obviously the board is supporting and we want to make sure that there is tipped contid funding for the small sites program through future funds and i'm proud to say we're about to close on the small site acquisition next week with the help of supervisor brown's office and we're excited to be preserving seven units of housing for low income seniors to help to work with all of you for many years to continue that effort. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is sam lu. i was born and raised here in san francisco. i want to say we really appreciate the funding that went towards homelessness. but as many have said before me, there was no funding that went towards homeless families, union and homeless children, even though 30% who are experiencing homelessness make up the homeless population and one-third of families make up

the homeless population. and so, i'm here today in support of our city, our home, 83.4 million budget proposal and i want to specifically highlight in this proposal the $5.5 million abilit act for houg choice vouchers. hopeless families used to have a way out but are now completely excluded due to the rehabilitation of public housing and so they have really no way out of homelessness. families who are living in single-room occupancies as families experiencing homelessness in san francisco are excluding from accessing any homelessness housing or services because through the entry, they are blocked from ever accessing those services. so these housing choice vouchers are vital so that families can be able to get out of

homelessness and this is really the only exit these families have to get out of homelessness. thanks so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is robert hoffman. i am a 20-year resident of district six and i work with the san francisco aids foundation and i'm here to support the our city, our home budget proposal. i support all asks in this proposal but i want to highlight my support for funding, development and safe injection sites. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm a resident of the richmond district and i'm director of the services at the san francisco a i.d. aaids foundation.

i'm asking you invest in the needs of san francisco. i would like to operate an overdose prevention sites known as safe for consumption. they reduce hiv and hcv transmissions which is in line with our goal to zero transmissions. this links folks to hiv treatment, to medical services, opiate therapy and other services. as it was said, they save lives as well as saving money. as much as it's important to provide housing, until we get there, we need the wrap-around services for the folks in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is john reevy. i'm a i is 15 plus year residenf san francisco. i work for the san francisco

aids foundation. having done outreach in most of the boroughs, homelessness is something that has always been an issue and it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. i like all the asks for this proposal but the one that stan oustandout to me, the safer injn sites, i want to support that, as well as the transitional treatment facilities for folks who are experiencing homelessness and meth use. >> thank you very much. networks speaker. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm andy stone with the sanfrancisco aids foundation and i'm here in support of the

budget proposal. i wanted to specifically highlight the supervisor injection sites, supervisorred consumption services. the entire board of supervisors unanimously voted in support of ab362, a state-level bill to allow the san francisco to pilot the first overdose prevention site in the nation. now is a chance for the city to actually make these statements a reality, right? people are dying on our streets from preventible overdoses in the midst of an overdose crisis fueled by homelessness crisis and opioid epidemic. these are proven that have been over the last 30 years in different countries that saves lives. in lines with the city's plan to be the first city in the world to be to zero new hiv infections and they prevent hepatitis c. that was something we could never achieve if we don't deal with the homelessness crisis.

as 13%, is-7hiv infections are those experiencing homelessness. i urge you to invest in housing foto fund san francisco. >> thank you, next speaker. >> honourable supervisors, my name is rubin david goodman. i'm the son of murial and ben goodman who risked their lives for the steel in chicago. my uncle sam was a wrestler known as the chicago kid and moved to l.a. during world war ii and had an african-american nightclub and he was then known as goodie. my life and my well-being is in jeopardy.

and i'm getting no support from the sfpd, the sheriff's department, supervisor aaron peskin. i'm getting treated like a piece of garbage as people who are poor are often treated by nonprofits in this city. nonprofits soak the city of money and treat the poor and disadvantaged as pieces of garbage. pui once wrote an article for te police chief called police stop assaulting homelessness women. that was base on the other hande of encountering two homelessness women who had pand had hands ony

security. you're on camera. my cousin is a network news producer in new york city. carin shapiro. she's worked for every major network and is now a freelancer. you're under the watchful eye of the shapiro-goodman family. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, there. i'm darcy alred. thank you for letting me speak. i'm a volunteer at the coalition on homelessness and i moved here from the midwest to go to school. i'm a graduate student at usf. i just was really shocked by how devastating the homelessness crisis is here, so i've been doing as much as i can to get

involved, volunteer and that's why i'm here today, to ask for your support in the our city, our home proposal, which specifically today is for the eraf budget proposal, in terms of community health services, especially for family, youth and children, these populations are definitely more vulnerable and it would be terrific to see more of the city's budget go towards their services. and yes, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. any other public speakers. seeing none, public comment is now closed. one more? please join us. public comment is now open again. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for giving me the time to talk. i'm a family caseworker here in

the district 6. i work and live here in san francisco for the past, i want to say 12 years now that i've worked with families that live in sros and are either homelessness ohomeless.i'm heree budget proposal. i think it's important you fund them and considering the fact that it continues to be a cycle. so their proposal is really to help us out and help our whole community. we're all accountable for the people that live here. specifically fund, support of housing and family housing. that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. public comment is now close -- ok, one more.

>> thank you, supervisors. my name is matt. i work for a tipping point community. i just wanted to speak in support of the coalition on homelessness' proposal to invest inning from permanent support of housing to factories for family renters and step-down beds and i wanted to express my support. from thank you for coming today. thank you very much. >> not it makes a difference but successive waves of inflation have *have raised wages and it s out the lowest wage level in years, contributing to fueling

wealth and economic growth. the government's expanded role in the housing market will exacerbate housing costs. this principle is universally understood among economists and also benefit tax production, obviously. government intervention tends to benefit monopolies and this is obviously in scandinavia and germany and in leipzig, 5% of the population earns 50% of the real estate. needlessto say, there are gaps in distribution. there a new opera house due to singular donation. the rest is made up through high taxation.

the housing mark in sweden is said to have a multiyear waiting list. >> thank you very much. public comment is now closed. colleagues, i would like to make a motion to accept the amendments before you. supervisor yi. >> so i want to thank the public for coming out and expressing their opinions. as you can see from the public, just this small number of people that came out today, there's -- you can tell there's a lot of needs and different needs and obviously today only represented .1% of all of the people that could come out and navigate. there's always an issue of, you know, where do you put your

resources when you have limited resources? do you put it on the immediate or do you put some of the funding or resources in the prevention? and there's always this tension between well, somebody needs it right away and at the same time, we don't ever pay attention to the prevention piece. as the result is what we're seeing right now, actually, that we're never going to decrease the number of people that are going to be homeless in the streets. every year it's been going up because more people are coming into that type of situation. so i'm kind of glad that we've had this opportunity, very unique opportunity in san francisco this year with funding. i think we put a lot of

resources, spread it out on the first round of it. and i think this particular piece of legislation creating the footbal affordable housing s somewhat of a fund. for instance, a lot of it will lend itself to the strength of trying to prevent others to become homeless. and as i was speaking to chair fewer when she introduced this, originally introduced this, i had some concerns about the approach and mainly what if we don't spend down on a certain amount and the money just gets

stuck there. there's so many needs that we're hearing, that i hate to see it get stuck in a pot of reserve money. so in going some of the changes that were made, in particular your section on page 2d, you know, where it starts talking about after two years making a report and then doing an analysis of where the funding caps are and having flexibility in terms of a discussion at that time and we're not spending it down. where can we spend the resources so that we can actually help people on streets, help people from coming onto the streets. i think with that amendment, i would like to say to you, supervisor, fewer, i'm

supportive of this and i know i have not put my name on it, mainly because of my uncomfort level. so i would like to be added as a cosponsor and thank you for doing this. >> thank you very much. i'm honoured. supervisor mandelman. >> i'm jusi just, very briefly,o think you for your leadership and chelsea, if you worked on this, as well. but for your leadership on housing issues certainly before i was on the board but even in the short period that i've been around, copa and then eraf one and now two, one of the things striking to me is how many set asides we have in our budget for various savored purposes but when house housing is the greatt crisis in the city. we have a very menial fund that

gets set side every year, which is $30 million, which is completely improve sufficient te need now and being bold and continuing to find other sources of funds is totally the right direction and thank you for your work on this. of course, thanks to everyone else in the audience who's worked on this and came out to sport today. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor stephanie? >> thank you. i just wanted to add my thanks and also add my name as a cosponsor. some thank you very much. i so appreciate it. >> so colleagues, thank you very much for your support and i have a motion on the floor to accept the amendments before you and could i get a second, please. >> supervisor mandleman, thank you. >> i would like to make this as amended to the board with a

positive recommendation. thank you very much. we can take that without objection. and madam clerk, any other items before us today? >> there are no other items. >> thank you very much. this meeting is adjourned.

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>> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to

do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps.

>> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very

just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard

material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that

he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪] [applause]. >> it is hot in here. when we built these apartments, did we forget the air conditioner? [laughter]. >> good morning, everyone. and welcome to willie b. kennedy -- kennedy apartments in the beautiful western edition community, right next to rosa parks, a.k.a. the pink palace, right across the street from plaza east where i grew up.

born and raised in this community, and it is so good to be home. [cheers and applause] >> some of you remember when we took this parking lot which was an underutilized site in this community and decided that we were going to build 98 new senior units for this community, and many of you remember the challenges that existed for far too long where we would build affordable housing in the western edition and we would apply for information and hardly anyone would get access to those units. i am so proud of the work that we did to past neighborhood preference legislation to make sure that 40% of the units that are built in the community go to the people in the community, and this was the first project to

use neighborhood preference. [cheers and applause] >> yes, i had to fly to d.c., that was hard work, but we made it happen. i want to thank all the incredible people that are joining us today. now we know that this city has not done its part in building more affordable housing, and we know that we have to get creative. we need to find opportunities. yes, it's about money, but it's also about cutting back the bureaucratic red tape that make it difficult to build affordable housing in the first place, and yes, we need to fund it. today, we are here for a great announcement, and i'm so happy to be here with so many community members, including reverend townsend, supervisor shamann walton, and president president of the board of supervisors, norman g. --

normandie, your supervisor vallie brown, catherine stefani, and supervisor safai. today, along with my cochair, my partner, president of the board of supervisors, we are here to announce the biggest housing bond of 500 million-dollar housing bond. [applause] >> for affordable housing in the city and county of san francisco and to the small property owners throughout san francisco, this will not raise property taxes. we're doing this in a very responsible way. to craft this bond and to build support for it, we convened a working group that started back in march. we know that passing this bonding getting the two thirds vote that we need will take hard work, and our community cochairs have led to this effort to make

this happen. i want to acknowledge our community cochairs at this time for their hard work and helping to craft this particular bond, starting with malcolm young, thank you so much. [applause] >> tamika moss, myrna mel garr, and annie chung. [applause] we couldn't have put together a better group of people who have dedicated their lives and their careers to addressing a lot of the inequities, especially around housing and creating more affordable housing for so many communities in san francisco. i am grateful for their service. let me just tell you a little bit about what we have planned to do with this bond, which will be introduced at the board of supervisors today. we need about eight devotes, and we have two, four, five votes

here so far. we have to get on the phone and get to some of those other supervisors. we know that one of our highest priorities is addressing low income housing, and making sure that people who fit within the low income category receive access to affordable housing. this bond will allocate about $210 million to the construction , the acquisition, and the rehabilitation of permanently affordable rental housing units. specifically with families at an 80% area median income and below this will help speed up construction on those projects that are 100% affordable projects, and we estimate that this will provide 1,000 new affordable apartments within the next four years. [applause] >> $10 million of this bond will

be allocated to new supportive housing sights were formerly homeless residents, while we know we need to continue to expand our navigation centers, to help our unsheltered residents off the streets, we also need homes for people so that they can exit homelessness, so that's why this is so important. one of the things that you all know i am so committed to is the residents who are in public housing, as someone who unfortunately had to live in some of the most, you know, terrible conditions for over 20 years of my life, i will always make sure that the residents of public housing are prioritized. in this bond -- [applause] >> in this bond, we have allocated $150 million to repair and rebuild public housing in san francisco. we know that the rental demonstration, rental assistance demonstration has rehabilitated

more than 2600 units of public housing throughout san francisco , but we need more. this will help address what we know our challenges in places like potrero hill, and sunnydale , which i know supervisor walton is so excited about. [applause] >> we also know that preserving our public housing, we need to really focus in order to preserve our affordable housing 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]

>> good morning, today is wednesday, may 15th, 2019. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] >> commissioner moss is excused. we have a courtroom. or next items item two,