from florida, and my first years here were extremely rough. i was faced with a decision of having to stay here, take brett out of trash cans, or end up back in florida where i had no chance to live authentic life. i know that the transgender struggle is moment by moment of obstacles, trying to find a job, trying to not to be hurt or harmed, murdered, just constant discrimination, and what i want with this project as we can offer transgender people a place to rest, a place to lay their head, to feel safe, because in the rest of the world, a lot of trans people don't get that. our brothers and sisters are out there starving and really just trying to live their lives, so with your help, we can make a difference for these people who are constantly facing struggles. i invite you to pleas look into this program and encourager community members to take parts because this'll make a big

difference for our community. thank you so much for your time. [applause]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am donna persona, and i am here representing open house, which is a housing facility for lgbtq seniors, and i'm happy to say that they have embraced the transgender community and they are being educated in how to facilitate and treat transgender and provide the needs that they want and have to have. i want to say, on a personal level, that as a transgender

woman who is a senior citizen here in san francisco, i am a law-abiding citizen, a college-educated human being, a former business owner, and i myself, in this city, have experienced trauma here in san francisco. i was arrested a year ago, and i was merely assaulted two weeks ago. i believe that it is because i present as transgender. i'm here to tell you that i believe we are the most marginalized and are in danger, so i think that the organization put in place like the navigation centers and the shelters, they all across the board need to be

more educated and trained to treat the transgender community, and i will also ask you to provide the services that shane mentions. >> thank you. [applause]. [indiscernible]. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you so much for your comments. i'm going to read five more speaker card names. if you hear your name, please step in line. [reading names] >> good day. i am from columbia. i want to tell you that now i

don't speak english very good but i try. i have three years around all the country. i lived in new york, i lived in los angeles, i lived in santa clarita, now i chose to live here in san francisco because the people is more open mind, is more gentlemen, is beautiful city. i have to live in different place in the last year because i don't have one home. i have my things in my car, i have my live for all san francisco. i have my living room which is -- [speaking spanish]

-- is my place when i go to take rest. we are loving this place in this moment. other place is -- [indiscernible] -- i live all around the city, in the libraries, in the streets , in everything. i thank you can make a difference. help us to find a good home. one home is more than one roof over your head. it is one place where you can feel safe, where you can feel happy, one home --

>> thank you, thank you so much. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm with the housing rights committee. i've also been a long time housing advocates. i help set up three temporary shelters for queer youth in the castro, as well as a permanent adult shelter for the lgbtq community and also marti's place which is a co-op for low income and formerly homeless people with aids. i have a lot of experience in doing housing work. i have to say, that without statistics and data, we don't know the impact of this housing crisis on the lgbt community. we don't know the impact on lgbt tenants, on our neighborhoods, on displacement, on gentrification of our neighborhoods. we don't know the needs of our community in terms of affordable housing, which is something basic that we should know. of course, anecdotally, i know

that what we really need in our communities 0-30% of a.m.i. housing at that level which is not being built by the city and there is nothing in the pipeline as far as i know at that level. what is being built and upper market, giving the b.m.r. is not affordable by members of our community. what are the needs of lgbt tenants? my organization does collect data. we do ask people if they're lgbt when they come in, but not of a lot of organizations do. how culturally sensitive are the housing services? for instance, the shelters are not safe for lgbt folks. we knew that ten years ago but nothing has changed. why has nothing changed? contrary to popular perception, we have a tremendous amount of poverty in our community. studies show that. we have to do something, and we have to do it now because literally our lives depend on this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, board of supervisors. mightiness -- my name is serenity and i'm supporting transgender justice projects. i am here to support our trans home s.f. coalition. i was going to read a paper but everybody else has read it, but i will not be a repeat, but i have been faced with homelessness, going to shelters being discriminated against because of the way i like to dress, the way that i lift my lifestyle here in san francisco. i believe that homelessness has affected all of our communities, but mainly the transgender community. also, i've survived sexual harassment, i've survived prison , and a lot of things due to being homeless. i've been in san francisco for the past six years, and during these six years, i was formerly and cost -- incarcerated, but i got out and i got a job.

i found housing, i'm living life , but for some strange reason, i am still seeing our transgender growth and family outside are still sleeping and not being helped for and not being cared for. this plenty of houses and places that are open and recovery places, but there's nonspecifically for us, and i feel like people just tried to erase it and not trying to help us is not going to make us go anywhere. we just like everybody else. we are here and we will fight for it. i will appreciate it if you guys can please help the transgender and the lgbtq community with everything. thank you very much. [applause]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am here representing two gip jp which is a nonprofit agency that looks to stabilize and support trans women,

specifically trans women of color. i'm also here to say, no, we will not be forest to be last. this meeting is indicated -- indicative of how we are treated we are forced to be last. we are forced to go unheard, which translates that we do not have needs, but we -- or that our needs don't matter, but we have very specific needs, and those needs translate to provide rental subsidies, to prevent -- per -- protect these individuals at risk of losing their housing or to secure new housing that is conducive to the needs of trans women and more specific, black trans women. increased safety and existing housing and shelter programs are comprehensive organizational development programs that are sensitive to the needs of trans women and specifically of color.

establish dedicated housing programs to address service navigation emergency housing and long-term housing stability that are sensitive to the needs of trans women and more specifically, women of color. before i say thank you, i have a young sister that is homeless. she lives in a tent. instead of helping her, you criminalize her. she has to go to court for trespassing issues. you do not stabilize by criminalizing those who are subjugated or relegated to substandard conditions. please support this community that is present, that you often times pushed to the back and try to wait until the end. we are here. i don't get restless. i am a fighter and the voice for a community of women who go on house. thank you. >> thank you. [cheers and applause]. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm here because i am

homeless right now, so i'm actually living through this. i have been to hotel to hotel, discriminated, lied on, put out within ten minutes and all my belongings, and everything standing outside on the street. it is very embarrassing and it is not comfortable at all pick i just recently got a job and i can't even get to work on time. i can't -- if i don't have stability, it is hard for me to go on with my life or be successful. it is really hard. i do have a lot of support from people, but just having a place to sleep at night and laying my head somewhere together my thoughts in my mind, because everything -- every day something new, it is a different challenge every day. just to be able to go to a home or somewhere where i could shelter gather my thoughts and make sure i am doing what i need to do in my life to better myself, i would really appreciate it from my heart if you guys would please, please,

help us out. thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause]. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i have -- i am. [speaking spanish] -- i want to talk about -- [indiscernible]. >> reality it does not. i was working in a drafting center as a bsa. it is not a safe place. i have been hearing from clients that it is not a safe place. is the only shelter that we haven't san francisco and it is a shame we only have one place for lgbt community which is not safe. we don't want more shelters, we want homes, we want permanent homes. i think our transgender community and lgbt community deserve homes. a lot of the transgender have h.i.v., which is very difficult for them to take their

medication, but they have to go to different clinics to do it because they don't have a home. a lot of transgender going through their transition, but they can't do the surgeries because they don't have a home. they have to have a home. i think we need help, we need a home, we need affordable homes, we need housing. there's a lot of transgender girls outside to live on the streets, they don't have a place to live. we need to help. they say, well why don't they work? we don't have a place where we can live. a lot of jobs want higher s. because we are homeless. we ask you to help us. we need to help, especially -- if you guys want to know more, i was in charge of it. it is very tough, very, very tough to get on the 90 days waiting list. there's literally about two months to wait before you get -- there's a lot of people who want to go there, and a lot of people go there and they're not even lgbt. how do i know?

because i was working there. please, we need to help. we don't want shelters, we want homes, we want affordable homes. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to read some additional speaker cards. if you hear your name, please get in line. [reading names] next speaker. >> hello, the name is thomas, and my journey here in san francisco started about two years ago where i couldn't find housing in my current county. i got here, no friends, no family, no help and on top of that, besides identifying myself as gay, i am also legally blind, therefore, i was homeless. as i put it, the hoop jumping

that i have to go through in order to get sufficient housing took almost a year and a half, during the time, i did spend a bit of time and i can say besides being belittled, shamed, and treated as if i was in a concentration camp, food poisoned, those were just some of the bonuses. and constant illness in the facilities this is not a safe environment you need to step up to the play and stop dribbling the ball to be taking place here in the city. i am currently housed two blocks

away in a b.m.r., but without services for the b.m.r., and section eight, i would still be homeless, and of course, without the assistance of all the agencies that i got information from. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> so what is around my work is to help provide housing, and collect data on trans people who are accessing housing services. so i have witnessed, i've supported, and i've also experienced accessing housing

services, and the experiences that i have heard of, and experienced personally is basically around inadequacy and providing services to trans people. doing this work, one thing i've noticed is that one way that we can ensure that there isn't -- that we have -- that it is less likely for us to have mishaps, is that the housing services that we do have, what kind of need to fit those services, as well as provide trainings and constantly evaluate those services. of course, i went out and try to find housing services that were adequate for me, however some of us aren't on top of the everyday experience of being just -- just trying to survive in the bay area, trans people are also faced with mental health issues.

we are also living with h.i.v., we are also -- we have so many barriers. in order for us to actually make the services more accessible to us, one good way of doing that is the evaluation process, the trainings, as well as providing rental subsidies to trans people , and making sure we are actually accessing those services. and those housing organizations, they're not really hiring ass, and therefore, we are probably not on their priority. >> thank you. [applause]. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the director of programs that open house. we are the only organization in san francisco whose mission is dedicated to serving and supporting lgbtq older folks in our community. lgbtq seniors comprise about 12% of the senior population in the city. open house serves 2500 of those seniors every year.

lgbtq organizations are supposed to serve everyone, but unfortunately, as evidenced in the dignity found equity analysis, not every general organization serves our community. lgbtq seniors are two to three times less likely to access services as compared to street seniors, and we need to look for more work for seniors accessing services. they had a contract with the sitting county to provide training for providers, so we are very pleased to see that they have been most successful in collecting sogi data. the more we know about every lgbtq older folks, the better. we want to encourage the city to hold our contractor providers accountable to collecting this data, because data tells us where we should put our resources, and we know that lgbtq seniors and our transit

seniors especially are not accessing services that they deserve to access, especially transit seniors who sparked a revolution in our city, and they deserve to live with dignity and respect in a safe and affordable house. we wholeheartedly support the our home -- i would trans home s.f. we look forward to partnering with our home s.f. as well as the city to continue to do this important work. [applause]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i work at the q. foundation. just observations of what i see, is that all the departments, when they came up, they admitted they did not have all the data, they hit it with a bunch of bar graphs of confusing information. here that they actually expect the data to be better than what it is without having any

evidence, and are already a year behind and getting this data. so what i see is that, like, i want to request that the difference in the department his not take it as an attack on them , and that this is not a chore, and it should be a priority because if it is not a priority for each departments, then it just says that? are people and trans people don't matter as much. and also, i want to say cherry picking a few organizations, i appreciate that they exist, that but that doesn't mean that the underlying issue isn't there. but hearing a lot of reasoning was, oh, they speak cantonese. i am muslim, i speak arabic, i'm from a different country as well as from this country, i am queer

, that is all possible, so there are queer people of all ethnicities. if you are just -- if you're not trying to get that information, you will never know. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you, board of supervisors and esteemed colleagues. my name is martin, i'm here representing myself, several organizations of my network, and also the trans community. i'm supporting our transit homes s.f. and hoping for rental subsidies, increases in the inclusion, a safety, and establishing dedicated housing programs. i will tell you a little bit about my story. when i moved here in the mid- 1990s, almost immediately,

my landlord found out i was trans, and i was locked out of my apartment. i was told i couldn't come back. i was able to come back once to get my stuff, and then i was couch surfing for a very, very long time, looking for someplace that i could actually afford to rent and also be part of, and luckily i had my transgender community behind me, helping out , giving the places to sleep and really working to help me find my place. it is over 20 years later and we are still doing this, we are still looking for data. i know data-driven stuff is wonderful, but he really needs to happen, and excuses like we need to train people, it needs to happen, and there are no more excuses left.

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause]. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is seth. thank you for having this hearing. i represent myself as a community member, and i work with the department of behavioral health in the office with transgender initiatives. there are a number of nationwide surveys that have state breakouts with statistics on housing, discrimination, violence, and inequitable opportunities for trans people at large. as a member of the transgender community, it is really important to me as a stand in my privilege to speak on behalf of those who do not have the privilege that i have. i have been able to attain higher education, i have been able to attain housing, and even in my own experiences of being evicted from apartments that i was renting, and still being able to find more housing, i know my trans brothers and sisters don't have this opportunity. some statistics. in the state -- in the sitting county of san francisco were nearly all 30% of homeless

identifies as lgbtq, unless -- and closer to 50% are less than 25. when we look at the survey that came out in 2015, similar proportions the people were homeless. 30% of homeless -- trans people were homeless in their lives. nearly a quarter experience housing discrimination which asked -- included eviction and denied housing. eleven% were homeless, it in the last year because of being trans , and a quarter of those homeless in the past year avoided shelters because of fears of mistreatment. as you have heard from a number of people here already, the mistreatment in the shelters are really, really, really a serious problem, and the housing crisis in san francisco is equally a crisis. it is a constitutional crisis. as a leader of lgbtq rights and community here in the state of california, we have a responsibility to stand up for this population.

please provide rental subsidies to support trans individuals at risk of losing their housing and increase trans inclusion in safety in the shelters and existing housing programs. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause]. >> thank you. my name is rebecca and i'm with the san francisco lgbt center. i want to thank supervisor mount lemmon and his cosponsor for the opportunity to look at sexual orientation and gender identity information in the city and county. there's very little information about our community. what information we have shows their significant discrimination in almost any category you choose to select, and what we are beginning to learn from the city is the city is not adequately serving our community i want to -- there's been a lot of great speaking so far, i'm not going to repeat what folks have said but i have a couple of suggestions and a couple of asks for what we need. one is to continue collecting the data. we need to understand what the needs are in the community and understand how city services of

meeting those needs. i want to suggest that that data be disaggregated. we talked about the diversity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. i can tell you right now that those communities are not served equally and i think we need to understand that and understand issues like race and immigration status and how those things impact the services that folks receive. i want to really put out a strong statement of support for our trans home, and for the transgender ask. i think clearly we are not serving the transgender community in our city. i want to really support the approach on having an equity plan. i think it is important for us not to just understand the data, but really understand how equity is happening in the city and who is getting saved, and how well we are getting served. i want to talk about accountability and action. too often we hear, i myself have heard, why do we need specific program when we have general

programs? clearly general programs are not serving the lgbtq community, and we need an action plan that holds the city accountable. we say we are the city who has conquered these phobias and i want to see that an action. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is luna. i'm a service provider within san francisco charge at trans community. i have held a number of positions, but i wanted to talk today in favor of san francisco being able to take this step in supporting transpacific housing -- trans- specific housing. for years, i was a case manager in 850 bryant for the incarcerated trans women and gender nonconforming individuals in my experience of working with incarcerated trans individuals,

the rate of trans women in jail who have been homeless within six months of them being in jail was 100%, literally every trans women and gender nonconforming individual that i worked with prior to being incarcerated experienced homelessness in the city. i think that we need to look at the ways in which these issues are intersecting. the city was wonderful enough to fund our reentry efforts for trans individuals, and i want to say that as a part of that, i really important complement to this effort is to be able to put trans women, trans people in general in housing so that they don't continue this cycle of feeling like they need to do other things to survive out of desperation. i would ask that the city continues to support our community and continues to step in in this crisis and address

trans homelessness here, because it is a dire, dire issue for our community and for the safety, well-being of trans people. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, and thank you for having me here. my name is jm and i'm here representing the trans advisory committee for the oci as well as merchant health services primary care clinic in san francisco. we have over 60 5% of our patient population identifies as transgender nonconforming, and i'm here to support our trans home s.f. as well. i'm sure you all understand the housing first model of healthcare. what we've seen from the preliminary data presented today around sogi is that queer and trans people are much more likely to engage in programs that are specifically targeted towards our population, and the reason for that is that over 70%

of trans people actually report that they are harassed, assaulted, kicked out of shelters that are just geared towards a general population, so that's why we really need to have something specific to our community. we know that when trans people are housed, they're more likely to be able to obtain and maintain employment, that is less likely to engage in survival sex work and drug trade , less likely to be incarcerated, less likely to have harassment and violence enacted against them and become a statistic when it comes to being a victim of homicide and crimes against us. especially trans women of color, specifically black trans women. they're much more highly impacted than any other sector of our community. once we have a stable home, we know that our health disparities will be addressed as well. were much less likely to contract h.i.v., become addicts,

attempt suicide, all those different things. we also know that accessing gender forming surgeries has come leaps and bounds over the past decade in san francisco, with that still remains inaccessible to people who are homeless, and that is actually unequal care. our homeless population -- >> thank you. if there's anyone else from the public would like to speak on this item, please feel free to get in line. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jordan davis, speaking for myself. for identification purposes only , i serve as one of the tenant reps on the single tenant occupancy time force. i support the ask, and of course, which is providing rental subsidy, supported individuals at risk of losing their housing, increase trans and gender nonconforming inclusion and safety, and establishing dedicated housing programs. let me tell you about my

personal story. i came here late 2014, homeless. i almost lost an eye on the street due to trans folks basically punched me at 3:00 a.m. i got into the first navigation center and it wasn't all roses because i had to deal with sexual harassment from a fellow bangui, and of course, i got into a t.h.c. building, but there was a lot of problems, too , and this really goes to a lot of what i talk about. first i had to deal with someone who posted no fat gets or chinese on their door, and it was very freaking jarring, and there is no cultural competency among the staffers. another thing i've had to deal with is common restrooms being engendered even though they were single occupancy, which led to me actually having to get legislation out, but i was proud of that, and that was one of my proud moments, but that isn't

enough. and to add more, if you are actually trans and you are seeking surgery, you actually need to not only be housed, but you also have to have a private bathroom, because of surgery aftercare needs and that is why i support this type of program because i will say this is a tenant rep on the task force, is that we don't do well in s.r.o.s and it will not be conducive to our health needs. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. disabled, queer, transgender male speaking for myself. i came to san francisco from texas, seeking mental health services and transgender services. i spent a year homeless, and i tried to access the shelters, ended up staying about two weeks in the shelters, but when i got there, the staff, i was bullied

the actual social staff for being transgender, and then while i was there, i was molested twice by other people staying in the shelter. i gave up on the shelters, spent about a year homeless in san francisco, finally got into an s.r.o., which was wonderful, way better than being homeless, but s.r.o.s -- i want to echo we need the private bathrooms. we had a share back to shared bathroom. i was followed into the bathroom by the janitorial staff and he attempted to assault me there, too. i was living in a very trans phobic neighborhood and was stabbed. i was a centimetre -- i'm alive because the knife missed me by a centimetre, you missed my brainstem by centimetre. i finally -- it has been about -- it has been a ten year journey, and i just finally got my own private bathroom. i have been going through surgeries and all sorts of stuff

, and it's dangerous for us to have our own private bathroom and dangerous to not have safe housing for us to live in, not just for our transitions, but also for our daily lives, because it is not a matter of if we are going to be assaulted, if we are going to be a harassed, but it is more, how many times does it happen to each of us? >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm just representing -- 92.5 %, i'm working on older statistics, please correct me if i am wrong. we think about children and think it's important to create stable environments for them, with 30% of homeless people lgbt pick that suggest they they're not found mason's we do not produce children, we do not pay off with intentions to do so but in rare cases. perhaps there are some lgbt people that count as families, and i believe that is a crucial

statistic to survey. i believe we can suppose family funding is not in effect. so why don't we get 35% of the funding if we are 35% of the homeless population? if the supposition is correct, then 92-point 5% of the homeless prevention and housing many goes towards families than it is fair to say the city is guilty of institutional discrimination. it happens -- the unique cultures in the bay area are something to preserve. we need the funding for the three cultural districts that are specifically for the acquisition of property. property acquisition is the only solution i know that we can hypothecate onto resist the violent kind of gentrification, that reduces displacement, homelessness and cultural erasure. if we have property, we can have memberships -- this will allow us to maintain sanctuaries that would in turn help preserve to better our communities addressing homelessness and

inequity. [indiscernible]. >> any solution to the problem of lgbt housing that does not support the acquisition of property does not build equity for the property. [indiscernible] these are good solutions to protect properly -- people from becoming homeless. there are ten prefixes to put money in the hands of whoever owns the property and they do not build a community. i think we should be real when it comes to funding. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i serve on the youth commission as a district eight representative. how much longer do we need to wait for transpacific housing services? everybody deserves a home. how can we live our best authentic selves when we don't have a safe place to sleep at night. san francisco needs to put money where its values are in support

the teachings. i urge you all to support our coalition. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is austin. i am a member of the a.p.i. equality in northern california. we support our trance home s.f. coalition and their campaign ask today is the national out giving day for lgbtq organizations, every day is giving back to our community. rent subsidies are showing us through your caring and gofundme that is a problem. when every paycheque goes to a community member who is disabled and possibly living in a home

full of malt, that is a problem. so with our trans home s.f., we are creating the solutions so you all can better take care of the needs of san francisco trans folks. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i just wanted to highlight briefly something that scott weiner said at the beginning that when you do this type of ordinance, it is not enough to get the votes to get it past. you have to follow up. so i think that is completely true, and i was sort of surprised by the general feeling of the department presentations were they said, well, we're not quite there, were not quite compliant, we are working on this computer system, but we will get there and get back to next year and do a little better i just sort of wonder, like, is there a point soon where the attitude from the board of supervisors will switch from okay, we're glad you're working on it, keep going, to, hey, you are not complying. this is the law now, how will we make this happen? because this data is important, not because of the data itself,

but because it is going to drive change and drive us to fix all the problems that everybody has been talking about. i guess that is my question. when is this going to switch from an informational thing to, okay, we will hold you accountable, we need to fix this , we need to have this data. if it doesn't look good, that obviously me to fix that, too. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is monique, i have been an activist for 42 years. i live in district eight. i'm on the task force for the commission of aging and adult services. i do support our trans home, but i'm here for open house, open house has been wonderful for me, and it got me out of isolation, and loneliness, and it is nice

to be an organization where they cater to the lgbtq i., i like to include intersex, because they understand, i don't have to keep this thing myself. i was homeless not very long ago , and it was the foundation helping me and i would still be homeless. i was in domestic violence, i went to a shelter, because i was too masculine, the women did not want me around, and then they didn't -- i didn't feel safe being among men, so i was living on the street for a long time. if it wasn't for the help of my friends who make sure that i have a place to sleep at night, and then i was let into my apartment. the cue foundation has helped me a lot, and a lot of

organizations that are specifically for lgbt such as open house. i'm grateful for open house because i have a place to go where i can be myself. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public wishing to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i wanted to thank all the community members for coming out and sharing your experiences and your perspectives on the really urgent, unmet needs for the lgbtq i. community and especially the trans community. thank you so much. supervisor mandelman? >> i will be brief. i want to thank the departments for the presentations today, and for moving forward on this mandate. this is actually a legally required mandate and we said we are supposed to be -- everyone is submitting reports back in 2018, so we are a little bit

catching up, but i definitely want to appreciate the office of transgender initiatives for taking this on and playing a coordinating role in getting all of the departments moving on this. thank you for that. in particular, i want to thank the amazing nonprofits and community advocates who have come out today and made their voices heard, particularly our trans home s.f. for your comments today. i think the path forward here is another report. it will come out after this fiscal year, and i imagine that in 6-8 months we will be back for an update on what we learn from that report, and where we are and how the data has improved, and what more information we have, and then in terms of the particular, some of the particular issues that have been raised today, we had a

hearing yesterday at budget around homelessness and affordable housing, and in some ways, this is a nice complement to that because it really highlights and underscores that for particular parts, particular communities and particularly trans folks, if we are not providing support on the path out of homelessness, and then particularly -- particular housing that is appropriate, that we will not be meeting the needs of those folks. i think that is the ask from our trans home s.f., and i think, i'm hopeful that the mayor and the board will be grappling with that in coming up with something productive in the next couple of months. thanks, everyone. my request for this hearing is that it would be filed. >> thank you. supervisor mandelman, colleagues , are there any other comments or questions? great. can be filed this item without

objection? thank you. i wanted to note for the record that we are joined by supervisor fewer replacing supervisor peskin as a voting member of the committee per memo from board president yee. thank you, supervisor fewer. mr. clark, please call item number 4. >> agenda item number 4 is an organism ending the building code to waive specified fees for 100% affordable housing projects and accessory dwelling unit projects were in approximately one year pilot program, and affirming the appropriate findings. >> thank you. supervisor brown? >> thank you. this legislation before you today is a new one, a one-year pilot to waive dvi, department of building inspection fees for 100% affordable housing and accessory dwelling units projects. the specific fees to be waived are building inspection fees excluding electrical and

plumbing fees, plan review fees, records retention fees and site surcharge fees. this legislation gives renters more housing and more choices. we know we need for housing choices, especially more affordable housing, giving folks more choices who live and work in our city makes it easier for them to stay in our city and district. i personally don't want people in my district to have to move out of my district or the city defined appropriate housing. we need this for working people, for people getting back on their feet, for young people just starting out, for our going families, our multiple generation families, and for our seniors who maybe ready to downsize, but want to stay in their neighborhoods close to family and friends. 100% affordable housing projects

are absolutely essential to ensure san francisco remains a city of san franciscans of all incomes, not just the rich. by lowering costs and streamlining the process, this legislation supports the construction of these important projects. they are simple, creative, and cost-effective solutions for expanding our housing supply, especially for studios and one bedrooms that are more affordable by design. a.d. use have been found to be good matches for the housing units -- housing needs and preferences for single households, which make up a significant and growing percentage of all san francisco households. nearly 40% today, and an even higher percentage of households in my district, district five that are san franciscans of all ages. we hope and expect the fee waived well make a real difference for small property owners who typically personally financed the cost of a.d.u.

construction. we are asking them to help us build the housing we need in san francisco. according to d.b.i., for a typical a.d.u. project, the average dollar value of these fees is 3,200. that is not a lot of money to a developer, but it can be significant for every day san francisco homeowners. for affordable housing projects, fee average -- fees average around hundred 50,000 for new construction and 15,000 for small site and small observation projects. this pilot will limit the overall effects of the legislation and will allow us to better assess the impacts of the fee waiver program, including increases in a.d. use and affordable housing construction and the actual revenue reduction of dvi. i'm excited about unlocking this potential and looking forward to continuing work with supervisor mar and all of my colleagues on

the board and city department staff to encourage more housing to help build new affordable housing. and the department of building inspection i think is still here if you have any questions. >> thank you supervisor brown. does dvi -- do you want to speak to this legislation? >> i only have a question -- only if there's a question, i'm happy to respond. >> thanks for being here. i don't have a question but i want to make a comment. thank you so much to supervisor brown for you and your staff on your leadership on this legislation. i'm really glad to cosponsor it, and as a legislation currently standing, i do fully support the fee waiver for 100% affordable housing projects. we need to do everything we can to remove barriers to affordable housing development. regarding the fee waiver, i would like to see the reporting requirements strengthened, while

accessory dwelling units are often touted as quote naturally affordable, we know this is not always the case in san francisco , especially in our hot housing market that we have been in. as the latest housing balance report from the planning department highlighted, we are meeting and exceeding our market rate housing production goals, but we remain far, far off from our housing production goals are moderate,," and very low-income households. if the city is offering a new financial subsidies such as fee waivers to expand housing development, i believe the subsidies should really support our affordable housing development goals. i am currently working with the city attorney's office to drop some amendments to this legislation to expand the reporting requirements for a.d. use, and d.b. i would have to -- would be required to comply with that. what i'm looking at is i would like dvi to report on the portability level that are

granted the fee waivers. additionally, i would like dvi to report whether they are built in single-family homes or multi- units, and how long the applicant has owned the property also, is the applicant an individual or a corporation, or a business, and do they have other permit applications or multiple -- our own multiple properties in the city? and also do they intend to live on the property themselves? and also do they intend to rent the a.d.u.? what i'm trying to get out as i want to understand that if we are subsidizing private developers, or are we subsidizing private developers, conservative speculators to build market rate a.d.u. or are we helping individuals stay in their homes and provide housing for their family members? are especially or especially are we creating rental units for

members of our community that are affordable? so i don't know if you would like to speak to that, whether these additional reporting requirements would be possible. >> well, we would certainly make every effort to collect what we can. we may have to be working with other city agencies for some of that data, but, yes, of course, we would be happy to follow up on that. >> great. thank you. well, you know, with the amendments -- they amendments that i have been working on and i have been in communication with supervisor brown's office and d.b.i., they're not ready to be introduced today, but i do support moving this legislation forward in a timely matter, especially with the urgency on supporting affordable housing development in the city. so i would support moving this forward with a positive recommendation out of committee today, and i could bring forward the amendments, you know, at the

full board when it comes up for a first boat. >> yes, a chair mar, thank you, i am in agreement with chair mar i think it is really important when we're doing this kind of legislation where we are waiving fees and especially for affordable housing, and to see if we are going to increase our affordable housing, that we should definitely have the data to make sure that we are doing the right thing, and then also, later on, if we need to amend it in anyway, we know how to do that. i am in full support of these amendments. thank you. >> great, thank you supervisor brown. colleagues, or supervisor fewer, any comments? why don't we go to public comments. are there any members of the public would wish to testify on this item? >> one of the things that you failed to realize each and every time you negotiate a deal like this, like you claim, 100%

affordable housing. s.f. viewer, please. when you place 100% affordable housing on the income scale, 100% affordable housing at the medium is $82,900. so when you say it low income and affordable housing and you make the requirement to be a tenant in a building that you just completed building with a market rate developer, and you sets that requirement at $82,900 , that means every income bracket that is below that income bracket is not being included in the inclusionary ordinance, and you violate due process and equal protection under the law pertaining equal opportunity housing. you have been doing it for years and i'm real upset about it because you discriminate against the people who are homeless on

the street, but you sit up here and act like you want to help them. this is discriminatory practice that constantly provides housing for high income bracket people and not the very low and low income bracket people. you claim a federal tax credit pertaining to low income, and then when you go through the process and build the building and start accepting applications , the only people that can apply his people in high income brackets. that is called price-fixing and price gouging. it is a violation of the penal code law. you could be put in a county jail for that because we have emergency housing, and emergency shortages of housing situation on our hands. you meet the requirement to be prosecuted on that. you are running a racket it is called racketeering and i'm tired of it. you sit up there and act like you're helping people but you are not. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to testify on this item?

>> hello. i'm all for targeting fee waivers, however, given the duro fists support of s.b. 50 of the majority of the board members, it might be prudent to review 2016's progress regarding the conversion where there has been political resistance towards housing construction and housing information. you might tend to building inspection at existing unpermitted and law units. some of the city's neighborhood homes are densely concentrated, but not all the property owners live in the city. you might want to engage in community outreach efforts, perhaps running eight page adds in local papers, and hold a brief lecture held at the department of building inspection regarding the permit -- permitting process and

inspections that might go a long way towards preventing yourselves from being raked over the coals through the press and in the event of a householder and neighborhood fire. i hope you do everything in your power to prevent the possibility of such ever occurring to begin with. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we recommend this item to the full board without objection. great. mr. clerk, please call item five . >> a hearing on the police department and general orders governing the public release of private information. >> thank you. i would like to recognize supervisor fewer who has joined us -- who has joined the committee for this item and has called for the hearing. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for your patience. i know it has been a long

meeting today. i first want to welcome and thank must ago adopt sheet for joining us today. the week following the death of jeff adachi and the subsequent league to police report to the press, i call for this hearing on the policies and protocols within the san francisco police department governing the public release of private citizen information particularly during an active investigation. i was outraged by the inappropriate nature of the leak and extremely concerned about whether laws are broken in the process of the leak. the issue is, at its core, about violation of public trust in our police department. in addition to the leak, police support following the public defender's death, there was a high-profile issue in january od employee publicly presented an individual's rap sheet as -- at a community forum for purely political purposes. this former sfpd employee should never have access