fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. >> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we

could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit mitigation program and the sustainability initiative and find their information through technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the [speaking foreign language] [laughter]

>> good morning, everyone. my name is london breach. i am the mayor for san francisco i am really excited to be here today for what is really going to be an incredible project. it is fitting that we celebrate the preservation of the buildings that we are in today, and on the one year anniversary of the passing of mayor ed lee, and joining us, as his family. including his wife, anita, his mom, his daughter, thank you all so much for being here. it means a lot to have each and every one of you here to really honor and celebrate the work that the mayor did for san francisco. more than 30 years ago when he was a tenant attorney at the law caucus, and gordon, you remember that, there you go. he fought to preserve housing,

especially affordable housing across the city. our community was faced with displacement of many low income seniors in the financial district at the time. i'm sorry. are we going to translate? okay. he was then representing what is now the chinatown community development centre who led the efforts to construct 14 single room occupancy units here at 2,899th avenue, to make sure that those seniors could be housed and some of them are still with us today. if it were not for his dedication and commitment to the community, who knows what would have happened. today we honor his legacy by preserving these affordable units as well as two units at 800 clement street next-door. protecting tenants and preserving existing affordable housing is critical to stabilizing folks who are part

of the most vulnerable community the small sites acquisition program, which began under mayor lee in 2014, helps present --dash prevent displacement and eviction of low income tenants such as script are at risk properties just like the ones we are preserving today. to date, 27 buildings consisting of 200 units have been acquired by the city. that is more than 200 individuals protected. thirteen buildings with 138 units are in the pipeline. and 105 million of city funds have been committed. and most importantly, hundreds of lives of people have been stabilized where they have a safe, affordable place to call home. absolutely incredible and a wonderful testament to the work that he did for our city. yesterday, we also introduced the supplemental ordinance to appropriate 75 more million

dollars to this effort. i am proud to have joined our district three supervisor in working to free up these funds to reappropriate bond money that just wasn't being used. by investing in our small sights program and others like this, we can preserve even more affordable housing units across the city and keep people in their home. i'm so grateful to norman fong and the chinatown community development centre for bringing this to our attention and working with us for so many amazing projects including many that house so many of our seniors, the mayor's office of housing, supervisor viewer, and supervisor peskin, thank you so much for your work. i am grateful to the lee family and grateful to ed lee who devoted himself to this important work for decades.

i am honored that today we aren't really celebrating what is equipment to the thing that he cared about. protecting and supporting all san franciscans in a way that allowed for a way to have a safe and incredible way to call home. i want to thank each and every one of you for joining us here today. [applause] [speaking foreign language]

[applause] >> thank you, mason. [speaking foreign language] with that, i will introduce the

next speaker. the supervisor who represents this district. supervisor if you are -- supervisor you are -- hello everyone. hello. i am centrally fewer, the supervisor of district one. and today -- i am sandra lee fewer. i'm the supervisor of district one. when i was first elected, they came to me and said we have a problem. we judge every time i met with him, i always brought this up. and every time he said to me, we have to do something. i will work on this. we have to do something. and i think today, he is looking down on us, and i think he is feeling really proud of the work that he has done. in his heart, and attorney, in

his heart, always talking to him about this project against the human greed, and also the desire to keep this precious building in my neighborhood permanently affordable for these 14 tenants, but also the whole project that he had worked on for so long. i have a lot of thank you his. first, i would like to thank the mayor. i would like to thank the east west bank. they have been such a strong partner. and also a great business along the business corridor in the richmond. but also to help with the findings of the purchase could be made. i want to thank the mayor's office of housing. thank you so much for helping us out with this. this is a second small sites acquisition on the west side. both of them in my district, and not to be the last. i would like to thank the mayor also.

the management of this building is in good hands. very experienced. i want to thank my predecessor who first started this project a long time ago. a little bit about this building so i did not even know this is an s.r.o. i have lived in the richmond and i moved in a 1959 when i was two years old. so i am 61 years old. you don't have to do the meth. i am 61 years old and i would go to hamburger haven all the time. when i was growing up as a teenager, the orange seats, they were it. i thought i will go to hamburger haven. and now i will nominate them as a legacy business. and i think that -- [applause] >> so this corridor door is so important. hamburger haven is an

institution here on the fight on the tenants here. they have lived here for so long it is their home. and so close. this is exactly the kind of housing we should be building for seniors here. so close to shopping and so close to a chinese speaking community. really serving the tenants well. also not to mention, the rent-controlled units. as you know as we look at the housing balance, we are losing rent-controlled units every day. we are trying to keep neighborhoods intact. when we have disruptions like this possibly we could have seen something crazy happened here.

and my breakfast place gone. it was just heartbreaking. when we first had this conversation he said, okay. they want to 9 million. and i told that to the mayor and he said that's crazy. you will not get 9 million. this is a price of 5.5 million. i just want to thank you for doing a great deal and really being strong about it and holding firm 5.5 million. great price. i know it sounds crazy but actually the value of it is immeasurable. i think we all know the history of this. i want to thank everyone today. i'm over the moon about this. i have worried about this ever since i've gotten into office. i have a girlfriend who lives down the block, and every time i go to her house, i feel anxiety. i would feel anxiety worried about what will be happening to

these s.r.o. units. it is hard to sleep at night sometimes. i hope i can sleep really well tonight. it is time to celebrate but i really want to give a shout out to the collective effort to make this happen, and i am hoping that this is not going to be the only small cyclic acquisition as i said i am losing affordable housing every single day. again, thank you, thank you, thank you. this is a gift of immeasurable, immeasurable -- i don't even know. i am overwhelmed. i feel like i can't even measure how valuable this is. permanently affordable can stay here and be my constituents for as long as you want and i want you. this is great.

i want to introduce reverend fong from chinatown at c.d.c. thank you. [applause] >> breanna, tonya, anita, i told you. this is a big deal. this is one of the stories, little places, maybe too little to celebrate a big victory, and a big thing that represents your dad, your husband, and life. this is it. i love ed because he has more heart than anything. ed has kept his heart. it was always with the residence there are 14 residents that live in our s.r.o. and there are two that are missing that our doctors. the people over there lived at

the s.r.o. that was demolished. ed thought they were safer -- say for least 50 years. i will just say it. some greedy land owner wanted to convert it into market rate. i don't want to hide it. and saved the residence twice and this is forever. i feel like her. it is a big deal. i don't know if you all get it, but i think this may or was really different. he rolled up his sleeves on that i know he helped garment workers that were arrested. so many people, the seniors, he left. i am glad there are people that are still here.

she is 99 years old. she may not understand everything. anyway. i'm talking too long. i promise to keep it short. today is heaven on earth right here. a little corner. and we need to appreciate our mayor that fought like crazy, quietly, most of these little stories like this one haven't been told yet. there is a lot more. anyway, then we will hang out at hamburger haven i promise you can call me personally. mayor breed, thank you. you can't win everything in life this is a little bit of heaven on earth. anyway. i would like to especially thank

east-west who is contributing as well and we have emily wang here , francis chang, and sandra lau. [applause] of course, the small sites, you have to love that and build it up. that is for sure. i think preston is part of this. preston, you can be humble and proud. and alvin low is always there. whether it is the hotel, this guy is a secret hero too. he is humble too. let celebrate humility, grace, hope, love, and all the things of this project represents an winning for once against gentrification and greed. okay. we want to hear directly from our residence. at this time, mrs. quan is going

to say a few words. i'm not sure what she will say but she is 84 years old and has lived here over 20 years. she used to be a clothing tester and she is retired now. [applause] holly will translate. [speaking foreign language] [laughter]

[speaking foreign language]

[applause] >> my name -- i live in an apartment two '03. i moved here since november 1995 i want to thank cece d.c. for the caring in the past 20 years. i'm truly grateful here is my honor to live here. i hope that see c.d.c., out the doors as a new owner can take care of us. [cheering] >> thank you. i would like to ask one of merely transient dollars to come up and say a few words on behalf

of the family. [cheering] >> thank you so much for having us here today. i can't imagine a more fitting way to remember my dad and what he cared about and what he fought for while he was mayor. i know that my dad worked tirelessly, but he only works tirelessly because of the amazing people that he was surrounded by. i know he was so inspired by all the work that everyone who fought for this was putting in and i think he really saw himself as a part of the team. that is a kind of person he was. so i wanted to thank you all for the work that you do to make this happen. it is so inspiring and i think on a day like today, i just want to take the hope and the hard work and take that moving forward. i hope everyone else does too.

thank you so much for having us here. [applause] [speaking foreign language] >> all right. this concludes our event for today. i want to thank all of you for being here and so many amazing people that made this happen. we are definitely going to be doing a lot more projects like this in san francisco. thank you again and have a wonderful day. [applause]

>> all right. we've got some holiday cheer for you. we hope you're ready. [singing "you're a mean one, mr. grinch"]

grin [applause] >> thank you. >>. [applause] [singing "feliz navidad"]

[applause] [singing "jingle bell rock"]

>> once again, we are business casual acapello, and we are so excited to be here for the san francisco tree lighting ceremony. if you shoot videos or photos of us here tonight, we'd look to see us. our facebook page is bc vocals. this will be our last song tonight. we hope you have a wonderful christmas and happy holiday season. [singing "santa claus is coming

to town"]

>> let's have another hand for our wonderful acapella singers. [applause] >> and now we're going to get to the musical part of our program with our overtures, three songs that you know so

well. [singing "san francisco"]

[band playing "silver bells"]

[band playing "santa claus is coming to town"]

[applause] >> thank you. now, it's my pleasure to introduce the emcee for tonight, bill bottoms. bill, where are you? >> hi, everybody. how you doing tonight? that's right. let me lead you a little bit louder. how are you all doing tonight? [cheers and applause] >> that's right. do we have some small kiddos

for the show. feel free to come right up front. we're going to have some stories and personal visitors. everyone, i'm bell bottoms. they were looking for an incredibly talented host. they could only find a jewish drag queen, so i apologize in advance. but what a wonderful city that embraces such diversity. i'm so, so proud to be here with you all. [applause] >> that's right. and apropos my division, the first number that i'm going to perform is by the queen herself, barbra streisand.

[singing "jingle bells"]

>> thank you all so much.

thank you so much for being here. so we have an incredible show in store for you tonight. we've got a ton of performers. who here knows someone in the show, anybody? [applause] >> there we go. we have some fans in the house. beautiful. fantastic. let me introduce you, and i want to give some special thanks tonight. so i want to give, first, some thanks to the crew that has made this entire performance possible here at the civic center. i want to thank another planet entertainment who's helped with all of then tainment here tonight, and the sfgovtv northern nation, who have made donations for all of the toys tonight. let's give a round of applause for them. [applause] >> and who here loves to dance? anybody here loves to dance? yeah. we've got a few dancers. anybody got some moves? you've got some, little guy. got some dance moves?

well, this next performance is by an incredible group of tap dancers. so this next group, the christmas tree tappers, under the direction of pam drake, the tap dancing christmas trees join us from dance ten performing arts center in alameda. over the years, they've performed in many parades. their fifth appearance in the macy's parade on thanksgiving day 2016 featured them with the muppets. so please, welcome to the stage the christmas tree tappers.

[dance routine performed]

>> let's hear it again for the christmas tree tappers. [applause] >> weren't they fantastic? what about you, kids? did you take the tappers? yeah. so much fun, right? they brought them because they kn i