you for joipt us to have the grand opening at hunter's view with all due respect i'm to introduce the housing authority commission good morning. thank you so, so much for joining us at hunter's view it's a an honor on behalf of the employees of the san francisco housing authority and all the city partners our nonprofit and private partners who really represent your commitment we have to the resident we seek to serve to the best of our ability from the housing authority to the executive director barbara smith thank you to your leadership and the commissioners.

without further ado, i want to say what an honor it is mr. mayor and supervisor cowen and all you, you here today to be work in this position in this time with our support and commitment. i want to continue to see this across the city's for the benefit of our resident without further ado, please allow me to introduce mayor edwin lee. (clapping.) >> thank you joaquin and thank you for your listener on the commission but your great fine work in every neighborhood of san francisco. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to hunters view. (clapping.) >> gosh every time we accompany here i it's a great chance to celebrate but let me begin by celebrating life.

we're building community and rebuilding lives that have been isolated that is one way to give the proper moment of silence like after the fire in sunnyvale i want to have you join me a brief moment of silences the familiar the names are being announced but esther a mother of a review resident and her beautiful son santana williams. please join me in a moment of silence. thank you. and that i begin with that a

sober reminder their real people and families out here those were the lives we've focused focused on rebuilding community we're heretofore the hill supervisor cowen knows it and nancy pelosi i'm so offer enjoyed to be ginnie you to making the announcement of the rebuilding of the community. i do it so with a lot of friends in the audience and people who have joined me and all of us in government and community to say that we want to deliver a long time promises for this community and this first phase is valuable to confirm and 81 thank people there are more faces to come but 1 hundred and 7 units of housing

we'll have more over 2 hundred and 67 unit a part of some four or five units as mixed income housing this development is the hunters view it's one of many areas of the southeast sector we're rebuilding because soon after this we're going to alice griffith while we're working on katrero and other parts of the city we'll renew those commits over and over again and great partners to thank i want to thank the residents of hunters view. you've been so patient yes all of you (clapping) it was hard to believe we wanted to do it better not in the bull

doing so kind of way like in the jazz and 70s we left people to their own challenges we were going to say let's invest in people first and have them join us to create jobs and then offer a joint vision for people. and that's what we've been doing in the hope sf program to mechanic at the infrastructure as we've than what happened the staff in revising all of our public housing i thank hud and leaders nancy pelosi they're helping me to establish the leadership with wood we have a new model to invested in people's buildings first once we offer them ways to train for the

future jobs in the future and a series of services on site that have involved the hucht and fire department and youth engagement programs all on site that investment pays off now i've got a belief in a basis to have hope. this is what we're doing together in revoilg our public housing spaces. i want to thank a development team jon stewart company you've been wonderful and really making some great, great headway on this (clapping.) you have a strong team the richard housing corporation has been there delivering the highest quality and john was saying i get questions how much

are you charging for those condos (laughter) that's a pretty good compliment in the world we're rebuilding community. our if at any point tropic people have helped with the san francisco foundation and i'm so existed fred blackwell could be and join us you are fantastic partners. i want to thank supervisor cowen for being a wonderful, wonderful supervisor out here. she's out here from the corridor to the nonprofits and our work in the valley to help visit lists the grocery store and having great arts programs and singing and dancing along third street she's wonderful to work with and i know the people in the district deserve here leadership.

i want to thank her for our boldness on this. also david lee we share the same basketball team. thank you for your leadership at the department of housing and working with the whole are portfolio sf is fantastic it's something i think more and more every time we mention the title and word it give us hope to hundreds of thousands of people in the city by gives hope to washington, d.c. to see models and models after we get stimulus money and federal appropriations to help us we can only do with with a wonderful commitment and fellow through by nancy pelosi she's been there ever step of the way.

every time i can't recognize what's going on she clarifies things and when the money flows and it does because people building and have hope in san francisco. we want to continue to being a model we get everybody together and we'll take those challenges on directly anticipate end the isolation of our public housing resident and have them a full residents you can only feel that strongly when you see the community rebuilt and the mixed income of the resident without losing our residents at all gaining a foot hole in the city that has the willingness to incorporate all the people. may i introduce our wonderful

congresswoman leader nancy pelosi. thank you (clapping.) thank you very much. mayor ed lee for your leadership for your effectiveness he's a man that gets the job done he bring his skills and commitment to making keeping san francisco a city of families in order to do that we have to have affordable housing. i associate that with his remarks of all the people he's acknowledged this morning and especially to the residents. this is all about you. and >> yeah. >> all right. and it was not that long ago person here for the groundbreaking and asked for your suggestions and we were generous with them mostly to be able to stay if you worried about through the tradition of

groundbreaking to what we're celebrating today. i'm proud of the federal proclamation i want to acknowledge secretary for the 50 millions for the city and county of san francisco and more to come and the $100 million in tax credits that the federal government's has enabled the private sector to loan in the tax credits that's a collaboration we were early with early money to pressure this initiative and what was really important at the federal level we're excited about affordable housing and market value rate housing here that weather we did didn't diminish the public housing sector of that that's an important priority for optd as

we go forward with his reenlightening and through there's something part of the public housing authority and hud the rental demonstration program that that's a demonstration program the more success we have here demonstrates this can be done and serves the model to the nation so we take pride if what this means to our residents and individual families those who have lived no public housing will continue to do so and the fact we have affordable housing is part of it and we have the market rate by none of the units were distributed that way it was very shall we say democratic's if i can say that. so congratulate everyone that has anything to do with it ali

is a champion so thank you effective from the start supervisor cowen and to mechanic thank you for your allowing us here and joaquin i'm happy to see you having the roll and again secretary welcome to san francisco. i'm going to say something about jon stewart over the years across the city he's been committed to affordable housing being a partner in public housing as well as the mixed use that's there so thank you not only for a today but a lifetime of commitment to the housing in san francisco. jon stewart. i do want to commend our president this is his department

of hud and the rest wanted to see what really worked and we know how proud of the collaboration we've also had in san francisco i'm happy to report to him we want to report this not only in san francisco but cross the country so residents as i enjoy our new home that receptors your dignity knows that you there the collaboration you gave us to do this right is going to serve other people across the country that enables to us do the same i join you mayor in expressing the sadness in susan value, of

course, your respect is for them. seems like yesterday we were here from the groundbreaking and the developers deserve a great amount of credit it goes to show you what a sense of community can do and remember in that word community is the word unit. we come together and find our consensus our goals and respect for the people who we serve the unit i didn't have purpose is something that maximums san francisco great thanks to edge who's concerned here today (clapping.) thank you leader pelosi i'd like to bring to the stage who partnerships with all of us

supervisor cowen >> good morning it's a beautiful spring day i want to share information not long ago we broke ground in 2010 at the site but earlier this year we break ground at the senior seminar the george center and no lesson e less than that we droug on the asian park we're on a role ladies and gentlemen, and every step of the way we've had leader pelosi and mayor ed lee. so thank you. just want to start that off with a fact of history back in 2007 this very site this very development was named the worst housing development by the federal government urban

department by hud in a relatively short amount of time we're here going from worse to best. just like everything we do in san francisco we do it the best because we're the best and important to, know who we work for the best resident in the city and county of san francisco (clapping) where the delipidated and uninhabitable temporary housing once stood we see beautiful brand new structural sound housing where families will have is peace of mind knowing their children will play in stave green spaces in their neighborhood. the mayor said we're delivering a promise not only to rebuild the housing we're delivering on but it's a promise to rebuild a

community that's what is most important. a promise to instill dignity in a neighborhood and more importantly in the people. this groundbreaking represents the rival of a neighbor and the nexus been all the projects from the shipyard to candle stick to the tee line. this was once thriving community has been fighting for improvements for years and i'm proud to say we're back on track we're claiming our victory. now is not a time to get comfortable this is just the beginning. there's a lot of work that needs to be done today, we celebrate the completion of one hundred and 7 homes and tomorrow we

celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community - itself up here i'm sorry. i want to thank leader pelosi for her devotion to san francisco to john stewart and the housing corporation none of this would be possible and tiffany with the infrastructure as well as the commissioners, thank you. again, i want to thank entrepreneurs community partners and the san francisco foundation and welcome back our brother fred blackwell and director olsen lee. and also want to recognize the executive director of the housing authority barbara taylor smith. thank you barbara i know you've

had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunter's view residents thank you so much for being patient. and recognize the hunter tenants association and as we help our people with walk it's a new organization that's been be born out of the entire process. to our housing authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldn't be her without you and uplift our educational macomb x institution and we wouldn't be here for the leadership of then mayor gavin newsom and my predecessor between the two of them i also want to welcome the

secretary back to san francisco thank you for being here. and thank you, everyone (clapping.) as we've heard so far take the village i was to invite our next village person secretary thank you. now we'll do the ymca. so good morning to you all. thank you congresswoman and supervisors and mayor and residents for the invitation to celebrate this grand opening. i bri bring you greetings from governor jerry brown we're a part and champion of hunter's view what you see was financed through public-private

partnerships which combine government resources and private financing to facilitate the construction of new affordable housing >> market rate housing using initiative design material. in collaboration with the community members the residents of hunters view the city of san francisco they created a vision to have parks and playgrounds a teen center and computer learn center and childcare center and everything we wish for. california's investment in the project totals $50 million this includes two multiple housing program loans for phase one and two we'll be back for phase two

and the information infrastructure grant that helps to support the infrastructure that includes the replacement and up grad of on entire utility system and reconfiguration of the streets and open space that's a fundamental understanding you need to redo what wasn't done well or outdated are. that was the vision of the residents so say this is what created the opportunity for all of us to come together and deliver the pieces that made the project financially possible. but the neighborhood would not be here today without the financial support and participation of each of the partners. it took a community to incision the project. in conclusion, i want to take a

moment to introduce the staff. north america define ford and another lee mr. mayor. jean and ken holder all over there (clapping.) congratulation to the residents and the financial institution and other for your commitment to this project. thank you (clapping.) all right. as we continue with the program you know hunter's view represents our annual program we have other will sf sites we couldn't do that without our financial parpdz i'd like to introduce richard from city capital >> thank you very much.

congresswoman and supervisor cowen and other. it is a everyone here knows about this project but i can tell you around the city and country people are not familiar with that every time i tell people i'm coming to hunter's view i got a love of eyebrows but the cab driver who dpropd me off thinks this is incredible and i want to add my congratulations to the city and state and good friends of jon stewart and i want to thank mine staff brian who unfortunately wouldn't be her today. but most importantly i want to

congratulate the resident of hunters view i know from the past of cutting ribbons how important and life changing a project like this can be public utilities i'm sure i've been reading a lot of stories and hearing about the high cost of housing in the united states particle san francisco i think the new york times talked about this there's no deity. i have less support from the government because of budget we finance projects all over the united states and there isn't a city in the united states that don't more to help residence particularly in the protecting than the city and county of san francisco. you have a lot to be proud of you want to congratulate you for a fantastic project and thank

you for inviting me here today. >> you all doing all right. the next speakers with one of our partners in crime he and i worked tireless also ferry the sf project i'd like to invite rich from the enterprise partners to join us >> thank you honestly i'm not sure which view is better i'm glazing at the city and turnout and s see this magnitude project. one the drawbacks of being the last speakers is everything has been said but there are definitely some clear themes

that are important here and it's throughout the speakers and the history of hope sf about that keeping projects and that's been said a second one is patients. and while the residents shouldn't need to have pains that's one of the keystones of hope sf we can joke at enterprise the shirts are more expensive than we can image. one of the things a theme through all of this is tromg lives. we have some of the worse housing in the country her and some of the most isolated families and seniors we must take responsibility in san francisco. another theme that's important is about government could go

what government does best and i want to say that clearly mayor ed lee has lead this initiative speaking pelosi has led the federal government. we've had help in every level of government that's critical it proves what government can do and should be doing. that's exciting the other pieces that's important it be a private and public commitment. someone said it takes a village and while a lot of people say that it takes a entire city my country. i'm wearing 3 hats my enterprise hat and the campaign for sf which we started and had a key partner to bring in the

philanthropy because it takes a city to do this we bring in local and national fountains and there were 3 initial groups that came into the campaign early and said i get is the san francisco foundation is one and the bank of america is the third one they understood this is a community and the idea of patience this is going up to take a long time. in the important. to see that enterprise calls this the most important initiative in san francisco and actually i've said enterprise we're a national organizations but we look forward not only housing but transforming lives and community.