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a partial solution. please consider t. there will be a few less dollars for proposition [inaudible] so what. we need this at least to start the process of bringing in more programs and more services and protecting people against elisact eviction jz the non profits vulnerable to losing spaces. i submit comments for your consideration and hope you will vote your hearts, not economic interest but your hearts and do what is right for the city. thank you for your time >> thank you, next speaker please >> madam president, board of supervisors my name is raufial pucauseo, new leelected vice precedent of seiu scal district chapter. [inaudible] lived in the mission district all my life. i got priced out. i
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moved, couldn't afford the rents. i love my city. i'm here every day and work for the city. i can't afford to live here. how is that fair to me? it is not. i have seen development go through the dot comers and now have the techy industry. why can't we hire the children och san francisco and put them in the job jz get them working, educate the itss kids. they are important. look at the faces of the audience, this is san francisco. these are our workers, these are our citizens. these are the people i love. do you? really, do you love? i know there are a few on the board that does care and will care but what i say is take a time out. let's meet. meeting of the mind. it hasn't been done through prier boards ormayors, let get this board to do it. why that not this mar.
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instead of being mayor of money, be mayor of the people of san francisco. let's keep our people here. they want to be here. they don't want to move to modesto, tracey, stockton and have to commute to come to san francisco and work. i thank you for your time and viva mission and viva san francisco. that is who i live and work for. thank you, next speaker >> good afternoon everybody. with aish, my name is migel and here to speak on what is going on. we have a room full of people here on the mission and want sthair voices to be heard. what is going on and what is ignoreed and not being done and no concrete solutions have been brought forward. what needs toock done is litsen what the people want what is going on. you took a oath by the people just like the police and
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shaifber department and got a back lash orphaction that this community is hurt, there are shootings in the mission recollect we can talk about alex [inaudible] we can talk about how the community is battered and nugleted and just because a previous mayor or board decided not putting a concrete solution forward makeatize all right. money runs everybodys ideals in san francisco. the green, the capital and these people right here are the ones that make the food, pave the roads and do all the things for the city, the teachers and janitors and construction workers and falls on deaf ear. you push the brown and black people out and hopefully the crime goes with them but that isn't the case. the mission is alive and well and will fight to the last breath until we are evicted.
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wake up frafrom the slumber you are in. talk is cheap, but actions are better. viva la mission. >> thank you, next speaker please >> hello. my name is aims gregory and i'm a artist and i'm a mission resident but most of my art work is public art work in the tend r loin and i'm also a father of a young daughter. i have a unique opportunity to experience because my place is up for sale and also get to list toon the people in the tendser loin. i
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hear the same stories between both communitys and think what happened in the mission district is a shining example and beacon for the community not only here in san francisco but around the world. what i hope to see going forward is communities like mission bay, the mission district, the tenderloin and the activists are working together for the same common cause that we wouldue neat force squz show soldarty because there is great solidarity between all of us going forward as we all attempt to stay in the city. jurkss thank you very much. next speaker >> hello my name is thomas rea i'm a native san franciscan and i live in the mission. as supervisor campos brought up there are only 13 available parcels the city can
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develop in the mission for below market rate housing in the mission. on may 4th there was 18 so in less than a month we lost 5 parcels. at this rate 4 to 5 months there will be no more parcel tooz build afardable housing in the mission. when you say the moratorium will not do anything, it will because in 5ths there will be no parcel tooz build affordsable housing. that is the truth gauze the market rate developers come in and buy them up and build these market rate housing and get credit for affordsable housing but the credits don't go to had mission because the parcelerize gone so the credits will go out of the mission mpt you need act
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quick because in 4 or 5 months there will be no where teels binld the mission. thank you for listening and make sure to listen to the community because it is common sense. i'm talking about common sense. thank you >> thank you, next speaker please >> good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. my name is flora davis and i'm a artist. i lived in san francisco for 37 years and i will be evicted frame nigh studio of south of market and had that studio for 26 years and would just like to ask you to please listen that we do have a emergency in san francisco. the mission and all of san francisco is in crisis. driven by 21 century tech gold
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rush greed. the board must put the breaks on the destruction of san francisco culture and creative arts which i'm part of, small business, low and moderate income communities, the city soul and heart. please pass david camp pose moratorium. we need a cooling down time to rethink current city policy and planning in ways that serve all its residence. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please >> my name is col etcrutcher and live in brunee heights and i'm a artist. i'm concern would the same ishuse flora is. i want to acknowledge that
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housing is of course the important issue here and [inaudible] not the same as someones need for housing, but at the scaim time artist are vital to san francisco. i want to khow many saw the article in saturdays chronicle about a new stair way opened just last week at by lincoln park. you would think a project like that has nothing do with the mission, but it was made by ilean bar a wonderful artist in the heart of the mission. ilean bar and i work together. i didn't work with this project but we worked on a number of tile projects and a number of tiled stair way squz other public art projects
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that have drawn a lot of visitors tosuch from across the country and around the world as well and artist are part of what makes san francisco a magnet. anyway, that's my message and ilean is about to lose her studio in the mission. i hope that doesn't happen >> thank you, next speaker >> i want to ask supervisor wiener is there a reason you are not list toong the people speaking? my name is sharon societyer and mission artist and deeply concerned about stopping this crisis. i know those that are not in the mission and who are not present and can see what is going on. those numbers that supervisor wiener called into about how much housing is being developed
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and how much is lexry, i am sure that doesn't count the housing constructed over the last few years that are looning as we walk through mission. the city sin crisis and haet to use this analogy, but in the beginning nobody believed that disease that we all began to realize was hiv and aids was a crisis that ofern took everything. the crack epidemic we thought drugs and everyone complains about drucks for years and it was a problem and over took everything. you may not understand this, but what is happen in previous years is horrible and happened before and yes will hopefully not happen again, what is happening now is a whole different proportion. we need to support the moratorium. support it for
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45 days, you can vote against it the next time, at least give the 45 days to get the numbers so knee where we are going thmpt creative and cultural spaces is how we come together as a community qu without the artist as part of the community we just br come another wall street with views. this is the heart and soul of the sate. we need the housing and need to figure this out, we need to protect the creative and cultural productivity in the city because without it, we are not san francisco. >> thank you. next speakers my name is mark harass and dobets live in the mission but stand in solidarity with them today i'm here it speak further
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fwht 4 swing votes. all burt in steen said we can't solve problems by ewing the same thinking we did when we created them. many mentioned this problem has been here for years but we are poised if you dopet people step up with vote for the legislation to kick this can down the road again. i don't want to see that happen. supervisor breed and supervisor cohen african members of san francisco you have seen first hand what happened toory communitys so i implor dwru stand with the people and send a message to san francisco that's you hear squus it matter tooz keep people of color and diversity in the city. >> thank you. next speaker please >> my name is ken tray and
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have been teaching in san francisco since 1985 and lived in the mission since 1980. i'm here for personal reasons because i have seen what happened to the students and community and community i lived in during this housing crisis. today i'm here to represent more than my personal feel squgz what i see around me in the mission. i am here to speak on behalf of the 7 thousand educator that serve the children and families of san francisco day in and out. let's be loud and clear, the 7 thousand educators of san francisco support the moratorium, we thank david camp pose and stand with the community and mission and stand with hundreds of teachers trying to keep their home in the mission, we stand with professional classified like mary laurfb lay that worked at san francisco community school for 3 decades and forced out to
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the sate evicted from dally city and pushed to south san francisco and the hub oafs teacher squz professional driben out of the town. for a whime i taught economics and you talk about supply and demand. any good chapter on supply and demand starts off with that law and then talks about the exceptions. we have a market in san francisco that is a hypermarket driven by people of cost is not a object. this is a crisis and there is a role for government. the moratorium will allow san francisco to push back on thogent rifuication and displacement of the students and familys of the educators och san francisco serves. >> brian baseeninger director
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of aids housing. thuopponent ons thf measure are not afraid we are wrong they riafraid we are right and this will work and what that means. years ago i was at the same allication and begged the board of sproovisors to make a plan of what will happened to the housing market because of twitter [inaudible] this body chose not to do that and this is what happed. you guys own this. the mares office owns thisf you are the largest contributor because of your decisions and votes that created the housing crisis and can't say you didn't know because i was on cam raw saying what would happen. you own it and have to fix it and don't know what you are doing. nobody here has a plan. since you don't know all we have is competing theories. like with
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state and fram government with states are in d lab, why don't we treat the mission as the r and d lab as a plan. i was right last time and the body is wrong, i'm coming back and tell you this will do t. my track record wins. let us work it out. i swear to god it will work. also because you guys created it you create adlot of pain, a lot of real pain and dissever amends. we dissever amends commensurate with the amont of pain you created and also because i'm a numbers freak which will bend it curve better. 400 units of affordable housing or less than 50 [inaudible] >> thank you. next speakers
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>> my name is centhia cren shah and i'm in the [inaudible] i'm a out reach worker with womens community district and a organizer in the mission district building [inaudible] families and individuals who we serve and i talk to scared women, desterate women, scared children who are terrifyed they will lose their places in the dirty little hotels because of gent rifiication. if it keeps going like it is, if the unrestrained buildings of luxury housing continues it is going to-you will see families
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on the street. where else are they going to go? nobody wants to see families on the street. in the last 4 years 4 luxury housing [inaudible] if what they already built isn't full, why build more? build something we can fill up. low income housing. the moratorium will give the neighborhood a charns to make a plan. you say we don't have plan, the moratorium will give the neighborhoods a chance to make a plan. we node low income housing, we don't need luxury, we need low income. thank you >> thank you, next speaker >> thank you madam prizdant. thank you to supervisor campos,
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yee, avalos, mar. ime [inaudible] first american born filipino senior and disabled and i had my eviction notice given me december 13, 2013 and was supposed tee be out. i want to say i stood by grounld. i fought and played by drum tooz the beat of elisact out and tenet rights in and i ask you to join on that not just for myself because i'm also a san francisco unified school district spelshz ed professional so i speak not just for myself, i speak for the student i work with and cannot speak for themselves. i work from deaf, blind, hearing impaired, physically impaired, i speak for them who can not
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speak for themselves. i speak #23r the educators who can not afford to work [inaudible] i speak for the disabled. i speak all also for the fmlies living here for years, families i have known in south of market libing there for 50 year jz have to be displaced and evicted because they can't afford the market raetd. i speak for the veterans who lived and for us who are not able to speak for themselves. i want to sigh thank you again and hope you all can join us and work together as a community and instill and enrich the foundation of what makes san francisco san francisco. >> thank you. next speakers >> [inaudible] came down to
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the community to work with the community to solve the problems of the community. that is why we have district elections so we have representation. many years ago it was a large in the poor working class of san francisco did not vorepresentation in these chambers. thank you supervisor for bringing the international hotel [inaudible] preferred to go to jail rather evict the people from the international hotel. a piece of land that wept sfr 40 years without doing anything in that situation.
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you don't have a plan. the plan you have for housing is [inaudible] crumbs. a fight we have about housing is about money and san francisco trying to purchase the city of san francisco with money from outside. it has nothing to do with housing and the night here is about money and in the mean time the poor people not only in the mission district which is not only latino, it is a mixed culture that lib in the mission district. same thing is happening in hunters point. the black people that suffer all the situations many years doesn't have no representation in here because they will not be able to live there. similar to what is this. i don't care if a thousand people talk here, the supervisors will vote against the moratorium burkts you have a responsibility to
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the poor people of the country, not to the rich people [inaudible] >> thank you, next speaker >> thank you, sir. next speaker please >> my name is chunel william and director of organizing and
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re-search for fob nob i represent thousands of students and young people who come to san francisco to reach their goal squz have a home and a place to succeed and feel bart poort a community. my hurt hurbt. i hold back tears because i grew up in the city. i was raised here. wechbt to element and middle and high school here. i'm in solidarity with folks from the mission. we need to the moratorium on luxury housing. it is unacceptable we are kicking out the seniors and sick and disabled. look around you, everyone ask here represented here. this is a crisis. we are in crisis in our community. do we realize that and understand that? it cannot go on. we have to have a slaugz.
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the community has a solution. it isn't just about the money t is about the culture and history and families that have been in san francisco. people travel from all over the world to come to san francisco because they believe this place is a safe haven for them plitly cultural for them to be who they are and be free and represent what they feel thip heart and cannot let that die in the city. we cannot let their die in our city. i refuse to see thoot happen so i look at all the swing votes, thank you sfr visor campos for pushing this forwards because this is a moment in history. what side oof history do you want to be on? it isn't about money, it is about lifen jz culture and community and avenue wn being able to live in the city. everyone deserves a home, pass this moratorium
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>> thank you. >> buthers in sisters on the planet, it is time to plan it. [inaudible] money doesn't talk it swears. [inaudible] grapes of wrath [inaudible] that is what happened and we are being tracked out by the cats, am i right? time to get toort. i can feel-[inaudible] beat nicks. the 60's [inaudible] hippies, freaks [inaudible]
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poetry. politics. arts. the movement [inaudible] i feel right now in my heart [inaudible] i feel this is a chapter along the way because wree we are not giving up. [inaudible] we need a cultural mission statement to look that community [inaudible] do you want to destroy it? [inaudible] money doesn't talk, it swears. thank you brothers
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and sisters >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you sfr visor campos, but most of all, i want to thank my community that is outside that has been outside and fighting, that is who i thank. supervisorcrustianson you refer to people as these people. these people i am a luteena born and raised in the mission. i'm a educator and for those who are voting against this moratorium and you concerned about it getting worse, let me tell you-let me ask you, how much worse can it get? how much worse can it get? have you ever talked to a child? do you teach children living in shelters? do you know what it is like to teach a child who can not sleep at night and hoards milk and food and keeps their jacket on because he is fearful of losing his jacket? a family who is evicted. there
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is a third and 4th grader trandsilated for their parents looking for housing on a computer. you have teachers living in mold filled horrific condition paying 2 to 3 thousand dollars. the teachers are leaving. you have mothers that are taking 2 buses 4 buses to get their kids to school in the mission because they were evicted. the woman who said you will have to wait hours for your x-ray, no one will be in your classrooms because the teachererize leebing. who wile teach your children? in my class assignment list now there are 5 vacancy. 21 years teaching i have never seen that. who will teach you