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to placing street lights with-led lights by doing work in the residential area and between california and 9th street. also, the department of public health community clinic has entered into a pilot program with the island cove market to provide educational materials at the grocery store on healthy eating habits and also recipe cards for healthy recipes. and it reported all the recipe cards provided were used up so they have a new recipe they'll be providing the next quarter coming ahead. we'll have an update on the housing during regular agenda but i want to highlight we'll be
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having an open house saturday january 20th between 10:00 and 2:00 targeted to the residents of the villages. those sha that have benefits under the thr&rs and will be open to all residents. at the end of november we traveled with ticd to washington, d.c. to meet with the department of labor regarding access to easements to property that improved the communications we've been having with them and resulted in the agreement on the consent calendar today. we continue to work on temporary and permanent easements we'll need to improve construction of
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easements adjacent to job corp property. also discuss the department of labor their long-term planning effort with the improvement of their facilities. the bay bridge project oversight committee in december authorized the proposed retention of pier e2 we discussed at prior meetings. as outgrowth of that there's an m.o.u. on our consent calendar today that's an agreement to make an agreement. it's a precursor to demonstrate to the project oversight committee that there's support amongst partner agencies to negotiate the final agreements and anticipate bringing a more comprehensive agreement that will go through tida and the board of supervisors later this
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spring. we work to finalize the subdivision map and agreement for ybi and take them to the board of supervisors. and working on and work on the final map for the first subphase of treasure island to go to the board of supervisors later this spring. as i'll mention in the year ahead, we're also working on developing a schedule for the next subphase application coming in this summer. the public utilities commission has selected a design consultant for the waste water treatment plant and we are actively working with the commercial tenants within the footprint of the planned waste water site to relocate the tenants by the end
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of june. there'll be an on-island construction community meeting this evening as well as as we gear up for the geo technical work to begin, we're preparing notices to residents, building one tenants, the marina and others about the traffic changes that will be coming up around building one. just to highlight again the infrastructure and committee meeting will be moving to tuesdays beginning next week. we'll be meet at 9:30 a.m. and going forward the infrastructure and transportation committee meetings will be record and available via webcast as they occur. i also want to acknowledge kay
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loake who spoke earlier will be take leave of absence next year and alex galavic who has been a lengthy tenure on the project will be stepping into his shoes going forward but kay has been a great partner and very focussed in the commercial success for the public and the public benefits that come from it and he's been a great partner to work with over the last four years and i certainly will miss him while he's gone. so that concludes my report. >> thank you. commissioners, are there any questions or comments? >> yes. thank you.
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a couple questions. thank you for that great report. one, mayor lee's last act as you noted on your report, was on the treasure island development. i think you were alluding to the milestones. so now we have an obligation for what was discussed in those meetings to have a time line for the remaining milestones. i think last year we knew we wanted the mayor to help further the development and by calling the agencies together. so please, it would be great for us to take what was discussed in the meeting and transform them. i'm hoping by april this year we can get all the agencies still
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lagging behind and get them to commit to working over time to help with the time lines. that's my first comment. secondly, could you please -- can you put it in an e-mail to us so we can note the calendar. >> yeah, we'll send a calendar item. and a flyer. also at the february board meeting i was going have sherry come back and make a more formal presentation on the name change and for both the board members and -- >> and you guys keep shocking people. i hope you have been a great guy, very knowledgeable and spearheading this bigger project. i hope you will consider -- it's
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a huge project with decades in the making that you'll come back and take over more roles around we will surely miss you but you've been a key part of the fabric for this project and we hope you will find other means to continue to be the leadership and we welcome your new replacement. definitely too many shoes to fill. thank you, sir. >> thank you. sharon. >> one question. i was wondering whether or not the house open house on the 20th, perhaps the time, could be later so it doesn't conflict with the women's march which is from 11:30 to 3:30 on the same day. >> we'll see what we can do about that. maybe the solution would be to start earlier. it's really intended to be a
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drop-in type of an open house. maybe by opening earlier will provide an opportunity for those leaving the island to attend the march to attend as well. >> great. >> then, bob, i have a question. in terms of the public utilities commit having the consultants for the waste water system for treasure island, who is that consultant and when will they come back to report in front of tida. the waste water treatment system has had so many incredible forward thinking technologies in how we deal with waste. i'm hoping that those types of
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forward thinking procedures will be incorporated into the system at treasure island. >> i believe it's a joint venture, crollo engineers was one part in the venture team. the name of the other is escaping me now. i'll coordinate with tom b birmingham and march may be a good time to update the board on their initial evaluations they'll be exploring. >> thank you. then also, kay, this say surprise you're take leave of absence. you've been a great liaison with
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tida and i hope it's only a leave and you'll be coming back. would you care to make a statement to the board. >> thank you for inviting me. i'm grateful and humbled by your acknowledgement. it has been a wonderful 12 years working on the project. time flies when you're having fun. it's been mostly fun on the project. i will acknowledge that but it has been 100% fulfilling working on the project. it's an amazing project we've all worked so hard on over the years. you should be proud of the vision that has led us into the project and i think it's a great project. great projects only happen with a great team so i'd like to acknowledge the people in in room being instrumental in the project getting it where it is today and the tida board has
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been supportive of the project and has been steadfast in providing the vision and direction to do better. i hope we have responded well. what we see in front of us is in support of tida. on the tida staff we've had nothing but great people all the way from michael cohen to jack sylvain and incredibly talented, dedicated directors who have steered us and helped me focus on the on-island issues helpful in the project as well. there's been many other staff, too many names to mention. very grateful to have worked with all these people. i think i speak for all of us in the room who are associated with the project. to work on a project like this makes it near and dear to your heart. it's a special project. it's a once in a life time
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project for all of us. i think the project will remain near and dear to me for a long time. i'm take break and seeing how things come but i would like to come back and work on the project. i'm just taking a break from work really. it's been 12 years. i think i should take a break and i like to tell people i'm thinking this is my 7th inning stretch and stretching my legs a little bit and coming back for a few more innings and see what happens when the sunset shows up. thank you for your support over the years and i wish you the best of luck. >> thank you. >> the clerk: any public comment?
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i just want to publicly acknowledge kay loake who has steadfastly helped develop the vision and the technical part -- every part of the plan for treasure island. he's one of those people that tends to be behind the scenes doesn't take a lot of acclaim but has really made the public/private non-public partnership real and puts his money where his mouth is and has gone above and beyond in terms of supporting tida's efforts. as soon as he joined the project he's been supportive of us in all various ways. again, he's not the type of person that stands up and says, hey, look what i've done but he's done a tremendous amount to make this project what it is
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today and he'll be sorely missed by us all. thank you very much, kay. >> >> the clerk: items four. there's been advisories and newsletters among others. >> an questions by directors on communication? hearing none, next item. >> the clerk: item five, ongoing business by board of directors. >> commissioner: are there any in hearing none, next item. >> the clerk: item six, consent agenda. all matters are considered to be routine by the authority board and acted on by a single vote of the authority board. there'll be no separate discussion unless a member so requests in which the matter will be removed from the consent agenda and considered a separate item. item 6a the special meeting. 6b the adjustment of rates on
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treasure island and 6c, resolution authorizing the director to enter into a memorandum of standing for the bay area toll authority and for retention of the sfobb peer e2. 6d, resolution authorizing the treasure island directors to enter into an agreement with the community development onto the job corps center to monitor construction. 6e, resolution for scheduled performance for the island development program. >> commissioner: the pleasure of the board. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: moved and seconded. all those in favor say aye. those opposed? the ayes have it. item seven. >> the clerk: the tida program
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update. >> thank you. members of the board, i'll be giving a brief update primarily relate to the location advisory consultant and ohcd is here to give an update on our collaborations with the mayor's office of housing and community development. i wanted to start with the discussion of the advisor advis services contract. we'll have an open house next weekend where we had our november island board meeting. it's an in formal drop-in session to allow people to come and go as it meets their schedule with no normal presentation.
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we've been mailing invitations to those john stewart residents that per our records were residents prior to 2011 because that's the target population we're interested in communicating and we'll speak to their particular issues and we're posting also general announcements and invitations to the meeting as well. the objective here is really to provide basic information on the transition benefit options offered in the thr&rs and to schedule those residents entitle to to benefits and engage in a one-on-one interview with arws.
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the objectives of the one-on-one interviews are to provide information, to eligible households as recently as last august back to school night. i met a household that'd been here since 2009 and was not aware they had future housing benefits or options on the island. as much as we've had a very public process, we still have people to reach and we want to engage each of those households in a one-on-one interview to provide them with information. also to provide them information not just on their options under the thr&rs and the opportunities for affordable housing if they meet the criteria on the island. and then as a takeaway it's our intention to provide a one-page summary for the household of
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record of who were the household members we have on file in 2011 and their unit size based on the competition and what their options would be so they have a document specific to their headline. for our planning process it will help us verify and quantify the replacement units and the size in terms of three and four or two bedroom and plan how we integrate those into the upcoming buildings that we'll be constructing. as i mentioned we'll have the kick-off meeting next weekend. over the next five months between now and the end of may
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we schedule the one-on-one interviews beginning with signups of people at the meeting next weekend. but going door to door as we need to to sign people up for interviews. and anticipate providing initial summary of find at the may board meeting. with any outcomes or action items we need to address to fully fully implement the thr&rs and tida has been working to host a first-time home buyers program on the island in may. that will be part of our yet reach effort is to publicize
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approved for a predevelopment loan. and it will be set aside to start the transition of the villages residents with the first project. the next project we're planning to deliver is the project where we're still as we discussed before, assessing how large to make that building from a range of 130 to 140 total units. if we're able to finance it, there's economies to going with the larger size building and
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allows us to go towards our goal of transitioning larger households to new units. we'll transition all the existing households as well a number of market rate households and amongst the vimages households we have 30 section 8 households which would all be able to transition to the building and any other additional market rate household also qualify for affordable housing units would be able to transition to the unit building. this project will be two to three years behind the first project based on the availability of funding. and the finalside final size we end up selecting.
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completing the existing villages will require the completion of the first four, possibly five buildings and the target is to continue to construct an additional building every two to three years until we've completed the transition. again, since a lot of our funds for development of the affordable house are project generated a lot of this will be dependent on the timing of market rate development and the availability of outside funds from state or local measures. the third building we planned to be 110-unit community housing partnership building. that would be 100% transition of existing community housing partnership residents. community housing partnership is the largest of our providers on
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the island. that building would be 100% transition units for chp households. and then for the fourth and fifth we'll look for the lead developer and mix of units are yet to be determined. but they're intended to include replacement units for health right 360 units and the balance of the transition units. with that i'd like to turn it over to mara to talk about mohcd's program. >> while we're working on this, it's a good opportunity to introduce myself. i'm mara plitzer of the mayor's
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office of housing and community development. my presentation will take a step back and we all in the room can better understand how it's going to be supporting of the affordable housing development work at treasure island. some of the challenges and opportunities we face over the next few years with what has been happening at the federal and state level with respect to funding for affordable house in general and a chance to get to know our office a little bit better. we've been working behind the scenes. first time here in a while.
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that was little fuzzy. our job is to administer a whole range of programs of mostly long-term affordable housing in the city of san francisco. we do that through building new units and through preserving existing apartments and by acquiring small buildings to our new loan program and have been doing it through the first nation of renovations of the former public housing stock in the news and continued through our efforts through the program at protrero and it's predominantly whole family and
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mixed use and retail on the down floor and families on the upper floors and we look at home ownership to support programs as well as our rentals. we are providing housing for a huge range of folks the inclusive homeless people, seniors, transitional age and educators and first responders so we are covering the gamut of people in san francisco. do folks know what the average is for a one-bedroom apartment in san francisco right now? it's $3500 a month so there's
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great need. you may be able to relate we're talking about folks who have been homeless before and are in need of support. and because they are most needy, we'll also need the support of the state and federal government as well. i'll be talking with you in how we can get those other monies. how we work, we make loans. occasionally we make grants. we also typically into into agreements with owners and leasers and we have a local operating subsidy program some have had a big hand in creating and that is also administered out of our office. i brought with me pictures of
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affordable house and what it looks like when we see it. some pictures you'll see in the deck are existing buildings that are ocd or ocii financed in the past. they were completed in the last five and ten years. we want to provide housing that's livable, healthy, accessible, energy efficient, inspiring and beautiful and an asset to its community. we take those goals seriously in our work. that will be our operation in treasure island as well. this map shows where apartments that have been funded are located throughout the city. you can see a bunch of dots over on treasure island and throughout the city. i want to focus folks' attention
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when i walked in people were talking about mayor lee and housing is his legacy and his goal to build 30,000 units of apartments, homes by 2020 and within that 10,000 units a full third to be affordable and this chart gives you a sense of how we're doing on that goal and we are feeling pretty good we are making our way through that. we fully expect to achieve the 10,000 units of housing by 2020. you can see we got 6800 affordable units already. we expect to be able to report back in 2020 that will have well exceed that. the next few slides are realize are tech heavy. the text is about how many
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awards people run and about the design firms but i want to make sure when we talk about affordable housing you have these images in your head when you think about affordable housing. this is the richardson apartment around city hall and it's for homeless and comparable to some new buildings on treasure island. it's won design awards and has successful ground floor uses and has helped keep homeless housed. on ocean there's new housing for families and transitional for young people 18-25 who have been homeless or at risk of
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homelessness and have kids and this one's also won a bunch of awards and considered an asset this one is 120 units and on a former agency parcel. the last one was on an earlier slide but the pictures are so pretty i had to offer a few more and we have lots of experience with either building and housing 100% for the homeless or for homeless individuals are integrated into the rest of the building. if you'll indulge me and i want
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to make sure when we talk about affordable housing we're talking about the same thing. it's affordable. according to the government anyway for a person is paying about 30% of their gross income as rent. it costs a lot of money to build or maintain housing on a per unit basis than a person who had been homeless and earns less than the medium income could afford if the rent was to cover the full cost including debt you may need to get from the bank or profit a real estate developer or owner may expect to receive from an apartment. that's where the local government or we come in and the state and fed and for the past 30 years the biggest production
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program our country has had worth something like $7.6 billion a year in equivalent revenue. other folks would be paying taxes or the credit. though it's not scene as an outwardly expenditure, it's the federal government's way of supporting the development of affordable house. we rely on it for the development of low-income housing for folks who earn less than 60% of median income it's been around since the 1986 tax code. there's changes afoot relate to the tax credit.
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it will bring equity investment. you don't have to repay it back. if you meet the qualifications to get the equity you get it. in that process you get a partner in the form of an investment likely to be a bank. sometimes it's a nonprofit that represents banks. used to be insurance company but likely a bank looking to meet its community requirements and our local banks have a lot of that need. we have a lot of investors in the tax credit market in san francisco. our investments are considered top notch and we get top dollar for whatever's out there. you can understand the magnitude of the challenge we face
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upcoming. we also try to get the least expensive bank dots but we still get more money in the form of a loan. the cheapest money is tax-exempt debt and can be paired with the tax credit equity. it will come up a little bit later because there was a scare with the recent tax bill. those are two places where we rely on the federal government to support affordable housing in san francisco. there's a limited amount of federal capital still available not available for federal tax credit and the block grant program through hud still exist. they throw off little capital
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dollars. they're a few of the remaining discretionary program which means they're on the chopping block for reductions. these days we receive both home and when you look back across administrations and the graph of our federal coming in this form it's gone way down. is the state of california is really important to us and it will be really important to treasure island. some are the affordable housing and sustainable community program funded through proceeds from cap and trade auctions has been in the news the past few year. it hasn't generated that much
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money for san francisco. because the quirks of the program but we think there's other available and think the program, they finally figured out some quirks and there'll be more money going forward. the more in the pot the more likely we'll get some of that money. there's no place like home and the state is bonding against tax revenues from a few years ago. that's exciting money. we'll get our own in san francisco going for new units for the homeless. it could potentially go for future programs and it balances the vhhp and one of the projects here is going to be applying for that. we'll be relying on the state
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for that support. another piece of the pie is local capital. that's why i'm here. our sources include our housing trust fund, the 2015 general obligation bonds for affordable housing. we have inclusionary fees. in 2016 we passed proposition c and there's different sources of funds that all go in the pot and these projects will be eligible for some and we'll also in addition to capital we're often in the position of providing direct rental assistance or federal government assistance. we had the operating support for homeless households and there's
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project-based rental systems through family housing at hud and cpd and housing for persons with aids. i want to draw a picture for folks about all the things people are going to need to do to successfully implement the housing and the village it will take with our federal partners. and we're getting most of our money from impact fees and inclusionary fees expected in an up market when there's a lot of market developments when people are building new office buildings. when it's down you'd expect that
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part of the pie to shrink the following year we'll expect more and then back down again and that reflects we'll have spend the bond money which is one time and also expecting the market to go down a little bit. i think that's an update. our federal funding sin -- is influx and the tax plan passed affects san francisco. we have had some of the most valuable tax credits in the
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country. people were giving us $1.23 for one dollar in non-cash forms. these days that same credit is probably worth in the low 90 cents and between before the tax bill we saw a major drop in value after the 2016 election because there was talk in charging parts of the tax bill. now that it's done we know what the value is and it's another 3% to 4% the value we estimated
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when folks were thinking about the worst-case scenario. it means millions of additional dollars to provide the housing and will probably be split between local and state government. there was a brief moment in the negotiating for the bill when there was talk of eliminating taxes and bonds called private activity bonds. that was terrifying for us as we were trying to figure out how to go forward without the tool we expect to use here on treasure island and the rest of san francisco. that made us feel vulnerable. it was an interesting and when they don't know the particular aspect of what we do and what the impact would be.
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on affordable housing in particular it was significant and we spent a lot of the fall trying to figure out how to keep the train moving and build the affordable housing we need the home and program has been building and the trend continues in the budget which still hasn't been approved this year. there's no expectation it will get better. because hud's budget has mandatory expenses things like paying the rent where there are natural increases to the cost of electricity or running an apartment building as the budget increases the discretionary portion has to be reduced and their down to a small pot of things they control unless they'll be starting to cut people's rent. we watched that closely.
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we advocate and that's the world we live in and we've foreseen interesting things happening in the state. don't forget to vote in november. one was a document recording fee a portion will be going to homeless housing. but that's a study permanent stream of housing as money for housing and we'll fight about how it gets spent but it's exciting it exists.
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the bond measure is where we excess our right to vote. look for that. that has a total value of more than $4 billion. not all would be applicable to treasure island but growing the pie for state funds we could compete for successfully would be phenomenal and we're looking forward to. we are au few years out if it passes it will take another six months to put out the call for applicants and another year for the money to go out the door but the projects down the road could expect to be recipients of this state money. we couldn't get it soon enough. they're planning to revive older
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programs as the multifamily housing program. there's a transit development program and the treasure island projects will qualify and maybe when improvements will be made we should be good for that. and the homeless -- there's a court action. those are bond funds. the court has to make a decision how the money has to be spent and they're expecting a decision in the late spring to put the call for the money out in the summer and the way they legislated is san francisco may be able to compete to get our own pot of money. it will probably be in the $80
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million to $90 million range under the general offices. and general approval and it's exciting. it's pretty great. i didn't mention there's a project we'll be planning for and some changes with our local tax credit and prioritizing housing for the homeless through a special needs program they have. also again, the state's done work to consolidate their housing programs through the tax credit community and bond committee and lending arm and granting arm. that's been great to watch.
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some challenges. one is cost. it costs a lot to build in san francisco. we're very proud of the results of our work and it costs real money. in this case we have land so it's not a challenge on treasure island but generally speaking the things you need to pay for before you build. there was a director to streamline the process of approves for buildings located in major project areas and treasure island is one and that has promise for helping the whole island achieve what it's trying to achieve and part of and inclusive of streamlining
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should speed it up and make it smoother. very excited that's available to treasure island. and construction costs affects the overall costs. we've looked to reduce the cost. one is factory-built housing it's called modular. a couple benefits you get from building in the factory is shorter time frame and that builds money in things like insurance and construction loan interests. it takes less time. time is money. it's quite quantifiable and related to the building and it
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allows to work multiple shifts. it allows to have more quality control. you don't have people up ten stories working on boxes that are more safe and we've thought how to incorporate it should we get the consensus from the community that that's the way to go. there's been interesting developments in the industry with how easy it is to get the modules to a location. that's one of the things we've been looking at.
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if there's nothing else you have heard today is mocd is committed to the success and achievement of affordable house at treasure island. we'll be investing a lot of money and time in helping everyone achieve that. it's worth saying and showing up and making the commitment to you already in the resolution that was passed to establish the infrastructure and person it person we are tremendously committed to being your financing partner to the achieve the affordable units. i wanted to make sure you hear that. there's a lot of progress behind the scenes. we are kicking off the first one and that's a nice milestone.
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there's environmental work going on. the team will be applying for the housing program. you only get one shot a year. you have to be ready. they then decide and everyone scrambles and they're working hard to be ready. and then on the other there's ongoing discussions what the program will be. then we'll make our loan to that team as well. lastly i want to conclude my presentation with things that have happened in the past couple years what we call dahlia the
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city's flower it's also an acronym. it is our housing portal. it's a one-stop shop for someone looking for affordable housing can find out what the opportunities are if the house has been sponsored by the city. i put the link in here. if there's anyone in the room who represents organizations. and i'd encourage folks to send people there. that has everything except for home ownership opportunities which is one click away. it's a big achievement for us.
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we're behind the times with technology but here we are with dahlia. by the time treasure island is built it will be old hat. i'm hopeful people have questions. >> thank you for the report. much of which we already know but is good to get an overview of the program i was president of a project and what a great way to take leftover freeway
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ramps to incorporate into affordable house. though it took two decades to do. we are so blessed in san francisco to have great architects who understand affordable house and made the type of housing we build in san francisco to be wonderfully designed and fit in the neighborhoods. we're also blessed with providers to help do it well. with treasure island the challenges are so great.
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the tax credits have decreased and they're not what they were before. we have to put in additional subsidies to make up for the gap. there's almost no federal funds left it's from what we get from hud and other federal programs. the state is a brighter spot and many have been on the bandwagon for housing initiatives and were successful last year legislatively to get more dollars to local cities.
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even $4 billion which is what we'll estimate that to be in a state that is as needy as california when you pred it over the state, the amount san francisco will get is quite small and not enough for what we need. the value in overall housing policy and why we need to concentrate on treasure island is because we have the land. it's so difficult to get land because we know how land costs have gone through the roof. it's difficult to find land to make the project feasible and we have the land and commitment to do
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