and, thank you for joining us. i am sister roma. a 34-year member of the san francisco sisters of perpetual indulgence. [applause] >> it says "hold for applause." thank you. thank you. i am truly honored to join you today for this historical event. as your host, as we recognize the nation's first transgender history month right here in san francisco. [applause] >> i would like to begin by

thanking our wonderful san francisco mayor london breed for hosting us today and your incredible support of the trans and lgbt community and also the transgender for making this historic month possible. thank you to all the city and elected official leaders who are here joining us including dccc chair honey mahogany. supervisor rafael mandelman, si cilia chung and many more. so i moved to san francisco after graduating from college in one thousand nine hundred eighty-five and within two years, i met the sisters and sort of was propelled head first into the front lines on the war against hiv and aids

and began fighting for civil rights and the thing that has impressed me most about san francisco is our community, we are intelligent, we are compassionate, we are creative and we are determined. the sisters of perpetual indulgence started here in san francisco. we are the first ever gay men's chorus. we fought for the right to serve. we have laid down and screamed i can't breathe and black lives matter and worked with women and gun control. so it's very fitting that san francisco has celebrated this historic milestone. the birthplace of the transrights movement. this month markses the 55th

anniversary that took place in august 1966 in the tenderloin. the riot was a response to the ongoing violence and police harassment of transwomen and transwomen of color. the incident was one of the first lgbtq up risings in protests perhaps the riots gang on a against the ongoing attacks injustice, and discrimination. san francisco has come a long

way in strong policies and innovative programs. the transcivil rights heroes whose shoulders we stand on. this includes legendary transleader who are no longer with us that we recognize in spirit jazzy collins, fe leash shall flames, bobby jean baker many more one of our transelders and heroes. so thank you all. but also impressed me about hour we couldn't do any of this alone and we're very fortunate to have such an amazing

powerful ally right here at this beautiful in this wonderful city, please welcome the amazing mayor of san francisco london breed. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, sister roma and thank you to everyone who is joining us here today. it's so good to see you, donna, you're always here at all these amazing events and we appreciate your work and advocacy over the years. i want to recognize commissioner chung and thank you for your work not on behalf of just the trans community, but the city and county of san francisco. we're here today to celebrate an incredible milestone and supervisor mandelman, we appreciate you so much so work for your work here in city hall, but i want to take this moment to just reflect back and

just realize our assess joaquin torres is joining us. joaquin, why are you sitting down, you should be standing up. standing up for the trans community, buddy. an incredible ally. i want to take this opportunity to really recognize two really incredible people who have been extraordinary leaders in san francisco. first, aria sayed who has been just really amazing in leading the transgender district and really advocating and pushing and coordinating and collaborating and bringing people together to help push the city in a direction where we are doing incredible things. her leadership along with claire farly who is the director of the first

transgender initiative. but i've got to tell you, it's women like this, who are the reasons why we have been able to launch extraordinary programs that no one ever thought of. it is because of their advocacy and many of you here today that we launched the first program providing universal income for the transcommunity. so many gangs. but so much more work to be done. that's here in san francisco. it's not happening in other cities across this country and we know that this movement goes

back to 1966 as sister roma talked about. everybody likes to talk about stone wall as the catalyst, but we all know here in san francisco that it started right here and it took three years before it catapulted into a movement that continued on and to support and uplift the transcommunity. i have a very dear friend that i truly in the past '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s to allow your child to be who they are born to be would not have been possible.

had it not been for the extraordinary advocacy of this community. so it is so that we honor that history, that we honor that legacy. that we make those investments. that we continue to push and san francisco continues to be that example. this past budget season thanks to supervisor mandelman and other members on the board of supervisors and i see supervisor matt haney. this year, we put forth $12 million to make sure that we are investing in the first ever lgbtq museum in san francisco to highlight and document and maintain the history of this community in our city. because it's such a rich history. because it is where the

movement started. because we continue to be leaders in advancing the goals that are necessary to be supportive and inclusive and to make sure this community is not forgotten is not discriminated against, is protecting and supported and uplifted. it all sounds good in san francisco, but the reason why we recognize these milestones and we highlight them is to continue to make sure people know that there is more work to be done because there are still women and men and mostly transwomen who are being killed just because of who they are, and in san francisco, we recognize them, we honor their lives and we make sure that we highlight the need for justice and highlight the need for changes, policies, to hold people accountable who would

attack this community. in san francisco, we pride ourselves on being inclusive. we pride yourself on being the first. we talk about all the great things that we want to do, but we also need to make sure that with those words, there are deeds, there are policy changes. there are investments. there are things that will show a difference in peoples' lives, and so i really want to thank you all for being here today to celebrate what we will continue to do in the month of august to recognize this community and the person that i must credit for all of the knowledge and the understanding and the information about the transcommunity is felicia flames. my relationship with her started many years ago before i

was even on the board of supervisors, her telling me they always forget the "t" in the lgbt movement and i'm not going to let them forget the "t." she had a lot of courage along with donna and others who just would not back down and were not afraid at a time when they were not treated with a lot of love and respect, but they still stood strong and you're still here with us today, donna, and we're so grateful to you and we're so happy to have you and we're so grateful to felicia and her legacy and her work. she would be so proud of the many gangs that we've made. i know i'm proud of san francisco and i really want to take this moment too to recognize our former mayor ed lee who started this first office of transgender

initiative as a way to highlight and support this community and, claire, as i said has done an extraordinary job of bringing the community together and helping to make sure that me as mayor and other policy makers do the right thing and put our money where our mouth is. and so today, we're going to sign this proclamation to declare it officially transgender history month in the city and county of san francisco. so aria, before you say a few words, the rest of you, sister roma, please join me. [ applause ] >> that's a lot of whereas clause.

are we ready? ready? let's do this. [ applause ] >> it's official. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you everyone. this is so exciting. this is history. this is our history. [ applause ] >> i would also just like to recognize the mayor's unprecedented leadership in this crazy time of the pandemic when who could have foreseen we would find ourselves living through this once in a century catastrophe and you have rose to the occasion. keeping us all safe.

so, you guys, we really have to appreciate our mayor. many of the women who started here before her, she is destined for more. we need to thank her while we still got her because she's going places, baby. [ applause ] >> so as we mentioned, we have some amazing leaders in our community and this next person has proven to be absolutely outstanding in everything and looking good while she does it. please welcome aria sayed. >> hi everybody. oh, no. that was a permission to respond. hello everybody. i get really nervous actually when i'm asked to publicly speak and, you know, during the

pandemic, we had the luxury of zoom and so i was able to do these speaking things in a room alone and now it's even more nerve racking because this is family. thank you so much, mayor breed, if for this moment. it's such a beautiful day today that it is transgender history month. it is also marsha p. johnson's birthday, a mother of our movement who famously said i want my gay rights now. and so it's very special to not only be celebrating the 55th anniversary of the compton's cafeteria rights and the amazing incredible history that we have as trans people. and so all my trans siblings in this space, i want us to know how powerful we are and how resilient we are and how we are more powerful than our minds

can digest and it was harvey milk who actually advocated for san francisco pride. once upon a time it used to happen in golden gate park and he fought tirelessly before, you know, but he fought tirelessly for pride to actually happen at city hall every single year because he said that queer people and trans people deserve to be at the seat of power in the city. and so i'm so grateful that we have this moment and that we have mayor breed and the office of trans initiatives truly advocating for trans peoples' history and our experience and culture and all the contributions that we've made to the world not just since 2007, but for the last hundreds and hundreds of years to be known. and i want to also acknowledge some very special people that

were also going to be honoring today which is ms. talara chang who was at the compton cafeteria riots who has been fighting for over 55 years for trans people and ms. si cilia chung since the 80s and 90s. and ms. camille moran. and i'm just so grateful to be soaking up this moment so i don't want to hold al. i do want to introduce a very special lady. she's a trans latina advocate. she's also undocumented and a doca recipient and she is actually a huge reason why today is happening. she has been fighting and advocating and harassing me and claire and everyone in between to make this moment possible and for trans people to be heard during this month in this way.

and so i'm going to ask that the ladies of the trans district come up with ms. jupiter peraza who is the director of our social justice initiative. [ applause ] >> sorry everyone. very beautiful earrings, but very hard to navigate. can you hold these? thank you so much. thank you aria. thank you, mayor breed for this wonderful opportunity. and, i just wanted to say that this is a step in the right direction. in order to understand our community, we must understand the history. and, in a society in which

trans people are regarded with so many misconceptions, it is time that we alleviate those misconceptions with education, candor, and legitimacy. when we learn about others, we learn about ourselves. what we have here is an opportunity, an opportunity to embrace how similar we are from one another. an opportunity to deseminate and uncover how much my community, the trans community has given up for the well being of all of us. trans people are my past, they are my present, and they are my future and they are yours as

well. as we have proven, we are capable of transending what is imposed on us to attain a life in which we are authentically and exquiz italy us. i talk about us and being us because we should talk about that more. and with transgender history month, we will talk about that. the goal is to remind every single transperson whether you're thinking about transitioning or you've lived years as the person that you were bound to be, how vital and how critical you are. you are a cornerstone. you are a beacon of progress. thank you to all the leaders in

this room. to mayor breed for welcoming this proclamation. you always know what the best san francisco looks and feels like. thank you to claire farley and everyone at the office of transgender initiative. you are representing us with might and cleverness. to honey mahogany for spearheading and breaking down barriers and most importantly, an immense thank you to the co-founder and president of the transgender initiative aria sayid for being the leader our community needs. you are brilliant, relentless,

when it comes to what direction progress is. and, to the ladies that stand beside me, we have a very bright future ahead of us. happy transgender history month everyone. [ applause ] >> i'm so motivated and inspired today. we're going to if you're following the program, we're going to change it up just a little bit. i would like to welcome -- it looks like she's being interviewed. sicelia, would you like to come up and say a few words?

>> hello everyone. thank you, sister roma. interestingly, i think in san francisco 1985 i started college. so we just dated ourselves i think. it's really wonderful to be here to be able to talk about the rich history and all the stories that san francisco represents for the transcommunity. i still remember the first time when i got to the city, i came here because i know my community was here. and i could find someone to understand what i was going through. san francisco will always hold and is still holding a very special place in my heart. this is the city where i began my transition. this is the city where i became homeless. this is a city where i found a way out and this is a city who gave me these communities, you

know, to serve in this privilege to be on different commissions to lead by different positions. i was lucky enough to be appointed to the human rights commission and then the department of public health, the health commission, i really am grateful for the opportunity to serve and to show the world that transpeople can lead too. it's not an accident that we see such a big and beautiful community here in san francisco. it was because of all the resilience we endure and all the fights we got into. by the way, i think we're also the first city that the community actually fought with and made the supervisors

apologize to the community. and to be able to see the progress means a lot and i'm old in a grateful way because i get to see all the young leaders emerging. and also to celebrate some of the names that maybe you have never heard of or maybe you know such as ms. major and marilyn robinson who recently just passed away. their leadership helped to save the movement today. without them, we wouldn't have so many, social justice

organizations that are being led by these beautiful transwomen. that shows we're capable of doing more. or and maybe one day, we will see a trans president. you can be as big as you won't because of the rich history because of all the giants who paved the way for us and thank you for being here and thank you mayor and making the office of transgender history month. [ applause ]

>> so we've seen some great leaders, we've acknowledged that we have new leaders who are giving us all hope for the future. i think one of the talents of our community is we've been compelled to re-elect them. please welcome supervisor from district 8, rafael mandelman and omar runcon. oh, well, he's an important person. sorry, rafael had to leave. i'm glad you're still here, mayor. thank you. should we do the awards? >> what would you like to do, ladies? i'm always happy to introduce

ms. honey mahogany. i like to always watch her meteoric rise to leadership and power here in san francisco. please welcome honey mahogany. [ applause ] >> thank you mayor breed, thank you claire farley. one of my truly best friends and one of the reasons why we are all here today jupiter peraza for her advocacy. i just want to say a few brief words about how we ended up here today. when we founded the transgender initiative, that have been

serving the transgender community for decades here in san francisco. that includes organizations like t.j.i.p.. it includes organizations like st. james infirmary and it also includes organizations like the q foundation. we all banded together because we saw what was happening to our beautiful city of san francisco. there was rapid gentrification and development that was displacing so much of our community from our beloved venues to our residents. back then, i was actually working as a social worker and one of the most heart breaking things that i would see is the transpeople who are displaced from housing in the city to places like pittsburgh and antioch who were displaced from resources, family, transportation, unwaebl to get jobs and i saw many of our clients evolve and self-medicate and some even

attempting to that he can their own lives and create opportunities for transpeople where we have been for more than a generation. so i amex streamly proud of the work the transgender community has been able when it was just getting started. since aria has taken leadership it has become an organization that's been internationally known. people are being housed, people are being given jobs, people are creating change in the physical environment of the tenderloin and fighting for a brighter future where we can all still be here. so i just want to give a shout

out to the entire transgender team. an ally to the trans community. he's an honorary trans. and, of course, the leadership of our mayor, claire farley, and all the supervisors who invested so heavily in the transcommunity. thank you for believing in this vision for continuing to fight for what is right for not just trans people, but for san francisco. so thank you. it's an honor to be here. [ applause ] . >> of course, honey is the first elected black transchair of the d.c.c.c. [ applause ]

>> the first trans president. where do i vote. i'm ready. so i believe that concludes our program. do you have something? >> sorry everyone. we didn't want to leave here without giving certificates of honors to members of our community that have truly shown their dedication, resilience and tenacity making sure our community is advancing and progressing. we have required certificates of honor from supervisor haney's office. we'd like to recognize and her monumental role in health equity and social empowerment spaces for and by transgender

people over multiple decades as a transgender activist. cecelia chung. [ applause ] next, we would like to give this in recognition of the tremendous contributions that she has made to the transgender community making institutional strides for equity during a time where opportunity and change for transpeople were limited, socially challenging and fatal. we award this to camille moran. and, finally, in recognition of her role as a transgenderer and queer freedom fighter at the cafeteria riots in august of 1966 and continued activism and public service for the transgender community spanning over 50 years, we thank tamara

change for her advocacy in the community. thank you, honey. and, we meant to supply cecilia chung with a certificate of honor not just from supervisor haney's office, and we have omar rincon who is here also to extend his certificate of honors to these three lovely individuals. however, cecelia, you already heard from her. but we wanted to present these certificates of honor for all they've done. >> that's wonderful. i'm glad you were able to do that. thank you all for joining us. let's mingle safely and if you are invited we will be doing the flag raising on the balcony outside the mayor's office. you're invited to watch it from

below. happy transgender history month. [ applause ] >> all right. are we ready! [ applause ] [cheers and applause]

>> how i really started my advocacy was through my own personal experiences with discrimination as a trans person. and when i came out as trans, you know, i experienced discrimination in the workplace. they refused to let me use the women's bathroom and fired me. there were so many barriers that other trans folks had in the workplace. and so when i finished college, i moved out to san francisco in the hopes of finding a safer community. >> and also, i want to recognize our amazing trans advisory committee who advises our office as well as the mayor, so our transadvisory community members, if they

could raise their hands and you could give a little love to them. [applause] >> thank you so much for your help. my leadership here at the office is engaging the mayor and leadership with our lgbt community. we also get to support, like, local policy and make sure that that is implemented, from all-gender bathrooms to making sure that there's lgbt data collection across the city. get to do a lot of great events in trans awareness month. >> transgender people really need representation in politics of all kinds, and i'm so grateful for clair farley because she represents us so

intelligently. >> i would like to take a moment of silence to honor all those folks that nicky mentioned that we've lost this year. >> i came out when i was 18 as trans and grew up as gay in missoula, montana. so as you can imagine, it wasn't the safest environment for lgbt folks. i had a pretty supportive family. i have an identical twin, and so we really were able to support each other. once i moved away from home and started college, i was really able to recognize my own value and what i had to offer, and i think that for me was one of the biggest challenges is kind of facing so many barriers, even with all the privilege and access that i had. it was how can i make sure that i transform those challenges into really helping other

people. we're celebrating transgender awareness month, and within that, we recognize transgender day of remembrance, which is a memorial of those that we have lost due to transgender violence, which within the last year, 2019, we've lost 22 transgender folks. think all but one are transgender women of color who have been murdered across the country. i think it's important because we get to lift up their stories, and bring attention to the attacks and violence that are still taking place. we push back against washington. that kind of impact is starting to impact trans black folks, so

it's important for our office to advocate and recognize, and come together and really remember our strength and resilience. as the only acting director of a city department in the country, i feel like there's a lot of pressure, but working through my own challenges and barriers and even my own self-doubt, i think i've been try to remember that the action is about helping our community, whether that's making sure the community is housed, making sure they have access to health care, and using kind of my access and privilege to make change. >> i would like to say something about clair farley. she has really inspired me. i was a nurse and became disabled. before i transitioned and after i transitioned, i didn't know what i wanted to do. i'm back at college, and clair farley has really impressed on

me to have a voice and to have agency, you have to have an education. >> mayor breed has led this effort. she made a $2.3 million investment into trans homes, and she spear headed this effort in partnership with my office and tony, and we're so proud to have a mayor who continues to commit and really make sure that everyone in this city can thrive. >> 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] >> one, two, three. [applause] >> even in those moments when i do feel kind of alone or unseen or doubt myself, i take a look at the community and the power of the supportive allies that are at the table that really help me to push past that.

being yourself, it's the word of wisdom i would give anyone. surely be patient with yourself and your dream. knowing that love, you may not always feel that from your family around you, but you can >> 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 -- 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 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 care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the prospective 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 before 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 of those things are temporary.

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and

i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like

this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about

265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that

consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve

that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the

project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in

2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]

commissioner tina chang and commissioner jose lopez. also our deputy attorney who will provide the board are any legal advice this evening. at the controls is and i'm julie rosenburg, the board's executive director. we will also be joined by city directors. representing the planning department phillip clana enforcement and affairs manager for the service division. jim