>> good afternoon, everybody. i'm corey smith and the i'm executive director of housing action coalition. it is grit to see so many prohousing people and people saying yes to housing, out here today. and all of us share a belief that everybody deserves a safe, quality, affordable accomplice to live. and we than the process of blgdz house nothing san francisco is out dated, time consuming and broken. which is why we are excited that mayor breed, supervisor engardio and supervisor dorsey have

introduced a piece of legislation to start addressing that problem. san francisco needs to build more housing. i minimum of 82, 069 over 8 years to be exact if we will make good on in prmsdz the board of supervisors needs to pass prohousing legislation. today a piece of that solution the contrain removal legislation is going to be heard by the planning commission. with luck tell be in front of the board of supervisor's soon. >> have our first speak kick us off. i champion for housing in san francisco. san francisco mayor london breed. [applause] >> corey you must have been uplet last night because it is the daytime right now. [laughter] if he has on shades who knows what he was doing.

the residual affects of provide in san francisco. right? we like to have a good time when we can. thank you all so much for being here. we are here with number of housing add vocates and group hos push for housing reform in the city and county of san francisco. you may remember a few years oob back when senator wiener introduced sba27 hi was run for example mayor so many said you can't support this people on the west side will be opposed. and i was one of the only importance run for example mayor to support it. and when i went to the west side and in fact, there were alegality of people that were not happy with the fact they was supporting this. you asked the audience at the irish cultural center, how many of you were born and raise in the san francisco and grew up in this city have been here for 40 or 50 years.

all the hands went up. y i'ming a browed san franciscans like this lady in the green shirt i asked how many of you raised your kids in san francisco. it was yes, i raised my kids they went to galileo high school. my kids grew up in san francisco. then i said how many of your kids still live in san francisco? the room got quiet. hardly anybody raised their hand. the fact is, so many people have had the ability to live in the city for many generations and often times the only reason why they can still afford to live here. we have failed. we faileded to be aggressive as we need to be to build more how does nothing san francisco to ensure that not only the people who are struggling to afford to live here can stay here. but what happens to the next generation? what happens to the folks who

work hard 2 and 3 jobs and still can't afford the rent or can't afford to put a down payment on a home to stay in the accomplice they were born and raised in? we have to get out of our own way. [applause] layers of bureaucracy that have been created and often times things this we don't have a say in. have really been a problem for the burden of building housing. there is a property on mission street as we speak. that houses over 100 families. and you know how long it took didn't the time property was identified and the first family move in the? all affordable it took 10 years. 10 years and it was not about the financing. it was about the process. and what we have to go through to even put shovels in the

ground to get housing built. and everyoned time and time again, we support affordable housing. well now there is only clearly 2 supervisors here that i can say that mat dorse and he joel engardio who have not only talked about building more house nothing san francisco but decisions and votes reflected building more housing in san francisco. [applause] as a board of supervisors deliberated 10 housing units they basically said, no to. for complicated kind of unsubstantiated reasons. here we are again. we say we support it, but our actions show something different. we have to get out of our own way. and we need people in san francisco to rise up and to

demand upon change. fact that we had to introduce policies now. very bold policies. that -- for example, the state density bonusful san francisco has no say in whether or not anyone who builds housing in the city can use the state density bonus they can use it is whether we say so but we have a hearing process. to deliberate. the state density housing bonus with no say what so ever t. is a waste of time and waste of resources. [applause] when we talk about -- when we talk about converting even office buildings downtown, we know is that some of the requirements are different when you are talking about building new housing. so, some of the out door requirements don't make sense for that. and the fact this we have to go through a cu to debate that, is

not necessary. when we have housing lus that exist, this are already a part of various neighborhoods. when we have height limits and recessed become from the all the things are in place! why are we still deliberating? on whether or not the units can be built in the first place? [applause] keep have created laws for the sake of having laws. we have created policies for the sake of having policy and looking like we are doing something. and right now, we fleed to make changes so that we actually are doing something. that is speeding up housing production in san francisco. the city has over 50,000 units that have already been approved.

park merced on the west side of town was, proved before i was even on the board of supervisors and has not started! we got over 30,000 units in the pipeline. we have the ability to do this. we have to create bold policies to get out of the way to make it happen. the state is requiring the city to built 82,000 units. in the next 8 years. we can't build 5,000 a year. we can't do this not just because of the money, but because of our policies. today at the planning department won't want to see change. and when this legislation goes to the board of supervisors, we want to see change. i am tired of making promises and we will get housing built

only to have obstructionists get in the way and stop the projects buzz they don't want to block their view or because they don't want to see a foordzable housing with low income residence denial in their neighborhoods! enough is enough! let's get it done! and let's get it done today! [applause] >> i got more to say there are a couple other speakers. i want to thank so meant advocates pushing for more housing. it means so much and will make a difference when we start having people get their keys to new homes. because whf we are fighting for. at this time i want to introduce

a member of yes in my backyard. yes, build the housing. yes make it taller. if yes, make it is happen and home in san francisco. ladies and gentlemen please, welcome jay natolly. >> i don't know how you follow that. thank you to mayor breed. i'm jane natolly the san francisco organizationing director for action. we are proud to be here today supporting the mayor's, supervisor engardio and dorsey's legislation to speedup the production of housing. make it consistent throughout the city and allowing more types of homes and inupon cent vise affordable housing this legislation does all that. a core tenant of organizing is make it easy and predictable to

build homes. eliminating unnecessary hearing and notifications and more uniform rules this legislation does that. even when projects comply with our own rules and standards, we go through a process. note efkzs takes planning a long time we take await ieblt for the department to focus on planning. it is in the the department of reacting the department of planning. that's what they should be doing. for too long people abuse our system arguing over minor aspects of neighbor's home renovation through long and drawn out processes we empower nosing neighbors and larceny more than we empower people trying to add a bedroom for a growing family or adu for multigenerational household. for 22 too long rules about the

frontage ofave property or where the landry room can go or weather senior housing can be built in all neighborhoods temperature is heard for me as someone who does this every day to follow and hard for plan to follow temperature and inconsistent throughout the city we need to make that easy for people to understand. for too long a local density bonus not competitive. no one uses it and we saltsz our subsidized affordable housing the housing we hear people say we need with rule this is make it hard to build. thanks to mir breed, engardio and dorsey, we have a piece of legislation to tackle that. this is just one piece of the housing element that we agreed to unanimously the board unanimous ly passed our housing

element! that monies we need to pass this legislation that is going before planning today. the board should unanimously pass that. advocate and activist its is important to set the tone that's why we are here today. we are here to create energy and hold our city accountable if it does not take actions it needs to which the status quo increases cost for housing due to rules we get to the point where we have more predictable and less burden process we'll keep showing up to get the housing element across the finish line and that's how we will get to 82,000 homes in the next 8 years. [applause] thank you to everybody for showing up today. it is my honor to introduce district 4 supervisor engardio.

>> thank you. i'm joel engardio represent the sunset districtism went to paris with my husband a few years ago walked down the tree streets and enjoyed the cafes i bear low notice there were 6 story apartment buildings every where and i did not leave is a terrible accomplice because of this housing density. i only remembered the wonderful ground floor baptistos and not the height. i wonder, can we bring the spirit of paris to san francisco? now -- i don't propose turning our city into pair us we'll always be san francisco but we don't have enough housing for our teachers and first responders and the next generation of families. why not? because we have not built enough house to equal demand that is sad. what happens when people want to get married or have a kid. too often they move out of san

francisco. we have to say goodbye to our family and friends. and senior don't get to see adult children ownership grand children this is why we need to emwrals the spirit of paris. build more sick story apartments. 5 stories of housing above a cafe and senior center and childcare. everything that all residents will benefit from. will and we have the concept. it is called domicility ideal for west side neighborhoodses on a transit corridor or any corner lot. returns yours of the west side to the original intention. you see, beautiful, 5 and 6 store apartment buildings from the art deco era were built on westportal and irving steet a century ago. guess back to the future. to solve san francisco housing

needs. tell help the adult children and grandchildren to stay in san francisco. give seniors more options. they can down size to elevator buildings and age safely without leaving their neighborhood. it is in this spirit i have cosponsored legislation to make it easy to build housing lie domicility remove constraints for young families and seniors. men of the people opposed to this legislation already have a home in san francisco. why were they opposing the ability of the next generation to have a home do they not when were it was like to be young and seek the opportunity to build a life? this legislation is technical. but also has heart. the technical part provides manslaughter reforms to out dated zoning regulations. the heart of the legislation keeps our loved 1 in san

francisco by making easier to house them. and if we build concepts like domicility we don't need comparisons to paris we will have created our best san francisco. thank you. my honor to introduce my colleague supervisor matt dorsey. >> thank you. joel. so i will i'm told i have 4 minutes i'm setting a time are i'm going on a ran i'm supervisor for d6 home to the 469 stevenson street it was an example of political failure of that valued a parking lot more than the needed housing that we are on the hock to produce over the next 8 years. now i work on this side of the building. i have been there for over a year. the reason i am going on a ran i

spent 14 years in the city attorney's office working with clothes like scott wean and robbery and i don't think it is an being. because we have a front row seat to all the political disfunction of watch happening appellates use well intended laws to challenge the progress we need to make on housing. reason we can't solve problems is because people are misusing laws and that is why we are in the problems this we are in now. that's why i'm appreciative to mayor breed and my dreeg engardio for the legislation that we are proposing today this will stream line processes make need changes to our zoning map, remove constraints and fulfill the promise of when we are supposed to do in our housing

leadership. i will actual we throw around terms like housing element there is a law every 8 years municipalities update their general plan. and the portion of this applies to housing is the housing element. the housing element we paddled just this left recently, is the most progressive public policy in my years 20 plus years of work nothing city government in san francisco this it is centered on racial and socioeconomic equity. about identifying the wrongs and important low righting the wrongs. this is the work that we have to be doing. not just to solve the problems with the fulfill the promise what the city of san francisco the city of st. francis should be. when we saw this week at the board of supervisors was an appellate who invited the board of supervisorers to consider. that there is a project where

everybody who touch today in the city government all the career professionals from the city attorney's office which was wrong on ceqa. the fire marshall wrong on fire safety. our environmental plan are wrong on how that works. our engineer from public health. career professionals all of them were wrong like a perfect storm of error. this the board of supervisors with our expert ease was invited to feks. that it should not be this way and i am grateful to the mayor and grateful to hack to everybody for doing this with this! i'm coming in on time. thank you, everybody. [applause] next up irving gonzalez. >> i'm done. my apologies.

[laughter] all right. no now afternoon i'm glad to see you here. i am irving gonzalez i'm an architectigate of of san francisco 35 years in the community of affordable how doing and community base design of i'm also the form upon chapter pedestrian american institutes of san francisco in san francisco. and i00 am the board chair of mission housing development corporation. i mention all of that. go ahead. >> absolutely. i'm proud. i mention this because i have a perspective this allows no see behind how housing is delivered in this city. or i should say how it is not. it is in the a pretty picture. in that regard,il share with you today why this legislation matters to me. now i will have to read this so a get it right.

as an architect a member of the san francisco community i'm frustrated how long it takes and costs to build house nothing the city. i am optimistic however because the current state legislation as well as proposed legislation this we are all about to support here, is a further incentization to the process. and policy to be able to deliver housing throughout the city removing obstacleless. we have our client's projects solved and balloon in cost. so -- that does not help our housing situation or affordability. especially for workforce housing those that serve our community. neighborhoods and you. and i had good conversations there he is with this gentlemen who share when it is like for men people that are unhoused. great to talk to him. but it provides perspective.

let's keep in minds this people matter as much as buildings we design and that is a part of the quality of life here in san francisco. improve their lives improves our city. and am let's get housing must be a right and not a privilege of the few or long process we all deserve to be housed and housing should be red low achievable. we can do it. it is within our power. how? great news you are here that's part of it. it is where there is a there will is i way. first and foremost remove impact fees for 100% affordable housing using a density bonus. it makes no sense for the city to lends money to nonprofit developers and then in turn in become around and say, okay here other fees have you to pay. all of that hundreds of

thousands could be more units for more people. remember the day when is we used to have to provide and we are a transit bay city. so that allows you to remove the parking allows to provide more housing. this is the next step. second low and more ways others can have removing the befored conditional use requirements and entitlements to a new housing development and place new housing throughout the city. i was great to hear about u gene lou and comcyclity from our supervisor. this means fewer and unnecessary hearings for housing. rusing time it takes to get new housing approved and as we know time is money. let's spends it rooiz wise intengsz of getting folks homes and keeping them there. each one of you was can make a difference for the greater g.

with that, i know there are others here i will introduce amy. [applause] >> move the microphone up. i'm the last peeshg get everybody really hyped up to go in for public comment and guest in passed! i want to give a couple comments on how i gho the this work. it is tieed exactly what we are taxling today. i moveed san francisco when i was 22. making 15 dollars an hour as a contract drafts person for an architect finch i came dm naive and heard san francisco is a renter's city a welcoming center and sustainable city. i learn third degree we can say that out of one side of our mouth our laws and our actual processes and the actual way this things work mean that some

random near by homeowner can say no not like that you cannot and veto it. we as the city have not just allowed that we have created that. we are responsible for that. we have empowered people we created the tools and we have the power to undo them. last 7-9 years the movement has been springing up and building will and trying to champion the work from leaders like the mayor and scott wiener behind the state luthis is maik made this require exclude prom nan and possible today supporting matt dorse and he joel engardio with housing opposite neighborhoods across the staechl the tenderloin and soma out to the outer sunset and saying that what we can unify behind we need more housing and doing this

wrong. and accepting that for decades, san francisco has uncritically suffered consequences of our own hypocrisy with housing. we let ourselves get away with we have certain values and not following through and otherwise doing the opposite t. is long time past when we need to spend our resources on stomg under mining our own work, we do all the plan and we say, no not like that. we pass the policies and say, no they don't have to be enforced. say we want something and let random group thats don't represent the values of san francisco undo this work. and now we have a requirement from the state that we need to get our shit together and undo the policies if we don't pass this out of planning and land use at the board of supervisors

and then pass the dozen ordinances that will come after it for rezone anding the other policies and processes, this are in the housing element. san francisco as a city will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in affordable housing money and public transportation money risk our local control over permitting and zoning because we have proven that if we can't fix this stuff that we are not comp tent enough and should the nobe responsible for doing this. we put ourselves at legal linocaine of the estate attorney general suing sudden front and making city attorney chu defend the way we have been doing things and the fact we don't need to follow state laws for our hand. i want to thank everyone, thank you mayor breed for the courage and clarity to not just did this

at minimum level but right and leadership about when the most aggressive and clear headed housing element can be and thank you for the members of the board of supervisors today hitching wagon they want to be on the right side of this. and i hope the rest of the board of supervisors can hear we are watching how you handle the following months and the coming years with housing element legislation the consequence are in your handses. if the ordinances don't pass. with the clarity in rigor they were introduced. with that i want to close out today. thank you, everyone for coming and all the people that took off work today! all of this work started by people playing hooko lunch break and coming for public comment to dproez hypocrisy how san francisco got away with not matching policies to values.

and we will tie up that book end and this with the last hearing for that. because this legislation will make it so that the default is at good housing projects get approved. thank you. [applause]