begin by doing this [beeping] i always wanted to do that. every since my elementary school teacher did that to me. i want to thank you for coming to city hall today to help the school district to be the best uben school district in the country and one way is respond to the housing needs. as you know we have a housing crisis that is decades in the making and want to make sure as we commit 250 building new housing and preserving the neighborhoods and preventing people from getting evicted

that we pay attention to the essential workforce of the city. we have in the past talked about the need to make sure the first responders are in the city so we started a loan program and thank tooz the supervisors working with my office we are able to do that to the tune of 250 million dollars and believe that whole program is taken care of and we need more in the future but it is a mark of our effort to make sure or essential workforce is here. as you also know i ar ticulated the need to brild houseer by 2020 and making sure a third is affordable to low income and over half affordable to middle income fmlies as well. we are rebuilding the public housing as noted last

week with [inaudible] in town and we declared and announced our blue print how we will get to insure over 10 thousand of the 30 thousand units affordable and as you know we recently introduce would the boards cooperation several pieces of legislation that can accelerate the building and rehabbing of the housing faster. i'm also making sure that long time san francisco residence can stay and maintain their residences here in the city and so we have funded programs that strenten eviction protection and using small sites program to also preserve and build more housing. all of us unanimously have sent to the voters 310 million dollar housing bond that will not raise property taxes bit will be of great help in areas like

the mission district that need more affordable housing and also need the neighborhoods stabilized. speaking of middle class it brings me to todays announcement and happy to be joined by so many supervisors and school superintendent and united educators and one of our teachers so we are also make sure we pay attention to a grit great part of or essential work force and that is those who teach in the public schools. we know about 70 percent the public school teachers live in the city but we also know the housing prices means that number could change very quickly. we are not certified with 70 percent. if we can make that higher that will mean teachers will have more reasons to sacrifice the

time, the expense it is to be here, but also to be aworld class school system you have to have teachers willing to spend a lot of time after school, before school, parental engagement, engaging with students and families. this is what makes a world class school system worlds class. so, our housing challenges for the teachers also mean that we will meet the retention challenges for our school district and therefore the challenges that face or stud chbts. that is why i made teacher housing a pritorty and a part the housing working groups that have gone on that included everybody that is standing beside me and somany others. i worked closely with superintendent [inaudible] and the school board and the school district is here. the elected officials

from inschool district is here to join in the announcement between a joints erfbt between mayors office of housing and the school district to provide affordable housing for ast least 500 teachers by the year 2020 and will use programs and refund and resource programs like a very successful teachers next door program. it is so successful as of today has zero money and we can renew that with some 200 what we call forgivable loans. i like that term, forgivable loans. they provide down payment assist toons the teachers so they can buy a home and continue to teach and live in the city. our school district and our office will jointly fund a housing development for at least 100 educator house holds.

we will provide rental assistance frs at least 100 educators and provide at lease 250 thousand dollars of housing navigation counseling recollect if you will to over 100 education households within the next 5 years. all 4 of these programs are important because we heard in our discussions with teachers, with representatives, that not unlike the housing challenges in our city, the challenges for the teachers are just as variesied. stabilizing rental assistance, opportunities to buy a home through downpayment assistance and program and counseling all of that is important to keep the teachersism we believe the programs in the funded manner and we plan and the strategies

we discuss it will allow at least 500 teachers afford to be here in san francisco through 2020. supervisor [inaudible] agreed on the strategy to achieve the goal and talked through it and agreed with this and know it will make a huge difference. while there are programs already insuch that help people find and attain affordable housing middle class earns like the teachers do not always qualify for them and that is quhie i am focused on teachers today. today we have with us a teacher who accessed our existing housing programs to purchase her own home. she is a relatively new teacher at james lick middle school but so lucky because she won our housing lottery. you is >> student have to win a lotly

to get a house in san francisco. i want to congratiate lindy [inaudible]-go bull dogsism she will come up here and talk about her experience as a teacher in sth school district. lindsey was able to access below market rate housing program and won the lottery to purchase her own home at 1400 mission street. we'll create more housing opportunities for the tuchers so they can live where they teach. that is important to us. as i said earlier, i think if we have teachers who live here you have their time before and after school and have a lot more parental engagement and these are things that are foundidations of great school systems. before she speaks i want to come up and have come up our superintendened of public schools and want to

congrat ylshzs superintendened [inaudible] and the school district because just last night we received word that the states california school board association awarded our school district what they call the, golden bell award, which is i think a fantastic achievement. i think we again are the best performing large urban school in the state of california and it was recognized by the school board association so want to congratulate the sfr intendened and staff for the work they are doing as our president london breed walks into the room. with that, superintendened [inaudible] >> so, we are in session. so, thank you mr. mayor we appreciate your commitment to the issue of housing for all of our professionals in the district. i'm very very excited to be here this morning

with the mayor, with the exponentative vice president of educators susan solomon who is here and [inaudible] vice president matte hanny and the supervisors. we are committed to the notion that you cannot have a world class city without a world class public education system. if we look at who does the work of educating our children every day, who is the person that will wipe the tears from a student, who greets the child when they walk into school, who helps them learn to read and write but not just read and write, but read and write for the purpose? it is our teacher squz professionals and administrators. i remember about 25 years ago as a new teacher living and working in the community in come which i taught and having those

conversations at the groshry store with a grand mother or having the conversations while i cut the grass in the fronts and kids walk by and talk about how did the homework go. living and working in the community you teach and make the investment is pornts for the fabric of the city so to have the mayor and officials link arms arounds the notion we want to create in a world class city like san francisco the opportunity for our educators to the live and work in san francisco is incredibly important to us have & a priority of the district and board of education. we are very very proud we are working now for well over 16 months hand and hand with the teachers unionx ploring a 4 point process rchlt we want to provide brick and mortar opportunities, building-a building and the mayor has spoke of this, where the educators can live, but we also

want to explore rental subsidies and mort gj assist ance and teacher program. we are not putting all our eggs in one basket, we are lookingats a wide variety of opportunities to create a infrastructure so we continue to recruit and develop the best educators for our children in san francisco but give them a mechanism where they can live and work in san francisco and stay in san francisco to create the next generation of innovateers, the next againiation of leader and the next generation of who knows, superintend nds in san francisco. that is important to us and it is a matter of keeping our folks in the city. we are very excited to partner with the mayor and board of supervisor and board of education and i are absolutely commit today working with the teachers union making these opportunities realty. enough

from me, i think you should hear from somebody who is one of those educators and we are so lucky to have her. mr. mayor would you introduce her? she deserves to be introduced by the mayor. thank you for being here. >> thank you superintendened. simply, lindy dawnally is a speech and language teacher-i used to call it language arts in middle school. she is at the james lick middle school but we wanted her here to just talk about the challenges that teachers have but also her own experience so lindsey please come up and thank you for joining us. >> so, as mayor lee said my name is lindy dawnany and i'm a speech language pathology and work at james lick middle

school and willy brown middle school. i'm here to tell you about my process purchasesing a home at 1400 mission. i was hired by the district a couple years ago and it was my dream job. when i moved here i was surprised how expensive rent was and didn't think it was something i would be able to-do in the laing run. the end of last school year i made the decision to move away somewhere more affordable or look into other options to stay in the city and that is how i found out about the below market rate housing opportunity. so, i did research on line, went to a couple classes for-through the i think the credit counseling agencies and they gave information about thew purchase a home and take out a loan and then they gave me a counselor one on one who brought me through the process and convinced me to apply for 1400

mission. i schbts in the application and approved for the loan and found out a couple months later and won the lottery which is great news and now i can stay in the city. the whole process was great. i'm thankful the program exists brauz i would have probably have to left the city. i'm glad the program is expanding for more teachers so other people can also-my colleagues can stay in the city as well and live in the community in which they serve. again, and like to thank everyone for the opportunities to purchase my first home and really grateful for it. [applause] >> as great as that story is lindsey, we hope other teachers won't have to wait to win the

lottery because that is hard to do. when you are faced with being one of 5-lindsey, do you have other lottery tickets? i have been lucky to work with a great body of people on our board of supervisors and particularply when it come tooz the topic of education and housing we have been strong allies in again a crisis that is decades in the making and i want to just personally thank president breed, supervirez christensen, supervirez farrell, supervisor cohen and supervisor katie tang. each of them have been strong in the ofernt erfts to work with me and every meeting we have they are all talk about housing particularly the board

president. as i know it is very near and dear to her and wree have been together with the hud secretary and leader pelosi and the housing issues in her community and all the communities in the city. want to come up to say a few words, board president london breed. >> thank you mr. mayor. many of you probably don't know this or never believe this but i was really a bad kid in school. i went to public schools here in san francisco and there was always this one special teacher every year that was able to draw me in and keep me under control. in high school that teacher was [inaudible] my french teacher. [inaudible] i remember when the 89 earthquake happened and a couple days later-of course the next day i was excited because we didn't

have to go to school, but when i returned to school, galileo high school, the best high school in san francisco, madam wasn't there and all most lost it because i wanted to talk to her about it. she was so amazing she made her class available to all of us even during lunch time where we am no where to go or talk to and she couldn't make it to work thmpt bridge was broken, as you know it fell down and many had to commute around to the golden gate bridge and it was challenge, but it was sad to not have my teacher making it to work and didn't understand at that time and this is in 89, i didn't understand why she couldn't live in a great place like san francisco. providing this housing opportunities for the teachericize one of the most important things we can do as a city. they deserve this. they are educating and dealing

with challenging children every single day. i understand-i actually hope that they would accept my apology today for all the trouble i gave them and know the fact that they continue to work with me, the fabt they continued to work with our children aerf day, the fact they continue to show up because i have to tell you, you have to love what you do to wake up every morning and deal with a lot of children all the time. there is a love affair with that and why don't our teachers deserve a opportunity to live in the great city as we build all the affordable housing and say san francisco is a place for you. it has to be a place for them too. i'm happy the mayor and board work together the school district to make this possible. this is going to be incredible opportunity for our teacher squz truly looking forward to. it. thank you.

>> thank you president breed and another supervoizer who has been a great leader also one that is very committed to our children and families and one that i have really come to know during the last year of her performance and hat is supervisor christensen of district 3. >> this announcement means a lot to me. i became a neighborhood advocate 20 years ago largely to try to makeure neighborhoods safer and better place to raise our families. essential to that are the schools and key to that are the wonderful inspiring transformative teachers. as a supervisor i tried to work hard to close the gap between recognizes needs and problems and actually finding workable practical solutions to them. it is terrific that the mayor

and the unified school district and board can am toorthd to provide housing accessibility and improve affordability for one of the most fundamental parts the city and that is our teacher. it is one step that we need to take out of many to try to keep our city a place that is affordable and accessible for everyone. i think all of us like president breed have known teachers who have changed and shaped our lives. our teachers are important not only to our schools but to the communities at large and i know all of us here want to do everything that we can to keep them in our neighborhoods, so thank you to all who made this hapgen know we are committed to do more going forward. thank you. [applause] >> i know that if i kept this conference going each of the superizvoors would take the tonight to apologize to the

teachers they abused but we don't have that much time. i don't have to apologize, i was a good student. i did want to give you economics because i know that will be part of your inquirys so let me tell how serious this is for us by way of budget. the teacher housing development will estimate to be around 35 million dollar development and we are glad to do with the school district because they are worth it. i want to say that because i don't want them to get into something that they are not good at that is land use and [inaudible] the teacher next door program. with the hope of the passage och proposition a we commit at least 4 million dollars to that program. the down payment assistance program is a 40 million dollar revolveing housing trust fund

program. along with funds from prop a and rental assistance program is with the school dustricate that funds up to 2 million annually. total you are talking 80 million dollars on a ongoing basis for all these prms and want to put that number in your head because that replects how serious we are in supporting the teacher squz housing and their stability and most importantly keeping a education system that is world class. thank you for being here and everybody up here will be available for one on one interviews. thank you. [applause] >> >> >> >> >> >>.

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