i am not here today speaking on behalf of myself. thanks to my parents, my housing is secure, but this is a very important issue to me. as an msw and in lcsw, i worked at a number of nonprofits serving seniors in san francisco for over 40 years. still, my s.s.a., my social security is just under 24 -- $20,000 a year. as you know, the nonprofit community is a way for the city to save money and provide services, so they are low-paying agencies, but they are providing wonderful services. i attended what is called choo-choo, council of community housing organization. i attended their meetings for a number of years. this group is populated, for the most part, by nonprofit housing developers. i thought i sat amidst low income housing providers.

imagine my shock and surprise to learn recently that i only received income of about one half to two thirds of the income required to apply for one of their units. really disappointing to hear. the last point i want to make is , police, when you're speaking to the community, speak in terms of actual dollars. affordable has lost its meaning, it is a huge range now, and people don't really know what you are saying and as far as a.m.i. goes, who knows what language that came from. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker is,. i'm sorry, i have a bunch of cards, come on up,. [indiscernible]

>> if the people in line would allow him to speak first, go ahead, michael. >> you waste more time with the cars in the amount of time we get to speak. you only get two minutes and you're shuffling those damn cards around. jesus christ. one reason you're having this problem. [indiscernible] >> it's affordable housing, like mission rock. if you take a female whose living in a boarded house and make her be your pitch person on the commercial on regular t.v. and cable t.v., and claim that they would like to be a tenant at mission brock, a department -- an apartment building complex like this, you have her and her daughter be on their own commercials and claim that they can be a tenant at this

apartment building complex that is 115 units. you claim it is affordable housing, when the truth of the matter is, the lowest income, the 40% is 2% of the 40% pie, and that's at $36,300. you've got instructions and data path that says 15% of those apartment units that's 1,500 is supposed to be for very low and low income bracket people, the same income that these people here today. that means 225 of those apartments at mission rock is supposed to be for people in the same income bracket that is in here claiming about getting housing. then, every time you set an income level, you set the income at 60%, so everybody's income that is below is -- that is below this $14,400 is not being included in the inclusionary rule. and then you turned around and

wonder why people don't have housing. you're contradicting yourself. that's price-fixing. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for this opportunity to speak on this very urgent issue. my name is,. i have been an active in senior disability action for many years as you might know, we have a history of working for the right to basic needs, a living wage, food, employment, healthcare, and housing across a spectrum of age, gender, and ethnicity. today, we are putting in a plug for ourselves. the aged and the disabled. i live in no eval he, which is supposed to be a rapidly gentrifying area, and i know of three cases in my neighborhood of seniors who suffered terribly because of the pressure to evict them, when was disabled by aids,

he lived on church street, and he was a nervous wreck when he found out he had to move. they were doing an owner by out, and he became very depressed. he finally found a place to live , but he went through hell. another couple, mexican-americans, michael and connie on 28th street, they have been under pressure for years, only because of neighbors practically blocking the way, physically, to prevent ellis act evictions. they are still in their home, but they have gone through hell, too. lastly, there was a gentleman, 90 years old on 26th street who was pressured for years to get out by a speculator. they finally got him out and he died a month later. please get this important bond

measure in the pipeline as soon as possible with the excellent three recommendations from the senior housing bond work group. also, you may know that affordable housing is vanishing as rent decontrol brings a vacated unit up to lecture units [indiscernible] >> thank you very much. thank you. erica? >> hello, supervisors. i'm with some cam, south of market community action network. i'm here to support this action and others to emphasize the need for more truly, deeply affordable senior housing. as a service provider, i can say from experience that the current san francisco housing portal for below-market rate housing applications creates incredible false hope for the majority of the people who apply. there are seniors facing

evictions every single day that are then forced into the pool of those looking for affordable housing, and not only is there a lack of affordable housing, there's a lack of deeply affordable housing. on top of that, there's a lack of deeply affordable senior housing that meets the needs of those making 30% a.m.i. or less. our city's senior population is continuing to grow, and we need to ensure that they are housed. we must expand to the proposed affordable housing bond to drastically increase funding for deeply affordable senior housing that would be affordable to the majority of seniors below 30% a.m.i. thank you. >> thank you. mary? >> it afternoon, supervisors. i am the transit justice organizer for south of market community action network and i'm here today in support of the senior and disability action and other senior serving organizations across the city, asking that you prioritize affordability for seniors below 30% a.m.i. and the proposed

affordable housing bond. i have a 67-year-old aunt who lives in a studio in the tenderloin with her two sons. one of them being disabled. he receives benefits and most of that goes towards her rent. she also has a daughter and a granddaughter who live in the studio. she has lived there since she immigrated to the city in the seventies, and has worked for the city for over 20 years. she is retired now. the studio that she lives in is decaying with black malt. the paint on the walls or peeling off. the tiles in the bathroom is caving in, and the living room lights haven't turned on in over five years. she refuses to leave because her income is so low that she wouldn't be able to qualify for affordable housing, and if everyone in that house were to combine their income, then they would be too high for affordable housing, so she would much rather stay in those living conditions if it means that her family gets to stay together. our senior population continues to grow, and they should be able to live and grow old in the city they grew up in, i put down roots in, and have literally

helped build themselves. they should not be spending the twilight years in the conditions at my that my aunt is currently experiencing or worse. please show our seniors that the city cares about them by prioritizing deeply affordable senior housing that meets the needs of those with 30% a.m.i. or below. thank you. >> thank you. teresa? >> hello, my name is teresa. i'm the director of the housing program. over the years, bishop has served about 1500 households since 2009 by providing case management, outreach, and housing education. many of our clients are accessing different services and applying to different affordable housing applications. however, the building of affordable housing is not building fast enough, nor targeting the population who are already homeless, or one step away from homelessness. for this year, we have already seen a 20% increase of our homeless clientele. about 40% of our clientele are

seniors and people with disabilities, in 90% of our clients who are visiting our offices or inquiring about how to access different kinds of affordable housing. the average income of seniors and people with disabilities reserved citywide is $23,000. in district six, the average income of our clientele is $21,000, in which there are 30% a.m.i. and lower. currently we have senior clients who are applying for b.m.r., multifamily or tax credit housing where they are applying together other seniors or friends, and we have helps them, however, they are competing with other families and other low income populations, which leads to seniors and people with disabilities to have lower chances of being housed. this is not a good policy. housing pipelines should be increased for seniors and people with disabilities, and explore different strategies that are innovative to secure and increase senior housing.

in addition, affordability for senior housing should reflect the real income of senior populations, and the rent should be at 30% of their income. because of this, bishop will endorse the three recommendations for senior housing working groups. thank you. >> thank you. before winston and karen come up , i would like to call a few more names. there are still a bunch of cars to go. [calling names] >> sorry, but i can't read this. [calling names]

>> come on up. i think it was winston who comes up. i still have more cards. if i haven't called your name, don't worry. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is winston parsons speaking on behalf of the richmond senior center. we are here in support of the dignity fund senior working group recommendations. we think that there needs to be a greater ratio and more funding for housing for seniors at 30% of amr -- a.m.i. and below. we feel that people should be able to age with dignity and their communities, and many of the clients in my center serves are on s.s.i., living on $1,000 a month. the market will not provide housing for them. fifty% of a.m.i. or up is not going to meet them where they are at. just last week we had a client come in to is a 77-year-old

individual who has been living out of his car for years and been trying to get senior affordable housing, but with no luck. a personal story, i live in the richmond district, and a few years ago, if i could have the viewer, please. a few years ago, i met this woman in the modal on the streets. she was living out of two suitcases, often living on should -- in shelters. she is 80 years old, well educated, lived in pac heights and the richmond district, and luster housing about five years ago and has been chronically homeless since then. it took the efforts of myself and staff at the independent living resource center and a dedicated social worker to help find her housing. she is lucky, so to speak. she was constantly in and out of the hospital, which decreased after she got housing. slipping at bus stops. when i would run into her summed over asleep, i would worry if

she would still wake up. it is really hard seeing people who are on housed, but when they look like your grandparents, it hits you. she would like to live in the richmond district, but that wasn't possible. that is her home. i would like for people like her to live in their neighborhoods. please increase the ratio for seniors and make it truly affordable. thank you. >> karen? >> good afternoon, my name is karen, on the executive director of rebuilding together san francisco. i heartily support this housing proposal. we certainly need more housing for low income families, and particularly seniors. we need rent support for people who have been renters for a very long time. i love the idea of small site acquisition, and i wanted to also let you know about a third option for affordable housing for seniors, which is the homes they are living in right now.

there are hundreds, if not thousands of very low income families in san francisco who are living in the homes that their parents and grandparents purchased many years ago. these homes are affordable because the mortgage is paid, because property taxes are low, but these are families, older people who have been retired for a number of years, and really, as they were saving for retirement, never expected the cost of living in san francisco to grow this high. they are living on incomes of $21,000 a year, and they are making choices between whether they fix their homes, whether they get their medication, whether they get food. the home is always the last thing to pay for. this past weekend was our national rebuilding day. we repaired six homes for seniors in san francisco. a five generation family, if rafa generation family his first granddaughter was born in the house, and the family was about to lose their house because of the vast number of repairs. i think we probably completed a

market value of $50,000 worth of repairs with volunteers and donations. so i really -- there are hundreds and hundreds of people in the city who we don't see and we don't hear from who need safe and healthy housing and i urge you to continue to support this proposal. >> thank you. next speaker, i guess it is annie who usually is not speechless, but i guess she will be speechless today because of laryngitis. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm speaking for any child who lost her voice and is unable to speak today. i am appointed to chair the senior housing subcommittee for the housing bond working group. our committee met twice in the past two weeks with many housing providers and senior advocates attending. our committee approved the following three key recommendations to the working group. recommendation one, they should increase the number of senior housing units in production

pipelines right now. seniors at 60 years old and older make up 20% of all persons living in poverty. allowable uses for the bond should include construction of new, independent senior housing and residential care facilities, utilization of public land suitable for session developments, acquisition of small sites and housing that can address the needs of low income senior homeowners in each transition to accessible housing , and acquisition of sites for seniors housing to be constructed beyond the life of this housing bond to achieve parity relative to need and we recommend an additional 750 units of senior housing over the current 659 units in the current pipeline. senior housing rent must be affordable, more affordable then the current amounts presently demanded by the city housing programs. median income of all seniors living alone as you heard before his it's $21,900. below the 30% of the a.m.i. for the general population. the current affordable housing

sets the lowest rent for people at 50% a.m.i., which is 21,450 a year. our senior viable housing program should serve seniors his income falls below 25% and 30% a.m.i. if the general population in the bond program should prioritize projects that serve such needs. they recommendation is grabbing balance. this should make a commitment to increase the location of future senior housing developments to reflect the distribution of at-risk seniors in the entire city, such a distribution is not reflected in the current pipeline. it is therefore critical that the housing programs do more to offer seniors an opportunity to recite near their existing networks of support. these are our recommendations. we hope and courage your committee will support these three recommendations. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: san francisco cheshire economy is booming, but they cannot keep up

with the rocketing housing costs the communities gentrifying residency, many speculators would affect long-term tenants this is happening every day in chinatown. do you know how much frantic cost for an s.r.o. that cannot even put to watch what to embeds and $1,000? [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]

>> voice of translator: there maybe something some people who can work at the age of 70, but due to our health situation, most of us depends on our fixed income and savings. low income or fixed income is about $800. once they are effected, they cannot afford $1,000 for an s.r.o. units. many owners refused to rent their units to seniors. our members cannot stand eviction pressure and will move out of san francisco. she neither can afford the rent here nor senior housing for her

to apply. guess where she moved now? san mateo where she doesn't have a single friend. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: what contributed to society when we were young, but now we had -- without economics it prosperity, seniors don't have a place to stay. we hope the city can care for the needs of low income, senior and allocate more resources to develop more housing so we can stay in our home. >> thank you. before the next speaker, i want

to say that i have to go to the bond committee meeting at this point, and i really apologize that i can't hear everyone from the public who provides testimony. i also apologize to my colleagues on the committee that i have to leave, and hopefully you will continue listening to the important messages of the public. i heard your messages today, i've been hearing it for a long time now, and what you are saying is something that i fully support in terms of we need to more more, we need to be able to not only create more affordable housing units, but they get really affordable for those who are on fixed income throughout the city, so i will carry that message that you have articulated today, and i really want to thank the public for coming out and waiting patiently

to provide your comments. it's an important issue for all of you, it's an important issue for me, i will promise you that i am fully behind what you would like to see on the housing bond. again, i will turn it back to chair peskin who will conduct the rest of the public comments. thank you very much. >> thank you. 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? [speaking foreign language]

[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