woman i am here today. just a year ago i was homeless, and devereux was the only place that felt like home, but thanks to their help and support, i was able to move into my own apartment. this has given me a sense of pride and independence that all young people should have. the bills don't stop, but i don't, either. the phoenix project provided me with the amazing tools to allow me to get into the program. i am striving to get a second job while finishing up school. [applause] >> as the days go by, i am extremely grateful for the

support from my life coach, brother malik with the phoenix project. with that said, i know i can over come any challenge that is presented to me. i would like to acknowledge my family and the elders who helped pave the way for my current and future success. thank you. [applause] >> how you all doing today? i'm going to standard this. hello, my name is samuel vaughn and i am honored and grateful to be able to fly back from dillon university in new orleans to be able to speak to my own community. [applause] >> my grandma, laboria moore, moved into alice griffith in 1964. ever since, my family has been raised in this community for good and bad. i'm here to speak for the mayor and the rebuild of the the future. it was never easy for a kid in the tan and green buildings find a way out.

i watched childhood friends get sentenced to life and carried out in coffins. it seemed regular until september 3, 2015. i got a call from a young kid in a community screaming that your big brother was killed. i hang up, heart pumping, brain getting dizzy, mouth getting watery, and i tell my younger brother and mom what was said to me over the phone. we all break out in screams. my brother was declared dead after a shot to the head. after faith in the community, and doctors, they were able to get my brother's heartbeating again. when i arrived to the hospital that day, the day was brother was shot, this entire community was at the hospital, and i appreciate that support, and that's something i can never forget. at that time, i was a confused

teen who didn't know if i wants to pursue my dreams or follow my brother's foot steps. my decision became you cloudy after this -- became cloudy after this situation. eight months later, i was a straight a student, playing football, sending applications off to colleges, sitting in a juvenile jail cell. but thanks to members of this community and other communities, i was able to finish my senior year and complete my goals. this has lead me to a four year university where i'm living my best life [applause] >> where we are standing today is not only a new building for me, but for kids who have to choose the opportunity between the courts and the streets. this is a rebuild for the mothers and fathers who wish

they could have provided more, the reason for the future. the reason i shared my path with you all is to let you know i've been there. i'm standing here today because i leaped over my barriers and path as you all can do. whether you're raised in the bayview, the fillmore, or ant arctica, you can do it. i want to thank nonsee pelos-- pelosi, mayor breed, all the members of this community, my dad, my mother, my stepmother, i want to thank you all for pushing me to my full potential. i want to thank all of you who came out for the board. thank you all so much for supporting us. >> clap it up for these young people, angelica and sammy. thank you. [applause] >> i'm going to first bring up the president of the board of

supervisors, miss malia cohen to offer some remarks. she's been a fearless leader. president cohen. >> you know, i've been sitting here, can't get out of my mind, that drake song, start-up from the bottom, now we here. start-up from the bottom, now we here. oh, my god. my family, we're here. we did it together. let's take a moment and remember those that are not here with us to celebrate, the elders that gave their lives, the young people that gave their lives that allow for all of us collectively to be here today. let's not forget, let's not forget the roaches and the rats, let's not forget the mold, let's not forget hungry days and

nights sometimes because it is through those trials and transcri tribulations. these buildings represent the future and today. when i think about the young people that are standing in colleges, that are standing and getting jobs, that's why we're here. that's why i serve, that's why we run for office, that's why we take this oath. am i right, mayor breed? am i right, congress woman pelosi? that is why we come today to celebrate. now many times in my years, eight years on the board of supervisors, people have looked me in my eye and say this is not for us, and i looked them back in the eye and said yes it is.

watch. watch. for those of you that have been prayerful, mindful, for those of you that came to city hall to comment, came to neighborhood meetings, came to brett hart elementary school, here we are, here we stand, resilient and strong. that's what the bayview is about. that's what alice griffith's about, that's what double rock is about, resiliency, vibrancy. when you look out in the audience, i know many of you are seeing a lot of strangers, and you probably wonder who they are. but let me tell you, it takes a lot of people to get us all the way over to the finish line, to make sure there is zero displacement, to make sure that those who are not paying their rent, who are not paid up, to get you that help to make sure

you're in. and once you got in, you got pride, because this is for you, this is our gift. this is the manifestations of words and promises of yesterday that is finally coming real today. congratulations, you all. we started from the bottom, and now, we're here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, madam president. she's been alluded to many, many times, but this would not have been possible without the most fearless, most froeshserocious in california and d.c. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone, and a good afternoon it is. let me say i've come here today to pay my respects to you and

the respects of the congress of the united states to be an example of national significance to our country, a place where a dream came through because of the involvement of the residents. the residents made it all happen in honoring the hope sf plan that when you left, you would all be able to come back, and what you came back to was shaped by you. malia talked about our why -- president of the board, malia cohen, talked about the why. we heard from these wonderful young people. aren't they wonderful? they are our why. samuel and angelina, thank you for sharing your story. you give other people hope by the eloquent statements of your story. we can talk about the facts and the statistics because they are

important and they make things -- some things happen, but nothing makes it happens more than the words, the experience of our mayor growing up in public housing, from 14 years old, being part of public policy, to make change, through hur career, insisting that the words -- that the will of the people in these housing initiatives would drive the initiative. then as a supervisor, president of the board and now as mayor. it brings tears to my eyes to hear this story, but it fills me with pride to see her success as well as her personal connection to it. thank you, mayor breed. let me acknowledge present of the board, soon to go onto higher office, malia cohen. she has been such a champion, as we heard. and she harkened us to know our

why, that our children and their future, and the families that they live in, and the pride they take in their heritage, but all of this, again, followed was so eloquent in pointing out that this was a joint effort of so many different elements. let me just say this -- and really, to get in to say thank you. first, let me acknowledge theo miller. theo miller with hope sf has made such a tremendous different. when that $30 million came under the auspices of hope san francisco, listen to this, that was only one of five grants in the whole country. that was only one of five grants in the whole country. thank you, barack obama. [applause] >> but there was recognition that it would be used well, and it would be used based on the

principles of residents coming back, residents calling the shot as to how this would go forward. many of us have sat in the meetings and shall we say been impressed by the actions of our residents. thank you, reverend, for the beautiful prayer about our purpose. but then again, it's about the san francisco foundation and the fact that we're so impressed that fred black we will worked with the mayor when this started. fred blackwell, the life of a public-private partnership and the link with a nonprofit makes all of this possible, as well. so samuel, angelina, supervisor cohen, the mayor -- but here's the thing. let me just talk a little. this isn't really politics, but

you be the judge. i just got here from arizona at the end of a campaign swing because the election's going to be in four days. i want to end my swing at home, in san francisco. i want to be at a place where i could be inspired by all of you, your hopes, your dreams, your persistence, your ideas. you're just not taking no for an answer. your why is our why. and certain things make a difference, and some fights that we've had to have for that funding for that 30 million for president obama's insistence. but as we go forward, it was important to note in the public private partnership, it was important for us to use your wishes to make the policy, the appropriations to make the grant, and the tax code to make it possible in the public private partnership.

and no know the low-income housing tax credit was central, central to this and to the provide sector participants, thank you for using that for the good of these kids and their families -- the low-income families. so i mention that to you because we'll be having some fights. it was drastically cutback in the republican tax scam, that took away the low-income tax credit. we got it in another bill so that we could continue to fight this. elections have consequences. i'm not here to talk politics, i'm just saying they have consequences. martin luther king, he said the ballot, legislation, your life. that's what martin luther king said. the ballot, legislation, your life. so let me get back to saying respect and thanks to you because when we go to sell this

for more communities across the country, including our own, we can point with pride to say it is successful, it worked because the people most affected by it had a say in how it would proceed. and the young people who are affected by it, the future, can attest to that. so again, congratulations, alice griffith. we were here three years many of us for the ground breaking. here we are for the ribbon cutting. everyone, much happiness in your new homes. thank you for making this such a success. thank you all. [applause] >> wrap it up for leader pelosi. thank you so much, thank you so much. and it's true. we have that little election happening next week, and she said she had to be here. she had to be here. you can imagine her schedule. i want to next bring up the developer, richard barren of mccormick barren salazar.

richard, brief remarks. >> mayor breed, speaker pelosi, thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here for all of you and the residents. i bring you greetings from tony salazar, my partner, who spent hours and hours working on the development and unfortunately had some health relates things with his -- related things with his family in kansas city, and he wasn't able to join today, but he sends his regards. there are so many organizations and individuals who have been part of this project that it really is quite extraordinary. these public private partners as speaker pelosi has said have made an enormous difference in dozens and dozens of communities across the united states, really starting with president clinton and the hope six program, and then, with president obama, with

the choice neighborhood program. and these are things that happened in communities throughout the united states. we have been part of many of them. there are other organizations here today who have also done stellar work in san francisco, doing these mixed income communities, and we have always enjoyed very much being part of it. we started here with mayor jordan and have been here ever since. i wanted to just quickly of course acknowledge the hope sf office and the mayor's office of housing and community development, the housing authority, and most particularly, i'd like to have all of you recognize mindy, head of the choice neighborhood program. she has been involved in literally dozens and dozens of these transformations across the united states. she has come today to be part of

this, but they have done an extraordinary job in cities all over the united states, transforming communities like this one into new, vibrant developments and have been extraordinarily able in terms of their ability to take public work and work it so that it ultimately works for the benefit of the community. and i wanted to close my remarks after thanking the contractors, the architects, the financers, all the rest of it. in the end, the most critical part of this program relates to the residents, and most particularly, i wanted to thank our urban strategies great, isaac dozier and his team. many years ago, i created the

urban strategies group, and i'm the chairman, and i just wanted the mayor to hear what has happened here beyond the beautiful infrastructure that's happened here beyond the buildings. 82% of the families that were here have returned. 82%. we are hopeful that 90% will be here, and the other most incredible statistic, and i'm very proud of the urban strategies, folks, within the last 5.5 years, household income in -- with the alice griffiths residents has doubled from $12,000 a household to 24,000 through the intervention of agencies and other organizations here who have been part of this mix. and we have had access to health care now with many, many families and their children, so we're very, very proud that this will continue. lastly, i would want to say one

last remark. after today, this development will move forward, but the importance of philanthropy, supporting the human capital services in this development and throughout the city of san francisco is just critical. the choice program will be over in five years, and after that, the residents are still going to be here. there are still going to be new families and new children, and all of the things we are working on now, job development, schools, health care, and the rest, is going to be very, very important. and we have seen communities throughout the united states with philanthropy and private sector companies supporting the continuing services, and i really hope that will become part of the hope sf program. thank you very much. [applause] >> lastly, i'm going to bring up a great friend of this

community, mr. kofi bonner. kofi. >> it is a great day in this bayview, but many days is a great day in the bayview. it's always sunny as we know. my grandfather told me that if you want to go fast, you can go alone. if you want to go far, go with a group of good people, and i'm here to make sure i thank the good people who've helped us get this far. first and foremost, leader pelosi, thank you for your strong leadership and persistence in support of this city and particularly this project. there is so much you and your staff do that goes unseen and unrecognized, and yet is timely. and let me say thank you on behalf of all of us. thank you very much. madam mayor, i've always wanted to say that, by the way. madam mayor, thank you to you and your team for the continuing

support. the larger redevelopment project has had tremendous support from your offices and your team, and i thank this team. thank you to supervisor and president of the board. she has used her good offices to mediate when necessary and advocate whenever possible, and we thank her for that. thank you to the commissioners, the office of community investment and infrastructure. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, and to the hunters point mayors citizens advisory committee. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] >> you know, you all worked with mayor lee and the speaker to deliver the choice neighborhood grant to this city, and then, you approached us and said in

order to make this deal competitive, you needed us to step up and spend some money a little earlier than we had anticipated. we needed to bring the infrom structure on -- infrastructure on board a little sooner than we expected. but we said we're on board, and spent the tens of millions of dollars necessary not only to be competitive, but to win. you have a great team, and we continue to work with that team on the remainder of this project. thank you. several members of my five point team are here today, led by leshawn, who many of you know. we hear the voice of this community in our ears every day in the office, which is great. makes us better. thank you for your diligence.

a very special thank you to the residents of alice griffith. [applause] >> several yaerkz, i stood in the opportunity center with michael cohen, then, the director of economic development, and we said we're going to assist in rebuilding this community without displacing anybody, and you all didn't believe us. i think you were the most disbelieving. but we committed to you that we would create that plan, and we are here today. it is possible, and we couldn't have done it without the partnership and the support of you all, the resident. thank you. in 2010, we committed to an ambitious homes to bring 7,000 homes to this community, 2,000 of which would be affordable and 5,000 which would be market rate. we committed to bring a variety of different homes, from

apartments and condos, for the young and the old, and we commit today do that in the spirit of partnership. today is when we say we are living up to our commitments, and we're living up to our commitments because we have this partnership, and we expect to continue to live up to this commitment because we believe in this partnership. we are committed to spending the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to ensure that the current residents and the future residents will live, work, play, learn, and connect with the amenities that will be brought here, with the parks that will be brought here, with the retail, the grocery stores, the amenities that this community deserves. we know we can do that because we have such a strong partnership, and i thank you all for that partnership. [applause] is. >> thank you so much, kofi. you heard it here, commitment

for hundreds of millions of dollars more coming to this neighborhood. so as my mentor, marquis gray said, you can walk to opportunity. so i invite everyone to walk, please walk -- clap it up for our speakers as they walk off the stage. our speakers are going to head to that rib abon, they're goingo head to that incredible ribbon. five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street

sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless.

[♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars.

and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle.

>> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with

the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. >> we are very excited to introduce our next speaker. someone who can speak about the importance of affordable housing and what it means for low income families in the mission district pick someone that understands this and actually talks about this on a regular basis throughout san francisco. i'm very honored to introduce our mayor, london breed to the podium. [applause]

>> thank you. it is so exciting to be here. to break ground on 100% affordable housing. [cheers and applause] >> finally, after almost ten years, we are finally building -- building affordable housing in the mission for those whose income ranges anywhere between 30 and nifty% a.m.i. and i think i'm more excited because -- 30 and 50% a.m.i. and i think i'm more excited because even though we have had challenges making sure people who live in the communities can have access to the affordable housing built in their community , we will not have that problem with this project. because of the neighborhood preference legislation that i and others on the board of supervisors put through a few years back, i got so much support for that legislation from this community. to dedicate 40% of the 80 units to the people who live in this district first. [applause]

there are so many people that have made this possible and i just want to thank each and every one of you for all of your hard work, including the mayor possess office of housing, bridge has an, of course, commission housing development corridor, thank you for your advocacy and your work around not just helping to build new affordable housing, but the small sites acquisition program, and all the work that you continue to do. all of the architects and the contractors, thank you all so much for being patient, working hard, putting together a project that we know is going to be absolutely incredible in this community. i also want to acknowledge, in addition to neighborhood preference, some of you may know that there are people who live in public housing. there are challenges with

locations and we also have an opportunity to welcome in residence of public housing to this new development as well. it's part of the plan. a way to try and make sure that people have access to affordable housing. that people are able to stay in their communities. i just want to thank each and every one of you for the hard work and i see someone who snuck in here and is trying to hide. roberto hernandez. thank you for your advocacy and the work that you have done to help us with neighborhood preference. holding folks in city hall accountable to make sure that the housing that gets promised to this community gets built in this community and that we do a better job as a safety of providing opportunities with our application process. because the real work begins. we better get -- we build the housing but we have to make sure that we outreach all over this community to folks unfortunately

, in some instances struggling and in the process of being displaced. that we make sure that we help them get those applications in. that is what i am committed to. the planning department to, thank you so much for being here thank you to each and every one of you for your work. i am excited to be here during this groundbreaking and i'm looking forward to making sure that we don't let another ten years go by before we break ground on another affordable housing development. [applause] folks, let's celebrate today and tomorrow, let's continue to roll up our sleeves and get to work. we have got to do more, not just in the mission, but all over the city and county of san francisco thank you all so much for being here today. >> thank you so much, mayor breach.

and the project manager at bridge housing. for the last two years, it has been my pleasure to shepherd this project to this moment right now, which is so exciting. we are going to replace this vacant gas station with a beautiful building. it is really thrilling for me to say that. i would like to welcome supervisor hilary ronan which includes district nine. she has been a champion for many of the projects. we are glad you can be with us. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you everybody. what an exciting day. this site right here represents such a huge victory for the mission community. i. i love the fact that our friends are holding a sign that says house keys, not handouts. thank you! [cheers and applause] that is exactly what we want in our community. eighty-one units of truly affordable housing. sometimes when we talk about

affordable housing, we are talking about housing that people are making over $100,000 are eligible for. not at this site. we are talking about a family of four earning $35,000 a year who will be living right behind us. finally housing for the families that we have all been fighting for in this neighborhood. it is truly remarkable. what's even more remarkable about this, and i've seen so many faces of so many people i love in this crowd, this was slated to be luxury housing. it was going to be housing for people -- for people who grew up in the neighborhood would never be able to afford. and this community fought hard, fought a long, fought to get $50 million from the last affordable housing bond to come to the mission district.

this was one of the sites that came out of it. please give yourselves a round of applause, mission community, because you made this site happen. i also want to congratulate mission housing development corporation his. is such an important organization in our community. this is the first time in ten years that you are breaking ground on a new affordable housing site in the mission which is just incredible. you are back in action and you will be the powerhouse organization that in the past is built so much housing in our neighborhood and are doing so again. shortly after this, you will break ground on 1950 mission, which will be another truly affordable housing site. mission housing development corporation and housing in the mission. we couldn't be more excited. we love you, and as the mayor said, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work and get this

housing built. congratulations. [cheers and applause] >> thank you supervisor ronen. we are pleased to be working hand-in-hand with your office on the critical issues that our community continues to face. just like supervisor ronen just said, there was a point in time where many did not believe that mission housing was going to make a comeback. so we were resilience. just like this communities. our team came back stronger than ever, with one goal in mind. to uphold our mission statement, to build affordable housing in our district. in san francisco. our board supported us every step of the way. this isn't just a celebration for mission housing today. but it is a win for this neighborhood. at this specific site, was one because of community advocacy.

today we come together as a community to celebrate. our next speaker is someone i work with on a daily basis and i've gotten to know him extremely well. i have to say that his spanish has gotten a little better. he loves latin food. particularly tacos. if you ever want to offer him something to drink, offer him some tamarind water. he is currently laughing. you can find him specifically at the panel discussions, at schools during presentations on affordable housing, asking either myself or a team member in the organization to help a local nonprofit in the mission. or walking around wearing a t-shirt with various messages. many of them about housing. his work has not gone unnoticed. certainly not by our team or our

board or affordable housing community. he has been my counterpart in mission housing. together, we have overcame many obstacles to get to this place of celebration and groundbreaking. i am very pleased and honored to introduce our executive director of mission housing, my counterpart. [applause] >> i feel like everyone said my whole speech, i guess i can go home, right? thank you, everyone. thank you so much from the bottom of my heart and for mission housing. >> it has been a nostalgic kind of a day, thinking back on seven years ago and where mission housing was and where i was.

i can't -- there were countless meetings of me -- of people telling me i was crazy for thinking that i could help take over mission housing. that will never happen. it is impossible. you are never coming back. over and over again, if it wasn't for marcy at and the staff and our board and the leadership and support, it probably would have been rights. the fact is, mission housing was created to actually develop community. mission housing was created to be a backbone for infrastructure or whatever you want to call it. that is what we are again. i am really proud to stand here next to this broken dirt and guarantee that 80 some odd units of affordable housing are coming but what i'm most proud to do is to be with our community and to break ground with the people who stood by us. the people who didn't believe

that this wasn't going to weigh. who wanted us to regrow. i would like to personally dedicate this building and the rest of our building to the mission community. why don't we give the mission community a hand we -- why do we give them a hand? [applause] >> i would be remiss if i got up here and i didn't point out to the fact that this project and all the thousand units of affordable housing in the mission were originally and only made possible by a man who had the foresight to lead and to listen to the mission community. when mayor ed lee decided to focus on affordable housing and fix our public housing and to build more units, it was something -- that without it, i don't know mission housing could have come back like we have. while he is not here physically

with us, i am fairly certain he is looking down on us and smiling. thank you. [applause] >> i really do want to thank the mayor and all of our partners and supervisor ronen. there so many people. i'm sorry, i honestly have not been this tongue-tied ever. anyone who knows me knows what an emotional day this is been. i will just leave by saying thank you. thank you for believing in mission housing. i assure you that we believe in ourselves and that we will not go another ten years. we won't go another ten months for another groundbreaking. if unlimited money was made available, we wouldn't say no to that. okay. let's get on with the show. thanks, everybody. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you so much. it is a pleasure to work with you and john and michael and your whole team in partnership on these projects. i would like to introduce the c.e.o. and president, cynthia walker. when she joined us, she brought a long-term commitment to affordable housing with her cat demonstrated by 30 plus years of experience from alaska, seattle and now here in san francisco. she has been projects like this to life for a long time. i appreciate cynthia's leadership. through all the twists and turns that we go through, trying to blow things out of the ground, and there are many, many twists and turns. i feel personally supported by cynthia. please welcome cynthia parker. [applause] >> thank you. thank you everyone who is here today. it does indeed take a village to get this type of development off the ground. we can't do it without the support of our partners and also

, bakers, the mayor, assembly members, supervisors, everyone who is here has had a hand in making this happen. but it is particularly an auspicious project because of our partnership with mission hell being with sam and his group. and also, the neighborhood preference, which is incredibly important here. in this code today, for someone to rent a market rate unit, they have to earn a wage of $54.76 an hour in order to pay the rent on an unrestricted property. so with this particular 100% developed project back we are able to rent it to families who are making $35,000 a year. a family of four.

we are not reaching everyone because there are many people who live in this neighborhood to make less of -- less than that. recent survey of latino residents in the neighborhood indicated 30% of them made about $11.56 an hour. they are still living here and as rents go up, they are being forced out. i want to thank the mayor personally for her efforts and for everyone who has advocated for the neighborhood preference. and for also making resources available and the support that is necessary to get this type of 100% development project off the ground. it takes a village and it takes all of us to make a commitment. i see you have some tears in your eyes. i think i met sam when i got here a little over seven years ago. he was in another job and another life and then he left

and called me up. he said, i've gone to work at mission housing. and i said well, cool. he said we have not done a project for the longest time. do you want to topically come on over. he did. he said this is what my vision is for mission. i want to get it back on the grounds and i want to be developing more housing. i want to be focused on the housing in the mission and i want to catalyze all of the things that have gone on in that community. i said, how can we help we what happens as a result of that is that we formed a deep partnership. we are engaged with other organizations because it takes a village to create this type of work here. but i really celebrate the fact that this is our first project. we will have another one breaking ground very shortly, and it will also accommodate families and seniors and we will

have children living here. it will be back to the neighborhood. that's what is so important. i want to also comment on an article that i saw in the paper today, in the chronicle, which i thought was sort of interesting. it was a contrasting of new york and san francisco. i can't --dash i don't know if it is accurate or not. i certainly hope it wasn't but i did fire up an e-mail to the chief of staff. i said new york has made this commitment to housing and to affordable housing and to public housing that san francisco has not done. and that is why new york is much more economically diverse. my e-mail back to his chief of staff was someone i happen to know, was i hope this isn't an accurate statement. the next city, with this mayor, this is not the case. i want to thank you mayor breed. i want to thank everyone who works in this city. i know projects like these is a

commitment that the city has that will make this city support the residents of the city and always and providing more housing. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, cynthia. i want to take a moment. we said it takes a village. i want to name a couple of the folks who have been critical in bringing this to life. tom, chris, dan and miguel and anita, you guys have literally broken the ground behind me. thank you so much. those are our contractors. [applause] >> travis, mary, irving, the enhanced beauty of the urban landscape can deliver the credit to your fabulous design. thank you so much. [applause] >> you are rock stars.

kevin, joan, jenny, mara, aaron, and kate from the mayor's office of housing. you are partners every step of the way and we are so grateful for everything. we talk on the phone almost every single day. heather, eileen, joshua, amy, and william. you make all of our long loan documents really fun to read. thank you. justin, doug, mike, larry, and jamie and rebecca, thank you for all you do. [applause] and of course, there are so many more people than just that that have been sitting around all day those are just some people i wanted to call out. the fun part of this project is a san francisco housing authority, our permanent lender -- and our construction and

equity lender, bank of america, it's been a pleasure closing this deal. i am really excited to welcome the managing director for the bank of san francisco in east bait bay market. please join us. [applause] >> thank you so much. we're so honored and grateful to be with you all today. i love this scene at the groundbreaking. thank you for that item. americas grateful and honored. sixty-six -- 56 and a half million dollars in financing for this project. it has been stated again, i wanted to thank you mayor breed for her continued unwavering support for affordable housing. and supervisor ronen for her support of this amazing neighborhood in the mission. you guys are wonderful partners. thank you so much for the work

you do together. the two developers working on the project with us with bridge housing and mission housing. i would like to thank all of the bank of america associates who work every day to assist our communities and who work on affordable housing. we look forward to many more occasions. thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here tonight. our closing speaker needs no introduction. he is known to many people across the city as a community leader, home grown native a passionate advocate. he has been working in this neighborhood for years ensuring that the voices of our people is not only being heard but also respected. there is an organization partner of ours not only here at 419 but also across the street. not too far away from here. they are an integral part of the community and we greatly value the work we do on a daily basis.

without further ado, i would like to welcome someone to the podium for closing remarks. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, everybody. i am an organizer. i'm so humbled to be here among so many community warriors. a lot of people who have spent a lot of long hours and organizing hours on this street talking to neighbors and making sure we get what we need and what we deserve in this case, affordable housing we started our groundbreaking with a blessing. we started with movement. we were led in four directions. so appropriate and so fitting that we started with movement. because its movements that organizes this piece of land. it is movement that advocated. it is movement that unfolds

banners like that one. it is movement that demanded that sights like this return to our neighborhood and returned to the hard-working families and individuals in san francisco. we started with a blessing that called on our ancestors to guide us, to protect us, and people are resilient. resilient because this isn't the end of our journey. this is in the end of the movement. we are on a long distance marathon. it is far from over. it is a marathon that includes not only building and reclaiming land to build affordable housing , but also protecting renters and they're existing homes. it is making sure that we get the most amount of benefits with any luxury corporate developer that comes into our hood.

because of families in our community deserve more. just walk around these streets. there are hundreds and thousands of our loved ones on the streets we see them intense. we see them living in cars. or you don't see them. because they are doubled and tripled in apartment buildings like this. this is why we do it. we do it for all the hundreds of homeless kids that come to school after a restless nights sleeping in the shelter. they deserve more. they deserve more. and we deserve more. when you join our movement, will you join our movement. we are just getting started. are you all ready to party and celebrate we -- are you ready to party and celebrate, i thank everyone for being here. i will turn it back over to marcy. please stay. we have delicious food from some local vendors and local mom and

pop businesses to support the hoods and support the neighborhoods. thank you all for being here. [cheers and applause] >> okay. thank you so much. we would like to invite all the speakers to come up and grab a shovel, and we will take a picture, a break in the ground, after that, anybody else is welcome to take a picture with a shovel once we are done. thank you all so much for being here. it is really a great moment for us in the city and the neighborhoods. thank you.. >> working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the

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