production goals set by the housing element has been unmet. market rate housing goals have been exceeded. every other category has not been met. for me, this is what happens when we treat housing as a commodity. this speaks to the priority of higher-income people over low- income residences. in my line of work, i have met people that the taraval before the housing skyrocket. san francisco has long been seen as a beacon for progressive values and where tolerance can be practiced. a place where you can live in a san francisco with a meager income. i am not educated in the specific policy decisions that created this housing crisis.

since i have been a part of the family, it really does feel like the city government is on a trajectory toward caring about preserving its legacy and preserving the needs of the community that makes this a unique and unparalleled place to live. making sure that low-income communities are able to live here. it does not make sense to put resources towards developing market rate housing when we are not achieving our goals for low- income housing. that is the bigger picture. otherwise, san francisco will lose a cultural vibrancy and you need this that makes it a unique cultural hub. >> i wanted to alert you that we have lost the department of building inspection's rep for item four. i urge to continue that item to another week.

>> we will call speakers. tommy, i apologize for butchering names, alberto del rio, chris wright, who i do not think is here, shannon dodge, charlie. go ahead. thank you. >> my name is jenny jordan. i am with occupy. since 2008, there have been more than 3000 and foreclosures in san francisco. because of the racist banks, they have banned in working- class communities of color. we need household preservation

of rent-controlled. we need controls on condo conversions and foreclosure prevention. we do not really need new household programs until we work on the solution to the problems of funding homeowners foreclosure to get counseling from san francisco housing development corporations. that is for the african-american community, the latino community, and the asian community. we need regulations in the behavior of the banks and mortgages operating in san francisco. the city has to focus on stabilizing neighborhoods that are hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis and helps families due to the foreclosures stake in their homes. corrupt banks are forcing

foreclosures on moderate income families. the city needs to keep these families in their homes. thank you. take your money out of all of the banks and make a bank that has got screwed all of the people and put your money in it. >> i am with the housing rights committee of san francisco. san francisco has had its housing crisis for the last 10- 15 years. long before it affected the middle-income folks, poor and middle-class people were struggling to stay in this city. they were facing rising rent and even the rising cost of sro's. the housing needs of this population has never been met. many became homeless. the homeless population has grown. ellis act convictions became

buyouts. they were displaced. neighborhoods were gentrified. the castro, places for immigrants and queers became unaffordable for the same folks. the city has not met the need for affordable housing for any of these folks. i have to wonder, how are we going to take on a whole new category of people? middle-income folks, when we have yet to meet the needs of the neediest in a san francisco. it strikes me that it is like a swimming pool. we have a swimming pool and we have two people screaming for help. one person is drowning and cannot swim. the other person is sitting in a life raft and is not in danger

of drowning but feels like he has been sitting there too long. who are going to rescue? that is the most crucial question facing our city today. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening. thank you for this. i am from vernal heights. i have been sitting here grasping everything. why start something new when you have something else that is happening greater and grander? you talk about foreclosures and people being foreclosed on. i am going to you and one of those faces, myself. these banks did not do a lot of great things. i really believe that if you start investing in your people, the city, and actually have more

high-approved places and counseling, -- hud-approved places and counseling, it would help a lot of people. a lot of people do not realize there are foreclosures in san francisco. up and down the peninsula. it is not advertised. it is -- i can't believe it. when you talk about middle income, 1% of people make over $350,000 a year. 2% make $120,000 a year. the rest make an average of $35,000-$45,000 a year. when we look at -- what we're looking at is the 97%. and how we're going to help them out. all i am going to say is this. do not turn a blind eye. -- do not turn a blind eye to

your city and these people. what we can do for them. we need your help. we need your support. and supporting these banks is not the way to go. and creating something new, i know it is good for the city, and i know it is good for other people. let's concentrate the people within your city. -- on the people within your city. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the evening. i work at the community -- as a community organizer. we are part of the coalition for community housing organization. i served a single room occupancy -- the single room occupancy population. they learn to live with the least amount of resources. this is an extreme low and come

population. 0-30% ami. without affordable housing they face afford -- homelessness. we're talking about middle income housing and we have heard great reports from the city departments and i am grateful for that. i am here to tell you one thing and that is housing. we have done a lot of outrage and we have gone to hundreds of stores -- outrage. we have gone to hundreds of doors. what we found is 67% of sro tenants have identified a need for identified -- affordable housing. now i wonder why do these people who already have a roof over their head think more housing is needed for these different populations? it is because maybe they know. right now they have a home that is not with a kitchen or if you

but it is a home nevertheless. they know that three or five years maybe, the city resources is needed to subsidize their rent. maybe there will be gone and and on the street. that is a crisis we're facing. we have an absolute need for people who do not have the luxury of choosing whether there will live in one neighborhood or another. there are facing homelessness. the city cannot afford to have more homelessness now. thank you. supervisor wiener: your with -- you are with tndc? i believe they are doing a moderate income project on mission street. i thought it was 80-100. >> we do not serve higher than 80%. i do not believe we have anything at 120%. >> it is a project on 19th --

10th and mission, partnering with the market rate developer. they are doing 80-120. supervisor wiener: that is a terrific project. i want to congratulate tndc for doing that. >> good evening. i am a resident of the tenderloin and a community organizer. i want to speak as a resident and community organizer. i work with seniors and low- income families in the tenderloin. i know that there are many filipino families numbering about six to eight living in one

studio unit. if you would go to their residents, it is really awful. -- their residence, it is really awful. i believe, holistic strategy is needed to obtain -- retain workers and families who would leave san francisco due to high housing costs. direct government subsidies should be weighted toward those with housing stresses. inclusion rehousing program discarded the only system the city has for 50-80% ami. and for serving the presence of middle income residents could be achieved by preserving and augmenting existing home ownership programs. it would be inappropriate and

counterproductive to allow new middle and come home ownership strategies to displace lower and moderate income households. i would like to urge this community to please prioritize helping the housing needs of the most vulnerable members of our community. thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you. i want to fall -- call the final cards. maria, jay -- jenny, patrick kennedy, jen p., sarah, and brian basinger. if you would like to speak, please fill out a card. otherwise that is the end of public comment. >> thank you. [speaking spanish]

>> good evening. i work with just cause and i have been working in san francisco for for 30 years as a tenants' rights organizer. >> [speaking spanish] >> the mathematical eloquence that the city staff were able to bring to the data that was shown to us is important and really great. what we did not see was the percentage of seniors that are going to be on the street based on displacement and eviction. >> [speaking spanish] >> we also forgot to note to the

percentage of families with children, people that are pregnant that would also be on the street. based on evictions and displacements. >> [speaking spanish] >> i would also like to remind you that we have been fighting displacement in the mission for 10 years. that has been an incredibly hard battle. >> [speaking spanish] >> we need to ensure that we do not lose any more battles. we have lost enough. or that we do not lose any more rent-controlled housing which is -- would be a result of the

plan and these proposals. >> [speaking spanish] >> rent-controlled -- the rent control ordinance protections have been slowly picked away in san francisco. there was a proposition that was beaten down to completely get rid of rent control and san francisco voters showed they did not want to get rid of rent control and we need to stop picking away at rent-controlled ordinances. >> [speaking spanish]

>> this is a solution that will need all of you supervisors and we need to ensure that people in san francisco who continue to work hard, who live here and work here continue to be housed. >> [speaking spanish]

>> the last thing i want to remind you is that you all a surprise represent everyone in san francisco, not just an elite few. we all have the right to dignified housing that we can afford. >> [speaking spanish] >> one final thing i would suggest that u.s. -- expand rent-controlled protections to all units and that would be the solution. supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker.

>> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. my name is moorad and i have been living in my apartment for 22 years. >> [speaking spanish]

>> curiously enough, i was always told i lived in rent- controlled housing. recently our property owner told me that was not true. my question to you all is, if you all had not been able to figure on how to stop one large from abusing their tenants who live in a rent-controlled housing or live in private housing, how are you going to start thinking or planning a new housing option for new plans? i think it is important to ensure that the group of people in this country and the city who maintain this economy, whose economy is built on -- can stay in housing is not taken out into the streets. i said, i lived in my apartment for 22 years and i am very close

to being on the streets. supervisor wiener: thank you for it much. -- very much. >> good evening, supervisors. i made tenet counselor with just cause in the mission district. -- i am a tenet counselor with just cause in the mission district. many have already been displaced out of the mission. many are struggling to stay, like maria. the majority of the work that i do is helping tenants fight eviction and ensuring they are able to keep their home. if they are evicted, the likelihood of them being able to find housing in a similar neighborhood and the same neighborhood near the price or the community resources they rely on are awfully slim as we saw from the data. san francisco is in a crate -- housing crisis and before we begin to address the housing, options of this segment of our residents to have greater access to housing, we need to ensure

that the needs of san franciscans -- needy san franciscans are house. it is important to note that the goals for developing below market rate housing has gone under managed. while under market managing has a -- housing has already -- always out strip its goals, we need to make sure our housing historically met. to continue to incentivize the conversion of rent-controlled housing into condos or other market rate housing would be incredibly irresponsible as it would result in the eviction of tenants from those units who would be not able to incur -- pay the increased market rate rents for those units. these tenants will be pushed out into a housing market with very few affordable housing options and a diminishing stack of rent- controlled units. we need to strengthen the procedures we have for more

affordable housing, develop more of it, and protect poor -- rent- controlled units instead of creating more ways around it and make sure our residents are housed. thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> thank you. i wanted to appreciate the idea, the notion that we want to pet low-income people against high- income earners. there is a lot of basic things that can be done, some principles that could be followed to make sure that does not happen. you can make sure that we continue to prioritize people who are extremely low income. as we all know, the rent burden for someone who is earning less than $1,000 a month who is paying more than 30% at having to each top ramen and having their children experience hunger

is different from someone earning $80,000. we can also ensure that they are not pitted against each other by not pushing for policies that would displace or hurt the very low income people. that would be another way that would end up pitting those populations against each other. we can make sure that no resources that would be potentially able to go toward housing, the most lowest income people are not used to subsidize people of higher income that are not facing that struggle. in the housing element process which is a plan that is developed every five years, we grappled with the same issue and there is a diverse body that works on this. different representatives that sit on that. that happens every four years. what they did is they said -- the required direct -- to not require a direct public subsidy to move forward on that housing between 120% and 150% of median

income and have a lot of ideas to have less expensive unit types that are affordable. i suggest looking at that as a way to address this issue. thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you. neck speaker. -- next speaker. >> i am a developer for berkeley. i'm going to projects in san francisco now. i would like to encourage you to address the problem of general housing supply by focusing and encouraging high-density, car- free, a small unit development in the south of market area, specifically the mid-market area. that would have benefits -- the following benefits. 40,000 students are in san francisco who are not in university affiliated housing.

they are competing in the open market. three students can always be a single family with a wage earner and yet they would be glad to live in student housing in south of market. the second benefit is high density car-free housing would put the 16,000 new workers that are coming to san francisco close to their jobs and also keep them from competing for the single-family homes and the two- and 3-bedroom apartments in the avenues and elsewhere. focusing developments in the south of market area would bring the housing closer to the jobs, improve transit, and with the inclusion very -- inclusionary would provide a storage units -- sro units. the thing about that -- a policy is it would not cost the city

and the best thing because it could be done with market refinancing and a set aside for the low-income units. it could happen right away and without any city or state funds. thank you. supervisor wiener: i will note -- i have been working on student housing legislation that is coming through the planning commission and we will be at the land use committee in a few weeks. a lot of us agree on that in terms of reducing that. the competition. i would think you for bringing out affordability by design. some of our zoning changes sometimes discourage small units and that can be a problem. in terms of car-free, a parking spot and $50,000 to the cost of a unit. thank you for raising the issue. >> i might add i build 500 units in berkeley and created 90 low- income units and became a larger landlord of low-income residents than the city of berkeley housing authority. at no cost to the city. it is possible.

thank you. supervisor mar: hold large are those units? -- how large are those units? >> between 203 hundred square feet apiece. we have lots of built-ins and lots of a fission aspects. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> i am a housing attorney. i am a member of the mtc working group. i wanted to address -- two issues which were not directly addressed by the previous presentations. i think is -- one is the question of the regional needs analysis. there has been some discussion of how it would appear from the data that san francisco has not done a very good job of producing moderate income housing relative to other low

and very little -- low-income housing. that is technically correct with respect to the regional housing needs analysis but i think it is mischaracterizing -- what the rena tells us. it does not speak to existing in that need. a lot of that testimony today graphically represents there is this tremendous amount of on that need in san francisco. the rena address is need for future growth. to address the regional needs and allocate to share that but it does not speak to on that needs in san francisco. the relative on that need - unmet needs exceeds the percentage that is reflected in the performance. the other point is the testimony -- presentation before failto