i think the timing is perfect giving the meeting that you are departing to. i know you will carry the message that we are hearing today into those meetings that hopefully will be reflected in how the bonds bond that goes before the voters in november is constructed. with that, misses fung? [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i live in an s.r.o. building in chinatown.

my daughter advised me that i need a sanitized private bathroom, but as many as you know, tenants do not have the luxury to a personal bathroom. we all have to share a communal bathroom. there is no elevator in my building. i have to walk up the stairs using my walking stick. i don't leave the house often, even if i don't go out to shop for groceries, i still have to live the house for doctor's appointments, however, as my health continues to deteriorate, i might not be able to walk in the near future. a lot of seniors she share the same problems and situations with me and we need housing that can accommodate our needs. the city has left many seniors with no choice but living in an s.r.o. i sincerely hope that our city government can build more truly affordable senior housing, let seniors enjoy our retired years. >> thank you. >> thank you. misses lee?

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[speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: my name is misses lee. in 2013, my family of three was evicted by the ellis act. we negotiated with the landlord and in the end we still get evicted. so we need to live in the shelter and hostels for over three weeks. i have a disabled daughter. some landlords know, there are two seniors and one disabled daughter and they will not rent the units to us. even, though we have applied for the certificate from the ellis act to now, is already five years. we applied for almost 40 affordable housing units, but there is nothing for us. no, we don't apply anymore because we cannot even meet the income threshold. the minimum income qualification is so high that we cannot even

get into the pool to the affordable housing. so there's nothing we can do, even with the certificate. after five years, our certificate is almost expired. i hope the city listens to our needs and our situation to build more truly affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you. for the record, the individual who did that ellis act eviction is named matthew miller. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for your time. my name is marco sampson, i'm here today with my colleague greg. would come from an organization called a.p.i. legal outreach, specifically from the housing department, the housing project. our work involves defending tenants who otherwise could not afford the cost of eviction defence, and in our work, we

have seen on a weekly basis several evictions, and in these evictions, more than half our elder evictions, and we supports this proposal for affordable senior housing. stressing the import -- the importance that it truly be affordable because it is the right thing to do, and it improves the lives of people in san francisco and could potentially save lives. the work that we have done, defending evictions, we have seen and no of things that lead us to believe that elders are more vulnerable to severe impacts compared to other groups of being evicted, and/or losing their homes. some of these examples, for

example, could be as extreme as the eviction being relevant to the evicted the cha-cha cause of death. and in other situations, it part -- forces people to cope with living in substandard conditions in overcrowded conditions. for example, since the year 2,000, there have been a list of several cases of elders who have -- where there cause of death is related to or connected to their eviction for example, since 2,000, there has been in an 82 -year-old -- [indiscernible] >> if you could just complete your statements, and unfortunately we have to give everyone the same time. >> we support this proposal for affordable housing and we hope that it is truly affordable. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is

greg, i'm one of the staff attorneys from a.p.i. legal outreach. i'm standing here on behalf of all of our senior clients in support and to advocate for additional senior housing, and as an example of the dire need for senior housing, we have a client who is a senior, who is living in a very impoverished house, living with other tenants in the house. if she has a choice, she would have lived in a much better place, however, with the high cost of rent in san francisco, most of the seniors cannot even afford to rent even a house, or even a single room occupancy. this is why we are here and supporting to advocate for additional housing for seniors. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the cofounder of north beach tenant committee, and we

supports and are very thankful for these hearings. we certainly support housing for this i'm served community of seniors. this morning and met with one of our clients, she is 70 years old she lives in an s.r.o., and she pays $980 a month for one room and a communal kitchen. she could manage it when her partner was alive, and he died a year and a half ago. at this point, she relies on lunches, monday through friday, at telegraph hill neighborhood center for her food. she has already lost -- she only weighs 83 pounds, she is a small woman, but she is just hanging by her fingernails, and she is one of the people that needs to have housing because i can see coming down the road with the s.r.o., things will come up and she will not be there much longer, and there is nowhere for

her to go, so thank you for your attention to this very pressing problem. >> thank you. next speaker. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: good afternoon, supervisors. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: my name is linda, i attended saint anthony's church. >> if you could use the other microphone or share the microphone so we can hear you. >> thank you. >> you can actually speak on the other mike and toggle between the two to your left. >> thank you. [laughter] [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i'm here because i would like you to

consider rent subsidies for people, for us seniors. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: our retirement checks barely get to $20,000 a year, which is not enough to pay rent for a place here in san francisco, a dignified place. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: we are about to become discrete -- displaced and on the streets. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, michael lion, the board of senior and disability action. the recommendations of this extreme low income group must be incorporated into the mayor's proposal for housing. my wife and i just spoke to linda where who used to hold the

east slope of bernal heights together. she knew what was happening with everybody in town, everybody in that area and we organized support for anybody who is in trouble. she couldn't afford to live in the city in san francisco anymore and had to move to new york city where the services were better, and she is slowly losing her mind, this really kind of gives new meaning to the phrase thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. this is really what it's all about, and has huge, huge impact on mental health for seniors and people with disabilities, and another thing i would like to bring to your attention is the h.u.d. is proposing a major rule

change in which mixed status immigrant families who are living together in public housing would be evicted if one of the people and the families was undocumented. it will have horrendous effects on housing, and the board of supervisors really needs to write a letter to h.u.d. against this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is betty and i'm board president of senior and disability action. i'm also a senior disability action is also a member of the dignity fund coalition. the housing program serves hundreds of seniors who, every year, who are desperately searching for affordable and accessible housing because of loss of the rent-controlled

units, or because they need to be in support of senior housing. when i look at the waitlist requirements that waitlist requirements for affordable senior housing, the minimum income levels, for even a studio , can be 24,000 or more per year, and while their income is often half of that, if they are only living on social security, s.s.i., or a small pension. and also the stated waitlist can be as much as three to have to five years, and we actually have seniors who come to our office, and they have been on a waitlist for up to ten years. our city's housing programs are turning their backs on people who served and built our safety, and this is unacceptable. this is why we strongly support the senior housing bond working groups three recommendations that you heard previously. this would be to increase the number of senior housing units throughout the city in locations where they are needed for our

seniors, and to build more deeply affordable housing for seniors with less than 30% of the a.m.i. we do not need any more homeless seniors are seniors who are forced to leave our city. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm so glad that this hearing is happening. you know, if we build it, they will come, they are waiting and waiting and waiting. one example i have a is of my upstairs neighbor, elaine, u.s. 77, retired at age 86, she retirement -- received an ellis act notice, and jimmy daley went out searching for housing. she went every day for the first four months across the entire city looking for senior housing that might be affordable, might have an open waitlist. there were none. she called every month for two years, down the list of 47

different places, still no opening, no waitlist noticed that she had missed, and in the end, the stress of not knowing where she would end up because it was imminent, the eviction, it was a matter as she slipped into a coma, her last words to me were, where will i go? and there wasn't anywhere, and she did die. so we need to be sure. this woman worked until she was 77 years old. her income was $1,300 a month, a total of $15,600, which meant she would not have qualified for any housing today, nor then, because the minimum income requirement is very often closer to 22 to 24,000 per year. so please support all of their recommendations, and we will build it, and we will get the subsidies, and we will find that gap funding. we need to get started on this.

is much too late, it has been too long since we've done this to me to the real incomes and the real rents that are needed for those incomes a of our seniors. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i will read a few more speaker cards. [calling names]. >> my name is vivian, there is a serious problem for housing for seniors, i am homeless. i live in a van. i'm lucky, maybe i am lucky to live in a van. it is not nice, i have lived in a van for a year and a half. there is nothing for me. it wasn't my fault i was born with a genetic disability of my back that i had to retire early, i'm an educated person, a gradually -- i graduated from san francisco state, but i'm the face of the senior hop -- the senior population. there's many of us, we have fallen through a crack, actually , it is a canyon. this needs to be done.

this is a progressive city. let's be progressive and housing seniors with disabilities and show the rest of the nation what we can do for us. i think all the people who have given their stories here, and i just ask you to please do something and to do something now. this isn't something that can wait for more years and for more people to die. i like the lady who came up, a friend of mine did die last year for being homeless, he was only 69, he didn't need to die. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> bob, i am getting this information from senior disability action but i'm speaking on my own. i have lived in the same home for 75 plus years, and even i am scared i'll get kicked out. i can't really count that much on city hall, it appears, my understanding is affordable housing is often for people whose income is about $50,000 a year or more, the minimum income

isn't anywhere near half of that lots of these people in the city are on the minimum income. about half of san francisco seniors and disabled have incomes of less than 30,000 a year. start walking the walk. a large number of seniors and disabled in san francisco have incomes of $1,800 or less per month, that is less than $22,000 per year. we need very deeply lowered affordable housing costs. let's be realistic for a change. we are obviously not being realistic at all. if we follow h.u.d. guidelines on housing, which is 30% of income for rent, based on the figures that i just mentioned, you know, it should be about $9,000 for a whole year for rent , divide that by 12 months,

and i have a figure of $750 per month, and a lot of seniors don't make anywhere near that. and people are also hurting. lots of union members are also hurting. reset 15 or so members on it, we are down two more like four or for the most. so union labor is being hurt by democrats at city hall, and last thing, i would like to have a moment of silence for kate smith , because the one who sang a coke god bless america" has been denigrated. [indiscernible] >> thank you. [indiscernible]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am speaking -- i am a member of s.t.a., and everything

i have heard here is exactly what i've seen on the streets for the last five years. i was homeless three years ago, four years ago i was homeless, and i have been off for three years now, i could still be out there right now instead of in front of you gentleman. you've heard all the figures, you know it. what we are talking about is a disparity, and that is that we need to do more than you are proposing to do. those are great baby steps, but we need to take a few strides, not just for the veterans for being taken care of, but for the rest of the population. these are our family member is that we should cherish, these are our mothers, our fathers, r.n.s, our uncles, our grandparents, someone that we know, so we need to take care of them, to clear up all religions, all faith, is family. please protect our family and continue with what you are doing

and amp it up a little bit, please. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, i'm lorraine pick break her of microphones. [laughter] >> i'm from district five. we are -- 20 7% of the residents are seniors and people with disabilities. if you are on social security, regular social security, the average income is about 14 -- i talk to seniors and others who come indoor for help. we figure up to five people a day come through our doors with mostly housing problems. we get about 500 calls and walk-ins a year, mostly, for housing problems.

i will give you a typical example. i will call her ethel, although that is not hurt your name -- building. she's a 67-year-old widow. she has raised a family, she worked part time here and there, but her total income on social security is $900 a month. so i sit her down, and first i explained how b.m.r. works, and i show her the website. we go through it, and they come up with no match because most of the b.m.r. are at least $1,100 a month. so we go together through the monthly housing list. five years ago, there were ten to 12 waitlist openings, but today, there's only one. ethel does not meet the income. we look at 100% of portable buildings, one is opening up, we want to prepare an application,

but they are so rare, so few and far between that her chances against the competition are practically nil. public housing, 10,000 people on the waiting list, and section eight vouchers. [indiscernible] >> thank you. thank you. >> tony from senior disability action. i know of people and have met people who have been on housing waiting lists for upwards of ten years, who are senior, who can ill afford to wait. one figure really stood out that supervisor yee brought out, and he said that 50% of seniors do not qualify for the city judge affordable housing, that is simply unacceptable. what we need to do is we need to redefine what affordable is, and what we need to do is we need to

start framing this and looking at this in terms of deeply affordable housing, because frankly the people that we serve , seniors and people with disabilities need deeply affordable housing because they do not have deep pockets. many people have illustrated and spoken to the deep and profound effects that the situation has on the health of seniors. it is something that has profoundly affected folks check your health. we have seen people die. again, we want to advocate for the recommendations of the senior housing bond working group, because this is a step in the right direction and something that should have long time ago lives depend on it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> it afternoon, supervisors --

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joyce. i'm with senior disability action, but i'm also on the filipino ministry. now, maybe i will start off with my house name -- my housemate. her mom died in january, then they had to sell their house, and she had to move around for housing. she signed up for home match and she had to wait four months before she was hooked up with me i only charge her 800 a month, compare that to one bedroom that costs 3500 a month with the city could you push for home maps to the mayor judge office of housing and community development, because there are a lot of seniors who have, like i said, who have homes, and if they opened up their empty rooms

, we would have more housing for seniors or other people, and also, you heard a supervisor from my district -- anyway, rebuilding together was here earlier. if you could maybe have some of the subsidies to give to rebuilding together to help build extra rooms for seniors, then they can open up the rooms, also i saw cottages built in the gardens, so those are ideas that maybe possibly those could be implemented. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> all right, oh, crap. sorry. good afternoon, jordan davis. i'm a member of senior disability and with the homeless working at -- homelessness working group.

i live in an s.r.o. i am one of the younger people living in my s.r.o. there are a lot of elders in my building, and we deal with paying over half of our income towards rent for an old -- older building with a community kitchen and few units with private bathrooms where the elevator is hello unreliable. need to fix it, like yesterday. you need to build more deeply affordable housing in the city, and that includes senior housing , and we need to build it now, not only that we need to acquire and preserve it, we also need to make sure that seniors and people with disabilities aren't paying more than 30% of their income towards rent, and we need to put funding towards that, for identification purposes also, i occupy a tendency on the single room occupancy task force, and while we should do all we can for elder tenants in s.r.o.s, even i think this housing stock should not be the only option for those who need to move on. seniors have specialized social,

health, and medical needs that create challenges, and we need to make sure that seniors actually have other options if they wish to take it. i believe in solidarity between all marginalized communities, and you need to do better to make sure that eventually that if my pathetic, disabled asked ever grows old in this city, i want to live in dignity and not in an s.r.o. smash capitalism. >> next speaker. >> hello. my name is christine and i'm the program director at richmond senior center. and speaking in support of a call for increased funding for housing for seniors below 30% a.m.i. i like to speak briefly. to the particular relevance at this issue has to the clients of our home delivered groceries program. we currently deliver fresh groceries to about 140 seniors and adults with disabilities in the richmond district. the vast majority are living on less than $15,000 per year and are extremely socially isolated.

they all live with significant mobility limitations that prevent them from being able to shop for food on their own. dozens of seniors in this program have expressed to us they're concerned that as their mobility deteriorates, they will no longer be able to get in and out of their homes due to the stairs in their building. they feel they should be able to relocate to homes -- they should be relocating to homes that are accessible to ensure that their level of social isolation does not deepen further, but there is no senior housing available that they can afford. this issue is not limited to the richmond seniors. there will be increasing numbers every year of san francisco seniors who are homebound, unable to access vital medical and social services and are without options to move into accessible housing. the public health implications of the situation are staggering, and for this reason, i support increasing the production of deeply affordable senior housing thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. i have a number of speaker cards and i want to thank everybody for their patients. i'm happy to read them, but given the number of people left in the room, just line up and make public comment, i would appreciate it. go ahead. >> how is it going, supervisors. my name is bobby. i'm with senior disability action. we are here talking about affordable housing. ever since i have been an advocate for seniors, nobody has really come to a conclusion about what the advocates of affordable housing -- affordable housing is -- we have never been there. now we have a situation where we have old people growing old on the streets, too. i've never seen it like this before. i've been in advocates for the poor and for seniors and people with disabilities for about 15 years now.

this housing situation that we got going on right now is just too rough to bear, it really is. it has never been like this in san francisco, gentrification, there are so many poor old people out here and the rest of the people are sleeping on the streets, they can't afford to do anything, and it's like we really need to get to the bottom of affordable housing, we need poor folks housing, poor people housing, housing that the people can afford to pay for, instead of all of this what's going on now. i've never seen san francisco just neglect the senior and disability population the way they have been neglected now, and everybody ought to be ashamed of themselves for it getting like it is right now. we need some affordable housing that these people can pay for,

not to go through whatever else they have to go through to try and get somewhere to stay, and if it isn't affordable, there's a bunch of housing for seniors that will be homeless. that is what will happen here. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i live in san francisco. i've been in this city for nearly 40 years, it is my home. i am a senior, and the one thing i have not heard about here yet is people with h.i.v. i've been living with that virus for damn near 40 years now, and even, though i do have housing right now, i worry about my future, i worry about what might happen to me if i can't maintain my housing, take care of my dog, do the things i do to have a life. i hope you take that issue into consideration, too when you put all of this together.

thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i just want to remind you that the state of california is the fifth largest economy in the world, and even within the state of california, dissipate area that has the highest concentration of wealth. for us, the city of san francisco, i believe it is an imperative to increase the number of affordable housing for seniors, and for everybody, particularly with the epidemic of evictions, ellis act, o.m.i. that is forcing our people, and seniors who are vulnerable out of their homes at a time that they can't do anything. they can't get a job that give them more money to be able to move into the next apartment, so it is imperative for us to create more affordable housing for seniors, the most vulnerable

segment of the population. the sign of aggressiveness and civility of a society is how well they can take care of their most vulnerable, so thank you for paying attention to this, and i urge you to create more affordable housing, particularly in all neighborhoods, and i would like to actually lobby for creating one and the valley, my neighborhood. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is cw johnson, thank you for being here. i just want to say, as someone who loves this city, i have been here 37 years, and i live with mental health challenges, it every time i ended up homeless, they became worse or, when i got

housing, they became better. as someone who is two years from being a senior, a someone who has mental health challenges and now i have physical challenges, and getting ready to get operations, i will probably lose my leg, mint lose my job, and lose my housing. i do not want to be a senior in a wheelchair trying to figure out what i am going to do next. i have interviewed too many people who have had this problem we have to fix this. we as a society are measured by the way we treat our elders. we as a society are measured by the way we treat our elders. let's do better. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> edward mason, just following onto the comments that were there, is how are we measured as a society? i consider the fact, in revealing all of this, we spent about $2 billion a day on defence, and you have to say defence for what? and then with the taxing

decreases that have occurred, there is just such -- there's just such a mismatch between how we treat our elderly and also the disabled and the least among us, i think it is imperative that unfortunately we have to do it at the local level now because we cannot rely on it -- on any other level. and also, what's going on with senate bill 50 or 827 and all the iterations that are going on from that, the philosophy of the trickle down doesn't trickle down as we are seeing here by the a.m.i., so there really needs to be action at the local level to accommodate this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm in chinatown c.d.c. i think it is a question of numbers. we have heard really clearly from past testify or is about the need to, and one could say,

well, you know, there is need at all levels of a.m.i., and there is the city of the doesn't have infinite resources, but the reality is, that the program that currently comes out of the mere touch office on housing is based on two completely wrong premises, one, we measure median income for the whole population, and then we assess those levels to senior populations. now if we look at the area median income in san francisco for a single income earner, it is approximately $80,000. we have done some research, and we have shown that that same value for a senior his $19,000. you can imagine right there and then that if you've then built affordable housing at 55% of area median income and market it for seniors like you have heard now for an hour and a half, it is unaffordable for folks.

you can also look at a simple fact like how much -- i went back and looked at the a.m.i. levels from 2016 and 2017 and 2018, the average median -- the area median income for san francisco went up in the last 24 months by $7,000. i don't think that any of the seniors that testified here or that are out there had their income increased by $7,000 in the last 24 months, so we should really look at what we built, and ensure that what we built is reflective of the population we intend to serve. we have some studies here that i would like to put into the record, and i will hand to the clerk. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please if there any other members of the public would like to testify on this item, please follow, and we will come and grab those.

>> i'm also at chinatown community development center. we were also participating in the working group. i'm here to make sure that some of the documents that were presented at the working group are made part of the record. i provided a copy of the actual recommendations here, but i wanted to go back to the pipeline because -- and present a revealing map to us that we are aware, in many respects, the affordable housing production pipelines, so to speak, is not something that is apparent to even organizations like chinatown c.d.c., which is an affordable housing provider, but it is apparent from the pipeline , and this is a map that was presented to us by the marriage's office of housing that shows -- mayor's office of

housing that shows no senior housing plan over the next five years, the rest of this twin peaks, it looks like, and moreover, it showed that the entire pipeline, the future for affordable housing for seniors, over 5,000 units planned, only 669 are being planned for seniors. this is grossly out of whack relative to the population in need, so one of the considerations that we looked at in our working group, was looking at the poverty population. the share of persons under poverty who are over 60 is 24% of the population of san francisco. we are only building 12% of our future pipeline for persons who are seniors. there is something wrong. that is our future unless we

change that, unless we do something with this bond. our trajectory could be we will have scarcity and fewer people -- [indiscernible]. >> thank you. i think these are perfect comments to wrap this hearing up that was very well stated. let me ask, are there any other members of the public would like to testify on item number 6? seeing none, we will close public comments. first of all, i want to thank president you and the cosponsors of this hearing for having this opportunity, which i think is extremely timely as he is actually discussing what is going to go into this bond, but i particularly want to thank everybody who took time out of their day to express all of this we are, right now, in the midst of, as mr. adams well knows, of putting together something that the voters will vote for that truly reflects the needs of san

francisco, and hearing from the senior community at this point is absolutely right, and i say that somebody, to as i said at the beginning of this hearing, represents the district with the highest number of low-income seniors, and i cannot tell you how many stories i hear every day. those are the people who are targeted. as we saw in the case of mrs. lee by that rapacious speculator, mr. miller, and those are the heart-wrenching stories that we need to address. of course, land is a big issue, but if you look at what we did with the former freeway parcels in that corner of the city, those opportunities, i think, exist in every corner of the city. it is not just laguna honda, but in many places on the west side, on the east side, there are units that we can acquire and rehab and stabilize, as we have

seen along pacific avenue, and there's a lot more work to be done, but you are absolutely right. it is not only about senior housing, it is about extremely low income seniors, and there is an absolute correlation, like we just heard from a woman who is living in her van, between what happens if we cannot have those people age in place as it relates to our homeless crisis. the numbers are there. the majority of homeless individuals in san francisco, by her own statistical account are people who were housed in san francisco, and the folks who are most vulnerable are low-income seniors. let's get to work on that bond. i hope something materializes that we will all be proud of and that the voters will be proud of , and will embrace. with that, i will turn it over to supervisor safai. >> thank you to all the individuals who came out today to spend their time to speak on

the record about this important issue. although supervisor peskin has the highest number of seniors living in poverty, i have the highest number of seniors aging in place in the city and county of san francisco, and many of those are ones that are vulnerable to being homeless or without an opportunity with an affordable home to live in. this is an extremely important issue for me and for our district, and it is a very, very high priority. in the past year when we try to do proposition d., we set aside a significant portion of that bond measure -- of that tax measure to target low-income seniors. we need to do that again in this bond, at the numbers speak for themselves. only 12% of the units in the pipeline are dedicated to low-income seniors, whereas the overall numbers in the population far exceed that, and the number here that they say is about 750, which would bring

parity to the representation in the population, so i just want to say, for the record, i appreciated all the people who came out today, i appreciate president ghee for holding this hearing, and i'm proud to cosponsor this. i do want to say that we will work and do everything we can to prioritize low-income seniors and geographic parity for that matter, once it is implemented. when you look at this map and you look at where senior housing is built, it does not afford a lot of opportunities. , in fact, the last affordable housing that was built in the outer mission was felt almost 20 years ago for low-income seniors , and that is the only affordable housing that has been built in the last 75 years in district 11. we are fortunate to have a few developments in the pipeline, we are close to getting those done, but neither of those will be dedicated to low income seniors

this is a very important issue. to push for low-income seniors have their place in the affordable housing bond. thank you. >> supervisor haney? >> thank you. to everyone, thank you for sponsoring this hearing. a couple things, obviously thank you to everyone who came out and shared their stories, their own story, or stories of people that they work with or knew personally. i think that this is just demonstrating a tremendous need that we have in our city that is essential for us to plan for and to make much more significant investments in order to meet. it is absolutely, you know, unacceptable and unimaginable that so many seniors would be facing eviction after that.

people who are living in s.r.o.s who need to move onto affordable housing and don't have access to that. it just has so many levels to this need that we heard about today. a couple things, only affordable housing bond, i agree that we absolutely need to move forward with the recommendations that have been made about ensuring that there is investment in senior housing and low-income senior housing in the bonds. i continue to hope that we will actually find a way to make the bond figure in general, and i think that would hopefully allow us to do even more. i think that is something that i'm still pushing for and wanting as to think bigger on, and i hope that we remember this conversation also when we are looking at the further policy opportunities to increase the funding that's available for affordable housing. i started the process to increase the jobs housing

linkage fee, which will be coming soon, and which could provide us with additional funding for affordable housing that could help to address this gap. what i also heard today is that there are some policy considerations that we really need to look at closer. i want to appreciate the folks who brought forward some areas in which we are really not calculating this in the right way and not doing the qualification in the right way. i think that is something we should continue to focus on and look at, and there also needs to be a long-term plan for how we will meet this need to. we brought this up the other day when we saw the housing balance report, and one of the things that i raised was, as a part of that, we are supposed to be putting forward a plan to actually get to the affordable level and goals that we have set as a safety, and we did not see that plan, and i think we similarly need to see a plan for how we will make much greater

investments in housing for seniors and low-income seniors, extremely low income seniors, because if we continue to do this one off and don't see a plan for how we are actually going to close this gap and meet this need to, and also the full range of it. this does not look the same for every person in every situation, and we talked a bit about preservation, and people who are facing evictions, people in s.r.o.s, there's a lot of different range to how we meet this need to, and i think we have some really good policy ideas to start from, and in increasing the investment that comes out of the affordable housing bond is a really good first step, though clearly we have a long way to go from there thank you to everyone who was part of this. i will also continue to advocate for this. i know we all talked about how this impacts our districts in various ways, this is obviously a very, very important thing to me, as well as district six as a

home for not just many low-income seniors, but many of these housing developments as well. thank you, chair peskin. >> thank you, colleagues. with that, we will take a motion to file this item and look forward to our ongoing deliberations around the pond which will be happening both in the committee that has been convened, as well as in public sessions of the board at the budget and finance committee. so that item as filed, and the committee is adjourned.

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