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community that believes in education teachers are being forced out students are being forced out when we ask students how they're providing or their parents how they're providing for a place to study another home it is impossible you have three or four families i had a family that got rid of the books because they got rid of the books we need yes on the moratorium it represents a responsible it represents hope a yes vote represents a belief in education we need to keep our teachers in the city and families here in the city please vote yes. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) good afternoon supervises i'm a constituent of supervisor
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president london breed i live in district 5 i'm here to speak as someone i'm in support of moratorium as a working person i don't get to voice my thoughts we can't participate we're working and commuting excluded i'm here to support of admission community and it remains a latino community that city is being taken offer by a white elite i cherish the cultural diverse i want to see it fortified and thriving as someone that lives in san francisco for 40 years only two or three in the mission there were precious we can't let it be destroyed because of the cultural diversity i recent able to learn spanish i want 80 went to cultural events and cherish that like a i cherish my district finally i want to say
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that not everyone in the city can make hundred thousand dollars this is not the way it is going to be those are the people that we want to have economic diversity that's the kind of city i want the only thing the moratorium nothing like that is not far enough there are enough luxury unites and district 5 huge apartment and we don't need luxury housing we need affordable housing in tens of thousands of unit i want to say eminent domain i think there are units that should be taken over and have co-opts there are solutions we can all work together and take the pensions and use that for housing 0 please vote yes on the moratorium we really, really need to keep this -
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>> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) >> hello supervisors i'm kimberly a resident of excelsior i work at sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, 1021 an as individual to support of moratorium my mom and dad meet in 1963 agency immigrants on 24th street and underscore do 53 she was a waitress he worked for the garage company i had the privilege of growing up in the mission going to school in the mission and being part of community when it was a place for working class people to be here people in the service industry i was lucky enough to stay a youth living in public housing i'm here to talk about a crisis of that working class
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people can't afford here they are the backbone the economy we need to stand up and you have an obligation to make affordable housing for all people we'll w will will have failed them if you don't support this you will have failed (clapping) and. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors i'm the executive director of a firm but here as a mission district as a momma's a 11-year-old and as worked worked worked for the city and being pushed ousted august 1st is my move date so when are you guys going to go through the sro's and when are you guys going to a funeral of a homeless person and talk to the immigrant families that come to
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the city is the sanctuaryy city if you, i don't know where you've been we've been talking about this for 20 years when we were poor we were in city hall asking for services and asking for help and safety and now that we are a gold mine we're back here again asking for protection and safety and asking for help it seems like the only people that care commissioner avalos and david and supervisor kim and supervisor mar supervisor yee we want your vote so (clapping) and those of you on the fence get off the events we elected you this city has to work for everyone there was a homeless person youth that didn't want to be on the streets and my colleagues the social workers are indicating mental health
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breaks down like the teachers that are having break down as acting as social workers we expect you to come up with a solution not just the moratorium but a city for all with or without the moratorium we expect you to come up with a solution we'll continue to come out and guess what we have another wave of people coming we're here for a >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker please. >> (clapping.) hello supervisors my name is wendy i'm in the mission since the 80s i've first moved there to an incredibly inclusive diverse community that was a sanctuary community they
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supported us giving homes to people that were fleeing tough times and those are the people getting shoved out in the 90s i lived interest with my son they started building those luxury loft for artist but luxury housing with a kind of a will that once those got built rents went through the roof and we got evicted then so many people got evicted no practices for the place for the people that put their how late into the community and kind of the gated community we need to stop building those they're not serving our community we need to have housing that serves the whole community please alone and help us >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>
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(clapping.) >> good evening aim kari white a recipe of san francisco for nearly thirty years raised my family and call san francisco my home every year the city is more and more expensive yes and no friends of mine had to leave the city and supervisor campos i really appreciate and yes, ma'am emphasis with our concern about the mists mission and tonight is an xrield demonstrates a place for a lot of people poor people and disadvantaged people and artist and middle-income people and, yes even wealthy people change is scary for me we all work hard to live here our city is many things to many people but we all pride ourselves in the diversity tonight we've heard a lot of things about the love that people have for the mission and
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for our city we've also heard troubling things inclusions language that people wouldn't use describing other people we've democrat in his techies and called people gentrificationers i find offend offensive ethnic clarence those don't belong in my city of san francisco there are 13 sites to be built on 8 hundred and 50 we need more unfortunately good agree with the moratorium it is the wrong decision and also fueling a hated at division of our community which isn't right we need to work together to solve those problems and it is only together that we will solve
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those problems techies and gent firs whatever you want to call >> thank you, sir. thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi my name is larry juicy edmond and this i have keys daily each and every needs keys daily the tech workers against the displacement and the st. anthony's you know to save our planet but we have the rainbow on market street today, the good and the bad and the ugly we deal with hilton hell letter 0 wanted to kill the gaze and the jewish and others martin luther king said the constitution keyboard
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should have basic black and white how the american rights i don't know about the word homeless no one is homeless the statue of liberty displeases if we're doing ethnic clarence we're decolonizing a country that the one percent have you working to kill the 95 percent why are we fighting wars in another country when the war is right at home you upcoming this is america and anyone that will kill our own brothers and sisters your worse than a rapeer and killing families and ann cherries since saturday and sunday the police say always or people and going to jail why in the mission on
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saturday and sunday people are getting arrested this ethnic cleansing i know that jonestown 9 heed and 28 people killed in johnstown and george moscone and harvey milk they get the people to get you evicted speculation. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you (clapping.) >> i'm an sf native and a student at san francisco state university i disagree respectfully with the comments about the sfaurt democrats i know that (clapping.) that those agreements are respectively of all students affordable is the number one thing effecting students the
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cost of education and housing is unbearable i know that are living in their families of 8 in one apartment and in the cars and streets homeless we're living in closest and eating top roman everyday to pay the rent we have $20,000 in debt and having the sideline on the debt we can work a multiple job is another thing caused by gentrification and how are we supposed to be a progressive city those who want to get an education how people to be a board of supervisors like you one day can't afford to live in a city they go to school a moratorium is a stepping stone for the mission community to put a community led plan to
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say what is left of the heart of san francisco we're talking about affordable housing here but why am i learning that all the public housing in the bay area is privatized through hud's demonstrates stop the eviction and support of the students and support of moratorium thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) hello, everyone i'm a recent graduate of staifrt i live in the sunset i'm also in threat of eviction this housing issue is not only an issue in the mission but also throughout the city and throughout the bay area region the moratorium is a chance for
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all of you to reflect and what the community is saying past the anger and aggression this is from frustration and sadness the moratorium will reflect how to work together and serve the community (415) 575-4444 a human right every person regardless of race and class has the right to a sense of community and sense of security and also a roof over their heads it is time to prioritize human needs please vote yes on the moratorium and work together for solutions >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> hello i have been here since 2 lost any minimum wage job risking being fired since all the
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supervisors are making more than 1225 especially those changing checking the notifications under the table we can tell and see i'm a second-generation native raised in the excelsior a product of public school system and one of the very few unfortunate fortunate we have a community and latinos and asians and african-americans native-american and white yes white because we're had enough with the people's greed as a youth supervisor provider you don't have a clue people will be needing to work more hours trying to go to high school or live a community life it is the
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reality of many in san francisco no one should have to go through that especially a teenager our people bring things to the city we're the city we cook different ethnic foods and clean up after messy people and watch our kids that's why our kids are quote/unquote ahead of the game and oftentimes don't have time for our own families and what can minimum wage i can't tell you how many times my mom may not make it home scared getting hit by a drunk driver this is detrimental to her health she is doing that for a roof over our heads. >> thank you very much thank you.
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>> (inaudible). >> thank you. >> if you can finish thank you, thank you (clapping.) >> next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) thank you thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (inaudible). >> hi. >> i don't know is that working am i okay? 6 hours of testimony and conditions which are obviously hurting everyone storage conditions is why i starred over a year ago grandfathering my friends to go to the planning commission we're starving for anything go forward so the problem with
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the mission moratorium is not the hundred percent affordable they minimal they only 8 hundred 50 units on the lots why is inambitious going forward the kinds of projects that are going to solve our crisis permanently have things like the 75 howard t n d c drop i think that san francisco deserves the opportunity to have a hearing on that project and not let it be killed by backroom negotiations so if you could please board of supervisors encourage paramount to resubmit their original 4 story project for that hundred and 5 units for taylor and eddy they need the money to finish it
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all this energy for affordable housing we need it and there's an opportunity for us right foreclose of us with this kind of up zoning for subsidizing affordable housing slots thanks >> thank you >> next speaker. >> (clapping.) >> hello is this working my name is ousting i was born in san francisco in the 1980s and working during the 90s of first.org i saw what happened then in the first, i'm currently residing here i know this is long please give our attention to the speakers i moved away for economic reasons to pursue work when i moved back i didn't recognize the mists a make sure it was a completely different
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neighborhood and an era of intolerance i didn't experience in multiple san francisco a lot of money being powder in san francisco and that money is from international capital not necessarily from our voting constituents who value you guys into office i saw an assembly driblt race there were thousands of volunteers that don't live in the district that volunteer for the candidates and the on the candidate one because of an all staff campaign very very late in the game all that hard work of san franciscans and form san franciscans that come in were put away by the few donors i don't want to see that happen to the city i love this city and the diversity is what gives it a
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lot of attraction to the people internationally and real estate speculators and everyone that want to will hear we need to keep it affordable we need to keep s it affordable for the people who live and work and may have fled difficult political or family situations to get to the sanctuary city is important and the core of san francisco values. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i want to acknowledge former christina great to see you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> oh, oh i just forgot i think everyone didn't acknowledge that today is the full moon so new beginnings there are people right here give it a try only 45 days kim and farrell you've got
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my vote so i also hail but unlike the politic guys the politics don't work i majored in environmental justice that is what san francisco is missing that why people i love white people too but it's not fair they're the ones that for another it as you can see they're the ones supporting the developers i agree we need more housing we need more housing but give us a try it didn't hurt where are the people going to go they got to stay here they've got laws if you're homeless you can't sit in the park y where do they go so be smart and you know think forward i'm so glad we can do this in this country.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) >> hello my name is steve i'm born and raised in san francisco and my father and mother met at mission high school i built community and do hiv studies how do you guys do this wyatt's that's what i want to know this is hard it is all night long amazing anyway my father came here and his family all came here because they believed in democracy and kicked outd out and that's how my father got here my father get kicked out of his apartment era on greener are street and he passed away last
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february so i ask you the board of supervisors to please vote for the moratorium to give us time to bring all this local magic together and build communities and build a better community for affordable housing and keep san franciscans here thank you all so so so much for being >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> hello my name is kathy i live in the hate ashbury we know this is a citywide issue and my heart goes out to the people if the mists and people that lost their homes in the mission it is such a wonderful and important part of city i came here when i was 7 a place that was diverse and i was so lucky to go to city college i
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can't imagine how to do that now and pay the rent i know people are homeless they can't pay the crazy rent i'm a special education teacher and some of my students will have been homeless and parents are single parent working 3 jobs justice to take care of her two children and try to stay in the city for the services for her special needs child as a special teacher and opening in sfusd because people can't afford to be here especially the special education teacher thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please this is my boyfriend nick we were born and raised i grew up
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in the mission and him in the excelsior i want to tell you i don't think i work from the women's building and everyday i see women that are trying to escape vibrant situations they can't they have no where to go we have to know how to effects women and children they need a safe place to go and the moratorium is something i think i all should support now we're going to remind you about what happened then on may 8th >> we're here to demand something. >> some of.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> we're here to stop eviction. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> (repeated.) we're here to stop monsters. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> . >> (repeated.) >> we're here to we want affordable housing now. >> (repeated.) >> from the bay area we tould told you years ago there was a scheme (inaudible). >> thank you.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please >> wow. >> thank you. >> i'm from san francisco i moved to the mission when i was 8-year-old and i remember eating fresh food by bart getting $0.25 cones at thrifty's if you excuse me. where my home is it the mission district i have always felt that way i took measure altitudes with my mom and sister area smelling the food and playing with the neighbor kids that spoke spanish this is being filled with ugly homes for the wealthy where we can't afford the reason the mists means so
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much the culture and diversity and eating the delicious food i'm pro density but not with the anything's community we need affordable housing for families and immigrants that have called the mission home please support of moratorium. >> thank you very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you (clapping.) >> hello, i'm ms. johnson and i was truly put in prison because of cure cancer in a mental ward from jealous of doctors and they tried to max out the world from the real truth like the world that is made up of and i think the way we're going