get transportation, they want to come live here now because they have put so much green gas out in those 9 big counties they are coming here and it's time for you to join the community housing partnership and find out why people's apartments are being taken. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you very much for having this hearing. i was born and raised in the mission and we survived the dot com and i thought the dot com was bad, that was nothing. i mean you talk about, people have talked about a crisis, you have to treat it as a crisis and the way you treat it as a crisis is you have a state of emergency and san francisco needs to declare that. we have enough supervisors who are very intelligent that could declare an emergency, you got a mayor who today said he's signing on to get on board, so let's declare a state of emergency. you know when we started our

mission no eviction two months ago, we have organized over 3,000 people already who have come out of everywhere and i was shocked. i thought it was the mission again under attack by these people moving in. growing up in the mission, nobody wanted to live in the mission. but now everybody wants to live in the mission and now i'm finding out that it's not only happening in the mission, being here today and seeing seniors, white people, gay people, african people, asian people, and you talk about people from all over the city. that's we have a crisis, it's not only in the mission, it's the whole city. and you look at, we got 37 cranes up right now in downtown san francisco and if you look at the new cranes that will go up next year, why is it all this development is going on and why are we not having housing

that's affordable for people who make under $40,000 a year being built? in the mission right now i ask you to investigate, we have 5 sites that the city could build immediately affordable housing and i'm sure if you go to every other neighborhood and do an inventory of possible sites that affordable housing could be built immediately, let's get it done. gracias. >> thank you very much. are there any other member of the public who would like to speak in seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i don't know if you want it add anything to what has been said but the one thing that i want to note is that what's remarkable about this hearing, and i'm trying to find, trying to find the positive, is the fact that we have had a pretty diverse and

united group of people from all parts of the city, all neighborhoods, who have come together to talk about the need to act quickly and to act in unity and i think if there's a silver lining to this crisis, to this epidemic, is the fact that it is bringing people together. the beauty of what i have seen in the last few weeks is that as we have gone to events, demonstrations, marches, you have people from chinatown, people from the mission, people from knob hill, people from you name it, going to different neighborhoods saying what happens in one neighborhood impacts me. and there is a poet who said that individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean. and i think that

this ocean of unity, this ocean of people, is going to make sure that we remain a city that works for everyone. so i want to thank all of you, i want to especially thank the people who had the courage to come out it this hearing and share their own individual stories. it's not easy to do that. it was heart-breaking, it was very moving and the fact that people are themselves going through a very tough time and yet they are coming here not just because of their own experience but because they want to do the right thing for other people and help other people, that's san francisco at its best. and i think that san francisco has the ability to change the course of what's happening and i know that this is only the beginning and with that i will ask my colleagues that we continue this hearing to the

call of the chair so that we can come back to this issue to see what progress has been made at the local and at the state level and i think that the idea that sarah short noted of all hands on deck, that's what needs to happen. we have to have all hands on deck to change what's happening here. with that, if we can have a motion. so we have a motion by supervisor mar. again i want to thank everyone who came out, thank the budget and legislative analyst, i especially want to thank hillary ronan in my office who has spent many hours putting this together so the hearing is continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee. >> there are no other items before the chair. >> thank you very much, this meeting is adjourned. (meeting adjourned

>> (clapping) all right. thank you erica and thank for the great work. leader pelosi and mayor ed lee thank you for your attention. welcome to yelp. i'm excited to have you here at our new headquarters.

as you know yelp has lived within the same radius. we've moved a short distance away and to keep our headquarters in san francisco was a conscious one. san francisco was a key player in the yemz story. we realized that yelp might work in cities around the world with yelp in 23 criteria's we need a little bit more desk space. yelp has 17 hundred employees 8 hundred in sf. we're committed to growing the local economy and maintaining a strong connection to our san francisco lines. when looking for a new

headquarters it was location, location, location. we needed somewhere to provide easy access to lots of local businesses and restaurants and remain convenient for mass transit riders and bike riders a lot of our employees ride bikes. combrem is pack at about local plays and celebrate the distinct active and unique. we want to have this into a more than workplace. talking of resident at the 130 montgomery is an important milestone. we'll celebrate our tenth

anniversary next year. i'm privileged to introduce yelp leader our 2kwishd nancy pelosi (clapping.) and what on a honor to be your representative in congress. thank you jeremy. your leadership and your sense of community and for staying in san francisco. i'm honored to join you and your colleagues especially our mayor who has a relationship with this part of the whole city, of course, but this was his baby and he's done a remarkable job. when we cut relishes at another

that i have i tip my hat to president obama for helping to make business grow in this part of town. it's great to see you again jeremy. he brought some of the enthusiasm to washington for yelpless recently. and erica congratulations on our work here. lisa and matt congratulations on our awards how wonderful. but it's a principle for me to be here as your representative in congress to the new headquarters but a building of great tradition and that's in our city. this whole faith is built on technology and really save in

community because community is what yelp is all about. yelps success is living proof that american business doesn't want just service a small community but this whole community. from the beginning this torrid company acknowledged that this can be a good model of bits. and certainly there's no befrt place to test this model but in san francisco. consider where we are today 140 new montgomery street stand for innovation. the first sky skrarpt to be in san francisco. it was then the pacific

telephone company. i've been using caving stone as means of communication but that was the innovation of the day. that was here in 1929 that, sir winston churchill made a telephone call for his 21st wedding anniversary he said why say the age of migraines it past it's just the beginning to today, we mark a new beginning it's called the monument for talk it's called yelp. today, we have the opportunity to celebrate the now global company community community community how many communities

jeremy. while millions of companies understand how yelp can help to change minds fewer know how dedicated this is to helping nonprofits doing the same they're committed to helping leader to find czar grant award and a having champions within the company to open the doors of opportunities pr i congratulate you it's a small amount of money to help incurs who are striving to build better community. 826 val say thank you for helping children to learn more

skills. and that's what communication is all about. and the initiative to expand their business. it's all connected to communication and empowerment. i take it something is going to happen with bell, pack bell jeremy said they have their yellow pages and we have yelp. we affirm our deaths for the economic engine it drives the american dream so thank you yelp for your leadership this tliefrz on the power of community. thank you for your imperial

spirit and a your commitment to the community. thank you congratulations to yelp (clapping.) don't use it as a model but (laughter) you really this is such a passion for the mayor. and i know what this means to many this building yelp coming here for him everyday strives to make san francisco the engine of economic growth of community respect of giving opportunity to so many people. i know this is a special program and he wanted to decade yelp to the san francisco community >> thank you

(clapping.) well, that's kind of neat to have it yielded by the leader. i am, of course, very glad to be here at yelp this is my second invest to this site. i know that erica having something in common being from berkley. it's great to see people coming together after law but it's good to see maybe there's life for me. but i'm happy to be here and join nancy pelosi and congratulating he yemen they're new home. yelp is special they're starting here and staying here that i i love coming here it is now 8 hundred the numbers changed.

i visited a few weeks we looked at the building restroom for a thousand. i want to join leader pelosi it is a happy day. i love to see companies succeed and the collaborating and sharing ideas this is what yelp has done. and then to do something special in the what happened in san francisco because companies that are here and start here they follow in the tradition like the charles swabbings and the fisher's and the hell man's they discover the resources and want others to grow with them. that's why to recognize 3

outstanding nonprofits you've columbian but even if company like yelp now, it's yelp and yelp foundation. i love that because i got it, it's sales force and sales force foundation the technology companies are taking up that social responsibility like no others and i love seeing that because that's been the values of san franciscans. we've shared in our success and as we present more companies whether their along market street or monday night grorm we have 1 thousand companies in san francisco plus. think about how many foundations this represents >> we all know the understanding is becoming clear

innovation is not about the temple it's about a way of thinking. it suggests that community collaboration, building of that community, sharing of ideas is really a spirit. i've been very happy to collaborator collaborate with yelp and looufrt has been with us a couple of times we have a relationship that's not just in the city. i'm happy to bring yelp with me and present them to other mayors. we get to not only brag but to announce we're solving things that we're not in the drudgery of retention reform and run away

accounts but we can solve them in partnership with the private sector. we took this one example data that no one looks altered from restaurants and we discovered there's no eyes on that so we matched that up with the real eyes that are at yelp and made that connection so when you go to let yelp website i can see the relationship in government and we announced that and other cities asked how we have more people using that process. that's one of dozens of example whether it's in transportation finding parking spaces and ride

sharing to function more efficient. this partnership goes beyond it and you have made it exist. i'm interested in seeing the other donation you're making to consumer free speech and thank you yelp for being here i want to call up jeremy and a nancy pelosi it's about time that on the occasion of establishing you're wonderful headquarters and i'll watch the demonstrate you're wonderful services this is today yelp day colleagues, that places you on the next item >> does that mean he can park

whatever he wants. >> that's the green bike thing. >> it's earlier in the day sometimes, it happens at dinner 7, 8, 9 but now you're telling me. >> thank you for your leadership. >> thank you.

>> it was our original bell when we started selling yelp across the street. and it's been rung many times and we were going to allow you to bring it forward (laughter) >> it's been an honor. >> let it ring. >> (ring,

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla,

the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to

encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit.

what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates?

>> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need

information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need

the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining >> welcome to the monday, november 18, 2013 meeting of the san francisco small business commission. the meeting is called to order at 2:07 p.m.