but also, all of the most pressing issues in our city, somehow intersect with housing at this point. whether it is a mental health crisis, whether it is having enough teachers in our classrooms, whatever the other issue is, it always has housing as a major component of it. by prioritizing 50% of eraf funds now and in the future for this purpose, we are recognizing that housing is linked to all of the major crises in our city right now, and we are taking action to do something. again, supervisor fewer, thank you so much for your leadership in this area and i am very proud to be cosponsoring this with you >> thank you so much for your support. any other comments? if not, let's open this up for public comment. i have some speaker cards here. winston parsons, mr. wright, if

you like to come up that is fine , myakka, louisa, laura thomas, caroline, fernando, alexander. please come on up. everyone has two minutes. >> you are on the right track taking care of this problem, but you have to be sure to incorporate laws that you already have on the books. that is supposed to be used on each and every brand-new apartment building complex that comes out of the mayor's office on housing. for example, this mission rock apartment building complex. it is 1,500 apartment buildings -- apartment units. it is being overlooked by the giants baseball team. and supervisor jane kim. there is a big pamphlet of instructions pertaining to their

instructions. sixteen -- section 14-point to of the instructions pertaining -- expands on detail as follows. in accordance with subdivision b. of section 33413 of the community development law, and these 15% of all the rehabilitated dwellings and are developed within the planned area by public or private entities or persons other than the agency shall be available at affordable housing costs to persons and families of very low and low and moderate income. not less than 40% of the dwelling units required to be available for affordable housing costs for families a very low and low, and moderate income shall be available as affordable housing to very low income households. every unit that comes out of this housing -- the mayor's

office of housing is violating these instructions. that's why have so many people on the god damn street. and then you claim you want to help. fifteen% of 1,500 units, at that mission rock apartment building complex means that 225 of those apartments are supposed to be for very low, and low income bracket people. if you want to demonstrate that you are doing in good faith and want to you want to agree on this matter -- [indiscernible]. >> madame chair, the speaker's time has concluded. >> good afternoon. my name is maja, i am speaking on behalf of the council of community housing organization. i'm here to speak in support of this legislation to dedicate half of any future eraf revenue

to go toward the affordable housing and preservation fund. in order to address the scale of the affordability crisis in san francisco, we cannot continue to solely rely on inclusionary and commercial linkage fees to fund our affordable housing needs. san francisco cannot continue to only rely on construction and market rate housing to produce affordable housing. the housing balance report shows that seven out of 11 supervisor districts have a negative housing imbalance, with an emphasis on westside and outer neighborhoods. san francisco's voters indoors proposition k., which as a city policy, set a goal to construct or rehabilitate at least 30,000 homes by 2020, at least 33% of which will be -- should be affordable to low and moderate income households. production streams of market rate versus affordable is

extremely imbalanced, and not only close to meeting our regional arena goals. setting aside a fund from future eraf for the affordable housing and preservation fund is a critical opportunity to add another source of funding that isn't strictly tied to the volatility of the market. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is winston. i also work in the richmond district. i'm here supporting this legislation. recently, one of my graduate school classes had a speaker that said that a budget is a statement on our values. if we care about something, we fund it, and we fund it consistently. which is why i'm glad to see we are allocating the money for things like small sites acquisition and affordable housing production. i work at a senior center a few weeks ago and we had a gentleman who was about 77 years old who

has been sleeping in his car four years. still looking for housing. with the fact that our fastest growing demographic by age is seniors, i worry that if we don't do more funding sources like this, we'll see more folks like him, our elders on the street. i urge you to support this legislation. thank you for offering it, and i asked you consider finding other sources of funding said -- to supplement it in the future. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i've spoken to many of the supervisors on the budget committee about the importance of preservation work as we know in solving the affordable housing crisis. production is very important, but when we see the amount of displacement happening in communities, we know in five years, we're building new housing and it will not get our families today to be able to stay in their homes. being able to set aside a portion of money as a permanent

source of financing is really important. what you also may know is that in the last three years, we have been able to purchase 177 homes to keep 177 households in san francisco, particularly in d11 and d11 -- d9. what you may not know, in the course of this time, we were able to purchase 11 buildings in 2018 -- 2017, but not in 2018. we were only able to purchase four buildings. we did not have permanent sources of housing -- permanent source of funding for this type of housing. i'm really excited that we have this as a possible source to continue to preserve housing both in our most important neighborhood that are losing families rapidly, like in the mission, as well as expanding into the west side. thank you very much for your leadership on this. >> next speaker. >> hi, supervisors. [indiscernible]

[indiscernible] >> last two months i have been walking from the city to sacramento. i got invited to houston, texas. i am homeless. every time i come from sacramento -- [indiscernible] >> it doesn't bother me. i take it.

i'm not the only one who won't be on the street that night. it is 1,700 that will be with me that night. as supervisor ronen said, it is not about housing in san francisco. i'm 60 plus, i thought by now i should have paradise come to me, i will retire to mexico or miami , no, i am homeless. we need -- [indiscernible] thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is fernando with the council of community housing organization. first of all, thank you to supervisor fewer and the cosponsors for putting forth this legislation. it is very important as we look forward for those opportunities that we have to increase funds and to look at our priorities, and to understand housing, both production and preservation as a

priority. you all just came from item number 1, which was looking at the nine month budget update. if you look at that update, housing does not show up as an item within your budget update. so this is one of the few opportunities that we, the public, three u., our representatives, have of influencing those budget decisions around housing and those budget priorities. speakers before us have said there are -- it is extremely important to look both that preservation, at people where they are, in the places that they are, before they are displaced, before they become homeless, and it is important to look at our homeless population and how we provide new housing for them. i think that is one of the things that is critical about this legislation. it does both one of the things of the previous speaker mentioned, his how do we apply this to other new, and expected funding sources, and i thank you all had the opportunity, looking

forward to 2020, and the possibility that we might actually win real change around prop 13, to take this approach and say, what would it mean if prop 13 becomes a split role in the city of san francisco, and we see an infusion of $700 to $900 million a year that we are not expecting? thank you very much. please support this legislation. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alexandra. i'm from the tenderloin neighborhood to veltman corporation. we are here to support the allocation of these funds for affordable housing. we really want to thank supervisor fewer for your leadership around this issue and the rest of the supervisors, as well. particularly in regards to acquisition and preservation of existing housing, which we think is a real priority in the city. so in carrying out this strategy , we do think that scale matters to some extent. we can -- using the same amount of resources, preserve nearly

twice as many units if we can find something suitable to buy. even though acquiring these larger properties shifts focus, we do shift opportunity through -- seek opportunity throughout the entire city to acquire properties. and we understand geographic equity matters, and that some neighborhoods do not have these large properties to buy. we are also willing to help support building the capacity of organizations to acquire these properties. we're also really glad that this one provides an opportunity to really put some power behind the legislation, which passed a month or two ago. we are very enthusiastic about these opportunities to keep san franciscans house and in place, and thank you all for supporting this. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. and with the council of the community housing organization. during my colleagues earlier. we have an affordable housing crisis, you hear about it every day. the crisis is a crisis that we

don't have enough funding to address our affordable housing crisis. so your proposal here, with all these cosponsors to set aside a portion of the eraf surplus is good and smart policy. this will help add to the funding that we have now. we are in an unusual situation. i think it was alluded to earlier. our affordable housing funding does not come through the board for the most part. it is dedicated funding that goes directly to the mirror's office of housing, and they have a whole set of priorities, and they will make the proposals. you have an opportunity as the board in allocating this annual surplus to give priority to the mirror's office of housing. for that reason, i would caution you all, and i would like to thank the legislation is good now, it is not overly prescriptive, it sets aside big buckets for eligible, allowable uses, but it does not try to micro allocate those things, believes it to the budget process. i know the coalition is behind us, and they have very strong

priorities right now for housing needs, and i think we should honour that, but you know you will get a lot of very strong needs brought to you in the budget process, and it will be part of sorting it out. then you get the chance to give the mayor's office of housing your priorities. it is a good and unusual situation, but again, be cautious. we are in an unusual situation because, for the most part, all of the housing programs are done by our members. will not tell you which one it is part of that. inner-city neighborhoods are outer neighborhoods are all important. we encourage you to try to spread the love as best you can in each budget cycle. this is good policy. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> hi, jennifer from the coalition on homelessness. this eraf gives a command is opportunity to use this money now to address some really critical needs.

we have been talking a lot at this committee in the last couple monday rules about all the folks that are drying on the streets. -- all the folks that are dying on the street. this is a good way to address that. the controller's office has been interpreting this as a loan. i think would be great if you put this as an immediate need, and not something that is a loan to be paid back out of funds later on down the line from prop see. what we did at the our city, our home coalition, as we looked at the gaps in the system in the and the gaps in eraf. it was tremendously helpful, but we missed key areas. we looked at one time capital needs to go beyond the priorities that we can fund in the regular budget process such as prevention, first, the gap that we identified, youth and family, they were dramatically underserved in comparison to what the real need is. about 40 % of homeless people in san francisco who are members of intact families. for example, only 7% of our housing for homeless people go

towards families and members of intact families. we have 50% of the homeless population becoming homeless before the age of 25. second gap identified, community behavioral health. we know this has been made abundantly clear in this committee at the behavioral health hearings that took place earlier, we are in desperate need of innovative, new programs of increased capacity, and so we haven't 84 million-dollar proposal which has housing for these populations, and also has those innovative behavioral health treatment programs that will bridge us towards prop see. this fits really nicely with both ronen's and fewer's proposals, we believe, so please consider it. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. and with the drug policy alliance. drug policy alliance is on board with the full our city, our home

proposal for this funding. we know that you are all -- you were all here on the board and you are acutely aware of the challenges that we are facing around ensuring capacity for behavioral health services, both people who use drugs, people with mental health challenges, and certainly with both. we feel like this goes some ways towards addressing some of those very urgent and desperate needs, and while we certainly need housing for everyone, we also need to make sure we are taking care of them until we can get them in permanent, supportive housing, and in particular, i want to highlight, not surprisingly for me, the supervised consumption services, funding in here. we feel like this is a unique opportunity to be able to use these dollars to do the build out, and start up, as well as funding it for the first few years to get it on board the state bill. it will be voted on in the assembly floor this week or next

, and i also want to let you know that last night, the oakland city council voted unanimously to both support the supervised consumption services and ask that oakland be added to the bill. i think we will have some across bay coordination of these services, and so we feel that the funding is uniquely suited to help pay for those services and get them up and running, and keep them going for the first few years while we wait for the prop see work, but overall, all of these services are going to meet particular needs in the community that currently aren't being met. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is alex. i'm a resident of the valley. i am a research -- a researcher. i have been conducting research around drug use in san francisco for 26 years, and i think what

supervisor ronen was saying earlier this morning early this afternoon about how these services will pay for other things and other kinds of places as well, i think is quite true, you know, obviously homes -- we need homes, there is no question about that. but also, the supervised injection sites are an important component as well. we conducted a study last year that we published a peer review medical journal where we found that for every dollar that is spent in san francisco on -- invested in supervised injection sites, we have $2.33%. so whereas this does cost us some money, and would be great to be part of the budget, we will see those savings. both at -- in many other aspects of the city.

obviously the most important part is to save lives, to help people in many ways, but research also shows it would be a savings for the city, as well. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am from compass family services. i'm here to voice our unequivocal support for this incredible piece of legislation, and i also wanted to raise a point that while we were very appreciative of the fact that homeless services were prioritized in the last round of eraf funding, unfortunately, they weren't specific investments made that targeted homeless children, youth, and families, so now that we have been blessed with this additional opportunity to have an infusion of eraf dollars, we want to make the case that children, youth, and families who are experiencing lack of stability should be prioritizing how we allocate these resources. as part of the our city, our home coalition budget proposal, we are asking for a specific

investment of $11 million to support the construction of 30 units of supportive housing for transitional aged youth. we already have the site identified. it has been vacant, and it just needs funding to allow for construction to take place. a second investment in families that we are wanting to prioritize will support in the expansion of housing towards vouchers for homeless families. as jenny pointed out earlier, about 50% of our homeless adult population are individuals who experience homelessness as children. this is really investing in upstream resolutions that are preventive in a really -- and are caring about the whole person here in our city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm from community housing partnership. our mission is to provide affordable housing and help residents were formerly homeless to achieve self-sufficiency. it is really important that we prioritize the self-sufficiency of formerly homeless people and we prioritize supporting people

in supportive housing environments. i think it is also, as a beneficiary of our city's interventions around homelessness, and supportive housing, i also feel it is important that we prioritize supportive housing environments that are outside of our concentrations of poverty and high density. i think it is important that we prioritize our youth in supportive environments because as you have heard today, we are talking about a lot of different components of solving the homeless situation. what we're really trying to do is break that wheel of the cycle of poverty. everything from supportive housing environments to treatment access for people with addictions, mental health, these asks here are part of a bigger picture that we can break this cycle of poverty and homelessness. thank you. >> thank you.

>> jordan davis, our city, our home coalition. while this is great legislation, i say we need to grow the pie and, of course, the coalition is recommending that $84.3 million be used for prop see funding, and the one thing i want to talk about right now is to find $11 million to begin construction of 30 units of supportive housing for transitional aged youth because let's face it, a lot of youth are lgbt, and therefore, they can't find anything in the city, so we really need this, and that is all i really wanted to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is erica, i live in san francisco. we applaud and appreciate the city's commitment to crate more housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness in san francisco with the first round of eraf funds. we believe the funding should be allocated in accordance to the budget. i want to highlight recent statistic -- specific suggestions of how the fund should be allocated. first, replace existing treatment on treasure island

that will be lost during the island demolition, second, to invest in transition navigators who will engage in repatriating people back into treatment after an episode at psychiatric -- we thank supervisor ronen for advocating to improve the substance use treatment program. where 100 -- hundreds of struggling people are released into unstable living conditions. we found there is a growing demand for specialized residential treatment for small a small subset of people with high needs of methamphetamine use. please find these intensive care facilities with substance use disorder and co- occurring mental health needs who say symptoms cannot be managed. these dollars -- otherwise our

work is done and feign, which no one in this room would ever want thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i am a nurse practitioner, and i just sent someone to joe healy today. we will have 28 days of sobriety , then after that we will be back on the street. we can probably improve when you look at the budget, but because i'm not a numbers guy. the sober living environments, supportive housing, and boarding care. there is a real bottleneck where we are putting this. if you could help us do that, that would be great. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is -- i am a mother

of three, and we have experienced homelessness for nine years. we recently received housing, which had been amazing, but i wish there was funding for other families. we -- i'm sorry, who are also homeless. the our city, our home budget proposal includes housing, and i'm here to ask you to fund that and the our city, our home budget. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with community housing partnership. we are a supportive housing provider. we provide housing for formerly homeless folks. we absolutely support supervisor fewer's proposal for the housing fund, but we are also here because we are members of the treatment on demand coalition and we have a great concern for

treatment access issues, and so we wanted to speak in support for the eraf proposal because if you look through it, it provides funding, greatly needed funding for a number of treatment programs, and for supportive housing. all the things that are so very much needed in our city during the housing crisis, and during this increasing homelessness crisis. the voters work pretty clear -- were pretty clear on what they wanted, which is exactly these type of services, as was expressed by their passing of prop see. unfortunately, we do not have access to that funding, and we can't get those programs off the ground until we do. here is a way to actually enact the will of the voters by using these funds to get these services to happen now rather than waiting for later. also, i have been involved as a member of the treatment on demand collision, that a number of hearings, a number of meetings, a number of precedents , et cetera, where people are talking about mental health reform and mental health

issues, and how to get more access to services, how to get faster treatment, et cetera, and we're talking about a lot of big picture stuff right now. stand by mac --

>> i urge you to support the doe coalition's budget proposal. thank you. >> next speaker. >> today, i want to ask you to

please support so we're requesting $84.3 million for support of housing for youth and section a vouchers for families so with a question and 25 for families in shelters or doubled up. anyway, so, last time when we had the money, you guys don't really focus in and pull your money for housing for family and children and youth. so i want this time to focus more on the issues because we need to help the homelessness. i want to leave a note, for example, the new access, i can

say is not working. so we have -- they say the people who are working in the city, which is the families, they say they were saying they don't have a way, but it's 800 people an with the waiting listd plus, plus means thousands without housing. families without housing and we need to do something. we have more than 2,000 children students in the sanfrancisco school district and we don't do nothing and we have to do something because the children will suffer. and we neethank you so much. >> thank you.

>> hi. i'm with the coalition of homelessness. i'm here to support pro the priy budget proposal because i've been working with homeless families -- i've been working with the homeless people for 13 years. i've been working alongside with the families of homeless families and as i keep working with them, there's more and more, they keep coming. i would love to see this go -- i would urge to invest the housing and services in the san san frao and to fully fund our home budget proposal. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

i'm the executive director of the san francisco housing. i'm here to really emphasize that in addition to the homeless housing needs and the new construction that is extremely critically important to the whole city right now that the designation of some of the funds for the preservation as it is drafted is extremely critical, as well. and we just here to speak in favour of that effort, which builds upon the copa unanimous legislation in front of the board already. sfhcd was founded in 1988 by a group of, primarily african-americans in the bay to help ensure people can remain in

the city they have called home, the city that has their schools, churches, friends and businesses and their families. preservation component is one of the critical tools that 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.

[♪] >> 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. [♪]

>> good morning, please welcome san francisco gay men's chorus, performing "singing for our love ." [♪] ♪ we are peaceful loving people ♪ ♪ and we are singing,, singing for our love ♪ ♪ we are young and old together ♪ ♪ and we are singing, singing for our love ♪ [♪]