about temperature bring people back to this community. we cannot be a sanctuary city if you cannot find hozing in san francisco this is a meaningless commitment if the rent is too high. we have the opportunity today to do this. make good on promises and be a community this welcomes people in instead of one this has a welcome sign on the door and kicks you out when you sat in the p for 5 minutes thank you for applying, bye. back to where ever we don't care our housing of the cos are too high. we can't do that it is bull and we continue. we need to welcome people in. i want to hand over, thank you. [applause] we have been fighting this. i want to tell one more store. when i got involved in san francisco politicis was i crazy bhorn should a full time dead end sales job and want watch

sfgovtv on my laptop. and wait for the moment when i could run the 3 blocks to city hall to give comment. tell my boss i was getting a coffee and run and give comment and run back. 9 times out i of the only person who was a working person able to give comment i was the youngest person there by a few decades. this is what happens when you have a process that is set up to enable people who have the stability in their lives who can luxuriate through 3 hours of public comment on a thursday afternoon. you don't get the working people represent in the this process. this process means we are giveingly voice to the people. >> thank you. good morning. i'm corey smith the executive director of housing action. we represent the builders who

will builted homes the develop and contractors and land use attorneys the labor unions who will build california out of this mess. and the senator said we are here for a simple reason. san francisco is not building enough home and we are not tracking toward our state mandate target. god knows we tried. we attempted. we will keep doing the board through up consistent barriers and fortunately, the state stepped in and thank you senator wiener for your help on that. as -- a resident and a renter in this city the two of these people here, represent a path forward in a different dreshgz. not for just san francisco but california it is simple. if you follow the rules you should be able to build your building without getting sued by antihousing neighbor. i know in limachine's term this is seems the reasonable and what

else could help inform san francisco and california that was not the rule until today. and the bill will reduce the cost housing we are eliminating risk and as we deal with raising construction costs figuring out ways to e eliminate it from the process will help more are feasibility. and moves the needle. speaking of losing the needle i want to shout out for the carpenter's union up here. folks don't appreciate the shift this happens because of jay brad shaw and pete rodriguez and leadership they have taken in the state of california to stop saying, no. and the carpenter's say, yes. the carpenter's say, yes. yes to more housing protecting work and a better california. today is a really fantastic day i'm excited. you will seat boards on the wall and now they are empty that's

where we are. people are not building housing but today is a new day in california. new day in san francisco and look forward to the boards filling up we will see more affordable housing come across san francisco. and we got one that is getting under way. next sfeeshg i want to introduce a half member and builder from the bernal heights neighborhood center. gina. [applause] >> good morning i want it thank senator wean and mayor breed for inviting me. to a celebration and as an affordable housing developer it is an honor to recognize when sb423 means to the city and ability to make affordable housing easier and faster. we have a saying on our housing

team this there is in easy affordable. no easy housing site left in san francisco. and so what this means for us and building in bernal height system that some of the challenges of the site and location. are going to be part of a challenge. and when this bill does is allows you to do our own contribution to affordable housing. for those of when you minot know the agency is an award wing neighborhood service provide and are affordable how doing developer and our mission to preserve and protect affordable housing. and we have 18 develop the cites over 500 units and through the types of deals sb35 and for you 23 we are now on our way to breaking upon ground in december for the first years. in bernal heights.

>> followed by another -- development where we were able to purchase the big lots and convert terror to affordable housing for another 70 units. this is done through the types of bills. this guilty neighborhood community based center can do it in all of our afford okay housing cites can do it when we have this type of support. we also are very concerned about our community age nothing place. we serve over a thousand seniors and i want it make sure that as our seniors age in place they don'ts to worry about where they will lay their head the night. they don't worry about where than i will live or aged out of the or priced out of the community and so we want to be able to continue to contribute through our work and through the sb423. it will allow you to do so. thank you.

[applause], thank you very much. thank you to speakers that concludes the press conference and will take a few questions. you mentioned other thing in the way enter rates and construction costs are in there. are there other [inaudible] in your way? housing like this and when efforts are med to address that. >> interest rates that is i bit above our local and state control. i hopeful low we will resolve itself. and benefit many other things in the economy as limp in terms of there was an issue which is better now but i challenge was cost of materials. but this is in the i bigs problem as it was before. the board supervisors and the mayor did lower the inclusionary which was set at infeasible level they reassessed make sure

that it would pencil out and deliver the affordable homes and the market rate homes as well. and -- you know impact fees are certainly -- a challenge and especially in san francisco and other cities that have high fees that are imposeod projects which increase the costs and we were working on this at the state level this is something this needs to be addressed. 2 of the big, zoning, this is if i canned because we changed state law and required cities to zone for more in san francisco is doing that now and approving homes more quickly that is what this is about. we are not solving everything in one swoop i wish we could. we are resolving 2 of the big issues and the others will over time resolve themselves as well. >> [inaudible].

>> well i would say that this legislation provides an opportunity to get to yes and make it easier. san francisco has been known for saying, no, mostly because senator wiener mentioned decades built up processes made it difficult for people to invest in san francisco and do business here and build housing and this is an opportunity to get to yes t. is easier. it is user friendly and we are excite body what this could money for the future. [inaudible]. >> it isseen stronger.

so, sb1227, a bill this is mirest in peace no longer with us. would created a temporary seek kwa ceqa exemption we are looking at future possibilities. 423 is not just an exemption it lit irrelevant removed the project in ceqa entirely they north a project for purpose of ceqa it is stronger then and there the exemption. [inaudible] it is we need to have a can did attitude. first, we have a large number of homes that have been approved via development agreement, harj

projects like park merced and the ship yard and treasure loishgs landful mission rock, et cetera . that is tens of thussands of new homes. i'm speak for myself. some of the development agreements need to be revisited there were, let of costs put on them this make them difficult or not possible to build. and so, we need to make sure that the those projects get built this . takes care of a significant can chunk. you'd in the new project by project and bernal heights or other locations 70 here. 200 there. 500 there plus adu and duplexes when you add it together there is a pregnant path. that is an improvement when we have done in the past. yes, we have a path.

we need to be open to all of if mayor. >> keep are in the press of looking at a lot of the development agreements that exist and trying to understand when will it tick for the city to mend in the development agreements to move the projects forward. the other thing is we have a creative financing tool because of the state. we have been able to invest over 265 mission on a front end in order to make sure that treasure i land continues. the and tressel power station project continues. those projects had not been for our financing tool would not be continued than i would be a stand still. it is creative financing. you know the state it is semi like redevelopment where you provide money that we will have to pay for like the utility and infrastructure and under

grounding. we usually you know in the development agreements the costs are a per of the projects in the city usually has i responsibility and the developer as well. so, reevaluating the agreements. providing financing on the front end and reducing responsibility from the development agreements to some case you know we had layers of impact fees for transportation. jobs and we you know will maintain prevailing wage in the jobs there are other investments than i have to give to other organizations and things we need to look at whether or not the types of investments should be provided in the projects because we want them to move forward. and the big are projects there will be discussions with community we can't there was commitments med to communities and now we will reevaluate those made in order to do you want housing or property it stay

vacant for 10-20 years. those other discussions happening now with major preshths under way we are trying to move them forward. >> is there anyone else this has a question. >> senator. the similar things earlier [inaudible]. >> so what happened is we through a law that i authored 6 years ago, changed how we set housing goals for california. and in the past, every 8 years every city gets their husbanding goal for market rate and low income and than i were absurd

low low. most famous locality city of beverly hills a housing goal for 3 homes. and other cities got very, usually wealthier cities got lower numbers. and san francisco our number of twhend this is over 8 years we are a large city. that was low. what we did we did not set up for failure we looked at the reality of the situation. how much husbanding do we need? the goals were set by looking at the facts instead of the political process where we make up numbers out of thin air. it is recognizing reality. is this reality a hill this needs to climbed? absolutely because for 50 years we made it impublic to build enough new homes. we use build thousand ammeds of home in the 60s.

70 and 80 down zone and made it hard to get approved and built and that hundreds of thousands turned to 70-80,000. it is we will have to climb out of this hole and we are working heard to do this. but we need a can do attitude, let's solve the problem and do what it takes and stop you know ringing our hands. which is when we have done too often. >> am these two and this will be it. question for planning. [inaudible]. planning staff milook different do you have plans [inaudible]. >> like i said, you know things like the rezoning and looking at major portion of the city that has not seen a lot of development and focus on efforts around rezoning, sea level rise.

you know we are going through a large press with the army course to do a flood study and the future of water fran. transportation planning got short within the department and downtown come that future of retail looks like in the city. a host of your this is we look at in addition to planning for additional housing that we're equip exclude focused on. it is a comment we get from commissioners who sit on planning that we spends too much time on dr or project refereeing instead of the learning are issues. final question. >> public housing.

the residents in bernal heights neighborhood center. throughout the city what does housing mean for them. i think it means security. you knownualy prior to covid our organization puts on annual congress and it is for community members to in in and share what their concerns are. i will never forget in the housing round table one of the singers said shoes living on the couch of i friend in her clothe in i treasure bag and asked me. would this housing i want my basic needs. it means dignity elders work in the the city and criminalitied in a variety of ways and all of the housing merits for me i have

a hearted for older adults making sure this is in the i problem than i inher exit we can be part of the solution with the creative housing solutions likes sb423. thank you, everyone. [applause]. ..

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me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and

el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk

i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr

elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film■a was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it

ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and

if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

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and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've

been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes

valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we alsog to buy the home to be a first

time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home

february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has

happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025.

we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]go.

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