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just a sad characterization of the mayor we had and the board of sproovisors we had because this problem has existed but because nothing has been done doesn't mean don't do something now. give us time to get a hold of the property before dwept gets them. it isn't just a matter of compassion, it is also a question for those of you who will be welty enough to stay here needing the servicess of people who will not be here. teachers clerks and med techs. when i moved here there was a perpondiance of people that can't work. now my dream is supervisor farrell and wiener will go to the doctor one day and have to wait 3 months for a x-ray because there are no x-ray techs >> thank you, next speakers.
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thank you madam president and board supervisors and thank you dauv udfor your hard work. via lurosa. [inaudible] the mission is not going back down, madam. we are here for the long term. whatever happens today will happen. we are going continue this fight. we continue the fight for our people to keep them in their homes and keep their children going to the district schools and stay with friends and teachers they love e. we can continue this as long as it takes madam president. we fought against ree development and won in the mission. we are going to fight this to the end. we want to you to join us as
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brothers and sisters, you are your brothers teachers, but hiding beall the devil talk, wree the people and love you and want to stay in our homes. these people are your supervisors that are going to vote no against this, you got to face your constituency and say i'm putting people on the streets. i'm going put kids out of thoir schools. i'm going to displace people. is thought what the hell you are saying? you are wrong. we as a mission are not going no wheres. this is our community. thank you >> thank you, next speaker, please >> i'm in favor of this vote. i'm a second generation san franciscan. you talk about
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change, i have seen the city change a whole bunch. all these nairblds wree talking about at mission bay, that was a big trucking company and embark dairy that was water front. where is it going end? i look around and we are here for the protection of the police officers and school teachers and this and that. what we have to stop this. we just keep going on and on. what is affordable? i would like to know that. to me most people are in the 20, 30, 40, 50 thousand year bracket if they are lucky, not 200 thousand a year. my jejication isn't that much, but when i bought my house in 1979 i was making 20 thousand a year. the housing went from 60 to 80 thousand dollars, the same house in that neighborhood is
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going for over a million. if it goes over 10 times that-my math is good. if i was making 20 thousand a year and the housing went for 60 thousands and worth a million now, that is 300 thousand a year. my friend isn't making that and nobody in the room is making that so we have to keep this on a common sense basis. keep it simple. that is what is wrong can this thing today is nobody wants to keep it simple, they want it complicated. a simple vote on this to make is t is a low income deal. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please >> my name is dong begler in libed in the mission for 29 years on 24th and vulens raw. i don't want to see more one more house bit at luxury market
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rate. i also head up a-i live on [inaudible] basic income is social security. i also help a health care organization with 7 thousand members in san francisco and know not having a room for ones own place to be is a helt issue and leads to mental health stress. i support the time out to come up with a plan to people that live in the mission live in the mission. a lot of supporters talk about the fire fighter squz nurses, you know who i care about, i hang on a lot of [inaudible] not one person who works in there a waitress or cook doesn't have at least 2 jobs to live in this sit aand some can't afford to lib in the city. those are the people who i'm most worried about being able to afford to live in san
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francisco. the grit and achberage working prern is in the city that is why i want to see a time out so we can build only affordable and find places for anybody who can make minimum wage in san francisco to live. thank you >> thank you. next speaker >> good afternoon and. i lived on 20th street [inaudible] i'm a block away from a city blocked destroyed june 18 when they get their demo permit for the space block. it is on 2 thousand bryant street. they will tear apart the block and lose at least 50 union jobs in the act prop shop and seem builders. they lose 9 jobs from had local car repair store and look frg
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another place and can't find. on june 18 is when the demo happens and just got a e-mail from the planning department from christopher thomas said the e-mail is a notification for community plan [inaudible] is certified from the planning department and exempt. what the hell? we had a plan and the entire city block that can be 100 percent afford will go 274 units of housing and 16 percent is affordsable to 20 percent of the county and 230 units are luxury apartments. that is why we need a moratorium because june 18 they get a permit and the block is gone. the arts group in that space was a historical center in the midtholf block and they
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are gone. [inaudible] just put a sign saying we are gon of may 28. they were told to leave and left. everybody on the block a block from where i live will go away in 18 days and need a moratorium to stop this now to take a breath, look at the plan and understand why this project is ex. >> thank you very much. next speakers >> good afternoon. supervisors david eliate lewis. you have seen me before. scaert mental health board. i see this housing issue as a mental health isue. without housing and space for non profit and spaces for production distribution how can you have a balanced neighborhood and how can you have the mental wealth fair you need, the environment you need for a melthally healthy place.
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[inaudible] i support this moratorium. it isn't a perfect solution but it is a help and wake up call that something has to be done. for those supervisors opposed, i listb to your reasons do you believe you will help the city by not supporting it? this won't solve everything, but it is small help in a over heated neighborhood with way too much lexry development and no affordsable development. we need something, this is 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
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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 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
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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. 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.
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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 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
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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. wake up frafrom the slumber you are in. talk is cheap, but actions are better. viva la
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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 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,
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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,
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 >> my name is centhia cren shah and i'm in the [inaudible] i'm a out reach worker with womens community district and a
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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 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
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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, yee, avalos, mar. ime [inaudible] first american born filipino senior and disabled and i had my eviction notice given me december 13, 2013 and
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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 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
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