we had 200 units delivered last year. that is very, very serious. that is my opinion and my speech. thanks. >> a good afternoon, board members. i am the executive director of the housing rights agency of san francisco. i think it is a good compromise or starting point. i want to bring us back to the reason behind this all, the housing crisis we are in the and the importance of a mechanism in which we can find affordable rental housing. as we heard, we lost a very important funding mechanism and we have to replace that. this is one way to do is that we

can all come together and agree on. and we can't afford not to, but i appreciate the critical high here. i do appreciate -- let's bring the mayor's office of housing. the fair market rent was somewhere around $2,000 spirit. we wanted to thank you for coming together to craft this.

>> thank you for being here. i am a member of the american community association and a resident of the tenderloin for the past three years. i am very thankful to live in affordable housing. had it not been for affordable housing, i would not be able to live in san francisco. that is why i support the creation of the plan to ensure the war and come -- the low- income people will stay in san francisco like me. >> thank you for being here.

>> i am a mother of eight children, a single mom. i have lived in the tenderloin for the past 15 years. i am also a member of the american community. officers and members support the creation of the proposed housing fund. we believe that this kind of program would quickly of the residence and our community. without a long-term commitment, families and home less of a low income residents who are similarly situated will always be -- the members of the board of supervisors, we want the

housing trust fund to create long-term funding for affordable housing will pass and for the benefit of the community. and people who need it most. to all supervisors above and beyond, i appreciate all your support. thank you very much. >> he will be leaving copies of the technical amendments on the table over there for members of the public that would like to see it. >> a good evening, supervisors, my name is wendy phillips. we are and affordable housing provider in the mission district. i have been working on affordable housing for many years about the last 12 years. they have been involved in efforts to increase funding for affordable housing developments

for holding market rate developers accountable to provide appropriate mitigation to the community. i understand the complexity of the issue. over this time, we of them involved in a couple of efforts to try to pass local sources and have not been successful. it is important at a time when others have discussed the redevelopment funds have gone away and federal funds are decreasing, we need this local source now. and also that we pass it this year given that it will be a large turnout year. there are compromises that needs to be made -- i think that

despite these compromises, we can't afford to take advantage of this opportunity. >> we represents developers and are involved with a lot of residential development. i wanted to commend the board and the mayor for tackling this extremely sensitive political issue. i am impressed with the coalition built here today, which suggests on the progress that has been made already. sentences cannot continue to be a great city of we don't provide adequate affordable housing and

maintained by diversity. one of the things i want to emphasize is the importance of spreading the burden of the cost of affordable housing in the city. both for practical public policy reasons and for moral and fairness reasons as well. on the practical side, new residential development is a very small amount of the housing stock we have in the city. if we put all of our eggs in one basket of generating funds for new development, we are limiting yourself to a small percentage of the housing stock in the city. also, the funds based on new residential development go up and down based on development cycles and as we have seen, it has gone down significantly. he the other thing i want to mention, affordable housing has an obligation that we all have, the city as a whole.

i think with the transfer tax in particular, the housing trust fund as a good job of spreading this out among all citizens and that we all participate in generating revenue for more affordable housing. and there are also more funds available. thank you, we support this. >> i thought i saw him walk back in the room, i wanted to call the next 10 speakers. [reading names] >> i and the executive director of the neighborhood center.

wheeler and affordable housing membership organization providing linguistically and culturally appropriate programs for district 9, 10, and 11. including housing for low income seniors, a project in process that includes housing for transitional age youth. housing for developmentally disabled adults, and housing at the border of vernal heights and the mission. the housing trust fund is the only opportunity in the immediate future to have a chance to have any affordable housing financed and built. it is one of the reasons why are we have been very involved. i want to thank those that supported the creation of the housing trust fund. and on behalf of the board and committee members, i urge you to

support the housing trust fund and i look forward to working with you, the supervisors, and our colleagues in the council of organizations to move this initiative through. >> that seems like there is not that many of the next group, so i will call another list. >> i am director of housing development for community house and partnership. our executive director regrets that she had to leave before she could make her comments. the 10-year plan calls for creating 3000 new units of

supportive housing for chronically homeless people. san francisco was making great progress with the community housing partnership that created 400 units of housing, moving more than 600 people that were homeless and to support of housing that had previously been on the streets. everyone of those projects had local support in the form of land, low-cost loans coming from the mayor's office of housing for the redevelopment agency. the presentation earlier show that the city's coffers are dry. there is not more money for new projects and the pipeline of supportive housing project is running out. there are not new project that will be completed after 2014. and without new housing dollars, we can't meet our goal to handle the business. we can't move people off our streets. the housing trust fund is

critical. we appreciate that it is a consensus measure and brings a broad spectrum of interest to the table. we appreciate the work to perfect the measure. we want to make sure that the measure is going to be passed. >> this is a good amendment to the charter, but i am very skeptical here. during the original housing element in the early 2000, our city department was about 64% affordability here. this would not get us into that part right now, and i am very concerned with the on-site reduction of the affordability

hall of the end visionary housing ordinance. it is a 3% reduction, so let's really think this clearly. who is going to benefit and who is not going to benefit, and how it is going to benefit the community as a whole. if you're going to do exclusionary housing aspect, how do we have to go back to the old board of supervisors that already made an amendment like supervisor maxwell making an amendment around 2003 or 2004? this is an amendment to the amendment of an amendment. we look at who is going to win here and who is going to lose. will this get us to the 64% threshold that we are in dire need of? thank you.

>> good evening, supervisors. i and the deputy director and i am here to speak in support of this important charter amendment. as an atoms eloquently laid out for you, the charter amendment provides housing incentives for 100%. we're very much in support of creating housing at all income levels. we're supportive of creating a permanent source of funding at a very significant level. one plan -- or $1.2 billion is very good. especially in regard to the fact that redevelopment funding has gone away. we are also supportive of the 20 cents -- 20% reduction that we think will help stimulate the production of units.

and one of the things that we talked about, how do we get more of the market rate units on site? finally, we are supportive of stabilizing affordable housing fees, and i want to give a little bit of background of one of the amendments that was put forward, the amendment that reduce the threshold from 2/3 two -- [unintelligible] when we were talking about the area plants, we had a hard time coming up with the definition of substantial zoning that would work for all parties. as a concession to those that really didn't want that the definition put in the charter, we agreed to have that be done as part of the legislative process. the idea of a high and out west

to find ways to insure -- thank you. >> we have your letter. >> can you please finish your explanation of why the 2/3 threshold was placed into the term sheet? >> just to continue what i was saying previously, the issue was that we were looking for a definition of substantial zoning that would apply to area plans. but we could not come to an agreement on what that definition would be. those of us made a suggestion that perhaps instead of having that be in the charter and having it be a contentious item , instead we would allow that to be put forward a car of a

legislative package so it would not live in the charter had it would be something that the parties could be able to provide input into. that was the purpose for taking it out of the charter originally. i wanted to make it clear, it was something that was negotiated before. >> i am going to call the next 10 cards. >> good afternoon, supervisors. >> sorry, i really can't read this. i am going to make a guess. gotten good afternoon, supervisors. i wanted to express our strong

support for the housing trust fund, and in particular, can't say enough good things about the role of the mayor's office in the city staff. but they did the city proud. in an era of dwindling funding, the trust fund promises to lock in the bare minimum that we required to address our housing challenges in an extremely high-cost housi market, and it is inconceivable we will get to where we need to go without vastly increasing our cities production of housing. it is not possible we can underproduce a house and our city needs and not suffer the predictable consequences. the trust fund makes some modest changes that will turn it around and point us in the direction we need to go. no one is going to say it is the answer to all of our prayers. but it is a necessary first step. no one got everything they

wanted, but there was a lot of compromise made. it was an intensive process and completely transparent. the city's remarkable staff made sure that that happened. we should not think it is now possible to make significant changes to its that were part of the stakeholders agreement. personally, i am tired of losing housing initiatives at the ballot. we really need to pass this. that dramatic chart that you saw is pretty stark. if we're going to succeed, it is going to take a broad coalition. we should not assume is just the people in this room that can pass it. finally, on the companion legislation, it should be based on the term sheet and provide certainty in done pretty quickly. that is going to be a large part in getting the acceptance out there.

not everyone, i work as a community organizer. we are a housing organization working with extremely low individuals. also have some working families and i wanted to talk about a couple of the residence that came out with me to meet the supervisors this morning. most of the concerns we have heard as we were talking to residents, why do we need it and why are we asking this? a lot of the questions and concerns were for extremely low income folks that used to be homeless and now they have housing that we provide and that this money and would allow for non-profit organizations to house people that used to be out on the streets, that this will provide them a home. i am thankful that we are asking

questions, and i think that all these questions are really important. i also just want to say that we don't want to disappoint the ones that have the most at stake, the people that used to be homeless that are really struggling. please support the trust fund, we feel like working with the organization, we feel good that this is something that will have brought enough support to give something to the ones that need it most. >> good evening, supervisors. i am a land-use attorney and i work for a number of housing developers. we have a project at sunnyvale. those projects needed the trust fund to past to be able to move forward in the next 20 years.

you have seen the dire need for this affordable housing funding and i think it is the best way to get there. i wanted to talk a bit about a number of my clients that our market rate developers that go out and raise money for their projects. the ordinance will set in 2006. it was the height of the seven prime mortgage time when prices were going up quickly and you could pencil anything, basically. those days are over, and hopefully, they will never come back. it allowed people to perform any thing. we said the inclusion area housing percentages at the time where anything was canceled. that has stopped. with a couple hundred units, this year will be even less.

i think that is why the grandfathering provision is important. people that got entitled in 2005, 2006 or 2007 not want to build them. they don't have a choice. they can't get these projects financed. this was a resource the city had for the tidal project that if there was a chance they could be financed, 12% of the a couple thousand units as a whole lot more than 15%. we have to look at it. it gives us a chance for a tow% of those years to be built as opposed to not of them. >> thank you for being here. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm steve wu, representing tenderloin development

coalition. if we are here today to support the housing trust fund. in support of the hard work the mayor's office has put into the housing trust fund. to tell you a little bit about what we do, we are an organization that has been developing affordable housing for over 30 years. we own and operate 30 properties around san francisco. housing mostly residents who make 30% of the median income and below. the lowest in come of residents. they serve the population, the underserved population in the

80%-120% bracket. that is a lot we have done for the city over 30 years and we hope we can continue doing this. right now, there has never been a harder time. we can serve the city of san francisco as we have over three decades. to give an example of the cost of our community on the housing crisis, we have been trying to develop a grocery store for five years now. the tenderloin has no grocery store. the community has really pushed to see a housing project there and a grocery store. we don't just to develop housing, but we develop affordable commercial space. we hope to continue doing this.

>> i am a community organizer. affordable housing, it should be a priority concern. it is one of the largest issues here in the city. we need to take that into account and put that at the forefront of all issues and concerns facing san francisco. a lot of families have been pushed out because they can no longer afford to live here. it is also one of the most expensive places to live in the world. this is amazing city to live in, and we have to make sure that is available for everyone. they are steadily being forced into the southeast section of

the city where it is the only place affordable. there is high concentrations of affordable housing that we need to make sure we spread that out and make sure that people have a safe place to live throughout san francisco and available for all people to live here. we have to make sure that we have money set aside because he market rates will be taken care of. this is a lot of money behind that. if the money is not that there, it is not going happen. >> hello, supervisors. i am here representing senior action network. that is an organization i am sure you are familiar with. we represent seniors and disabled communities.

the folks that need housing that i am most connected with our seniors. unless the folks have the miracle -- or fall to pay market rates, there is no housing available. people get on those lists and they are on them for many years. i really haven't had any exposure to you before, so i have been very pleasantly surprised at the questions you have ask all afternoon. higher appreciate your thoughtfulness. i agree that this measure is a start and not a solution. one of my concerns is that if it is passed, people will say that you have the money for low- income housing and it may be really difficult. but there is nothing there and out and we have to make that start.

i wanted to say that i really do share the concern of the first responders not living in the city. if there is something to bring more of them back into town, will be very happy. >> i am going to call the rest of the cards that i have here. [reading names] if i have not call your name, please let up. >> i am here with the council of community housing organizations. thank you for hearing this item. this has been a very long road and a tough road to bring. to bring a package that we can all agree on. it is no small task to create something that will in