her she will consciously be in my memory and never forget the movement we started about the housing and the seniors and immigration and advocacy for the poor that has been her mantra i want to honor her with every single day that occupied this office of san francisco it's her dna that should be here the name of that for the senior housing and the entities that were put together i'm looking at bobby think that the brothers they've got it their dna in this and other projects throughout the city we're going to do more in fact this is what i know vieira will say mayor ed lee you've got to do more i'm planning to put more in the budget i know that last year's budget vieira and annie said you have to diesel with

food security seniors are having a hard time it can't be the food centers but make sure their better endo you do we put money into the food security for seniors in particular because costs were going up drastically a plate of healthy food was used to be one dollar 050 and people can get that but now four or $5 so with we have to make sure the services were there and housing is incredible part of that that are but all to say that everybody in this city is stepping with the affordability agenda prosperity agenda i don't want to miss an opportunity to put together the kind of talent that's been demonstrated here and build buildings but rehab them sworn testimony with i

don't want to rebuild to replies lost housing we're rehabilitating housing as well where hud has helped they've supported our rad program that's going to authorize some 6 thousand units to be rehabbed in the entire city y while we gain additional housing i need not remind you of a population that is more senior as time comes with the affordability of the city becoming more and more out of reach i have to giving me get to an aggressive housing agenda i hope your not only here to celebrate but join me in november to pass a housing bond to make sure we continue an aggressive affordability of housing we're not only going to do that i've asked all the vendors in the city to join me

and do a call i don't even ask them for money i should have i skmd asked them to call each of their banks the institutions that fund their market rate housing they have investor conversation tell the banks to call mayor ed lee and give him your best below market rate you have so we can create an accelerator fund so we we announce a project we can accelerate that ability hud liekdz to see that they love our choice neighborhood to accelerate those projects go work it is partly giving credit where the money is right now our households is because people needs it can't wait years at the same time i'm not not allowing

our seniors to be part of evictions we were in sacramento to carve out ellis act evictions as supervisor kim i'm getting more and more excited as people say i've got land that is underutilized let's grab it and get our stabilization funds to buy down those rent control units not a plagiarized for slack later we can only do it if we have the collaborative government it licenses to our citizens demand we took it perp to act i'll continue to do that as long as i'm mayor and even beyond age 62 hopefully, we have more of those sites made and i've already identified sites we can get our hands on in

fact i've shocked one of the church, i called them up wheaten do you do besides the parking lot they're saying you're calling me wow. i've got to go to the board and talk about this ever site should be considered we have a housing crisis but we have beautiful people like vieira in the time of crisis step forward and so has the agencies with that i take great privilege in declaring this to be vourgz senior housing day in san francisco (clapping) i have doug and barry and the sisters and laura

(clapping) echo family housing good (laughter). >> want me to hold him. >> thank you. >> your first paparazzi thank you very much. >> and, yes you did talk about you lost the kitchen. >> thank you, mr. mayor greatly appreciated both the sentiments today but everything you're doing to make a difference opens this vital vital issue so the mayor sort of began i'm going to time the going on father i was going to

say something the going on has gone off i don't know if i can i often wait to talk about the team that built the building but bob and others are here are excellent general contractor they've done a phenomenal job on the dooirm and working with the night club i didn't you brothers on renovation projects and pleased with the work i want to thank bob and mike but also phillip and valerie and on that were critical to the project (clapping) the arithmetic from h it have done wonderful affordable housing work we've been lucky

enough to partner i'm going to go through the list (calling names) so thank you very much from the folks from h it. >> and i want to take a second there are many people with a connection to mercy housing i want to ask for a moment if you're on the staff of mercy housing raise your hand we can thank you and including our new board of advisors now we're 50 percent through no, it's mites e my pleasure to bring you up a merrycy aluminum from the city community capital and another incredible partner christine from the valley bank they partnered up to be the lenders on the deal you're in

really good hands with the two of those folks thank you for the work this is a calibrated project not one you looked at lightly i want to bring up the folks for their work (clapping). >> thanks doug hi christine this is a great day mercy are good but tough there's about to stop sign our loan term sheet if you're invited to speak be brief that's the deal but, of course fast forward to ribbon cutting day and weed we'd like you to speak remember the commitment to be brief be brief in half 0 this is for you mercy before i i'm

going to turn it over to that's the theme nora for the day what good can come by working together with skill and expertise just a couple of quick thangdz we represent the construction lender with the parts from silicon valley bank it is $22 million so soon to be repaid by hud thank you very much so especially focused on the constriction issues couldn't have had a better team this building is beautiful you feel it in the space i want to acknowledge my appreciation to the douglas firm with h italy's (clapping) so they stop sign it and the night club i didn't brothers built this is a tight site they've got a deep foundation i

was scared about this you know no news is good news but this is smooth as could be and night club i didn't brothers thank you very much for that and lastly the point person the captain of the team is mercy housing development they have someone that cracks the whip i want to give my special thank to sharon before i i'm going to turn it over to christine i'd like to say to the 20 new residents their fortunate to have this as their place of residents welcome home. >> thank you daniel leary. >> i think i can speak for merryl this is one of the best days of our job it takes years for a project to come together not only to come together but to

get built it was years to get the financing and the hud 2 o 2 grant and the two years of construction so alleyway all you we have people if in room that make a project like this happen that had a i want to thank you and the staff and silicon valley bank we have the tag line in addition to the $20 million each we put in in debt and equity which we're participant in the equity together combined putting in $40 million plus silicon valley's bank $90,000 federal home loan grant we we have a tag line with an one of our many tag lines nothing we'd rather be doing that says it all nothing

we'd rather be doing than partnering with mercy hospital on t a project like this (clapping) >> so from city community capital thanks too on the so thank you from the bank side (clapping.) as christine mentioned another important partner was the bay area lift and another corporation they'll be speaking together you've seen todd many times he's often our k3wik9 investor and able to work with complicated projects that makes them seem simple and many of you know a stalwart over the years and provided an important grant to help us get the lead silver

identification so with that todd and peggy. >> good afternoon let me introduce peggy with the bay area they're a parent corporation i have to be novice to peggy what lift does is provide loans for people and she's into a deal with the last money out thank you, peg i didn't as you've heard from silicon valley bank christine those are complicated projects i couldn't do it doug made it sound easy this team a fantastic sharon and barbara and jennifer they're tough negotiators i'm surprised they let me have 38 my

shirt this project is a multiple number of investors so silicon valley bank and wells fargo bank of the west and city national are you'll people that gave us money so from my prospective this is special thank you and we appreciate it (clapping) >> so supervisor kim was mentioning to see me that's the great point so some seniors that live and be part of the community are living in this home will have been the advocates for change i think that supervisor mentioned the incredible advocacy around the corner liquor dell lists we call them that in jerseys and all the wonderful thanks that happy and mercy is in an england visible

position there's so much work but in addition to st. anthony's i want to thank the community partners that have been here and will continue to be here and do such great work lukter and he others (calling names) so thanks to everyone that do all the work that helped us get to here today lp (clapping.) with that, i'd like to bring up diane in a and laura to say a few words (clapping) >> and beven. >> sorry we don't have a photo release. >> this is vera raze grandson

beven the last time we were here was at a groundbreaking i have wonderful pictures of my mom shooe she walked down the foundation of the building i'm really glad we have that memory of her and those pictures of her thank you for naming that building after our mom it really is fantastic culmination of her work and her dedication this building embodies so much of what she worked for and fought for and inside this buildings are the residents and the people the residents the seniors a that's who she worked for and cared about and we told the story at her memorial on her

way to intensive care on the last days of her life she took the list of potential residents there's a long list a printout of the lottery and she want to review the list because like i said, the people are what meandered the most to her she also encouraged us to volunteer so as a teacher i've brought some of the fifth graders to the community service and glad memorial i really appreciate having this place to continue to serve to bring evan is serve and volunteer (clapping) and keblg with his grandma this

is truly we believe a perfect way to memorialize vieira and better than any gravestone thank you (clapping). >> i get weep i didn't at some point that was the first okay so i think those are wonderful words i think all of us appreciated what vieira did it is a wonderful feeling in the room so have this many people that cared about her and this impact so many people in the neighborhood that work was

influenced or started by vieira this is a wonderful opportunity with people that shared that experience i want to bring up ms. jackie robinson a new resident here to say a few words ms. robinson is quite be unbeliever she's raised 14 children and she's here today (clapping). >> hello, everyone (clapping) i'm a resident here at vera haile housing senior housing i'd like to thank mercy housing for giving me an affordable place to live a wonderful place thank you (clapping) and especially thanks to vera haile housing (clapping). >> all right. thank you very

much jackie and so by way of of closure we're going to have a brief encounter for some of the folks for the speakers on the deck there's going to be tours and a little bit of a buffet lunch we hope you'll stick around i'm scanning to make sure i'm sure i forgot someone i'm going to have a will with the fact i'm sure i forgot someone i want to (calling names) are the staff that will be running the building for mercy and going a wonderful job marissa grew up in this neighbor the mercy staff are incredibly dedicated and incredible strpdz

and for the residents i'm happy this opportunity is here i hope you'll share your steroids with that i want to thank everyone for your time and keep yourselves part of the movement and hopefully st. anthony's and mercy are good stewards as well have a great day as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about

the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they

didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity

foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking

school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that

age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not

successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how

our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who

know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for good afternoon i'd like to call