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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
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reenergize gisz seeing the black and brown faces fighting for the justice and the families and culture and what drives they thirty years ago or 40 years ago a generation ever families able to come from one country to another south america and beyond to come to an entry to a city of opportunity to the sanctuary city to san francisco someone with the union janitor and salary rate able to buy a home move to the exterior district and that's no longer true not the fun filled facts we've been giving the average two bedroom apartment is 42 hundred or 13 sites left to do affordable housing or prop k with the 50 percent mandate for affordable housing it is not those facts that are
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going to move you sunshine which show move you the hedge fund that have been here the brother that is an artist that lives in a veterinarian (clapping.) the 8 hundred people that came who took over city hall who's how is it is young sons and daughters of immigrants that are studying and working hard and can't get a legal e leg up in the city we so love didn't love us back it will sure to move you the 5 supervisors that are - >> thank you thank you >> next speaker. >> (clapping) (yelling). >> thank you and welcome to the
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challenge former christine. >> i'm proud to be here and standing in solidarity with so many people to speak and support a moratorium in the mission district i'm proud of the work with supervisor campos has done him and his office staff have work hard it was a community that came to campos and came to put this on to present at the board this came from the grassroots and the community people want to consider it a brown issue but there consider many people today at the rally in front of room 2 hundred delivering a message to the mayor and to his staff saying that t displacement of people of color and all artist and people in the city will no longer be
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reverend brown and other rendering people talked about the trama has has occurred as a result of residents felt during little fillmore district and what happened then there i know many felt board members probably know better than most and the parents and relatives know the impact that has had on people so when you dwoup there be angry i have a lot of seasonedness it is heartbreaking to see what is leaping to the community before i left i wanted to make sure that i thank commissioner james an advocate of the low income and supervisor yee we really are grateful for you to sign ton other moratorium and supervisor avalos and commissioner eric mar
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so this this a citywide issue if we don't win on the one hand, tonight we'll take this to the ballot box we'll win. >> supervisors thank you so much you know for hearing this supervisor president london breed i appreciate that and want to thank the sponsors and supervisor yee and supervisor kim and supervisor avalos you know supervisor campos, of course thank you for sponsoring in and supervisor mar i'm going to give you a little bit of 2011 a gabriel i work for meta the agency and president of the san francisco democrat club over the last two years the groups have been going to sacramento we need an exception to the ellis act
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we're been enjoyed and rejected more any other city in colorado california we're asking for some hope some hope from the state legislation it is your it didn't get out of committee got through one house and didn't get out of the senate this year they said you know what san francisco solve our own problems we have to do it today this luxury moratorium is a plan it is a plan to make sure that we can build unaffordable so status we've added 32 hundred households since 2000 we built over 17 hundred units in the mission aside from supervisor kim i want to see a supervisor that built more in 2000 and tells you what they've done we've lost over 3 thousand people we've actually created
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more demands we need to build 24 to 3 hundred units in the planning commission mission we have 7 percent in the pipeline and the argument people are coming for our unit they can't do it so, please support this luxury >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> good evening supervisors i'm john the co-founder of the latino cultural district i was thinking about the moratorium whether it get passed or not me and few others of core group we're burning out we did everything there is no help from city hall so okay along with we started to mention moratorium and the
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merchant open 24th street gave me their keys people 25 and thirty people a night this community is together and we're going to got rid of if i vote it down tonight we're going or we're going to win i work with a talented group of people that makes me proud to be a san franciscan so, please do the right thing and support of >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) good evening supervisors my name is a mayor are a an organizer in the mission san francisco is an q and a particular city what's the example we're giving the rest of the nation san francisco is one, if not the most expensive markets in the nation and san francisco has the largest income gap in the nation
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san francisco is losing 2 hundred latino families every year san francisco is a city where one every 5 students in the public school district a homeless and san francisco has the highest push out rate of african-american we're arriving post katrina new orleans in our african-american displacement san francisco is a city it it values exists but is the whitest city in california that is the context under which we propose this pause on developing luxury units rationalizing opposition is necessary to common sense policy is a political decision that we noted and the nation will notice voting against this profit over people prior tiger's a developer
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to make their negligence millions over grandmothers and city workers and janitors and domestic workers and everyone that self-make hundred and 50 k a year that's a disappointing position we need to save the last 13 sites to build affordable housing this measure at the end of the day is hundred percent about building housing but about building avenue, i urge you to vote with our conscious and not our pocketbook vote for the you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> good evening supervisor president london breed and supervisors everybody sing everyone dance i want to see an equal opportunity
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economic chance we're going to have it right now right now to tonight forever and i'm going to thank you right now right now all night long all night long all night all night those big buildings all begun all of you want to say is take those monsters away all night long all night people in this street tare protesting in the street all night long all i want to say is take those monsters away all night long all night long all big buildings begun
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reneed a moratorium strong. >> we're going to make it all belong and i want to say make the mission better the way it was today vote good >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> next speaker. >> that's a tough act to follow. >> won thing really first of all, i don't do this is my first political moment i don't know much about politics i think about people and one thing you know i've got to be here at 1:30 i saw so many of you here and i
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saw and marched with everybody and came down here and watching at home and decided to come back because - >> (clapping) and i just want to say if it really amazes me the depth of concern and care everything has you guys are here listening to one person after another area cheering us on and i'm really moved by that i left san francisco in 2002 i grew up here and came back in 12 and i came tell you that this city has changed so much in 2002 when our driving if you put on our left hand signal people will create a place to merge that no longer exists and one thing that i have to
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really reflect who do we owe our depth of gradually to there's a lot of people that came. the gold rush of technology i remember during the.org boom we had a major studio bought by a.org company they rehearsed and prepared to play and the.org crashed and it was band that building >> thank you. next speaker, please. > thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> good evening supervisors dean preston and thank you for your time this evening and what an absolutely amazing group of
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people that filled this champ this is the heart and soul of san francisco. (clapping.) >> those folks have come out away if their families although some brought them and taken time off from work and asked for one single thing a moratorium a short pause that's not too much to ask what folks are looking for especially in the mission and across the city is leadership. >> and leadership is not saying i'm against evictions but also against this moratorium that's not the answer that speculators tacked too many words their people are tired of the excuses it is the folks profiting off the evictions are stopping the
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protecting or more we can talk about wouldn't it be great to remorseful the ellis act but the same folks that oppose in particular, the real estateer killed the ellis act reform you don't have it option but some options you having had an option in the fall around the speculator tax that would have stopped displacement and many of you ducked and some opposed and leadership means bach that to do what you can do and leadership also means doing with supervisor campos has done which taken a new approach to an issue that is teacher of the year apart the city and especially the district. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> hello supervisors i'm teresa my family's and organizer in the
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admission for over 20 years now grandfather came to put food on all the tables any dad was a laborer in the sf union and no one boy i want to say that for me as american people organizer working for the environmental justice we speak for ourselves we know our stories don't need to be characters that is proven by the beautiful kids and youth and elderly and expressed their hearts and mind and souls and solutions we've burn to recomplain through a lot of work and door knocking and talking about to the people we've been to build 3 affordable housing sites in the mission and the excelsior 0 build two parks and that way nothing that still did
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it came into the people we're the ones comes up with the solution in our neighborhood and the environmental ranch if our neighborhood in the bishop and the excelsior at community hall but ranch that is happened with the freeways came and destroyed our neighborhood and give us asthma and cancer please think people over profit change the pattern that still has had especially in our communities since the thinking acceptance of san francisco i want to remember my people there were demand from their land only a 45 days moratorium to get those to the affordable housing it came from the people go community thank you. >> thank you.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i've heard the mathematics i think that is clear a no vote didn't work mathematically supervisor campos has laid that out clearly we understand the land grab and what is left and what opportunities and we don't act now the we've heard the general economics with you don't apply we're in a country mode and general economics don't work
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in a crisis mode i'm urging you to vote yes with the >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) my name is a francisco lived for thirty years in san francisco we've heard a lot of great testimony and a lot of spin so much spin it is making us dizzy facing an emergency in the community as much as we've been treated inner visible supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell wear treated as i think visible and we're here you guys we have led venture capitalist and investors build housing for people that don't live here we live here we live here and we need correct
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housing housing that is fair housing that is dignity if i had not the families living two to three to a block families divided one person gets a house for $300000 we live here and create housing for those of us you don't have to recruit hundred thousand workers from another place for luxury housing you know you don't call it luxury housing luxury condos are some other word so vote with us housing for us who are lord here and need fair and justify housing give a moratorium and
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give us time to stop the grabbing in our community. >> remember one last piece just remember this is really caused us lives alex and on the arab family that was burned alive and fulsome and the 24 families believe it or not out of their homes because of speculation. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm ending the meeting i am with our admission no evictions you're wondering why have are so many people of color and over one thousand people on may 8th
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and disrupt the city why have over 8 hundred people it's simple two yearlings we told the 3 and 4 declare a state of emergency there's a crisis and he declared a state of emergency what are the consequences 10 thousand people pushed out of the mission how many people from hunters point and the western edition 8 thousand latinos out of the mission and 3 thousand children are holes you've heard me say it is prison in the city that is so rich there is 3 thousand children homeless living in the streets yet 6 thousand white techies living in the mission making over hundred thousand dollars a year and what are they about given back to the
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mission this city the mayor for 15 years was told for 15 years not one single housing affordable housing has been built how long has he been in office not one single unit built we've asked him him for a plan to the mission to this day, no plan in 2008, we had a community plan and this city failed to implement other housing plan yet 37 cranes with up in san francisco that this city approved. >> (inaudible). >> thank you sir, thank you.
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>> we need 3 thousand new units thank you. (clapping.) >> public comment is over. >> clapping police have not
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removed nobody from the chamber.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> evening ladies and gentlemen, of the board members of the public i ran over here in berkley trying to paid attention i don't have anything to say i stand in solidarity with this community (clapping.) save the mission staples with that community thank you. >> seeing no other members from the comment that want to comment public comment is closed. >> abstinence. >> sir we still are a meeting please please. >> supervisor. >> thank you, thank you very much if i can please have everyone's attention
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if i may ask my chief of staff put up this projector. >> i want to make sure having begun tloul through all the public comment giving this board an opportunity to deliberate and give what i think that both sides of the issue deserve a you really don't care yes or no on this proposal apologize to ask hillary put up this slide if sfgovtv has a map of the 13 sites where we build affordable housing in the mission today you know there's a lot of emotion today and i have to say
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for me today is the sort of a very, very challenging day and yet a really rewarding day it is been very painful to hear the stories from so many people i know that folks may have been entrusted by the passion and meekly emotion you have to understand how personal this is for so many of us i was moved to see hocking so many people chewy who is dealing with leukemia i know for him to come out to a meeting is not an easy thing that is how important this is
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and what i would simply say to any colleagues is is that i don't claim to say a panacea i don't know how anyone can come to the building with a solution a lot of things need to happen but in my whole 10 year as an effected e elected officials i've not sown what or someone like what happened here today not seen a community so moved by what is happen on the ground that 8 housed into a hearing there are still people lined up to speak didn't doesn't happen just because so it is about the reason why those folks came out