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well, well, well. thank you so much for all being here. my name is annette garcia. i'm the communications manager at mission housing. and today's master of ceremony. it is my pleasure to welcome you all to this ribbon cutting ceremony for the know street. new map site. as many of you know, this was a great undertaking and its completion symbolizes the dawn of the rehabilitation of homes for many people. all. as we gather here today, we are celebrating the positive impact, this transformation will have on the many lives here at no admittedly mission housing could not have achieved this on our own. it took a team and all of our wonderful partners, some who will speak shortly from our

dedicated funders, architects, builders and community leaders who worked tirelessly to make this project a reality. we thank you to our amazing mission housing team. your commitment and devotion to making our community a better place and working ever so tirelessly is very invaluable and we thank you . but most importantly, to our residents for having trust and patience in our team. we appreciate you and we look forward to building a vibrant community here at noe street. so thank you. and without further ado, i'd like to invite our first guest speaker mission housing's executive director, mr. sam moss. thank you. thank

you, everyone. i'll. i'll. i'll i'll keep this sweet short and sweet. there we go. i just want to thank everyone for coming out today. this particular development, 363 is part of a five building portfolio of formerly public housing sites that mission, housing development corporation, the mayor's office of housing, the san francisco housing authority , merit community capital, western alliance bank and every other person you could possibly think of were required to get us to where we are today. i'm very proud to be mission housing's executive director. i'm proud that i get to stand up here and give speeches like this. but it it's everyone here that it took to get to where we are at. and i've been thinking a lot about that about these long term occupied these rehabilitation projects and how hard they are and how it's really easy to whittle them down to what did it

cost per unit, what was the construction cost? is that the number that we can write a newspaper article about or not? and too often we get bogged down into these things and we forget why we do what we do. and it's for our tenants, both current and future. it's for our neighbors. it's because we all here believe that housing is a human right and being a human right means that you do what you need to do to get it done, to find the financing, to make whatever compromises needed so that everyone gets to come back to a brand new unit that's just as nice now, decades and decades later, after the original building was built, as new buildings that are being built and i for one, am just extremely proud to stand up here today. and i'm thankful that you all took time out of your days for, of course, there's food later, but you know, it's important to celebrate when you can. it's important to stop and smell the roses a little bit. and this is what that looks like. and so from me and the mission housing

board of directors and our entire staff, we just want to say thank you and how proud we are. and god bless. thank you. thank you. sam, i'd like to introduce our next speaker, california senator. wiener. thank you. you can just call me scott. so it's fantastic. this this project is very, very meaningful to me. to me personally. first, i live two blocks from here, so this is my neighborhood of 26 years. and in the castro, we're very proud of the affordable housing that we have in the neighborhood. we

want to protect it and preserve it. we want to make sure that our neighbors that live in on noe street or any of the affordable housing in our neighborhood are living in really top notch, great housing . and we want more of it. and but as we create more affordable housing and we're working very, very hard at the state level and locally to provide more funding and permitting reform and speeding it up and making sure we are creating more affordable homes. we need to make sure that the affordable homes that we have are that we're taking care of them and that they're not falling into disrepair and that people are able to live in the housing that they deserve. and that's what this is about. when i was on the board of supervisors, i had a lot of interaction with 363. no. then it was under the jurisdiction of the housing authority and there were some real problems here. the property had fallen into disrepair in some respects. there were some public safety

issues here. management issues, and it was just not right that the residents of this house thing were having to live in those conditions. and so i was really excited when i learned that mission housing as part of the rad program was going to be taking over the management of 363 mission. housing is an amazing organization. does such a great job for so many residents around the city and i'm just thrilled that the rehab has happened that the management has improved, and that this project can be all that it needs to be for the residents. this program, the rad program, has been just i think, fantastic overall. we had so many problems with public housing in san francisco. thousands and thousands of san franciscans living in public housing and sometimes very bad conditions. and under the leadership of mayor lee and now mayor breed, we're seeing that transform. and

we are trying to do away with this distinction between the affordable housing that we're building and then the old school public housing. it is all housing for san francisco residents, housing that they can afford. and so this is a big step forward. so thank you. mission housing and thank you, everyone who made this happen. thank you so much, senator. i'd like to invite our next guest, linda mason, general counsel and chief people officer of the housing authority. hi, everyone. i just wanted to start by saying that our ceo, tanya, could not be here today, and she does send her regards and congratulations for this grand opening today. um, i wanted to first just take a moment to thank our residents. i've been at the housing authority for quite some time and we would come every year at

the invitation of randall, who's sitting to my right, and we would have a meeting with residents to hear all of the concerns about their building. and year after year, we'd leave this meeting with our executive director and really try to figure out whether we were going to have the funding that year to make the repairs that were necessary. and most years we couldn't make all of those repairs and we couldn't meet all the needs of the residents. so first and foremost, i want to thank the residents on behalf of the housing authority for their patience all of this time to get to where we are today, to live in the housing that they really deserve to have. and without this project and this conversion, the funding would not have been available to allow the residents to live in these conditions that are so much more improved. so secondly, i want to make sure to take a moment to thank all of our partners this would not be possible without the mayor's office of housing and community development in particular lydia elia, who actually hosted and led a lot of these efforts along with helen hale, who is somewhere here, who led our services efforts as well

, and has continued to do so for all of our versions working very closely. the housing authority. i also wanted to make sure to take a moment to thank our lenders. mayor breed, mayor lee and mission housing who we are at this point now really handing off this huge responsibility to take care of our residents. so lastly, and really most importantly is we want to welcome mission housing to our portfolio family with the closing of today's 363 no project mission housing has officially completed five of the projects which we know as a scattered sites and is actually the first set of properties that mission housing will be managing after all of our rad conversions since 2015. so welcome and we look forward to working with everybody for the benefit of our residents. thank you. thank you so much, linda. that was amazing. i would like to invite next monica suarez of western

alliance. i'm here representing western alliance bank and our operating division in northern california bridge bank. we are the lender for the project and also one of the tax credit equity investors. this this is was a phenomenal project to be a part of. i remember when i first got the call about this challenging project, multiple sites in san francisco, high costs, but not to be worried. there were a lot of great partners involved in this project was absolutely going to be a success. and i said, sign me up. so our typical project would be a single site, new construction, where this was five separate sites and rehab. so complicated project, but we're very happy that we could come in, take the time to understand the project and the benefits to the community here,

and then be a part of the partnership with with everyone at the state and local level here. that have been involved. so we're very happy to be here and celebrate the opening of this site. thank you so much, monica. that was beautiful. i'd like to invite next mission housing deputy executive director marcia contreras. well, i'm not going to repeat what everybody has said because i think everybody has pretty much shared the importance of this renovation or rehab at 363. no, but what i want to focus on right now, it's really me acknowledging every single resident that lives at this location, because as we all know, rio location is never easy

. i always tell our team, our resident services team at mission housing, put yourself in our residents shoes and think about what that looks like and what that feels. i know a partner of ours at mayor office of housing, helen hale, knows that because she constantly remind us about what that what that is and so i want to acknowledge first and foremost, the community at 363 know. i also want to acknowledge someone that's sitting right here to my right. randall he she was the first person that took leadership in walking this property. when we took it over, we weren't really necessarily the owners of the property. so it was a really tricky situation . but we had to walk the property and understand the needs of the property and so randall was kind enough to show us the way and introduce us to all of the residents and kind of show the building and really we understood what we were getting ourselves into, but also how we were going to best support the community here at 363. so i'm

not sure how many residents we have here, but can we please give them a round of applause? because it took patience. it took, i think, the most important component was trust the mission house in an organization that was walking in really without them knowing a lot of history about us, but just trusting the fact that we can come in here and make significa changes to their community. so i'm very appreciative of that. the second thing i want to focus on today is i know sam talked about our staff, but i want to talk a little bit also about every single team member that represents the mission housing, because this was not an easy journey. this was done during the course of the pandemic. so you could imagine what that looks like. so if you see a couple of more gray hairs in my head, that's probably what it took for us to get this done. so if i can have the residents services and also the housing department at mission housing and every single staff member of the mission housing team, raise your hand. so we can acknowledge you because we couldn't have not done it without your support, your dedication, and also just

being there to support the entire team. lastly, what i want to say also is acknowledge our board of directors. we have a few here. and so i want to also invite previous and current board of directors that i see joining us today. can you please raise your hand, ervin viola that served on our board prior thank you so much for trusting in this in this management team that we could get things done. and so we're here to celebrate also along with you because with your leadership and your support, we're able to do that. the last thing i want to say is to every partner that really supported our efforts. i'm very grateful that you guys trusted in us. our construction team. i know we don't talk a lot about that, but our gsis, they work very hard and i see a few maybe here to correct, maybe. yes i just want to honor them. thank you so much. because you guys probably received tons of emails from us and you kept that dialog under really difficult times. i

also want to thank the housing authority because i see a few of housing authority team members as well. i want to honor them because this was not an easy process and they were very patient to work with us and also our architects are our architects here. i just want to honor our architects. thank you so much for taking every feedback that we were bringing back from our residents to you. and you guys kept making changes. so i just want to respect all of you for all the work that you've done. so thank you so much for that. at this time, i'm going to go ahead and introduce a person. like i said earlier today, that really opened his his doors here at 363. no, he randall is a longtime resident of this site. he also supported us during the process and gave us some good feedback, held us accountable and continue to hold us accountable. so thank you so much for that, randolph. he's also the current president of the tenant association here at 363. no. so come on up and share

your thoughts. randall. welcome to everybody. the one part that i got to see was missed was the neighbors. we have several neighbors in the audience and i invited them. so thank you, neighbors, for putting up with us. thank you to the neighbors for the construction. it's over . yes, the relocation was tough . yes. working with housing authority was tough at the beginning. this is all tough. thank you to mayor breed. we had supervisor wiener at many of our tenant council meetings. now senator wiener is here dedicating the building. so it's just coming full circle. the next thing to come, full circle, there's about i'm just looking, doing a quick headcount. there's about six, seven, about eight tenants here and half of the tenant council is present. so the one thing that i really look forward to is working with mission housing, figuring out the services, getting the

services connected back to the tenants and just keeping going forward. it's been a process and i'm glad the process is winding down. sam then we can talk about the mic and the mic cover. oh, we won't. we'll leave that one alone. thank you. randall. before before i introduce our next vp, very important person that's going to speak and an advocate and a supporter of affordable housing. i do. i did leave somebody behind, and i don't want to leave anybody behind. where is caritas management? i do want to honor them as well because they've been working very closely with us at this site and we couldn't have done all the work without your support. with that being said, i like to introduce our next speaker. she is a dedicated person that has been focused in san francisco on affordable housing. she's an advocate for affordable housing. every time you hear her speak, she speaks about the needs of creating additional units that open up to

our community. so please welcome our san francisco mayor, london breed. thank you, marsha. and thank you, sam moss and the folks at mission housing for all the amazing work that we are doing all over san francisco to not only build more housing, but to preserve our existing affordable housing stock. you know, one of the conversations that i learned early on as someone who grew up in the western addition and someone who grew up in public housing, a public housing development that was torn down where. over 300 units were torn down and only 200 were built to replace them, i realized more than ever as i started to kind of enter the world of public service, how important it is to think differently about how we support people in their actual homes and

how we as a city need to think about from start to finish. what are we doing to help each of those individual persons maintain, gain their dignity in their living situation as we make the very hard decisions to uproot their lives and to change their communities and to change all of the situations that they've been struggling in from challenging to better. how do we get there together? how do we continue to work together and how do we not make the mistakes of the past in doing so? and i got to say, the only way we do it is with a village, is with partners. it starts with people like randall and the people who live here. it continues with organizations like mission housing who really is mission driven to make sure that people

are able to live in dignity all over san francisco and be able to afford to live in san francisco. it continues with our various city agencies like the san francisco housing authority and the mayor's office of housing. i know eric shaw is here and members of his team and it continues on with our private partners and our financial institution. it does take a village. why is this important? everyone talks about the need to build. in fact, san francisco, under the state requirement, our housing element, we have to build another 82,000 units in the next eight years. and i'm really nervous about our ability to get there. but nevertheless, in the process, yes, of focusing on all the new development and our need to build housing, we can't forget about preservation , preservation of existing affordable housing to ensure that the people living in buildings like this are

protected. and i know this project was complicated. five locations, 69 units. but. at this program around preservation , especially at the height of the pandemic, has done more than just 69 units. in fact over $200 million of investment to preserve and protect over 500 units throughout the city and county of san francisco. so and i'm really grateful that we have so many dedicated people helping us to do that. but we know there's so much more work to be done and that's why it's important to have these celebrations to come together to acknowledge the work and part of that work wouldn't be done without our state support, which is why your former supervisor and current state senator, scott wiener, is here. because the $35 million in tax credits wouldn't have happened had it not been for his advocacy and work on the statewide level to get us to

this place so that we can have the resources to do everything necessary so that when people are walking into their new homes, they could be proud and know that they are protected for decades to come. that's what this is about. and i know it's a happy occasion here today. despite all the challenges of our city. but i am looking forward to continuing this great work, and i'm looking forward to making sure that under my housing plan that we continue to break barriers, that we continue to get all the bureaucracy out of the way so that we can move and do projects like this a lot faster and less expensive so that we can continue to make sure that we are not the only ones with the opportunity to live in san francisco so that others have that same opportunity and feel supported and protected. we talk about san francisco being a diverse city and the only way it's going to be diverse economically is if we have people who represent all

kinds of industries who can actually afford to live here and making sure that we commit our promise to build the 82,000 units in the next eight years is important. and people think, oh my goodness, that might be impossible able but we already have approved over 50,000 units to be built. can you imagine? can you imagine what, over 50,000 units built in san francisco could mean for affordability in this city if we can get it done? so today is a proud day. today is an exciting day to talk about housing and to continue our push, our work, our advocacy to get the financial resources necessary to get rid of the bureaucratic red tape and to make sure that we are focusing on handing keys to people so that they walk into their new, beautiful homes and continue to love and enjoy their neighborhoods. the people who are part of these neighborhoods and everything that this great

city has to offer. so thank you all so much for being here today . thank you. mayor breed, that was absolutely beautiful to my speakers. i would like to invite you to a photo op if you can go ahead and make your way to the right hand side. that would be greatly appreciated. there after our contractors and our architects, if you can join us in that photo op, that would be fabulous. thank you all. and if you would like to make your way towards the back, please do so. join me in the calle. five, four, three, two, one. okay. for yes, yes. thank you.

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