the walk through before your selected you know they thrills those are the apartments that are available for us and then they wait until you get selected and do another walk through to see exactly if their giving you the same place and come to find out that's not the case either you take it or do take it you don't have a choice i'm like what's fair about that because if you're going to tell me this was available in your mind this is available now your backed in a corner and someone say we're going to dump this on you so as far as them telling you it's like false advisement you, your

telling me that is available and i know this is not like this is a model then thrills up front the apartment that you're applying is similar to this not going to have closets or you know certain things you're not going to have they're not be honest and up front and two the parking i'm like who going to who got $300 or $350 to pay parking every month i remember what's protecting housing i mean didn't that fall under low income housing why have we been mislead thinking this is the picture over here and all of a sudden they take it away and is we already picked what we want you to have that's

my biggest issue. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm carolyn i work to the veterans quality center at as outreach coordinator and i want to make sure there are bmr procedures that are amend we want to reduce the amount of barriers for the applicants we prepare for we talk about the language assess all the printed and online materials should be trained but i've spent time in line for 3 hours i've seen miscommunication between the staff and applicants who's who primary language is not english and there should be post lottery

interviews also there should be a uniform policy on immigration status like with the developers with visa requirements and also the application itself when you pick up an application you actually get 14 pages only need to fill out 5 but 14 pages is overwhelming for folks whose primary language is not english we definitely think the application should be reformed we've seen there are some columns two small in the application when the folks cross it out like the application developer won't accept it because it's white out there's not a uniform policy so we rehave recommendations of how the application should be formatted it's similar to the 6 pages that oewd has but it's

forbidden city not as dairnt to the applicants. >> may i ask a question. >> yes. supervisor kim. >> i forgot to mention bishop you've housed over 11 hundred people and thank you for being on hand to help people with applications i have a question about the language piece but also the mayor's office of housing prior and you mentioned it sometimes da can be challenging do you find their translated by the private developer. >> it's never been translated i've not seen a translated application i've had to assist

people who speak spanish like in line languag this is kind of me standing in line and meeting those folks. >> so you've never seen woven one of the applications in chinese or tagalog. >> we've had our own volunteers to translate when we do presentations for housing workshops but not one you can get off the website or pickup from a developer. >> have you asked did developer for the translated application before and no, i have have not. >> that was a question for her. >> how long have you been working in this capacity. >> i've been working for 2 years and other kind of rental area too. >> okay. >> next speaker. >> good evening supervisors

and congratulations to supervisor cohen for another 4 years. >> thank you. >> i'm here i was here on another meeting upstairs with the capital planning committee that went through the infrastructure of the city and county well, i've got a lot of things to say but the friday morning there needs to be you might do this politically set aside for each individual groups i know there recent gaze and the asians and he everybody else when i'm up here advocating for the black african-american who has no representatives to talk to our people but i'm dealing with public housing which houses plenty of people now the young lady said this was her first year anniversary welcome to the city this is my

25th up u unpaid and serving the tenants of this community for over 25 years way before most of you were in city politics you call this city hall i call is silly hall hud all those different changes our talking about there was a hyde meeting with some of the supervisors held the meeting supervisor breed was very disappointed in hud and everybody else that was involved now roadway i'm here to tell the city olsen lee and ed lee there's a new era the city is broken your breaking and entering people from all over the country and not sit down and talk to people like myself not one time

not one time have they come ask the expert that's okay. i'm going to file an injunction this is a new era and all those pope's people are coming and complaining but we as african-americans have been doing this over 25 and thirty years displaced and put together the self-corporation i forget but no one is going to ask me is question and olsen lee knows me and mayor ed lee i can't understand the city and county you go outside our city limits to answer the questions need is our community this is a new era and dog done it i don't have time i hope you have a meeting

are olsen lee i'm asking for a meeting all hands on do everything we can and sit down so we as people from the community that have been here years can work with the new comers and the developers taking over public housing those nonprofits even in our district 6 ac/dc is in may be district they're in total violation so there's a new beginning yours truly eye washington i do not need our provision i have two generations under me. >> i'm sorry sir, your time is up madam clerk close the microphone. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, supervisors i'm gloria that resident at rincon

point we're here to provide fenway about the 25-year-old program as you create new bmr programs we hope the city will help us to resolve the low income tenants and other bmr programs many other older bmr programs like ours it is important that the city duo more than create those but they should be justified to remain effective while the original developer promoted it the subsequent owners chip away to the it they've eliminated units and moved them to less nice locations they've also fourth our rights to distribute the meeting nos it

was stated there shouldn't be two tiers of the apartments but they're clearly deteriorating some tenants have 25-year-old carpets and appliance noting none of the market rate apartments one has 25-year-old carpenter and has a rent increase of many hundreds of dollars a city inspector visited one bmr apartment and issued citations thank you. >> next speaker >> hi good afternoon. i'm laurel i also live on howard street and participate in the b m program bmr tenants have been denied leases and violation of the city housing plan words in the housing plan says tenants shall be provided leases

the owners claim the word shall is different from the word must and city argue they're not rearview mirror to provide leases to their credit the redevelopment agency address this dispute several years ago but it has not been resolved and to increase the tenants sense of ensecurity in their housing there are glishz that mo h hats been unwilling to address include the bmr tenants being moved into higher rents places those rent increases can be as much as 40 percent we warned mo h this would happen they refused to address the problem the bmr tenants are vulnerable and many problems are caused by mo h

insistence they only use hud ami to calculate the adjustments ami number is clearly out of sync with the economic and has brought about increases as high as 9 percent hyde has said the city should not use this ami there are plenty of accurate groups but mo h refuses to consider those alternatives annual rent you adjustments are supposed to match the changes in the ami yet there's a glazing (inaudible) in the process. >> thank you. next speaker. >> can we get this to the

supervisors. >> you can also provide your full comments to the committee you were not able to finish. >> dave with the rents are increased by the same percentage when we've protested those that don't match the economy the city promises that the bmr rents go counsel to offset the increases it's at roller-coaster approach but the city didn't - it may sound like a bit of a stretch to accept the rent increases they're absolutely fair and necessary so long as mo h

continues to use the erratic ami and mayor lee's mayor's office of housing are inconsistent the rhine con management and the bmr tenants have been urging the parolees manual now they're saying the manuals are not applying by management continues to use the manuals and they refuse to clarify this inconsistency we don't know the rules please remember those are income based relocate incomes to keep the workers in the city since they're in less desirable parts of the city it's better to have the workers butt put down their roots and there are needs to be stabilize lit we have had recommendations we're suggesting

that a ssi on bmr matters be created to meet with mo h on a regular basis and the meetings are the director are need to resolve the current problems and recommend you hold a followup meeting and fourth since mo h has important dutsz there should be an oversight commission. >> thank you very much is there any additional public comment on item number 4 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you i actually had a few follow-up questions from the public comment that was made either to mr. benjamin or director lee terrors is the comment made by the member of bishop she's not seen a translated housing application form i don't know if you have a response i found out

that stunning. >> well currently it - the requirement inform translate is in our outreach portion of - they have to translate outreach materials application is not in the list of stuff they have to translate we have to ask them to do that this is one of the things we're definitely changing in our next manual update. >> can we require that i'm shocked that we never required project sponsors to translate those are i never thought to ask that question i assumed we do. >> they'll tells us we asked the question and they is, yes we'll do that. >> can we summit that with

their market plan. >> we'll definitely consider that that's definitely going to be in the updates of manual we'll work with our staff when we get get to that point. >> historically how is that we only require the marketing not the application. >> it didn't - they - an oversight i imagine. >> an oversight for 25 years. >> it wasn't into the outreach until the 2013 manual update. >> the 997 manual didn't speak at all to translation. >> i'll make sure that all the applications are translated i

don't know how people have been applying this whole time without translating but a chinese town b mc or a metro. >> we certainly have we in the office have translated certain documents we understand the need to understand people need to understand what they're doing and the requirement so we have translated documents that we've done in house. >> yeah. they should be required and we should definitely work on that a couple of questions came up from the last set of public commenters on the bmr i know your office has been working with them on standards on workshops i was wondering about two issues though specifically one was you

know whether bmr units are given to building employees that are maybe managers or employees of the building and that's kind of open the - >> that would be a violation of the city and the bmr unit has to go though the lottery system. >> maybe we can get more information from the residents of rhine con hill regarding. >> i say that but each development has a different rules and this was in the agreement that was made 20 years ago. >> it's one thing if you get into a bmr unit if they allow the residents to apply for jobs but i hope in their not straight away offering it to the employees jumping the waited list process second issue that came up that i had a question about the number

of bmr units have been cut in half and at the rhinincon. >> they all they're on plans and its unique it allows for the developer or the owner to an a certain number of units that are affordable. >> i'm looking this one project is it the case at the rincon center were cut in half. >> yeah. the rincon plan is there a specific development disposition agreement there are bond issues for this particular development that had a certain

number of units that are outstanding at the time as that time passed the units expired and the number of unit reverted to a number based on an prenegotiated housing plan and it's clearly not something that would be something we'll do today by. >> i appreciate that. >> it was negotiated as part of the redevelopment plan at the time. >> what happened to the tenants that natural kind of whether they left nor the mid-market rate or evicted. >> i don't recall what happened through attrition or what happened i think clearly you know at that time that development was negotiated all of the south beach advertisements were being negotiated south beach maria and

the other vinyl, etc. as well as the selma center during a period where multiple family housing was development for the first time all of those building were perhaps with exception of the rincon center came in financial difficulties which sort of illustrated you know the newness of what the city was trying to do with the multiple single-family homes i can't explain why the redevelopment plan and those developments and disposition agreements were structured clearly to allow for the revitalization of that and the limited term of public benefit and clearly that's not the practices of ocii today nor is that the practice of the

inclusionary units are restricted for 75 years or the life of the project. >> thank you, thank you i could probably ask a hundred more questions i'll refrain but also acknowledge there's a lot of work ahead of us but work in process we've accomplished this far and really look forward to continue the work with the tenants and the community-based organization and, of course, the mayor's office of housing and our office is working on the steps a policy we've been talking about the inclusionary dial and i know our office has been engaged with supervisor cohen office we know that inclusionary house will be built in district 6 and 10 and for members of the public that don't understand this issue we've heard from our constituents at lower medium income that those units at the 55 percent ami is

too hyphae the medium working class is 575 percent that may not qualify for bmr ownership opportunities that are in the middle range they don't qualify for the bmr ownership so we're interested in moving forward on a policy dial to allow nor units at a slightly higher income and slightly lower for our low income residents i know a that's one step we're moving forward and second we want to work on a formation of below market rate completion workshop with the residents our stiff staff to hash out some of the conversations we're having on the translation of the documents and the number of gaze and what factors to allow you to

get an automatic expansion and so the private of housing and finally introduce legislation that requires a collection of information about why resident are leaving it's a positive story but if there are repetitive patterns we're finding the nuisance and the types of lease violations that are causing ellis acted and middle-class residents that are losing their housing so we have an exception of what some of the challenges maybe so really want to thank everyone for coming out the residents and mayor's office of housing and colleagues not sure if you have other questions or comments. >> didn't look that way so would you supervisor kim like to

file this or continue to to the call of the chair. >> to continue to the call of the chair. >> so the motion to continue item 4 to the call of the chair we'll take that without objection. thank you madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. then we're adjourned