tv [untitled] April 9, 2012 9:30pm-10:00pm PDT
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the state we hope to use low- income homeowners rehabilitate their homes like low income seniors. the inclusion reprogram -- the inclusionary program is one of the strongest in the state. we're very proud of it. there are four options for meeting the requirements. first is the paying of the fee based on 20% of the total number of units in the project. the other option is to build a 50% of the units on site in the market rate development. you can see the different ami's required weather in the ownership or rental. building of the low rate market units within a 1 mile radius of the primary project or off site unit, an allowance of dedicating
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land so that we can use it for affordable housing development. that is limited to certain neighborhoods and zoned areas. home prices have to be set at affordable levels for qualifying households. in 2011, a three-person household earning $80,000 would pay about two under $55,000 -- about $255,000 for a unit. this is a project under development. this is 1200 ocean avenue by city college.
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all housing units are on site. to show an example, a 1-bedroom is $158. it shows the income ranges were the households would be served. there is also rental information. this project will have a whole foods market on the ground floor and be right across the street from an affordable housing development we are funding. in terms of accomplishments, this shows the housing production from 2002 to 2011. we built over 10,000 units up to 120% of ami. a majority of units were targeted to less than 50%
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because of funding sources we used. since the inception of the mayor's office of housing, we have helped finance over 18,000 units. nearly 10% of all stock within san francisco and over 3500 units were built in the last five years alone. to show the diversity of where we build, we may concentrate development in particular neighborhoods. we have a range of unit sizes up to five bedrooms. we have large developments. we do develop in all neighborhoods. we have small projects in the sun set, treasure island. there is income diversity within certain developments we help support. to illustrate the number of
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bedrooms we helped to found, over 70% of the units to bedrooms or larger our family unit. there may be concerned only fund single units. there may have been a point that the fund only did studio units, but all funding -- at least 7% has been four family units two bedrooms or larger. this illustrates the incomes that will qualify for redevelopment. the majority are at 60% or below. a small percentage do target 80%. to address the concern about targeting only supportive housing, we have a 3000-unit
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gold on the plan to abolish homelessness. 2900 of those units have been identified and are in the process or have been completed. with one other development, we will meet our goal. one of the great accomplishments we are proud of is hope sf. there are four major developments. one is under construction. we have secured $30 million of non-local dollars for the second sight -- site. accomplishments for the home ownership program, it illustrates the number of households served. we have help homeowners purchase homes. we have helped over 3000 families purchase homes in san francisco. the inclusionary housing program, over 300 units for
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rental. we have collected $40 million in affordable housing fees. we have other units in the pipeline. the home ownership programs in the redevelopment areas have produced over 1000 units. a very important thing we wanted to talk about is funding. one of the highlights is the funding sources we have used. it is no small tax -- task. taxes have helped a lot. one thing we also wanted to highlight is that the mayor's office of housing does administer the federal funds. we take that into account in the local funding sources projections.
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that accounts for about 21% of the local financing sources. to illustrate the federal resources and projections, there is a downward curve projected starting in 2012. the whole program has been our largest funding source to fund new construction and rehabilitation. we experienced a 48% cut this year. that is one of the major downward trends. we also take into account the tax increment. in 2012, it drops off with the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. since 2007, it has been a continuing downward trend in terms of local resources for
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housing from 2009 through 2012. to highlight deleveraging, local sources -- to highlight deleveraging, local sources, that includes federal sources. minister, tax increment, affordable housing bond, general fund the board of supervisors has administered, hotel tax. we have leveraged almost $1 billion with the local resources. that is not a small task given the amount of funding we have contributed. in terms of the pipeline in the future, we predict about 730 units to be completed by the end of this year. these are broken down into family units, a senior units, and supportive housing units.
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those are the target populations we serve. with in 2013, another almost 500 units will be completed. by 2014, over 5000. in 2015, some projects have yet to be entitled. we're only projecting 500. that number will likely increase. after 2015, when we take into account housing parcells the mayor's office has taken over, we will be developing almost 9000 within the foreseeable future of affordable housing units. related to rhna, you can see the units completed and the pipeline. it says about 9800. we have about 1900 units that
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have committed funding. another 3400 have un committed funds. we do have funding sources identified. i will turn it back to olson for the conclusion. >> in conclusion, we agree with a budget analyst's report on reporting, tracking, the exclusionary program, as well as funding. i would like to leave the supervisors with one last conclusion. we have had a very robust affordable housing program. i think the slides have shown the importance of the redevelopment tax increment towards that robust program. clearly we need to look at ways
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of replacing that. this is in part why the mayor talked about a housing trust fund as a way of trying to offset not only the loss of federal money and cuts but the uncertainty as it surrounds the redevelopment funding overall. the oversight board is going to be submitting the payment schedo the department of finance this week. we will get a review of that by the department of finance, and that may improve or actually may make the situation even more difficult, since the state has really gone after redevelopment funds and redevelopment programs and has not let the affordable housing component of redevelopment benefit at all in any way during this dissolution,
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so we will await the outcome of that to see whether, what the situation will be for the future, but, clearly, historically, we have depended allot on redevelopment. thank you. and i and the rest of my staff are available to answer any questions. supervisor chu: we are very lucky to have such a very active office that is dedicated to building affordable housing in san francisco. and i do want to thank my colleagues for being patient by not asking their questions yet, and i do know we have a lot of questions for the mayor's office on housing, so stick around, and we wanted to get to public comment, and i have about 50 cards, and i have not picked up the next staff yet. you have to the limits for public comment, and i will call
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the first 10 names that have on a card, so if you can come and lined up, and i know that two minutes is not a long time. i apologize for the amount of time that we are giving, but i do want to thank you for your patience and for being here today, and first, i want to bring up keep camp. i apologize if i can read your card very well. jack, bruce, patti, -- conti, angelina, rose, jason fraser, henry webb, and steve wu. >> thank you, supervisors. my name is keith kemp. i lived in san francisco.
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free my people, free my people, free my people. those who would abuse the brothers and sisters. they will never be allowed to feel brave and secure until people step up. what can affordable housing do for you and i, you asked, when you are being lobbied to say no to the sacred trust? this city is named after the best st. i know, st. francis. the laughter of children will be hurt more often. what happens to a world-class city when they do not build for these? in washington, d.c., and in sacramento, california, they have told the city and county of san francisco that you are on your own when it comes to people living in safe and affordable housing.
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we show the world what justice for all looks like. in san francisco. when you vote yes for this, i hope you will no longer see me sleeping in your doorway, because i will be in my home, returning to the work force with my retraining and a work ethic that never dry -- dies. if you say no to my humble request for affordable housing, you will not see -- can i have 30 seconds? then perhaps you will not see me sleeping in your store doorways because i froze to death in the cold sea air. he knows? 11 protectors' know. thank you for your time. goodbye. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jackie. first of all, i want to thank supervisor kim for allowing
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public, to go forward. i am jackie. i just turned 65 on march 27, which means i have managed to live long enough to attain a goddess standard. i always knew that, but now muni knows it. it took me from 1999 when i was first accepted into the care to get placed there, and 2005, probably because mayor newsom wanted to shut me up. they were tired of me coming in giving my weekly shelter help report to the board of supervisors. it pays to be mouthy, it really does. i am a disabled person and and now a senior person, in one of
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my concerns as a baby boomer that does not know how to bloom, there are many baby boomers who do not know how to boom. we have to also have housing for disabled people. i do not know -- i found myself writing on muni a lot more of the things i do not even want to talk about, like spending money in hotels, but as a single person, i was only allowed to have a studio apartment. i could not have a 1-bedroom apartment even though my walker takes up as much space as a person, the same as a person in a wheelchair. i want to thank you again, and now i am going to go to the back and each my sandwich. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you,
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kimbryson. >> i am one of the people that spends 75% of my income for housing. i live on $300 a luxury. pg&e, other utilities, and food. there are many people like us, and also, there are people, and i work with a group that look for ways of housing the poor, like we did at the occupy commune. there were people willing to get arrested to get a bed, and the
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census says there are thousands of the can units. there ought to be a way to find some money to put into the housing fund. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. allison. >> i came here, in me and my ex- husband work hard, but due to divorce and economic crisis, i have lost housing, and in 2010, i lost my business in san francisco and a condominium. everything in my storage i lost, including all of my children's baby pictures. i had nowhere to go. i also lost my health insurance with kaiser. with the help of the community
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doctor for healthy san francisco who encouraged me to live, i went into the home mish smelter -- the polish -- the homeless shelter. i am grateful that i have a place tuesday, but my daughter is going to an art school in san francisco. she is still homeless and has been for 10 months. even that this is real small, it is a safe place for me. i am grateful, and i can sleep at night, and the people and the staff there are nice. many people have it worse than i do. i hope they can find a peaceful place to stay like i have said they can go on their new life. people have a stereotype of homelessness, but lots of them become homeless for different reasons. maybe they cannot find a job. i never thought i would be one,
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but now, i think the city needs to help these people. i ask you, supervisors, to help us. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, ms. canti. >> hello, supervisors. my name is -- and i work as a community organizer with a corporation. for a number of people that work a lot of part-time and odd jobs to make ends meet, i know how hard it is an difficult it is. especially the poor folks. they pay the most out of their paychecks for rent, and consider what would happen if there were no apartments kept affordable for them. they would all have to leave san francisco and live in oakland, richmond, and they would be kicked out. affordable housing keep san
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franciscans and san francisco, and these are the people who bust your tables, all your trash. these are the people who make san francisco what is. we need the funding to keep more affordable housing, and i ask you, supervisors, to do a better job with housing, whether there is a market rate housing that these people cannot afford, what can be built. i support you for affordable housing in the tenants' rights. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, ms. lee. >> oh, my name is henry. i have been in san francisco since 1971. i want to talk about people who live on fixed incomes, people who do not have much to pay for rent. i came out here in 1971 and lived with my mother.
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1995. then i got employed and then got laid off. in november 2007, i got hired, and they helped make. i have seen a whole lot of improvement in my life, and those who have had nowhere to go. we need more affordable housing for the homeless. i see more homeless people sleeping on the streets at night. the supervisors do not know what is going on out there. what they need to do is come out and take a look at themselves and see what the situation is. we need to set aside things to help the homeless to afford rent. you need to step up. i ask you to support housing for the people who need it most. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. webb.
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>> hello, supervisors. hello, my name is jason frazer. i have lived in san francisco for 30 years. before, i have been to new york, hawaii, europe, and i liked san francisco so much that i moved back to live here. i have lived in the tenderloin for about one year. i like it. in 1996, i was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and got on social security. my income is fixed, which makes paying rent on my income but not the market rate difficult. i pay about 65% of my income to rent. it leaves less than $300 per month for food and everything else. because i live in one type of building, the benefits are really good for me, but if it were not for affordable housing,
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i would not be able to live in san francisco at all. what is great about the city is that it has places for people like me, but i am worried that san francisco is becoming so expensive that people like me are being kicked out. so affordable housing should be one of the city's ultimate goals, to allow divorced people to live here and have a reasonable means to enjoy life. i ask the supervisors to adopt better policies for what kind of housing is being built in plant so that it is just not for the super wealthy and takes away from san francisco because san francisco is about people like me, and that is what makes it a great place.
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thank you. supervisor: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> my name is steve wu, and i am here with brothers and sisters from housing organizations and also here with our sister agency, the community housing partnership. we are here with our residents to tell you about the human cost of the affordability of san francisco. if you come down to our neighborhood, you can witness every day people sleeping on the streets or sleeping in overcrowded situations, six, seven people to a studio or an sro, and it is an ongoing cost on the human lives in our neighborhood and other residents of san francisco. at the same time, we are faced with all the information provided in front of you today by city staff, but projects like 8 washington, which are
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accessible to multimillionaires and only the wealthiest of san francisco, and so we have a problem which really needs to be addressed, which is the out of control development of market rate housing, which becomes more and more expensive, and the lack of production of affordable housing, and so we know that there is a proposal in front of you and in front of the city about better monitoring of the housing element, better monitoring of the city's production of how affordable versus market rate housing, and we support that proposal for better monitoring, but we need additional steps, additional actions to take beyond monitoring the production, beyond monitoring the developments, but what are we going to do to ensure that enough of the affordable housing is created in out of control market redevelopment, that it is mitigated of this so that the cost of the and affordability of
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san francisco is addressed adequately, some think you for your time. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. wu. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, supervisors. hello. my name is gloria. i am lived here since 1989. about 25 years in san francisco. i am in the tenderloin, and it is a one-but apartment, and i share it to help pay the rent. we only depend on our social security. that is all of our income. if they say it is an affordable units, then it should be lower rent, but we pay one-third of
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our income from social security, which is still kind of expensive. affordable housing is important to me because of low rent, and we can save some money for our food and clothes. i think you can make some improvements for affordable housing for low-income people. we must think about a lower rent for seniors and lower income people that cannot afford housing. i ask you, supervisors, to support us and find a way for more housing for people like me as opposed to continuing to build expensive housing. thank you. supervisor
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