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city over 10 years and recently moved to the east bay i can't return to the city i'm not alone and in oakland i faced rents going up my rent went up a couple of hundreds dollars over the past year so what's happening what we did or do do it effects the whole region it is a housing crisis for all across the region and that's why i urge you to support this ordinance we need the data have a factual accurate conversation about what was happening in the city and i'll add that people are getting evicted now homeless now a crisis now we can't afford any delay thank you. >> hello commissioners hello, again tom this time i'm here
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with the recent past, present of the harvey milk democratic club we supported supervisor kim's balance we supported it on prop k and today, we support her balanced monitoring ordinance as well i'm going to put this sticker business owner back on and as someone that spend time in my bar i hear all kinds of candid realties and not a week has begun by that served folks in the noah valley they're to have to leave the neighborhood they've been evicted whether joe that lived across from the safeway and worked at sfo and lives in kansas with his mother
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or chris spent a month after being married was served an eviction notice going to los angeles if you know any bartender that can live here ask any resident in the city we have a his or her balance problem we're way out of whack we need hard data and now so we can get our housing in balance and fight to keep the city you and i all know and love thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'll call - .
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(calling names) >> i believe i was in the last stack peter cowen you've heard excellent testimony and more to come are i want to thank your staff director for working on designing this it was a very collaborative effort to make this thing work the housing organization supports the 20 first two amendments there are fine tuning to the amendment and support supervisor kim's amendment and ask you include that in our motion for the commission to go to the board and we do oppose the third amendment but like you've heard prosecute others thank you for giving a pathway not for that to be a fight it is critical this ordinance be passed and
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implemented immediately as yourself you've heard the crisis is now and the prop k measure was widely supported with the action that happened immediately whether funding a lot of talk about a bobbed or the work in central selma or counting the housing balance we need that information i'll reiterate that you've heard from others when it comes to our capacity director ram if you want to make amendments to our budget proposal to the board we'll be happy to support you adding another half or making a modification to insure your reporting few minutes ago is prioritized we'll be happy to support we've mentioned that many times over let us know and beyond that commissioners we ask you move this to the board with
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our strongest support and urge your need to get it implemented now thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm ryan a contingent organizer and resident of district 5 my family i traced my apples to apples series back to the 2k3w0shd days but people facing crisis with the massive monuments of evictions and fires and the mental and social prelims that i feel a stranger in the neighborhood you've glutin up with we're not skiing to talk about that we're trying to support the numbers; right? we don't know where housing is being produced at what what's
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been produced what's the total net gain are we meeting the standards that was passed unanimously by the voters of san francisco i ask any of you to take the raw data and figure out where we are where the district per neighborhood where's the loss of rent control unit address the net gain of omaha and market rate housing that number is hard to find and had a right to digest for some think that be tech savvy and much alone the average accept a that's produce those numbers and make sure that people are access to digest the information and inform our policymaking decisions make sure make sense
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how to act accordingly in the future and have numbers produced from a credible source that is unbiased we take that information and move forward responsibly thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm a family organizer and recipe of south of market as a selma resident i've met a lot of people that are low income quite jam packed in a not habitable room sacrificing because they can't afford to rent a condo i'm here 0 urge you to track the development in 9 city residents and applicants need to know how housing neighborhood is being met across the spectrum the monitoring includes citywide
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housing production and housing within the neighborhood in relation to prop k this will better to the public how and where the development is happening in the city. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm a resident in selma i'm here today to urge you to approve supervisor kim housing balance legislation in the selma i see a lot of housing has changed it is affordable to me and other immigrant families the city talks about lease to build housing but who are they building housing for it is
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supporting system it is important because the data information will inform us about the housing position in my neighborhood and the whole city thank you. >> thank you as the next speaker comes up i'll call more names (calling names). >> hi, i'm i's religious i'm a nurse i've lived here for about 40 years in the mission and i was evicted twice in the 80s and 90s when you could find a place to stay in the community and keep our community and health care what that i fear because i'm a nurse i see cares through health problems we'll have a housing and health crisis
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being evicted is a bad for your health people stop eating not sleeping their stressed out their blood pressure goes up they're not business owner themselves a lot of people accept buyouts they can't afford the streets i don't know if you know about the mapping project is a fascinating the hard work very eloquent maps it you looked at that the net housing affordable housing has been 14 percent of the goal for 2014 and 2014 and obviously 2007 and 2014. >> obviously we'll be out of the city it is heartbreaking guarantee going block by block the families will have lost
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their fires on mission street that was hard most of them went to treasure island and park merced and other families they kind of lost their community and hopefully, will be back right next door to that fire of the vetting to luxury apartments i think this is an apartment for $8,000 a month it is very poignant the craft so i'm obviously urging you to pass this housing balance as quickly as possible it is needed something much stronger but since that's what we have please pass it as quickly as possible without delay thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm eric the latino cultural district we're an organization that consists of
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mfrnt and youth and homeowners and landlords in the midst district we're here in support of the monitor report to be passed and passed as quickly as possible we're in a crisis in the mission district the latino district is in a crisis in the mission district we're in an affordable housing crisis in the district we got a report from the demonstration association showing the numbers of the latino from the democratic club we lost 2 thousand latinos 80 percent of our small businesses in the mission in the latino small businesses so what we're seeing is a complete displacement of our population i hope this report includes the population shifts the loss of
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bmw's loss of jobs in the latino community so i hope that this report is a tool that what capture the full picture not only what is being built market rate housing didn't work in the mission there's a lot of things that need to be done in order for it to work we need to stable lids our community and make sure they're there so we're here in support of the monitoring report and we hope it gets passed as quickly as possible thank you. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> wanting and commissioners, thank you i want to start off i represent the san francisco latino democratic club as the vice president it's executive board is here in support of the legislation it's past due it's
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and i constitute planning commission that has been doing their job for quite a while just today looking at a piece of legislations that helps them do their job better i hope there's no reservation we absolutely needs it a changing city is a dramatic change that rest in our hands so we ask you support this legislation and we believe and know it is going to help you do our job better and we appreciate that we received the numbers a report by meta the numbers were a loss of 8 thousand latinos the other 24 hundred evictions in
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the mission half of those no fault i just received a facebook message other 2:00 p.m. listening this the testimony a friend i grew up with was served an eviction she's going through an ordeal i think the landlord a wants to sell the property i figured you're the closest person to help us anything we're stressing out and scared i get those open a regular basis and i do whatever i can to help to connect them with the resources but hard decisions have to be made to protect the community that have lived here that sustained this city and serve as a bed rack of san francisco because those communities have glutin up here they're not going to leave the teachers and the
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technique drivers and the people once they leave we're going to be doing those jobs but again with the full support of the latino democratic club we ask you to support and very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm kay walker i got a note yesterday from the san francisco gray panthers i'm a member of the gray pen there is i'm speaking for them we didn't take a obsolete but i'm we'll support this as a native and having watched this huge change i'm in culture shock i was born on 23rd street and my parents bought the house for
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$3,000 there's it was a vic arena i watched the city change and have never felt are terrible i liked people coming in from the outside until the last seven years what we have now a major invasion and, of course the economic class that is doing it only it used to be san francisco very wooimd that was the bulk of the population community were solid i grew up in a noah valley it used to be part of the myths i went to mission high when i heard some of the speakers i hardly stopped crying my friends have been evicted those are seniors that moved out not only 69 city but to another part of
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california an old friend of thirty years had his rent increased 17 times what he was paying he's lucky to find a place in berkley and but it is in an area that didn't have transportation and he's disabled those stories i mean senior housing i'm on two lists i've been on two lists for 5 years that's how large the demand is i really want you to get it maybe if you have good incomes or own your own home you don't but this is a terrible shame i don't know any other city in the united states that's going through this i want the measure to go back when the.org breaks were given and the corporate
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breaks were given and look at the development and found out what the market rate is as a ratio to affordable below market rate is not affordable that's why the people in the mission and i 3 hundred and 50 people came to the meeting and said no, we want one hundred percent affordable because b r you you know the mayor has raised or the - >> thank you, ma'am unfortunately, your time is up. >> thank you hi, i'm christie i live in district 14 i know the sunset district we're now giving a new high-rise in the neighborhood and i live in an apartment that
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has had very few raises in the rent but now she's talking about raising the rents i'm in a disability situation and my mother living with me fifth generation san franciscan and she's also disabled and we're told there is no longer at security of disabilities for saving you from being thrown out from your rent from our rent anymore so also we've heard that rents are being raised because there are now houses being flipped because of the new law in the area they're
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able to bring in people from out of town to buy up houses and turn them over and so we're getting a lot of raise in the rentals so buying - pitting in the money i mean the time to get those statistics in is really violate i think you're doing a would be doing a good service and just driving down market street you can count over a dozen new high-rises of like she said what are they called the - the people that are now
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not investing in our community but that are now living in our community with a lot of money $8,000 rent and don't really yeah, they really don't participate in us as much as we'd like the clerk. >> thanks. >> thank you >> next speaker former commissioner president. >> hi my name is christen private citizen it's interesting to be on this side of things i feel like i've been unleashed. >> anyway, i'm here to encourage all of you to support of the housing balance owners
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you've heard all the stories today, many of them anecdotal but when we are sitting up that making policy the real way to set policy having all the information we have in front of us that comes to approving projects and other policies so i courage you to pass this without amendment today i'd like to say this is off topic to invite you we'll be reaching out to the mission district as someone mentioned thousands of resident being displaced and hundreds of latino families not only latinos families seniors and artist and writers and people that have represented the city that's a lot of stuff whether your back on this side of the rail and talking to people in the neighborhoods and meeting are
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small business owners and talking to people that are residents or former residents or residents undertreat of eviction it really kind of it can't help but move our heart in a certain way it is important to or have an open heart that informs the policy decisions/also i want to thank dennis richard for coming out and meeting with us we'll be calling commissioner antonini and commissioner president fong and commissioner wu and eventually want time with director ram and to update you on things we're experiencing i'm not sure how fill of a picture your subject to so there's nothing like being on the ground with residents and again, it's wonderful to see all of you. >> thank you for your time and
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we look forward to meeting you with individually thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, again commissioners i'm amy the neighborhood for 40 visa care and proud to be joining in request the coalition of neighborhood to support the sustainable development and, of course i support supervisor jane kim's push for getting the data to make informed decisions about moving forward with inclusive development if a time of crisis to think about the causes of the crisis back in 2008 everybody was talking about those economic times those hard times that were caused by the global financial collapse by the banks what we're dealing with an offshoot of that and lack of mr. sanchez planning
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about the regional growth of the technician communities so we need to be thinking about this in a regional way when we talking about so say no to the equality the reason i wear this hat we live undertaking in a democracy and need to come up with the mission forward is have opportunity brown before us in terms of the balboa park restore how to figure out the best use to create affordable housing and have a group like sf burr ac k a bark for 6 thousand unit and the other side the neighborhood that is pushing back against anything
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happening tulsa at all i'm in the middle ground trying to find 6 thousand units is too much impact we need more analysis but zero is not the answer either so you know where is this happy medium and create the workforce that will house the teachers and civil servant and students in streamline schools and the african-american community we have the certificates of preference how is it we create a great strategy for using the land supervisor tang is talking about developing others old site another 46th and n judah but not a talk about the transitional
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and tiny house villages and think about it all so i really courage people to been your yes when we're talking about the type of zoning we want to see >> hi commissioner president fong and commissioners and the planning director i'm karen from the sierra club i sent you a letter of support about the 4 minutes before the 0 meeting started the sierra club supports supervisor kim's housing balance monitoring and reporting ownerships and recommend approval in addition we would like to see the dlalts implemented as soon as feasible that is working itself out i hope no delays the essentially supported prop k in november of 2014 so we were glad to see this
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companion ordinance and the reporting requirements in the ordinance about provide data needed for planners and advocates like the sierra club and others to make informed decisions on housing and other department issues sierra club st. is pleased to see the control of the losses of housing rent control the housing element the city's jean plan set forward creating the system necessary to monitor the affordability level on a regular basis and san francisco will have the data for sustainable decision pr's clearly right now the housing situation is not sustainable eave heard for individuals and we're also spilling over into other regimes that is not only
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the sierra club that is a karen batting it position we're exploiting our actions so this is a good start thank you very much. >> hi my name is andy blue and i'm with the plazas 16 coalition we have not had a change to vote but one thing the plaza 167 coalition cares about it affordable housing i'm here to add my voice in support of the supervisor kim's reporting ordinance the city government and it's residents know how the city is meeting it's housing policies and established in the housing elements the general plan and last november prop k past overwhelmingly it monitor the process towards the goal and
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