in my opinion, anne-marie rogers and joshua switsky have done a thoughtful and careful analysis and have given a lot of food for thought. further, i found the analysis to be somewhat heart warming because it holds in it the importance of livability, of preserving a place where we want to live. our affordable housing problem is also a global phenomenon. i came across a documentary video some time ago that i believe that you will find interesting and useful. a documentary that might help all of us move beyond the rut of our local situation. sb-827 doesn't move beyond that rut. it is based on a popular belief that building more housing will result in affordable housing overall. but is that true now? i hope you will watch this documentary video. it is called who owns new zealand housing now. i know we're not new zealand. but it is global. it examines why it is that hois, has become so unaffordable for people on average income and why it is happening now in ours lifetimes. there are me affects on who gets to own their own home today and who does not. you will have to watch the video to get a

we asked anne-marie rogers two weeks ago to come up with a memo on how that would impact san francisco and she did a really great job of what was in our packet just today. i didn't get a chance to read it. i'm sure it is online for the public to be able to look at. what i'd like to do is, during the town hall meeting, i brought up several issues to the senator and he started to write them down and he says why doesn't the commission send me a letter? so instead of me sending a letter, i think we should have an informational, have some public feedback and the commission should figure out what areas we support, what areas we're concerned with and send a letter over to senator weiner and assembly man ting. and i hope that we could do that. i'll read this and i hope the public reads it. a couple of other things. it was a week for publicity on retail. i went to a neighbourhood meeting last night for eureka valley and the entire hour and a half we talked about retail vacancies. so, in tuesday's chronicle, the front page of the bay area section, the struggle to survive. read it. it's cut and p

. >> commissioners, the only announcement i have today is to ask anne-marie rogers to make a quick statement with respect to the issue that was raised. i think in last week's hearing about the potential scems between the city's response to read our numbers versus those that the state has been publishing and anna-marie and staff are looking that the and she wanted to give you an update on that. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we did speak with the public comment earp from the hack the housing action coalition after the commission hearing and set up a meeting on monday to go through their concerns in detail. in looking at the data with them and talking through the issues, they were most concerned with a report that is a result of an ordinance from i believe 2011. in which the board was sponsored by supervisor alogi. the planning commissioner wanted to see regular updates to the housing production numbers tan way the ordinance was enacted, was written, it requires a comparison between numbers that are not equivalent to arena numbers. all the numbers in the report are accurate and when we firs