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in the entire globe. >> thank you very much (clapping.) and keeping with the theme of our environment the next question is and it will go to mr. herrera first, the current transportation infrastructure in san francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx by the unbridling building boom can everyone hear. >> yeah. that really has shown a lack of planning and vision i think we need to start by mid-market i limiting where those buses travel they are creating a real possible not only for the community we need to hold them at a space where we can meet the workers at the elm the city we need to have them and i'll work hard to have them
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pay into the public common goodwin good so they will, help create a better muni for all workers and doing a great service this corporate cheating and welfare called the tax breaks didn't work it creates a two tier among working people thank you. >> (clapping.) mayor ed lee i believe that our city is more than interested in municipality modes of transportation including bikes and good packets and muni and ryder and other modes i think we ought to support all those efforts to the doing everything we can and put together transportation 2030 to look this and see when the city needing and they've articulated for the city not only a vision but ways to get to the transportation but
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we do nooes need infrastructure money i'm a true believable in making sure we extend the central subway to affairs we need have more subway systems and the second bart tube and caltrain electric if i had and the federal government and state governments from cap & trade to more transit infrastructure monies (clapping.) thank you very much. >> mr. martin. >> that's great to hear actually transportation is my passion for the last ten years on the boards of san francisco san francisco transit ryder's and moving as we see the development happening in san francisco we really have not not keeping pace with the transportation 40 years ago every single building in san francisco has to be putting money both creating the
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transportation office of the city administrator offsets that we're going to create the problem we've seen in development in san francisco is the development itself is happening two us not by us so what happens from that, we here on behalf of the appellant, you know, we'll say no we don't like the developments and transportation is much is a critical discussion i can't talk about in a minute that goes throughout the city and region and growing transportation we need to ask him to make that happen and i met my everyone first serious girlfriend on muni i love muni it is using mass transit and money not like us and exercise how to be a neighbor muni is wonderful place and terrible place there is a lot of reasons but i think more recently that as suggested so many cars on the streets here
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and part because of rooirpdz people come from la to be and worker here taylor dollars dba got to be a way for ryder and regulate who is driving here also i think if we put a higher calorie on the google buses we'll put that money into muni and make the transportation system better (clapping.) thank you ms. whites eyes when bernie sandra's becomes our next mayor we need an, sir for the buses there are exciting plans how we can integrate the needs of people who live and work in san francisco with the people that are going down the peninsula create pollutions that work for everyone instead of the go tier
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system we need an environmental impact report for the tmcs and uber and lyft their sxhej and ridiculous that taxi drivers have to endure with the regulations that are out on them they're not being placed think is tmc the current administrations capitulating the huge corporate interests. >> thank you. >> we want to get in as many questions if you could hold our applause until the ends mr. graham. >> everything i do in terms of the mayor's office will be for the advantage of san franciscans that live here now i'm so interested this what is going to happen in thirty years the transportation system and the high speed rail that all has to come everything he do on the emphasis how do we get something done this next 6 months and year
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because the people are standing out this in the rain at the bus stations and waiting for uber and everything else they can do or riding tracer bikes i went to a bike meeting the other day their complaining about the regulations ticketed and everything else but we have to include all the modes of transportation but we need to start soovl it for the people that live here now. >> thank you very much. >> okay our next question mayor ed lee first, it is well, i can't say as mayor as this question i'll say what will you do about the hydrogen increase in the homeless families and individual in san francisco prior to the super bowl and i'm going to do an editorial add and say even after the super bowl.
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>> thank you. >> well, i certainly first of all, you recognize there is a homeless challenge in our city and we have thousands of people on the streets it is not good for them nor anyone else that are forced to live on the street we put together your best model and had good models in the past and homeless connect and director of hope to really bring services with the diversity departments our lasts it the navigation center we believe puts together the best of the services and is invite and make sure that people live in dignity as we places hundreds of units of housing so a long answer we should work with the school district and the human services
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agency get phone call on homelessness to put together housing and sustained housing for all. >> thank you very much. (clapping.) >> mr. martin. >> homelessness is a really big issue in san francisco and continuing to rise the last sort of 3 administrations have talked about how to solve homelessness but we have not seen that attempts to pickup people in helicopters and shift them off to the bay area to what we have now the on the navigation center is an interesting model some of the other folks an interesting idea for sarpgs and necessities for folks in the at the there are a lot of ways we need to be tangibly the problem of homelessness in san francisco the first to treat everyone with respect and take the housing first policy housing can only be within the city limits something
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on a regional level and look at it how we can manage housing in the in fill and get people into the places and work with the services to get them back inform the society. >> thank you. >> mr. severing man. >> roughly 10 thesis policy on the streets in and roughly airbnb rentals. >> i'm just saying (laughter) but i live in selma my neighbors are homeless people he see homeless people and talk with them their people when is current administration said we're going to have a big party in san francisco a preparty before the part of super bowl we have to get out of here that's problem i thought you have to remember
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those are the fragile people veterans and come from broken homes and abuse people that need over help 71 percent san francisco residents before they were on the streets (clapping.) you as you mentioned we need housing first, it works and get people into the homes and he helping them with services or what else. >> thank you, ms. wise. >> i have a background from trickle housing and metro starting urban gardens i have been thinking about this for the last year i come up what an idea calls trickle village we identify the under i'd like city properties and on one show that did a project in berkley where he indexes all the illegal spaces in san francisco there are many when we do is create
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those trickle ego vinyls as we've created a cat elective out of super bowl i called it the st. francis super bowl homeless challenge for $500 we can do if i know how to structure budget i requalified a budgets and bubdz less than $10,000 we have the skill and is financing we have the hearts we have the exerted headquarters to be able to do this in san francisco and side beautiful things and have pride how we treat your neighborhoods (clapping.) mr. graham well, that is one of my person pet peeves homelessness is no a crime a condition and everyone deserves a right to be respected and given the right to live in dignity before you, side anything go up to the person and
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found out why he is homeless and get a read on that social workers in all areas of the country do this and are able to find a way for those people to get into housing if you have a brother in fedex you can live with more 6 months i mean those types of things we need more social workers and deregulation with the individuals you can't implementing the center it good i like the center idea i proposed one as well you have to have an understanding of what each player needs if you don't center it you're dead in the water i need to use the budget so get more social workers. >> mr. herrera. >> a link road to homelessness and, in fact, to treat people on the streets their somehow choosing to be there a great mistake homelessness starts when
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people can't pay the rent at the vision has created and demonstrated this problem even more folks with jobs in sunset who are living in in their cars 27 hundred children in the school district living in the cars and living room and couches a lot more that are actually homeless we need to proposition f gives us one acre to start we have to support prop f and continue to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness thank you very much. >> thank you very much (clapping.) our next question and it is about go to mr. martin first do you building we should review san francisco sanctuary policy. >> that's a quick or
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long-winded answer in general i don't think we should i agree with the sanctuary policy that an important piece some piece we're not we were not doing effectively i'm assuming that we're sort of referring to as a general trend san francisco a welcoming placed for people around the world is a tread mark that sets san francisco separate and hate to lose it over a specific incidents that occurred. >> thank you, mr. sheriff man. >> i'm hundred percent for surveillance cities i've worked in restaurants the people are the head it worker in their guns and they're the backbone of the
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state and definitely the city it would fall apart without them they need to be safe that said i i don't think it should apply to criminals we should make sure that criminals criminals are auto out of the system and people that are obtaining bay the law use them like cities are meant for like hey, there's a problem on my street this person is in a gang and problems over here and they can call the police without worrying about be a criminal. >> ms. wise. >> i support it if i were mayor with the trajectory incidents i said take affordability i signed this die process into law and take the affordable it sheriff's was
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doing his job and not detaining someone (clapping.) work with jeff that did a great talk about on sfgovtv talked about with put together a if you remember we're talking about in if particular case did we learn anything to adjust to those issues this way should be doing as a leaders but taking accountability and being able to adjust the law is a living thing and adjust it to the greater good (clapping.) thank you very much. >> mr. graham. >> i agree with amy we have a problem with how we look at the law sanctuary sass cities are important san francisco is the ultimate sanctuary city less face that we welcome anybody and
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everyone but we can't ballets the criminals go wild we need to manage the process the police department and sheriff's department don't know and the mayor e mayor's office has to get in their faces it is a management issue we need to keep it. >> thank you very much mr. herrera. >> i'll strengthen the sanctuary cities mexico it is up their experiencing 22 murders the most violate thanks to office of citizens complaints and some of the supported and blessed we're experiencing tremendous challenging changes people are here experiencing violence my own drawn was murdered surveillance city's provide safety and because we allowed this man to manipulate
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the tragedy the fourthal death of a young woman is a disgrace we should take leadership across the country to defends the lives of people that are here for protection from more violence and torture. >> (clapping.) mayor ed lee. >> clearly i understand the goals of our sanctuary city policy let me say that i think that is more a policy it is a live document i agree with a number of commenters not only do we want to protect and have a sanctuary for those who are fleeing but once they're here we've obligate to have the programs to support their success by the way, with us with a policy i was at the helm with the other mayors with the id cards that's served thousands of people to get access to services we put money serious money in
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the pauts to citizenship to train the folks not just to be a beneficiary of the policy but have access to education and theres and jobs without the barriers we need to do more we'll continue to do more to support our immigrants it shouldn't matters where the local even though of their documentation we have to help them succeed. >> (clapping.) thank you very much. >> the next question to mr. should've man the black population is 6 percent and declining in san francisco what issues are causing this and how will you address them. >> it's a housing issue like pretty sure everything in the next 10 years a lot of development in the bayview hunters point and this is a almost investable so i'd like to
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put a first right of refusal for everybody from the bayview hunters point it is displaced if bloifrpt and specifically a whole bunch of affordable housing there like a ton, in fact, all over the city maintain the small 6 percent of our african-american population we need to pardon me. >> according to the - >> yeah. build now in bayview hunters point and not waits until it moves around. >> ms. wise. >> chief baldwin came to san francisco in 19 b 3 he talked about the institutionalized raising with the development and people couldn't get jobs after world war ii we need to create jobs so for the african-american rather than pipelines to prison
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and create job opportunities to clean power that could be underway if this administration loudly clean power to roll forwards i love stewards ideas of first right of refusal and also to support the people that are certificate of preference have been displaced in the past 3 developments to come back into the city and focus on bayview hunters point and the fillmore western edition and figure out how be to creating for housing through dwelling units and the pertains and to link them to african-american neighbors. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) mr. graham. >> i agree with that what we need to do is create jobs i mean, it was a tragedy that we let the 49ers go to a stadium were are right of there created a neighborhoods of jobs and workforce that could be into
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that neighborhoods we can still do that we need corporate help with that i think the issue is jobs and education for those that don't have it job training those people thank you. >> thank you, mr. herrera. >> yeah. i'll start by supporting proposition i and making that citywide i think there is some sort of a red lynn that is happening to kickoff the african-american communities in this terrible thing noble hold the fort but half of the folks can't live in san francisco we have a serious crisis creates by the run away housing market the top problem that is san francisco land use & economic development committee tour communities that is precisely we've let investors act like
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developers they're not the developers we're the developers they're here to make money we have here to live and produce so we have to produce housing that allows our people to come back particular african-american communities and support fats middle town project in the fillmore. >> thank you (clapping.) mayor ed lee. >> a multi prong approach one of the biggest champs to the african-americans families that have been here is enter generational poverties that results from having solicited poverty housing we call public housing for many decades and people are satisfied never be satisfied with that people need a pathway forward it begins equal not begins has to include early education now preschool programs has to have
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intervention and counseling at the public schools we're having that bus of prop c and the families and began the middle grades we community college the statistics were african-american and latino were leaving our public education weave investing that historic levels we have education and job training all of our industries we have whether or not tourism, tech, manufacturing, tourism at the is all e all should have aspects that targeted at youth (clapping.) >> thank you. >> we'll all being civic i'm sorry your caught cold it is cool in her mr. martin. >> to me the organizing are back to how we treat
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neighborhoods and communities you know in during the urban renewal development was happening to a communities it is not happening by the community we're seeing the should know we call it urban renewal or weaver whau but take ownership of what is happening if a san francisco and create ownership by the san franciscans i actually don't like our affordable housing model i don't like the ideas of a developer 20 or thirty or 40 percent affordable anytime an investor creates it is not in alignment what we need for what we want we need to review what development needs and who is doing the development and who is doing that in san francisco general. >> (clapping.) okay. the next question we'll start with ms. wise according to a sf weekly study eaten pretrial
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detention over heavy the people in county jail have not been convicted of a crime their it there they can't afford bail. >> this happened to a friend of mine many years with a meth challenges she got a ticket on her bike she was not able to pay the fee i alongside her $300 not to go to jail and have a warrant out for they are arrest people are getting criminalized for heels we need to stop the criminalization that will be a be a huge difference (clapping.) figure out a strategy for crime reduction that aren't not with people that are armed on our streets we can come up with a
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stewards of peace unarmed safety programs and not contribute to less crime and leeds to those types of things yeah, we need - if more people have opportunities and so for the through jobs and medicating we'll not see ♪ jail and mr. graham and i go with amnesty po no policing for profits you get a ticket in san francisco so for a wrong left-hand turn $300 people that make some money don't want to pay that kind of money for a wrong left turn people can't say pay we need to make things resemble resembling for the crime and we won't have half the
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people in jail >> (clapping) and thank you very much mr. herrera. >> first of all, respects and honor to the work that ross has done fabulous work it is important for the mayor to take steps to being in communication with the gentleman i think that the level of corruption that people feel at city hall roadway on this nutritious the experiences of people saying no respect force the law then to add that the criminalization of the homeless, criminalism of youths and criminalization of yoekt that can't pay is part of bigger problem and comes right back in lack of political willingness at city hall and the crisis people are exercising the level of anxiety is going throughout the city not just the
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folks in the street but city workers that cannot afford to live here. >> thank you, mayor ed lee. >> aim a try believable in alternatives to incarceration we've foot going got to figure out ways to prevent peep from going to jail those programs excludes betters education and the job training for the new workforce at the same time you're already seeing decreases in our jails and increases in paid jobs internship jobs and the jobs that people can have for sustained periods but we also needs to make sure that those who are courtyards have aefltsd i'm a true believable in to make sure that the problems people have can be resolved at that level and not long term
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incarceration peep incarcerating in situations zoo don't get the opportunities to learn job skills they'll coming out worse that will exasperate the problem (clapping.) mr. martin. >> yeah. i think the community is a great example of what we can be doing a lot better it is really half of the people in jail that is ridiculous they're not able to it pay bail that is incredible i mean that is not acceptable to decrease the sorts of frivolous reaps people are caught in the system we need to re-evaluate what sorts of crimes and bail to a pay that is ass monumental it is important to echo when i here on stamp we have to be responding to criticize we talked about
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homeless and country's of housing and, you know, food or mental health with someone speaks not going to show up as police and treat them like a criminal that's not the place to be putting that remove that burden of coming to that we need to take full steps to stop that. >> i reads recently 45 or 50 percent of gnat population have african-american that is because their 6 percent of city we need to los angeles county how to police people a bias if those numbers are real and i don't understand that we need to look at what we look at as criminals and it shouldn't be criminals or prostitution who cares what you do with our bodies as long as your save so the less people in jail and the police or the
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members of society. >> the next question to mr. graham as mayor would you support of current plan to make yerba buena island luxury housing on this 5 percent temporary affordable housing or change the plan to include a grammar percentage of affordable housing. >> guaranteeing let me think who this problem really wants to here no, i don't agree it should represent the same levels in the city the city is too general if i had as is i'll help to make changes to that plan. >> thank you very much mr. herrera. >> affordable housing is proprietor we have so many people we've been saying i think that the intoxication itself of
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treasure island and yerba buena needs to be taken place taken place a look at and calendered up we need to help the citizenry fight we electrohave to continue to put our effort to help people remain and open up more space for affordable housing. >> mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) maxine i believe the question you had a was referencing an agreement that was passed by the boards many years ago and it calls for yerba buena to have primarily market-rate but support treasure island 25 percent affordable housing unions and this is a serious number the developers agents to do that it is inc. you can't do that nonetheless i stop the developments he do building a path forward to increase that the state recently passed
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legislation for the infrastructure financing through the bills and the governor signed it in conversations as to whether or not we can get up to thirty percent and maybe exceed that with the collaboration and cooperation of the developer that has a legal rights their spends. >> huge amount of money to make sure that island is safe but they've got a minimum commitment of 25 percent we can up it with the rights negotiation. >> (clapping.) thank you, mr. martin. >> excuse me. and mr. martin and i did not agree with that plan is development happening on yerba buena and treasure island is first of all, actually, i have no idea to build a bunch of units we have to transportation policy that involves that island so i'm not sure what is going to
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happen with that the thing we really need to think about transportation in general like we've cabin talking about it comes down do the same question who is doing the development and what is happening and who lives there mayor ed lee said you stop bye bye stopping development that is something we've been talking about obviously so i think those are the reasons why i actually support of moratorium in san francisco it needs to put the city into a position to make tough decisions and right now, we're still talking about 20 or thirty percent and neither it there. >> sir. >> aim okay. if we put navigation centers there if you want to have 95 percent affordable housing put navigation centers there and do
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the affordable housing hundred percent on treasure island. >> that's it. >> (laughter). thank you, ms. wise >> how many people if from room apartments mayor to demands more than 50 percent affordable housing (clapping.) and this is a what i need to city hall a political will in other words, to make sure that development is like my colleagues here on the forum here as said and stewart said we need to insure with development is support the needs of people that work in san francisco and be able to have the proper types of transportation that allows this to be sustainable we need tobacco thinking 50 years down the road is sustainable to be building if if way because what about sea levels rise and quarter i've foot been given
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enough information about the development and like more happening but we can pencil it out i can work with the accountability accounts to show you how to pencils out for more 50 percent affordable. >> mr. herrera how will you protect the legacy biz businesses that were forced out for profit. >> we've been looking at looking a rent control we have to actually start organizing at the states level because the go legislator there i would start by sending senator mark leno 80 out to fight, and, secondly, the way the legacy piece is written it didn't support enough of the small businesses like i'm talking about that really to make a difference i think we
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have to once again come back to political will and i think that first of all, we need to stop the investors from kicking out your small business people and get liberation likewise evicts we have to also apply the protection to the small businesses, small businesses are the ones that keep the economy going in the city we need to get serious political will to protect the small businesses and others businesses in san francisco. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> mayor ed lee i'm supportive of legacy businesses i've been in the city now foreclosure over 35 years over the course seen the stores and routines of places people have gathered for many, many years and felt that example is also loss in their neighborhoods i support neighborhoods efforts to make sure the the quality of changes
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are representative of the neighborhoods that's why we have the strong investments in the neighborhoods we have funded a lot of small business fwrants that makes sure that things that small businesses find difficult to get whether they're a market-rate loans to do simple things like change their awning or lighting to the tune of hundreds of thousands and assisting our small businesses to be successful and provide them with good corridor that that are safe (clapping.) thank you. >> mr. martin. >> so it sounds like we agree on protecting the small businesses around for a while we have work to do as was mentioned obtain american people state level we can do the rent control and there are some things in terms of forcing sort of the
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conversations with the tenants and buying time is important i also want to talk about in general the small businesses and local businesses in san francisco the rentss are incredibly high the gentleman that owns a market near me his rents is up for tense there's a month we're seeing this in neighborhoods this not legacy businesses but been around for a short-term we need a commercial retail and look at garage conversion to create for space i have a plan that we'll give them for a small revenue share. >> thank you, mr. consists man. >> our current mayor ed lee give 50 thousands take breaks to the people in the market value i'd like to to see that support
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our urban living around for a while poor those businesses maybe san francisco dwooerts didn't make san francisco san francisco that money could be used if better ways i like the idea of making rent control for businesses as well taking the businesses into two and thirty years businesses are a long time and they're in peril of jack up the rent 200 percent plus we're losing businesses every day. >> thank you, ms. wise. >> i'd like to building what mayor ed lee said we know this is disingenious first hand the politics in san francisco in the if at any point it is air force chassis with the mayor's office of housing and community development and the planning department staff rolled out the
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red carpet to take 3 invented mario that ran a business he else a story of the american dream and mayor ed lee allowed that i am had been kicked out i chase bank its outs range the last way broeng it get me into the politics how the law be broken for chas bank instead of saying no to that displacement i'm going to start a nonprofit called the neighborhoods for vs. did care i have dedicated my last four years of my life to that (clapping.) and. >> thank you and i applaud our enthusiasm we would like to get in as many questions as possible thank you very much under
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graham. >> well, i've been going around to the homeownership and merchant successors for the last 3 months and primary the number one complaint is that the big block store or any of the current favorite neighborhood haunts are good evening to be through they're trying desperately to keep those things in the neighborhoods so we need to support any kind of legislation we can get to keep san francisco looking like san francisco i mean, that's the reason i moved here in the friend i moved in a blast that was opposite of medical care donald's and safeway and a 7-eleven markets it drove me nuts i came here the quality of life is much better and want to keep it that way (clapping.) thank you very much. >> our next question goes to the
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super bowl the 49ers, of course, will be at; right? the question is east side what will you do to address human trafficking as we plan for the super bowl i'm sure you know that is a problem in the bay area. >> but that's at question. >> is the question. >> what will you do to addresses human trafficking as we plan for the super bowl this is for mayor ed lee. >> i'm sorry me. >> sorry. >> thank you. >> first of all, we are working closely with the commission on the status of women to making sure we have the best intelligence from around the country's that host the super bowls and remind them the red flags attractive to human trafficking
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with that we're ready to hire and already have in the budget some 200 people with the homeless and businesses that are lacking for the red flags red flags include places where young women might be he enticed and places where people are using renting that might be serving as trafficking we're committed to making sure we have the human trafficking free events in san francisco and around the bay area wear also talking about other jurisdictions outside of san francisco court reporting with us as well (clapping.) thank you, mr. martin and. >> i honestly don't know about human trafficking and the super bowl relate to each other in terms of how the specifics so i can't comment a whole lot in general think we need to be watching out out for those
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things and treating people with respect in terms of on our streets, of course, the situations related to human trafficking we have to take care of that's the extent of that topic. >> mr. shifting man. >> i'm a pro sex worker you ought to do with your body but against human trafficking i don't know how to stop that how to legalize human trafficking. >> on a human level work with the folks tjpa those situations. >> ms. wise. >> those are great answers i'm pro sex working the people have the ability to be safe in that process i was talking to someone that works on moikt and telling me there are two prostitution
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sros everyone knows the question are the people that are working there doing so freely and being treated right and having the right kind of health and i looks forward to learning more about how i can be a force to help stop human trafficking to be quiet honest i'm not versed if in type of issue. >> thank you, mr. graham. >> well, there's a tv documentary that document it a task force is in san francisco that is going to look at it some of the massage parlors and things like that? not a super bowl issue an issue of every day slafrl a tragic that happens in our city something that should be looked very seriously again, i'm in favor of legalizing
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prostitution and putting in broth he lives and providing health care and all that we're talking about young girls that are you know enforced if thailand's and china and other places and the united states but we've got to put an effort into that makes a priority to stop. >> mr. herrera i want to separate sex workers they're doing from the trafficking of women and children and even men in this sense but i think the key problem is precisely we're facing with the housing crisis because it follows the model of unite makes right you have enough money do whatever the hell you want that's what we're seeing not city so we have to we've - made the mistake of thinking that this invisible
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hand is the slight hand of corruption human trafficking is a abuse that happens in the super bowl because there is so much movement of people and so much we have to actual address the patrons; right? white collar crime we have to address the people that are paying for it instead of criminalizing oversee folks on the street and youth we have to start looking at want white collar or maybe white part of this crime. >> thank you. (laughter) okay. the next question and it will go to mr. martin in over 20 years of living in the city i've not seen the city so dirty what is will you do to improve the sidewalks and public spaces
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>> first of all, it takes a sxht from the city in we have 80 the staff to clean up this is fine there's a under teen tony in one of the questions that assumes something other than loiter or good morning stuck on the streets no, i'm talking about - golden gate bridge. >> perfect. >> thank you question. sir. >> so in that case it is perfect i've spent a lot of time in the cities other than the world staff cleaning sidewalks and streets that is something we need to collective as as community decide if we want to have it happen it is a great thing for san francisco to do. >> thank you, mr. shifting man. >> there's a lot of human balboa park on the streets and this is this is a bigger
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issue we can solve the poop and member of the public and bart and you public parks and movements to prioritize our parks closing bathrooms we need to open up the bathrooms and tax on every single units and very convert cost open 70 new bathrooms called the portland they're for the homelessness their endisruptionable and see that none is living in there i like to see the poop problem solved now. >> many wise in a city of innovations he went to the urban prototyping festival that happens in the gray foundation for the arts four years ago an amazing called the pea planter it was a your honor, natural
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that the plants actually helped to delawsuit and support the process so this is something that was created four years ago if i was mayor, i can bet we'll have a lot of those on the streets right now i see people that are going and picking up cans and shifting through garbage cans they can be treated with dignity a way for an honest day's work and money off of doing some that is a service to the communities we passed away innovate reds tape in terms of going through the 0 the employment's channels an opportunity for people to be contributing their skills to beautifying our city. >> thank you mr. graham. >> that's true you take the problem away at the core by putting bathrooms somewhere under the freeze where people are putting up tents and things
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like that to go to the bathroom are all over the place if you were mayor, i wanted hire stewart to gets on the problem he has the answers and i have the histories of this going on we can (laughter) pursue clean up and get some machines to clean the good morning off the streets and put someone else to work. >> mr. herrera. >> that's a good thing. >> i always wondering about that i see there is a political will to side in the sxhaeshg i wonder what a federal agents good morning was do you not complaeshg i think what has to happen precisely a good example what happens in the embarcadero they try to keep the good morning off the streets needs to continue throughout the city is
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it helps to provide jobs and creates is sustainability and with political will and the vision the vision in planning which is a big one of the big boys right now with our administration. >> thank you, mayor ed lee. >> somewhat trash on the streets and i think that while we have many programs that pick it up monitor and toilets potty patrols and paints that sprays back we have that that ultimately it comes down to personal responsibility the trash got there by somebody is where he is so going back go back with with our youth and school systems and say okay. you'll eat something while you're walking why stands in the corner and through it on
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the curve not to prevent that it is a sense of something that is away from decendents respect for each other on the streets i do i or think that everybody there smoking gun shouldn't be a blame about waiting for muni or coming out of a fast food restaurants everybody does it when he minded the world series we did a sweep with the giants and got 10 thousand kids to help to prevent fractious from getting on the streets (clapping.) >> thank you our next question it goes to mr. shifting man first, as mayor how will be insure that tech companies pay in their fair share of tax. >> make them pay their taxed. >> i can't say wait for the
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tax breaks to expire i said earlier $55 million taxpayers money were given to tech companies and st. anthony's is struggling to feed everybody there is 3 meals and they're struggling to feed with an meal per person families we've opposite side our doors to corps and mayor ed lee limiting almost sold city hall for taxi drivers we need to pay our city back and this is our city. >> right yeah. >> thank you ms. wise. >> well ron conway was part of plan to change our tax structure in san francisco and to be fear there was prfgz that are saying we need to congressman change. >> from a payroll tax for new employment's opportunities we went too far and should have put
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onus on companies to pay their fair share we live in a eco system and can't have one area grow without supporting the others and in balance and it puts people in jeopardy a nexus between development and job dwreeth and industry growth and transit and sustainability all those things i'm just shocked by the by the way, as a regional ascertainment co-sponsorship 100 putting 20 thousand more jobs do you know how many hours a thousand that didn't make sense as mayor with we'll fought how to get balance both that system >> (clapping.) thank you, mr. graham. >> well, i'm troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and again pay their
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fair share and has workers from out of town you can't keep doing that and sustain what we want in san francisco again, i. about doing something for the san franciscans that live here now i think we have to tax is corporations at a rate they need to support our current population. >> (clapping.) thank you mr. home share herrera i'll continue to work with organizations like local 2 stopt the fascinating into hotels into condominiums and the tax breaks is corporate welfare and it goes what the line of privatization that takes our public bart and money collectively and gets it
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to the contract to the folks that are friendly or offers the best payment tattoos local politicians we need to question the whole thing of tax breaks i've seen it as a historian pa that is exactly to the mexican revolution i'm very glad we are having the he people's revolt and the key question make the weighty the investor pay their fair share. (clapping.) >> thank you, mayor ed lee. >> this past year we were able to pass the 2 year budgets with no budget cuts to all theness and the number of neighborhoods able to do a proper investments for the first time and have if you have enough to hire additional police officers and fire departments and 9-1-1 call
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takers and pharmacies we're able to do that we have a strong economy that strong economy is a reflection of good rings with a business community to make sure we have a good tax base to provide the necessary things and continue to do the san francisco values of things when the federal government decided they would continue to cut retrofit we filed it gap kwht homeless change for veterans came before us whisper able to say with good confidence bends of this year ends chronic homelessness for veterans we can do more things with a strong economy to help how i did not recollect and ends generational poverties for black families but we've got to have a strong local economy. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> question do need a

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