of public policy it makes sense that 30 percent of the housing that is created be affordable for most san franciscans. i don't believe it's a radical concept at all. i think it's a very motion dest concept that ensure that everyone who has made this city what it is, working people, middle income people have an opportunity to live here. the reality is that all we do in areas like health care, wages, you name the policy area, that enables people to actually live in this city to benefit from the laws we in fact, it doesn't really make a difference in their lives and the fact remains for these people and not just low income people,

it's middle class, upper income people, this city is no longer affordable. i am saying that at least 30 percent of the housing that is created is affordable is something that most san franciscans would agree with. the great thing about the democracy that most san franciscans will be able to decide for themselves if that's not the case. having that discussion with the public, with the voters is really important and i know that it's not an easy thing to do and i don't believe that it is antidevelopment to say that affordability should be a part of the equation, to the contrary. i think that having affordability being part of the equation will actually lead to more development and so, i'm very proud of that,

very excited about this possibility and i think that the main thing is to hear from the public to see what they think and i look forward to that. thank you. >> i would like to welcome supervisor breed to the community meeting and supervisor tang. >>supervisor katy tang: sure, i'm going to make a brief comment since we have two measures. i want to say that when i think of housing balance and what this is titled, i really think about a much more holistic view. for me housing balance also means that we really do accommodate for a different range of incomes. i'm talking about also the middle to motion derate income levels which is mostly the district that i represent and how we can achieve that to make it affordable for some of the different classes to be able to stay nr: here in san francisco.

and i think about some of the planning that some of the officers have looked into housing to see how we can make it easier for those who want to afford a home in san francisco. why is it so difficult for people to achieve this 30 percent goal that we have here. i think that really is the heart of what i'm very interested in exploring. so, again i will save some of my questions for the next item. i just wanted to really share that and what i feel housing balance really means in san francisco. >> thank you. for me, this is something that i struggle with with the people i have worked with the families and so forth that i have worked for and with and always do my non-profit. and serg i have more personal reason to support these efforts in which when we look at the medium

housing prices that's in the market right now to be a million dollars. i just walked to, my youngest daughter came to city hall to get her license to get married. she lives in los angeles and would like to come back here to san francisco, butted -- but when i think about the housing prieshgsz -- prices, it just becomes a dream. i'm in a seat now to make a difference and with the supervisors here, maybe this will be a reality for my daughter and those. thank you so much. >> the one thing i will say is that regional housing reaching a goal of about 60 percent that we should have a much higher goal. we picked a number that we historically

have met granted with redevelopment as a tool for financing and we wanted to make sure we continue that goal without redevelopment. we think we can achieve it and with some effort we can make that happen. seeing no further comments or questions from the rules committee, i wanted to call up mr. chair, may we open up public comment? >> yes. i'm going to call up the first 10 speaker cards.> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to talk about the issues on housing affordability of

likely voters in the city. because likely voters are ultimate decision makers. i will run a few highlights. the first questions on page two determinants that 64 percent of likely registered voters would want at least 50 percent of future housing in the city to be afford able. a 30 percent wanted 50 percent afford able. 83 percent are concerned about affordability and 60 percent were very concerned. when you look at question 3, you see that 59 percent disapproves the job that city government is doing so far on this topic. 59 percent. an overwhelming number. when you turn to the questions 6 on page 6 which asks a range not just on

housing but all the impacts on gentrification in this city you find levels concern all above 60 percent. 64 there is a gentrification crisis in our city today. 89 percent, almost everybody feels the city is becoming unaffordable to families. 88 percent that families could no longer afford to live here and many people could no longer afford to live here. when you breakout the sensitivity data, we learned that 86 percent of african americans and latinos feel the city is facing gentrification process. i think what i would like for you to take from this poll is that we must have action . rhetoric is not enough anymore. the next mayor's

measure is basically rhetoric. we need action. to set the housing balance goal with supervisor kim and cosponsors propose is an important step in setting our direction and we have to follow up on it. it's up to you. elected officials know what they want to do. thank you. >> in the queer community we see in the castro, in the

mission. in soma, in the tenderloin and in queer neighborhoods we see lots of new housing being built, we see new cranes in the sky and people in our community being kicked out onto the street and members of the lgbt community where this city has become being forced to the east bay, to portland, to southern california to communities outside of our own. we've had enough. we want to see some of the development happening in this city happening for all members of the queer community for low income members of the queer community for middle income of the queer community, all we get are empty promises. we don't see action. we see people on the streets and housing being built, but not being built for us. what we are asking you to do is give the people of this city the chance to talk about the kind

of housing they want. to talk about the housing they want to be able to stay in our homes. on behalf of our club members, i ask you today to let the voters decide what kind of housing they want in san francisco and let the voters take the action that we haven't seen coming out of this building in november. thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. i'm a district 6 youth commissioner. i want to thank you all for being here and having the time to listen to us. first of all i just want to say i'm in support of the community's housing balance act. i have seen a lot of my friends, family, community members being evicted in a very fast rate. it's really depressing to see so many people like me being kicked

out of their home established in this city. i have a sister with cerebral palsy and to know that senior citizens and people with disabilities are being kicked out the most and it's very scary that it will happen to me. we have been kicked out a couple times from my house and we had to live in my dad's friends house and there was no lighting and we weren't even able to cook. i don't want that to happen to anyone else. even though we qualify for affordable housing including poor working class and middle class, we need to make changes in our community. i don't want to be kicked out of my city where i have been actively doing a lot of work and where i have seen

my friends and colleagues growing up. i want to make sure that everyone knows that i'm supporting the community housing balance. i appreciate all the time that you have taken. >> thank you for being here. >> hello. my make the is eric woo. i'm here to speak on this. while it's true that we can't build out of the housing crisis, but to make sure the land that we have serves the majority of our residents by mandating the housing to be below market rate. we need to make sure that we build housing that 60 percent of our population can afford. this is for the working and middle class families working in

this city and shows the city hall cares about young people and shows that maybe we can maybe start a family here. the dream of starting a family have grown more illusive than before. that the force of gentrification are making young folks feel vulnerable as they are being driven out in droves. these are some of the stuff that they said and reflective in what i'm saying. by balancing the kind of housing we are going to develop we need to ensure that we are not building housing for those at the very top. we are better positioned to close the divide and the gap between the rich and poor and long time residents who are moving in here to take advantage of what we have to offer so that

all of us can contribute to the world class san francisco that we are now in the country and across the world. >> good afternoon. my name is joyce cal goes. i'm with the san francisco project and san francisco network. now i'm with senior and disability action and california life for retired americans. i can go back to 2000 when we were debating what to do with that. i know one lady she was in forth lottery and wasn't able to get housing. i belong to the largest catholic church in

the city epiphany. when the children finished high school, they had to leave the city. they couldn't afford housing in the city. we only had 35 beds. we need more housing. when i was at the acting network, the leading charge for the senior housing action, we needed 10,000 senior units and you have veterans coming back from the wars and not to mention the lgbt people. we need everything, we need maybe more than 30, maybe 50 percent. so you know better than i, but i'm just reminding you, not just seniors and not just disabled, but all. >> hi, good afternoon, supervisors, thank you for

giving us this opportunity to speak. i do a lot of volunteer work in the city. 13 of years i lived at market street. i'm sure you are familiar with 1049, i was in the middle of the catalyst of this housing problem. when people started $100 rent increases on $400 and $500 units, every night not knowing if i was going to have a message under my door that would make me homeless was difficult. i was fortunate to find housing. i'm grateful but there is a lot less fortunate people who can not find good housing. health care workers, teachers, disabled, poor, seniors, there is really

no excuse for seniors ands of course veterans. choices, realistically, as i was looking at housing it was over crowded sro or on the streets. that's unacceptable for a city of this caliber. i support the balanced housing. $900 below market rate for a 400 square foot studio, is really not affordable housing. i hope you all do the right thing and really stick up for the real people of the city ands bring you us to affordable housing. >> my name is sade. and i

represent the tenderloin district. first of all our community center used to be at golden gate avenue but since our rent went up, we were forced to move. we had a great deal of donors because of the economy, because of rent. i'm shamed to ask for donations from our community members. many who were donors are now asking our community center how they can get donations to pay some bills or find a second job. they have enough to pay the rent, but not enough to buy food. right now

we are observing fasting ramadan. this year we opted not to do a community wide open house party. we noticed that we can actually put our centers money to better use as far as having extra food for people to take home because they don't have enough food for their families. in the long run, what is my community going to do. with the minimum wage or affordable housing. is it the chicken or the egg. we need higher minimum wage and affordable housing. i hope we have more affordable housing in the near future. thank you. >> thank you. before our next speaker, i wanted to call up more speakers. melissa carl

son, trish wilson. and cesar vargas. >> good afternoon, i'm with the south of market community action network. one of the things that we do in our neighborhood is really to address the issue of gentrification. a lot of people don't want to say it but gentrification has been going on for a long time, not just in the 50s, 60s. it's still happening right now and we need to address it. not just in the short-term, but the long-term because we are in a not just housing crisis but in a crisis of who is going to be living in san francisco. in the overhead as you can see here. this is from the housing dashboard. basically the housing

dashboard captures how many units that we have been building in san francisco from condominiums to affordable housing to 2014. finally it gives us a sense of what we are building in san francisco. for years some were talking about we are building too many condominiums, now we have a tool from the city, from the planning department to capture what we are sealing. -- seeing. it's no longer ideology. it's actual data. there is over 32,000 units built in san francisco. out of those 32,000 units we have built 211 percent condominiums. but yet we only have 27 percent

moderator: income. who are we building housing for. we have to recognize the different national income for the whole city. developers will always make money building housing in the city. it will ensure we build the right way for the majority of our residents. therefore, we are in support of the housing battle. ballot. now that the city is having the housing crisis, it made sense the whole city

actually has recaptured the loss of units. i think what's great about the housing balance too is it's also capturing the loss of units due to ellis act evictions. we need to make sure that's included because a lot of people are being evicted and we need to address how are we going to build for the existing residents. again i hope you support the housing balance. thank you.>> hi. i'm a resident of soma. i'm going to talk about not having

enough housing affects the entire city including the low, middle and high income strata. first of all san francisco as we all know is the tourist industry is very important to us. but people come to san francisco not just to see the cable cars and golden bridge, but bands play and the kind of things that aren't going to be here if artist have to move out because they can't afford to live here. another thing, everybody depends on people who can't live here because their jobs at a barista aren't enough to live on. if a company that's running a place like this has to keep firing and retraining new workers because they can't afford to

live and they have to leave, that's going to make lines longer and everyone grumpier and grouchier. >> good afternoon. i'm trish a wilson. i live in south of market on mission. i have been there about eight 8 years and i have been trying to move out of the sro there. a couple years ago i did have a section 8 voucher. i went here and there and my income was too low or a lot of places you have to have twice the income. and as has been stated by

other people that have spoken, a lot of our people have been putting out in the streets and are homeless, mental health. i am on disability for my mental health issues. this sort of thing. it's just impossible. i don't want to live the rest of my life in an sro. yes i'm grateful that i have a bed. yes. that's not the issue. the issue is that a lot of places that are going up. there are waiting list. i'm with the transgender project and so we work with a lot of inpatient people. i'm very very for the portable and reasonable

housing for us because it's just outrageous. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. this is lourdes. i want to echo what was said earlier. again, thank you for taking the time. the conditional use process that would only ensure accountability butten insures a dialogue the dialogue between the community and developers. it asks developers to come and explain to the public why they are not committing to the affordability. it's bringing forth what's right building

in our city in a way that needs to be built for all of us. the city is small and only so much language. once a building is built, it is built. it is there. a building will never revert to affordable housing. let's get it right and build for our community. thank you. >> hi. my name is teresa from housing program of the equity center and i'm also a board member of manila town heritage foundation. as a case manager at the program we deal with a lot of housing application assistance and below market rate programs for housing. this housing balance actually i think will compliment the

inclusionary housing of moh itself. there shouldn't be any threat against whether it's a measure or compromise. this needs to be an urgent action because a lot of development is going on in south of market and we see a lot of displacement eviction. since the ellis act, that will also help in creating more inclusionary housing. i don't see why the mayor itself is against this. but for us we see that it will only compromise the housing and really create a balance. the 30 percent is very moderate when it should be more than that. thank you very much. >> hi. representing senior disability action and manila

heritage foundation. i'm in support of the housing balance measure that's been introduced by supervisor kim. majority of san franciscans now are overwhelmingly rent burdened. 43 percent of all san francisco house hoeltdz -- households are rent burdened. individuals are paying more than their income on rent. not to mention the burden on elders, the impending fear of evictions that have plagued our city while at the same time you have developers and you have speculators that are totally oblivious to this crisis and we are shouldering as working people the majority of