>> 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 this tremendous burden. i think 30 percent as previous speakers said is moderate. we definitely need more. contrary to popular belief by some folks, building market rate housing is not going to bring down the rate for housing. we need to bring accountability in this process. there are elements in this city. they

are acting with complete impunity and lack of regard. quite frankly the real estate industry, is completely immoral and causing much pain and much damage to a community. i speak as a fifth generation san franciscans. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. a nice long meeting today. exciting immediate. my name is connie ford. i just want to say three things quickly. one thing about the idea of affordable housing and housing plan for the whole city, this begins to address that. it takes care of families up to 120 percent

ami. 120 percent ami is two teachers and a child. it's many of our union members who would qualify for that. so if there are supervisors who would like that am i to go higher, i don't know why you wouldn't address that in the future because i would support it as well. this is the first step in the process we are trying to address here. the sending point about the diversity of our city and the importance of that, it's not only the racial diversity, the gender diversity, the economic diversity. we have all lived here for decades. this is a place where it's just for the rich and poor. this is a measure that will begin to address it. it doesn't solve all the problems but begins to address this. we have to act

now. this david binder, this poll, to pass it out. this is a great poll. it reminds me of the minimum wage poll that happened last january and created this whole movement where we were this afternoon with the minimum wage. this is a good poll. san francisco likes this idea. i think we should go forward. thank you. >> hello, my name is harvey lang. i work for san francisco housing. i'm a laborer and with housing for 25 years. this has to do with asking for a meeting with the district attorney on fraud. this is what i would like a meeting on and related to other things.

>> this item is on the housing balance measure. >> it has to do with building as well. >> okay. we ask the comment is limited to housing balance, the legislation before us. >> i'm make mac tosh. we are talking about labor and talking about corporate fraud. it's time for a change-up in here. everyone counts. as many people have said it. we are calling for a meeting. it is very important that we get meeting. if we don't we have to do legally what we have to do.

>> thank you supervisor kim for introducing this. i campaigned for you a long time ago when you were running. i'm glad to see these kind of measures being brought up. i guess we all know i have seen a lot of propaganda from oil companies and how people can be swayed the wrong-way. i have seen it here with the gmo thing that happened in

california. i was surprised that didn't pass. i want to make sure this measure passes. when i go to other cities, i see more of the diversities that i'm comfortable with. i want the art community, the non-profits, the activist, i want to see them stick around. a lot of them move to oakland. when my friends say they want to move here, i say don't. it's not what it used to be. it's changing. it's losing it's flavor. i'm glad these measures are brought up and i want to support it anyway i can. thank you

>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm here to talk about the housing balance. we need more affordable housing for families, seniors, disabled. we don't need condominiums. we need real housing for families and disabled and seniors because where are they going to be? they are going to be in the street. we need affordable housing. no more condominiums, okay. >> thank you. before our next speaker, i want to call five more cards. >> i'm here to support what you have done today in terms of minimum wage and 30 percent balancing. i'm hoping that

they both pass. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is stephanie with the after school program. the kids behind me are the youth that attend the program. they also live in the south of market. i stand behind them and behind the faces behind me. i think this is a very pressing issue and it needs to be resolved for the kids who live in this city who want to continue to live in this city. if we could not revolve it now, how can we revolve it for the youth. i'm representing michael who wanted to speak about afforle