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e they're only one hundred dollars from the maximum or 50 away from the minimum what kind of housing we see that kind of trend so we urge you to have those statistics available so it will guide us to what kind of housing needs to be built we need to build affordable housing for all extremely low income and low income and middle-income thank you, very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> name is anthony work in south of market with senior and disability action i'm also with the manila town heritage foundation there's a grave need for having housing balance and also to have that balance monitored i don't think that it is a mystery to anyone there is a lot
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of market rate housing what messages is really - is being stated to the community when you know predominantly moderate of market rate housing is going up what does it tell the worker people and on the message is you don't along here and i'm not of that mindset there is room for everyone in san francisco i'm concerned again with seniors and people with disabilities district 3 has the largest of 28 percent medium income in 2010 was that $7,000 a year i don't know how much social security has risen in the last 5 years but in that area it looks like the housing balance is out of
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balance out of the 6 hundred plus 66 we are affordable that really has to change i'm in favor of the housing balance and having the - this data available 80 so people at least know where we're at and you know we've been fighting for a long time to have more of a balance there is no balance we're trying to get it in the opposite direction and on track thank you. >> thank you very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> i'm 35 years myself housing a big thing here and we need affordable housing some kind of rent control because it is way out of hand
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as far as the was this and the housing they're totally out of balance and we just need to be past thank you. >> thank you our next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm ryan fair a community organizer with tmc we're asking you approve the balance ordinance that has been depraved consummating by the planning commission we know that displacement is a concern because of the lack of housing to meet the housing demand and supply if everyone with the walker prolong the streets to notice the changing city a lack of culture and diversity and loss of establishment and our lgbt community we're losing all
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of that within san francisco; right? and the impacts that have happened for the lack of long term visionary in the policy development and we haven't thought burglary the true implication i'm encouraging to have a workforce we don't have housing for and moving the loss of rent control unit we need to have unbiased data that is produced on an official level through the city to make informed policy decisions that impact our housing community especially on affordable levels without this we're speculating on the implications thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is eric i'm are the san
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francisco latino culture district we're in support of the housing monitoring report balance i think we need to look at each individual neighborhood separately it is the city is not the same all across the neighborhoods particularly in the mission we're ground zero for the displacement we got a report showing that 8 thousand latinos displaced from 2013 and 80 percent of the small businesses latinos businesses from the south mission we are in a crisis for the latino community in the south i think we should add to the number of jobs that are lost find out what those are and the number of businesses displaced we can get the numbers for
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residents we need the big picture to decide what is working and not for us right now what is happening in the mission is not working we're in support of this report thank you. >> thank you. the. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors i'm here representing a member - as a member of ace and bay area long term standing and native born and raised getting back to the last two years because of the affordable housing that was established i'm in support of this i'd like to see it expanded and see some affordable housing built there is a great lack of affordable housing there are people that are civil service employees that can't afford to
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live in san francisco this is very, very sad you have city employees are unable to contribute to the economy here in the city they work and live there is a huge usage crisis this humble development it is candle stick heights i have people approaching me in grocery stores asking me is it that difficult to get into our complex people are desperate for affordable housing they have now decided that they're going to find it by any means available specifically people are seeking to move into my development i want to see more affordable housing particularly in the mission and the bay area community that have been the most impacted i have a college degree and surviving on apartment seasonal employment i don't know if you guys can do
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anything about the employment but certainly the lack of affordable housing crisis so i'm putting this do into your agenda and hopefully, you'll do something in regards to the concerns because the concern is great thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm carolyn i work in the south of market with the veterans equality center but come here a resident of district one i've seen my neighborhood change e mentally in the last 4 four or five years a lot of family's are leaving the richmond i've had close friends rent has increased by over 40 percent so i also work with educators
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that teach in district 11 and can't afford to live in the district they teach this says a lot about the housing balance that san francisco teachers can't afford to live in the city they teach in i urge you all to approve the housing balance ordinance as is. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm james tracey for the community partnering our organization is one hundred percent in favor of the housing balance ordinance i'm sure you're aware of we know there's a lot of supply and demand and regulations around the supply and demand no matter what kinds of the question of supply and demand is answered by more and more housing 345ur9d we know what will happen the income and
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equality and the destruction of our neighborhoods will increase but if we increase the supply and demand making sure the communities are preservation for the issue is front and center it makes that better thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm anthony i'm a member of the harlan hotel i've seen the changes with the area and the coming down from coit tower is getting smaller and smaller the the affordability is more and more less and the.orgers are coming in and the google'sers are coming in we have a problem with a layman person trying to make it and doing regular i
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tenor for the bay and the rent i if i didn't have affordable rent i couldn't live there i am in favor of this proposition a lot of people are is lived there a long time are getting squeezed out a few of the most successful relatives can live here so you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm daniel i'm also part of a member of the group i take it i've lived in all 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
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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 you support 24 it will happen in san francisco i know that piece of territory is worthwhile something so to be a number
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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>> 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 nexus study for the inclusionary zoning has a more affordable housing and the construction of market rate housing that for every one hundred units
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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 gathered the data to demonstrate that we'll move forward with meaningful legislation to aid that reality thank you. >> thank you very much>> thank
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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>> 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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 solutions like the revenue or the other innovative solutions to acquire more affordable housing colleagues, i want to amend as articulated before and
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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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>> the board of directors for our meeting on april 7, 2015, please read the roll. >> commissioner singh director heinecke is anticipated commissioner rosales please be advised the director will not be here we have quorum so item 3 commissioner, back to you and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate
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discussion of these items cell phones cause microphone interference so the board respectfully asked they be turned off and for people standing because of the fire codes people need to find a chair here in the room or go to the overflow room in room 408 so if we could fill in the empty seats approval for the minutes of the march 17. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the i's have it. >> item 5 directors please be advised no closed session at the end of today is agenda item 6 unfinished. >> excuse me. ladies and gentlemen, please okay. go ahead. >> item 6 introduction of new
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