>> welcome everyone. my name is david cook. i am the president of the board of the directors of the episcopal community services. is my privilege to thank you all for being here on this wet but very important day as we inaugurate the bryant street navigation center. i wanted to take a minute to give a special welcome to our distinguished roster of guest speakers will be hearing from in a few minutes. the mayor is here, filled tagging tag tony tried various, and rebecca from google. i would also like to welcome leaders and staff of the department of homelessness and supportive housing, here.

i would also like to welcome all our other partners and friends and members of the press who are covering these issues so diligently. a special welcome to the board members and staff who showed up today. one of our senior staff members will be offering some interesting insight into this new facility a little bit later on. last but not least, i want to welcome our navigation centre residents who are here in the room. the folks who are on the front lines who are experiencing or have recently experienced homelessness first-hand. as you probably know, conventional homeless shelters have been around for a long time , but navigation centers are pretty new. less than four years ago, in march of 2014, we were instrumental in opening and operating the very first navigation center in the united states over on mission street. since that time, five additional navigation centers have been

opened, and today, a sixth. the navigation centers in this town have become a national model for removing barriers to housing for high need individuals who are dealing with complex issues and two as a result, have experienced homelessness. along the way, ecs has continued to operate two of the navigation centers, but has established itself as an innovative thought leader in the field, providing expert consultation to sister agencies both in san francisco, and across the country, and early-stage planning, set up, and ongoing operations, which brings us to what we are doing here today. we are so excited to be starting and operating this brand-new 84 bed navigation center here in the south of market. as you will hear, opening a facility like this requires the hard work, dedication, and generosity of a lot of people and a lot of companies and agencies. but long-term success in addressing homelessness can

never be achieved without committed leaders at the highest levels of local governments. that is what we have in mayer london breach. just this past october, a few months after she was elected, she set an ambitious goal of adding 1,000 new shelter beds in san francisco by the end of 2020 and of getting half of them online -- [cheers and applause] >> and of getting half of them online by this coming july. eighty-four of them are right here. under her leadership, we are on the way. ladies and gentlemen, mayer london breed. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. i am excited to be here today and i'm also excited to welcome in the new incoming supervisor for district six, matt haney, who is joining us here today. [applause] >> please direct any of your complaints to him. [laughter] >> this is a great day. i am just excited about what we're doing here in san francisco and it does take a village to get to a place where

we can address what we know is one of the biggest challenges we face in this city, and that is homelessness. so many incredible organizations groups that continue to build partnerships with each and every one of us, to focus on providing shelters, providing navigation centers, providing services, one of our great partners is here today, thank you downtown streets team for being here, it all the work that you continue to do to keep our communities clean and safe, and many of you know that this is definitely a top priority for my administration, and i am committed to making sure that we add at least 1,000 shelter beds to the city and county of san francisco by 2020, and what that would do is help provide a place for so many people that we know are sleeping on the streets every single night. we need to make sure that regardless of the challenges that we face as a city, in terms of building more housing,

regardless of any of the issues around support for funding, for programs, we have to have places for people to go. we have to have places for people to go where they are able to stay for 24 hours and not be told that they have to leave in the morning. that is my commitment in helping to address this issue. it is an ambitious goal because we haven't increased the number of shelter beds by that amount since the 1989 earthquake. many of us remember that time in our city where it was a very challenging time. we know that if we are going to get to a better place, we have to also be honest, and have an honest conversation about what we know are some of the root causes of homelessness. many people that sadly are down on their luck, many people who are struggling with mental illness, and addiction, we know that we can do better by providing more permanent services to get people to a

better place. i am excited because since the navigation centers have been in existence, it is really a great place to transition people into more permanent housing. we have connected people to permanent housing. we connected people to resources and we have, through our homeward bound program, we have connected people to their family members. over 1,000 people serve through our navigation center program that have been reconnected to their families. what we are doing is not traditional in that navigation centers are 24 hours, they have a great staff and team of people who continue to greet people with a smile, and treat people with respect and the dignity that they deserve. and more importantly, they have a really strong desire to help people get off the streets and get permanently housed. ultimately that is the goal, it anything that we do. we basically, with these

navigation centers, people are able to bring their partners, their pets, and in fact with this particular center with 84 beds, 20 will be dedicated specifically to women peer given women a private location where they can get the support and the services that they need as well. just a few days -- 623 people out of our navigation centers since december have been transferred -- transitioned into permanent housing. 144 people have had temporary placement, and over 1200 have been reconnected with their families through our homeward bound program. thank you all so much for that hard work in getting people connected to. [applause] >> we know that it takes a village to get to a place where we have more opportunities for people to get into permanent housing and to get stabilized,

and a lot of this work is done -- bureaucracy is involved, but also creative, hard-working leaders like our assembly member who is here with us today, who not only pass the legislation that made it possible for us to lease the land for this particular purpose, but help to provide a significant portion of funding to get these navigation centers open, so i just want to thank phil for his leadership in sacramento, and continuing to push this conversation that has led us to this place of opening what is probably the third navigation center since the work he has been doing, in the and the second on caltrain land specifically. [applause] >> i want to thank tony taveras from caltrain, because again the people who work for these departments are the drivers of what we need to do in terms of paperwork, and issuing funds, and those kinds of things.

so thank you to tony from district four who is here with us today. and also our private partner, google, rebecca is here with us today. they provided $3 million to get this place open sooner rather than later. [applause] >> jeff kaczynski and his team from the department of homelessness, they don't just work on trying to provide these spaces, they work every single day on the front lines, the hot team, they are out there trying to get people to help, and the support that they need to, and through our coordinated entry system, they have been able to register thousands of our homeless residents in order to get them into places like the navigation centers, and it has been a fascinating system where we are able to track people, and

get them to help and the support they need without duplicating services. i want to thank you mohammed nuru with the department of public works who facilitated the building of this building, and some of the other navigation centers. i want to thank the real estate division in the city, and i especially want to thank the folks with community services for continuing to be a great partner in continuing to provide the kinds of services that we get to build, we go through the process, we get the legislation, but it takes community partners, and the work they do on the front lines in order to make that these places are working for the people that we want to take care of. it will take a consistent effort from each and every one of us if we are going to address this issue. every day i am thinking about what are some more ways in which we can get to a place where not only we are able to address some of the challenges around homelessness, but how will we build more housing, pete -- keep people housed, and make sure that when someone is homeless, we are able to get them into some permanent situations where they are able to live in dignity while we have a lot of work to do, but this is a great start

and i'm i am looking forward to getting to our goal of making sure that 1,000 shelter beds exist, an additional a thousand beds in addition to the ones we have and they are open and available to anyone at any time so that no one has to sleep on our street at night in the cold. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. as she suggested, the challenges of homelessness require the commitment of knowledgeable and dedicated legislatures. we also have this in our assembly member from the 19th district. [applause] >> thank you, david, thank you to e.c.s. for doing this amazing work, day after day. it is because of organizations like yours that you really make me so proud to be from san francisco. we have some of the best nonprofits, not just in our state, but across the country.

thank you to mayor breed for your amazing leadership. it seems like a few months ago we are at division circle on caltrain land, and doing a similar celebration. i know that at times it feels so daunting. we walked the streets, would drive the streets, we see folks sleeping on sidewalks, sleeping in the park, and i think for years, we have always grappled with, what do we do while what can we do? it feels like we put people in homes and in shelters and then there's more people in streets. at times it feels like an epic problem that really can't be solved. i think at times where i look at our city and we often times are a lightning rod for people. people are coming -- there are folks frustrated here and people are coming here from all over because san francisco is doing their part.

san francisco is offering their services. that is one of the reasons why the state has decided to get involved. we realize this is no longer a city by city issue. mayor breed can't talk to other mayors, we have to figure out how to do this. everyone in the state has to do their part. one in four homeless people in our country lives in california. one in four. 134,000 people. we have 75 -- we have 7500 people here in san francisco. los angeles has 60,000. think about it. that is not a small town. that is a medium-sized town in california. so the problem is great. it is also a stage that we know we can solve problems. we know if we can build bridges, we can build all these buildings , we can build all this amazing housing and build the economy. we have an economy here in san francisco with 2% of

unemployment, we are the fifth largest economy in the entire world in california. there is nothing we feel like we can't do. if we can't find a way to put people in homes, if we can't find a way to have people, offer people a life with dignity, than i don't think anybody else can. we will not stop trying, because that is what our city stands for we know that we believe that we are welcoming people from all around the world his, all around the country to come and live here regardless of their circumstance, regardless of their documents, regardless of why they're here, and because for the simple reason that they come here because this is a place where they can live, where they can thrive, where they can succeed. we want to continue to be the beacon of hope. that city ants that state where people want to come, where people can thrive, and where people can live out their dreams , that california dream is still alive and well. in terms of the state, we were

so proud to work with the city about 20 years ago to ensure that caltrain's land, ten different parcels in the area, we want to thank tony at the team for working with us, to be able to give us land at a reduced rate. many of us probably walked by and drove by the slabs thinking okay, it is just empty land. it is just part of an offramp. before i saw the division circle , i had no idea what could be done with the parcel of land next to a freeway on-ramp or an offramp. it is amazing. this is now an on-ramp onto a different life, right? [applause] >> not only can you go to oakland, you can go into other areas. that is what we want people to turn to. i am proud this is a team effort the city, the mohammed, our

mayor, our new supervisor, state and caltrain saying, hey, i spoke to them and they spent about $60 million a year just shoeing people off their land. they said, hey, how about we helped house people? let's not waste that money and let's be part of the solution. so that is what we are saying. let's be part of the solution. so the state was proud to give the city $10 million for navigation centers. went on division center that got put off. the state also said we will give $500 million across the entire state. $27 million to san francisco to help put up emergency shelters. why quiet we have an emergency crisis in homelessness. it is an emergency. when you have this many people living on the streets. i know that is the beginning. we need to do more and not only do we need to do more in terms of funding and taking a hard look, we need to make sure that

everyone is building homeless shelters and housing for the homeless. not just us. it can't just b.s. it has to be san mateo, it has to be -- you can't just be us. it has to be all the different counties that haven't been part of that solution. we know it is part of the stuff we need to do with the other counties who aren't as onboard. we'll be taking on those challenges just like we are taking on challenges from housing. but again, thank you so much for the huge amount of team effort, all of the city, state, amazing who are here today, and really to give 84 people this new on-ramp to a different life. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. as the mayor pointed out, it takes a village to open a navigation center, and you can't have a village without the land its built on. this is where caltrain comes in.

i would like to invite the district four director to the podium. he will describe in more detail their role in making this navigation center a reality. tony? [applause] >> good morning. thank you assembly member, mayor london breed, and thank you to all the partners who made this navigation come to fruition. i'm so pleased and excited to be here this morning and celebrating the opening of the navigation center, and the partnership with the city of san francisco and the california department of transportation and crafting an innovative solution to the challenges of homelessness. for us at caltrain, keeping people safe is what we do. it is at the heart of what we do we come to work every day committed to ensuring the safety of those who drive on the highway system, our maintenance workers who are out diligently caring for that system, and the pedestrians and bicyclists navigate highways that are also city streets. it is incredibly important to me

that everyone, whether work or traveller gets home safe at the end of each day. and because safety is so important to me, i worry when i see people trying to create a home on our toughest -- transportation infrastructure. it is not a safe option and it puts people at risk because they are living close to heavy vehicles moving at high speeds, they are living long term in the exhaust of those vehicles, in their living without proper sanitary infrastructure and exposing them to disease. they are also living exposed and vulnerable to crime. this is not what we want for our fellow citizens, and yet more and more people feel they have no other option than to take shelter on the transportation infrastructure. this place has been in jeopardy and impacts the communities around them. is a huge and overwhelming problem, and know one nonprofit or government entity can solve it. but such big problems provide us with opportunities to innovate

and develop these partnerships, and the navigation center is one of those solutions. with the creative leadership of the city of san francisco and the state legislature, we are able to lend an unexpected hand. this location is not -- is now suitable as a permanent housing site, and it will also provide an entry point to help people on the journey out of homelessness. it will balance the urgency of the issue, the safety of the affected people, and the practical operational requirements on the highway system. i'm excited to see the impact of this center, as well as similar partnership opportunities that we are engaging in the bay area. the celebration today highlights what we can accomplish when we work worked together to find compassionate solutions. we are very proud to be part of the effort to address the crisis of homelessness, and i encourage everyone to think outside the box and discover how you too can take part. thank you very much.

[applause] >> tony didn't mention what the actual rent is, i think it is one dollar a month. is that rent control? [laughter] >> good news. opening a center like this also requires the participation of committed individuals and companies in the private sector. for that we have many people to thank, but none more so than google. i would like to introduce the chief of public affairs in california, rebecca pros and. [applause] >> good morning. google has been a proud member of san francisco for over a decade his. since we first moved to our offices along the embarcadero, we continue to aim higher to be a good corporate citizen and neighbor, build strong and valued relationships with local nonprofits like downtown streets , community groups, and policy members are doing incredibly important work in the city. we have a long history of working with these partners to

identify where we can best be of service. where everyone has seen the most need to, and where we can have the most impact, is homelessness their answers provided us with a multitude of opportunities. we provided free munimobile for youth, we helped install free wi-fi and 31 parks across the city, we have loaned city google employees for a civic leadership project to improve user experience and design of affordable housing which earned a government award last year, and we have also given $1 million to the mayor touch a fund for homelessness to unify the systems for homeless i -- facing nonprofits and service is called the one system. these projects and more have combined for a total investment of over $63 million in the san francisco community since 2014. nearly a quarter of the funding is addressing the dire need for more resources for more homelessness. it is through ongoing conversations with partners, icu

jeff kaczynski, that we first learned about the mayor touch a fund for homelessness and navigation center programs. this is more than worthy of the google grants provided to offset the $4.67 million construction cost. we are so proud and thankful to be here today as the doors are finally open, and more of our neighbors are able to access the resources and services they need we are honored to stand with mayor breed, with assembly member taking, supervisor matt haney, with episcopal community services and caltrain, and other city leaders to provide services to other individuals in need. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, rebecca, and thank you so much to google for what they have done. our last speaker is ccs's director of programs who will describe some of the interesting details about this navigation center. ,. [applause] >> thank you.

episcopal community services focuses on ending homelessness through housing as the brilliant navigation center is an essential component of the city 's homeless response system. as we serve long-term homeless individuals, our focus is on offering rest bite from living on the streets, and giving people an opportunity to change their lives. today, 34 people have moved into this navigation center and we continue to accept people from the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and the homeless outreach team as we fill 84 beds. the brilliant navigation center is unique in that there are 20 beds designated for homeless women who have their own separate living and sleeping area, in addition to offering on site meals and showers and property storage, our guests will receive on site medical care, harm reduction therapeutic services, and case management

connecting people to income, public benefits, interim housing and assessments for placement and longer-term housing. access to e.c.s.'s workforce development and healthy aging, continual services is also available for all of our navigation center guests. finally, e.c.s. is proud to be partnering with the city as they bring on the brilliant navigation center, and we thank you all. [applause] >> thank you. once again we would like to thank mayor breed, this family member, and google and further remarks today and for their amazing supports. we like to thank all of you, a republican private partners, staff, residence, neighbors for attending this. we are committed to continuing to provide pathways to housing with tools such as this navigation center and the programs and services it provides. you are all invited to a short tour of this new facility that

will be led by, and by john, our interim director of shelters and that will conclude our presentation today. thank you. [applause] >> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do? where are we going to move into? the kids' school?

our jobs? >> my name is maria. i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait and wait through the process and then when we got the notice, it's like, we were like thinking

that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs. >> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it. >> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great

lesson. >> welcome. my name is caroline, i am the director of community real estate at mission economic development agency. happy new year, welcome to 25 sanchez who have not been here before. i returned to the -- as we turn the calendar to 2019, it is a perfect time to reflect on new beginnings, and that is definitely the case. looking around at this refurbished property, i'm delighted to see a prime example of collective impact. it was four and a half years ago when taking on the city's call for nonprofits to take on the rental assistance demonstration, rad for short, it seems like a daunting process for us. after all, this was a brand-new process for us. that is why the support of many partners was enlisted. it meant city officials, funders

, community members, and the residents of 25 sanchez itself, and to you, i now offer thanks for the key role you all played in making today a reality please give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] >> it should be noted that when taking a difficult project and putting all the pieces together, such as 25 sanchez, it takes a trusted partner, and/or codeveloper co. developer, bridge housing, has been that trusted partner. thank you bridge. we could not have undertaken this work without such an experienced player in the fields [applause] >> it is interesting to note that the last two mayors of san francisco grew up in public housing. the late mayor ed lee championed the rehabbing of public housing and his beloved san francisco, having grown up in seattle public housing, and our new

mayor, mayor london breed, is furthering that dynamic vision. we are honored she is with us today to cut the ribbon. [applause] >> what was our vision for the r.a.d. properties, it was to create functional, quality homes for senior and disabled residents, welcoming community spaces, and community ownership of those spaces. redefining public housing was our goal, and i'm proud to say that that goal has been met. twenty-five sanchez is just one of five r.a.d. properties we have now successfully rehabbed. all part of the mission castro clustered that totals 349 homes pervert -- preserved for seniors and disabled san franciscans. we sincerely think their residence -- we thank the residents for letting us become part of their lives. your input was vital, and engagement was high, as evidenced by how interactive this building was during our

teatime community meeting when we translated in our multiple different languages and in our many one-on-one conversations. additionally, throughout construction, we learned lessons based on your feedback. during the last three construction phases, you shared with us how we could consolidate our construction and then you worked together to prepare yourself for the changes as neighbors and as roommates. thank you for all that you have done. thank you also for your community input on these beautiful murals, on the plans and the plants in the garden, choosing paint colors, and basically making this warm your home, which it already has been. thank you so much for making yourselves part of this. you epitomize what it means to be a community. you entrusted us as stewards of your longtime home, and that was a true gift. today we rededicate this building which represents the

beginning of a bright future for this community. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to introduce cynthia parker, president and c.e.o. of bridge housing. [applause] >> thank you caroline. we were talking earlier about when we first met, i guess it was almost five years ago, to talk about our partnership and how we might approach the potential of becoming partners and rehabilitating some of the public housing under the r.a.d. program. i'm very pleased to say that it has been a great success, and i thank you for your partnership, and i thank the city also for their incredible dedication to making this happen. this kind of public housing facility, which was originally built in 1972 really, due to a

lack -- lots of factors had fallen behind, and really needed to have someone from the city and the housing authority champion it and say we are going to make a difference, we are going to put money into these projects, we are going to seek out federal funds, we will do what we need to do in order to make this place the kind of home that people believe in, and that will help them succeed in life, and unfortunately, i love that dog. [laughter] >> i wish i had mine here. the kind of home that people have is the type of place that they need to be able to age in place in. this building had fallen behind, and now i think it is significantly better. i think with our partners, and our partners at bank of america who helped finance, we were all able to make incredible improvements to people's lives

and improvements in this community room, and i think that with that, everyone can call this a place that they are proud of, and one they can call home. with that, i just said i would make a few comments on the kind of dedication it takes for this type of rehab of a public housing facility. the city of san francisco is just an incredible safety, and it is supportive housing. i wanted to make a comment about that because we do have a mayor in london breed who is a champion. as with ed to lead, but certainly she is taking that mantle further, and also knows from personal experience how important a home is for someone. with that, i wanted to thank the office of housing, bank of america, our partner, and mayor breed, you really have made a difference in people his' lives, and i know you will continue to do so as mayor. i would like to introduce mayor

london breed today. [applause] >> thank you and good morning. is that morning still? good morning everyone. i am so excited to be here today every time we do a dedication or rededication ceremony in one of our public housing developments where we are rehabbing them all over the city, 3900 units, i get really excited, but i also think about mayor lee because when i first started on the board of supervisors, and he and i sat down and talked about what my priorities would be as a member of the board of supervisors, i made it clear that my top three priorities was public housing. because i lived in public housing, as was stated to, for more than 20 years of my life. we never had a shower, we had a lot of challenges with our bathroom and mould, we had a lot of issues with the plumbing in

general, we had roaches, we had stuff that really, when you have to live like that for so long in your life, you never forget it. it becomes a part of who you are , so when you are in a position where you can change that for someone else who sadly is still living in a really terrible conditions, there is nothing you wouldn't do to fight for the people that you know deserve better, and i am so proud and honored to now be a mayor who is continuing that fight for so many of our residents throughout san francisco who need us to be champions, who need us to focus on changing the lives of people who we know need for us to invest and improve the conditions of many of our public housing developments in our city so that people don't feel as though they are not part of san francisco, because as i said, growing up, i did not always feel like i belonged in san

francisco, or didn't feel like i was part of the city, and i want residents of the city, no matter where you live, to feel like yes , you are part of san francisco, and today's investment is just one step in making sure that the seniors and the folks with disabilities who live in this community can live in place indignity, and know that we are here to support you with the many great services and things that we will continue to do. this community here will not be forgotten. i want to thank so many amazing people who made that possible. starting with bridge and their partner. they really worked with the community and the people who live here to really ensure the residence that we are not trying to displace you, we are trying to work with you to make this community a better one, and i think, again back to my childhood, and when the property that i lived at just over the

hill, 300 units of public housing. we were told they were going to be completely torn down and rebuilt, and only 200 units were being rebuilt, and that clearly meant that some people weren't coming back. it was important to us to make sure that we worked with a partner that would work with the residents to ensure people that the whole point of this is to make sure that you have a place to live and that this place is taken care of and i know this community had a lot of inputs in the rehabilitation process, including developing this amazing community room, which is absolutely incredible, and also double pane windows, which i actually don't have myself. so i am just so happy about the little things that will make a huge difference in the quality of life for the residents here and i want to thank bank of america for your sponsorship and your investment and what we know

has really made a difference. i saw all the work that was happening, and the scaffolding that was up, and even some of the folks who grew up in this neighborhood who worked on this project, it was really a team effort of so many amazing people , amazing city departments , and i'm really grateful to all of you he played a role in helping to not only get this project going, but get it going and moving it in a very fast pace, in comparison to how projects take place in san francisco, we know they can take years, and here we are, not too long ago, we are at a place where this, along with so many other places throughout san francisco, where we are making the investments, making the properties that are, so i want to thank the residents does the residents for their patients, and i'm excited about the future at this location and so many other places in san francisco where we are committed to making

these properties sustainable for years to come. thank you all so much. [applause] >> hey, everybody. i'm the district eight supervisor. welcome to district eight. i did nothing on this project. so it is an absolute delight to be able to land here. i'm sure i will in the future. i have some friends who work here, and live here, but i just want to say how this is such a wonderful occasion, and how grateful i am to be part of it. one of the first jobs i had as a lawyer, two decades ago, was doing a finance project, representing local governments and housing authorities around the bay area. i am painfully familiar with how hard it is, how impossibly complex it is to put together

the various funding sources to make 90 affordable -- to rehabilitate 90 affordable units , and to all the people at bridge and focus with the city and the mayor's office of housing and the housing authority, the investors, the other public partners around this, thank you so much for the hours of phone calls and document review and planning, and looking at spreadsheets, and all the work you did just to get us these 90 units. i do also want to say how pleased i am and grateful on behalf of my district that these 400 plus units are being rehabilitated around district eight, and that there are thousands more around the city. we have received, from the middle of the last century, a precious legacy, which is these units that were given to us for folks who were not going to be able to afford housing on the market, in the first task has been and is to make those units rehabilitated and make sure they are available and that seniors

and disabled folks are getting the best that our next london breed, that our next ed lee is growing up in a decent home, with a shower, and a bathtub that works, that we do not lose the cure for cancer or the solution to global warming that is happening that we might lose if that kid doesn't have a chance. so safeguarding that legacy and rehabilitating those units and bringing them into the 21st century is so important. but we all know that this city is so much less affordable than it was in the 1970s when this building was given to us. so the work of bringing on the tens of thousands of additional units of subsidized housing that we must develop over the next year is critically important, and i'm so happy that i have a mayor who believes in that, who is pressing forward and prioritizing affordable housing, and i know will be relentless along with the rest of us and in looking for additional sources of funds for housing for

middle-class and low income people, who must stay in san francisco if this is to be a healthy, dynamic, diverse city. i am grateful for what everyone has done here, and i'm eager for so much more in my district, and throughout the city. with that, i will introduce barbara smith, the acting executive director of the san francisco housing authority. [applause] >> good morning everyone. so i want to say that we at the housing authority are thrilled that 25 sanchez and other public high-rise buildings could get the improvements they needed to provide and preserve this wonderful housing for our residents. before this, i would get into bed and pray that none of our senior disabled residents in the high-rise buildings would be out without elevator service, or worse yet, be stuck in an elevator. all too often, i would get a call during the night and scramble to get emergency service from our elevator repair

company and send our duty officer take to help residents get to and from there departments and retrieve any essentials that they needed. i know how stressful this situation was for our residents, but with declining federal dollars, the housing authority was not able to do critical elevator and other modernization work at buildings like 25 sanchez. this enormous conversion effort to, over $2.2 billion in financing, for over $750 million of construction improvements required the brilliant dedication and support from an incredible team, beginning with mayor ed lee, and now our new mayor london breed, including the mayor's office of housing and community development, bridge, bank of america, h.u.d., i wish you were here. the federal home loan bank of san francisco, freddie mac

multifamily, our commissioners, our s.f. ha staff who worked very hard with this transition as well, the board of supervisors, the architects, fine line construction and others. thank you to all of you who made this possible for 25 sanchez and our other public housing residents. the results are beautiful, and a special thanks to the 25 sanchez street residents who had faith in the process through temporary relocation, and living in a construction zone. at last, you have decent state housing with community-based management and connection to services. congratulations to all of you. thank you. [applause] and now i would like to introduce liz minnick from bank of america. it certainly couldn't have happened without you. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you so much. i don't know how to make this taller. thank you all for having us today. it is thrilling to be here at 25 sanchez to see the rehabilitation of these 90 units in this beautiful community room , and see the light pouring in from the garden. i will continue to think. thank you again, mayor breed, for your commitment to housing, supervisor mandelman, our amazing partners, you are just really a pleasure with whom to work, and of course, the san francisco's mayor his office of housing and community development. this is found in 115 years ago in 1904 and one of the first things we have the ability to do was, followed the earthquake, help get people back in their homes. housing is of key importance to us, and when the r.a.d. opportunity came to us, we were thrilled to be able to support the $2.2 billion in our level of

financing here. that is the largest project in the united states, absolutely the largest project by far from a bank of america standpoint. we are so pleased to be able to do so in the city in which we are founded. thank you for having us today. congratulations on this amazing amazing space, and all the best part of the program, let me please introduce a resident here who will sing. [applause] >> good morning everybody. good morning neighbors and distinguished guests. is a pleasure to be here this morning. i am a resident of 25 sanchez street and i am also serving on the tenant association during the time of the renovation. it is a pleasure for me to be here today to thank all the partners, mayor breed calculates

mayor ed lee, and also as a resident -- and the former president of the tenant association, i would like to say that the renovation was a very trying at times, but we worked very closely with bridge housing , also the northern california presbytery and housing services, it is also an integral partner in the development. we were very successful, and we collaborated very closely. i am very happy to say that as a resident, and on behalf of my neighbors, i would like to say that it is a pleasure to be living in this wonderful location, we are all grateful that the renovation took place because we now have even more beautiful dwellings and homes, and that is all i would like to say. thank you so much for being here and for the celebration today. thank you. [applause]

>> hi everyone. i had the pleasure of working on this really briefly with a large number -- large team of city staff and a number of you. thank you for serving for so long and listening to all of the gratitude that everyone is expressing. i will have an opportunity to thank a lot of specific people and i on a want for you to hear not just their names, the feel how many people really did come together to make this project happen, to make this building a place where we are. thank you all for their your patients and they are snacks waiting so i promised to go fast first, fine line construction. and then our architect, wayne and melody tam, and tank design group, construction management, bridge housing, a huge team.

and thank you to another few folks. i wanted to thank elaine g. -- elaine heat for starting off the project and others. they all helped the project management and the changes in this building. augustus was also help of purging the neighbors move. the construction manager who works with the bank of america team, mo hcd, and of course, kate hartley for being amazing in helping us through this process. bank of america, we would like to thank you as well for all of

your work in investing and believing in the financing of this building. thank you to our lawyers, and c.h.p. see, the people who helped us with putting together the numbers on this building. from our services team, we want to deeply thank you for helping to make sure that our residents continue to have a strong community. john mcdonald, molly marriner, and cynthia rodriguez. >> she gave me all the challenging parts. this is the rapidfire round of all the vendors that we brought on. i may say them wrong, and you might not have any idea what they're doing, but is a big list good job to the brothers. put my moving. mhc engineering, acg engineering

, tipping structural, rcl communications communications, already hsl, red cloud, watchtower security, and others. last, of course, is our funders, you really came together and helped us figure out the pile of matrixes and paperwork that make this real, the mayor's office of housing, the housing authority, bank of america, a lot of this was mentioned before. merrill lynch, the tax credit allocation committee, freddie mac, enterprise community partners, and the u.s. bank. generally, thank you so much. please enjoy the snacks. we are really happy to have you here. [applause]

>> i think we are going out front to do the ribbon-cutting now. >> here we go. >> five, four, three, two, one chair -- [cheering] [applause] [♪] >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's aelectricitied assessor. today, i want to share with you

a property tax savings programs for families called proposition 58. prop 58 was passed in 1986 and it was helped parents pass on their lower property tax base to their children. so how does this work? under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to 2% growth peryear. but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we reassess properties to market value. if parents want to pass on their home or other property to their children, it would be considered a change in ownership. assuming the market value of your property has gone up, your children, the new owners, would pay taxes starting at that new higher level. that's where prop 58 comes in. prop 58 recognizes the transfer between parents and children so that instead of taxing your children at that new higher level, they get to keep your lower prop 13 value.

remember, prop 58 only applies to transfers between parents and children. here's how the law twines an eligible child. a biological child, a step child, child adopted before the age of 18, and a son-in-law or daughter-in-law. to benefit from this tax saving program, remember, you just have to apply. download the prop 58 form from our website and submit it to our office. now you may ask, is there a cap how much you can pass on. well, first, your principal residence can be excluded. other than that, the total tap of properties that can use this exclusion cannot exceed $1 million. this means for example if you have two other properties, each valued at $500,000, you can exclude both because they both fit under the $1 million cap. now what happens hwhen the totl value you want to pass on exceeds $1 million.

let's say you have four properties. three with current taxable value of $300,000 and one at $200,000, totaling $1.1 million in value. assuming that you decide to pass on properties one, two, and three, we would apply the exclusions on a first come, first served basis. you would deduct properties one, two, and three, and you would still have $100,000 left to pass on. what happens when you pass on the last property? this property, house four, has been existing value of 2 -- has an existing value of $200,000, and its existing property value is actually higher, $700,000. as i said, the value left in your cap is $100,000. when we first figure out your portion, we figure out the portion that can be excluded. we do that by dividing the exclusion value over the assessed value. in this case, it's 50%. this means 50% of the property

will remain at its existing value. meanwhile, the rest will be reassessed at market value. so the new taxable value for this property will be 50% of the existing value, which is 200,000, equaling 100,000, plus the portion reassessed to market value, which is 50% times $700,000, in other words, 350,000, with a total coming out to $450,000. a similar program is also available for prepping transfers fl interest r from grandparents to grandchildren. if you're interested in learning more visit our website or >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at

how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

[roll call] >> clerk: second item is the approval minutes from november 6. >> is there a second? >> so moved. >> any corrections to the minutes? seeing none, all those in favor, aye. opposed? approved. >> clerk: director's report. >> good afternoon. greg wagner, acting director. i will be brief because i know we're anxious to get to the heart of the agenda. as you know, beginning on november 8, there's the -- there were the wildfires in butte county, which had a significant impact on the