heart. i want to just echo what others have said. we need to really address the needs of extremely low-income seniors in san francisco. i showed the seniors in the program this morning the chart of the -- the income that they need to have in order to qualify for affordable senior housing. not one person in our workshop this morning qualifies, has the income to qualify for senior affordable housing. they fall within the 10%, the 15% a.m.i. most are on fixed incomes, social security, or s.s.i. they are very low-income. some of the incomes that i saw in our workshop, one person makes $670 a month. another person makes $800 a

month. none of the seniors that i talked to qualify. most knew they didn't qualify. others were somewhat aghast when they were looking at the income requirements. so let's dedicate some funding to seniors in terms of housing. we don't want to see anymore houseless seniors, we don't want to see any seniors on the streets. let's fix the crack in san francisco's heart and let's pay ample attention to this. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. tere teresa flandrick with seniors and disability counseling. we have an annual report of 500

seniors, all of whom live below the poverty level, and all of them go to counseling because they're about to lose their housing because of their disabilities, because of eviction, and all sorts of reasons. so this is the ugly reality. so this is just 500 seniors from one counseling group, and you know in the city we have many. do we have the housing that they can then go to? we have preference certificates that aren't working because you know what? we don't have housing that is truly affordable, and i'm talking about that at, you know, the 15, the 25% a.m.i. levels, so we need to make sure we are right now using the bond money, all that we can get, to start using this money right now in the near future and

planning for the future. the numbers are not going to dwindle. we do not want more people out on the streets, and we just -- we have to do that. so please, please, let's take care of this population, as well. there's a lot of catching up to do in terms of housing that's truly affordable for seniors. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors -- oh, this is -- i broke it again. lorraine petty from district 5, a senior, and i'm also a peer advocate with senior and disability action, which means i'm one of these good people you're hearing from today who actually have to sit face-to-face with people and tell them waiting lists are

years long. and then i have to tell them that even if the waiting list was open, they'll never qualify at today's a.m.i.s. so i really appreciate these housing bonds. i'm -- i very much support them. i have a couple concerns, one, that the a.m.i. levels be reduced for real san franciscans, and the other is that i notice in the text, there's referral to making a 50% pass through to tenants, and i don't know if we're having a $600 million bond issue to help tenants, that it helps them to pass through these costs. so i urge you to think about that very seriously and make sure that they aren't passed through to tenants. thanks. >> hello. my name is maya, and i am with

the council of community housing organizations. i just wanted to echo many of the people that have already spoken about making this -- making this bond be a permanent thing in our capital planning cycle. i think it's no news to anyone that we have a huge affordable housing funding gap, so we need as much consistency as possible in order to meet the scale of our affordable housing needs. and with the additional 100 million, i think there's a lot of additional opportunities we can address that includes preservation and antidisplacement programs? 4,000 units were moved from rent control status over the last ten years. we really need to focus on preserving our existing housing? and i'm a district 2 resident,

and district 2 is one of the several districts that has lost 10% of rent stablized units that were built as new affordable units? so that's just another statistic to throw out there. i think that geographic balance should focus on the bond and future funding priorities that include eraf and prop 13 reform. i'm really hoping we can come together to leverage as much as we can to make sure that our affordable housing is consistent funded. thank you. >> chair fewer: i see people lining up that actually don't have cards. [names read] >> good afternoon, supervisors.

my name is tamika moss. i first want to say thank you to chair fewer and mayor breed for bringing this legislation forward. i had the privilege of chairing the housing group where we thought about how do we use these funds to uplift community housing residents. i don't want to actually be in a community where we have to choose between whether or not we support our vulnerable seniors or vulnerable families or vulnerable youth. i want to do it all. and you as the supervisors have a duty to help the people that are struggle to stay in our city and our region. every day, hamilton families go to work, and they come home to our shelter. they don't want that for their

children, and we have a duty to the extremely low-income people in our communities, which is why i think we need to think about putting a permanent source of community housing in part of our capital plan so we can provide housing for people who need it most. i also want to thank you for the additional $100 million that we now have access to. i just ask that when you consider amendments, you consider an inclusive process and include stakeholders in your decision making around how those dollars get spent. thank you. >> hello. my name is theresa imperial. build soar has a program, and we've been advocating for the barriers in affordable housing, and right now, the barrier is

the income gap. for the last five years, are clients are, i would say it's between 40 to 90% a.m.i., and that was 90% of our clientele. now it's such a big shift that 30% of our clients are zero to 30% a.m.i.s. and also, when you're talking about a.m.i.s, it's stagnant, fluctuating every year. so we're getting poorer and poorer, and the nonprofit workers are probably considered to be extremely poor income. so we need to, when we're prioritizing this bond, we need to think about the extremely low-income, whether in preservation, extremely low-income housing. i'm glad that we're increasing

the bond to $100 more, but we need to think more on the different sources of funding. so yes, i hope to see that more. thank you very much. >> hello. i'm here representing community housing partnership. i'm just here in front of you, supervisors, because i want to say i really love the city and i love to be here as a part of the community housing partnership. i am here to say that community housing works. i was homeless for 13 years. when i was homeless, i had three boys on the streets of market street which i couldn't bring home because i didn't have any home to bring them to. but since i have a home through community housing partnership, i'm able to bring my son home, four years old.

i just want to say i support the community housing act, and i hope you do the same. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is malcolm young. i was one of the subcommittee cochairs on the housing bond working group. i just want to bring to this table the four recommendations that came out of our group. one was to make sure that we fully fund the shovel ready projects that we shouhave in t pipeline. by doing that, we could create almost 2,000 units almost immediately. number two, making sure we get 1 100% affordable housing projects going. we did ask for some money within the bond to do some projects so that when prop c gets legalized, and it will, we're ready to go right away.

i think it's critical that housing be considered infrastructure for this city and housing be included as a permanent part of the capital planning process because that puts us in a position where we can actually plan long-term and not be in a situation where we're all fighting over the same dollars because we're worried it's not going to come around again. thank you to supervisor fewer and the mayor for putting this forward. $600 million is a lot of money, and we're definitely looking to this passing in november.

>> hello, supervisors. my name is c.w. johnson. i just wanted to say i support the seniors bill -- i mean, the seniors bond. the thing is that next year, i will be a senior, and i'm on disability. i notice that the -- there seems to be no addition for seniors with disability. i just ask that you look with that because a lot of our seniors -- and i become a senior -- may have disability issues, so that may be something you want to put in place. so for people to have certain units that may be accessible, just kind of have a coalition of what we need, like wraparound services. a lot of seniors are isolated like myself that may need mental health support or physical support or just need

community building support. so thank you, and i hope this works out and i hope you take into account really low-income housing. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. jessica lehman with senior and disability action. we work with seniors with and without disabilities as well as adults with disabilities of all ages. and we strongly support having more housing, of course, that's deeply affordable for seniors. it's heartbreaking that all the time, we talk to seniors and people with disabilities who are looking for affordable housing, and almost nothing that is labelled affordable in this city actually works for someone who's living on $900 a month on s.s.i. or who's getti getting ssdi or someone who is sort of retired or trying to find a part-time job at age 75

because they can't live on the tiny little savings that they have. thank you for the work that you've done. we urge you to adopt the findings from the senior housing work group and do as much as you can. i also urge you to look at what we can do in the bond and beyond for seniors with disabilities. i want to stress that this is very much not about pitting one group against another. as an earlier speaker said, we shouldn't have to choose in this city between groups that are marginalized. we should be able to make sure that everybody has a safe and healthy place to live. just to remind everybody, seniors with disabilities makeup a quarter of our population, so one it's on our ballot, we need those votes. we need to make sure that seniors with disabilities see

themselves and know that they have to get out the vote because they are going to need housing. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alexandra goldman. i just want to thank you all for your continued advocacy on behalf of affordable housing and thanks to all the folks in the room and beyond who have been working really hard. i also want to echo the sentiments of the other people that we need to keep growing the pie. it's fantastic, and we need to continue to ensure that we grow the amount of money available for affordable housing. until general, tndc is particularly interested in ensuring that there are resources for extremely low-income households and for preservation. one of the great things about building acquisition is that you're helping to preserve a neighborhood in addition to preserving and creating new units of affordable housing. so to that extent, we're really

excited to see resources for larger sites that are available in neighborhoods that we focus in, and we're excited to see opportunities in other parts of the city that don't have as much affordable housing. and we're willing to partner with organizations or build capacity in order to ensure geofrage geographic equity when it comes to housing. so thank you all of you and looking forward to working with you on all of this. thank you. >> hi. laura foote, yimby action. this is something we should be looking at. we also have to make sure this money goes as far as possible. we have to make sure we're supporting the rezoning of public land to allow public housing in more places.

too often, affordable housing has slowed down and is stymied in production. we've heard a lot today about the tension between wanting to make sure that middle-income people are able to live and thrive in the city and the needs of the lowest income people and how, you know, that tension, people say we don't want to pit different groups against one another. there is a tension there? how are we going to divvy up the baddy needed subsidies? we don't have subsidies for affordable housing. as someone who advocates for housing subsidies and housing in general, we shouldn't be redirecting a lot of this

funding to middle-income people. the market should be providing for middle-income housing, and we shouldn't be redirecting badly needed low-income housing for teachers and nurses. they should be able to afford housing in this city. i would love to build all only public housing. i don't see

i'm a resident for sunnydale, and i live in hope of the hope s.f. -- in one of the hope s.f. sites in san francisco. i am here on behalf of sunnydale residents to remind you all that sunnydale was built 77 years ago, and these housings for specifically for temporary ship workers at that time, and we're still occupying those units, and with that being said, our families are basically sharing units with pests, infestation of roaches, mildew, mold, never ending plumbing and maintenance

issues. and i just want to let you know that sunnydale and potrero have been forgotten, and this will increase the level of life for residents in sunnydale and potrero. thank you. >> my name is arturo hernandez, i'm here to represent our mission, no eviction. we're in a neighborhood who has lost 10,000 people who have been gentrified. 8,000 of those were latinos. i know an elderly woman who is currently renting a closet for $700 a month. i was going to call and report the landlord, but she begged me not to do that because she would be evicted and would have nowhere else to live. i know a family that's living

in a back yard. he setup -- the landlord setup three tents, tossed them a hose and gave them an extension cords. i know many people that live beside freeways, under bridges. it is criminal to take these tents away. if you're not going to provide a place to people to live then you should not be taking their tents away. if you look at somebody who makes $15 an hour, and we're talking about janitor's, busboys, and maids. that's $410.

you can't make it at the end of the month. and then, your credit goes bad, and you go to apply for a place to live, and you can't get in because you've got bad credit. i was part of the last bond that was put together. i'm part of the committee that put that bond together. i'm here to tell you that our mission, no eviction is in support of this bond, but i'm here to tell you -- [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you. >> hello. my name is clyde jenkins. i live in sunnydale. i would like to thank you, those of you that came out to our community. we feel it's important, the impact of that bond, and you guys coming out to see and

actually walking through our community was a big step. we have never had anything that impactful which you guys coming to our community. like a lot of people said, there's a lot of communities that feel like they're isolated, and sunnydale and potrero feel like that. you guys actually recognizing that and actually trying to do something, it really means a lot to that community. we are totally for the bond. we glad that we are actually being thought about in the bond. there is -- there's been situations where we just -- the community has just been living with just things that you wouldn't even think that a community shouldn't be living like that, so i want to thank you guys for coming out and even considering this that

would make a very big impact on the sunnydale community. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name's ken trey, retired social studies teachers, and i'm here representing the united educate i donors of san francisco. i remember when the housing crisis first started, around 2008 or so, and shortly after, our department chair had to go down the peninsula. he was leaving the city and he couldn't imagine supporting his family with the expenses of this city. walking to this meeting, i'm sure everyone has passed the folks living on the street. we all know it's appalling in such a wealthy city such as

ours, with the third most billionaires in the world, that we can't support our own. so uesf is glad that the bond is going forward. we've been advocating for years that we need housing for teachers and nurses and show makers and those -- shoe makers and those doing the work. but uesf doesn't want that at the expense of low-income workers, our own paraeducators and their families. we're glad this is $100 million extra coming aboard with the bond funding. we would ask that the city add another $20 million to supply

educator housing, which would support middle-income teachers and paraeducator housing. thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is anabelle, and i'm here with the united educate i don't remember -- educators of san francisco. we're here to support that $100 million of the bond to support teachers and affordable housing opportunity for housing that's currently in the pipeline. this will allow them to continue to live and work in san francisco to provide our students a quality education.

thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter papadopolous with the mission economic development agency, and i wanted to start by saying the $600 million, if we are able to move this forward would be obviously a very significant step towards addressing the crisis issues we have around housing. i want to echo a few of the thoughts we heard and maybe expand upon them. senior and supportive housing i think are critical steps, and we heard a lot particularly in this area around this issue of extremely low-income and where these folks are finding themselves right now in trying to make sure, especially in these areas as well as in the wider population, we really make sure to meet those e.l.i. needs which are a real challenge. they're a challenge here for

all of us. they're a challenge on the day-to-day lives. we've heard some great testimony just how intense it is trying to stay in this city. we agree that additional geographic expansion is an important step across the city and and making sure that affordable housing is available across the city. and we want to make sure that neighborhoods that are seeing high level of gentrification, eviction does, displacement -- eviction doe evictions, displacement, and loss of affordable housing, also have their needs met, as well, and we want to see a structural development for ongoing public housing, that

we're committing that it's part of infrastructure, and we're going to keep coming down to it as part of a larger sort of equity growth plan for the city which we'd like to keep discussing. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm sarah short. i'm with community housing par nership. we're a community housing provider, and we house folks that are formerly homeless in permanent affordable housing in san francisco. so obviously, we have a great stake in this bond, and we enthusiastically support it. we know that some of the final details are still being worked out in terms of the specific allocations to the specific buckets, and we are really hopeful that you'll come to some good resolutions shortly because we need this to go on the ballot. and thank you for all your hard work behind that. we also are -- as much as we do

support this bond, we're acutely aware of the large need that we have, and that the bond is not unfortunately going to cover that. judge in our pipeline alone for district 6, where we happen to be located, the number is actually larger than what the bond provides for the entire pipeline. so we do encourage you to consider doing the five-year reup and making sure that this bond doesn't fizzle out when we don't think we need the need anymore because we'll always have the need. unfortunately, our city for a long time has relied on public housing as our primary source of housing for extremely

low-income residents, and the picture has greatly changes especially in terms of the federal funding, and so we need to be, you know, very cognizant of the great need as well as the dropping incomes and, you know, economic injustice has also contributed to a larger need for people at that income level. and when we talk about seniors, that's -- >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you, members. my name is arnold townsend -- reverend arnold townsend. i had the pleasure, i believe, of working on this somewhat with all of the people who were concerned and worked on the committee to put the initiative together. let me just say that we live in the first period in history where in the wealthy covet the

homes and the neighborhoods of the poor. with that, i watched the african american community lose about 50,000 people and i'm being conservative in my estimate since i've been living in this town. and that happens because people move into your neighborhood and some move in to live with you, and others move in to replace you. we've had too much of the latter kind. so i appreciate board president yee and mayor breed for cooperating, working together to do this. it is a lesson that many of our housing advocates could learn about how we're going to resolve or at least start working on resolving the housing issues. we're living in a society where the very low-income, those who are homeless and those who used to live in hotels have to compete with teachers and

union -- labor -- how in the world does that happen? any city? so we've got to -- happen in any city? so we've got to move that forward. please use this to maintain neighborhood. we don't have a problem with our neighborhood being called an african american community. you may. it is to us. thank you. >> good afternoon, residents. my name is carlos, and i'm a resident of the mission and i've had the privilege for the last 2.5 years to fight alongside residents as they've gone through evictions. i've helped seniors and adults, documented and undocumented alike. the one thing i've learned is that suffering is a matter of degrees. there are some that have greater opportunities to get

themselves out of the situations that they find themselves in than others. and i would definitely say that as we're living in a city with a growing income inequality gap, the only thing that stays consistent is the gap for those lower income families grows along with them. it's important for us to be intentional how we're spending this money, making sure that the low-income community residents are going to be the ones that are safeguarded the most. and on top of that, the new housing that does get built, that we're intentional where it gets built, too. so that people have the opportunity to remain in the neighborhoods that are so special. if not, before you know it, there's a neighborhood that remains but the thing that made is special is gone because the people are no longer there.

i would advocate also for this to be an ongoing five-year bond, as well. >> supervisors, my name is mateo. i'm really hoping that we'll move together, you know, some of us that are more campaign focused are already thinking about, like, what's the next four months going to look like? and we want to be with you, excited about the contents of the bond, about a heavy and significant investment into senior housing, into an investment for, you know, brothe brothe brothers and sisters in public housing and how we can bring this forward. and i think how we can have this conversation about how's

how's -- how we can make a housing bond an ongoing issue is fundamental to making incremental changes in public housing going forward. so we're excited to work with you to get to a point where we all in community are excited about a $600 million affordable bond, which is incredibly exciting for everybody in the room and for everybody on the board of supervisors. and you know, we look forward to them working with you following that into getting the support of san francisco voters for this incredibly important initiative. thank you. >> supervisors, this is sarah wan. our council strongly supports this mention, and i especially

mentioned, this is a very special one that i have first time that will place senior into permanent place. and we also hope that we can work together to keep our families and youth in the city and also work with different districts and neighborhoods to understand specific needs and strategies, so i look forward to working with you all. thank you. >> yes. good afternoon, supervisors. i notice the frask said it's a $5a -- graphic said it's a $500 million bond, but i got here late.

i very much agree with calvin's stats on this. one of the issues of hyperinflation is that the people of the past who are living in a -- a value system that was real then and now we're living in an imaginary financial system as far as they're concerned. i would normally like to give a minute of silence for iris canada, a 100-year-old woman who died because she was evicted from her land. she was -- if i calculate right, she retired when the minimum wage was $1.60, and she can't keep up -- she couldn't keep up with the cost of living, and where we would cherish people who have long survival, she becomes expendable and disposable. so the issue of hyperinflation,

i would urge you to consider, as you're developing this bond, first of all to not encourage the bond sales from overseas, but to encourage the bond sales from local people so that it becomes very much a local investment and that people willing to invest in this city are urged to buy. the other aspect of it is that if there's an economic -- [inaudible] >> chair fewer: next speaker, please. >> members of the board, abe fujikawa, and i want to echo my colleagues' statements. what an impressive lineup today. it certainly seems that working together, we have more than a fighting chance to pass this bond when it comes out on the

other side. i want to mention one issue that was raised when we participated in the senior housing bond committee and we worked with the dignity fund and many other senior organizations to make should recommendations. and i wanted to sort of address one issue with respect to the unaffordability of affordable housing, particularly for seniors. although we raise that as a critique of the existing system, we also proposed a solution, and that solution is to create a relatively modest subsidy program that would bring down senior and affordable housing to the level of 15% a.m.i. we're proud to be working with supervisor peskin that will be announced on tuesday a program that will bring a majority of

units to 15 to 25% a.m.i. there's a solution. we really appreciate the work of this bord, tard, with the ms office, and we can fix this housing with programs such as this. >> chair fewer: thank you. next speaker. >> i want to remind you that folks that are working in nonprofit housing with really struggling with housing. it's disheartening to hear my co-workers talk about leaving the work that we do helping homeless people and housing, and they go to another job. i know one of the people that i work with, the other full-time job that he works goes toward the rent. some of the people that i've

worked with over the years end up on wait lists, and i see them deteriorating out on the street. it's not because they lost a job, it's because the overwhelming stress of trying to navigation employment and barriers that society puts on us and these overwhelming rent, it's crushing to people, so we really need to be prioritizing housing that people can move into and live in. thanks. >> chair fewer: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lorenzo. i am a community organizer in the tenderloin and south of market. so i think the -- first of all, i'd like to thank you all for, like, hopefully making this happen, and you know focus on more the need of who are actually be most need for more housing. so i'm particularly focusing on, like, you know, seniors,

seniors housing -- senior housing because they work so hard to make, you know, to help build our city. and giving them this important attention for them to being housed is so important. so i believe we should allocate a portion that would actually be for our senior housing. so -- and the other thing is that it is so also important that we should provide funding for preservation of rent controlled buildings. i can tell you, i've been working with tenants in the tenderloin. we've been fighting the monster, which has been, like, trying to evict them from their housing for the past three years. you know, they -- what monster

did was, he, like, tried to increase the rent by 70%. so we were able to successfully fight it, but we know it's not the final solution. the final solution is to buy that building and buy it and convert it to permanently affordable housing by making a nonprofit, like, buy it. so i think if we would -- you know, this housing bond would help a lot, in, like, doing a lot for the small size housing. so i am excited to vote for the -- >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i appreciate it. is anyone else for public comment here on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, i h'd like to voten these two items separately -- oh, supervisor yee. >> president yee: yeah. i just wanted to make sure we

thank the public for coming out today. although we were hoping to make some final amendments, after all, we just found out an extra $100 million less than a week ago, i believe, or about a week ago. i was hoping for a miracle, but it didn't happen. the miracle was the $100 million. so thank you once again, and i have a lot of confidence that the -- my colleagues and i and the mayor's office will get to something by next week, and then, we can move on. it's true, it's been a collaborative effort to get us to where we need to go, and it's kind of nice to actually have a measure where we're not having competing measures that are fighting each other, and this is a good process that i'm

enjoying. so i think what we need to do -- i don't know if we need to actually continue these items until we can make these amendments, so i'd like -- mr. givner, givner. so i'd like to make an amendment to move these items to the next budget and finance committee meeting? >> chair fewer: thank you, president yee. i'd like to say thank you, president yee and thank you to the mayor for working on this so needed bond to help people stay in san francisco. overdue. thank you so much for the leadership. so yes, you have a motion. there's a motion on the table to continue these two items, is that correct, president? >> president yee: yes. >> chair fewer: okay. >> president yee: what's the date? >> chair fewer: the next budget meeting? >> clerk: june 13. >> chair fewer: and i would like to second president yee's motion. can we take that without

objection? done. bam, it's done. thank you, also, to the public for coming out. madam clerk, would you please read item 6. >> clerk: item 6 is a hearing to identify the youth commission's budget priorities for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 and requesting the youth commission to report. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and i believe we have our youth commissioners here. >> hi. all right. hello, supervisors. good afternoon. thank you for having us? my name is calvin, and i'm the legislative affairs officer for the youth commission.

i also represent district 5 on the commission. with me today are commissioners dawn, min, thai, hilton, and hurgi, and we are here to present the youth commission's budget policy and priorities for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 fiscal years. so the primary charted function of the youth commission is to advise the mayor and board of supervisors on the unmet needs budgetary policy of youth in san francisco, and so throughout the year, we fulfill this function mainly by referring legislation that is referred to us by the board, by supporting community initiatives for youth and by bringing individual issues and concerns affecting youth to you directly as supervisors. however, the youth commission's annual budget and policy

priorities report is the result of a more comprehensive process of outreach to our communities and our constituents and affects the most important and pressing concerns of youth in san francisco with action steps that we urge you to take in order to address those concerns. so we were here before on february 13 to present our preliminary version mainly dedicated to budgetary recommendations? we are back here today with a basically finalized set of recommendations, and we -- the final report will be circulated to your offices in the upcoming weeks. so this year, the commission has six big priorities in three policy areas. civic engagement, housing and land use and transformative

justice. so we are going to present each one of those priorities. each priority has a set of recommendations that are sort of actionable steps that we think the city should take to meet the concerns of youth? and just to note that these priorities have been the culmination of work over several months, so they may not exactly reflect current events. so for example, we are actually quite pleased that the mayor's housing bond has mentioned specifically transitional age youth as a population to receive housing under the bond. so without further adieu, i will turn it over to the rest of the commissioners to present the priorities. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm commissioner min.

in light of the rising tension in our current political climate, the youth commission believes -- the youth commission believes it is all the more important to include youth in politics and legislation that will affect them in the years to come. currently, young people in san francisco are voiceless in local politics even though many of us drive, work, pay taxes and regularly take part in rallies. the youth commission strongly urges the board to support assembly member evan low's amendment and the movement which would grant youth suffrage. next, i hope we can all agree that the foundation of any functioning democracy is a strong civic engagement, and

that is why our commission has been dedicated towards providing youth the necessary resources and preregistering to vote. our -- through our civic engagement committee, we have already registered over 50 people, and the question may come up, then, how does preregistering contribute towards our democracy? well, data proves that engagement in the political process at a young age instills lifelong habits of performing civic duty. thus, the youth commission strongly urges the board to work with the san francisco unified school district on implementing board education resolution 162.23-a-3, that the department of children, youth, and their families require that their youth serving agencies provide preregistration options, and that the board and dcyf to work with the school board in fulfilling their

previously committed voter education policies. and finally, we -- we do hope that the board continues to support the department of elections and their budgetary needs. so without further adieu, i'm going to pass it on to commissioner dong. >> my name is maggie dong, and i am the vice chair of the housing and land use committee, and i'm here to present priority three, which is to increase emergency shelter options and permanent housing options for transitional age youth. so our first suggestion is to complete the 2015 housing plan. the goal of this plan was to complete 400 units of permanent supportive housing by 2015. but four years past the few date there is still 120 units that have not been completed? our suggestion for the department of homelessness and

supportive housing is to actually allocate 120 of their 700 units that they will be providing in other projects and to take that and to allocate that for transitional age youth. second is to commit to a new 2025 t.a.y. housing plan. so other than the 2015 t.a.y. housing plan, there has not been another housing plan for this population? we know there is still a need of supportive housing for t.a.y., and that exceeds the 2015 goals, so clearly, there is a need for a new ten-year plan in order to provide the sufficient amount of housing? and the third point is to construct a t.a.y. navigation center. so as we've discussed in the

budgetary priority presentation, the t.a.y. navigation center is still not constructed. the board of supervisors promised it would be established by 2018, but we're still not seeing any progress despite there being funded allocated for it already, and i will pass it on to jose. >> hello. i'm commissioner thai. i'm the chair of the housing committee and district 8 youth commissioner. community based organizations are on the front line, providing housing to youth experiencing homelessness. they are doing their best to provide these services while being severely overstretched and over capacity. i can tell you that the system

is challenging to navigate and not all services are adequate to serve youth. since there's no adequate services, this leads youth to be unsupported as well as lead to commit acts of survival. and now i'll be introducing the transformative justice committee's priorities. priority 4 is to continue the expansion of alternatives to incarceration for youth in t.a.y. and encouraging the closure of juvenile hall at 850 bryant, to expand youth court, and to hold a hearing regarding the t.a.y. population in san francisco jails. the connection between youth homelessness and incarceration shows that their needs are not

being met. >> so we would be -- it's a continuation of -- as a continuation of priority four, we would urge you to continue funding holistic services such as behavioral health therapy and drug screening services. we want to stress the effects of trauma on young people, and that is one of the reasons why people end up in places like youth guidance center, so it's important to have youth guidance centers that treat the effects of trauma before young people are introduced to the juvenile justice system? we would also like to urge the -- like, the voices of

formally -- formerly incarcerated youth on committees and panels, similar to the youth, and incentivize the priorities of being on these panels and also to make monetary investments that support young people in and around the juvenile justice system? and our last point, we would like to reform the cash bail system as it's an unfair system that unnecessarily impacts low-income communities that don't necessarily have kbhaacc to that monetary