looking at a way to stay in the city that their labor helped to build. i would encourage all of us, we have enough smarts and creativity to deal with. i would encourage everybody to start to move away from the idea of affordable housing as simply a ruse for the people who are lucky to come up on the waiting list. front and center of the city's economic development strategy. this is clearly a grass-roots economic development strategy of putting people back to work from the construction trades all the way down to white-collar work. things that the affordable housing canada does not have to -- community does not have too. >> thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for your time this afternoon. i am so glad that the supervisor commission this performance audits. it is a relief to have real numbers, real data to refer to when we are having these conversations. the additional work that most put in, i think we're starting to get a fuller picture of what we are talking about. we know what our goals are. when i read the audit, a few things popped out at me. the first thing is that the disillusionment of the lead development agency -- the redevelopment agency is a crisis for the city. the works for the folks coming together for the housing trust fund, it is daunting.

it is always difficult to get things like this through, additional funding sources are needed. in order for affordable housing to continue to be built, we have to look at money resources and land resources and policy resources. it is also critical that the city targets the limited funds that it does have to the most dire and means. the data so clearly show that it is madeline come -- it is moderate and low income goals that are being not mad and our markets -- not mets and the market goals are being far exceeded. local sources of funding are being leveraged with other types of investments. we get the most bang for the buck. we have to look at other measures that reenforce -- a

foreclosure prevention, downpayment assistance, and other methods. supervisor kim: thank you. >> i know you developed and affordable housing project. some of the other speakers, in referring to big developments not contributing to affordable housing, but our exclusionary housing program in the city has four ways on how development can contribute. paying 15% for building the units on site or building 20% within a 1 mile radius. i am wondering how you think that their inclusion in housing policy, some cullis -- some called it the strongest among the states, how could we improve that?

>> san francisco looks at the program in two ways. it has been a source of housing funds for low-income and very low income affordable housing. that is hard for developers and nonprofit developers and the community that is trying to serve a very low-income housing needs to forgo. on the other hand, the bmr inclusion mary on-site units -- conclusion ainclusionary jens ae way this should -- are the way the city should be addressing the needs. it is a little bit different for the rental side. some of that is governed by the

markets. the market is favoring rental production. when they go back to foresail production, they are getting those moderate income targeted unions that we do not achieve in any other way. there is a lot of discussion around the inclusion their program right now. aspects of it will be talked about the the housing trust fund as well. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am very thankful that we have had a couple of months now of really good discussion about this important topic for the future of san francisco. as the diversity -- it highlights the fact that we do

have a good set amount of tools that we can use. to build affordable housing. we have done it well. we do not do nearly enough, we need to do more. now we also have this realization that we have lost a great amount of money that needs to be replaced somehow. that money has to be focused on building affordable housing for the most a vulnerable populations in the city. those are the ones hardest hit by economic recession. i have messages for all of you. i will distribute these to you. they are from seniors and youth. they cannot be here because they have to work and they have to go to school. we need to build more affordable senior housing. i have lived in san francisco for 50 years and the only reason i can afford to live here is that my daughter lives with me. i only get $1,200 a month and i

have to pay for food and medicine and rent. the other person says, we all know that their rents in san francisco are astronomical. how can persons without and comes -- incomes be able to pay rents over $1,000? fixed income limits -- these are just two and a narrative from people that are struggling to stay in san francisco. they desperately need your leadership. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, supervisors.

i do not have any room to move around, but i guess it is better than nothing. no rats and roaches. if you guys are going to make these new low-income housing, we should get them first. some of the homeless as well. it will go to people who have money, which is the rich. i keep a trio. -- it real. i do not like to talk around this microphone. that is why i state in occupy. tax the rich. supervisor kim: thank you.

>> i just wanted to thank you for getting together this audit. the date is really important for us to have. it is pretty obvious that the needs are not being matcheet. we produce a new construction projects as well as we open our waiting list for the existing properties we have in our portfolio. we are always oversubscribed in terms of obligations towards apartments. the need is very clear to us, but it is good to see that is getting out there to broader audiences. i want to thank you for that. the mayor's office has done a lot of great work as well. putting together the pipeline. it is frightening to see that there will be no more funding for some really needed production. the affordable housing is being

produced at a lesser rate than it needs to be. the market rate housing was exceeding its needs. it was being produced at 150% of the stated needs. pretty obvious where the money needs to go. thank you for your time. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is richard made. thank you for letting me speak. a couple of people before me talked about there being a poster child for what was wrong with housing and someone spoke about the way the in comes armed. -- incomes are. i am a poster child for a exactly why affordable housing is a positive thing in this city.

i am not physically disabled. i am not mentally disabled. i am not a senior. i am poor. i live on less than $12,000 a year. i am a vibrant part of my community. many people here will tell you that i have helped them. i will continue to help them. i need to say that i have an affordable place to live. if i did not have that place, i would not be able to help my community. i am a positive contributor to this community. i deserve a place to live that i can afford. i want you to do everything in your power to make sure that people like me are able to live in this city. i make san francisco a better place to live. let me tell you that i am not declined to name a name, but there is a former mayor that was famously quoted saying that san francisco was not a place for

poor people. thank you. [applause] supervisor kim: i am going to call up 10 more names. i do have 20 speaker cards left. [reading names] >> no job stability, high turnover in the job market.

with the housing bubble, the san francisco housing market may have gone down. there is a huge disparity taking place in san francisco. california will only be a state for the wealthy to live. this bill has nothing to do with education, working-class, doctrine. you either have or you do not. the working class and families are being totally erased from san francisco. san francisco has changed and lost its diversity. artists have a hard time living here. i feel that you are there are wealthy and can live here comfortably or are struggling

trying to hang onto what you have. i hope that you'll make more housing opportunities for the good citizens, families, and the disabled that make less than $100,000 a year. my hope is that san francisco can remain a city where families and real people can continue to live and find opportunities. i hope to see more opportunities for home ownership extended to the same demographics of that we can break the cycle of poverty. everyone deserves the right to a home. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> linda chapman. all around the time that rent control pastsed, we manage to gt control of a lot of it. the conversion of the

residential hotels. one that we did not succeed is coming out before you under the 30-day rule. that was converting apartments to the executive suite, short- term rentals. i got back -- i got that passed with an advisory committee. somebody later made some improvements to try to give it some enforcement mechanism, but it was not done effectively. it needs to be done at the the way that the art academy is being treated. i would like to, during the time we have this, to get that fixed as well. ok. the most affordable housing that

we have is the housing that exists right now. all those residential units that have been converted to commercial units, may be that made sense when there was a surplus of housing. it does not anymore. we need to rezone some of those residential commercial districts, it makes them -- return them to residential housing. there are zero buildings which for once -- there are whole buildings which were once apartments. i am sending you a letter. what we need to do is do all that and the funding for a number of reasons. i will not have time to answer the question that you raised earlier. >> thank you. >> i think we have heard too big

problems today. one is the loss of 40 to $60 million of money. the conversions of both apartments and sro's to non residential use. there is a big uptick in the conversion of apartments. i only have four copies of this. golden gate apartments has lost over 100 units. there is also a surge in the conversion of apartments to student housing. i want to thank supervisor wiener. many of us have been asking about this for five or more years. thank you for that. there is a big uptick in the conversion of single room occupancy hotel rooms. i want to hand in a report that shows that over 1000 units are

at risk right now because of an upsurge in the rental on the internet. would be helpful to you -- what would be helpful is something we have been talking about for a while. a housing dashboard. it would have the housing being built that year. i just use these numbers as illustrative. it would break them into a market rate, affordable. look at the conversions. you could end up with a much lower number. also put the pipeline in there that shows what we know and the planning department is talking about that is approved. if you get a mix of units and how many of them will be affordable, market rate, and audits. it is affordable,

[unintelligible] >> let me ask you, from the report, where you briefly at the former housing director for the city. dodge the report brings up some very important things and i think, for the first time, many of us have been saying these things for years. finally we have legislation to deal with the student housing conversion. when you are making a quarter of $1 billion a year for profit and you can renovate them for cash, when that money grows, they will buy more. we need a law that says they can't keep cannibalizing the housing stock. we are for middle-class residents. i think supervisor chiu is

talkinga bout limiting rentals -- talking about limiting rentals to corporate executive suites. not everybody, but a certain number of organizations that we have came along with the city and forced the ordinance. the big problem that you all have heard about for many weeks now is the housing trust fund. just to get us back to where we were, we need $60 million a year to get an even bigger start. in terms of what has been approved in the last year or so, where are we really falling behind? it not only helps you decide to vote for or against a project, there is an alarm for you, an

early warning for policies. and we have 20% of the housing in the city available, and 80% that is market rate housing. you have a chance to make adjustments. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am on the board of directors of the coalition for homelessness. when we talk about affordable housing, the first priority should go to folks that don't have housing. i am talking about the 6000 homeless folks, the people on fixed incomes that are talking about a working-class, teachers, and first responders. these are the members of the community that we should be responsible to take care of and focusing on. there are people that are

guaranteed housing in this city, and the city has settled on shelter bed as a solution. if one is lucky, you get move into something that is not permanent housing and you get stuck there like i did for four years. i have to take a roommate to be able to afford my rent and afford food. of those luxuries', the low- income and not have. -- do not have. most people don't have their own bathrooms. there are families that lived with small children that are not meeting their growth and development milestones. if you are expected to live in a single room occupancy, this is unacceptable and grossly inhumane. homeless thus is not going to disappear until we make providing this population's housing a priority.

it means creating permanent a low-income housing. the overflow goes to the general fund. the vacant building in its alone, let's all homeless as and give those -- let's solve homelessness. focus on giving people jobs and education so they can return this great city to what it once was. [chime] i challenge supervisor wiener living a week in an sro. >> i'm tommy, and every day, i see that people are desperate. they are scared to death that they will lose the place they have, and even if they are paying 60% of their income on rent. even if it is a small room in a

basement without heat, windows, or good circulation. it is better than the alternative of living on the streets. a whole family can be living in one of those rooms. babies were continually bitten by bedbugs, every night. or roaches crawling in their mouths at night when they got into their beds. how do you explain that to a child? how do you explain why they have to live in squalor? the city has lost its moral compass. many of these poor and working- class folks are signed up on waiting lists. they wait patiently from year to year, hopeful that their number will be called and they will be one of the lucky ones who actually get a unit. some die before they ever get called. they find themselves at another dreadful place, caught in a vicious cycle of poverty that

can't and because the rent is immorally high and still going up in more and more market rate units that have over 10,000 homeless over 2000 homeless kids in the school system and a section a waiting list that exceeds 30,000 applicants. it is unconscionable that we haven't made affordable housing for the poor and working-class our number one priority. no more market rate housing. the child in the room with his family that needs to see that the moral compass points in the right direction. thank you. >> supervisors, thank you for commissioning the audits. i was really impressed with the results and seeing the things you can build on.

i am fortunate to be a long time homeowner in san francisco. we need to look at more secured funding sources for affordable housing. we need to look good those that have a little better means. even those that have a lot better means as possible for the mechanisms. please also look specifically at the legislation that was changed collect payments be made later in the process and move that back. it has actually worked against the goals of producing housing. i also think that the housing fees are too low. when we think about new developments that are going to bring and thousands of workers that will be looking for housing and struggling against the people that already live here, we have got to think about more new construction.

i know that one development in the upper market area is going to be charging 4500 the month for a 2-bedroom apartment. those residents are certainly of a better means and can help out the city in different ways. service workers, teachers, everyone at work here should be able to live here. >> i am a graduating senior at the university of san francisco as well as an intern. as a student with almost a non- existent salary, renting a bedroom with four others, we have had to venture to look for alternatives to live comfortably. whether this means locking out for affordable means that the local chinese supermarket, i have grown to love these bases

that offer the low-income residents the ability to find affordable alternatives. this lifestyle is sustained by the fact that we have affordable housing in the city. should it continue on the same trend with the city not meeting the goals for all income levels, the diversity of people and services that allow the culture to sustain itself will be at risk of displacement. an effective and reasonable first step would be to monitor project proposals. i support the creation of a real time housing to be placed on every project proposal so that the planning department, planning commission, and the board of supervisors understand the implication of each project and if it continues to meet the needs by the house in general plan. the trust fund be used for the construction of affordable housing. the city's low and extremely low-income residents.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i am an intern at south of market at the community action at work. i would like to speak on behalf of one of our fellow family members that is also a member of the program. he lives with his father-in-law and a 1-bedroom apartment with two daughters and a wife. it is very difficult for them to find a low-income affordable housing because we cannot afford to rent an apartment. that is why the people of low- income need affordable housing. i would like to say there are a lot of immigrants here in san francisco. we love the city. there is a lot of transition happening, and the way it works here is different from where we came from.