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take care of - i've been living in the excelsior district and supervisor breed you're a joke. >> constrict our comments to the board as a whole and not to an individual supervisor - >> your supposed to be - you haven't made my decision i haven't made my decision. >> (inaudible). >> where's the benefit for us so i (inaudible).
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>> we all have a voice in the matter what you do we're going to be protesting we're beggars. >> (clapping). >> so i'm here to tell you that no matter what even if i do get displaced i'm going to come back and fight for anywhere community i know the people the children are going to deserve this and you know, i lived here and been - i'm not a bad seed i'm a good seed (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please i'm alexander i was
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binder born and raised and by luck i'm here i represent the youth examination commission and exemplary i'm proud of my views and city and not going to stop fooiblth i'm formally incarcerated and keeping us out of the city and people like me can't live in places because of my record and other people are being criminalized because of their homelessness and if you build those housing you'll displace people and mayor ed lee it not a crime to be poor we need our housing in order to stop magnificent incarceration and conflicts we need to stop luxury housing and gentrification i'm here to ask that we as a city and this board needs to support of moratorium we need to stay i was born and
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raised but i can't raise my family here we need our browning people to release that guess common we need to be colonized the way that everything works and ed lee they need to get out i swore on the constitution i'll protect the constitution and the city from all foreign and domestic terrorists they're our mayor and you're going to be a terrorist if you don't support this >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping). >> i want to say that, please and thank you to all the community you're so beautiful i'm here in solidarity with my family and ask you all you're all doing what you all i can't talk but i all have to support
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this community they voted for every one of you and you've not been doing shut and the city mayor is not doing shut families are being murdered in the mission i don't care people are murdered and i'm sorry we'll come back and we're coming back you're not going to get tired of seeing our faces this this moratorium didn't pass you'll see us look at the beautiful people in the auditorium. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hello hi my name is akelia i've had families living in san francisco for 90 years the neighborhood that my grandmother grew up in was hayes valley it is
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gentrification as representatives of the people of san francisco to actually do what you're employed to do if you look at the average prices of the some of the luxury condos in voiding to the new development on mission street o those are $6,000 a walk that requires a salary of $240,000 so the starting salary of a board of supervisors wouldn't be able to cover that what i'm asking you guys to take into consideration the people that created the neighborhood that you guys are exploiting for the culture of the art on the walls be the last reminder of the people that created the neighborhood make sure that people that are building the buildings that you guys are supporting can't live in them and make sure that the people that put you into those offices can actually have their day and
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actually have their recommendations representation this is totally messed up thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) >> hello i'm a native to san francisco in the bay area and i'm here to tell you i'm for the moratorium i've been seeing everyone getting displaced and my last memory is the art on the walls that's not okay okay. is it really criminal to be important and not okay to be able to live in a community we've build up for generations having this moratorium gives us time and the energy to find we we need and 82 tell you guys exactly what our community needs to stay.
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you know not everybody what afford a liberation condo i feel the people that worked this it have are the ones that should be in the city and less and less of us are in places we call home and able to stay in our home i've been fighting for foreclosure i've made this city what it is i've given a voice to youth that can't speak up i'm here to stop the evictions weighing we say no for mission (inaudible) stop evictions replace the mission stop evictions replace the mission yeah
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(clapping) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi good afternoon. i'm here standing with the community and i'm here to tell you that that is our realty outside it is a different if you're a mother; right? of two kids and have no where to be i've been homeless for 4 years and finally when i am not homeless i live in the neighborhood that sadly everybody that looks like me and itself house and the kids are out every single people that look like me we see you're thinking who is going to be the next one
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who is the next one living in the street with the kids i don't know how you going to sleep tonight thinking about my face and the kids that probable tomorrow i'm going to be out in the streets without a place to sleep and this is my son he is downs syndrome and 3 times leukemia and he's a worrying and also has to struggle because of what happens here and one today we're going to wake up and no place to go i hope you can think about the kids that has to receive commissioner mckeen they were everyday and look for a place to sleep i hope you sleep with that
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in my face i going to follow >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> my name is scott i'm a representative of the san francisco tenants union i've been an attorney for 35 years 40 years working on housing and tenants right issues i can't say anything that the people here haven't said i'm going to summarize an outpouring of real stories that is happening in the mission and they're asking you to stop bleeding stop the bleeding the neighborhood it in distressed now, some of you as payroll voted on this have called this a
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housing moratorium it is not a housing mower to your memory it is a moratorium on luxury housing luxury housing does this neighborhood no good that's why they don't like it that's why you have person after person testifying we don't want more luxury housing it's been said earlier by one of the supervisors that there is no connection between luxury housing boom first of all, there was not much luxury housing at all look at valencia street or in the old warehouse district there's plenty of the luxury housing built in the neighborhood and had an effect on the neighborhoods those folks have all testified about how natively they know that is a bad thing it has a ripple effect on
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rents and evictions in their neighborhood and this knowledge came from experience is borne out by a recent article in the wall street journal that everyone knows that luxury housing drives up rents and causes >> thank you very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) my name is buck i'm in the bruno heights neighborhood and really market rate housing and trickle down economics when reagan said that we laughed him out of the city we've been reduced to the margins all this does is slithering reduces the displacement from the mission those of you clear using the
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reagan rational and had the people to pay inform beat prop k why not say the obvious you believe in the market and you feel there is nothing you can do about mitigating it's impact 13 lots we're talking about developing i hope we do there is one thing going to stop displacement strong rent control not in the conversation and some of your grand people talked about it was quoted until our people talking about the class and power as you use common sense we challenge this hercy we're fighting about whether or not to have market rate housing but we should talk about the offer riding the cost hawkins and rent control this is an embarrassment i don't know if we're going to win this fight
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because of supervisors like you that are owned by the interests that are buying and destroying our >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (clapping.) >> you know i don't know if there are any members of the plan here but i wondered if i looked at some of our closets if i wouldn't find a robe what is happening it 234ik9 cleaning and i'm jewish the white people and the jewish supervisors that are displacing the black and latino foeksz of san francisco and it continues to happen that's why supervisor wiener is the queen of ethnicity. >> sir address our comments to the board as a whole. >> i'll be happy to address my comments as a whole. >> no whole but to the board.
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>> find a way to dan brown and black people it's a shame that the black supervisors have to be told that we're down to 4 percent african-american and nothing is being done 8 thousand latinos and really nothing is done i'm not fooled this will pass today, there are 3 white people that will vote against it we have two black people that will vote against it. >> sir you don't know what our votes are. >> i do airbnb over many issues why don't you stop the clock. >> the clock is stopped you're putting anti statements are not true i appreciate if you'll in the mention that. >> i'll be curious to see if
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you're telling me the truth they put act out the hit champion with christine the one percent bought you, your bought and paid for like a more than day slave. >> boo. >> wow. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisor campos. >> madam president i want to say as someone that strongly believes in the moratorium the service to what we're fighting for there's no place for racism and anti semi telling them in the language that was presented we should focus on facts and i'm perp offending by the things that were said. >> (clapping.)
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm an organizer i'm also a displaced person from the mission my family lives in the mission you heard the testimony from my mom and sisz i can actually afford to live in the mission but i work here and support a lot of the community that is being displaced with dealing with harassment everyday in the mission our saying that let the market take care of it supply and demand what when i have thousands of people that are demanding affordable housing what is that supply and demand and have thousands of people being displaced and having no place to live and getting to be homeless i was homeless i know what that means and not having enough supply and in shelters to deal with oil all
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