effects of gentrification within our workforce about 10 years ago skwooif -- 65 percent of our workers people are commuting from sacramento and stockton and one of the most heartbreaking things that i have seen is that many of our workers, our lowest paid workers particularly who worked night shift in the hospitals would pull their resources together and they will rent a studio apartment and go there and sleep because they are too tired to go home after their shift. this is in humane when asking people to do this.

>> i fully support this. i was hoping for this for so many years. i certainly hoped for at least that long. actually i helped work with jim with the western soma plan and we talked about improving the code. i'm glad that the planning code will help with more affordable housing. i also want to say what patrick valentino said about the bond that will pay for affordable housing. making a provision in the code is one thing but to make the money, to finance it is to really make it a reality. while this is not about the housing bond. i hope

in the future that there will be thought given to having to pay for this. thanks for your time. >> thank you. i would like to call up the remaining speakers. james ward, marian and los atonya jones. if you haven't filled out a speaker card. please feel free to lineup. >> hello. i'm a member -- i come here to support the housing balance. this has already been mentioned already. i would like to say we ended up on affordable

housing for everybody. >> thank you. >> my name is james ward. i have lived in sixth district where i also served on the council for a while. my fixed income is 55 percent of that income. it's hard to live with that. it's over half of what i bring into house goes out for my rent. my mother worked for entrance america until she died. she had to move out of richmond and across the bay to san ramon and i watched her almost die driving. as a middle class woman, we can't lose the middle class. right now we are a tourist city and most of our industry is

service. most people can't live in the city they work in. half the people in this building that work here can't afford to live here. i have worked for 30 years before -- i lived at golden gate park for 7 years. i was never homeless but i was house less. it has to be 35 percent for low income, 35 percent for the middle income. have about 10 percent for the upper people and there is extra that can go to the moderately wealthy. [ spanish speaker ] >> good afternoon, my name is

miriam. we have some things we need to say. 60 percent of our population qualifies for low affordable housing. including our poor, working class, the medium income class. the city has a responsibility to maintain at least a 30 percent of affordable housing. for the 60 percent of our community

we are asking that this responsibility be reflected in our planning code. also i just want to add to already consider that our community is very poor and price also increase the minimum wage. that will also help us get better housing and for their children too. thank you. >> good afternoon again from

local 1021. i really appreciate the presentation done earlier on the measure. it would be great if i can get a copy because some of it was really fuzzy on the screen here. i guess what i'm seeing is the most important thing is the housing balance requirement in the 30 percent piece. as someone who mostly in san francisco to seek a better place it's very important because i actually grew up in the city of las vegas. if you know anything there about development and housing, it's straight up the wild west of development. they will build something one 1 day and 10 years later they will implode it and make a show out of it and build again. but

what they don't tell you that kind of constant development and lack of care for the people that live there have a huge impact on the community. i grew up there as a kid not knowing what a community meant. it took me going to san francisco and living here and becoming part of this community to understand what that meant how diversity and how we look out for each other and care for each other. i talk to my mom, she says whatever san francisco does we hear about it here and phoenix. my family is in the rest of the country because san francisco shows that it cares about it's community and does a lot for it. i think this proposal ballot measure that will do a good thing and put us away from a place that i think is very unregulated development. and one we actually go on the line to say this is important in san francisco. people are had --

here and it's a way to have public comment and being accountable to the entire community. i want to see it in november so i can vote for it. >> good afternoon. my name is -- i have moved here over 23 years. i was in the m igs district and was a victim of owner eviction which displaced me for several months. it was the most terrifying point of my life to be female and homeless. currently i organize the community center which depends on donations of people and many of those people are working class and middle class in the city that have supported my work and supported what i have done. i recently have experienced a

rent increase and i wasn't sure how i was going to handle that until someone came along and said i will cover your rent increase. i'm a lucky san franciscans and lucky advocate that someone is willing to help me with my rent increase. i just paid today. i wonder how i'm going to pay that next month without your support. i want to thank everyone for bringing this forward. it reminds me what seattle said, still seven 7 generations ahead, i'm not sure the mayor's plan is. thank you for hearing me. >> i was once evicted and all

my stuff ended up in the dumpster. i have lost everything and it was devastating. it was only material things. the services? san francisco helped me get through it. i want to thank you for giving us hope that we can turn the tied of evictions and i have seen a lot of friends over the years move and leave the city. it's hard to find anybody in the city i know anymore. that's sad. we hope that you support the housing balance requirement. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alex hernandez. i'm here in support of the housing balance. if you look at a scale. the scale

needs to be in balance. the only way to balance the scale is to add or remove something. that's what supervisors is doing here is adding assurance to housing. as many people have stated today. the average rent for one bedroom apartment in san francisco is about $3200 a month. it's a 25 percent increase in the past two years 2 years two 2 years alone. i love this city. that's why people want to live in the city. right now people can't afford it. i ask this measure gets passed. and talk to your colleagues to make sure this is fully passed from the board of supervisors. thank you. >> thank you, mr. hernandez. i believe one of our community members has to go because

they have an evening commitment. supervisor campos. >>supervisor david campos: i apologize. i have to leave. we will continue to have a quorum. i just want to thank all the members of the public who have come out to speak on this item. i just want to say that one thing is clear, how much all of us care about this city. i love san francisco. i think it's the greatest city in the world, but i do believe that it's changing to the point that i think the entire city is becoming gentrified to the point of pushing so many people out. that's what this is about. i want to reiterate my thanks to supervisor kim and the staff and all the cosponsors of this and i was very moved by the testimony and i think the more you talk about what's happening, you more you realize that something needs to be done. that's what this is. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. i

have three more speaker cards. >> hello. thank you. i totally support this ballot measure. my name is jason. i have including cerebral palsy and depression. for the past the whole time i have always been in sro. over two 1/2 years

now. i have been attacked outside. i'm hoping for change in the housing situation in the near future. thank you so much for letting me speak. >> thank you for being here. >> i live in affordable housing. i only pay 30 percent of my rent and i feel very fortunate. i hope this passes because it will enrich many people's lives. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is tavia and i'm

recanting on statements made about sleeping rooms. this is a serious issue and you don't hear much about it. i was living at 57 grand on taylor. and many studio apartments are rented and there are about 10 people that sleep there and they sleep there in shifts. you have a lot of immigrant guys and they don't have green cards. they sleep there in shifts. they have a graveyard shift that comes up and when they get up, the daytime guys come there and sleep there. this is going on. this is very serious because of the problems in the buildings and they are too congested. there is a lot going on. i think this needs to be addressed. when i was living there,

there were guys in the hallway passed out all the time. urine, sometimes feces because there is an abundance of people and not enough space. not enough money for them to provide space for themselves. i thought the board would want to know more about this. thank you. >> hi. my name is john mart in alley. i live in district 6 south of market. i'm one of the fortunate ones. it's not fortunate to have a disability, but i do get a rent subsidy and stuff. but i only get about $850-870 a

month. if i had to pay my whole rent, it would be like $795. the building is owned by episcopal communities and people that work with us with different disabilities we get a rent break. the bottom line is that unless you are poor like in my situation and lucked out and got a location like i did, which is an example as good housing then you have to be rich. there is month middle anymore left in what a little bit there is we have to hang onto it. if you actually get it for the voters and whoever needs to decide there is going to be a 30

percent build and not allow the developers to go, well let us build this project here and then that 30 percent will work on another site somewhere. the potential sites for that percentage is now, is disappearing. they are building over the sites that would be available. we have to stop that. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon supervisors. my name is robert marquez. i work in district 5 and 6. i had a lower rent apartment. like the gentleman who spoke, i too although i have been involved in conversation. i too worry about my future in my city, if the rug gets pulled out from

me. what's going to happen next. i appreciate your work on the balancing act and all the shareholders who put this together. i can remember in january 2011 mayor lee went to at twitter and walked out, as part of the negotiation, they are not going anywhere. if the supervisors get behind this housing act, it's a statement on their part on behalf of the middle income and lower income people of this community that you are not going any without us trying to do something about it first. >> thank you. >> i'm all about san francisco. i came here 35 years ago and i raised my son here. the beauty of san francisco, excuse me are it's people. we need this for our city. that's who we are.

people want to live there, we invest in people. that's what you tell them. we invest in our people. you are going to build here an be here. we are a community. and we want our cultural and economic diversity and that's the only way we keep our health and preserve our humanity. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> before this hearing i was with planning where they approved another tower of luxury condos. the city has created monsters called area plans. there is an area plan for eastern neighborhoods which is a monster area.

those are driving right now. there is displacement of a lot of jobs and ultimately are creating the demand for $2 million to $10 million condos. a lot of them are based on, everyone of them is based on the analysis of who is the population of the city, land use and land use and the exemption here for the one that i just came from. the city use a model of who could afford to live here based on sticks that -- statistics that are really ancient. they are 10 and 15 years old. there is a real request to me about whether they are valid in 2014 and will be valid in 2015. planning department has also taken that next step that

invalid dates the neighborhood calls the central corridor plan. ultimately the board of supervisors is responsible because every time you approve one of these area plans that is based on rotten data of who can afford to live in this city and rezone the area, massive areas for high intensity housing that is all upper end. not all, but, 90 percent is upper end. who can live in this city? >> i have never been a higher end person. i'm on the lower end of the chart even though i'm an attorney. i represent lower income people. i worked with them for 40 years in this city. it's hard for me to face planning studies that have no connection with reality and they are churning and

churning high end housing and there is hell to pay for all of us. so pass this legislation, but if you think this is all we need, you are diluting yourself. there is a lot more than this and we don't need a bond measure in fantasy land. we need to rain in this housing measure. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is william. i'm asking for more affordable housing and i want to stay in this city. my parents work hard to pay rent. thank you.

[ spanish speaker ] >> hi. my name is lil lean a. we need more affordable housing for our children. i really love this city. thank you for your time. >> thank you for coming to speak. >> thank you. are there anymore speakers on this item. please do come. >> thank you very much. i just came here. my name is betty trainer and board president of senior and disability action. i'm here representing our board and organization to say that we completely support supervisor kim's ballot initiative for the 30 percent affordable. the reason i'm late is i just walked up from my friends park in the tenderloin. i was walking through the neighborhood where of course there are poor

lived and talk about the need of affordable housing it's not necessary to talk about that need. it's a minimum to have that 30 percent affordable and required in the city. we need more than that. i want to ensure that is spoken about a number of people. we support this legislation as it is. we don't want to see any compromises. thank you. >> thank you, mr. trainer. supervisor delhi, thank you for being here today. >> thank you supervisor. my name is chris bailey. while we are in the mixed of the worst affordability crisis probably since the gold rush in san francisco. housing was also the most pressing issue since my time here last decade from the time i walked in or stormed out that day. i

wanted to come here to personally thank supervisor kim, supervisor kim's office, for your work to take the fight to build affordable housing and protect everyday san franciscans to the next level. over the course of ten 10 years here in city hall, my office and the greater community worked on affordable housing every single day. a good step was inclusionary affordable housing initially by supervisors leno and max's office. it was not enough. we pushed the limited on affordability too rincon hill. that was not enough. we pushed two affordable housing bonds, two transportation tax. we passed one of the four. it was not enough. we brought up

the idea of housing trust fund. we failed. it was passed two 2 years ago with the support of ed lee. now the housing cost is over $2 million if it's near a good google shuttle stop. it's time to give to those who are not millionaires to get a chance in this committee. that's why i call on this committee, the board of supervisors and to support supervisor kim's measure. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. are there any other speakers for public comment on this item? actually i already called your name. sorry. i couldn't be here earlier. i'm a resident of district 5. i'm here tonight because i really wanted to come after work. i

apologize for being late. i come to you as a mother whose raised my three children in san francisco and my youngest daughter who graduated college, she has no hope finding an apartment in this city. she is still at home with me. she wants to work. we need affordable housing for people who have jobs but don't have exorbitant salaries. i'm in very strong support of this. it's going to be hard to catch up that we are so far behind. i'm urging your support. thank you. >> thank you, ms. bryant. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, mr. chairman, may we close public comment? >> public comment is now closed. i have been instructed

to have somebody make a motion as supervisor campos for the remainder of the movement. can i get a motion? >> i so move. >> supervisor kim and supervisor breed. supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i wanted to be a part of this hearing because housing is important to me here in san francisco. i grew up here in public housing and when i graduated from college i came home and there was no housing in the 90s. there was an application process for fousing and many who did not get access for housing. it was a process to deal with the