fordable housing do you guys realize the number of the cost of affordable housing there's nothing affordable about it anymore we need to focus on how mandatory development affordable housing fees from products in the mission needs to stay in the we need to find creative was in the mission get to go to people in the mission we need new and creative ways to do more productive with our goals to produce offsite housing there's a new oifbt goal that protects the people in the community i didn't hear about the ellis acting we sniped a little bit on tics i didn't hear about changing the building code to make the standards of tic comparable to a condominium

disincentivizing. >> thank you sir thank you (clapping.) i'm sorry but you've had an opportunity to speak. >> i haven't spoken. >> yes. you have. >> we need a supporter. >> i think if you were pay attention you would have known i'm not spoken. >> we needed unity. >> i'm born and raised and in solidarity with the mission and the adapted families i love the city and support in moratorium my father build the city and organized the in 50s and may mom juthd three to four jobs we're the local faces to the housing and they'll demonstrating our right to sty in san francisco is stronger than the force of money

and greed this is a pivotal moment in the city of san francisco we live in a city that more than that 3 thousand students are homeless and the ellis act displace the elderly and leave us with the lottery population of children we live in a city with the lowest population of black people in any major city in the u.s. and at the time it takes for the families we need affordable housing not luxury condo is it so the same motivated land grayish and appropriations those are the symptoms of exam will xavier capital our government choose property over people this historically go neglects our community by handing out millions of dollars for the corporations and distancing vice chair referral and taking money

from developers let me remind you, you work for us there's no time for failing asset you're with us or against us prominent judas and scott wiener. >> ma'am address your comments to the board as a whole (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (chanting). >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hi, i'm here representing the harvey milk club lgbt democrat club as well as the snow black leadership quorum i'm going to say

something unpopularity the moratorium is not enough nothing that our government has come up with is enough i'm not nay naive to change our mind but i'm hanging on bye i we my clauses we'll stand in solidarity with that pause to stop and figure out because of the solution with not worked all the color is draining out of our city please give us a chance don't let the brown people go the way of the black we're begun and brown are going prelim give us a >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> any i'm co-chair the desk club i work for a nonprofit and

lived in bay area my father was a revenue fleeing the iron occur at an he made it here when a concentration camp helped him to allow him to come into this country or embrace and try to preserve the american amber he understand we could embrace the new it costs 5 hundred thoughts to build the affordable housing it is about 8.1 or $8.9 million you tear down this building and you're only funding 7 thousand affordable units your chief visit of environmentalist said it takes hundred thousand dollars units when you talk about a solution plans have 16 stories in the mission you can

have 3 thesis units of housing that one thousand affordable units is affordable would no cost to the city and zero delores dollars to the city and doubled by a housing bond we have solutions on the table and not a circumstantial interpret or person said build taller i'm deeply concerned with the issue they effect me >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> hi can you hear me. >> yes. >> thank you hi, everybody my name is joy like otsz others i've been here since two i've heard the shouts and tears of the elderly addresses children and students and allies as admission residents today they've expressed their

pain and fears and expressed their how they've have found their blood, sweat and tears i have one thing to say actually, two first of all, observation 97 percent of speakers have shared from the heart and 3 percent from the bottom lines. >> (clapping.) so my question to you is how many more voices do you need to reflect the sentiment you're supposed to be representing thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. (clapping.) >> my name is a tommy i stand before i as a working class senior apologizing queer that's been fighting for tenant right and affordable housing for almost 2 decades

last 15 years at the housing rights the luxury moratorium comes from the people it is does not come from city hall it comes from a community by the seeding by evictions and gentrification a community of latinos other people of color artists lgbt folks and others that have called the mists their home for decades a community that wants affordable housing it spell needs affordable housing but all it's getting is luxury housing for the rich a community who's members are losing their homes a communicative where renting rent are my where a 98-year-old woman faced evictions at the hands of a speculator and what did this board room 2 hundred of this building do to

stop her eviction nothing that was a community that was activist like myself that said hell no and we stopped here eviction. >> yeah. >> it luxury moratorium will give the community a fighting chance to grab 13 lots and create affordable housing and this is more of a chance this than board or mayor has done to help a city bipolar speculators you have a choice it is a moral choice do you do with almost 8 hundred people i did a count almost 8 hundred people have come to plead to save the mission you do with them. >> thank you. >> (inaudible).

>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> (yelling). >> good evening board i'm with the mission sro collaborative broird in the city this tenderloin graduate of betsey carmichael elementary school france middle school and just like our madam president galileo high school but most importantly a child of immigrants immigrants that came here to this city worked minimum wage jobs and able to find housing they were able to afford housing and still put foods on the table for me that realty is now destroyed by the policies emanating from those chambers that can't happen anymore people like me can't exist the poor emigrates come to

this city guess what we can't afford affordable housing is that the kind of city you want to represent is that the kind leadership i wanted to be? now i know that san francisco to me is one of the greatest city's in the world we're in grateful trouble not because of a internal but disease has taken those building and cupidity the love of money that has taken over our heart and surpassed the love of people the people that elected you the people that are facing the problems in this city you're responsible for other lively hood people are here we've been here for hours and hours and hours i'll tell you something we're not leaving

we'll stay here as lessons as we need to i have one question what is up with all the cops outside why did you bring the 50 here step outside there's way too many 50 here >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> good evening my name is diane martinez representing plaza 16 we the mission sro collaborative every sro tenant is hundred percent of the proposed moratorium they come to ore meetings and office seeking help and we go to them and their residents to reach out to them and ask them what they want maybe you should try that san francisco is a unique city doss because it is a sanctuary city

important immigrants and rare to find a city where the immigrants don't have to worry about ice knocking down their home and health care what's the point of a sanctuary city if there's no one left preserve the city that the immigrants have made no need for wlshgs housing this moratorium is a temporary pause on the luxury housing stop acting like it's something more why do 33 people think that is going to stop affordable housing hedge fund percent of housing can be built stop preventing the city is proposing affordable housing. >> so supervisors every person out there that was chavnt today

either votes or a they know at least 10 other voters in the city everyone is watching you closely the mission has literally so, please come together and look at it what we're asking you to do not only can this community move mounds but the vote and your seat are ulcer up your votes will be important this will follow you're political career and this community b will make sure it does so thank you (clapping.) >> next speaker >> good evening. i'm a resident of san francisco district 10 i work with about 9 hundred sro tenants in the mission plus 60 families that have no option but to live in overcrowded rooms everyday i see

more and more luxury housing built with the promise it generates affordable but the reality it keeps increasing rent and displacing our community a community that fought for the right for the mission to be a safe place to pushed out by greed and i also heard this evening something using the success that community change it is a new word for gentrification please respect the mission they've come together and decided this is what we want and need please respect the people of the mission i am here to urge you to stop market rate development and work together work with the planning and each other with the mayor and let's preserve the mission mission has been on the mission donating and the main thing

they've not seen a community fighting against gentrification please understand? not about a decision i district by the mission we need affordable housing and want to work together i know we want to make sure that the resources are from one district to another but we need to respect the urgency to address the housing crisis in the mission please please support of admonish to your memory let's take a pause make a commitment to us when we came back for the next hearing in thirty days you guys would have talked to planning and one another whatever political agenda. >> thank you thank you (clapping.) before the next speaker speaks if it there are mite any other

members of the public have not spoken we are going to cut off at the last person hopefully soon thank you. >> all right. good evening my name is erica i grew up in the mission district i currently live in the bayview and worked as a social worker for the how's program and work at san francisco general i wasn't not planning on speaking i can't hold back after being inspired by everyone sharing testimony and the truth and i just want to thank you for the opportunity to reiterate the point of how the majority of people tonight are really speaking from the heart and i was afraid of the looking at the cluster the cluster that represents development i think we should be rethinking

about what development needs and preserving what's been development historically in the mission and help to make that better? a real opportunity to tackle one of the root causes of inequality in the society at large it is about housing but all sort of detriments of health you're in a position tonight to really listens listen i want you to listen to everyone that has shared with you to make the decision you know really take into heart what people have taken the time it share tonight thank you. >> thank you and>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) and board of supervisors good evening. i'm ed, i stand here as a sf native a resident of the

mission broird in bruno heights dui but someone representing the desk club some argue that is a supply and demand issue it is there's a demand for affordable housing this is the demand but let's get to the core there recent experts on each and every day of the issue that allows supply and demand or look at the other side a crisis we need to pause the plane is burning we need to land it. >> but no one this this room individually can say they can make a decision on what the mission should do 3 hundred people working through this microphone saying exactly what they need they need a pause a

moratorium because what is happening there's been mrapgs what is going to happen if we pass this marry to your memory to speculating more evictions will happen we need to stop speculating and let the mission decide when it wants to do for its own future i thrill e tell me it know what it want if your concerned when we pass the moratorium stand with the mission for more laws right now the mission has spoken the mission has come before you and the mission is asking you can't feel our pain unless you lived it and can't solve our problem until i feel the pain come and stand with us. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>

(clapping.) hello, i'm anna i'm a the quarter i was not born and raised in the mission or san francisco i'm actually binder in la in the city called coming ton and my neighborhood the majority is low and middle-income the majority is african-american and latino with that said, many people i've met in the city say it's a blessing i actually around the tv i've never seen a white person until i moved to san francisco the way that the mission is going i'm starting to building this is a blessings this construction is unfair this city has opened 'tis it's arms and support me through the san

francisco state university i have a double major along with history a double in both a graduate student in education i believe that our youth needs to be educated to plant a seed this neighborhood is disappearing we need to listen to the people they're asking for the moratorium i support the moratorium i hope you support the people i hope our paying attention to the type of people that are coming up here the people that are supporting the moratorium how colorful compared to the people opposing it didn't make yourselves look wrong. >> thank you. next speaker. >> (clapping.) good evening supervisors i'm eric i'm so proud to have

angeles with the quarter are we're going a counselor of merchant nonprofits youth, businesses artist in the area of 24th street we want to patenting present with you with a petition of 3 thousand plus signatures that supports this moratorium 3 thousand plus we have oath thousand coming before you i have oath petition with 2 thousand plus signatures to support of merging of retail space to create for high-end restaurant among 24th street we do it in a way that values i saw the stacks here before but i want to say after seeing the line of developers it makes it more urgent for preservation of that land it is singularly those

developers can build in other part of san francisco not just in the mission they're in the restricted i on those are guys they're good people we need to work with them that will not stop them from developing in other places we also need to pay attention to this demand the demand that you heard for the people that talk about supply and demand you've heard the demand for affordable housing for the mission district thank you very much and reminder this is your legacy for the rest of our lives and thing >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> hello, everyone thank you for your time i'm pauline and this is the first time i've come up to the board i wasn't planning on speaking tonight,

i'm originally from the central valley my parents emigrated from mexico there was a story that resonates with me earlier today which was the story of young man that couldn't speak because his father and him were sleeping in the seem bed and he was think about this legislation that paralleled with me in the central valley i came to san francisco to change all of that and not have it situation i came from the central valley he was trying to get away from that and i came to san francisco because there were so many progressive ideas and thoughts i thought i had american people ideal position of what san francisco was i came and met so many great people i've noticed a lot of my community is leaving slowly my

network is slowly you know disappearing it makes me sad you know, i really want you guys to take a look at this proposal and just vote with our conscious and heart and just i'm sorry. i'm just a little bit so vote responsible and support of moratorium >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> supervisors mission resident working from the government agency dear supervisors you have the moral do you believe in that democratic process to demand to take action to soft the crisis in the mission you t have to do

it otherwise you guys that are here they are with going to remind you for displacing all the community and the moratorium is not a bad requested we had one in the mission it was the first time we started to discussing the secludes for the housing in san francisco in the mission particular and this is only one tool we need to be creative and have to have more solutions and we know know that from you guys from the political contributions and clacks you had to add right and do the moral responsibility you have today thank >> (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors i want you to take the camera off

me and i've had four hours of sleep i'd rather look at this thing i want to talk about the plaza coalition how invited on the issue of displacement and the gentrification and the issue of the loss of a culture and a neighbor that is one of the special and amazing and cultural significant neighborhoods in the world okay. the mission district do not tell the people of the mission district they don't know what is happening to them don't tells you in the mission district we don't know what is right for us plaza coalition formed about a year and a half ago we're called the monster in the mission we formed to opposed that building but at that time we needed to go further to declare an end to

market rate we're not talking about a 45 day moratorium a halt air force on market rate housing i don't save the mission by building 93 percent l how old housley you to lose the 7 percent affordable it is a net loss and avenue, i want you to look at the how united the mission that you'll call for an end to luxury housing in the mission district what's the response then since then we've grown to over hundred organizations from the mission district and increasing citywide we're not talking about small potatoes it is community organizations it is. >> thank you thank you.

>> next speaker. >> (clapping.) >> good evening supervisors i'm olsen grand i didn't what moves me and drives me is that the dozens and heed of young activist that are coming out for the first time (clapping.) as i steadily grow i'm reenergize gisz seeing the black and brown faces fighting for the justice and the families and