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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  September 22, 2024 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT

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[off mic.] >> all right. >> good morning, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm here with our public safety leaders in san francisco including our police chief bill scott and district attorney and one of our most advocates from the board of supervisors for public safety new mexico and joined by lgbtq revenue officer mark who will be giving a demo why we're here in the first place i want to express my appreciation to san francisco
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voters technology has been a guardroom and proposition e has given our police department the tools they need to not only stop crime as they occur but prevent that that the first place this is what people want to see and more importantly the information that we put into prop e before we put that on the ballot came from the police officers when i had an opportunity to visit the stations get an understanding what they wanted to see and how they want to do their jobs and time and time again proud to be part of san francisco police department but lots of tools the 21st century necessary to be effective no wonder as a result of primarily using technology like license plates right side
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and drones and other things we've seen what happened then july and june over the past month 70 percent decline it is the heart breaking has to do with with technology and san francisco fortunately is seeing a record low in terms of crime the lowest crime rates in 10 years but know that what when things happen the results matter we'll continue to do everything we can to combat issues why we're not letting the up and starting to see prepandemic applications in our staffing. and we're exciting what that means right now with our class of 40 and one with 60 that is coming the classes are starting to fill up and anticipate. and within the next 2 1/2 years our department will be filling but we are also making sure in light
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of challenges that exist we are still doing our jobs and getting the kinds of results making a significant difference in san francisco today is an exciting time more importantly we have our law enforcement leadership and work handing together and the a factor so many years of the disconnect on the same page pushing for the same kind of results public safety for the entire city and every resident and every corner of our city. so not just one thing or another all of that we are doing that every single day and today is an example of noting with a new tool that will transform how we aid issues around the important thing related to the challenges of that with public safety. including some of the issues we're dealing with open survey
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drug dealing and sideshow you name that is any tinge will lend itself to making things better we're looking forward to learning more about that and seeing a deems and just know that is one of many tools we are using to help come battle the challenges of safety in the city we are excited and can't wait and finally before i introduce chief scott what you're seeing with a number of situations that occurred recently in san francisco gotten a lot of attention but i want to just to be clear, whether that was a shooting whether that was retail theft or other issues car break ins our officers made the arresting and in some cases pro-active that led removing people that are removing crimes if our city off the streets time and time again, this is a clear
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message all over the behaving san francisco has accountability and we will not tolerate in any situations lawlessness and we'll work together to use every tool to insure way address public safety even better and with that, let me introduce our police chief bill scott. >> those tools are being a game-changer and start with the bottom line what mayor london breed said your crime reduction is phenomenal we have 33 percent below where we were last year our car break-ins have down 66 percent and burglaries and robberies and homicide rate is that one, the lowest levels that anyone what e can remedy labor
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of the synergy we have our da here you'll hear from her in a minute and we are working together as mayor london breed said those tools are going handing i want to talk about security cameras you know we're implemented the use of drones and power tools and implemented the use of our councilmember campbell systems and made arrests on really bad people and we wouldn't have been able to do that without the technology that is another piece of technology another tool for the officers we can use in the spirit of having our officers identify crime whether brown that happens we can be pro-active we lose the values of the city but we want to in terms of who we focus
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either demonstration on don't wait open and this technology allows us to do that and the the other thing is about lgbtq technology is fwls like a siding mobile camera units and they have sound devices we can give warnings and move from one hot spot to another when we need them additional be more responsive to the community who are calling for safety across the city. again, this is this is huge for us and prop e was thank you, to the voters and the leadership 6 mayor has allowed united states to do this we wouldn't have been able to do this before and we're going to be not thoughtful or going to be goinging the community concerns and ignore privacy concerns
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we're being very, very careful how we implement those processes and our local and listening to community and our public safety cameras before we introduce public safety cameras this is not to any community we have community meetings so community can get feedback we want to invite anyone has thoughts an idea we want to do this right and make this right i'm going to the bottom line our bottom line is is a safe city video where we don't see crime we're trying to get to. a note to people that do crime that day is over where you get to come here and live here and regime the streets and vindicate news our community we want to keep that in mind and that is what we intend to do
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with the security cameras to our officers to do and get things right and i know this request he will be asked. we plan to after getting a lot of community feedback but there is open air drug dealing and concerns about traffic what is the mission district and another one in the embarcadero area around the plazas where we've been relentless in addressing open air drug use this will aid and then what we intend to do we catch people and give it to the da. who are committing crimes in the city with that, i'd like to turning it over to our district attorney a great partner district attorney jennings.
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>> thank you, chief and thank you, mayor. as well as the law enforcement partners for spearheading prop e across the finish line to make sure that the voter understood why the police department and law enforcement agencies use this technology and for making sure that with that finding they voted to passed that piece of legislation and have in the tech capital of the world and have to make sure we're not behind the circle in moving technology we know that, yes, we have been combatting a police department that is short staffed what that means on the ground we have fewer people to respond we have to be able to use technology and a substitutes but of we were putting that as a prosecutor i
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want to be able to support them knowing i can prove my case having technology 3 captures incidents and assaults and automobile burglaries so i can give to the jury what happens at the description and they can see we're practicing prosecuting the right person and the appropriate crime that is what technology provides my office the ability to better prosecute our cases that's why i shoond in support of this legislation what that means is that not only you. could to san francisco and conditional use permit crimes that's the first and for the most part but have to make sure that people hear a consequence on the back i understand the only way to make sure we have cases in the district attorney's office. and so, yes, i want to highlight something the mayor said only a few years ago you
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may have seen the type initiative and the type of um, tool these types of tools now you see a full partnerships within city hall, between law enforcement agencies and my office to stand firm that san franciscans and everyone who comes here for whatever workforce visit deserve they deserve to park their cars and not be concerned of whether or not the windows will be broken or the car will be gone shouldn't have to be concerned about attacks and assaults and have have to give people functional safeties that's why we work hard and seen the progress that our city makes sure those numbers we don't just highlight data people say they feel safe again that's our goal thank you for everyone standing
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up here i will continue it stand with them as we push forward and now i'm going to turn it over to our sheriff tom mother. thank you. happy to be here standing alongside our partners in public safety not justices to make sure that over is safe by the mayor and legislations to make sure we have the support i want to say this is going to equip us to make sure the people in the city don't fear crime. they're going to help us support our deputies and officers must needed in key areas by the police chief and a note the sheriff's office has been using technology for years to make sure our job is enhanced by keeping places safe and in
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the hospitals and all the public spaces and we are very happy to see had occur in public safety to help the police departments with that to continue to occur. surveillance footage we'll acquire is helpful to be able to see what has happened but on the time it takes to get other surveillance and this will help us with the staffing levels and putting vision out there when we don't have people out there. i would like to acknowledge the support of the entire community not just business community but the community it that are helping us to embrace this voting on the technologies to make sure the tools are utilized we're excited to partner with the police department to keep people safe and the units will
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help us in the capacity out there and excited we're still on the right side to mark sure that everyone in it san francisco is safe and without further ado, i'll introduce the supervisor supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. chief 19 mother and welcome to district 6 i'm expressing my gratitude to mayor london breed for proposition e and other people expressing my gratitude to san franciscans who that made the use of safshgs technology possible and with us on the playing field with an outdoor county don't have the rules that san francisco last this enables us to make our city safer proportion e my district
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passed by within the largest masters over 60 percent of voters supported this is the district hyphenated mow downtown, district 6 residents know the kinds of issues this technology will help us solve. are the things human resources under my wife and i our commuters and vegetables and tourist people talk about safety in district 6 if necessarily mean their thinking you save but a recognition things are rob our county and worse of all especially, when it comes to drug market and open air drugs this is unprecedent in our history. we need to do more with technology i'm incredibly grateful to member of the board and as the leadership behind me
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i've been in government for a long time i can't think of a time we had federal and state and local partners in the right direction and i've said this 2340er years good news most cities in the america we have issues we need to address we are on the come back i appreciate mayor london breed limp with the congress back and we have further progress to make and this technology will help us get through. thank you very much. and with that, like to welcome lgbtq mark to speak (clapping.) thank you, supervisor dorsey to the lgbtq very proud and excited to partner city and county of
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san francisco proud to support our drug and crime reduction initiatives and help property protection and confident that live have you technology as well as county and being able to defer the detract and defend against crime in high crime areas as well in situations like open air drug markets and the car smash and grab that the mayor discussed. lgbtq offers the unique municipal letter for officers and as well as our enterprise consumers you may have noticed the limits around the bay area shopping malls and
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as well as mtc on the private side users for years we have many employs we run them a fleet and take care of the abatements and upkeep in the moving of those units and extremely excited for the city and county of san francisco to reduce crime going forward with their initiatives so mayor london breed and her team will be using our flagship products as you can see that is rapidly mobile is secure unit. it runs on solar and it is cellular connected. and using a combination of security cameras and speakers
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and to eliminate blind spots and protect property and defer unwanted behavior like to toourngs or to your attention to the units we do a quick deems deferring smash and grabs and bad actors walking in and out or weaving in a parking lot looking in windows and cars before they do a smash and grab it can detect unwanted behavior. >> this area is monitored with security cameras of san francisco. >> few if it didn't scare away the bad actors we give them pause should trigger an alert. >> you're loitering the authorities have been notified. >> ideally the bad actors runs
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walmart away with those lights audit that are automated with a we it is 50 to 75 percent reductions in those incidents but have to keep at um, we have to keep at the 20, 30 percent of more determined people we have the facility to assess the cameras in real estate and do a remote live walk down and retrieve eves of a crime that the committed during or after that takes place and another example the mayor and at chief and sheriff described the open air drug market people loitering in an area a i triggers the
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response. >> this area is monitored and the security for the citizens of san francisco. >> in a situation the crowd didn't dispersing or individual approach the technology and pick up like drug transactions are taking place do another esz levitation. >> you are trooepg practical leave the area the area is in radio surveillance and this is reported. >> i dealing about defer the dealers in they're i dealing make them leave before a crime is captured at the minimum will capture the crime on camera and authorities now have evidencing to build a case for an arrest
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and/or prosecution those two scenarios to provide the technology can bring to the table. for the city of san francisco and another arrow in the quiver for law enforcement. and what at the point i'd like to a thank the mayor and the entire team excite to partner and point your contamination to the tent a deems of our video management system and see the preset of the parking lot and rob over there our architect can walk you through other things and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mayor. and the everyone else appreciate it
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(clapping.) and i lee others do technology that is reported that we mentioned before to you all the camera technology is 2340r7ks with the drones and in conformance with the less is that camera captures a license plate on a car that committed a crime the officer can put that into the system and that is picked up on the camera not only san francisco but neither bay area but with other technology
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we've been able to find one or tow people just by could go that that gains that. >> the beauty of this city of edgewater the mission district within a couple of weeks have the technology now and here's i deal scenario if we resolve the issues been for decades those cameras cabaret located this is i mean to have this type of flexibility is a wonderful thing for the city. >> we have had 3. we have 3 so, yeah the third one to be
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determined. >> right behind you. >> yeah. we will deploy that third one just determine when and wrm when that decision has been made. thank you. >> if i can have mark talk about in other cities we did research in other cities but director ryan is one who's the project leader and standing behind you and, of course, the system chief we have done our research and talk about what one of the things. >> and santa clara county one of the biggest thing on the in the public segment santa clara county public utilities
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commission particularly for the bart 3 extension. so um, another california counties la county a big yours announcing ammunition with public utilities commission as well. transportation to a couple of example and sacramento users and across the bay a lot of units as well. >> all right. depends on how you configure it but you saw the service like a guard service or a fully loaded officer in hospitals of hundreds of thousands of dollars and, of course, a multiplier before you factor in the return reduction as well so um, i want to add something just for clarity around technology. because this is not the end of what we will
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use as a city in order to address issues around public safety. we have the ability to use whatever technologies are available at our disposal as a way to help defer crime so those units are mobile but we also and give i a perspective we have the ability and we'll be installing 4 hundred license plate right side and i believe the latest count is one hundred and 80. and even at the point where we had a hand license plate right side we respectable for example, make an arrest for someone that that committed a crime in santa fe and address issues around car break-ins and other things here's the thing we put up
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stationary cameras that provide surveillance in particular areas and we are working with communities to look at those as an option, too i want to just to be clear, this is a big part of all of what we are using to maximize you're use of whatever technology is available to help us combat the issues in the city and should be noted that, you know, the chief talked about car breaks yrtd 50 percent lower than last year but we started to use the drone technology we realized the forbidden what that entails a 70 percent reduction in june of car breaks in comparison to last year and saw a 70 over 70 percent reduction in july in comparison to last year, we are seeing the change
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because all the technology combined is making a difference what is excited about adding another important tool to addressing it into the mission um, related to some of the challenging issues in particular prostitution and what is happening in 3 community the open air drug dealing those cameras will be front and center in the hot spots and follow people when they today to move to others location we'll have you think camera and sends throwers our home letting our family know our car was in a hot spot for prostitution we're not backing down to the use of technology norman to address issues burn public safety and simultaneously negotiating the best contract that our police department has seen that's why
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people are deciding to leave other law enforcement agencies around the bay to leave san francisco and the technology as interest to wanting to serve in law enforcement in san francisco a combination of all those things we're really exciting and at this time i'll show you a demonstration what that looks families. thank you. >> i'm is he good morning thanks for joining us the public library ribbon cutting of this
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beautiful building thank you, mayor london breed and wiener and crocker adams for joining us with others and the city attorney david chiu and we have getting started calling up my favorite colleagues to talk about what we're working on over the years an educator. >> (clapping) so good afternoon, everyone and thanks for coming out on the san francisco summer day on the day i'm really, really excited to be here and have verde now open about 4 buildings on one and it is awesome to see people make this a reality for who, who are not here and congratulations don't those who brings this to
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fruition thinking about where we are and how we got here i joined the residents that passed away at an event for the residents and i had a talk why they live to canyon and spoke to individuals and families with a - and they talked about how amazing it is to live across the street if a huge water shed park and bike to work and how the beautiful amenities joy living here and building things i've experienced in the seven years plus and exciting to be here at verde and how many more homes will be delivered for people that wanted to live and work in san francisco and offering this type of successor agency for them to make their home incredibly proud and as we think
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forward we're at fought building a lot of parking lots ash us here i'm not alone in thinking about this and really excited to now be as a point we want to work with partners at the port and city to think how by the make that platform more home and more places for people to work in san francisco more think constitutional and worlds class we look forward to work you and with that, i'm i'm going to turn it over to my partner here larry. >> (clapping) tanks peggy. >> another great day we have an option here. great the opening day of the baseball
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field. >> and can't building been 15 requesters in the making the original home since 2010 and looking through the milestones the election in 2015 and 77 percent vote that is not easy to do; right? the voters said, yes to mission rock and then we partners with them in 2018 and off the racess i want to spend a minute we're excited about verde we're excited about the future this is our fourth building phase one and all the future buildings with the future applications of the city. but none of this would be polk without the workforce who built those buildings and has been a big advocate for us in pushing in the direction and we're proud
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to say 8 seven hundred construction jobs were made with the contractors and web and others. but we are really and we're really provider of two mission rock cohorts in partnership with oewd and mission hiring hall and 21 graduates and i was told a story about one hundred thousand graduates and one is parts of our cohorts an all woman class and taken up capillaryy and opened many months ago. and anthony o now she's coming back to work on verde and one year out and as she's known
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journeying anti off and running in a career with the workforce program we're proud of amber and her policies i want to call out our partners that is critical to us with their leadership as well as verde and the programs the partnership with mission rock either since 2010 but in recent years, more of an advocate and more helpful and constructive (clapping.) our state senator scott wiener from day one thank you, scott (clapping.) and port director elaine gets calls from us a lot from we decide to last minute a drone show like friday night and she
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said mayor, we're on the track so elaine is a great partner; right? (clapping.) and is matt here but a supervisor we love a problem solver mating and david chiu thank you and (clapping.) and phil our partner for a long time and i don't think phil is here but and carla short our director. >> (clapping) that's thank you but at the top of the list is our wonderful mayor it proceeding over the options and thank you, mayor london breed and i'm going to turn it over to london breed. >> (clapping) the sun is making me sleepy.
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>> don't you want to layout and take that in first of all, let me say how much i appreciate the opportunity to be hear and the preservation of larry it took a while to get here and fact of the matter we had that f d passed beforehand we would have been here a couple of years ago back want to acknowledge the leadership of scott wiener and the house production in san francisco opportunities like this in mission bay will happen all over san francisco as soon as as long as we remove the bureaucratic red tape and with the giants and they helped to provide mixed-use opportunity like the ones you're exercising
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in verde is the future of san francisco i say the future of san francisco, this is any mission rock the global headaches of visa and signed a lease for over half a mill square feet where people want to live a grocery we all remember what it used to be not a neighborhood at all it was railroad tracks and a golf course driving range and it is left and i am birth that this oust but what it has been an opportunity for a thriving neighborhood a place where people work and live and where they play and with china base
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line park and the bike trail and the open space to live here this a really an extraordinary project of what it means when we come together and working studio make that happen as a city and many of the elected leaders that are joining us so 200 and 54 more units in the housing stock we need thousand more to come and excited about what it means in the neighborhood of mission rock and mission bay we appreciate the architectural i want to acknowledge the community of the folks that volunteered their time including howard wong with the southern advisory committee thank you for your work and rogers with the mission bay advisory committee and the people who actually lived here that provided what we can do as a city to make that
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more of inclusive diverse community we're on our way i can't imagine living here and coming up and watching a game for free with our binoculars? >> this is the future and what we want to be able to do as san francisco create neighborhood like this all over the city we don't need to look for any other cities than mission rock and bay to create opportunity not downtown and the west side of san francisco could be amazing and so this is what happens when we work together intro make massingic to have those units so hang out for rent sign and open the doors and get those places built.
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(clapping.) and i wasn't given my official duties my apologies i want to say the percent of unit will be also available to families of a certain area medium income we appreciate that will be mucked units i mentioned scott weiner's legislation was in place we would have done this a couple of years back but appreciate the incredible work he does if sacramento on housing as a result of sb 42 three, 75 percent of housing including affordable units and will be a gambler for housing production and so that is great to be here
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with the leader around housing ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator scott wiener. >> thank you, ma'am mayor, you know, over the last 5 years i think the harder job in america a big city mayor and topics in the city and with the challenges and issues in san francisco not all unique in san francisco but i'm so grateful for your assistance and it is in the difficult times and we're the proof of that labor a so many good things have happened in the city thank you. i want to thank the giants from the bottom of my heart there are franchisees not always as kind as we want them to be as they hop around the city and falling out of
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supporters teams and now build in san francisco for between years and what i've seen a deep, deep partnership between san francisco and the san francisco giants. so many levels it is amazing stadium but also the giants devotion to the san francisco and this mission rock project is one large example of that see some sports teams want they're big parking lot but the san francisco giants are forward thinking thank you, thank you, thank you. so, you know, this neighborhood i've think we've all seen it blossom the amazing things happening in the entire area and the mayor and i we're
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at the vice. >> and judge spectacular and adding for spectacular to this neighborhood and congratulations everyone who lives and works here this is and only going to get better in the 70s and will be better and better and better congratulations we're trying to support to a level and haney and i worked together working to make sure we can help san francisco moved on housing and maybe takes months instead of years and years we miss david chiu in the capital a congratulations but this project thank you, david and we're doing that work because it is about the people of san francisco. and
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people who are on one hand what their future holds in the city and children and whether they can raise a family our job to make sure we are empowering people to stay here to raise families here and have a multi-family generation here in san francisco. and that's why we do work that we do. we um, have increased the housing goals for all cities including san francisco and has a big goal so that's impossible people say i hope we have can do attitude but this mission rock is an example how we make that happen and poke around the city thousands and thousands of homes on treasure island development authority or
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at park merced if we get it done like the giants we'll meet the housing goals we need to work together to make sure that we are getting those projects up and running and doing what it takes to make them viable that is solving the criticized so the giants thank you, from the bottom of my heart and congratulations, everyone (clapping.) and i think i'm i believe i'm next i'm dave the director of mayor's office of housing and wanted to say as a long time resident of san francisco and as an architect. this place is gorgeous it is just beautify the building design the high quality i want to appreciate the urban
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design work i've been riding my bike in this section for years and over guess last year we see any a place like a real neighborhood it is becoming something and has started to be that great thing. and part of this journey pulled over and watched part of it from the bleaches i want to appreciate all the design and also want to appreciate the partnership we are with the giants and as a mayor mentioned the fixed income community 59 affordable units we bend from learning from the giants about how who expedite and mayor how to cut red tape we don't want the unions in the city the director of mayor's
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office of housing and community development and would that paifrp we deepened the affordability and looking forward to collaboration in the next phases of this development i love to see parking lots impressive and thank you for the great work and knit our office to continuing the collaboration and with that, introduce elaine the first order of business our amazing director. >> thank you, dan it is good i'm the closing remarks i want to reflect on what the mayor said when you did your state of state here at mission rock last year and talking about innovation. and how we need to work together differently for this big projects in the
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background and our port is changing mayor. we have been leading economic recovery and with the push and kayla figuring out the infrastructure and figuring out ways to finance that are challenging and you're going to find phase two and - but we have really done mile-an-hour includes work and leaning forward i want to start with maggie and larry it would be nice a woman in an incredible leadership and congratulations maggie all fabulous (clapping.) this project delivered that is
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amazing iron one hundred and $70 million so congratulations to the local businesses that is incredible we also have architects came in the space the one a woman earth and a huge effort on bringing black and brown people into the construction gap on to the floor and it is just remarkable and you are san francisco valid team we you wouldn't be here unless i were that and couldn't have changed without the san francisco giant i'm happy and my staff worked real really hard on the community partners and the vision we know how hard this has been but how inspiring it has been i'm glad to close and congratulations to everyone.
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thank you. >> okay. i ready start with 5 example 4 example three you're watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is monique gray. >> hi. i'm chris mannis and you're watching san francisco rising. the our guest today is marquise
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gray. he runs out of the office of the mayor in the city and county of san francisco. and he's with us today to talk about the recent progress of the sunnidale hope sf housing project. welcome to the show. >> good morning. thank you for having me today. >> let's start by talking about the existing residents of sunnydale and their history. >> so sunnydale was built in the 1940s for a workers. it's the largest public housing community west of the mississippi. it's about 50 acres. pretty huge. about 760 single story units one to four bedrooms. >> i understand it's an ambitious rethinking of the residences. can you briefly describe the scope of the program and hope sf's involvement?
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>> yeah. the work of hope sf is this idea of more than housing. that acknowledging that our public housing community, the levels of violence and poverty that are in these communities are not by accident. you know, it's our opportunity to address a system issue, you know, that people need more than housing. they need health services. resources. economic investment opportunities, jobs and things of that nature. and so hope sf strives to work with our city systems to better serve our public housing communities. >> so recently, mayor breed and speaker pelosi toured the site to both put focus on a national housing initiative and also to highlight the completion of the first new building. how many units does it contain and when will people start moving in? >> yeah. it was an amazing event. honored to have the secretary here with us as well in our community.
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it's 167 units. it's about 75% going back to the original families that currently live on site. so the replacement. so i did forget to mention i want to say real quick, the beauty of hope sf is housing development, new development without displacements or anti-displacement initiatives. so, for example, the building is 167 units. 75% of those units going to families that have lived there in the community for generationings and the other 25% are tax credit units adding to the affordable housing stock here in san francisco and those units are up and running now. they're leasing them as we speak. people are picking their units each week until they're filled up. >> so was this particular building put on a new plot of land or did people have to move out so it could be constructed? >> that's a good question. our first building was vacant which you may have saw across the street from this building
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and then this plot of land is the way we kind of do it, we do it in phases. once one goes in, we're able to move families into the new unit and where they previously were occupying, able to demolish old buildings to build the new. so this area had some older units that were demolished. >> it's impressive that construction has been able to continue during the covid-19 pandemic. can you talk about some of the challenges that needed to be overcome and how the community has managed during the crisis? >> that's a great question. you know, in san francisco, if i understand it correctly, i could be wrong, i believe housing was an essential service. the mayor made a strong commitment early on in the pandemic that we would continue to build housing as housing has been a critical issue in our city. so the housing part hasn't
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impacted us too much. 67 units have been going on its current time line. the bigger challenge for us was showing the families in our communities, low income families had the resources we need to survive the pandemic. many of our families didn't have the luxury of working from home, working in the zone and things of that nature. making sure they had access to covid testing and things of that nature. so i want to give a big shout out to our resident leaders, our service providers across all four sites. for those that don't know, hope sf is four sites. sunnydale is one of the four sites. and so across those four sites, the most critical thing was making sure folks in these neighborhoods which have historically have been disconnected from resources have the things that they need to remain healthy, to, you
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know, survive the pandemic as we all had to survive the pandemic and we did pretty well. we were able to bring back scenes and covid testing on site. food distribution was happening all throughout the week. wellness services and things of that nature were all happening on site thanks to our resident leaders and our service providers across the sites. >> so, finally, when could we expect the next set of residents to be ready? despite -- i guess we just said covid doesn't have an impact on the schedule. when will the next residences be ready? >> yeah. things are rolling. we have block a3 and block b3 to the building we were referring to earlier. and things are on pace. things are going really well. so we're looking at starting construction spring of 2022 and that will be 170 units and the goal is to have that lease up around 2024.
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>> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. gray. thank you for giving us the time today. >> thank you, chris, and i really appreciate your time as well. >> and that's it with this episode. you've been watching san francisco rising for sfgov tv i'm chris manners. thanks so much for watching. >> well come to september 19, 2024 regular meeting of the government audit oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dean preston. the chair of committee. joined by vice chair catherine stefani, and supervisor connie chan. the committee clerk today is monique creighton and we want to thank the team at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, do you have announcements? >> public comment will be taken on each