give you an update where this is going going but the goal to come up with a ballot initiative for november of 2016 and this will be a charter amendment the chapter amendment requires 50 percent because one of the voters to support and this the question that was put in a poll we took we did a poll prior to coming to this ascertainment and that poll showed that over 69 to 74 percent of people registered voters will support of the concept of setting aside 2 percent of property tax to be allocated toward senior services and services for adults with disabilities as you may know this concept of set aside is

controversial because most elected officials do not support the idea of taking away the authority of the budget of the particular city and so with this particular concept we've been going to the different supervisors we have 5 supervisors who are supportive of this concept we would like our goal to get 11 supervisors to support the concept and the mayor is supporting this concept we're talking with the mayor's representatives in the department that represent the department of aging & adult services about this whole direction and so we have a lot of work to do ahead a lot of community organizes at the grassroots level as you may know this is a because it is a ballot initiative it takes - it is the issue of getting the voters to support it

so i wanted to also let you know that this particular fund would support funding for community-based long term services this is not include institutional care serves as laguna honda or san francisco general hospital many of the advocates of aging & adult services for over 25 years has been pushing the concept of community-based care and having people age in place in our homes and part-time and neighborhoods as long as possible without institutionalized so serves as home and community long term support and food and nutrition and consumer and caregiver

education and empowerment self-advocacy and legal services program and health and wellness and the targeted services and support and new areas such as alzheimer's care, respite care and caregiver support so those are some of the categories that would be included in the funding from this dignity fund and the other aspect i wanted to direct your attention is that in terms of the relationship to you as commissioners you as a commission would therefore because the funds go through our department therefore our commission would be overseeing that fund at the same time, we're recommending what we call a governance and overview committee that is appointees

from the mayor and the board of supervisors to also oversee this implementation of the fund and administration of the fund as i mentioned this fund b will go introduce the department of aging & adult services therefore your budget b will increase quite a bit f if in place today, the fiscal year 2018 we would have added $29 million to your base budget to give you an idea so that as i said is a major policy direction for the city and county of san francisco and we will continue to give you update as we continue to organize towards this if you have any questions i'll be happy to to try to answer them. >> not at this time it is a

major policy change and we need to look at make sure we are in touch with all parts of community community because it - people are concerned about the tax praishg and what have you. >> commissioners this is no new tax it is setting aside 2 percent of partitioning that come in every year. >> oh. >> to set aside 4 funding for seniors and adults with disabilities. >> you're right commission. >> you were talking about all aspects the city because there are part of our city who also have a stereotype of seniors that seniors are well-off and fine they don't need a lot of happen there's that prospective

we have to do a lot of community awareness and a lot of outreach to go into every single neighborhood all the different advocacy groups right now we have 25 he different organizations that are supporting this concept and that's going to increase, of course, because we plan to add more and more as we go. >> thank you. >> any comments from - thank you very much. >> thank you. >> okay other new business we've removed the mayor's office of housing and community development and the demonstration programs has been removed we were down to announcements we're moving to the last page under announcements. >> are there any announcements at this time. >> any announcements hearing

none public comment? any public comment? at this time? >> mississippi any public comment? hearing none can i have a motion? >> to adjourn. >> okay. we move we adjourn. >> thank you >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about

information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about

specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to

convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of

this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object.

we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what

it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a

memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of

history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. >> hi. welcome to san

francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the

time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day?

>> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes.

>> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many

of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to

go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it.

we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the

bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

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>> good afternoon, everybody and welcome to the board of supervisors of tuesday, november 17, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> commissioner avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell not that present supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us

and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you, madam clerk any communications. >> i have no communications madam president. >> colleagues, any changes to the regular board meeting minutes of october '68 sienna motion by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor christensen colleagues we'll take that without objection. those minutes passes unanimously they'll be passed unanimously after. madam clerk can we please go to our terrors item >> the the first order of business is today is appearance of the honorable mayor ed lee no

questions from supervisors the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. >> unfortunately, the mayor couldn't join us today all to taken a motion to a data of december 1st board meeting is there a motion supervisor cowen and supervisor mar colleagues we'll take that without objection. the that motion carries unanimously madam clerk go the consent agenda. >> items 1, 2, 3 comprise those items considered route if a member observe it will be separate. >> roll call vote. >> commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell

supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 11 i's. >> those ordinancess final psa unanimously madam clerk enough time next item a resolution for the resolution of intention to establish infrastructure financing district number 2 resolutions one dash 10 and other for the city as a port of san francisco. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please. >> item 5 for the ordinance of stacey a citywide sustainability fee and is it your understanding the application of existing impact fee with some exemptions while the transportation sustainability fee remains operative to add definitions

clarifying affordable housing and homeless shelter exemption from the sustainability fees making conforming amendment to the planning code and affirming the ceqa in making other appropriate finding. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you madam president as i note the last time we voted it is important for us to hold developers account when it comes to the impacts that the developments have on public transportation i do think that we as a board have made a mistake and left a lot of money on the tally i'll be that concludes my report this today i belive that this is an issue probation officer needs to be revisited by this board as this board is new at the studied going forward that is one issue we need to revisit and make sure that the next time we hold the

developers the for the impacts on public transit. >> thank you supervisor campos supervisor christensen. >> i just wanted to say (inaudible) par i'm grateful to supervisor wiener for getting this rolling and all who support 2 we recognize the impact on transportation in the dense neighborhood those things will be hench h helpful thanks to the proprietors and grateful we're moving forward with it. >> thank you seeing no other names on the roster colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the ordinance passed unanimously next item, please. >> item of a resolution retroactively have the sheriff's department to is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? a nine hundred mentally ill crime rent program fund administrative code by the state and community corrects

through the recidivism fund july 1st, 2015, through 02018. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously item 7. >> to retroactively authorize the accept and expend of 12 thousand from roommate hero to sponsor mayor ed lee action tour permit 22, 2015 and june 2015. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item. >> item 8 is a resolution to approve the establishment by the public utilities commission of its commercial paper notes program in an agency congratulate not to exceed 90 millions for the construction replacement of existing water and power facilities under the power enterprise for the acquisition and installation or rehabilitation of facilities for

renewable energy and energy commercialism same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please. >> item 9 resolution to meeting authorize the department of the environment to accept and expend is 17 hundred thousand plus from inc. to disposal for household hazardous waste from 2015 to 2016. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item to retroactively authorize the punting to accept and expend a three hundred and 24 thousand grant to participate in a program enhance the sfraefk aids program and monitoring the evaluation from april 2015 to

2016. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item item 11 resolution to authorize the public health to submit an application to continue to representative the funds for the ryan white from the health services administration and requesting 16.6-hundred hiv relieve program funding for the metropolitan area from 2016 to 2017. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please. >> item 12 to authorize the public utilities commission to accept and expend a $5 million from the san francisco general hospital for the procurement of furniture fixtures and information to this for the mr. brown and mark zuckerberg and naming various places through

the acute care and trauma building. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously item 13 and ordinance to amend the building code and planning code for the list of elephants for a merger or between to require an affidavit and notice if the state hospital or bathrooms are removed and affirmed the ceqa determination and other appropriate finding and supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president colleagues today before us is legislation to make sure that all tenants in san francisco are referring notice as the owner of their unit is seeking a permit to demolish and or more the unions so they willal know and contest the demolition and the removal of their home right now in san francisco for attendance

who live in legal units it is from the owner is proposing to diminish their units the tenant gets full notice and to contest the demolition permit, however, for illegal units including the tens of thoits thousands of in-law unit the landlords could go seek and obtain a demolition permit for the unit without providing notice whatsoever to the tenants and so the tenants may find out well, after the fact and after it is too late to appeal that demolition alter extraordinarily from the dpw or the board of appeals this inequality is unfair when you have people paying republicans for decades at risk of losing their homes without notice whatsoever a because that unit is not legally recorded in san

francisco this is not right and close the loop this legislation requires that the residents of illegal units receive the same notification that others attendance receive in various languages and posted so if they choose and presuming they'll choose to fight for their home and be able to remain in their homes during the housing crisis to keep them stable and this helps us to do that i want to thank building inspection commission for providing support this as a good step in the right direction colleagues, i ask for your support. >> thank you, supervisor wiener colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the ordinance pass on the first reading unanimously madam clerk next item. >> 14 for the administrative code for the preference 2, 3, 4

allocating the city housing unit and second to tenants evicted in the ellis act to create a third preference for residents in the neighborhood where the affordable housing is located to make conforming amendments for the administrative code and planning code to affirm the ceqa and make other appropriate vrntsz. >> commissioner avalos. >> oh, supervisor cowen. >> thank you thank you very much thank you i just want to take a moment and just express gratitude to all but community leader that work with us on the legislation i want to recognize our staff that have been with us both in my office anticipate supervisor president london breed's office we both care, he deeply about this legislation as native san franciscans this legislation will effect the communities that

we represent and i also want to remind that my colleagues remember we're not only district supervisors by citywide supervisors we have a responsibility to continue to protect the interests of all san franciscans i also know there are many people in the communities that are here today that have paid not only in blood, sweat, and tears but many people have lost their family members due to displacement and people work towards the housing preference those in the chamber and can't be with us san francisco is a unique and desire for it's neighborhoods those neighborhoods will continue to lose their soul continue to lose their characterization as population continue to dwindle if we don't step forward and

stop the hemorrhaging of low income san franciscans and most important to insure they can stay in the neighborhoods and raised their families and where they choose to remain we're not only seoul just talking about the african-american communities this is a community that gets the most voice and attention because of the horrible population numbers that have drilling down many of us in the chamber have talked about those alarming rates of african-americans we've lost but also the latinos brothers and sisters not long ago they stood in the chasm asking for you support and i was proud to support the members of the mission they pushed towards the moratorium to stop the pressure that is forcing them out and many of the api somalians have

come into the chasm and we have yet to produce something to help them all the low income residence in the city are struggling to stay in san francisco i have the as to his four largest hountsz in district 10 by the caucus and significant population their cupped by aging and san franciscans everyone is struggling i venture the district has one of the most diverse parts not by accident but because it is the last parts of san francisco that are affordable so this is real this issue we're dealing with laeshth issues i canned express how much this legislation means to thousands of san franciscans but the bossing of people that come to committee. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. over the last

month to testify for over an hour with their expressions of personally how much this legislation will mean to them this is because we're talking about the legislation we've left hand to thousands of hours of testimony from people in this chamber crying for support and help what are we are doing for themer we're doing for the families - what are we are doing for the families we've pushed out during the redevelopment those members that listened for hours what are we are doing for them this is not a perfect solution didn't answer everything and address all the problems we're dealing with when it comes to displacement but it is the best first step we we have to take

right here today and must act now not time to continue to continue to push the can down the road i ask you think about the thousands of san franciscans that line up day to day year by year four generations packed their bags and left san francisco how can we continue to sit back and do nothing so colleagues you hear the passion in any voice i respectfully ask you're showcasing support for that transformation active piece of legislation thank you. >> (clapping.) supervisor president london breed's. >> thank you supervisor cowen really articulating exactly the sentiments of myself and many others who are part of a number of communities that have watched

over the years as members have been adapted out of this city i don't know who is winning the lottery i know who is losing african-americans and an alarming rate has left the city and time after time and the officials in the city say we care about the african-american community and the challenges they face and here is an opportunity for those who care to do something about that growing up in the western edition communities almost before i knew who was i combhi who the redevelopments agency say they destroyed the western edition i watched as homes were removed and wondered why kim my neighbor was noting in san francisco and not play outside together i wonder why they were teacher of the year down

building with fields with vacancy i wonder why people in any communities explicit live there this is what the problem is we have far too long neglected to try to do something initiative progressive about the issue this is not a new problem but this is and this is not a new solution a new solution in san francisco in new york they have neighborhood preference basically since is lasts 1970s as far back and san francisco time and time again the leaders choose to side nothing we lose not only african-americans from the city but also a trooif microorganism we have used and continue to use outdated housing

policies from the 1960s and 70s to try to address what is a 2015 housing crisis if we want to continue to support our communities if we want to continue to make sure that we have a trifling african-american population and we think continue to call our city a diverse city we need to do something no, this is not perfect legislation and not solve the entire problem but a huge, huge step in the right direction i want to thank the malice for helping to put together this legislation i want to thank the mayor for having the courage to actually bring this legislation forward and thank you to supervisor cowen for her advocacy and supervisor wiener and supervisor christensen for being co-sponsors on this legislation this legislation is

about doing when is right and putting legislation to dealing with a problem that sadly has gun on the neglect of the african-american communities and the neglect of allowing folks to have access to affordable housing when we go to folks in the community and is support us support this affordable housing build more affordable housing unfortunately now, when i do that people are saying why should ii can't live there my friends can't we can't get assess to the housing across the street from where we grew up any kid's want to live in san francisco born and raised qualified for this affordable housing yet they can't get access to affordable housing they supported and fought for and continue to push for that's a real problem so today

colleagues, i hope that you will consider supporting this legislation the time is now we can't wait we can't continue we can't continue to sit back and do nothing meanwhile we're building and, of course not enough especially not enough of affordable housing we have we've got a lot more work to do in order to address affordable housing crisis but this is a way to make sure that people in those communities know that they have a right to be there they have access and especially we build and this is for you, we can final mean it thank you (clapping (clapping.) >> commissioner avalos. >> thank you, colleagues. i was struck about the story in the chronicle how i wasn't surprised but struck by the nature of the story one percent

of the bmr are not assessed but is african-americans deplorable we see that we knew about the disparities in san francisco there are recently but when it comes to the african-american communities the disparities are desire and we have a responsibility to deal with that i see this legislation as a step in the right direction i believe this legislation has impacts on other districts and it is almost we're trying to do a jigsaw puzzle with different sets vpdz i believe this is moving forward especially to look at how we might reverse some of the disparities we're seeing in san francisco especially with working-class and locating african-americans and other communities of color i've been concerned that the discussion of this legislation it could at times pit communities against

one another unfortunately, a there's a limit supply of housing across the city and it effects different population and that is something i think we can't avoid but to me i see that when we were failing so much the african-american communities we see that the african-american community is organized around promoting this legislation and see it as with an tool one to lessen the disparities and willing to support it we have many things to address the issue what struck me as well as about the article no real clear assessment of why we're at that number for african-americans in the affordable market we need to be honest as a city why those numbers are low why what is the

racism in place and is barriers outside of the community and what are the barriers people find within their communities that prevents us from above and beyond when the mayor's office of housing to insure that people can find heirs and the programs to get ready for housing that is available online this is not explored or discussed we're not looking how to have the connection between what is offered we're in real desire need to make those changes as soon as possible so i hope this legislation though i believe that is somewhat flawed can help us in a new direction to put greater resources in supporting the communities that have historically and immediately been burger to assess in the bmr market i do appreciate

supervisors supervisor president london breed's and supervisor cowen for bringing this legislation for working with the mayor's office on it i think i'm not totally comfortable but will be supporting it i realize this is much we need to do to lessen the disparity thank you. >> mr. chair i'll remind the audience addable support use you're showcasing fingers. >> thank you, mr. chair i'm strongly supportive of this legislation as brought to committee and proud to support it from the get-go and thank you to sxhopdz and supervisor cowen in particular their, their extraordinary leadership for moving forward this matters we are finally starting to increase the amount of affordable housing

in san francisco and opening itch more the city sponsored projects with the nonprofit partners we're also seeing more and more offsite inclusion housing and goes to accelerate as the shipyard commissioners, on that motion into existence and treasure island and the other projects that will deliver a significant number of below-market-rate housing we have to be prepared and frankly not prepared ray we have a lottery system that is completely and utterly broken some communities that are do not do well and we need to make sure that everyone in this city is able to assess and have a realistic shot at assessing our affordable housing if every single neighborhood in the city and everyone this legislation will help move us in that

direction people need to be confident it affordable housing is in their neighborhood and right now frankly people don't have that confidence it is absolutely the case we need to be building affordable housing in every single neighborhood in san francisco and every single neighborhood needs to have affordable housing because their people that are struggling in all parts of this city and frankly this legislation will help to builds support to create affordable housing in all neighborhoods in this city if people have confidence the affordable housing being build down the street is actually for them and their neighbors their going to be more supportive and we'll have much, much more of a possibility of getting board based support more affordable housing that is equally distributed around this city i also want to say in terms of lgbt community we are finally

going to be seeing those 55 unit projects one hundred 10 units of low income senior housing with the focus on lgbt seniors open up in the near future and make sure that our residents have a fair shot of getting into that housing the timing couldn't be better to make sure that the lottery for the project is done appropriately with a neighborhood preference and so i'm strog supportive thank you supervisor cowen and supervisor president london breed's i'll be supporting this strongly today. >> supervisor tang thank you very much i want to thank you supervisor president london breed and supervisor cowen their working hard and piggy backing off of what supervisor wiener said to make sure that the people in the neighborhood can access the avenue in their neighborhood i

think that the main point of concern i have there are some neighbors we're not seeing that level of affordable housing development and that is something that separately i'm working on since coming into officer as i speak i'll ask my aid to place on the projector for you the map that shows the upcoming pipeline up through 2020 of the affordable housing in san francisco so sfgovtv if you could show this a lot of the left side in district 4 we have 7 units of below-market-rate housing coming online in the next year and prolonged up up to 2020 so to i appreciate what the supervisors are doing to make sure that the residence are staying in their homes in baufrts there are many, many neighborhoods including all of district 4 if their displaced