our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to >> welcome, everyone. and thank you so much for coming and i am claire farley and the director and a senior advisor for mayor breed and tony newman, and today we are gathered on this historic day to open up san

francisco's first trans home for transand non-conforming adults in san francisco. [applause] and it's such an honor to work for a city that continues to celebrate but also to do the work to make sure that our community gets housed. without housing, without housing we will not be able to help our communities thrive. every one of us need to come together to be a part of this solution and st. james and larkin street are doing that today. thank you. [applause] so first we have honored guests with us today and i'll turn it over to her. and mayor breed has led the effort and she made $2.3 million investment into transhome which includes this opening today which is going to be 13 folks

housed and 55 folks to receive subsidies for folks who are low income and she spearheaded with the community and the office and tony and we're so honored to have a mayor that continues to commit and really work to make sure that everyone in this city can thrive. so please welcome mayor breed. >> mayor london breed: thank you for joining us on this historic day. when i first became mayor in san francisco and met with the folks in my office, many of the department heads, i made it clear that equity would be at the top of our agenda in everything that we do. we need to change the culture of san francisco and not just talk about the problems that exist, but actually to make the kinds of investments that will deliver real results. and it comes from my own experience of growing up in san francisco in the african

american community, living in poverty, and waiting for something to be done. we know what the data says, but we don't always make the right investments that ensure the results that are going to change the lives of the people that we want to serve. and so when i met with the trans-advisory committee and we talked about the challenges that continue to persist around the opportunities for grants and the arts community and opportunities for housing and opportunities for programs and other services, the discriminatory practices that exist with job opportunities that they seek, the challenges with our homeless population and learning that people who are part of our transcommunity are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than anyone else in this city, i knew that it was important to not only listen and hear what they had to say, but to invest ar resources in tryino make sure that we can change

what those challenges are for the better. and so i'm so grateful to be standing here with claire farley who is the director of the office of transgender initiatives for san francisco, because she has brought so many people together and to come up with incredible solutions. and is the reason why we have invested in this past year's budget, thanks to the supervisor of this district and others, supervisor peskin, $2.3 million for this initiative of trans-home s.f. and this is one of the first, most incredible projects that we are cutting the ribbon on today that will provide safe affordable housing for people who are experiencing homelessness. and so it is so great to be here today. and i really want to thank tony newman because tony newman -- [applause]

and she's a force and is committed to this work and she has hit the ball rolling with staffing up and working with folks in the community and making it clear what was needed, which makes it easier to provide the funding right to the places where we know that it's needed the most -- rental subsidies and wraparound support and services and making sure that we have the right people in place to get the job done so that we can get people off the streets and to get them into housing. so thank you so much to tony and the work that you do, to the mayor's office on housing and community development, and to the coalition, to larkin street and youth services and especially to the san francisco transadvisory committee who i have mentioned before the work that they continue to do to make sure that we call attention to all of the inequities and the various city departments as it relates to funding and how it

needs to change to make an impact on the lives of people who are a part of this amazing community and a true important part of san francisco. so i want to thank... (♪) (♪)

>> our young people, as well as reaching the thousand new shelter beds which is such an accomplishment and thank you so much for your leadership to make that goal happen. also i want to recognize our commissioners who are in the house today as well as our department heads, dr. colfax from the d.p.h. and others, leadership at mohcd for their support and really making sure that these programs get funded and that there's equity continuing throughout the work. and as well i want to welcome the district supervisor aaron peskin. thank you so much.

[applause] >> thank you. i think that everything has been said but not everybody has said it. in addition to our d.p.h. director grant colfax i want to acknowledge and to thank the director of our department of building inspection, tom hooey. thank you to larkin street and thank you to st. jerusalem's and to the office of transinitiative incentives and the mayor's office of housing and community development. i am here to give a district 3 welcome. and let me just say that we are delighted, we were delighted to appropriate the funds, and i could not be more proud that this is the first facility and it is located here in district 3. which has a very proud, long lgbtq history from the black cat

down the street to polk street on the other side, this is where it all began in san francisco. and we are profoundly aware that homelessness is acutely an lgbtq issue. and today we are taking a large step in addressing it and in solving it. welcome to district 3, to the 13 individuals, i will register you to vote the second you move in. [laughter]. [applause] >> thank you, so much, supervisor, and thank supervisor mandelman and supervisor haney, they were not able to join us but their teams are here and so thank you so much for your efforts. before i introduce tony i wanted to recognize the anonymous building owner of this property who is renting this space to us and he and his partner are

committed to making sure that transhome is a success and that we continue to work to make sure that our communities are housed in the city. and without having such a strong and supportive and inclusive manager of this building, we would not be here today. so let's please give he him a hd and thank them for their support. [applause] so now it's my honor to introduce tony newman, she's the director of st. james infirmary and i would like to say that i helped to kind of create the idea, and now she's the mother of the project. so please welcome the mother of trans-home, toni newman. [applause] >> welcome, everybody. i'm just so excited to be here today and i want to thank all of the partners here, hugo from the mayor's office of housing. and we have open house and we have larkin who have been very supportive. and larkin is so supportive to me and st. james and the navigating team of matthew

payden and jesse and camden, that have been working day and night to make this available for you. we're excited that st. james can be a leader with larkin. and larkin has been leading the youth for many years. and they have taught us how to do this. and i want to thank my board of directors for coming and i have four board of directors and two will be speaking and now i introduce akira jackson did she's here. she's a sponsor and she's been fighting for housing but i don't think that she's here, so jesse santos is going to come up and to introduce our first resident moving into the house this week. jesse, and jane, please come up right now. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for being here and this is a dream for us, for the trans-gender community. i will introduce jane, the resident in our house and she's a beautiful woman. [applause]

>> hi, i am jane cordova and i was born in central mexico and i came here when i was 16 years old and i grew up in l.a. and eventually made my way to san francisco, which is i live here for 10 years. and i went to new york and we stayed there for another 10 years and i'm very happy to be back in this city where our community has the most resources and i'm very happy to be here and to have a place finally to call home. thank you. [applause] >> i'd like to call up joquaim and jane, come on up. [applause] hi, thank you for coming, i'm joaquin ramora and i'm here where i proudly serve as a board member and as an advocate for

harm reduction and transsupport in the greater bay area. thanks to mayor breed and our trans-home and everyone else who helped to make this project come together. today we can celebrate that our trans-home is a step in the right direction for the city of san francisco. this ensures that transgender people have an opportunity to become successful in our society. stable housing is fundamental to creating access to resources for survival. our trans-home will provide this foundation to create a support system for those living on the margins within our city. excuse me. members of our community are constantly faced with unjust incarceration and poverty and constitutional and emotional violence. some encounter even more severe consequences and our transgender sisters of color are experiencing hate crimes and murders on a daily basis and this goes unnoticed. the society must understand

discrimination based on race and gender presentation. we must continue with this momentum and inspire more programs for the needs of our community. it's our due diligence as transpeople to ensure that the issues are confronted and change. we need companies and foundation and government to commit to advocating for transgender causes. our trans-home will provide the opportunity to not only recover and survive but to thrive and survive the power members to become leaders and role models. and protecting our community members and we are shifting the narrative away from being defined by our margins and barriers towards being defined by successes and positive impacts on the world. the housing crisis in the bay area has become recognized as an ongoing issue and despite this we're continuing to demonstrate that there's ways to empower and to support our communities with pride. i feel proud to know that san francisco is a place of historical resistance and refuge for people of all walks of life and that we continue that resistance by uplifting our

marginalized communities. thank you. [applause] >> i'd like to take a second to acknowledge akira jackson who is unable to be here today. i'd like to thank her leadership, without her we wouldn't be here today. and st. james is honored to be part of this project connecting folks. -- thank you -- connecting folks with the services and homes that our community needs. we look forward to continue to fight for the rights of our community. thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you all so much. and now we're going to move the podium and cut the ribbon. one, two, three,. [applause] thank you all so much. (♪)

(♪) >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's

hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my

biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid.

i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i

existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's

incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we

do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal

experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those

situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all >> the exhibition focuser

features 150 works of art by 65 artists and we've had the great pleasure of welcoming many of those artists at the opening of the exhibition. and at subsequent events on our saturdays. since the exhibition opened about 55,000 visitors have walked through, and many of them attracted to the museum by the free saturdays, free general admission saturdays, that has been jegenerously sponsored by s wilsley. and there's two remaining free saturdays for the exhibition itself before the end of the show on march 15th, on the second saturday of february, and the second saturday of march. and we are also offering a reduced entrance to the museum entrance of $10.

so there's time for our visitors to still enjoy this important exhibition. with that i'm going to hand over to the next speaker. >> it's one of the treasures of this city and county of san francisco. and i have the great pleasure while serving as the mayor of this city on more than one occasion to visit a place that as a result of the quake of 1989 ended up being the new young museum. and it would not been that way

without a fabulous commitment from a woman who more than any other single punish in thi persy who devotes her resources and life to the arts. she devotes those resources and herself to the arts reflective of the incredible, wonderful collection of people that represents the diversity of this extraordinary city. in your capacity as mayor, and i'm sure that mayor breed shares my view on this, that if we had just four of de dee dee, oh, my god, yes. [laughter] probably. but it was frankly just a

wonderful experience to be able to pick up the telephone and to have somebody on the other end understand and offer suggestion and directions on how best to address what needed to be addressed. no one does it any better. so, mayor breed, it's my pleasure to introduce you, because i know that you want to say some wonderful words as you often do these days, you know, i -- london, when she could hardly speak english i knew her. but she's gotten so good, i don't even want to be near where she is for speech making purposes because she did it so clear and so concise and so direct. having london breed as the mayor and still having dee dee on the

side under all circumstances, means that the city is appropriately and richly in great hands and the soul of a nation clearly reflects that. and when the man who heads this museum says this show is to leave in march, that's five days before my 86th birthday. i think that you ought to keep the show here. [laughter] yes, yes. give me a party here. but, ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you a woman who heads this city and who i think will have a long tenure of doing the kind of things that are reflective in this museum and,

believe me, if you're the mayor, this is your museum. mayor breed, your museum. [applause] >> mayor london breed: thank you. first, of all, thank you, mayor brown, for that introduction. and thank you to everyone who is here today. tom campbell and the team here at the museum. they do an extraordinary job working to bring some of the most innovative exhibitions anywhere. i love coming here too and i know that so many of these exhibits wouldn't be possible if not for this incredible woman, dee dee wilsey, who not only rolled up her sleeves to help to get the buildings built like the museum and the hospital at ucsf, and other places in san francisco, but she's committed to ensuring that we have real equity when we provide opportunities like a deyoung museum and the soul of the

nation and what it represents is absolutely extraordinary. and the fact that miss wilsey has invested resources into making sure that there are days that are free to the public, to ensure access to such an incredible exhibit, is something that typically a corporation or a company usually does, but this lady single handedly did it for this incredible exhibit. and i want to thank you for your work and your commitment. [applause] this extraordinary exhibit, which spans over the course of 20 years during the most -- i think during the most critical transition of african americans anywhere, especially here in california, is just absolutely incredible. and i had an opportunity in december to tour the exhibit with the curator and to just really feel like i was stepping back in time and the commitment and how these revolutionary

artists chose to take what they knew best in terms of what they created and turn it into something so extraordinary, it is mind blowing. and, up you know, i'm a big fanf the mayor and the work that he's done and his message is that you have to stare at his work for a very long time to really understand all of the pieces of the collage art work that he does to really just get a feel for how impactful at the time his work was and continues to be to this continuing day. and mayor brown suggested that i used to be an executive director of the art complex and i wanted to put the african american culture complex on the map for performing and visual arts, but i wanted to make sure that larger institutions highlighted the african american artists, both past and present.

and we developed an incredible working relationship with the museum hosting nights here at the museum when the current co-executive director and her sister melanie green served and worked at the center curating and doing everything under the sun and now they're running the place am so i'm really grateful that melora is here today with us to celebrate this milestone and how this incredible exhibit, which talks about everything from the black panther movement which started right here in the bay area in oakland, to the riots in san francisco and the significance that the artists played during that time in communicating the message, really touched the hearts and lives of african americans. and it was not always, you know, appreciated and celebrated in main society. it was our way of coming

together and it was our way of communicating muc. now it's the world's way of showing respect and appreciation for what artists did during that time, during such a significant movement that have led to an opportunity for even someone like me or mayor brown to serve as mayor of one of the most incredible cities in the world today. so i recognize the connection. i recognize using art as a vehicle for change and i'm also excited that we have two of our arts commissioners here, chuck collins here today as well. and it is really great to have so many people who care about the opportunities that exist and using this story and this exhibit, soul of a nation, really digs deep into that. and i've got to tell you that if you walk around these halls and you hear about what this exhibit is about and you read what you see, it really will take you back. and it really will make you feel a certain kind of way about how

artists and african americans in this country had to live and chose to put themselves and their lives on the line anyway for justice. and over the span of 20 years it gives you just a glimpse of that. that's why this is so powerful, and that's why we're all here today to see it, to experience it, and to take it in, and to also to share it with other people in the bay area so that they don't miss out on an opportunity to see what -- to see what i think is one of the most extraordinary exhibits that the museum has had in a long time. so, again, i want to thank you all for being here today. i'm really excited about this. i've actually seen it and really spent quality time here exploring it. and i, again, we wanted more exhibits like this at the museum and more exhibits like there in san francisco.

and i want to again thank dee dee for really shining a light on the need to provide diverse opportunities in arts here in san francisco. you have been just been a true treasure and we value you so much. and thank you to everyone who is joining us here today. now i'm going to turn the mike back over to tom campbell and i think that at that time that we'll go over a guided tour. >> can i also mention that we have one of the artists, mike henderson, is with us this afternoon. [applause] so thank you all very much. lee, are you going to cro coreoh a photograph? (♪)

>> first it's always the hardest and when they look back they really won't see you, but it's the path that you're paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. (♪) hi, my name is jajaida durden and i'm the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. and i'm over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. and some tree inspectors as well. i have been with the city and county of san francisco for 17 years. and i was a cement mason, that was my first job. when i got here i thought that

it was too easy. so i said one day i'll be a supervisor. and when i run this place it will be ran different. and i i didn't think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. and i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. and six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. >> with all of those responsibilities and the staff you're also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. and she's able -- she's displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the deputy director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. >> she's a natural leader. i mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. and the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, she's right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. >> my inspiration is when i was

a young adult was to become a fire woman. well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. when i was in jail they had a little program called suppers program and i -- supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. i thought that the fire department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. so i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. while i was in jail. and the program that i was in, they re-trained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. and cement mason didn't require a high school diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. when i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area

and i went there. my first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. i was an apprentice pouring concrete. and my first job was mount zion emergency hospital which is now ucsf. and every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. yeah, i did. i graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. i loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. my first for formen job was a 40 story building from the ground up. and it's a predominantly male

industry and most of the times people underestimate women. i'm used to it though, it's a challenge for me. >> as a female you're working with a lot of guys. so when they see a woman, first they don't think that the woman is in charge and to know that she's a person that is in charge with operations, i think that it's great, because it's different. it's not something -- i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. >> i was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. when i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. in the middle, they'd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she don't belong. oh, it was terrible. it was terrible. i didn't have any support from the shop. the ones who said they supported me, they didn't, they talked about me behind my back. sometimes i had some crying, a

lot of crying behind doors, not in public. but i had a lot of mentors. my mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. what am a i going to do? hang in there. it was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. but what they didn't understand is that because they didn't help me i had to learn it. and then probably about a year later, that's when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. it was scary. but the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. i knew that it was going to come, but i didn't know how long it would take. it was coming. in the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see

the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, that's my highlight. i can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. and i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. i'll talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me. and they com knock on my door ad ask how i move up and how i get training. i'm always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d.p.w. and i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. although we don't like hearing

it at the time that we're going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a person >> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciou deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community.

>> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas continuas my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the

grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people

in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and

mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in

mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. [♪] [♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪] [♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a

campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots.

[♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this

part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that

diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can

see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea.

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>> our united states constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created

count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. >> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the yunited states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the

city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it

wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and

medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved.