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my life and faced eviction we won that we over turned but but it is a very big building we had a lot of you know made moscone proud and fighting back in the everyone has that privilege you know some have lived in small buildings i used to go to church but i don't go anywhere where do people have to go i think like in shortening or antioch there are a lot of things to say a lot of theories i faced my eviction and now i've been i feel like i've been put in a box i know you guys are trying to further careers i hope
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you support 24 it will happen in san francisco i know that piece of territory is worthwhile something so to be a number piece of paper. >> thank you. i live in phil please support this legislation this will help make sure our city is building properly that will help to make sure we have housing for all protect levels especially for the low houses for the families. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is angela i'm here to support the housing balance legislation we can't build our way out of the housing crisis we
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need to be smart of what types of housing this legislation low give you the planning department and the community a bigger picture of what is happening on the ground and making sure there is balance in san francisco so we hope you'll support both this is a good stepping stone to finally have the community and the departments and you to work together to tackle this housing crisis where once you were pitted against each other thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm marie i'm part of the quarter i want to talk about affordable housing it is not affordable to firefighters much too less housing for people that can't
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find it for low affordable housing we need truly affordable housing not the city index we seem to be slaptd with amendment it doesn't markups to have a city who work here that do a lot of support services can't afford to live here at the mission there's a whole bunch of projects that will bring rich people in i'm thinking of one on 16th and mission and here we talk about a transit first only city but 3 participate project that should be housing low income people that don't have cars and have public transportation or everything they can get into but what we need is more lower income housing we need to be able to house fire houses and teachers
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and policeman and people that clean buildings i think we have 20 housing for tech people that make the million dollars but we need anymore low income housing thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> calvin san francisco clearing house speaking in support of the legislation it is critical to get this legislation passes it is critical to move on a resolution of this issue it took us almost 35 years to recognize that market rate housing as an impact on the transit system and we will today or very soon see a study or nexus study to propose means an actual fee on market rate housing to pay for the transit impacts 6 years ago kaiser did a
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nexus study for the inclusionary zoning has a more affordable housing and the construction of market rate housing that for every one hundred units of market rate housing the kaiser marston study found a demand was generated for the workforce that provided services to the overwhelmingly condominium associations that represents one hundred percent of all market rate construction in san francisco and the demand was created for 20 units i unions a units of affordable housing to house this workforce that housed the workforce there's a definite relationship too the impact on market rate and the availability of affordable housing the sooner we
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gathered the data to demonstrate that we'll move forward with meaningful legislation to aid that reality thank you. >> thank you very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm with the council of community housing organizations first of all thank you, supervisors for working on this legislation supervisor kim and the planning department for having gone through all the necessary steps trying to understand the data that is necessary for the moving forward of our housing and prop k goals at building another a minimum of 33 percent housing in the city we clearly have a long time to go like finding funding and changing zoning and preserving the rent control housing we've gotten i found interesting it
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came through a community process in the western selma an understanding that neighborhood in the western central selma we built thirty percent of our housing and as a city from 1999020 percent of our housing is affordable housing when the market sinks and we're building the high-rise they've shut down their cranes on the other hand, the affordable housing is a small percentage of what is currently entitled moving forward in order to reach the goals we need to start with data and understand the baseline and be able to turn the antidotes the evictions that happen the housing that was built that people tried to get into data that we can use what's affordable for low income and moderate income and what rent control we're using we need
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to understand that by invades supervisor wiener we have huge high-rise how much inclusionary is being built in supervisor cohen's neighborhood that are in the dog patch how much of that is available in bay area is that all in the shipyard those are all - >> thank you fernando do any other speakers? >> hi, i'm robert i'm in the fifth grade and my family has been here for 5 generations i go to sferts. >> wow. my dad passed and now just me and my mom my mom works full-time and goes to school
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full-time after i do my homeowner we go to the park we are now homeless and we can't find a b.a. place to live i used to have my own room but we can't afford a studio i live in my mom's car you couldn't go to school because my mom got a flat tire my folsom mom still doesn't have enough of i get a work permit and work i don't understand why everything has to be so hard i miss any dad and i miss my room i'm just a kid i don't know this has to be like this. >> any public comment on item that item? >> hello, i work in the
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burdening no heights i'd like to say that we support the call for more information related to affordable housing anything that brings us closer to the how's in burr no heights the market rate can't meet the needs of our neighborhood and any more information for affordable housing in general would be much appreciated for us to craft policies and regulations to help our citizens stay here thank you. next speaker. >> hi supervisors supervisor cohen i'm karen batting bit if the sierra club the sierra club supports this ordinance i have copies of the letter that was
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e-mailed an hour ago i hope you haven't read it and be bored prop k was widely passed by the voters the reporting requirements will provide needed data for the planners and others for making informed decisions on housing the sierra club is pleased to see the reporting has take into account the loss of rent control the plan settings s sets forward to monitor the process toward those goals and track it by affordable on the regular base it is hoped that san francisco will make sustainable decisions regarding housing and other developments thank you and please vote yes today on this ordinance i want to see i think that robert did a
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good job i'm embraced to be here i want you make sure you understand the sierra club position. >> next speaker seeing none, public comment is closed for item 3. >> supervisor kim any other remarks. >> no, i want to clarify the amendment that city attorney had brought up a request by the clerk for the resolution by the board of supervisors i know that there is further clarifications and decisions between the clerk and the city attorney's office and read into the record. >> certainly the language i understand was to the sentence you're adding which will change to read in emission with the amendments the annual report shall be accepted by resolution to the board comma which resolution shall be accepted by
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the department i want to add the department was noting you had changed the february 1st to march first but haven't changed the kwoerdz. >> no, no we missed that as well. >> the report should be march first and september 1st and so we can accordingly and thank you to all the public that came out to speak i was surprised to see the overwhelming support 45 minutes of testimony we weren't accepting all you but robert hidden valley high school it all there is an incredible need to make sure the housing all types of residents in san francisco not only the only weighty there
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is incredible frustration with the construction at a rate we've not seen in the history of san francisco since the 1/earthquake and now not seeing more affordable housing but a lot of housing that is out of reach for average resident not only the low income residents in san francisco while this resolution ended up here didn't build the housing but helps us to figure out the resolution we can't do that without indicate it is a simple ordinance ensue agreed upon data points in terms of what is forcible and how we calculate that to know if we're reaching our goal 1/3rd of affordable housing to 60 percent of our residents i know a comment was made 70 percent of the residents in the mission it
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is up to $170,000 income it explicit come from the city but community advocates that went through lots of paper and literally counted the units that were produced and how many were affordable the city should have that not people pouring over that in their home and providing that to the city we need to be providing from the city - but it is great to see a cross section from the bay area and the south of market and tenderloin speaking buyouts importance of this i want to thank you for your support and we'll have support from the board of supervisors for this ordinance this is just the first skep step we want to inform the actual
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solutions like the revenue or the other innovative solutions to acquire more affordable housing colleagues, i want to amend as articulated before and after public comment first and then ask for your support for this ordinance at the full board. >> motion has been made to accept the amendments seeing no reason not to let's accept those amendments unanimously thank you. is there a motion. >> i make a motion with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> all right. thank you very much this move forward with a with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> any other items for this body. >> there's no further business. >> this committee is done
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being here our city administrator thank you for being here and commission thank you and tom hugh and mr. puc guy >> thank you all of you for being here today let me say at the outset we're giving the oath of office for 32 people 118 bodies and commissions that help me deal with the policy challenges but more and more most importantly and the most important thing the commission and advisory bodies do we reach out to people and engage them and bring that diversity of opinion and culture into the way we around government and this is what the exciting to me and let me tell you i'm excited today because the 18 different
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commissioners and advisors bodies are very important to me let's look at who ear appointing people to when we look at our diverse city i have to say and it is not because it begins an organization but art it is important to our city on a local and international level so the arts commissions e commission deals with our diversity and culture and on the eave of the completion of novm the beginning of the maeks the reestablishment of moob and the museums we traditionally have and now a really big opening of community arts that is revienlts has been the reason why we've been able to revitalize market street in the tenderloin lead by the arts
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and the asian arts my name is a big part of that not only because their across the street today but i i think so you have an indulging exhibition it is a sud dusk infection i don't want to talk about that too much but our building inspection commission will be appointed to you don't think them we have serious fires in the city in the past two months over one hundred units of affordable housing we've got to make sure that everybody lives safely in our city and we don't lose housing, in fact, we need to net new build housing in the city to the building inspection commission will make sure that happens commission on the status of women and equal pay of advisors board are important nor many,
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many reasons many of you know you'll be co-sponsors with libby shaft on women's economic empowerment this october we'll bring together all of you and anyone that is have read or interested in making sure that women have no gooblz to economic opportunity and less barriers and those two commissioners will do that i'm excited about the individuals appointed there it is a lot of great talent and high commitment brought to the bodies with respect to equal pay that's a fairly new board they're going to be 4r50k9sd the actual data so we understand what the economic gaps are between men and women in our city and what we need to do that about it and, of course the status of women take that data address revolve it through policy oriented discussions and
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ultimately legislation we need to consider our historic preservation commission and hiv council wow. what they've done to make improvements with the ac a, with 5 hospitals being built with health care being the number one impact driver in this city their incredibly important and wanted to say to you a big that's correct to the health commission they're there day to day to help us with issues of mental health and all kinds of health problems in the community the hiv health services planning council i'm very proud of them we're joining as angle inspire industry to make sure we get to zero infections in the city we are about to launch the opening of
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the wednesday center in the castro this is successful such a great state of the art to help us going get to zero in a short amount of time this year is a one hundred year celebration of our world fair it, of course, allows us to think back a hundred years ago the innovators in our city i mentioned that in a context of this historic preservation commission as part of they're great work to understand and make sure that our city's history is connected to us this building is part of that history but so many other buildings give us that link to the history so it shouldn't intries you one hundred years ago people were doing it and how we're doing it today is
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understood that by our kids that's what the historic preempt will do i told you earlier we're on the ground with making sure we end as much poverty and misery for people as possible we're challenging ourselves by oifsz the 5 hundred most impoverished families in the city and giving them the most intense support to end intergenerational poverty for them i can't do that without the wisdom and guidance of our human services commission and bay the appointee to this commission today george is now going to begin pious o his 40th year on the commission thank you, george for a lifetime worth ever work (clapping.) you know my passion important local business when we appoint
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local business enterprise committee we're making more local businesses to be start and successful to engage in this strong economy we have because for me, the local businesses is really what it is all about and yes we want to grow local businesses to international businesses as well long term care for the couldn't a vital to our ability to delivery services to people that are challenged in the city we need a functioning body to give us the populated considerations whether it's more nutrition and food or more sports for the staffing or the people of the industry that is helping us do long-term care retirement board r rent board wow. what a commission but the
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careful ability to balance between landlord and tenants very, very important to the city it is a sensitive position one we trust of those we appointed to make the right decisions sf that hopefully in most cases is a win-win we can't have strife within landlord and tenants more harmony in the city there is a housing crisis we are doing something about that we are making sure we were the good k345e78gsz going on our conservatism core they're being called up because we video a drought and a lot of open spaces to rehab and change to make sure their drought tolerant work is being done on the open spaces and we also need a conservatism core to help us do that our mta advisory committee we invested
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