many of the things you said when you look drew the drawings seem obvious, but hearing them with your life stories makes them so much more three dplengsadpleng three dimensional. i think the power of what you said can shape this project. i think the testimony, speaking about the 8,000 houses that have been last since 2000, and the 87% of market rate housing which has been built since 2008 sets a clear story of what is really happening. there's not only a deficit of affordable housing, there is a complete and absolute and total loss of affordable housing that meets the deficits that even became apparent when maximus in

2011 presented the parkmerced project. parkmerced is a large affordable housing project which is being destroyed in order to create basically market rate housing. and as i heard, if i am correct, some of those displaced people are now supposed to appear here on-site. that somehow does not add up when you look at it, the numbers don't quite match. i think mr. medina's comments on house prices relative to the affordability prices couldn't be said better. we talk about housing prices and lack of housing every week, however, the distinctive attributes of what type of housing is missing is missing in that discussion. i'd like to speak about myself. i've sat on this planning commission for a number of years, and this commission has

strongly helped shape the -- what's it called? the beast on bryant. it took a long, long time. it took many, many hearings, it took years of push back, and ultimately, the developer saw that there was a way. i do hope that when we take on the maximum -- monster in the mission, the planning commission looking at the eir and the plans as they evolve, that we have an ability to help thap shall project that is a win ---help shape that project that is a win-win for all. i give the mission a lot of credit and credence. the department has done a incredible job, and everybody who's representing the community who's fighting week in and week out.

i still think there can be changes under taken that can benefit all. >> commissioner hillis: first, thank you to mission high school, thank you to the mission high school students that came and testified. thank you for those who we don't typically see at city hall. thank you to plaza 16 for allowing us to be here and hearing your stories. to me, this is a lot more about how we provide affordable housing than one project in this city. it's clear, even though we see affordable housing projects -- housing projects week in and week out, what we're doing as a city is woefully inadequate to provide the housing we need. if if you look now, m.t.a.s budget

is $1.2 billion a year, and we somehow get excited that we're spending 300 million on a bond issuance of affordable housing. i think the voices that are here talking about how we change -- i think san francisco could be a leader. we're creative, we're progressive. we have led, but we need to do a lot more in how much affordable housing we provide. i've said this before, our property taxes are earmarked or we're asking for our property taxes to go for affordable housing, but we really need to think creatively about how we fund affordable housing. the voices here were strong and powerful, and hopefully we can keep that momentum to make those changes. thank you. >> president melgar: i will close it up and say thank you to the community, to mr. guthart, to the staff for having this hearing here.

i think it is incredibly important. i think there's two issues. one how we plan for our future as a community, as a city, how we spend our money. but as to this specific project, i remain skeptical as what was presented to us really doesn't come up to my standards. so i would expect a developer who is coming to this community present something that has been vetted by the mayor's office. i would expect to see plans, i would expect to see a lot more than has been provided. i am skeptical that this would actually happen and remain open to having the community continue to advocate for what the community needs. thank you. and thank you for coming here.

[applause] >> commissioner hillis: thank you.

>> okay. i want all of san francisco to hear us, so louder. >> all right. we want to first off welcome our mayor, the mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. [applause] >> we've got to check this out. >> the hon. london breed: the pressure. [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i am so excited to be the mayor of such an incredible city, where we celebrate our diversity, where we celebrate our culture, where we focus in on really important opportunities to really engage with our families and our communities. lunar new year is that celebration, which really highlights the importance of family, of coming together, of

community, and of celebrating each and every person that is important to our communities and our neighborhoods. and i'm being upstaged by a pig. but happy year of the boar, everybody. here in our city, we will break bread together, we will watch and celebrate the festivities together. there's an incredible market in chinatown where there are flowers can you purchase, goodies that you can purchase chas, and i. i along with many people that you see will be participating. the beautiful floats, the outfits, the excitement, the kids, the costumes.

firecrackers, all of this is an exciting time to celebrate lunar new year in san francisco. i hope you will join us, i hope you will celebrate the year of the boar as one of luck and prosperity and hope for the future. thank you today for being here, everybody. [speaking foreign language] >> wow. a lot of the events in chinatown wouldn't happen without the chinese chamber of commerce. the president, eddie yao. >> i have to say something in chinese today. [speaking chinese language]

>> wow. one-fifth of the world is smiling today. everybody's happy, all around the world. and we have the general council from china here, mr. wong. general council wong, give him a super global hand, yeah! [applause] >> honorable mayor london

breed -- [speaking chinese language] >> -- and to improve the business environment, and i think great progress was made. [inaudible] >> -- equivalent to $13.6 trillion u.s. representing 6.6% year over year. and china's trade with foreign

countries amounted to $12 $12.6 trillion u.s. and china's trade with the u.s. raising $6.25 million u.s., and created by 8.5% with china's exports to u.s. all those figures represent -- i think demonstrate that china's economy has maintained stable and good momentum for developing. and well, the tariffs increased

on china's exports to the united states were counter productive, and that -- that's led to the down sizing of the united states market share in china. that's also told us that there's an urgent need to bring u.s.-china trade relations back to normal sooner rather than later. looking into the new year, i think china and the united states would work together, work together to develop the relationship based on coordination, cooperation, and stablity as outlined by the two presidents cheering on the sideline of the g20. and i think our countries are working very hard now to

implement a consensus. and i would like to work with all of you to materialize the consensus reached by two presidents. both of our countries can benefit more from our cooperation. thank you. happy new year again. [applause] >> wow, council general from china. we're all supposed to be happy. good news, so happy new year, mr. president trump. hope that you will continue to preserve a positive relationship between our countries. yeah. okay. so we've got all of the big shots here, a lot of big shots fr . from the board of supervisors, i was advised that supervisor norman yee would come up and speak, and all the other supervisors would back him up.

come on. >> president yee: [speaking chinese language] >> president yee: happy new year of the pig. >> there you go. aren't they cute? >> president yee: i just want to say this is going to be a great year of celebration starting today, new yes, sar's. many things are coming to make chinatown a place where more people are coming. last year, they opened up the new chinese community centers. this year, we -- for the first time, i've actually seen the children from ctccc that started the first bilingual chinese preschool in chinatown.

so this is going to be a great year for us, and i'm glad that my colleagues are all here to help kick off the new year's, the year of the pig. thank you very much. [applause] >> supervis >> supervisor fewer: [speaking chinese language] >> supervisor fewer: hello, everyone. i'm sandra fewer, the supervisor of district one. i just want to say how happy i am today to join you in the celebration for the lunar new year celebration this year. wishing everyone a lot of prosperity, good luck, good health through 2019. [applause] >> all the way from sacramento -- no, he's really

from san francisco. assembly man david chiu. >> i want to welcome everyone to the heart of san francisco in chinatown on this warm and balmy day. i often in our state capitol brag about the fact that san francisco has the oldest, the moe most historic, and the most significant chinatown in the entire country. we have the best line dancers, the best dragons, and the cutest kids, and the cutest pigs. a this is an amazing chinese community with our wonderful mayor london breed, our president of the board of supervisors, normanier, and board of supervisors, and nonprofits organizations like

ccdc, and on behalf of our state delegation, we want to welcome everyone and wish everyone a happy lunar new year. happy year of the pig. thank you very much. >> we've got the chief here, we have the district attorney. i think he's going to try to speak a little chinese. give it up for diego gascon. let's see if he speaks any chinese. [speaking chinese language] >> this is a special day for me. i come from a family that's very large and very close. i know this time of year in the chinese community is a time of hope, it's a time of community, it's a time of family, and it's a time of looking forward, so i'm very proud to be here with

you today, celebrating. i want to thank the entire chamber, entire city family for being here today, and again, happy new year, and happy year of the pig. [applause] >> my favorite blessing is the one that says may your dreams come true, so we're going to yell out, right? okay. help me lead it. her chinese is better than me. go ahead. >> okay. norman wants us to say -- [speaking chinese language] >> one more time, one more time. >> one more time. [speaking chinese language] >> hello, everyone. my name is carmen chu, and i serve as san francisco's assessor, and i want to wish

everyone a happy lunar new year and year to come. [speaking chinese language] [applause] >> okay. i want to acknowledge a lot of people, and thank you for not speaking today, okay? it's coal. commissioner allen low, standup. city administrator naomi kelly. we have all the supervisors, we've already mentioned them. there's some big shots that keep this park clean, and our alleyways. one of my favorites, mohamed, is over there to may right. yeah, you know it. chief william scott, we'll give you a chinese break today. council member stevens couldn't make it today. do you want to say something for him? >> i just want today say dr. stevens couldn't make it, but

we have over 100 communities being represented, coming down to the parade and looking at the fine art. >> and there are a lot of other big shots here, but we don't have time. but i hear the mayor has a proclamation or certificates or something? can we do them all at once? okay. you got them? [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, reverend fong. and before i issue the certificate, i just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the new member of the board of education, jennie lam, and just add that the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for so many years continues to not only promote and support businesses in our

chinese community, they have led the efforts to make lunar new year here in san francisco one of the best lunar new years anywhere and especially because of their commitment to basically hosting and pulling together one of the -- putting together one of the best parades anywhere. so on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i'd like to present the president of the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce, eddy ao honoring him with his commitment and his work in making this parade even better, and the best is yet to come. thank you. [applause] >> before the dragon comes out, all you big shots right front and center so we can take a group picture. sorry i didn't get to mention

everybody, malcolm, you know, everybody's here, captain yip and everyone, we're going to take a big picture right in front here. the mayor just volunteered to hold the pig. [laughter]

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there.

so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the

area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like.

i'm senior project manager from affordable housing development. [applause] we like to start tonight with a long-held tradition of blessing of this land by pop

[indiscernible] plaza draw your attention to the powerful ceremony. ♪

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[applause] on behalf our group, we wanted to say thank you. it's an honor to have the

opportunity for us to give this small ceremony. we humbly are here offering these dances in honor of our elements of mother earth, wint and fire most importantly honoring our community. before we end, one of the things we wanted to really convey to you all, in building community is keeping the strong heart. i thank you from our elders, we are homegrown group from san francisco. we're here, very happy to be able send off to see them grow and develop all the beautiful people and agencies. thank you very much. in honor of our ancestors from

mexico i wanted to say thank you before we end. please do not take pictures. ♪

now this is in honor of men and women and our elders, those who have passed on and our children. we'll be facing the east in honor of the men. we are joined in a circle of community for love. ♪

>> i want to thank our partner, chinatown c.b.c., norman, thank you. chinatown has share their expertise in this field throughout the process and through their actions have shown us what partnership looks like. so thank you. i also want to thank senior officials for their support and their ongoing hard work to make this project happen. then, there's the mission community who fought for this site. you took the leap of faith and trusted this team as stewards of creating your long-time home to get to know each of you during the community meetings we

sponsored. your feedback translate translaa beautifully designe designed --k you. it's just one piece of multiprong strategy for affordable housing in this neighborhood. we now have over 1200 units of preserved and pipeline housing coming up. 1200 units in 4.5 years. however, we recognize that the housing crises in san francisco remains. we're only at the beginning of in journey and our path to address the housing crises. together we must create more new units so displaced residents can return to their home.

more acquisitions of apartment buildings to keep families in place, more affordable houses a provide vital services to the mission, san francisco and beyond. more commercial affordable spaces for family serving distances. this must be done together, residents, must continue to fight the fight for what you need. community groups must continue to stand up and with alongside our community, investors must continue to finance projects that keep in place rather than displace. public officials must continue to push the limits of what can be done, given the limited resources available. i want to offer two last sets of thanks. first i want to thank the mayor's office and in particular, the san francisco mayor's office housing and community development, for trusting us taking this important development.

we know you're working hard to deliver projects like this one and trying to address the needs while managing expectations and resources. thank you, kate. lastly, i want to recognize karen lee fang. we know how talented you are, how much you have achieved in such a little time and how you daily push yourself beyond your limits to meet the missions. thank you. >> we all know the mission of transition. we see the change all around us. for our future residents, it's here to stabilize their rivals.

life is also about transitions and when we looked at what our vision was going to be, it was to stabilize those transitions. transition of toddlers, transitioning to pre-k, young ones going to their new grades, first generation high schoolers, helping our families succeed and our children to achieve. this is about keeping the promise. we're so excited that we're going to have 127 homes folsom. to provide a full resources for our families. so they don't i have to worry about this transition. we're so excited.

with all of these folks there's advocacy involved to make this happen. we want to thank our city officials, funders, stakeholders, partners and community members we're celebrating today because all of us were part of fighting for folsom to be part of the city affordable housing. i want to thank our funders. san francisco mayor's office of housing and community development. u.s. bank for believing in us in construction financing and equity investment, california tax credit allocation committee and strategic growth counsel. we're using cap and trade dollars that will fund this development and bearing for permanent fitnessing. i like to introduce mayor breeder for her continued

support for affordable housing. >> mayor breed: thank you. i'm really excited to be here today. this is a long time coming. i know that the mission community has tried to push for more affordable housing and it's taken years to get to a point where we're going to build 127 units on this site and we know that there are six affordable housing projects in the pipeline. today, in my state of the city address, i talked about taking a charter amendment to the ballot. sonjso we can do projects liking this faster. it shouldn't take years to gets a project that is 100% affordable housing done anywhere in the city. people need housing now and this will give us an opportunity to make sure that it doesn't take years reverend fong. i know you're ready to build it. i they're ready to be incredible

community partners so that we have more housing in this particular community. more importantly, when we buildabuilding a housing, 40% be of the work we did years ago to pass neighborhood preference legislation. 40% of the units built in any affordable housing built in this community will go to the residents of this community first. that is significant. now supervisor ronan won't get all those compliments from her residents about folks who may not have access. we're going to make sure that the resources are provided so that the residents are submitting applications for the affordable housing that's built in your community. i'm so indicated. i'm always excited when there's

an opportunity to break ground on a new project, especially because incredible partnerships that exist. we know there's more work to be done. not just with building new housing but preserving the existing affordable housing stock. we will continue to invest in our small size acquisition program so that we can acquire building and keep people housed and keep those buildings permanently affordable. we will continue to do all we can to coordinate with this community, to obtain more site and to make sure that we're investing in more affordable housing. the city is not done the best job of building housing period. we can do better. we are do better. we are do a better job of nation thesinmaking these right invest. working together, i know there's nothing we won't be able to do in our city. some of you may also have heard about the $300 million

affordable housing bond that we are going to bring to the ballot soon. the goal is to make sure that when we need support for projects like this, they don't have to wait years. they don't have to wait too long. we are going to get some things done in san francisco and this project, as we all know, which is taken long time, it's going to be completed and going to be an incredible addition to this community, we want to make sure that we continue in this direction and same spirit and that the housing that's built in the mission is for the residents of the mission. thank you all so much for having me here today. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. when meta to take affordable housing crises in the mission we needed to partner with an expert in the field.

teaming up with chinatown cdc was a right choice. i like to invite executive director reverend norman fong to the podium. >> i'm supposed to thank everybody, she already did it. i'm supposed to introduce the mayor, she already did it. we're going to do it together now. people blessing, just repeat after me. we want to bless this project. you can yell, all right. peace! wall ping! justice! love, peace, justice and love.

it's an honor from chinatown to the mission, working together like this and there's so much love and advocacy that put us together. i love it. we're going to do the shovel thing now. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! >> give me something here. >> i want to say congratulations. this is amazing. we are so excited. >> thank you supervisor ronan. i'm going to hand it over to

preston. >> we're going to continue on with the program folks. preston here again with chinatown. it's an honor and so grateful to be standing in front of you guys today representing this wonderful partnership. i joined the project last fall. i've been getting more and more excited about the work we're doing here. we're not only building a construction, 127 units of new affordable housing, we're also able to permanently preserve three nonprofit tenants here in the mission. good samaritan family resource centre and mission graduates. i like to introduce marilyn to the stage.

>> please come up to support me. i'll start while they make their way up here. it is really an honor to be at the groundbreaking of a development that was birthed from vision and people power solution.

knowing we've been working on this site for more than 10 years prove this was no small feat. to thank the ancestors for taking care of this land and the creek below us. this particular victory is an example of the power of organizing, conviction and the success of demanding for more affordable housing. landlords won't stop evicting outrageously raising prices because greed knows no bound. it tiptoes quietly in the background while the rest of us are left to fight for crumbs to live in tha this city. take a moment to think of of

loved one, neighbor, friend, acquaintance that have been displaced or lived in fear on a daily base. gentrification kills. there's stories into the spirit of this space about two men targeted by gentrification. the market is not here to build community, it's it destroys and breaks spirit. my friend was killed because of gentrification by the tools that makes gentrification possible and police brutality. they should be here today. when i see their names