stock, we also have to remember that there are a lot of folks, especially a lot of seniors, who live in a rent controlled apartments. and so one of the great programs we have in the city is when one of those buildings, which consists of low income residents goes on the market to be sold, and those folks face the possibility of losing the only home that they have, we have a small sites acquisition program to purchase those particular buildings so that we can protect the tenants in those facilities. [applause] >> so this bond will allocate $30 million to acquiring rental housing, and that way we protect current residence that would be at risk of rent increases and they maybe forced out of their homes. i'm really excited about that. we also know that there are populations of people who may not qualify for affordable housing, but they don't make enough to afford it, so we can't

forget our middle income residents. in addition -- an additional $20 million will go towards helping middle income individuals and families purchase affordable housing, including our first-time homebuyers assistance program, and providing financial assistance to teachers for closing costs and other homeowners with expenses. [applause] finally, we have to take care of our seniors some of you know how sensitive i am about taking care of our senior community, my grandmother raised me, and i was grateful that i was able to help take care of her. there are so many seniors who may not have family members to support to take care of them. we, as a city, we have to do better. this bond will provide $90 million to create and acquire affordable housing for our seniors so that we cannot

only build more projects like kennedy apartments and we also need to protect seniors in their homes in the first place of they can age indignity. we chose specific priorities based on the impetus of over 100 -- this was truly community led effort, and i'm so grateful to the president of the board of supervisors for his leadership and their community cochairs to a mentioned earlier today. we all know housing is too expensive in the city we need to

be bold about the investments we need to make that impact the people in this city who are actually struggling to hold on to live here. i don't want san francisco to continue to be what i experienced going up, a place that when we grew up, as i said, right across the street where i used to live, where it was the old plaza east, they tore down 300 units and built 200 units, so 100 families weren't coming back to plaza east. we are not doing businesses usual in the city. we are changing how we do affordable housing in san francisco. [applause] >> and what that means is making sure that people who grew up in the city have a shot of being able to afford to live here. it starts now, it starts today, it starts with getting more affordable housing built. i want to thank all of you for your support. this will not be an easy thing to do.

this ballot measure will need to go to the board of supervisors, it will need to go to the voters , it will need two thirds vote. i will be counting on all of you to make sure you are registered, to make sure you are voting, to make sure you are turning out so your vote counts in san francisco. we need to make sure that even though they be many of us have housing security, there are so many people out there who don't. and how we create a more equitable san francisco is making sure that at a bare minimum, people have a safe, affordable place to call home, and that is what this bond is about. i want to thank each and everyone of you for your support [applause] >> with that, i would like to introduce the president of the board of supervisors who has been a real champion for affordable housing, supervisor norman yee.

[applause] >> good afternoon. as mayor breed said, we are going to need all your support to get this bond measure passed, and if you are going to support it, raise your hands! thank you, i think we one. [laughter] >> i am president of the board of supervisors, and i really want to thank many, many people, but i think mayor breed did a great job in acknowledging our community cochairs. they did a splendid job, they brought many of these people that are standing hind me right now, and many other people, to come together and have a discussion about how do we utilize this bond measure to actually make a difference in people's lives, and what they

came up with, the recommendations, and so forth, i believe they did the trick. thank you very much. [applause] >> you know, mayor breed talks about voter categories about what we will do with the bond funding, and it basically -- it seems easy when it comes out of mayor breed's mouth that we can do these things, but it's not that easy, because these are bold initiatives that we are taking. we are saying, let's stop doing the things that we used to do, because somehow it is not reaching our folks that are actually living here, that built this city, and we want to make sure the people who built the city continues to be our residents in san francisco. we cannot say goodbye, you built the city, and i think that's

been happening long enough. it's time to stop that bleeding of people that actually who are living here, that built the city , that made it what it is, and for us, as a city, to support these people. so when we talk about all the different categories, is there enough money in this bond measure? absolutely not. 500 million is a lot of money, but it is not enough, and we need to think of how to leverage it, that is where the bonus comes. we can't just say spend it, that is it, no, let's go look at the state funding. i was really pleasantly surprised or pleased when i went to d.c. last week, and every representative i spoke with, whether it was senator feinstein , whether it was nancy pelosi's office, or congresswoman jackie spear, each one of them started the discussion with saying, the federal government needs to do something about some of these issues, about homelessness, about affordable housing, about

transportation. i've never heard that discussion before in d.c. so they are even recognizing that this is a national crisis, and guess what? san francisco will not wait for the federal government, we will do it by ourselves for now, and hopefully the state and federal government will understand that they, once again, need to follow san francisco, right? [applause] >> i want to say, having this press conference here is so super appropriate, affordable senior housing. it is one of the things that i have been pushing for us to focus on, we did some focus years back, but we lost some of that focus. we need to figure out how do we keep our seniors in their

communities, instead of, oh, no, i got evicted, oh, no, i have to go live in modesto now, or something, and that is what is happening to a lot of people. what we need is to have the seniors who have lived here, many of them, most of them all of their lives, we want to make sure that they can continue living here in san francisco. so that is why having the press conference here is so ideal, because now with mayor breed and the rest of the committee saying , you know, put 90 million in there and make sure that we do something for the seniors, and is it enough? once again, none of the money is enough, but it is a start. i want to say that the people that came to the meetings, the talk about senior housing, they were really spot on. they stood up and said look, what is happening as we are losing our seniors, we are not

building enough for our seniors, so i am glad that myself and mayor breed are really hearing that, thank you again, mayor breed, for really listening to our community in terms of what the needs are, and one last thing, i think mayor breed said it already, but i have to say this again, in the past, we have always thought about affordable housing as just being for the lowest income, and we still need to continue to support that, we need to support that, but guess what? middle income people are being pushed out like low income people, so we need to start addressing that, and this bond begins to do this. so thank you very much, folks. [applause] >> one thing that we really realize, in the past, we have never really considered housing as an infrastructure issue, like maybe our parks, or public buildings, or our bridges, or

our roads, those are considered traditional capital planning infrastructure needs. guess what? it is a new day. the leaders around you, the people out here believe that housing, affordable housing in particular is an infrastructure issue. so we are committed to looking at how we cannot just do one bond measure, but to continue an effort to put affordable housing bond measures in the near future as a series of bond measures, so i hope you will support that, and in the meantime, if you are not registered, make sure you register, as mayor breed said, this is not going to be an easy win. we need everyone of you to support, we need everyone of you to tell your neighbors what good this is going to do. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up is your favorite

supervisor, supervisor brown, and your own -- in your own district right here. supervisor brown! [applause] >> thank you everyone. welcome to district five. everyone that lives here, thank you for letting us have this meeting and this press conference in your home. a lot of times it might take -- i think of willie b. kennedy, and i think it was almost mythical when we're talking about this years ago when i was a legislative aide, and then supervisor breed's office. this was coming, and we were really excited, but one of the things we were worried about is who is going to be able to live here in the neighborhood? how could they live here? i want to give, davis a shout out here. [applause] >> she came to us and we took on that battle. not only did we pass it at the

city level, but we also had to, as mayor breed talked about, pass it at the national level. we were all behind her, pushing her through the halls of the federal government, but what was amazing is we did it, and what i think is amazing is this was the first site, but just about a couple months ago, we had a hearing at city hall, and i sit on the government audit and oversight, and we actually talked about what -- if neighborhood preference was working, and they said yes, it's working. to me, being part of a legislative group before quite a long time, to hear something that you worked on actually is working is pretty amazing, because a lot of times you hear that it isn't working. i just really wanted to give that message out there. but this housing crisis that we are facing today, and it not only threatens our culture, it threatens our economy.

today in district five, i will describe this gap that we have here. i have people here that are making $50,000 a year, and i have people who are making over $150,000 a year right in these few blocks, about four blocks down, i have people who are making $12,000 a year. how do we live that way? how can we live in this wide equity gap? i know mayor breed touched on it , but we need to start talking about this more. we need to put this up in front and say, we cannot have this kind of equity gap in this city. this is not san francisco where we have the most vulnerable people not have the help, not have the resources going into housing. but this is something that we need to start talking about. i'm talking about it, and i really hope that you talk about

it, also. because it is something we need to fix. the city depends not only on our janitors, at our -- on our bartenders after a hard day, but also, our teachers, our munimobile drivers, and all the different other people that make this city run and make this the city that we want to live in. they all need housing. i cannot go to a meeting in district five without people talking about housing. whether they live in public housing, and making sure that they have the public housing that it is fixed and it is a great place to live, or -- we were talking about the small site programs. buying buildings, existing buildings that tenants live in, and keeping those preserved. preservation for tenants. we are just, right now, we just bought a unit for nine units on schrader. it was already ellis act, i

think four or five people left and the four people that were left were low income seniors. those seniors are going to have a building where they can stay, and there will be five affordable units. this is so important. this is how we can also save people in their neighborhoods that they love, that they have weaved themselves into the fabric of that neighborhood. they should be able to stay. so buying existing buildings with tenants and it is a priority. 100% affordable, we all want it. i have five sites right now in district five, four in hayes valley, when we bought a year ago, the old mcdonald site in haight-ashbury. they are all 100% affordable, but there was no money, no money to build them, so now with this bond, we have an opportunity, an opportunity to build 100% affordable, to also build -- have units in there that people

who make low income, very low income, can get into this housing. it is so important, and you are right. this is a two thirds vote. that means almost everybody in this room has to vote for it, so i bet you need to be registered, and most of your neighbors are going to have to vote for it. we will be on the campaign trail , making sure that everybody knows about this and votes. all these people behind me are housing advocates from all different areas, and they are here because they believe in this. i want to thank the president of the board of supervisors for stepping up and saying that we have to do this. i want to thank the mayor for knowing this is a housing crisis , and we can't just do the same old things, it is not working. i want to thank all of you because you will be our soldiers thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor brown. now i want to introduce one of the cochairs who helped

facilitate our community process , to develop the bond, malcolm young. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you, i just want to acknowledge our community cochairs, any chunk annie chung from self-help for the elderly, mayor not mere not mel garr and tamika moss. i'm not up here to remind you that this is the biggest bond that we are ever going to put up on the ballot. i'm not here to remind you that it's the biggest portion ever for public housing to repair and rebuild it, i'm not here to remind you it is the first time and the only time the city has set aside money to create more senior housing, i'm not here to remind you that this bond is going to keep people in place through a small sites acquisition fund, i'm not even here to remind you that this bond is going to help middle income folks like teachers own homes in the city.

i want to point out something else. i want everyone in this room just to take a look at each other. take a look at each other. the diversity of people in this room is going to be what makes this bond unique. the diversity of support that we are going to have for this bond is what is going to make this bond unique. i am an affordable house or, i work at chinatown community development center. i have a bunch of colleagues in the room like doug shoemaker from mercy, and caroling from meta, and randy shaw from t.h.c. , and sam moss right there , and don fox, and pauline from mccormick in the back, and jack gardner from john stewart. we build housing, so this is what we do for a living. what i think is incredible is all the nonhouser his in this room, all the leaders who are not from housing organizations because they recognize that they serve people in this city, but in order for them to continue

serving those people, we need to make the city more affordable, and that is what this bond is going to do. i'm going to make a very, very bold prediction, because i'm not a politician, i'm not running for anything, so i can say this, this group, we will get 11 votes at the board of supervisors, right norman? president yee, i'm sorry. [laughter] [laughter] >> we will get there. not only will we pass this bond, but we will pass it with 100% of the votes in the city. [cheers and applause] so this is going to be the biggest bond ever and it will be the best bond ever and we are going to have fun with each other as we get this thing past and moved through the board of supervisors. thank you, mayor breed, thank you president yee. [applause] >> thank you. i also want to recognize maddie scott, a leader in our community , and don't worry, we haven't forgotten about freedom west. [cheering]

>> i want to take this opportunity to introduce someone who grew up in sunnydale and has an amazing story to tell, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rhianna firestone. [applause] -- breanna firestone. [applause] >> good afternoon, my name is breanna and i am i hope s.f. sunnydale resident. i want to paint a picture for you. i need you all to be really into it. imagine you are going home after a long day at work and you are expecting to relax, but instead, when you get there, you are bombarded by issues that have risen throughout arisen throughout the day. today, your water heater is busted, and you will not get to take a hot shower for four days. tomorrow, because of faulty pipes, feces come up through your kitchen sink. leaving your kitchen unusable for least a week, and every day,

you and your family are living with mould and mildew. this is the story of my community, this is the story of my family, this is what we live through every day, and every day my mom has guaranteed us that we will be different, we will live in a different place, everything will change for us. resources for this neighborhood and our communities not something that we want, it is something that we need, and we all know the difference between a want and they need. i wanted means that you can live without it, but we actually need it. typically when people look at low income neighborhoods they think of people who are lazy or caught up in extreme illegal activity, however, this is not always true. i look and i see a family, my family, i see a mother who works

, a mother who has a college graduate, a mother who has another daughter in school and in college, and i see a mother who has a junior in high school, who has managed to maintain a four-point oh, g.p.a. while working for her community. i look at my neighborhood and i see plenty of entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses out of their homes, and yet, they are expecting to grow their families and get them out of their. today, i do want to thank mayor breed for consistently -- i want to thank her for consistently supporting neighborhoods such as mine, and not letting as always fall through the cracks, because our communities do need this housing bond now more than ever. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> all right. you know why we need it, you know what must be done. the board of supervisors, we are counting on you to get this bond through. the voters of san francisco are counting -- we are counting on you to turn out and to vote for this bond. it is so important. and as president yee said, this is one of the largest bonds, but it also needs to be a consistent track of bonds that come behind it so that we can do that or around building more affordable housing for people in our city. i'm committed to it, all the folks behind me are committed to it, and i really appreciate you all being here today. thank you so much for your time, and i just can't wait to see the smiles on the people's faces as we break ground, as we cut the ribbons, as we move people in, as we load up their furniture, just like what happened here at

willie b. kennedy apartments. we can make magic happen for so many people around san francisco we are going to make magic happen because of each and every one of you. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's aelectricitied assessor. today, i want to share with you

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

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

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

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

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant.

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the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of

the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill

come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters

around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco.

we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with

barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden

district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ] [♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪]

[♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun

aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for

the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of

families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area.

>> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that

feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪] . >> shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do they're shopping with the 49ers of san francisco by supporting the services within the feigned we help san francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 i'm e jonl i provide sweets square feet

potpie and peach cobbler and i started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers they'll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is

service with quality ingredients and quality products and need to be know that person the person behind the products it is not like okay. who [♪] >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here.

[♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪]

>> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond

is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the

streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing

is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years.

we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper

ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered.

[♪] >> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato.

every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having

their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. >> my s.f. dove -- government t.v. moment was when i received a commendation award from supervisor chris daly. then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing]

>> happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. happy anniversary to you. happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [♪]