we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >>

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district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots

we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all. >> my name is angela wilson and

i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for

quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and

strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love

setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to

maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn

okay. you're looking rad today, and i'm not going to talk too long. i usually like to talk and preach, but let me tell you, a restoration of public housing, affordable housing forever. give yourselves and everybody here a hand. come on. tdc was approached in 2015 to take over this public housing. i'm going to tell you, i was here and the units weren't looking too good. and now it looks like the high class vip, it's a collaboration between the mayor's office and housing and urban development, and you all get to speak later. but i'd like to highlight mayor lee. mayor lee was the one who said we need to do something about

being on the troubled list and the housing story, and he just came up with the idea about who was the sean donovan and the hud folks, and i can talk more about that. but let me tell you. it does take 2 persynergy. let me tell you -- raise your hand if you're on staff for ccdc. i know joanna is the project manager, and she'll get to speak at the end. but i know the residents, they had faith. they trusted us. without the residents, you can't do nothing in this city. so it's a trust and the collaboration, that they did all the work. joanna led, our project manager, you get special kudos. i know eric wong wants it, too.

special contractor. so much love and energy, and san francisco's leading the way for the whole country, i think. and what are we going to do with the public housing? but for now, i know the mayor's in a rush, and we are so thankful that he's present here, and i'm sure -- oh, the mic doesn't go that high. let's see. give it up for mayor farrell, come on! >> all right. thanks, everyone. see, we can get it high enough. you know, they were just showing me -- take a look at that brochure and take a look at the difference between two years ago and what it is today. i am incredibly proud to be here at 227 bay. first of all a few it yous. again, thank you, china down cdc. thank you for your staff, thank you guys and girls. thank you to our mayor's office of housing and community development, kate hardy, and

joaquin is here, as well. thank you so much. so our housing authority, dar is here. thank you to the entire housing authority. and thank you to bank of america who's been a partner to us as we rebuild these rad projects. thank you to b of a. as somebody who grew up in san francisco i drove by here all the time when i was a kid. and you when you drive by and see buildings that were neglected for years and years, and now, it looks like a brand-new housing. when you see this, how pumped are you here to live in this? when we think about our housing crisis in san francisco, it is not just about new housing, although we have to put our gas pedal on it and build it faster than of before, but it's also rehabilitating existing housing units, so that people in san

francisco can live in them with pride and dignity, but it's all about affordable housing in san francisco. i am here as a steward of mayor lee's legacy, as well. this is something that was core to who mayor lee was. reverend mentioned it earlier, but i want to pay tribute to him as we sit here. he's 13450i8ing right now. -- smiling right now. i know there's no place he would rather be than today. i know we're going to have similar ribbon cutting projects throughout the city of san francisco that all of these partners have worked on together. to all of these living here, the tenants, congratulations. please standup. please be recognized and standup, everybody.

[applause]. >> i'll tell you, if you can't get excited about this, there's nothing you'll get excited about in the city of san francisco. i'll tell you, have a great rest of your day. thanks, everyone. [applause]. >> is supervisor peskin here yet? not yet? let's give it up for san francisco housing authority and did you know i was on the commission back in the 90's? and i was so happy -- there's dreamers and producers. and we're producers. that's what we're celebrating today. >> good morning. my name is darius, and i'm the director of the san francisco housing authority. for me, things like this are sell b celebratory, but it's also a time for reflection and taking a step back and looking at

this. today, we're making big progress. we're making great strides in the city. after spending a couple decades when norman -- when i was on the commission and i was working at the human service agency and there's a lot of work happening, what i saw again and again was those exact same problems would fall between city departments. it's when city departments would get territorial, and these problems would come in and they'd get solved. and when i've seen those problems get solved, i've seen collaborations between departments like ccdc, with communities, with neighbors, with residents, everyone coming together to work on those issues. excuse me. when i feel like rad is a shining example of that, everyone coming together, and what i think about from the housing authority, it's repositioning ourselves to think about the city, on behalf of the entire city and all san

franciscans as opposed to being so focused on our department, and that's the work we need to do in city government. today, the housing authority is experiencing its strongest partnership with the city ever. and i want to specifically thank kate and lydia from the mayor's office of housing and community development, and your staff for the partnership you have developed with us. i've been doing this work for quite sometime, and i'm not exaggerating. it is the strongest i believe it's ever existed with the city, and it's like this with them. you're seeing it, what's the outcome? it's the outcome of 227 bay. as norman talked about it, mayor lee went deep and worked with joule i don't know castro who was the secretary. and when he had the opportunity to jump in, he jumped in and jumped in right away, and thank god he did, and thank god everyone jumped in so early.

and now you're seeing this happen, and you're seeing these buildings happen. and now mayor farrell is carrying it forward, and you're seeing this, what's happening at these buildings at 227 bay. as i was coming out and getting ready to speak, i asked my staff? what happened? what happened at 227 bay? we had bad things happen and good things happen, and i wanted to read what will daniels, who oversees our rad program said to me. staff really tried to understand the process in order to make the transition successful. i do not remember having issues with 227 bay for the lease up and conversion process, which says a lot about the team that they have there. ccdc's team was solid and worked so closely with us. and then he said, the last thing he said, i do look forward to make an already good working relationship even

better going forward. this is coming from the guy who's the point. he's on the ground. he seize what's going on with him. i like what he said going forward, because that's what we're going to do with the housing authority. this is along term affordable housing going forward. our staff will continue to do eligibility. we'll continue to do inspections of the units and we'll make sure residents will get their housing, and when vacancies come up, we need to move expeditiously to fill that have vacancy, and we will do that. i want to thank several people: our executive director, will daniels, oversees our rad team, kyla reynolds and the leadership of hers, the weightless teams who get these units sold quickly, and the director of lease housing to

move us to high performer status from hud. i also want to thank the residents. thank you for trusting us, and thank you for believing that we could actually get this done and frankly putting up with us. because you have had to experience so much stressful, time sensitive deadlines and rehabilitation happening in your home, which is incredibly stressful, and i just hope you're pleased with the end product. thank you so much. >> i'm still looking for supervisor peskin, but i know supervisor jane kim is here. want to come up and say a few words? >> supervisor kim: i am here on behalf of supervisor peskin who is currently chairing our san francisco county transportation authority meeting as we speak. he excused me from the rest of the meeting so i could represent him and his office, but also just as a former chinatown community development

center aaluminlunni, i'm just proud of the work you have done today. rad and the rehabilitation of our public housing units is no small feat, and it says a lot that this is the first rad project to be completed in the city. just as it is important to build low income new afford annual housing, it is just as important to rehabilitate existing low income housing in our city. 227 is reminiscent of a time when our country invested in housing. that was many decades ago, and now 50 years later, we are -- we are having to invest in making sure that these units can stay permanently affordable for our families, our seniors

and individuals with disabilities much into the future, so this project is incredible important. i'm so important of all of the partners that came together on board to make today possible for our 50 households here at 227. and i do want to acknowledge many of the staff members that worked to make this -- this possible. and dar acknowledged the tenants for your trust in us and having been involved with many public housing transitions. it is incredibly tough, and it's easy to understand why residents don't trust working with government and relocation and rehabilitation processes, but we also know that the staff play a very important role in building that relationship of trust and ensuring residents that they'll be able to come back to their homes of many, many years and often decades, and so of course want to acknowledge our great fareless leader, reverend norman fong.

i'm about to acknowledge them, the relocation team, cathy lamb and tony leigh, our community organizers donna chan and wendy chan, and resident services. thank you so much. this process is so difficult, and the reason why we're here today is really because of so much work of the staff on the ground that's made this possible, and of course the many people that have already been acknowledged, the mayor office and all of our financial partners, but the staff, you do tremendous work on the ground, and thank you and congratulations to everybody. >> okay. you know you need money to get stuff done. who you going to call? you're going to call ari? senior vice president of

developing, ari, of bank of america and merrill lynch. >> good afternoon. it is a pleasure to be here this evening -- this morning, this afternoon, today. i guess it's kind of strange. i remember what this place looked like. it didn't look anything like it looks like today. i remember what the residents looked like when i came to visit before ccdc took over the property. it doesn't look like anything like what the residences look like today. this has been an amazing transformation, and it's been an amazing transformation because of many, many, many people. a city, state and local government to get this done. first, i'd like to thank the former mayor. he was really a great partner. he was the affordable housing mayor in san francisco. he was one of the rehabilitaas

of america did this project. we knew how committed he was to affordable housing at his core, which is the reason we did this. i'd like to thank the current mayor farrell, supervisor kim, and of course the mayor's office of housing and workforce development, ed hartly, and many, many other people that i see, lydia, in the crowd. you guys did an amazing job. you made the impossible possible. and then, of course, the people that do the work: ccdc. you guys -- just look at this project. it is -- it is really -- we use this -- just -- you know this picture often because if it's hard to believe it's the same building, what it is today versus what it was before. and of course, the san francisco housing authority, you were willing to hand over your baby, and i think it's going to do pretty well. so, you know bank of america

had its roots in san francisco. we started actually as the bank of italy in 1904. we've been here during the good times and the bad times. we've been here during the 1906 fire, when our founder went out with literally cash in hand and helped rebuild the city. we helped build the golden gate bridge and the ferry building. that's why when mayor lee came to us with a crazy plan to rhenvate 29 projects and 3500 units and finance it in two years, we were all in. and so this investment's really huge and transformational for bank of america, too. just to give you an idea, we invested $2.2 billion in financing in rad. last year, bank of america, one

of the largest banks nationwide, invested $4.2 billion, and we invested 2.2 here. [applause]. >> so we're committed to san francisco, we're committed to building affordable housing. we're also committed to our nonprofits. ccdc has been a neighborhood builder, our bank of america charitable builder over the years. our over 4,000 associates volunteer over 40,000 hours a year in san francisco, because we all believe in san francisco to the core. i'd like to thank some bank of america associates who work odd this. we had dozens and dozens of people, and two people here who worked on it. rob reinhart and kr ar-- carri horton, thank you for your work. i love seeing affordable

housing, i love seeing renovated units, and i also love seeing new units, and i can't wait for the next grand opening. >> now, this is the most important part. we need to hear from the residents themselves. you going to come up? oh, anthony. i remember, we met two years ago in that little community room that we just tripled the size of. and i want to acknowledge wynn palmer, too, the president. standup a little bit. come on. look grand. yeah. give him a big hand. he said he wanted to sit back there with all his women over there. okay. >> okay. [ speaking native language ]

>> my name is anthony wong. i've been living in this building for over 20 years. i like this building because of its location. it has easy access to public transportation. [ speaking native language ]

>> in the past, every household in this housing unit, in the past, they had miroaches, and they were very difficult to get rid of. the fire alarm sound would often go off with no reason. firefighter would be here all the time. it was very disturbing to the residents. [ speaking native language ]

>>. >> now the chinatown community development center has taken over, they renovated the building inside and out. it's like new. now the courtyard has flowers, trees, chairs and table for the staff to rest. there is full-time staff on-site. we have different kinds of activities to entertain us and to socialize with neighbors. it adds joy to our lives.

[ speaking native language ] >> now i hope everyone can give a round of applause to chinatown community center and ageing in place, please. >> we're almost there, folks. okay. you know, before the ribbon cutting -- where's the ribbon? okay. oh, okay. you know where it is. just wanted to -- you know, i can't explain it, but china dotown cdc staff putt so much, and it's that that makes housing possible with the residents, and i want to bring up the project manager, joanna

ladd, and her mom and sister are here. i met you in washington, d.c. were you doing housing there? any way, joanna, she loves our residents. she -- i love you. [applause]. >> thank you, norman. i'm joanna. as he said, i've been the project manager at 227 bay since the project began in 2014, and we have so many to thank for how the project turned out. please take a look inside of your program for a full list of our partners. we would like to call some out by name. our general contractor, am1 construction, and our architects. so not only does this project look great, it actually came in under budget and returned money to the city, and that is --

[applause]. >> thank you. >> can we have it back? >> and that is a testament to the quality of the design work and the quality of am1's construction work. we have a host as you have heard of public and private financing partners who helped us build a budget big enough to do the important expensive things like install a full sprinkler system at this building. of course the u.s. department of housing and urban development created the rad program in such a way that allowed us to rehabilitate the building for its existing residents. our state funders, the california debt limit allocation committee and the tax credit allocation committee, no major affordable housing project in san francisco moved forward without these funders. our permanent lender, freddie mac, and our investment lender, bank of member. they made sure there were activities for residents during

construction to ease the stress during construction, which tells about the kind of private partner they are. [applause]. >> enterprise community partners, neighbor works america, and the local initiative support corporation all provided chinatown cdc with capacity building funding to make sure that our organization was ready to take on the challenge of bringing on 600 units of public housing into our portfolio. the san francisco -- yes, sure. [applause]. >> the san francisco department of ageing and adult services is funding our program to bring on-site supportive services for residents to this building for the first time in its 47 year history. [applause]. >> and of course, the san francisco housing authority and the mayor's office of housing,

it has been so inspiring to work alongside these self-less, hard working city staff to correct 50 years worth of wrongs against our public housing residents of san francisco. this was a monday amountal challenge from a policy standpoint, and it is one that our city staff dove into because they rightly saw it as the last chance to save public housing in san francisco. we at chinatown cdc are lucky to have a huge expert team of developers. i just particularly wanted to call out the california partnership housing corporation, which was the architect of the incredibly complicated financing program that allows the city to move all 29 of its rad projects forward on virtually the same timeline. [applause]. >> next to last, i want to acknowledge the work of chinatown cdc staff. our housing development construction management, property management resident

services community organizing, relocation, asset management, accounting and executive staff met every week for over three years to make sure that this building lived up to our vision of what public housing could be. every single person who touched this project works entirely too hard. they think about our residents in every moment, and that is the power of community based housing development, and that is the power of transferring public housing to the very advocates who have been fighting for better living conditions in public housing for over 40 years. [applause] >> and finally, thank you again to the residents of 227 bay street. the residents of 227 bay street endured two years of construction in their homes so that this building could be preserved both for them and for future generations of san franciscans.

that is an incredible sacrifice, and the residents of this building met that call. as you can tell from mr. wong's speech, with grace and patience and understanding. and so thank you for believing in us, and i think the because west we can acknowledge your sacrifice is to wrap up the program. so we will be leading tours from right in front of the elevator on this level as soon as the ribbon cutting is done. we'll also be serving refreshments in the community room right through those double doors, so thank you for coming and take it over, fearless leader. >> didn't she do a great job? and her mom is here. you're going to help -- as they setup the ribbon, i need your help because i always believe in the people's blessing, so at the right time, i'm going to have you repeat the words after me. may the residents and all who

come to 227 bay be filled with the rad spirit of -- repeat after me? peace! joy! hope! lo love! brersity. all right. could you come on up and help -- you're the coalest president. you know, i think trump needs some sprinkler work there, too. but any way, we've got more sprinklers. all right. all the big shots, come on up.

>> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go.

armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords.

we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our

grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this. looking fantastic.

one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee.