so the flat is this unit right here. the two units are 3562. the third unit is 165. it's on the backside of the building and david will explain to you that the backside of the building was the same level of san bernardino avenue years ago. what happened the city decided they were going to raise the height of the street to make it higher and that took the backside of the building >> put that back to the mick please to get it into the record. >> - required that the height of the street basically up about 9 feet higher and it made the entrance to the building t you have to go down 5 or 6 stairs to get to that level and two fleeths. and this packet we distributed to the building department basically has photographs of this beautiful building now you should have them now and on the backside. there's the backside it's to germany radical avenue. they kit away two stories by putting up this wall. this is what you walk down those steps to get to the entrance of the unit. there's nothing wrong with that in the 20s and 30s and they say it was built with stuff they had laying ar

about six out of ten have a favorable view of the united states. there is a sense that u.s. the u.s. remains a superpower. there's even stronger public support for americans around the world. and while i can't dispute that some of the criticism of the united states are accurate in terms of the way it's acted around the world i think we can't discount the fact that publics around the world still generally not in every country have a very positive view of the united states well bruce any as you know when you say hold on when you say that when you say that it is. good point is that american foreign policy is an american culture is that mcdonald's is that disney i mean can you flesh it out a little bit and then it's a crime it's across that it's across the board i mean there is widespread appreciation for americans sense of protection of liberties for example the end. of the spying on america i mean but it's luck but it's it's all relative right i mean if you ask a question say just china or iran and or the united states how do you feel about they how how they protect liberties

the united states and the united kingdom top the global table for pay. interesting enough, there is germany that's had a low pay policy the last decade. either you can allow the poverty rates to rise more by not subsidizing those on the low pay or you can subsidize them but that of course has burdens of itself because it expands bill of all of welfare payments and spending and these increases in taxes and reduces the incentive to work because it means you're not better off on the welfare payment than you are on work so it isn't a sensible way to run the economy and the reason why we have had these big jumps in low pay is for the reason i outlined earlier there's been a squeeze on wages and the share of output in both the united states and the united kingdom has fallen sharply over the last 30 years. there is money going. most of the squeeze in the fall has been concentrated on the weight of distribution roughly the bottom flared. that is basically what has been happening. the solution to the crisis, the economy's will only be sustainable in long run if w

having mistrust of any given countries of the united states while i can remove off the united states i think you know i think you know the history starting with the hostages of starting with numerous failed to promote a condition is between the two and including the many areas of conflict within the middle east region which i've already mentioned i would also mention another which is that rightly or wrongly the united states has alliances with members of the gulf cooperation council countries which look across the persian gulf to run those countries are even more distrustful of iran. the ones we've been talking about like united states but as we discussed earlier trust a mistrust is something that is especially in the area centrally in the eye of the beholder you cannot control or in fact i don't think you can influence how much trust or mistrust any given party have has in relation to you but since you want to move on. you know that iran is to hold presidential elections pretty pretty soon and one of the top presidential contender is. really the country's top nuclear negotiator was

in those rehabilitated units with not losing a lot of affordable housing units. it's a fine line trying to strive to maintain a balance of those. i just want to highlight a few examples of housing we have produced in the past year. 150 otis, a city landmark. it's 75 brand new studio units with full baths and kitchen. it serves homeless veterans. we managed to achieve a hundred percent of the units hundred percent accessible or adaptable. it opened late last year. another project is current under construction is 1075 l.a.cont, around 3rd street. 72 units serving homeless families and transition youth. 10-70 units are adaptable and 10-20 units are serving the visually and hearing impaired. >> next is 1184th street in mission bay. this is a new development of 124 units for serving very low income families including homeless families. 5-7 units will be ak ccessible and with 20 percent for hearing and visually impaired. lastly, this is a project that we are very proud of is 220 golden gate, the adaptive reuse of what is known as the central ymca. that was a rehabilita

the end of the cold war the united states was a very strong advocate when we got to. it rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this is this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we sort of the programs are going to if i could go you know and then let's talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine countries bas

states is actually up to the surveillance hawks in the united states and this security apparatus is doing everything it can to divert the attention from what's really important here and instead talk about the persian details of edward snowden what is at issue is that the united states has been betraying the trust of pretty much the entire world now what do you think what do you think he thought significant about his revelations because in the words of one commentator we haven't really learned anything that we didn't suspect before right well yes or no you could assume that the united states was eavesdropping at some level what is new here though is the extent of the fact that this is happening and perhaps most importantly we're getting confirmation of what we expected and the fact that. somebody inside the national security agency states that this is not right and the science to more or less give up a very comfortable life in the united states for his conscience that is huge now you mentioned that mr snowden has a lot of critics in his home country but he has his supporters too but

the vacant units -- this is tragic that there are several hundreds of vacant units while our shelters are packed to the gills. the vacant units are a threat to security. one of the issues i heard -- one of our clients living next door to a vacant unit [inaudible] so that's still an ongoing issue. absolutely imperative that we get those issues resolved. this audit -- the results have been a vindication of what we have been seeing for years and i'm so glad it's finally coming to light. it's a shame on our city that we've allowed the conditions to exist as long as they have. we've had some progress already with barbara smith but we also need funding and need to support her so i would urge you to do what you can. >> thank you. next speaker. er >> my name is jessica. thank you for requesting this very important performance audit. we are very concerned about the many, many, seniors and people with disabilities who are been living in housing authority units in pretty bad conditions for years and the many more who are waiting to get in. it's a huge problem that we talked about today as far as

they you hate the states because we were there may not actually be a lot on the other still in the united of course there are those of the russian lots of i listen i was about to say and then there are people in the united states who should know better educated people but for their whole lives fighting the soviet union what is interesting really about your visit is that you really came here with an objective of facilitating and sansa find the counter terrorism cooperation between the two. nations and i. mistrust a distrust that i think you're alluding to in your previous answer. is very prevalent among people who are working in the law enforcement and secure have a reference is. what can be done about that while on both sides of the of the coin we've got to make sure that people who are. you know as i say they are reserved for about the. elimination of communism year or in the in the american side they think everybody here is still a communist i'm still wanting to create the dictatorship of the proletariat or very close the georges or whatever they think that and they're wrong i think you

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condo units were converted and approved, an average of 541 units per year. ~ these are 541 units that had previously been under rent control. in the previous decade, only 2,863 were approved. in the last

they're older units. if they've been occupied for a long time, many of the elements needs to be replaced or if they've had heavy use and wear and tear they require rehab. hud allows 18 months for completion of those units and a lot of the units that we currently have vacant are in that category and they require additional funding. for about six months the housing authority did not have funding to address the rehab of the larger vacant units. we were able to convince hud to let us have 1.5 million dollars to rehab vacant units and get them back on line and the mayor contributed 600 thousand dollars through the mayor's office. those units are about one-third complete now. discussions are underway with the police department, not to terminate the mou with the police department, but to continue a relationship and an agreement so that services under the agreement for safety of our residents and surrounding communities can continue, but we ask the city to provide the funding for those services. nine of the actio

units. their building far fewer units and the increased density is to bring some of the units onto the phase one. >> thank you. i think it's pretty close. i'm hoping this is one of the opportunities where we can provided for family housing and make sure we can keep it as individualized as possible. looks like you've got a lot of town houses in there. it's going to be a large park there towards the top of the him i hill. i would expect construction to begin fairly soon. part of it has the streets laid out and the infrastructure in place >> thank you. >> commissioner. just to clarify so the lots being broken down on soon are those the same lots we're dealing with now? >> if you could pull up the overhead again sorry. you can leave that that's fine >> you'll see at the top of the screen block 50 and 51 we have site permits and job traldz will be getting rolled out. those don't need the density increase block 40 does need the increase and the corridor will be up the entrance right up into the pa

thomas you've only got a 3 unit building here this permit says 4 units. oh, my god i thought it was resolved. this is going to a legal unit and maybe somebody didn't get the memo. so any way i you can help me i appreciate it >> can i just clarify one thing i released that the lawsuit the code enforcement in my office was taking care of that. >> i think we have a comment from the deputy. >> there is a standard for - the appellant could go to the fourth floor and do a 3 hour report and he could a appeal the 3 unit and heel meet with a member of staff that will be on the 3rd floor. that member of staff will make the determination of how many units and if we agree with him there's evidence of the fourth unit i'll go to planning and that's how the process works. and he'll get a clear process of how many units there are >> that's what the appellant did do. >> so obviously - i would like to make a motion to continue this for one month and just vote on that. if we have to vote let's vote and i second that motion >> on the question what is to happen in this one mo

in a bind i think it would doors is tempted to try to needle the united states defy the united states be the center of attention try to expose the hypocrisy of what they see as the apocrypha the double standards of the united states has been very critical of ecuador for its own. policies of coming down hard on the press and their own country and so i don't want to take advantage of this but at the same time they're very mindful that that's going to have very serious consequences for its economy so i think what we're seeing is really some men vigilance the government is weighing factors on both sides of the equation and that looks like it's going to be delayed for some time ok do you think that the pressure that the u.s. is putting on ecuador is too much. no i don't i don't think so i don't think that the united states should i think the political reality is that you know that it would not get trade preferences a great for grant snowden asylum i'm not sure that's a wise move but that's just a political reality it's a wise move because i don't think it's in a long term interest of the u

the cost varies significantly between the senior units and family units are respective average costs of 7306 dollars and 14,779 dollars. there are also costs to not preparing units for occupancy. they lose hud subsidies and also tenant rent as long as these units remain vacant. rent represents 33 percent of the authority's public housing program budget. failure to collect rent means that other important agency functions cannot take place and those functions include things like ongoing maintenance and repairs. since 2010 the average number of delinquent -- 2572 delinquent tenants at the housing authority, only 19 percent were on payment plans. in accordance with hud guidelines, the housing authority is allowed to write off the uncollectible rent each year. the average amount of rent that the housing authority fails to collect is over 1.5 million dollars annually. in addition to rent the other opportunity that the housing authority has to generate revenue is to charge tenants for damage caused by them to units. this is standard, but san francisco stopped enforcing this policy in 2009 a

as well as a hotel unit. a study was done it was determined that a 500 unit hotel development may not be appropriate for the site, but reducing it in half up to 250 units along with 350 residential units would be something that would serve this neighborhood better. the mission bay citizens advisory community has endorsed this change conveying that a smaller hotel and additional residential units is in keeping with a need for housing while the smaller scale hotel serve visitors to the biotech businesses and ucsf campus while l also pro serving hotel jobs providing living wage for families. a little more on the residential units. 50% of all the rental units will be affordable on-site and for the homeownership units that will be created, there will be a 20% off-site and that will be given. this is our first hearing as i mentioned on our redevelopment plan amendment, the dissolution. and i just want to thank the staff of the successor agency and the members of the citizens advisory committee for reviewing these p

condo units were converted and approved, an average of 541 units per year. ~ these are 541 units that had previously been under rent control. in the previous decade, only 2,863 were approved. in the last two decades we've seen 100% increase in allowed condo conversions over the last two decades. we talk a lot about increasing opportunities for homeownership here in the city, but i absolutely believe the answer to that is in the construction of new units and not just new units in the south of market and bayview and mission bay, but all across the city. instead of rating one existing housing stock which is rent control which tenants depend on and regarded as our middle class housing stock, the originally proposed ordinance in many ways would perceive this favoring one set of san franciscans, against middle class and low-income tenants. the intent of the original proposed ordinance was to "assist tic owners who are in dire financial straits to help keep them in their homes." but the silence behind this type of ownership which i believe tic owners didn't know or realize, these units were

was full of the kind of hostility to the united states which united states would like to get away from but hasn't found a way to do that but if these names or say if the interest haitian to engage it was also an invitation to engage in adult absolutely right when the americans made a mistake in not replying to it it wasn't just president in his article represented and you offer any during your time as and that's as a massacre in iran mohammad khatami was in power and i think some would argue that he was probably some of the most reformist and liberal of the iranian leaders in history and again he suspended the uranium enrichment but that was never enough again so my question to you now and it's probably the last one that i can ask you is. do you think there will average be an iranian leader that would be good enough for the for the americans and for the west because my sense is that they will essentially answer the way to the. president. and his successor. were never and will not be in the future the key personality the president of iran is a chief executive he's not even as powerful a

those about the russian loss of our lives and i was about to say and then there are people in the united states who should know better educated people but for their whole lives fighting the soviet union what is interesting really about your visit is that you really came here with an objective of facilitating and intensifying the counter terrorism cooperation between the two nations and i. mistrust a distrust that i think you are alluding to in your previous answer. is very prevalent among people who are working in the lower enforcement and secure have to reference is. what can be done about that while on both sides of the of the coin we've got to make sure that people who are. you know as i say they are reserved for about the. elimination of communism year or in the in the american side they think everybody here is still a communist i'm still wanting to create the dictatorship of the proletariat or very close the georges or whatever they think that and they're wrong i think you would agree with me that russia did show some willingness to cooperate with the united states on the issue of t

with owner occupied units. these units are already owned by individuals or families. they are not rental units today and they won't be in the future. no one is displacing tenants. this only affects what certain units qualify for the lottery and that is all, and what order they qualify in. quite frankly, i do not understand these objections. this is an easy compromise to achieve. second, and i'm sure will be debated, there are amendments floating around on this issue in particular, around this poison pill amendment that has been inserted into the legislation. i cannot think of any other piece of legislation that i have voted on since being at the board of supervisors that has had a similar provision in it. if people have legal issues with our legislation that we pass at the board of supervisors and they do oftentimes, they take it to the courts. they have in the past and i know they will in the future. but this provision goes beyond the pale in my opinion and incentivizes people to sue the city of san francisco

states then there that's forget that but secondly because the united states is. ability and technological level in these areas east much greater than that of china so i think that you know it would be very very difficult for a future for the americans to go on at the expense of china about huawei hold that kind of thing because quite frankly whatever the chinese would be doing the united states have been doing it all my fault far far greater scale so i think i am i expect ation in this is that the united states will go quiet in relationship to china on these questions now because otherwise it the you know it looks like not the great satan but the great hypocrite. and so where do you think this leaves the us status on the world stage after all this has come out. well i think it. i think it suffered under norma's the enormous reputational damage. i mean because you know there is it being going it's been going on about china and yet you know it's being caught with its hands in the tail on a hugely grated style where does not leave the united states where does it lea

the french and indian wars as they are called in the united states. i mean, that war had a different name everywhere it was fought. it depended what part of it you were talking about. >> host: now, conrad black divided the book -- >> guest: it was the first world war in the sense that it was fought all over the world. >> host: conrad black divided his book in four sections, and the first one is about the as parent state in 1836. what happened in this period, conrad black, and what is the united states aspiring to? >> guest: well, in the early part of the period, they aspired, really, just to be rid of the french, but the leading columnist saw the potential for america in for the most part saw the potential as working in tandem and in partnership with the british, but the relationship gradually changed. franklin, as early as 1740 predicted that america would have a greater population than the british isles in a hundred years, and he was almost exactly right that did occur, i believe, in the early 1840s, and until relations broke down between the britis

and i was right the russians are some i was and i was about to say and then there are people in the united states who should know better educated people but for their whole lives fighting the soviet union what is interesting really about here visit is that you really came here with an objective a facilitating and in sense of find the counter terrorism cooperation between the two nations and i. mistrust that distrust that i think you're alluding to in your previous answer. is very prevalent among people who work in the lower enforcement and secure have to reference is. what can be done about that while on both sides of the of the coin we've got to make sure that people who are. you know as i say they are reserved for about the. the elimination of communism year or in the in the american side they think everybody here is still a communist and still wanting to create the dictatorship of the proletariat or will close the georges or whatever they think that and they're wrong i think you would agree with me that russia did show some willingness to cooperate with the united states on the issue of

states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is our hope. hopeful and and indeed if we support a country such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about their united states as a human criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example there were a lot of conflicts spent with the end of secular regimes we have religious machines and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or to

surveillance hawks in the united states security. is doing everything it can to divert the attention from what's really important here and talk about personal details of edward snowden what is at issue is that the united states has been betraying the trust of pretty much the entire world now what do you think what do you think is so significant about his revelations because in the words of one commentator we have a. really learned anything that we didn't suspect before right well you're so no you could assume that the united states was eavesdropping at some level what is new here though is the extent of the fact that this is happening and perhaps most importantly we're getting confirmation of what we expected and the fact that. somebody inside the national security agency states that this is not right and the science to more or less give up a very comfortable life in the united states for its conscience that is huge now you mentioned that mr snowden has a lot of critics in his home country but he has his supporters too but i find som

here put in always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the united states. first of all we don't know whether edward snowden is planning on staying in russia but. whatever the case snowden himself said he would seek asylum in a country that would not be easily pressed by the u.s. we know that the u.s. has put a lot of pressure on the government of hong kong to a rest snowden and not to let him leave the country and this saturday president obama's national security adviser expressed some confidence that they would get him extradited but in a statement the government of hong kong says u.s. documentation did not quote fully comply with the legal requirements under the under hong kong law it also says snowden left to quote on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel but also in the statement the government of hong kong as that they want more information about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies something that was part of edward snowden's revelations so in this official statement we see hong kong.

show two units on that. so this permit is the one that has the record up to three units and it's wrong. that's what i see anyway here. if i was looking at it as something as today, i would say it's the same thing. it's an error. i think that's the current owners and the permit application has single family dwellings. maybe they were working in one of the units. they will put down single family dwelling. if our staff don't check that at plan check, it goes out and issued and then the building inspector that signed off the project put three dwellings which conflicted. these things happen. i definitely think the 1987 permit for the cfc for two family dwellings is the correct one. there was nothing to change it to 3 or 4. we would have recognized that one as a proper cfc. that's the way i see it. if i'm missing something, maybe the attorney will point it out. the special restrictions is with the 1987 permit documents. >> thank you. >> i have a question. so would it be asking you regarding the requirement. there

cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing whether the united states is a force for good in the world. ok george i'd like to go to you and we were talking about the financial crisis i mean the financial crisis is not only been a catastrophe for the world but it's been a catastrophe for the united states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states can control globally yes no that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism that america is championed which is one we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the u

to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel e. in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us cross talk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so peter. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one nine hundred eighty nine which would also go the uni polar air of american global head of an a i think the record of this is is really very poor. economically and financially i mean we've had from one financial crisis to another and politically it's been an air of extraordinary instability and an extraordinary number of military interventions and attacks led by the united states sometimes alone sometimes with its various satellites so i just thought the record all of

with this kind of hedge a monic ambition it's said it's very open to improved relations with the united states but that has to take place on the basis of equality and american acceptance of the islamic republic that's not the washington agenda for the middle east and it drives this very hostile posture toward toward iran judith agree or disagree with what we just heard please. i partially agree and partially disagree i think that what drives american policy in iran remains the fact that the iranian revolution was hostile to the united states we lost a key ally it was very costly to the united states and the revolution like so many revolutions turned out to be quite brutal. the memory the american embassy hostage is that were taken is still very fresh in our minds so i think that that's probably one of the really major factors that shapes thinking and policy in the halls of power here in washington but right now the united states has two major problems with iran which are quite urgent the obviously the iranian nuclear program and secondly iran's assistance to the brutality in syria that

a lot of negative peers on the unit i'm on now.ow if i come here i have an opportunity to go home. >> we get up at 4:50 in the morning, will that be a problem. >> no, sir. >> it's a very structured environment. go to bed at the same time. there's no horseplay, absolutely no horseplay. is that going to be a problem? >> no, sir. >> 2100 is lights out, taps. there is no talking. if you were to be caught talking, the whole room gets up and does pt. >> would you have any problems with that? >> no, sir. >> how are you going to be able to handle taking direction and orders from other guys in your position? >> well, sir, i would think to myself if i listen to them then maybe one day i'll be able to get up there and be able to be the one. >> yeah, is great answer. >> even though this offender has all of the right answers, the decision to accept him into the unit is complicated. >> these juveniles come from horrible backgrounds. i tend not judge them but we want to ask yourselves do we think that they'll learn in this unit. >> the military t

and the united states will not allow the rebels to lose.ce you say that, by sending these weapons, you change the tone of the conversation. you open this to negotiation. >> i hope you're right in what he does does change everything. but the worry is he doesn't. look. if the united states wants to have credibility on these issues, let me go back to the question chris asked you. we hear from ben rhodes a relatively invisible figure not from the president himself. you mentioned the policy. every president is constrained by that and should be by public opinion. but on these kinds of foreign policy issues which it has military conflict, the polls themselves are going to be adverse to that. this is an area where presidents have to lead. they lead by what they do and they lead by what they say. let's go back to the first gulf war. does anybody think when in kuwait there was any sentiment in the united states in favor of the military involvement there. of course there wasn't. that president bush came out and said this would not stand. i couldn't be