cocktail. >> that sounds perfect. a lot of our videos seem to end on cocktails. [laughter] >> welcome to san francisco. >> thanks skylar. >> >> hello dog patch. [applause] extend a warm welcome to our community. our city leaders and staff. and our collaborate rirts to help make this possible. we are very excited have you here i'm with my clothes and we want to welcome to you our construction site. we are sorry about the dust. we are doing our best.

but there are things optimistic as a ground break confirmation as a society we gotta build for a bright are tomorrow. and for us, this is exciting stuff. 2 years ago we were here in the pandemic and shock our city and globe. and we started on the infrastructure that you see here. we said then when it locked rough we would not stop. we set the ground w to build the future neighborhood that san francisco needed. and today we are excited that is getting started. want to look back. [applause] it is good if you were here 12 years ago you would number the middle of a former power pleasant and about to build another there brave people said, you know may be we don't need another power plant here that leadership starred with

former supervisor so far maxwell, we honor here today. [applause]. other leaders like joe possess. let's reimagine the future if they have were successful in putting another power pleasant this land would have been closed for another jeneration. instead we are here. thank you for your courage we would not be here without you. so, [applause]. this is know optimistic mobile home. we got a beautiful day and beautiful site this is wonderful opportunity for optimism. the world's not optimistic about san francisco now. i am. because i than every time people say san francisco is over and that happens every 20 years here we come become better, resilient and invest and invent the idea

this is change the westerlied. we are a funny place. 110 thousand of the world's population the things we do here change the westerlied we have an ininfluence on the planet. gave worsts the blue jeans. slot machine. television, juke box. a couple community renovations. and social changes. we were the first to recycle and the first city to give major equality and we are not done yet. >> this city has been a place of pioneers. and what we brought here and how we been this world is how we build the housing. so in san francisco. i can't think of a way to start this project then and there with 100% affordable housing.

the building we are embarking on today will be very special. will be built for a population whom housing is riverly built crucial workers that make our city thrive. teachers, first responders, nurses and the people we want in san francisco to keep it moving i'm excited that is the way we are getting started the way we do it is unique i thank eric shaw who gave us idea. this is weird recycled bond thing a way to reuseo affordable housing bond fist you can figure it out that's how you can get started. we other first in california to do it and the first in san francisco to do it now we got another tool to build housing i'm so excited. thank you eric shaw. [applause] society building we have today and start is named after former supervisor maxwell.

she started her career as a union electtrician i can't think of a better way to honor the site. raise our hands to supervisor maxwell! [applause] >> i want to thank our other supervisor. walton. he is a constant communicator for his community and we are grateful for his leadership, advice and nudge to make us do better. and i will tell you he taught us one important thing. progress is in the measured by how tall our buildings are butt depth of our commitment to the community. thank you, supervisor. appreciate your support. and to our mayor. she has been an advocate.

if she would not have pushed in ways like today that no one's done we would not be here and a generation of inference france fremantles would not have homes thank you to the mayor and the city staff to keep the project moving we would not be here without and you madam mayor this , housing you are helping help is a commitment to makes san francisco affordable for sxefrn that is awesome. thank you. now as we break ground. and start think burglar transforming the power pleasant we are not just building housing we are generating a new energy that symbolizes hope. resilience and optimism the important commitment we can make in san francisco is to give everybody i place to call home. wore not done. welcome to power station. thank you.

thshg, thank you for your leadership that guided the community and our team to continue to build infrastructure to preserve the incredible historic relics this will be trans formed and occupiable and knit back to the fabric of our community. i'm tina tang and humbled to welcome you here and to welcome the champions that he mentioned on stage. to that end i like to bring mayor breed. our champion of housing and fighter for today's city. as a former plan exert i current resident, i know first hand how important your leadership is. it is to the efforts of your administration and you that we have this project going and able to keep it going. so. everyone, join me in welcoming

mayor breed. [applause]. >> good afternoon simple it afternoon? morning? well, supervisor walt only says the sun is always shine nothing bayview. thank you for being here. enrique thank you for setting the tone. are you trying to add yourself to the list of people running against me or something. that was a great. thank you for the optimism and the excitement! around not just the power pleasant butt excitement around our city! and the excitement of finally getting rid of the red tape to get housing built. for the people of san francisco. and let me tell you. i remember those battle. at the time i was not on the board of supervisors but sophie maxwell when she ran for the board of supervisors one of the things she said was the main

reasons why she ran had other everythingth everythings do do with closing the power pleasant that was polluting the community she was a part of and followed through on her commitment and med it happen. fact that we are here today to break ground on the first project 100% affordable that is named for her. it is irrelevant just the locality we can do to honor what she has done that will create a new community in an area that has not been open and available to the public for more than 150 years. you did this, supervisor maxwell. you made this happen we're honored for your presence and grateful for your leadership and advocacy and this project will be an extraordinary part of your legacy in san francisco. thank you very much. [applause] what do we have here? when we are didn't this project. we will have 2600 units.

30%, alcohol be affordable. we will have a library. community space. so much. we are creating a now neighborhood in san francisco. as enrique said tried to count san francisco out. but they don't remember the history of san francisco. they don't know that we have been through very challenging times before and we have e merged strategier. places like the power plant. as well as dog patch and pier 70. those were not things that were locked at to be develop in the new neighborhood and look when we are making happen. this entire project was under project labor agreement. the fact that leadership on enric competence tina came together they worked with labor and community and worked with

the city. brought people together this is how we need to do projects in san francisco to get the job done. there is nothing bert than that. we may know funding is difficult. enter rates throughout roof am expense are through the roof am san francisco have 50,000 units approve and not able to move them forward the fact we have a creative financing too long to do this project one that will will be used for the next 43,000 units that could qualify, will help us get on our way in meeting our goals of the state housing element to build over kwo,000 units in the next 8 years. we have to get out of the way.

i'm grateful that the governor signed major housing legislation including redevelopment financing this we'll be able to use for replace am housing the promises redevelopment agency med they did not honor in terms of their commitments to make sure that there is replace am housing. the financing tools will help us improve our process, and our financing for getting the projects doneful getting people housed in the city of san francisco. i'm excited and grateful for the opportunity to lead those efforts. >> and the other thing that makes me proud. is the fact that we fought when i was on the board of supervisors the able to make sure when we builted the projects, the people who live in the communities have right of

first refusal. and 40% of the units this will be built here today. are going to people who live in and around this community. upon i know that was another reason why supervisor walton was excited and enthusiastic about this project and i appreciate his leadership and working with us hand in hand to deliver this for the folks of the city but especially of the dog patch neighborhood and hill and bayview this will be i game changer of a project. and again enrique, i appreciate your leadership in wing with lbe's here as well so many hire locals to work on the project. exit know how important it is to make sure this we have partnerships and opportunity. this project checks so many box. and that's why we have many people here today.

we are grateful to each and every one you have, it does take a village i want to take a moment to acknowledge and recognize all people that got us to this point. i thank supervisor and current pu c commissioner maxwell. i want to thank enrique and tina from associate capitol your leadership as a developer has been extraordinary and brought people together for this project. i want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership on this event. i want to appreciate many of the community organizations the potrero boost and dog patch neighborhood association for working with the city to make this happen. thanks to labor partners. we appreciate the building traiteds who was harassing me to move the barrier so they can get the work and get jobs on the project. thank you to an taupia the

office of workforce development. for your commitment and work on the big frequents and thank you to judson true our housing ecpel indicter what you need to do to dig and make changes that does not sound cool it is hard work and requires us to work together with a number november partners. thank you to dins herrera when he was our city attorney who worked with supervisor maxwell to shut the power plant counsel of i'm so excited and grateful to be here thank you all, least break this ground and get folks housed! give it up for our mayor.

your enthusiastic is grit. i like to welcome our champion of d 10. our constant fighter for d 10 who reminds us what important including building community and developing community, which is why we are here today. without further adue, supervisor walton. [applause]. >> good morning! good morning! first question is, who said you cannot build house nothing san francisco? you know we have been work very hard with community >> dog patch. potrero, labor, developer. all of you who work with the city and w with our lbe and work in the development field and construction field to make sure that we have projects like this. this is one of those projects

where like the mayor said every box was checked. it went through planning. every commission and every committee unanimously. and that is because it is public to have responsible development when you have people near committed to the work. it did not guilty start that way. i remember when i first met with enrique and i had got elected but we had done w to make sure that all the projects on the southeastern water front would be possible. when i met him i tooktd mayor with me and did that for a couple reasons. one i wanted him to know we meant business and this you were going to listen to the community if you were going to build here. 2, i wanted him to know this we had leaders in the city nacare and concerned even when they may not be part of the civic doubt to do so and after that meeting,

and enric embegone to talk to the community about what the plans were at the power station. when we wanted see. what was going to be developed would he listen to communities. made a lot of changes on design. a lot of changes on the height of buildings and when we would see that's because he listened to community i say thank you to enrique being responsible develop they're listens to community. and then as we continue to push affordable housing and that percentage of higher through conversations and the commitment to community, we thought about now we have the building that will be built. and who are we going to name this building after? tell be a building represents the w force in san francisco. and here in the community and i building represents dog patch.

and building live here in san francisco still have the opportunity and then building -- so immediately enrique supervisor maxwell excited that we get to see flours while you are with us. thank you for your leadership and when you demonstrated to make it possible for people like me to serve in this role. the reality is -- we are at a time where we need more housing here in san francisco. we'll be at the forever front of building house nothing d 10 and continue to not just talk about the opportunity but we will continue to make them a reality.

we worked hard, there were ideas on how to get it financed this is the first but not the last way. and i want to thank the director shaw and enrique and the major's office and my colleagues for understanding and supporting and honor president of the board of supervisors supervisor peskin, thank you for being here. which also demonstrates how important this housing and this project is to our city. with that said i want to just again the mayor thanked everybody. and -- but i do want to thank the dog pitcher and potrero for commitment and labor and thank all of the lbe and folks wing on projects and the workforce who is going to be from the community and also a nonprofit developers who will have opportunity to build here as limp we come i language way and have a long way to go we will

build in d 10 where the sun is always shining. thank you. thank you. supervisor. and left but not least i want to welcome champion of the community fighter for environmental justice, ms. sophie maxwell. you inspire said us in many ways thank you for making today possible. >> who you, who does have thought. who would have ever imagined. i want to thank the people before and i want to thank the mayor and enric and he his team. thank you. this is important. and it is in the the i'm representing all the people who have been here and who were

here. i want you to imagine a crowd of people behind me. i want you to imagine city departments. on the side of me and joe and harris and john decats i don't and linda i want you to imagine the people. some on the side and some in the front leading the charge. this is corrective leadership a collective vision . that we saw something this nobody could see except our city's. they gotta generate power in the city. well, we had another vision. we had another way of doing, no the state will never allow this. closing 2 power pleasants these were some of the among the oldest power pleasant in

california. the most polluting power plant in california. the people in the crowd behind me were mother and fathers the pick their children up early. buzz they had asthma mothers like me who child died and i always blame it on the power plants and these were the people we had no chase to have a vision and determination. that's when we had. and with that. anything can be done. i just was reminiscing with my colleague and my heartthrob aaron peckin the city attorneys dragged us to the puc to testify. we were thinking what in the world but it worked, obviously. but there we were and many people went to the preponderance iso.

and sacramento we were on a mission. we went through 3 mayors did in the matter who was mir and not mir we were here the potrero boosters. ledge was here. sage was here. dog patch association we were all still here. that's what made the difference. you see here this is so appropriate to be affordable housing who will live in our city. is it the food and are we going to be diverse in population. it is that diverse population. are we just going to important middle class or going to build and credit middle class. that is when cities do. that's what cities do. and i want to thank our mayor. i want to thank for a number of reasons i will say have introduced my grandson. i call him now a grownup machine

i kent do this my grand son and his family. when they got red to have a family they moved to oak land. last week i got a call and saturday. grand mother are you in the city because we are over here. on [inaudible] we are in the program this the mayor's office of housing has. and they help you with down payment assistance. and i said, i was not. i am so happy and you don't know because that's what it is b. that's when all in about generations of people who care and love and live in our city. so -- this is just the begin and iing want to thank you here. i want to thank the major's office and everybody else and their mother who is having a part of this this is important. and this is when we do. we are again, showing what we do, when you put your minds to it with a collective energy and a collective vision. again other thank you all.

thank you, aaron, i love you. >> >> supervisor maxwell we are not done with you yet. yes , i would love for to you come becomure today's star we are honoring you today. -- we want to have you hand print your hand in wet concrow hollywood san francisco style. so we can hang this in the lobby of our building so all residents everyone who walked throughout halls know the story. [music] [applause]

. >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone,

but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even

though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise

>> this moteingly will come to order. good morning and welcome at this time machine october 23, 2023 meeting of rules of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dorsey chair and i'm joined by vice chair walton and committee number safai. together we like to express gratitude to our clerk victor young and thanks to sfgovtv