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how we're providing the geographyic area i'm joined by mohcd and also joined by charles the data specialists that months the preference at multiple percentages and multiple geographies just to reiterate the recommendations coming out of the planning commission we are hopefully that you today will amend the legislation so alu your treating the board detailed topics of an expanded displaced tenants preference and the new geographyic as two stands alone pieces of protection we're committed to the analysis in crafting a displaced tenant preference that prototyping addresses the crisis at this time but it is also be best served to move forward
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quickly with the geographyic preference to begin we have two existing preferences one a certificate of preference and the second the ellis act preference i want to take a moment to describe how how the lottery system and the existing preference is implied they're not exactly the same as you may know mohcd finances and administers two affordable housing programs there is the inclusionary which is privately funded that provides ownership and a multiple family program 100 percent affordable tax credit program those are pub funds and the two distinction program are available 2, 3, 4 two ways first, the inclusionary housing program basically etch individual developer communication outreach and marketing that plan are reviewed
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and approved in advance by mohcd the initial sales and lease lottery the lottery for the initial sales is conducted by mohcd and the lottery process creates a list of applicants certificate of preference holders are pulled first from the list in ranked orders in theory 100 percent of units could go to certificate of preference holders. >> in buildings with at least 5 units ellis act housing certificate of preference holders are pulled next from the list in ranked orders and those certificate of preference holders can fill up to 20 percent of the building units and then as supervisor wiener awe let us to people that live or work in san francisco are pulled from the list in ranked order for the inclusionary housing program just in answer
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to one of supervisor kim's questions we've always applied preference 200 although not to the portfolio we've never reached beyond the work or live preference in san francisco. >> just to sclafr a 100 percent those that live in affordable housing program either live or work in san francisco? >> in the inclusionary housing program. >> just in the inclusionary not for the 100 percent affordable and that's correct we've no codified preference we now will not approve a marketing plan unless the work force for the tax credit that is not the case and given the projects that takes and/or federal funding this typically goes for accident 100 percent affordable housing
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on the inclusionary is completely private dollars in the case where we take state or federal finland's will that will prohibited to the preservation for those who live and work in san francisco. >> we've not been told we're prohibited from identifying the preference. >> so if we were to decide perhaps not at this date but later we want an overall offering overlay on the affordable housing program their get the preference as not codified for the inclusionary program we can, do so. >> we have we do not approve the marketing plans unless they have a live or work requirement. >> but in the case of 100 percent affordable housing products. >> projects we don't apply this preference. >> we do now not always. >> we do oh, that's gay to
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understand when did we apply that. >> benjamin maybe bettered to talk about this. >> previous to this year do we have data on any units of inclusionary or 100 percent went to those that don't live or work in san francisco. >> i don't have the information today related to the 100 percent the tax credit unions the inclusionary program no units to any knowledge no lottery has - slots been used by anyone that didn't work or live in the city in the inclusionary program. >> do we is a have a demographic breakdown with the inclusionary and 100 percent we do so we have a zip code breakdown or go ethic breakdown. >> not all the information is
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mandatory so some of the information not all of it. >> when you say it is not all required meaning some of the inclusionary units we don't require that but i assume all say ones we administer we do. >> thanks marie. >> we have the information for the inclusionary but not the tax affordable program. >> it would be great to get that information i'm curious in terms of what we're trying to solve for who is winning the affordable units we want that equal so in the zip codes the geography ice cream have not wishing the units potentialal there are fixes to do or outreach or fund for outreach to make sure those communities or neighborhoods are applying and getting in even of there is a neighborhoods progress.
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>> i'm get back and provide that information to the committee. >> i have one on the state and federal funding in the legal concerns i'll hold off on those questions. >> i may address some of them but certainly jump in. >> next, i was going to go to oh, no i'll finish up been the lottery each rerental and resale. >> sophie excuse me. >> supervisor wiener has a followup and fold by supervisor president breed. >> in terms of geography, etc. breakdown no housing communities development about the percentage of residents for the lgbt i think i know the answer but i'm asking. >> i don't believe we do i'll check with marie. >> you don't that was a rhetoric question as many
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strides in the city in terms of bringing the lgbt out of closet into latest and embracing our communities and have a seat at the table the lgbt community is still - the lgbt community is still invisible in a lot of ways and actually data collection or lack there have with the right to the lgbt is one of the race folks or pretending and not have the opportunity same rights to whether it is affordable housing or anything else as other communities assembly david chiu was able to get the dwofrn to require the data collection at the state level and working on similar legislation to compel
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all the city departments to collect this data as people are willing to provide it, it is unfortunate the departments don't do it voluntarily but we'll compel now on a data this is important not enough lgbt people are in affordable housing but moving beyond in terms of supervisor kim's question that is quite important in terms of of the preference it is great that moe is now requiring a marketing plan the preference for all affordable housing its been a long time coming but it pertains up a boarder issue i think this legislation begins to address and this is for way too long for our affordable housing policies the board of supervisors has essentially designated to the
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mayor's office of housing and community development almost complete and utter control in the decision making authority about what we have lottery how to do it and the preferences to apply or not apply with respect to moe he have a lot of respect that's not an administrator decision a fundamental policy decision that the elected representatives of the people should be making about this precious asset of affordable housing in so many ways to decide who gets to stay in san francisco we as the board of supervisors and the mayor should be setting those policies in the administrative addition this is a good first step or having the preference codes if i did in the allowing law not just in the process but taking a look at how this lottery is conducted because that really decided who gets to live here in a lot of
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ways (clapping.) >> supervisor wiener also not just on the lottery but how to file a marketing plan and working for almost a year in codifying the strategy is where we're advertising this is civic supervisor president london breed. >> can you share the demographic information in the presentation. >> i'm not sure - we have the democrat graufk for the inclusionary housing but the not the one side of the aisle affordable program i'm not sure i have it but i'll take into account go to see if i have it here only a portion of the portfolio. >> so how soon could we receive that information.
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>> we have it we can come back some of the amendments discuses will require waiting one week so next week we'll presents the democrat, etc. information i want to reiterate it only represents to the inclusionary housing. >> it is important to share and get an idea of zip codes so we can get an understanding of who is in the affordable housing because you you know clearly i mean regardless of what the data says the data is going to match what i'm actually physically seeing in a lot of the properties that many of the folks that actually live in those communicates are still not getting assess to the housing that would be great to see that (clapping.) great to have a better understanding and maybe works of the properties mary helen rogers
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and in the richardson building and others affordable units that were newly built could be a great example of places that i would wanted to see demographics if i share the information citywide. >> thank you. >> we can do that next week. >> (clapping). >> i can skip on in any presentation he was going going to make the point the 100 percent tax credit buildings the lottery is similar, however, at the time of rerental not a second batch of lottery and the portfolios there is a rent wait list and rerentals are pulled from that wait list that's the point i wanted to make we're
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here today, this legislation or legislation proposed a third preference educator the proposal as outlined in the legislation is a geographyic preference force the supervisorial district all residents within half a mile radius of affordable housing project to and it will apply to 25 percent of new units if they come online the goal of this legislation was to maintain and protect equal and fair access to the very precious resources of affordable housing by to balance that with the completely liability desire the residents to stay in their neighborhood we know that residents live in their district their income qualified's and rent burdened and in some cases housing insecure but let people know 38 they have a chance to
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get a units within their district i want to acknowledge we've heard the desire for a smaller geography smaller than the supervisorial and a higher percentage of units our proposal charley b will go through the supervisorial level for 25 percent of unions we arrived there after an extensive analysis we look at 4 distinct he geographies the supervisorial and planning neighborhood and two others geographic subdivisions and analyzed a 20 and 50 percent and the analysis was due to the driving concern to make sure our proposal maintains the access to households citywide and charles will walk you through but i'll previous the supervisorial have
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an vangs of an equal population and levels of diversities affordable housing opportunities are not evenly distributed citywide and there are, however, affordable housing options in every supervisorial district so therefore every income eligible person is visible in the supervisorial district level and that concludes my presentation. but i think the information if charles mcnolte will be helpful i'm available to answer any questio questions. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm charles marking mcnolte i'm a specialist with the mayor's office of housing and community development and the staff person responsible for modeling the neighborhood preference and this afternoon i'll give you a brief summary of that touching on the
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4 geographies we're evaluated and turning to the actual district impact analysis the neighborhoods preference to the mayor's office of housing identified and swaeltd 4 sets of geography boundaries that are uncommon used excluding ours and the planning department those are the supervisorial and planning neighborhoods be planning districts and what we call city analysis neighborhoods looking at the supervisorial districts that think that left-hand side 11 subdivisions drawn but is task force in order to - >> in order to insure equal distribution for districts in elections and the next is the planning naebd and there are 37 sub groups bans commonly used
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real estate boundaries and used but is planning department's for the neighborhoods nofksz system the third set of planning districts p there are 17 sub groups used for the planning department's reporting in documents such as the housing inadvertent and the city analysis there are 41 they use common real estate and definition they run with the track boundaries and generally designed for the purpose of consistency in analysis and reporting. >> next slide. >> for the analysis we evaluated each identified criteria measures of neighborhoods assess and opportunities table one summarizes those relies the first measure or criterion is
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equal population this criteria measures the various in the number of hours between the supervisorial and is planning and the described neighborhoods and the subdivisions and population the smaller the number you see the more even the population between the subdivisions so in this case supervisorial districts have a more even population then say planning neighborhoods districts or analysis neighborhoods next, we looked at the race and ethnicity the various of the households by the race and ethnicity of the geographic subdivisions and the city overall generally, the smaller the number the less variation between the supervisorial district between race and ethic itself between the planning neighborhoods or the other two
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geographies and similar to the geographies overall the size of smallest hours in the subdivision geographies with the large neighborhoods are preferenceable as the neighborhoods participation is an important asset of the preference program and the supervisorial districts are reasonably even sized and have the smallest sub geography at 10 thousand this is in contrast to the neighborhoods and finally we looked at the number of households the geography will including exclude that erase the totals of households not covered those numbers are based on affordable housing programs estimates to be completed by 2020 so the results of the analysis is the supervisorial geography perform better and evenly
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distributed number of households and the lease he various in the ethnicity and race and supports of actually neighborhood participation and exclude households from the preference. >> further in support of our recommendation for the supervisorial district like the geography their codified in the city charter and developed there a community process and created with a think explicit set of criteria including the voting rights as racial and language and preservation of the neighborhoods and preservation of communitiess of interest. >> next i'll turn to the desperate impact analysis in have a seat the neighborhoods apprehensive program the mayor's office of housing and community development created a model neighborhood preference program using households data and race
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and ethnicity and by desperate impact whether or not the policy will be considered discretionaryy and in this case we're capital improvement plan its effect operas and ethic motorcyclists in san francisco we audited two tests the first test the 4, 5 test measures whether a selection rate of a minority group or race or ethic groups that is 80 percent of selection for the largest ethic groups less than 80 percent is less of an adverse the next measures the probability of a non-bias selection by state of california evaluating we we see
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and expect to see greater than 2 to 3 indicates a selection bias table it in the next slide shows a summary of relatives of those two tests for the identities groups applied to two percentages 25 and 40 percent the 4, 5 tests i'll direct you to columns one and 3 the motivation is the number of tested rates that actually fall below 80 percent no geography falls blow the told her for the 40 percent, however, approximately thirty to 40 percent of all subdivisions for the 4 tested groups are blow the 80 percent and turning to columns 2 and 4 for the standards deviation the magics is the percentages and the
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number of geographic subpoena duces tecum with the devatdz with the 25 percent the spoirlz districts have greater than 3 percent and with craft with the 40 the number of subdivisions greater than 3 are 7 to 15 percent in your opinion the analysis supports the neighborhoods at 25 percent in that no race or ethic grow up is selected at 80 percent and it is the preference definition less likely to result in a bias selection system. >> based on the analysis of the geography and desperate impact a 25 percent using the supervisorial districts whether or not i understand e clients with the best districts has an opportunities without excluding the households because of their geography or is race thank you.
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>> thank you. any on the presentations from staff at this time seeing none, colleagues, any others remarks from you supervisor kim. >> actually, i have a series of questions on some of the legal constraints you brought up regarding the neighborhood preference. >> oh, sorry. >> so my first question was first of all, new york city is under litigation for it's neighborhood preference litigation where is that in the process currently. >> i'm looking.
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>> supervisor kim i can actually and supervisor president london breed can talk about the new york litigation supervisor kim wanted to know what is happening with the new york litigation and the city attorney. >> deputy city attorney susan cleveland-knowles new york city has had two lawsuits 20 and 50 percent neighborhood preference the first one was the challenge to a particular housing project which the city lost the second piece of litigation was filed recently brown probably about 4 months ago and there's been a no briefly or action nicole. >> do we have a sense of timeline for a decision on this case. >> probably in the next 6 months there might be some court hearing but we can look at that that i'm not sure of the schedule. >> okay. >> i'm sorry that seclusion is
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on the policy as a whole. >> okay. >> so my next series of questions on the federal and state funding issue so i read that you know more affordable housing constructed using any federal housing funding sources that hud must give approval of any application so what type of housing does this impact. >> mary a are mayor's office of housing and community development and hi ms. benjamin. >> in having an impact on the 100 percent affordable units. >> all of them. >> home funds or some other federalist funding that they'll have to include the live work preference in their original marketing plan they submit to the federal government for funding or amend that plan if it is submitted.
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>> do all our 100 percent affordable housing projects get federal funding. >> not all but month. >> month. >> so in all of those cases we have to get the preferences so the cop and the ellis act evictions ellis act evictions we have approval. >> yes. >> then the next step to vet the preference. >> yes. >> have we reached out to hud if they accept this preference. >> i've already accepted the cop and the live work in some developments we have not reached out yet no about the this legislation until it is in place. >> so our affordable housing vegetation that you seek housing funding my understanding that use of any type of preference
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except cop is expressing prohibited by the state. >> in the states has an explicit exception to that preference rule audited preference rule if the preference is a live and a work preference if you're give preference to people that live in a certain city you have to give preference to the people that will work in the city. >> how does this work. >> the states law impact i'm reading here the multiply family u m r that applies to most states funding sources explicitly prohibits the used of local preferences unless accompanied as you mentioned the equal for employment how does the district preference will we
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be able to use the district housing that use state funding. >> the person has to live or works in that preferred location in that district. >> so that will have a tremendous district northbound the district i representative most people work in the downtown area so that will vavt increase those that get preference in district 6. >> it would. >> okay. so this was not discussed at all we're talking about is not a neighborhood preference and i apologize if i missed it i didn't read a live and work preference even for the districts so i know for the city i didn't thinks. >> i'm sorry supervisor i'm refer to the live work preference the neighborhood preference would have to be submit to both the state and the
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federal government for he approval in projects that have the funding. >> it says here to that the state expressly prohibits. >> unless you offer that work preference. >> - right. i guess it is not clear to the members of the public that this is wyoming naturally or the next step when our tarnishing housing that gets state funding and we request this preference to be given we will only be able to apply the preference if it is work or live in the district. >> yes. >> it needs to be clear. >> i want to make it clear excuse me. that that is spate from federal funding most of one side of the aisle percent buildings get federal but few state funding. >> that was my next question.
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>> not as many as i'm sorry. >> i can give you numbers on how many get (multiple voices). >> so at this committee i want to know what buildings get state funding and in the pipeline. >> before this goes out to vote we want to know that. >> we'll make sure we get that to you. >> i guess going to any final question this is one you know for the proposed legislation not for programs funded through the mohcd and so this includes booichltd are those for example, like the dish building and in the integrity they have the staffing i guess the universe of
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building under 100 percent percent mohcd. >> i might not be the best person to answer that question - i know that there are - i don't know of any buildings that restricts that from the mayor's office of housing and community development but. >> it that would be great to get a list from the vote for the buildings included and the final any housing being developed or finest explicitly by ocii i'm curious what is under that as well. >> ocii idea is their development are primarily in the shipyard and treasure island they or had you. >> treasure island is not under ocii. >> i know that motorbike and
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are there housing 100 percent funded inclusive by appendixes. >> typically they're funded by ocii. >> so any affordable housing built in the shipyards will not use neighborhood preference. >> the appendixes will have to approve that they're very anxious to do that. >> they can have this preference but only approves separately is for the motorbike as well. >> they yeah they're looking anticipating this legislation. >> great i think the big thing to get this answer on the state grant one of the concerns do we have a neighborhood preference in place 70 percent of the residents work in district 6 and south of market including the people that live far from san francisco they will autumn get preference in all of district of
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portfolio and that will be counter to the amendment that is before us today, i median a lot of people 54 percent in san francisco is affordable housing not only people that live in san francisco but live far so make sure if we have a preference that work in the district which is actually going to the largest pool of affordable housing we're looking at making sure that san francisco residents are able to get in through this program. >> we'll make sure we get the numbers of units of building that are being development that require that. >> thank you and in this case, i may ask the authors to consider you know maybe slooiz out those buildings that gets state funding again, i think this is important to figure out the universe of those buildings are. >> supervisor president london breed. >> thank you. >> i know that we're anxious
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to get to public comment i have information about inclusionary and 100 percent avenue, i want to share and this is why as far as i'm concerned, this is so sixth and do a neighborhood preference since between 2008 and 2014 the affordable housing units that have both been sold and rent the democrat graphic information excludes whites 200 and 64 units asian pacific islanders 6 hundred and 1 units are hispanic, latino, 1 and 45 and african-american black 62 units. >> there's also the other category of 4 that and an unknown category of 1 hundred and 93 this is total from 2008
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to 2014 which includes both rental as well as homeownership those are the kinds of numbers sadly, you know, i see in a lot of the affordable housing developments and is example i'm frustrated with with the whole lottery process and why we need to move a neighborhood preference forward (clapping.) madam president. >> may clarify those are only the inclusionary units. >> oh, i'm sure thank you, thank you. >> all right. thank you very much for your presentation. >> are you guys ready for public comment all right. ladies and gentlemen, is open on item 3 line up over here remember you have 3 minutes for public comment you'll hear a 30-second
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soft chime. >> and him pastor and president of the san francisco naacp first of all, madam chair he commend you supervisor breed, supervisor wiener, for advancing this demonstration along with as i said earlier madam chair that include supervisor cowen he just rose to say that in 1810 theodore parker a trinities said
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the arc of the moral universe is wrong but it benefits towards justice the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice 1810. >> it was doctor martin luther king that popularized that quote of theodore parker i want to wrap up by saying since on january the 121864 we were promised 40 acres and a mule and that moral arc of universe
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has had a long time bending so why not every member of that board of supervisors just do the rights moral thing (clapping.) since they reneged on the 40 acres and over mule gives our 40 percent for residents preference (clapping.) madam president. >> and supervisors first of all, thank you for bringing to forwards many of us have been talking about that in the community inform so many years it goes back to reverend brown are i was walking with a cane when our hair was not gray we were trying to implement the neighborhood preference because
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of what has happened and supervisor breed thank you so much those last statistics prove the point it do not all the things on 25 and the programs they have now the reality is it is for african-americans they're not working it doesn't matter how well intended it is not working we're leaving the city in droves the certificate of preference is not work because neither the redevelopment agency or the successor are the city put a dime into finding certificate of preference and their elderly and you'll not allow their children to inherit the certifies even though they represent project kwungly it didn't work, and, secondly, all our existing 236 units hud told reverend brown
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and myself when we they have vacancy they'll not allow them to advertise in prop m african-american publications because the projects already have too many african-americans in there this is a crisis and when i went to the doctor with a bad foot 6 weeks ago they especially\operate on the good toes they didn't give them equal attendance but to the bad ones let's give the attention to the toes that are hurting in the community and not shared equally with everyone else thank you very much (clapping.) >> next speaker >> my name is bucky live in bernal height thanks for doing that thank you mayor's office of housing for approaching i think the mayor's office of housing is approaching the wrong way start with the displacements of blacks and latinos in san francisco.
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>> and work backward from that 25 or it could be should be 100 percent i think ideas are great but not like that the blacks and latinos are forced out of the city at a higher rate than anyone else okay (clapping.) so why not start with thanks for doing that could it be 100 percent if it benefits the blacks and latinos currently at risk of being displaced and brought back one of the things i like about the mayors plan for the mission they're talking about people coming back it is not as easy to i identity not be tim i do in parts of maine 50 percent and new york we agree the goal to stop the displacements of blacks and lacing and bring back blacks especially because of history redevelopment and latinos if
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this is our goal that should dictate and for god sakes not district but neighborhood fighting the parts discrimination against blacks and lacing that resulted in them being displaced at a quick rate and back into everything 100 percent when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. and not for goes on not do district. >> good afternoon, supervisors and my name's is linda i'm representing the bayview hunters point multiply population city we came in with 50 percent we'll go to thirty we want to commends our courage it takes decades and decades and decades for the
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forced immigration of african-americans from this city and ask when we know has cast a blemish on the history of the city of st. francis mayor ed lee and thanks to him we need to thank him. the courage and supervisor breed said before for giving them the courage this is for the wait lead to the gentrification of african-american from the city one thing to supervisor president london breed you ask the ask why african-americans they're still not having the opportunities to be with the inclusionary housing or special housing or whatever a has to do with with the implementation of the excited laws i'll challenge the supervisor here major san francisco agencies have list they've developed over decades
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and developing now tiling you'll not find a number of african-americans with the good intention of our policy is you're not going to enforce or make sure the implementation requests we're going to get back to square one i'm going to ask you ask the city to accompany and how they're coming pile their data and why when you do that you're almost there the implementation of our legislation will be the key the good intentions are great but i'm going to ask you to please we're going to come back here to keep asking for - (clapping.) >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors first of all, i'm gary bank's a minister her in the western edition area and also a i own a firm in san francisco i want to
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first commend the supervisors for this neighborhood preference supervisor breed and supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen as a residence born and raised in san francisco we lost a 4 perplex in the kweshg with the commercial spaced in the 60s and finally received a certificate of preference with didn't work the weight the paper is on the i know the paper is on here's the new dilemma we're finding those of us who are certificate of preference holders actually, i applied for residents in san francisco but they're a new realm of directions that is credit and some of those developers are using third parties individuals credit companies to just either accept or deny you white without awning explanation there needs
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to be more legislation on the back ends the certificate of preference and support for families who w have lost proposals in 2030 that were red lined and trying to get on their feet we need to listen to this reports for thirty minutes none came up with enough information but puc to the colors who are being displaced in the city we have 4 percent and took supervisor breed so come up in two minutes and drop numbers to see and put. >> face to these issues (clapping.) we need to demand what we want is just our fair opportunities to come back to the city we were robbed by redevelopment and want to come back here and live in our neighborhoods that is fair i'm glad we're putting faces to
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the statistics so see the inequality that it becomes fair we have an opportunity to live in the city it is loft it's cuddled and lifeline because of money coming out here and displacing people thank you very much. >> (clapping.) good afternoon, supervisors taken place i'm marie frank i came to make 3 points first supervisor breed thank you for looking at you'll look at the action will you look at the land use agreement that was pit together for the bloipt property that has a long history there are missing documents we left in the former mayor willie brown those results was that of that dilemma you remember the moe and
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all that the nationals housing partnership organization who owns thereby were actually band from rent properties in the city by the then mayor agreeing no and others officials including bill clinton the president at that times if you don't thinks the, llc and the real estate property what happens in h p are still owning and producing properties urban structured unkept right to die of properties in the bayview that is reach i'll give you the p with those new phrases of couple of preferences live or work that is too many preferences
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we already have a deficit of people working when you have most people that live and work in san francisco don't live here we are at a disadvantage we have a reconcile go on all 3 i have 3 needs personally 3 accounts this week so we need to look at the credit diversities because their stuff going on that is illegal and the banks are aware of it thank you. >> (clapping). >> i was reading the agenda for today number 3 and it talk about here the preference and affordable housing program and the names that porsche this legislation are on the item here
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the distinguished mayor ed lee, supervisor christensen, horn supervisor breed and supervisor wiener and madam president thank you for your commissioner skaggs and giving us is clear attitude we know that is lottery system has completely absolutely failed the african-american communities there's no question about that completely fairs the certificate of preference they on this area that i see raefks i no, sir if the malice and is various reports professional reports a lot of confusion about the numbers i agree with any supervisor supervisor cowen that the san francisco percent number i think would be a good number to work
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with as far as the neighborhood preference is concerned i serve with the president of the mutilating program i belong with the group that is building housing in the city that's doing a gastrogreat job and the pastors of the hope church i'll urge the supervisors please whatever to look at because the african-american is down the lowest group of statistics that the supervisor gave as a pastor of a church and a leader in the city i have people begging to come in the african-americans their mirkariworking-class they people in the city and (clapping.)
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supervisors i'm with the mission economic development city we are in support of certificate of preference and increase from 25 to 40 that is a step in the right direction, however, i want to advocate for a portfolios much higher than the 40 percent of of higher (clapping.) so the necessity is based on the crisis in the african-americans and the latino community really important we know at 40 percent for an affordable housing they'll go to the people in the neighborhood and 60 to outside the neighborhood that is not right given the circumstances. (clapping.) >> i think it is also not appropriate that in this legislation the mission is being treated at someway as the marina
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there are specifics in neighborhoods that need to, take into account the 3 neighbors are bayview and mission and selma so why could not each the neighborhoods determine the percentage for those neighborhoods (clapping.) i also think that the supervisorial district are not appropriate we should be thinking about true true neighborhoods as opposed to supervisorial districts i think what supervisor kim mentioned about the implementation of people that work inside or outside of neighborhood captures the housing didn't do well by our crisis we would last week to work with you over the next week to prove this i appreciate the analysis from the staff but moderate moderate but not to be moderate
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now but address the initials for the african-americans and latinos. >> thank you good afternoon. i'm the pastor of the baptist church on golden gate avenue i'm here in support of western edition communities it has three hundred and 55 unions of affordable housing for seniors and disabled people, however, it is obvious there is a needs for 40 percent at least 40 percent thought to have affordable housing to sxhooment the african-american community specifically the african-american community has been we've been discriminated against and displaced we were the working force of that communities and all of a sudden ether the years now our
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statistics we've gone from over 15 percent to 5 percent of population month of what i've heard since i've been in the city we are enforced because of housing displacement that is a critical issue i'm glad to see it is brought forward and hope the board of supervisors will do know and do what's fair thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors i want to thank you for stacking the stand to get a neighborhood preference but the devil is in the details that a neighborhoods is a neighborhood not a supervisory district bayview hunters point is a diversifies e diverse neighborhood and the western edition need to be considered neighborhoods so the friend of mine is within that neighborhood not within the supervisorial district we leased up the doctor glen eagle housing with 4 thousand online applications from everywhere and
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have no neighborhood preference he looked at seniors in the eye and tell them you have as much chance had an as everyone from any body that is not right. i know our supervisor fighting hard and appreciate her up to 40 percent i say go for the highest prosecuting but want a displacement preference we are concerned about bringing people back from the neighborhood and have to do the work on displacement it is african-american primarily for the last thirty years that has been going through displacement i know that everyone is upset from 2010 from 1960 we have to do better and inherit the certificate of preference so people that didn't get to use them and families but this as bold step we've been battling
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and battling to get people to pay attention that new york city has been a 50 percent preference san francisco should stands with new york against lawsuits that make that happen thank you. >> (clapping). >> good afternoon, board of supervisors first of all i want to thank you london for pushing this issue this is a renearest i'm tracey griffin i was born and raised in san francisco and hunters point shipyard my mothers passed after i graduated into city college and been with the city of san francisco for 25 years api i've not received a certificate of preference and recently it was before this accident they had a know but through word of mouth when i with got the opportunities to address there was a deadline so we need a lot of transparent under regards to findings those people and
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getting the word out and increase the timeframes in which those individuals are to apply and respond to the openings of those housing thanks again, i look forward to working hard and diligent with you (clapping.) >> hello supervisors i'm pastor of 3 seven years in the presbyterian church i've been pushing this for 3 decades of san francisco being a microorganism but to represent with the world should be but the iscris in the last third story years in the believe side community blacks leaving in masses i definitely support of idea of neighborhood preference and specifically race specific the black and latino communities
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and i'm black so i'm promoting what we've been on the bottom of everything since being released from slavery the bottom line i think this should be race specific definitely something has to be done about disseminating this to get the blacks into the community so strongly encourage you not just the 40 percent but a minimum of 50 percent of neighborhood preference so thank you so much (clapping.) >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is jackie wright i want to thank god by the grace of gods i'm here i'd like to see back in last year and in 2014 i moved my father from a discharged
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cemetery after he died in vietnam he died in vietnam for this country's here he come back in march of 72014 and had no place to live in san francisco and having been displaced twice i'm an artist i'm hard working person i've been in san francisco for over 20 years working and no place for me to live i think this is unfair and just speaks to the lack of social justice no so for blacks not to have a place to live after they've worked so hard it is a matter of broken promises and as a daughter of someone that died in vietnam i have no place to live in the city that indicates there is something wrong i'm one the faces that shows there's a problem in to and if any father died in a foreign lands i should be able to work and live in san
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francisco and have a place to live my blah was let for this country it is unfair it is unfair that people like me have not able to live here we should go to 100 percent until we correct the enar justice thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm reverend i was listening to the marries mission that was giving all the statistics i'll say if i took those statistics i'll probably support this but when people come from out of town to san francisco i don't go and show them what san francisco is i show them what san francisco was and go down fillmore street and tell them fillmore street used to be different than this i take
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divisadero street i tell them the african-american used to be all the way up from hate street to this over here he take them over here to hunters point this whole area was the area where the majority of homeownership's were in san francisco and those statistics does though the represent the san francisco i grew up in it represents a san francisco that because of change and finances we have been displaced so i'm here to say i support the 40 percent and i also support that there are true neighborhoods not districts but true neighborhoods thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> good afternoon. i'm delores the marching usher he have this
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shirts on today what this shirt says the city of champions city of champions now we've lost our championship and now you're going to be calling the city of champions you need to be a champion just that simple now i want to say that the lord's always does every thing on time and this board of supervisors have moved out and the lord has blessed us with younger progressive minds who want to do what needs to be done so (clapping.) i dot 0 everybody it is crystal clear to you what needs to be done and so all you need to do
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is do it now my last comment is with when someone mentioned mrs. mary helen rogers i knew her very, very well she was o she was like a grandmother when i powder that some of the folks that were supposed to be under there were not in there because you're getting money from someone else that will pay more all i have to say to those folks when we is a have mysterious shaking in their house is ms. mary rogers kicking off and we have too much bureaucracy when someone in the pacific islands has 6 hundred and 12 because of being paid is not o stop taking
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that money (inaudible). >> (clapping). >> wow. >> first of all, i'd like to say ma'am, supervisor mr. rosen on the progressive side europe pushing the agenda that was definitely need and supervisor president breed standing at all and strong the attitude she has is the attitudes you've got to have the major larger to change i'm michael the developer and builder with davis senior housing it took us 8 years years ago it they came to us and quarry building and building and building because of black catch-22 designs and go to the neighborhoods my family's for me to come back and look at what is
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going on it is department staff stating we spent 8 years to put together the senior housing we would deliver that project in february and little old ladies who dream to move into those units everything that o everybody that was associated with happy davis and others had is attitude i felt the impact in my years of experience and my construction years about delivery this project and february when you come here we'll hope it will be 100 percent of the seniors in that program those are the seniors that laid themselves on the floor that we want and talked to the finances and pit tote the financial team and today, i'm here to say it is personal i'm leading the attack and wish it was 100 percent and appreciate the young lady been progressive
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in our politics we need to change from the old to the new your attitudes are where we were thirty years ago i looked to cutting it at 100 percent (clapping.) good afternoon. i want to say that how derivative e brave the supervises increasing from three to 40 it is not enough the motorbike has boy and girl fight for 100 percent affordable housing and finally going to get affordable housing 100 percent we would like because the mission has been in the grrgz for gentrification we want a higher percentage for neighborhood perch for our neighborhood and other neighborhoods we are here he
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feel honored to be here with the african-american community and african-americans they were displaced we were displaced we need to be together to bring the legislation that will work for the latinos and the african-american we have been displaced and in a sense that nobody cares about that the other concerns we want to change the neighborhood it has to be a neighborhood i don't know the board verse others neighborhoods but in district somebody to come when the neighborhood makes for the residents we would like to present our neighborhoods and also, we want to know because there are services in those neighborhoods that act particularly focused serve that kind of communities that's important and hope that is a
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consideration and last week to have that thank you. >> (clapping.) and good morning supervisor president london breed and supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen thank you for this agenda thank you for looking 83 at neighborhood preferences being 40 percent 14 years i've tried to obtain affordable housing and worked in the geneva towers and other plaza places along with others for many years application after application housing development after housing developments we are waking over the neighborhood to get into the occupants we started with not in my backyard as one the fights to develop affordable housing and it should be yes, in my front yard
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authoritative looking at neighborhood preferences for people that live in the neighborhoods because we built hours and watch the neighborhood watch those live in the affordable units that is built in their communities where i work sometimes the seniors as well as the displaced folks in they don't want to apply i've applied over 10 and 20 times in 20005 hundred and sleeping on the streets their doubled up in units they're trying to be able to live in san francisco where they were born and lived here for the city and the shipyard a lot of our seniors and african-american residents you should look at the neighborhoods preference and not walk over the residents that should be living in the units thank you.
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>> good afternoon, supervisors want to say thank you. i'm janet brown i'm the how are you coordinator for the hunters point i have hands on every day sitting and listening to homeless seniors and dulls with disabilities that are discouraged because of the lottery i appreciate the increase in the preference he encourage a higher increase thank you (clapping.) >> hi, i'm with the bay area group i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors supervisors for having the courage to put this forward the first one you when see this why wasn't this done 20 years ago it really paints the city and the past supervisors in a bad light because there is a solution that
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was at the still disposal that was not utilized in the mayor's presentation it sounds like a lot of work not done we have opportunity to submit to the federal government to get permission for this neighborhood preference it sounds like we had the opportunity to submit to the state government to separate live and work from each other and to august our case over guess last 20 years it's not been done this is disappointing but i acknowledge the courage the supervisors another thing the mayor's office said the corporations can have 100 percent of those units we all know that is not the case it is the certificate of preference holders they railway get in so the federal and the state government understand why there is a need for those types of
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policies so i just want to ask you the mayor to stands up with new york city and not to worry about any lawsuits think about all the lawsuits that will happen if this didn't pass the 40 percent in my opinion is low and i'll ask that maybe to make that 75 percent over a 5 years and bring it down to 50 thank you for bringing this forward and look forward to continue to support this year and get this passed thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon, supervisors peter cohen with the housing coalition first, we heard from staff we support their recommendation to separate out the two issues the displaced tenants and focus on the neighborhoods preference a smallest way and the neighborhood preferences we been supportive of the planning we've
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got a letter on file entuff idea for all the ideas arguably an idea its been a long time coming we need to understand one toll to reverse the immigration of african-american and particularly in certain neighbors the bay area and as reversed was spot on gentrification is a widespread problem in san francisco but a crisis in some neighborhoods that is an anti gentrification it is a critical tool office space some of the specifics pretty well agree neighborhoods need to be tighter supervisorial - there's a map that the planning department's has of 37 specific neighborhoods and piece them together and make an intuitive neighborhood boundaries it is possible to side on the idea of percentage
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one one-size-fits-all an interesting discussion at the planning commission about focusing on some key neighborhoods we have a crisis than trying to push that citywide and mann maybe for the two or three key neighborhoods and outreach is key supervisor president london breed pushes since she's gotten on to the boards to be pro-active and additional funding for the general funds and as as new rfp on the streets will get folks into those affordable units and latest let's not loss trucking track the goal that is what this is about thank you. >> hello to the board of supervisors supervisor president london breed my district supervisor cowen my name is frank williams the director the program i want to brought to your
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attention in 2015 living in prehistoric times this is a sicken society and it is a shame our african-american people will not be represented as should be for years after year the african-american trying to live in new york city we have so many people not because of tech jobs they're getting applied but getting some of the people don't like the crisis i want to leave this you with i didn't hear ms. westbrook out of bay area she was wheelchair she had to contract and get moved from bayview hunters point to of him we have streets and clinics named after her, she helped to
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build this and none the mayors would help her find housing we've talked in our unit which when he was crying how she helped build bayview and counter get housed in a one bedroom. >> thank you guys and we're behind you you and proud to see someone that acts like they really care about us we love you thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon. my name is a bobby webb raise in san francisco from the age of 5 i lived in the of him district and still on ma clarity street i'll speak on the night club i
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feel if we lost this club in the fillmore area we will losses an opportunity. >> mr. webb i'm sorry that item is not on the agenda that's work none hospital spoken. >> what. >> i can't let you speak on that around that restaurant that item has not been agendized maybe i e you can relate over comments about the number to a stronger neighborhood that will be around to support institutions like your night club. >> should i leave it alone. >> how about anything you want to say besides. >> pardon me. >> anything else. >> one basic reason for coming to speak on this because if we
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lose this we don't have anything in the fillmore to this is the last of the missouri helms and it has played a part in entertainment i'm a musician have a baubd and also a radio personality on k po o in the morning. >> basically that is why i came to speak on this i live in the fillmore been here all my life and have the car twrakz on fillmore i worked under mayor rogers producing entertainment for 10 years under mary rogers for the festival i know we had some of the by itself you've ever seen so i can't say speak on this basically i'll step aside that was my main topic for today thank you very much. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> supervisors daniel for the
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record i'd like to thank you supervisor cohen and mayor's office along with the city for you know carving out this time for in very issue about housing like many have said before i was born and raised in the of him area a certificate of preference holder and my mother was displaced lit lift ev'ry voice and sing ly he 12 times from the late 60s up to the 80s i want to say when we talk about state and federal dollars some of the you been things that the mayor's office was talking about one the problems not saying our owe powers i've said this when it comes to the police departments and in housing it all connects whether you're dealing with the harris center or affordable housing or dealing with our streets and safety but i was recently sitting on the k-mart
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board of directors and the counselors came up would you believe a co-op that was built in the days early 60s and early 70s don't recognize certificate of preference holders that is in the key area of the fillmore district that proves that there is something getting lost with the certificate of preference holders to put me on a grid line to get a certificate of preference to get to the front of the of line but not the resources and education what difference does it make that is a no brainstorm have to suck it up i know the city has other issues like horse trading, however, blacks deserve to be responded 0 to and not be afraid to say black black it beautiful
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so bring back the black community and enough it city another chance with the immigration. >> let's go ahead and take a vote (clapping.) >> okay. >> we're not done yet we have not voted. >> hi i'm betty jones i want to know what is affordable housing? you have seniors that are looking for housing that are afraid to go outside at night they can't for the area they live in so what is affordable housing? what is a certificate i was in the projects under 1990 i moved out before the gave the certifies for 20 years i live
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where i live i called to ask about any certify they said i can't get one i'm trying to figure out why the reason he moved out a week bra they gave it i'm not loudly to get any certify i'm a senior and looking for affordable housing but they tell me i can't say get a certificate why is that? >> anyone give me an answer. >> this is public comment not q and a but perhaps lisa will answer our question. >> not new i mean anything else is is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? sir, would you like to speak. >> yeah. yeah i'd like to say something
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it is it seems to me in you look at the fillmore one the gentleman said back then and at way the people are treat it should be a no brainier to go 50 percent or 40 or 50 or even to 100 percent then bring the people back and worked for the city like i worked in the shipyard i worked all over the place it is a lot of people that worked trying to get back here so the first name is and hunters point is the soul of city and for the city to be vibrant and have the finance that it should have bring back the black folks to the city thank you (clapping.) is there any additional public comment on this item? >> okay. seeing none that
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means public comment is closed. this item is back in the hands of this body. >> colleagues, i have a few promoted amendments i'd like to take one by one and supervisor breed has some last minute comments. >> i have a couple of commenting comments to talk about the things i've heard when i first became a member thought board of supervisors the first thing i looked at was a right to return law mostly because you know a lot of my friends that group in the city don't live here anymore by law i wasn't able to do and this neighborhood preference was the next best thing now, when affordable housing gets built do i want folks especially to get if it gets build in the western selma
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western edition do you want those people to right of refusal can we do jed but when we submit speed limit an application and tried to get the funding we'll not get the application proves and federal dollars and get those projects built this is a step in the right direction this is not a perfect solution because sadly one-half come to so for in terms of of feeling the devastation of loss of african-american community now every single day supervisor cowen and i are working ♪ chamber are hidden here every single day we're o we're better late than never ways to support and restore our african-american communities we know how important it is to every single
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you it is just as important to us if we thought for one minute we can get away with 100 percent we'll go p there but it is important to get those units built and built quickly i want to say that i truly appreciate kathy district attorney's office because she is soldier in the army fighting the good fight (clapping.) you >> if a a lot of residents in jamestown wouldn't be there thank you kathy davis for all your work (clapping.) i also want to say i'll torn with neighborhood versus supervisorial districts and what is the rights solution i don't know what the right solution is i just know that in the western edition communities we're not going to be building a lot of affordable housing like in the bayview hunters point but
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want to make sure when the affordable housing is built in the bayview hunters point those residents have the right of first refusal it is not 100 percent but one of the tools we need to move forward in order to begin this process which should have been have happened over 20 years and now we're playing catch up we and hopefully, we visit this in another year the legislation requires to analyze it and decide when we can do to maybe increase it or make changes or enhance that or make that better that's what i