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we don't need big buildings. thank you sfr visor campos too for doing for us. now i convensed san francisco is not thp land thof free, it is the land of the rich. thank you. >> next speaker please >> hi, i'm frances caulines and i'm for the moratorium. this will be short. we shall not, we shall not be moved and if you don't vote with us you shall be removed just like a tree that is planted by the water, we shall not be moved. [singing] >> thank you. next speaker
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please. >> good froong, my name is christy achemoand i'm a 40 year resident of san francisco renting near [inaudible] in district 10. i'm also a member of ace and strongly urge support of supervisor campos resolution coming for a temporary halt in market rate development in the mission district. i'm completely shocked and appalled wall street assault on the city and concernedwit the brutal effect on elders and families. in the case of a friend of mine, the family had to split off [inaudible] stayed ouf the street only [inaudible] holding a minimum wage job and seeking enough [inaudible] who is couch
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surfing with friends cumunting as farb as pittsburgh to the high school in putrery. moving out sthof city kmt a option due it increasing costf rental throughout the bay area. as we all know waiting list for subsidized housing is long and sunchss are cut for low income along the food stamp benefits. is this how we want to street displaced fmlies in the city? what dt about the the estimated 1200 to 3 thousand homeless children in san francisco schools many are living in vans or church basements. what do we expect them to do, just disappear? as we have seen in the mission district the influx of market rate housing is obl making the crisis worse. very few new development include affordable units and as more luxury housing is built it lead
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tahigher rent and more displacement so what is to be done? the mission district lost 5 sites that can go to affordable housing and now only 13 sites are left. >> thank you ma'am. next speaker please. [speaking spanish] [inaudible] i have been working for our community many years and retired, but i didt noretire from the peoples struggle. i would like the
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supervisors to please meditate over what the moratorium means to us. the moratorium is the medicine that is meant to treat the cancer that is finishing thauf mission in san francisco. that is the whole thing, all our stories flow together here. san francisco, the mission is a city that lives from a constant struggle and is a characterized by defended just causes. if san
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francisco didn't have these organization the rich would have been able to make their goals and put in those goal kicks they did. they have managed to come out ahead with theirs, but we need to get ours as well. we need our residence to be strong in the field. it used to be the chains now you need 3 incomes to pay rent. thank you
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>> thank you next speaker >> [speaking spanish] good afternoon my name is [inaudible] i'm here to support this moratorium which supervisor campos with his fellow supervisor who are in favor there of are supporting and we got your back. because the community is calling out, clamoring for a place to live. now san francisco community is asking you for your support.
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it is in your hands. and don't forget that when tomorrow comes you are going to be asking for our help to occupy the seats you now hold. that's why i ask you to please not abandon us in this suffering we are in. because there isn't rental property anymore, the rents are twenty-two too high and don't want to rent to us in san francisco anymore. every day i hear it clamoring of the community that clamors for housing. that is why i want to
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thank those who are supportive and i want those who are not spoteing us to have your hearts softened and come to our side and support us. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please >> my name is [inaudible] and i have been teaching in san francisco since 1965. i say teaching even though i have been --
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>> [speaking spanish] good afternoon my name is gloria [inaudible] i'm here because where have been struggling with my community for 15 year tooz have a home that i can pay for.
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somebody said this started many years ago and that they are thinking long term about solving the problem. and i have seen many supervisors talk just to talk without supporting the community. remember [inaudible] that is our work. more over you are here because you were elected by us. and that job also supports us. that's why i want to thank those who are honestly doing
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their work as work for the community. thank you very much for supporting the community and doing your job without joust talking hogwash and pretext. because your kids still have teachers, they still have homes, you are still together because you have money. enough already, stop being a complicist to money. see the xhunty for what it is. see the workers who produce the richness before you and stop hurting us because our kids
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dissever to have a roof over their head. at the very list we are not king for luxury here, and the moratorium why? because sthra problem, we need to studthy problem. you are waiting for the 13 plots of land to come out soia can kick us out. we will be here [inaudible] our neighbors of ever color will be here holder you responsible for your wickedness because it is wickedness. don't try to call it by any other name, it is selling out to the rich. we
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are not saying we don't want there to be construction, we are not saying we don't want housing to be built, but we want housing for us because we are the ones who worked here in san francisco, we are the ones who created the wealth and i would ask you please >> thank you very-thank you next speaker please >> [inaudible] michael lion
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great panthers. so, there are supersupervisors who don't want to wait 45 days when the number of available lots in the mission are rapidly decreasing from 18 to 1thry all most over night. how can you possibly be against holding things up when lots are disappearing that fast? there is only one explanation, you want them to go. you want the people to go, you want people to be driven out, you want people to be evicted and sent out of town where they not only have lost their family, they lost their health care, they lost their jobs, they lost their whole means of living. what it is
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saying is that you want the mission to be converted to a area where the police come in, where they hurass and stop young youth, black i latin youth hurassing them. where people are killed within impunity by the police. we will not stand it any longer. you can hear what it is like outside. your time will come. >> thank you, next speaker please >> good afternoon my flame is olgu[inaudible] and i want to talk about the all latino people and people that live in the community of the mission district. it is not fair that in my case [inaudible] disabled
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[inaudible] i have so much stress dealing with my [inaudible] and there is no way [inaudible] they say section a is closed. it is not right for all citizens we need to right to live a place to live as we have to eat and as we have to do something important in our lives. i am not working but now [inaudible] my slry, i pay nor than 70 percent on my rent and it is not right i have to do that. i think that you have to see in my case how many citizens we have in the same
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situation. i have been a citizen for 2 years and haven't seen the rise [inaudible] honestly i don't know what is the benefit to be a citizen because i didn't receive. thank you >> thank you, next speaker please >> hello, my name is susan survan as and founding director of [inaudible] center on 24th street. we have been established for over 38 years. i'm a resident of mission for 54 year jz seen a lot oof changes. i was evicted from my home on vulensia and 22 after bart was in because all the land owners at the time felt it
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was progress and can double and triple the rent and that is what happened and were evicted at that time and now i see a bigger wave. there are other evictions since then and the huge suave overwhelming for many families and people. i'm also a member of the [inaudible] and feel they are extremely active in creating awareness we are here for today in support of this moratorium. i have 3 sons born and raised here, none of them can afford to pay rent here as well as the teachers, all of our health care workers working class, sunchs providers, cultural workers, everyone of those people can not afford. we have
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to have a minimum wage that will allowtuse live here, thereat is 27 dollars a hour, not twev.25 cents so if you can doot doo that maybe we can afford your lexerary housing, but now we need your consideration if the moratorium so we can figure this problem out. thank you >> thank you next speaker please >> good afternoon spl visors my name is vander hill and sf native child of the mission and i come here speaking on behalf of a house where just lost called cell space. cell space that is where i learned thew kwans do dance. i was teaching regularly every monday night for about 5 years, but last year they told us that we are losing cell space due to luxury housing so compose shout out to
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your for this legislation and everyone eson board. i want to let it be known that also through cell space that gabe the motivation to pursue career and be a teacher so i'm trying to be a teacher now and work 4 jobs to pursue that so it would be nice not having to do that. the hardest thing last year is telling my student we don't have a place to practice as well as my sister company they have no place to practice now. i hope you consider the legislation brought up by compose >> thank you next speaker please >> david you look good up there. i offer you are a poem. my name is magic. so many corporationerize knocking on our door, they couldn't care less blt the homeless, the artist and working poor. cold,
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soleless, sleek and greedly, they'll steal your heart and leave you needy. yes, corporations now have the rights of people, but do we really want to sleep with them? i'm wondering while we fall for their line, i'm too big to fail they say with a smile. there are not any laws that can put me in jail, i don't have a body, heart or mind but i'll wine and dine you, luxury is my name. i know no limits and have no shame and have to tell you san francisco is one dulf dame, when i'm done with her i'll be at the top of my game. he raped her in the fill more and even her tenderloins and now trying to take her in the mission. yes t is right my friend call it nothing less, there is no face, no name, just a shodo over or city when the
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slinks awaw leaving devastation qu a business card that says call me when you are ready to be takeic again. my sisters and brother we cannot 4 sake or city. remember hour destiny to lead the world to freedom out of the slavery of a broken greedy system towards economy of care and celebration. no one owns the mission, the city, this ourth, her heart belawns to those who love her. we need a moratorium, hanz off lady of inmission, you can't touch her anymore >> thank you next speaker. >> good evening my name is amie farrell and the founder and director ofnerics developing deviz tar r daro and
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saying yes to sustainable development since 2011 but sometimes as community advoicates for balance and well being we sooto say no and have to stands in soldaredy with the mission now and say, we are not gonna take it, no, we antenot gonna take it, we are not gonna take it anymore. those are the words of twisting sister but they may as well be the words of thomas jaurfson and may be the words of helen mary rogeroffs the fill more who sat in front of fill more businesses and said no to the bulldozers and may have been the words of ed lee a community activist who was called the communist by the proper owners in china town. ed lee was the one who told sfusd kids at a
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screening of s rks will ask ma that you need to demand change and here is dairfb udcampos and here is the mission coming together and saying we tyke you up on that ed lee. wree going to demand this change and what are we says yegg to? we are say yes to affordable housing which is 30 percent of income for a diverse raisk of works in san francisco from non profit workers to first respondsers and tech workers rchlt we say yes to pdr and cultural preserveivation and the fellow talking about cell space e we can still save it with this moratorium. that is what this can do and need to work with developers and unions to finance mpts we can't get the chase bacwho is funding the cell space development >> thank you very mump. next
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speaker please >> hello, i'm donald [inaudible] and resident of district 3 and rent in the city. so, today before you i'm here tabring up facts. 2008 was a reset [inaudible] 80 percent of developers are local developers of 30 years. luxury units are 2 million and above according to housing industry. it cost sux00 thousand dollars to build onebedroom bun one bath united. it takes 6 to 12 yinets to break ground due to sequa environmental review and planning commission department. we are not in a economic bubble here, we are experiencing a tech renaissance. san francisco is in the 4th year of a 17 expansion period only 2 things
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want to [inaudible] that is 9.0 earthquake phurenol miles due west of here or war in the middle east. tech companies are sitting on hard cold cash and [inaudible] since the year 2000 the mission is the popular place to live eat play and be engaged in the community non profit and back their neighbors causes. 22 ivpercent of reners are software developers and employees and [inaudible] unfortunately today i don't see a representative of the other neighbors in the mission district. i only see 12 percent of the mission demo graphic today. thank you >> next speaker.
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>> come on let him speak. let folks speak. next speakers >> i don't know everybody's is. that is a tough act to follow i guess. i was raised and born in east bay. went to college in california and came back to san francisco after college and been here 5 years. love san francisco and bay area especially san francisco and i work in tech which you haven't heard yet so i figured i would say it. i loved in a economic bubble for years enjoying sf and community without connecting with it in any way and that ends today. i can tell you the very few people in luxury housing know this meeting is happening now so that is something to consider. [inaudible] care about san francisco but i thought the city of san francisco knew
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better than to site supply and demand from fictional invisible hand. ignore legal loop holes and support structure. ignores socio economic factors and the diversity the community has. accordsing to these false laws you can't have the meezling offering of affordable housing required now, we would just say supply and demand go for gold. i know some believe evictions will stop or slow with luxury housing. all landlords want to make more money in san francisco and those that don't represent developers will want [inaudible] integrated with the neighborhood and close to local sites and crown [inaudible] sucking the life and culture and collaboration with the rest of the knhunty. people in luxury housing never go outside and look that rest of the
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xhubty. i know that because i work them a lot. christensen, you said you did little things i looking for something big. i heard you, this is that thing. do the big thing >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is lisa [inaudible] here from cultural action network. imagine if you went to the doctor and were thold they are only serving 4 of the systems. imagine if the rest were something you all h to work out yourself and imagine if the doctors spaup staupded being taught how to support those systems. this is what is dpoeing on. we have people wloo a part of system that have not being counted properly and it is causing great problem. we have 93 percent of develop opportunity in the mission
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turned into luxury housing. now is the time for this moratorium. during this one yire halt we have things we-there are ideas and many groups coming together. our group is forming to serve as a leies onbetween the coalition squz we are committed during a commissioner-we had a meeting with xhirgzer woo and richards and came up with ideas to start the process of how to get things going and there are others working on how tacreate the affordable plan. get the zoning phrvisor to go a walking tour and look at the violation jz illegal conversion. get impact development on displacement study added to renewal plan to eastern neighborhoodss with a government document showing the reslaigzship between these things. we add this cultural