[applause] >> all right again give it up! [speaking spanish]. so i would love to begin by welcoming our guests and residence dens and thanking you mayor breed for your vision and commitment in leading historic expansion of support of permanent supportive housing. [speaking spanish] >> i'm excited about the building. casa esperanza provide per minute nan supportive housing for youth exiting homelessness. [speaking spanish].

>> the building will have on sight staff, professional property management from delores community service and on site social services provided by larkin street youth service. [speaking spanish]. part of the mayor's historic homelessness recovery plan and dem registration the d. homelessness and supportive housing held mission to make homelessness rare being brief and one time. i want to thank the mayor for leadership. [speaking spanish].i want to th leadership. [speaking spanish].and one time. i want to thank the mayor for leadership.

[speaking spanish]. new investments and housing work. according to the 2022 point in time count homelessness on youth under 24 decreased by 6% from 2019 to 2022. [speaking spanish]. providing housing like casa esperanza is our shared work to

enhance equity and he address the lbgtq and black, indigenous, people of color experiencing homeless knowledge. [speaking spanish]. 38% of homeless youth are lbgtq + and increase in homelessness in the latin x community. [speaking spanish]. >> through programs like casa

esperanza we are working to address the disparities. [speaking spanish]. permanent supportive housing such as sprnza provides a stain home and path out of homelessness and in community for transitional aged use to end homelessness. [speaking spanish]. now i will turn it over to mayor breed. thank you. [applause] goovend, everyone it

irrelevant is a pleasure to be here, thank you to stanza for blessing mow and this moment where we can celebrate and uplift our young people who were formerly homeless and now have a safe, affordable place to call home. [speaking spanish]. i'm glad to be here with the supervisor robin and thank you delores and larkin street for -- [applause] for all the work that you do to work with young people. we have a lot of organizations that work with young people in this city. i gotta tell you the w that these 2 organizations do have

such a tremendous impact on helping to turn people's lives around in ways that have been absolutely extraordinary. [speaking spanish] a couple years ago we set out on a mission to focus on ending youth homelessness in san francisco. buzz we know when we are paying close attention to supporting and uplifting youth, then we are doing what we should be doing to ensure that the next generation has the support and the

resources, have had they need to succeed. and in fact, we started the rising up campaign larkin street spearheading this effort. and we invested millions of dollars from the city but the private sector has been available and the public/private partnership in providing resources to support the actual, physical structure but to help those basic things that young people need in order to just live life and to go to school and to work their jobs and other things that some people take for granted. [speaking spanish].

>> as a result, arising up larkin street of delores, we have seen in this city, a reduction in youth homelessness by 16%. [speaking spanish].

>> almost 600 young people between the ages of 12 and 24, have been housed, provided support and this new accomplice that we are opening well, it has been open for arc while; casa esperanza this is adding another 25 units to the w this we are continuing to do. [applause]. [speaking spanish]. rothis is our part of our city's promise to support young people. we have been able to provide access points so that young people can get help because of the work of the delores street and larkin street and able to

open up a transitional navigation center that helps young people get in shell and off the streets where we have a 75 bed shelter in lower polk. it is irrelevant a game changer. [speaking spanish]. we continue is in the just a roof over your head i thank the staff and the caseworkers and the people who are really committed to being here after all of us leave committed to being here to ensure that these

25 young folks staying here never, ever return to the streets. mruz mrauz yes, we can. and i want to say we can't do it without working together. right? and having know wonderful partners in the mayor's office and on the board of supervisors. and machine who has been an amazing partner and work to help address youth homelessness in san francisco is your supervisor, supervisor ronnin.

>> [speaking spanish]. >> good afternoon, everyone! these are by far my absolute favorite days in san francisco. i have a feeling that mayor breed feels the same way as does director mcfadden. [speaking spanish]. >> because -- looking at beautiful homes sometimes for the first time especially for youth since they have been homeless. to call their own, well is

nothing like it. there is nothing more inspiring, more hopeful, more heart warming than seeing people in their own space and their own homes. [speaking spanish]. i want to say that sometimes it is very frustrating to read about san francisco in the papers. [speaking spanish].

because those of us who do this work mayor breed, mcfadden, myself. the community service, larkin street. you know -- lauda. we know that we are changing lives every single day we are saving lives every day. and the press talks about that. they'd talk about you know trashing the streets or homeless encampments but not talking about the lives that are being transformed and the beauty that happens inside buildings like this every day in san francisco. and i think we node to talk more about that. because that is what san francisco is all about. that is what we believe in. that is when we care about and the w we are doing every day. [applause]. and -- [speaking spanish].

congratulations i am go about my day glowing with a smile ear to

ear. [speak spanish]. [applause]. with a ton of happiness and excitement. i'm going to invite up lauda valdez the director of the delores street community service. >> good afternoon will i will read my robber in english and read in spanish. >> i would like to start by acknowledging the contributions of the casa esperanza staff, team that is here. we can get applause for them. they have been working hard to get us here. i want to thank all of our additional staff that have been working to get us to this point

and thank you to the mayor's office and the staff of the department of homelessness and supportive housing for commitment to equity competence serving populations who face increased barriers to housing. i want to give a warm welcome to all the new tenants of casa esperanza. [applause]. i am so pleased that our city has forged a partnership with the locality us community services and larkin street services to establish a home for transitional homes for youth. black and brown community are represented among people experiencing homelessness. as a result of social, political and economic inequity that he credit pregnant ways to homelessness and systems that cope our xhounlts in the emergencience the latin x community experiencing zebo

phobia and discrimination on youth experiencing homelessness. creating this community will be trans forming for the 25 youth who will reside at casa esperanza our organization is prud to have the opportunity to provide the young people dignified housing andave safe and nurturing environment. to have community and a place of belonging. the casa esperanza staff team will deliver trauma services that are culturally appropriate. our joint approach based on a positive youth development principles. our youth bring assets and believe that with the right support our young people can move forward with their live and reach full potential. living in the mission will

afford young people afternoon opportunity for social and community integration. the mission district is a culturally affirming and thriving neighborhood for our latin x community. culture surrounds us. our music, art, our food, our language and our history. casa esperanza will have a small retail business in the store front portion of this building. this will be pritted by tenants and part of the mission district's small business community. the delores street will establish a tenant council to empower youth to assume responsibility and agency in developing and upholding casa esperanza's culture and community agreements. the tenant council will provide youth with the leadership development and community engage am opportunity. we hope that casa esperanza becomes a bridge for our youth to reach self determination,

heeling and liberation. everyone wants a sense of pride and dignity. we than youth will experience this at casa esperanza. [speaking spanish].

[speak spanish].

now i have the pleasure to introduce adams, and executive director of larkin street youth service. cheryl adams of larkin street community service. [applause]. >> hi. everybody. i am so excited to be here. it has been a really long

journey. to get to this place where we have casa esperanza. we happened not have got here without mayor breechld supervisor ronnin. the department of homelessness and supportive housing and all of the incredible staff of delores street and larkin street. a round of applause for everybody. will 15 years ago we did not have a strategy amongst young

people in the city and many were falling through the cracks. 10 years ago we did not have supportive housing outside of the tenderloin and polk area. >> a few months ago issue san francisco monolingual and immigrant youth the least likely young people to get in housing they nodeed stablingize their live and achieve their dreams. >> we are here today because casa esperanza is what young people told us they needed.

small are size outside of the tenderloin. located in their communities where they feel safe, connected and tailored and the tailored to the programs are tailored to their unique needs. >> so many of us fought for the home key it have a set arc side for young people so there could be housing we fought for young people to have housing outside the tenderloin and everybody here that i see played a role in making that happen. thank you, thank you, thank you for making casa esperanza a reality.

>> and last low i want to say to laura and the team at delores street that we are so thrilled partner with you. we could not be more excited. i learn from you every day and i hope that just keeps continuing and thank you for make thanksgiving happen for young people.

now -- it is my pleasure to introduce the person woman who made this happen today. my honor to introduce a residents for casa esperanza, jose bravo. okay. [speaking spanish]

>> i'm kevin i will trans lay for my friends jose. good morning i'm jose bravo i'm 21 yearso. i in from mexico. i arrived at casa esperanza on august 18th 2022. i came to the country row for a better life without imagining how difficult it would be to learn the language and be homeless and all the other adversities that one goes being

in the streets. i feel safe at peace and motivated fulfill my goals i'm in city college for english and wing for uber eats on my bicycle. i would like to take a moment to thank all the agency hos made this project possible. it is very gratifying to find people that care about us latinos i like to see more protects like this on behalf of all of us we are gave a huge thanks to larkin street youth services and delores street! i will pass it to our progress project manager. why thank you for everyone's for coming out and celebrating with us. i want to give a thanks to all of the 4 of the local restaurants who donated for this event they are all women.

the first is [inaudible] thank you maria. the second is [inaudible] thank you, sofia, thank you, lauda and [inaudible] thank you jacqueline. thank you everyone for joining us today! have a great day. everyone. [music]

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age.

our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office

regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business.

very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things.

they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time.

they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him.

i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being

a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san

francisco. [ music ] >> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform

for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow.

for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help

companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle

company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my

pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us,

so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a wedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that

it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar

embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and

chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing

that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play

with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin

history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin

is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

>> president swichlg good evening and welcome to the september 28, 2022 hybrid meeting of the san francisco board of appeals president swig the presiding officer