we're pleased to partner with you. through it. the program is called no place like home and it's kind of bittersweet news because no place like home actually has ended. that's a good talking point for your public hearing in sacramento on monday. ah don't repeat. i said that because i can't go against the governor's budget, but but it is it is a terrific program that is started in 2016. we have invested supported this project with $27 million, but, uh, over the last the last four years, the city of san francisco has benefited from this program with $91 million.01 of seven projects that are in different stages of development for 10 64 mission, the city was the very first something many people won't know it meant the very first jurisdiction in this program to draw down no place like home dollars. you know, it was literally a matter of weeks

after the contract was signed, that the funds were drawn, and we're so happy that we are here celebrating that accomplishment today. in totality did not place like home program statewide has contributed to more than 250 projects. let me say that 18,000 units 18,000 units during the last five years that together with another very important state program, you may have heard of it home key, together with no place like home totals 30,000 units for interim and permanent. housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness now two caveats, though. not all these units are online. there are different stages by or so glad with this one there actually were welcoming. already residents and the second caviar is something the governor talks. a lot about there's no no way for us to claim victory. there is still a lot of work to do.

but rest assured that the new summer administration, the biden administration, the city of san francisco, and many other localities across the state, are working tirelessly every day to ameliorate. hopefully one day eradicate. the challenge of homelessness. and i will end my remarks with this. where there is a will, there is away and i say that because i don't want to take away take away anything celebratory about what brings us together, but a lot more has happened. mayor in the last 24 hours. a lot more has happened in the last supervisor. a lot more has happened when there is a whale. there is a way local jurisdictions. is where housing is entitled. is approved. ah there's no time to spare. we are 2.5 million homes short in the state of california requires local governments to expeditiously. identify sites

rezone for more housing increase the parcels in affluent areas to build more housing. and that's why i'm saying if there is a will there is away. i am pleased to add my remarks by saying that this morning the state of california has fully certified thanks. to london brain thanks to the city, thanks to those supporting this in the board of supervisors fully certified the housing element of the city of san francisco for the next eight years. and yes. and with this we look forward to continuing partner with the city. madam mayor to meet that goal. tremendous goal of 82,000 units, including units like this deeply affordable homes, homes for the homeless for the next eight years, so thank you very much to all the partnership, great accomplishment. thanks gustavo.

great news, and, uh, great partnership and a lot of wonderful numbers and as as to look at this from another point of view. the point of view of the people that were trying to help and support the most vulnerable in our community, who was quoted in today's um chronicle article. if any of you read it, or the first resident movin of this facility has agreed to say a few words. michael jackson. hello. good morning, everyone. how you doing, doc? i uh my name is michael jackson and i was yes. the first resident in the building here. that's why. that's the reason why i was

chosen to give you guys a different perspective. well, how it is to live here and what kind of things that they're doing positive things they're doing. i am. i'm from san francisco. born raised educated here. um city college state university engineering major. on the fast track. you know, and i, um i had a little bit too much on my plate. and i, um things happen to all of us. all of us and i hey, bro. and i, um yeah, i got caught up in the mix there. and i, i, uh in and out of programs and things. you know, and i kind of blew up. bedtime career blew it. you know, i can't blame anyone else. so i said, well, in these programs here. i can do the counseling thing. right? i

can do the counseling thing, you know, so i pursued it. mhm substance abuse, counseling and health education. it was totally different than engineering engineering technology. social sciences is different. you know, different set of clients is curriculum. the whole nine. nonetheless i miss him some some some people along the way that can you help me out? got me one right there. dr. jones, a duck. anyways anyways, i pursued the counseling thing. and i was like , wow, i'm going to be the michael jordan of counseling here, man. i'm going for this. i'm kicking down doors, buddy, and doc was telling me mike, slow down. yeah. so i, um i did kind of good there for awhile. i did pretty good. i want that

walden house baker places. i actually ended up at kaiser permanente in oakland. and, um. the coronavirus thing hit. and i was doing, um out. precious i was on the field, but my thing is residential. and i was kind of like out of my water make a long story shorter. i uh, again had too much time on my hands. a little bit too much bread on your money. uh, i, uh i relapse i feel long. and it took about two years to get to where i am now. and, uh, well, three actually, and, uh, a friend of mine recommended that i was sleeping on the streets sleeping in my car. and east oakland and a friend of mine recommended that i come to the city. he just retired from blind, so i came over here. and i got to a substance in place program. shelter in place. i'm sorry.

and, um, man. so i got there and they put me up in the hotel. and from there, segway over here. the first resident here. and, um when i got here i was like well at the shelter in place. they give you food. he wasn't close and that sort of thing. it's not so much of an independent living situation. however, here. here is a supportive living situation, as opposed to. give me your hand out. you know you you have an opportunity now to start experiencing some type of independence. you know, some type of. responsibility of ownership of your own thing. you know, that's that's what that's what it's homeless folks need, especially some of us. they were halfway hired a g ruse. we don't want to be stigmatized as a homeless bum. dude, you know what i mean? so i use the street vernacular as well. but, yeah.

anyways i so when i got here it was like this is your home is your home here? we're here to support you in whatever it is we're not going to give you a treatment plan per se, but we're gonna do is help you reach your goal. we're gonna make it conducive to you. to become a bible member. again. it's society. we have fellowship here. have a great staff. great. always available. always available. jonathan is my main man. where is it? yeah, that's my van. yeah. and old zack over there with the youth blocking news, right, jack? yeah, he used to be one of my clients. yeah anyways. i uh it's been a pretty good experience. um living here. i plan to use this as a hand up as opposed to a handout. i'm gonna get back in the game, and

i love you, dude that is helping people. but first i gotta help this person. i gotta get this person to position. to be an example. will it be qualified? and ready to help someone. you know? yeah i'm looking forward to culinary school to open up. mhm. i um, a lot of people. a lot of people come over to san francisco because of the supportive services. okay and this is a this is shine example. um, this this this. program here or this residence here is a shining example of the type of good things in san francisco is doing as far as the homeless situation. you know, and. i

wanna i wanna be a part of that solution. i, uh the i think. doc gave me pretty good hair start so. i'm gonna i'm gonna i wanna i wanna i wanna get back down to give me a minute. anyways everybody, this is a beautiful place. a lot of wonderful human beings. yeah. and i enjoyed tremendously keep donating. thank you. thank you so much, michael really appreciate it and to wind up our speakers like to introduce our mayor, london breed is here with us today. hello, everyone. like the famous michael jackson. i too, was born and raised in san francisco. and i was born and raised in the

fillmore community where the community really took care of one another. but sadly, we saw a lot of change. and in fact the public housing development i was living in plaza east. those buildings were torn down. and there were over three a little bit over 300 units, and they were torn down and only 200 were built. it was clear that many of the people who i grew up with who were moved to places like vallejo and fairfield and other locations, it was clear that there were no plans to ensure that they were able to return to their home. and when i think about the challenges of the past and what san francisco has done to make it very difficult to build housing and to be very aggressive about providing housing opportunities. i am always reminded of my own experience as a way to ensure that we don't do that for the future. we know that homelessness and the challenges around affordability for housing in this city have continued to

persist. mostly because of our inability to build more housing and provide opportunities for people like myself like michael jackson, who were born and raised here. and who may have gone through challenges and who may not have the income necessary to provide themselves with the dignity that they deserve. so that's why this is so important. the work that we are doing in san francisco is so important. you know, people point the finger and criticize our city. but over the last two years we created over 3000 new placements for people who were living on the streets of san francisco. and you didn't hear it highly publicized, but san francisco was one of the few cities in the entire state of

california that saw a 15.5% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. so while others are criticizing mercy and episcopal community services and so many other people who work here today. you represent part of the solution. you know what it means to show up for people. you know what it means to take a federal location location owned by the federal government used as a parking lot for cars and turn it into 258 new units right where parking cars used to be. you know what that means. it means hope. it means dignity. it means a new opportunity to change your life. for the better. and yes, it takes a village. it takes a village of

not just the organizations, but the people who are choosing to work for these organizations, the people who are showing up to provide the wraparound services because sometimes it's not just about putting a roof over someone's head. sometimes it's about a smile. or an ear to listen to somebody's challenges or someone who says i'm going to help you get your medication because i know that you have arthritis and you may not be able to walk to the pharmacy to go get it yourself. it's about having a real community that supports you and uplifts you and encourage you to ensure that you not only stay housed, but you thrive that you're able to live a good life. so being here today is so meaningful it's so meaningful because of the people. that are going to be served because of the work that's done when we partner when we come together when we get rid of the bureaucratic layers that get in the way when we focus on

real solutions. this project started back in 2017. and people wonder why is it taking so long ? the project next door 100% affordable housing for families that took 10 years for the first family to move in. why does it take so long when we know there's so many people want to see us get it done. well, i gotta say. first of all. really really thank you to our governor and to gustavo and his team for the housing element and the work that we are going to do to get units build faster in san francisco. and jason, i want you to tell the president and the secretary fudge how much we appreciate those vouchers that help us to provide not only housing opportunities at this location, but we've been able to place people who have never had their own apartment in san

francisco who were born and raised here. we have been able to place them all over the city and county of san francisco because we have a president and a secretary who understands the value. of what it means to provide hud vouchers to get people house so they could afford to live in san francisco. so thank you so much for being here. and now with the housing element we have an ambitious goal. can you imagine? 82,000 units were required to build in the next eight years. do you know what 82,000 units will be able to do? for not just homeless people, but the people who actually work for the various services who also can't afford to live here. the people who work for the city and county of san francisco who can't afford here. many of the people who work in a service industry. who have left the service industry because they've had to move so far out that they can't

afford to live here. can you imagine what 82,000 new units will do for our city? it will make a world of difference. the housing elements certification is only the first step we are going to need you, supervisor dorothy and your colleagues on the board of supervisors because they're going to have to push policies that will make them uncomfortable. it will make them uncomfortable because other places in san francisco will say, well, we don't want that to happen in our neighborhood. well, we need to make it happen all over the city. we're not changing the beauty and the character of neighborhoods in san francisco because we value that but we need to be open minded and creative and realistic about the need to get rid of bureaucracy. this city has over 50,000 units that have already been entitled and need to move forward fast. we have over 30,000 units awaiting approval. this can make a real difference if we're aggressive if we move the mountains out of the way in order to move forward

because people like michael jackson and the people who live here. at 10 64 mission. they are counting on us. they are counting on us to make real change. they're counting on us to get rid of the bureaucracy. they're counting on us to work together and to put their lives before the politics that get in the way of our ability to move these projects forward. so all of you who are here today? get ready. get ready if you if your heart is full for what was done with this project today. then just imagine if we're doing this every single week in san francisco for families all over the city, it will make the world of difference. this is the thing i value the most creating opportunities, providing a safe , affordable place for people to call home. and everyone here has played a role in making that possible. so we appreciate you all for being here. thank you to

the residents for letting us invade your space for just a little while. thank you so much to all the workers to all the people for the village that created this beautiful place. thank you so much. all right. so before we close, we just have a few more folks to a few more folks to acknowledge . i want to acknowledge our good friends at cahill and factory os , um steve, bob susie from herman colander, locus and lowney architects. um uh huh. the fantastic art. i hope all of you got a chance to see the art on the way in and also the art on stevenson. so uh, you hopefully have a copy of this on the way and if you didn't grab it, tanaka's trio a good friend, ah, davion, kim, leah rosenberg and michael are sega. i hope i said that. right michael. thank you for enlivening this space with such beauty. it is one of

the most beautiful buildings i've seen. in a long time. we really want to appreciate that want to acknowledge our good friends at the department of public health and the maria x martinez health resource center . there was an opening for that about a week ago, and maria was a very important person for the mission district but also the work around homelessness in our city. and then lastly, um, keith and i wanted to just close and james mentioned it already. but liz pocock um, is one of the main reasons this buildings here for those of you that don't know liz. she worked. she's done many things in her life as we discovered at a memorial. um actress. um turned turned housing and homelessness. uh, ah , whirlwind. i don't even know how to describe it. she's here with she's joined here by or we're we're joined by our per partner. uh whitney jones, who also is a part of our affordable housing community. i see lots of other friends here who want us to remember liz. um, she poured

her heart into this building, and she poured her heart into just about anything that worked on this topic. she was both an amazing human being and an amazing professional and is one of the main reasons why mercy and pcs have such an incredible and storied relationship. so you want to say a few words? well you know you i think you you said it all. but what i would say is either this wouldn't exist or more likely. would not exist in anything like its present form. were it not for liz thoughtfulness and focus on the design elements of this, which are our guy as i hope you've heard today, truly remarkable in terms of supportive housing. this is this isn't just uh, a safe. and comfortable place. for um, over 200 people. ah! 200 of our most vulnerable neighbors. this is i

think the next generation of permanent supportive housing this is i'm a techie, permanent , supportive housing two point. oh, okay. and working together. we can do this again and again. and thank you for this. and please, let's do it again. thank you. alright then. thanks keith. and that concludes our formal ceremony for food.go.

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