more about this program e-mail inquiries at har >> malcolm come up here! supervisor preston, come up here! today is a wonderful day. excited to be here with all of us family, friends, partners, community. and john. hi. john! community and john. i am the ceo of tnbc housing and

community development organization building and serving community throughout san francisco. i mentioned today is an exciting and important day for us. we are not here to move a bit of dirt. more important low, we are symbolically beginning to create community. 160 family and individuals will call this location home. and i'm beyond excited to issue creating this bridge of opportunity. [applause] today we are also celebrating the verifies community. and many, many, many friends, family and partners that came to make today and this project possible. i'm proud of this beautiful community. i'm proud of the holistic approach the community takes approach in the opportunity. to be here it takes more then and there a village it takes the

entire staechl i like to thank mayor breed. for her steadfast leadership. supervisor preston, continued support. director shaw and the entire staff the mayor's office of housing and community development. [applause]. and a true partner malcolm and china down community development center. support from bank of america and citibank is impressive and dynamic. of in our contractors the ones managing the big minutes. kay hill and hercules a joint venture and our architects. i would like to take this time and liberty to give thanks to all of the entire staff over the

years dillien to making this project go forward inclusive of our board of directors. [applause]. it is now my sincere privilege to introduce our very own dynamic mayor, mayor breed. [applause]. >> i came right on time. first of all, this has been a long time coming. i want to start by thanking our former mayor ed lee. when i went to him when i was on the board reporting this district. this property was not necessary low ump for sale. wee had a long conversation about the need do more and build more house nothing district 5 especially because we were able to get legislation passed for neighborhood preference that

would allow for the people who live in this community to have a real chance of able to live in the community many cases come were born and raised. he and i worked together and made it a priority. and it goes to show you that when the mayor and the board of supervisors work together >> many great things can be accomplished. and so mayor lee and i set out on reaching out to the upon owner of the property. there were challenges going on at the time. and eventual low after a few months we commenced them to sell us the property and went through the process and decided that we would work with the community. to ensure that we do something to allow for a level of affordable housing to meet the needs of the folks of this community. and i than there are a number of neighborhood associations this are air part and people who live

here that are joining us here today. so we are grateful for your work and advocacy. know there were a lot of meetings and a lot of different pregnancy what should and should not happen at this site. we know the people who live healer be the ones most impacted by when this housing come n. when i say impacted i believe the impacts will be extremely positive. because you are talking about 160 units. . families. of people who will be formerly homeless as a result of this project. people who are young folks between ages 18 and 24. transitional age youth. people who need a safe affordable place to come home. what i'm most proud of in san francisco over the years, we build housing and build housing and build housing. when i was growing up i wondered

yet people who lived in the neighborhood dids not have the ability to access house nothing their communities. 43 of the units will be given right of first refusal for people who live in the neighborhood and district as a priority. so they have a real shot of gaining access to live in the community they are a part of. >> this is so significant. and so important. because many of us, i'm suburbaning all of us here today; believe we need to address the challenges around homelessness and housing affordability. and we do that by making sure that we are approving housing projects in general. that we are getting the job done not rejecting housing no matter how challenging or small or what have you or big it is. we need to think about what happens with the future. i remember when i was at a debate when i was running for mayor. i asked the i was the only one at the time who supported scott

wiener's bill sba27 to provide additional density not like a high rise in a neighborhood but a few more sdmrors more housing i remember asking everyone how many have been in the city for 50 years. or raised here. all the hands went up >> how many raised your kids. >> i raised my kids here i love san francisco. and i asked. how many of your kids still live here. hardly any hands went up. the ability to build projects like this and get housing done is imperative to dealing with so many challenges our city changes. we can't say we passport and reject housing projects in the city this project is a prime dpachl of what happened when we are able to come together to get things done.

the people who work in the city, our homeless folks, young people, the future of our city they are relying on us to make good decisions this is eighty-one of the very bestment i want to appreciate the partnership of tndc and china town community development. they are two important nonprofit housing developers that not only do housing in the city to provide for the most vulnerable. but they also provide services and support to help ensure that we keep people housed that is an important part of what we needs to do. >> a lot of work and i want to be appreciative of our bank of america supportful thank you for helping to finance the project. and thank you to the housing authority for vouchers. secretary fudge has done an

unpreps debted amount of housing vouchers. section 8 vouchers to san francisco -- we are proud we got so many people housed because of it. i thank the mayor's office of housing and community development. eric is joining us because it takes a village. it takes a lot of people to get a project like this done. i. to thank the haight ashbury community and the people in cole valley for your support, advocacy, for showing up for meetings. having the hard conversations and getting us to this point. with a childcare facility on site and other space, what this will do for the community i believe will be transformtive. and it will be an amazing addition to the haight/ashbury community. thank you everyone who played an important role in this. we are finally delivering on an upon pros that has been years in the making and i can't wait

until the first resident move in their unit here at stanion. thank you so much! [applause] thank you, mayor breed. it is a privilege and an honor to be here today. hello, everyone. i'm joana mccarthy president for bank of america in san francisco and the east bay. and to issue part of a project like this is really special. as the mayor said, it does take a village. i want to thank a couple of folks. this is about the best reason i can think of to get out of the office and celebrate a public/private partnership that is so important especially on the prime piece of real estate. it will be an incredible project.

you know we are ceebrating a building here will have 160 units and 11,000 square feet of community space. thank you to tndc and ccdc for work and making sure we have a community space and they work with our teams and community development to make sure all our projects support the residents as they are meant to. >> so you understand i have a couple of folks from community development banking. our team is here. the past year they have been busy at work. last year bank of america for our community development group invested 7.85 billion with over 13,000 affordable housing units. we are committed to making sure affordable housing is not just a dream but something we realize together. >> ment to make sure we thank the city of san francisco. mayor. supervisor preston the mayor's office of housing and community development. eric. thank you very much. again. it is about everybody coming together. we talk about a village it takes

heart and that's when we have here in san francisco. everybody is coming together to support the upon community in ways we know you need. >> thank you very much. i'm happy to be part of the team that helped pull this together. and thank you again for your support and recognition recognition today. >> [applause]. now supervisor dean preston. >> hello irk everyone. it is very incredible to be here. not much gets a supervisor now or the mayor either out of city hall on the last day of the budget fight happening and everyone was at each other's throws what they will get in the budget i was over joyed to leave that and even if the sun is in the shine to cell brit this with you all.

and you know look around where we are for those who are not as familiar with this neighborhood that i have a privilege to represent. think of 160 units of affordable housing truly affordable housing. here in the haight/ash burref across the street from the golden gate park. in one of the most richly served by transit and most walkable neighborhoods in this city. this is exactly the location where we should be building affordable housing in san francisco. and it is incredible we are here to celebrate breaking ground today. i want to recognize all the folks that got us here and it has been a road. right. and the mayor said, a lot of meetings and out reach. it started as the mayor said. with the mayor when she was supervisor working with the late ed lee and identifying this site as a site for acquisition.

i appreciate that happened then and the announcements over the last week of other sites that are acquired by the city for this development. if we are going to hit our goal under the housing element 46,000. new affordable housing units in san francisco, we are going to have to be doing this. all over the city. and i for one as the sprierdz of d 5 welcome as much of this as we can do. in this district. alost folks stepped up along the way from the point acquisition to the communities group and mayor referenced a many different community groups i want to thank the haight/ashbury council. for support. we really have the dream team

here. we are blessed, you are lucky if you have tndc developing a project in your district for affordable how doing over the track record of the 2 organizations and developing affordable house nothing san francisco is incredible. we in the haight have both. and it hen incredible to see their work in keeping this on track despite obstacles and keeping the community updated and -- through these meeting its has been an important part why there is a consensus in this community. i will say one thing this gives me joy and that i appreciate every day. is that i upon represent a community that supports affordable housing and that is not the case every where in california notteen in san francisco. we have our stories on projects. we'll not bother with that now. i will say that this project here of 160 units of affordable

how doing heads overwhelming community support. even with different visions how this should you can used or this population served and good faith discussion about those things. there was never a time when there was a question about whether the haight supported affordable housing here on this site of the former mc donalds and empty lot this . is truly you know people talk about the division in our city. this is truly an example what can wham what happened when we boshg together. mayor and director of major's office of housing iric shaw and his team and everyone working together to make this happen. i hope we'll take the moment upper and the words we are saying today and make sure we go from putting shovels in the pile of dirt to having residents move in as quickly as possible.

and that can sometimes be a process and we all share a commitment in city government and the development team of making sure that process happens quickly as possible. i want to say, thank you all for your support of this project t. is difficult on put together the financing and all the work that goes to getting us to this pointful i can't thank everyone enough who hen a part of this and made this happen more of this, please. thank you for being here and your support. [applause]. malcolm. take us home! >> first, i want to start with something that ccdc tradition introduced by our retired execute ever director fong. look at the person on their left. take a look at the person on your right. and tell them you are beautiful.

and you are all beautiful. >> thank you. first of all i feel conspicuous i'm only one who kept pie construction hat and vest o. thanks to everybody for throwing me under the bus. we're posing for cameras. secondly, i want to say, i saw you last nighture did not tell me you had written remarks. a bit upset about that i'm glad we are here after our cocktail hour. >> i want to start by acknowledging the vision that it took to get this project to this place. it started with the mayor. i really recognize and basketball that -- it was her vision of working with mayor lee to acquire the site that allowed you to be here today and we know the mayor's office of housing is looking at this more and more

and wield want to encourage that. china town will be a beneficiary of that model with the project coming up there based on a city acquisition this really it was mayor breed who i think got the ball rolling on this one. supervisor now mayor. the major's office of how longs for continued support they provided around this project. i said before, they are true partners in a wayy don't see in other jurisdictions that is very real and i think we need to recognize and appreciate that in a different way then and there in other jurisdictions and i want to thank supervisor preston who from day fwhon his office supportive of the project we had many conversations and his support was vital to get here. it has been a journey no question. along the way we done incredible things. added 2 additional floors.

[applause]. figured out how to program the space and include that as part of the development process which is a now model that a lot of us are looking at. again and again this is a model that i hope the city looks at and propagate across developments this concept of the developers responsible for building out the commercial space to make sure it is something that serves the community as part of the over all design from the front to back end. this brings mow to the most important component commute this . community in peculiar. tndc and china town cdc we had this conversation, organizations this deeply believe in accomplice when we say deeply believe in mrooes accomplice we mean that the people in that place should drive the conversation about what they need. and we know, china town cdc knows for us, this is a place.

i want to thifrng this mount for inviting us in and allowing us to be a part of your community. i want to say to the kay hill contracters and hercules if you see asian dude skate boarding on the site that is probably my son. and he does this stuff. will give me a call. but -- thank you to everybody who made this happen. thank you to b of a and stele for being great partners we need to more than ever in the next. coming years we have to build 40,000 affordable housing units hoping you are staffing occupy municipality banking side and appreciate be being here and a part of this moment. thank you. [applause]

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