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percent bond in october of this year. in january of 2015 we apartment bringing the ground lewis to the ccii commission and in 2018 the board of supervisors will look at the bonds and in 2015 they've closed and start construction. also when we start construction we'll be reviewing the marketing plan had he inventing the marketing outreach. and the marketing outreach to help with getting folks ready for the c p holders to have them have time to apply and be able to be qualified to rent the units. we apartment the temporary certificate of occupancy in 2016
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and achieving 90 percent occupancy in spring of had 2017 and closing out the project the contract staff is working with the small business requirements. telling you thus far the developers have achieved a strong support and with gonzales architects it's a filipino owned s g e. the developer is looking at forward to have the participation in the development phase. today, the developer team is here and lisa grady and whitney jones from cac is here i want to ask the rest of the team to stand for a moment.
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thank you very much. and with that, that that concludes my presentation. and we're happy to answer any questions you may have >> thank you. madam secretary do we have any speaker cards >> yes. one dr. espanola jackson. >> item 5 d. >> excuse me. i don't want b but i will speak on it absolutely. >> i thought i was doing c i'm sorry baby something the man spoke about was affordability of housing i have a grave concern when you say affordable it
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affordable came out in the early 70s. with the redevelopment agency for those of us with sftsz we could come back into our community but we have one of the staff members who's name is olsen lee who is working out of the mayor's office with affordable housing and i received and i'm very upset i've gone to the board of supervisors but it seems like no one haiti's wants to investigate what's going on in the city how it it is it st. possible that he as an individual staff will say what affordability is and the fact i've received a letter that, in fact, 2016 high certificate wouldn't be any good it was not
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the mayor's office that set up the certificates it was the board of supervisors. and i don't understand how a staff have all this power especially you was the employee you now make decisions on those infrastructure now you're making decisions dealing with the affordability for the people those of us who live in san francisco. are dealing with the ami we don't make that kind of money here. you have people that comes out of the city in san francisco those are the people that are counted as how much money is bag made in san francisco it boo boo bothers me my tax money running out of san francisco none of my people are working i've mentioned this before i've been
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a resident of bishop since 1948 and my income is less less then $12,000 a year i'm 8 percent 1 years old you have a one bedroom 48 or 55 thousand all of us have been here all our lives that's why i passed out the justification of black folk in san francisco this is happening all over i was going to speak on that someone needs to checkout olsen lee and someone brought up the name of human rights. we bayview hunters point we're the ones that pick up the mayor when the mayor of the city said i don't want you see you colored
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folks picketing in my city they met from 64 and they became a commission on the other hand, and guess who was the first director mayor ed lee and everything went on the shelf it's a shame of what happened in this city and your time is up >> it hurts. >> thank you you for your comments. do we have any others speakers >> yes. mr. washington. >> since in the recorded i want to not piggy back but what she said with you it's observe she's mentioned olsen lee and mayor ed lee is lee twin brothers i go
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back to others lisa i'm losing any mind here but this is important it will be coming out in some of my notes my 25 year history how the city has a game change that dramatically changed with ed lee coming to be the mayor the history of mayor ed lee he was a lawyer and dealt with remained when jessie jack son came to town. yes. i was back so there documenting things and here 15 or 20 years later he's the mayor he seemed like he don't care but the power redevelopment agency has been changed now with checks and balances but when i put out this case and all the people you
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will clearly see when you connection the dots of olsen lee i agree with dr. jackson this man has become integral on the future of the african-americans he may not be a minority but seems like he is forget about us he is the most powerful person controlling the housing, you know who the mayor's office affordable housing this goes into the federal government he have to go to state and talk to governor jerry brown and i agree with dr. jackson there needs to be investigation but dr. jackson don't fear because as we walk those hauls we know the fbi is walking the halls they're here they are here. is thing we interesting have to
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bring the consciousness up here people that don't know about the city of san francisco they're saying that san francisco is a city it's a pity they come here and see what's going on although, the city we've been almost eliminated now i've got 17 seconds left we got all the community with the classes of complaining of something we've been complaining have been undermining in their inclusion from everything my history will show that >> thank you no other speaker cards. >> we'll close the questioning. >> commissioner singh. >> yeah, you is all the housing about pay no longer thirty
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percent of their income. >> that's right. >> thirty percent that's a lot of money. i mean $50,000 income 50 or 15 thousand or 50 is going to the year-end >> that's how the rents are set and tagged we use the rents that the malice and community development publish on the hud rents. >> i agree with dr. espanola jackson and it is going to be dollars building in the mission bay. >> pardon me. >> the 40 some stories. >> 340 stories. >> no, no how many stories 40. >> 40 stories. >> is that 4 stories. >> 4 story buildings yes.
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>> that's not documented 4 story buildings. >> i could add regarding is affordability level for one bedroom that relents $980 it's comparable to what we all know the san francisco rents are for one bedroom are approaching 3 thousand or more. >> that's good okay. >> i move this idea. >> i think commissioner mondejar. >> the target population do you have a marketing plan how to reach out to your target populations. >> we don't have a marketing plan yet but we'll have one at the time, we close construction and start the outreach to help people with readiness and so
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thrill be lazy an 18 month period having to ask consultants to get when the loiter happens for people to rise to the top and be ready to hopefully be eligible and be approved to rent. >> unit there. >> those are all rentals. >> yes. >> are we going to get an update on the certificate of classification. will it be improved a lot better >> no. we're about to do a presentation on another item related to the fact and we'll touch deeper on the co p program. >> certainly hass as part of the
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mou as the mayor's office 90 days after project lisa is a report that the mayor's office of housing i community development prepares we transfer it to the commission and, of course, the annual reporting on the overall marketing so the next meeting we'll check on how we're all doing. >> we and i'm not sure you're the person to answer this but on attachment b we've received the names and the fees associated with the professional service containments on the project and i'm just wondering is it possible i think i've asked this before to have an identification of the m b e category by ethnicity so i'd like to be responsive to the concerns we hear that african-americans are
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not working on or having access to contracting opportunities on our jobs based on the report we've received that is not an accurate assessment but if we had information with the items we will be better informed is that possible. >> yes certainly even though our program is targeted at the small businesses to the extent we have the information through our database and a and other verifyable sources we provide thatblast whether it's an m b education on the documents we will provide that information. >> thank you. >> i don't have my specific questions do we have a motion.
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>> commissioner singh moved. >> commissioner mondejar second. please call roll >> please announce our vote. commissioner mondejar. commissioner singh. commissioner rosales. madam chair the vote is 3 i's >> that item passes. next item please. authorizing the preference and successor of affordable housing to the extent that the preference is consistent with an enforceable obligation and applicable laws discussion and action for 2014 madam director >> thank you madam secretary commissioners and members of the public thank you, again, for joining us this item is recommended to a proposal for the commission to adapt an ellis
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act policy a separate entity if this office we've adapted a polar to give a preference for people who have been displaced because of ellis act evictions in response to the mayor's office of housing and itself community development we have reviewed that proposal their implementation manual and proposed a policy change for your consideration that relates to provide ellis act folks with other enforceable obligations i want to ask jeff white the housing manage to start off the presentation and joined by another colleague. >> great, thank you director bohe we've got here today, we're going to give you a presentation
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the mayor's office of housing affordable housing unit maria is going to describe the reason the city has taken action around the ellis act and going to she'll describe how the city is going about implementing that action and i'll come back and describe ocii implementations of a preference for the ellis act evicted persons. >> maria. >> good evening. i'm marie a benjamin from the mayor's office of housing of community development. in december of last year oh, you'll help me >> in december even if this last year the mayor and board of supervisors intensified the
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assistance ordinance because of the rising race of evictions throughout the city due to the state law of the ellis act. and the ellis act is a way that a landlord who owns a rental controlled building can go out of business in essence and evict the tenants that are living in the building and sell their building to a new landlord. what we found is that a lot of the companies that were selling the buildings were selling to an affiliate of their own company and to get out of the business of rent controlled landlord and the motivation is rents right
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now in this city between 28 for a one bedroom 28 hundred and 38 hundred almost $2,900 a month so there's an incentive for going out of the rent control landlord business. so the judge so you can see the rates of the ellis act evictions one hundred and 70 percent in 2010. the overall eviction types went to 38 percent due to the market we're in. the home prices in 2010 went up 22 percent that increases the rent amazes e amounts in the city. this is hard to see between 197
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and 2013 those are the ellis act evictions it's throughout the city. we believe on a per capita basis san francisco is the highest city with the highest level of ellis act evictions in the state so the mayor and board of supervisors put together this emergency displacements program unfortunately, the people that are being evicted are in rent control units and the rents were $600 a month and evicted into a market of $3,000 a month. so it's very difficult for folks to find a place once their evicted from a rent controlled unit the mayor's office of housing of and development asked to look at the ellis act program that's why i'm here.
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we also implement the cortex o p program so it makes sense for us to dot ellis act. what do we do. first of all, i can't say enough or loud or strong enough that the ellis act housing program in a way impacts the cop certificate holder. cop certificate holders still have the first preference throughout the city in all affordable housing units in all of the city sponsored units. those are also in our inclusionary program our affordable housing programs all of our affordable housing cop and certificate holders get the first preference.
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what we do we give ellis act housing preference holders that come after the cop program or other cites specific preferences that will come after those and before the general population or the san francisco residents. we - the board of supervisors and the christmasing committee that put together the eligibility requirements recognizes that someone who moved into a unit their rents were high enough and probably able to make it in the market but people that have been in the unit for a longer are the ones targeted. so the program is that you have to have been in your unit for 10 years. we will also will allow you to
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be in the units years if you're disabled or have a doctor illnesses so it's for folks that a significa a significant impediment >> so this year we implemented the program in april of this year and went back to 2012 we were able to give certificates to anyone who was ellis act evicted from january 12th through now. as of is end of last month we had issued 82 certificates these those are people that qualified for the ellis act program and of the 82 we've housed 10 people. there were over 8 hundred people from january 1st, 2012, to today
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that have actually received an protecting eviction but not everyone has applied for a certificate and not everyone is eligible. as a comparison we put the cop numbers this is a quick update on the cop program. it is still alive and going strong. we're still issuing certificates every month we're issuing certificates and issued in 2014 so since january we've issued 38 new certificate of preference program certificates. those are people not in the system before. there's over seven hundred active people in the on our list we send nos notices to people this year in 20140 we've housed 9 certificate of preference
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holders with more on lists that have not been listed but in buildings are leasing. this this is i'm going to turn it over to you. >> thank you. >> thanks maria i'm going to walk throw in about 4 sliced more of the mechanics of how this is going to be applied. so i'll yeah. - if you have questions we'll go over that. the e i p doesn't apply to the assisted affordable housing projects currently didn't apply that's why we're requesting this now. and the mayor's office of housing and community development has are requested
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that ocii has a deep certificate holders in new affordable housing. and ocii affordable housing includes the ocii for the or otherwise subject to ocii enforceable obligations this is a inclusionary housing units. i think maria a touchdown on the e i p certificate is through the mayor's office of housing so they'll be qualifying folks that are evicted. that certificate holders will come before the certificate of preference holder and before san francisco residents and workers. it applies to projects with at least 5 affordable units so something p had 4 units that
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wouldn't apply let's say their inclusionary it wouldn't apply to the units and then that applies to 20 percent of the affordable units in a project for example, a one hundred, one hundred affordable projects only 20 of those units can be accessed but is e i p certificate holders. the preference is lids on a project by project basis to insure the consistent obligations and not apply if prohibited by state or federal funding sources or in violation of the applicable laws or enforceable obligations. the preference only applies to future projects would not apply to ocii accentuated housing
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projects with previous development approvals for example, a d b.a. loan, however, it would apply for example, to alice griffith phases one and two and that loan was approved by you in july but we have sxhertd language and the developer add that the commission chooses to adapt the ellis act preference we'll include the preferences at alice griffith. the e i p is applicable with the loan agreements and ground leases all of which are subject to commission approval. per the housing prelims that ocii has with oc d mc d provides the marketing plan and so
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provides staff to implement the application of the ellis act housing preference. staff present this proposed inclusion of this preference in ocii assisted projects to c cac and hunters point shipyard and tb transbay and all were supportive of the proposal. so if approved today staff will work with the developers to incorporate this into the document and in the plans that the ocii will review and approve. per the housing prelims mou they're required to provide marketing reports within 90 gais days of completion with the marketing prongs. that includes the information on the applicable applicants with
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religions to the ellis act so we'll get feedback send e at the end of the martha project. so consistent with the recommendation of the board of supervisors which consider the ellis act preference to be a temporary response to the housing country staff will review the ellis act prefrj after 3 years and recommend to continue or rise or terminate the preference. that concludes my presentation. and maria and i can respond to our questions >> thank you. do we have any speaker cards >> we have one ace washington. >> mr. washington. >> i am quite puzzled by this whole situation this whole
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