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actually afford to live in the mission but i work here and support a lot of the community that is being displaced with dealing with harassment everyday in the mission our saying that let the market take care of it supply and demand what when i have thousands of people that are demanding affordable housing what is that supply and demand and have thousands of people being displaced and having no place to live and getting to be homeless i was homeless i know what that means and not having enough supply and in shelters to deal with oil all the people that are displaced you didn't have enough how's; right? so why not make sure there is affordable housing before any more luxury you housing for people that don't live in the community gets built we're not
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saying don't build housing but build for the proposed taking care of our children and community building; right? the that we see in san francisco and by the way building politics for the city to continue to be a city that stand for human right let's make sure we actually actually work for the people that are doing that job because all the people here they work 3 jobs but necessary still come to a board meeting today; right? and they're actually having to deal with st. mary's much more than you believe and, yes, we're talking about more than day slavery when people have to wake up at 5 in the morning to come here because they live in oakland or someplace else and have to adjust just to be able to pay for rent i mean, the worse ethnic korean and your
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supporting racist policies if you don't stop the community is being displaced it is about race it's about >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) and good evening supervisors and everyone that is here at the community and here on behalf of my family and husband and two children and i'm also here on behalf of my neighborhoods on 23rd and from i live in the mission since 1999 when i came from san francisco from san diego to live in san francisco to for the purpose my passion to be a human rights and environmental activist that is why i came to san francisco
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as i mentioned i'm a mother of two children my 6-year-old daughter graduated from kindergarten at leonard school yeah. and we love living here last year as i mentioned i came home one day after working work to find a fat notice to say we have hundred and 20 days to leave our home and the neighbors got the same notice and i will never forget that day because my heart sank i have rent control how can that happen that's what they do and rental speculation does the people walking around with id pads not clipboards that's what rental speculation looking at your daughter in the eye saying we
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have to leave our home no we're not leaving we're going to fight for our community i really want to thank all but community that have been fighting for the mission so we can continue to live here a couple years ago >> thank you. >> oh. >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) >> hi, i'm an organizer with the senior and disability action i wanted to just ask you to imagine your 70 years old and you get a notice that you've been evicted and you live on a income of 8 hundred and 89
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that's the ssi so you think you're going to have a place to live in the city after that? no you're not going to have a place in the city in that's not fair that's not fair a lot of the seniors they put their life into making the city that is now and it breaks my heart to that concludes my report still we have to come here because there are people that didn't understand what is needed in this city we need the moratorium we need to stop you know the evictions in the mission we need to stop the evictions in san francisco and if some of you said the moratorium is not enough is it so not a plan okay. maybe we need an extend moratorium and make a moratorium to the evictions too not just to
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buildings but the evictions too thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i live in the excelsior and been working at sfusd for 11 years in the excelsior i had no plan to speak but after hearing bumping into parent of my students and former students and current students it is ridiculous i teach them about the critical issues and didn't come here and represent those who couldn't be here also (clapping.) thank you a couple of things i want to touch on i want to share my brother with my time i was in an ethnic studies group we fought for that that is ironic so many of the teachers in the room were basically discussing how many of the students that are going to
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get to see their younger relatives taking the categorize because so many have been evicted i get to see the trickle down effect of the lack of affordable housing in my classroom and increase of students that are essentially three or four members of the family jammed into one home this greatly impacts my classroom those are the things we have the information pathway balboa high school and students have said we need not a tolling soerment of 10 or 15 to get hired we actually need is affordable housing what they've said i don't know our teachers not the tyrannies shouldn't get a laptop but ultimately affordable housing
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not a set of computers and another thing they've been taught they live in a sunday evening city but as a result of those - >> thank you, ma'am your time is up thank you. your time is up thank you. >> (inaudible). >> (clapping). >> teacher with the academic high school in the bayview our students don't feel safe our children don't feel safe this events that have happened and the murder of alex is the relative to the changes and gentrification happening in the city and our students know that our community knows this this is why we're here and we voted you
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into office to make the changes and we don't feel the hope i know some of you i live in the same community and organized with some of you and i thought that was hope it is hard to see that hope right now i hope i'm wrong your students as a teacher when i asked them do you see users or yourselves living if san francisco in 5 years they're not blind to what what is happening they need affordable housing our students are already malia cohen homeless they're not connected to the city it is this moratorium didn't pass how are we serving them and our community we're only assuring that, yes you should be hopes no future in san francisco where are you going to raise our family you can't afford this luxury housing
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we need affordable housing not luxury buildings we need to remember why we're in the seats to serve the people think about the days when you were organizing and the days you were in the community doing the ground work and the grassroots organizing that is still here we still believe in you make us believe in you say yes to moratorium and yes to hope. >> thank you. next speaker please (clapping.) >> hello good evening supervisors my name is sandra parker what is happening in san francisco is crazy okay. i'll start with that i'm going to keep this simmer this is an emergency the response to the urgency is not building faster and be quickly or quicker and bigger the
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response needed to be believable smarter and planning and wiser okay 45 day moratorium is just the start it is a plan in summary this is thrilled i'm fearful that people who don't have who don't make at least 2 hundred to $300,000 a year will not be able to live is this microphone on. >> yes. >> will not be able to live in san francisco thank you so much (clapping.) >> hello city council pretty sure talk about my experienced living in san francisco was really rough growing up here my mom died when i was young i was forced into foster homes and had a hard time living in san
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francisco i love this town i i am an artist and love measure additional the things i work at burger missing take care full-time a friend offered for me to live in oakland i built a shack that cost me 8 heed but that house is is getting evicted this week and now i'm living in a shelter over here in the city open van ness i work full-time and i don't see myself pga close to a combravendz and a half to live somewhere that's what you're asking people to do i barelyly make 850 on a truck and washing dishes everyday and like i stay late and stuff and i'm trying to get my ged this is a lot of stuff i don't have a
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proposal but i can tell you about my experience and people have it worse than me and stuff but we need affordable housing like in - if you guys can try to work that out you have a lot of smart people here so - >> (clapping.) thank you. >> that's my friend dawn to supervisors good evening it's getting late i'm jeff i've been a teacher and artist and community garden activist and engineer the word affordable has lost all men and women in the conversation i make fortunately when i can work in the same room in the tech industry as much of you as a supervisor
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and it is true that the medium rent is to a point you need two 6 figure earners or a ceo and another 6 figure person i don't know the solution i think that capping growth of rent over 7, 8, 9 not because the rent control unit year by year is good i don't want to wait my time the moratorium is time to think i don't think in 18 months of a mower to your memory we'll arrive at a solution but 45 days to pull together the numbers to make a stronger argument for more to your memory people have not vocally opposing the moratorium their disgenius generals if you want more housing increase the low income housing and let people relocate
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people that are (inaudible) great places but affordable should go there as well anyway, i had a lot to say but close the difference of constant is building luxury housing over and over and expecting the rent to come down (clapping.) >> hello supervisors that is my brother william hi we're here to support of moratorium on market rate housing everyday more luxury housing is put up while we could be putting up affordable housing this is what every single person in the room want and worksheet it we need a moratorium we need 7, 8, 9 to plan the right solution so we can solve interest crisis support of moratorium thank you.
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>> (clapping). >> those are my kids i know good afternoon, supervisors for those of who you who don't know me novice to meet you, i don't know what else to see everything has been said i love the city i love this community please vote yes on the moratorium i can't imagine that we're going to be missing people just like me i love the city i have been living here for almost 2 decades and what is happening right now is break and kill our culture our community what made this place the mists the people what made this beautiful city to
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vibrant i've never seen someone that the whole community no matter who you are and were you coming to your race and culture your money coming together for the first time asking the supervisors for a measure that effects all of us this is the first time i'm not kidding i've been advocating for years and this is i don't know what to say i'll say to the people that are saying no to the measure please have the decency to respect us if you don't think the moratorium is going to work understand we are thousands of people we know what we need we need to have the city to build 24 hundred to 3 thousand more units i'm sick and tired of
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corporate interests ruling the city this building our city is not for sale this is not a joke this is real (clapping.) >> good evening. i'm sarah i'm a student another ucsf just recently get 34i789d to the graduate program in public affairs i'm here tonight to show my support to the moratorium and mere to urge you to join me and support of moratorium we're only asking for 3, 4, 545 days to work on a plan and 1st district a solution to keep families in san francisco and the time will allow the city to purchase much need favorable sites for affordable housing we
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need to preserve the limited land in the mission and work together not against each other so please consider supervisor campos legislation and 82 thank you for your time we hope to get our support thank you (clapping.) >> good evening. i'm a resident of the mission district of san francisco and here with my son who wanted to join me i wasn't sure if i was going to speak so many people have spoken but i have to speak as a resident who lived in a rent controlled department and i work here and see daily the need of the people that clean the hours and who take care of the children of all the people living in the luxury apartment they're still living in the city
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in the shadows in one room apartment pga over $800 sharing that at that particular time with a lot of the people they need avenue, i need avenue, i can't afford to live in the city and help them find stability it a desire situations people are having mentally ill problems they can't find the means to eat and get to work the people that need to be here to support all the people in the luxury housing the service sector they need to find a way for the city to have the income levels your promoting by not having a moratorium they need a way to be here the moratorium is not the answer but we need more time to figure out
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am - where will any son and i go this is our community we have no where to go to maintain our families and friendships to live here. >> it is not an okay situation to have a divide between the community and culture thank you (clapping.) >> good evening supervisors my name is jose i'm a retired exaggerateer and belong to the latino democratic club i want to say that one of the things that has happened before in the champs we had a moratorium on that was the foreclosures as renter and vikings on the other hand evictions i don't believe that supervisor campos it was a
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moratorium i can't remember exactly by a moratorium the point is that in this country one time we had an idea the market was - when allen greenspan was in charge of the reverse he said to congress don't worry don't worry and 2008 hits and the market crashes and we're here then had that moratorium what was supported by the mayor the resolution it didn't have a lot of teeth we supported it and many in this body here did, too well what happened then was we had that moratorium and then greenspan comes back ♪ the congress starts asking the questions and in the process he says oh i've made a mistake
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i'm sorry. now all those people that were evicted during that time before the foreclosures they couldn't do anything about it if you have to you have to starting with a mower to your memory so people will not be evicted and land it preserved so say we have no plan and tough luck that is not acceptable we're trying to build a plan i don't think i want to vote a supervisor that told me different thank you (clapping.) >> please bear with me i've got this is my second time good evening members of the board as
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a latina college state of skyline college and support find moratorium and supervisor campos 3 that speech i gave it last week, i was born and raised in the mission i'm also a volunteer at the mission center. >> and i've seen what had to happen we love if you see everyone behind me we love the mission culture, our art everything you see in the mission the mission for me is my soak home i ask for the ones who oppose the moratorium what would you feel or how would you feel if it would happen to you, please i'm not begging you just wanted to
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have you guys be not but please vote for the moratorium thank you. >> (clapping). >> hi, i'm laura i'm the co-chair of the bruno heights democrat club the bruno heights which have community you mean supports supervisor campos legislation to have the moratorium on luxury housing in the mission to address the crisis of housing affordability, evictions and displacement currently 4 hundred and 78 units in the pipeline 34 of those units or 7 percent are below grade or rate units the trickle down plan is not
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working it is real personable for me my two sons were priced out of the housing stock they don't live in san francisco they were born and raised here they work in the tech industry and they couldn't afford to stay here i'm old enough to remember what happened in the fillmore i lived here for several decades i don't want that to a happy to the mission we have an opportunity today to stop for a moment i appreciate that the board of supervisors hadn't made up their mind and listening to the steroids coming out of the mission 45 days to start the process of saving 13 parcels of land to build affordable housing and to continue planning for the future
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of the mission our youth deserve to be able to live and work in the city that we were born please support the moratorium thank you. (clapping.) >> hello i'm kate gibson a toddler attentive and performing artist that can't afford to live in san francisco anymore i moved here out the college i see the city change i came out of a intrurn wasteland to a city that had so much can remember in and placed i felt like i could be myself i've seen the majority of my artist friends leave the city people are born and raised here
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manhattan may have to leave and the city turn into suburban waste los angeles police department makes me upset it feels like san francisco is you know a beacon and it is a place where that people look to and model for the world and i hope from my heart, i love this place so much it can walk forward and this moratorium is a breath like a slow breath to look at what is going on in the whole world and say yeah, we can stop for a second and look at options we deserve other optimize we're smart and the tech industry can get to together and the city can get it together to take a breath and make the right decisions to make the world you know everyone or everybody to live together
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from the highest embarrasses clay's to the highest everyone deserves to live where they are and be where they are and grew up and continue their lives where their fworn thank you (clapping.) >> good evening everybody i'm shawn i live here in the city i have been on and off for 24 years a tech for the lab i don't speak for them i have a list of things and stood outside in the line and talked to my new friend a 10-year-old and got to see lvlz years old to graduate from elementary school we did a stay at a collaborative a couples weeks ago and the stay was to
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rent the share and give them 7 days to consider to stay in their apartment not they needed more time to get a place that's the common request they said their child to not have to be in a position not to go to the graduation of fifth grade it is the graduation before you go to 6 and i know how important that is so there is basis to this i don't think the developers are going to be effected and it's about the the have and have not's it is people talking about whatever it is they have in support of their anti position on the moratorium there's probably leave people that couldn't make it here that are homeless or working who jobs and have the same
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