carmen chu and dennis herrera, hilary ronman and former mayor willy brown. also our sponsors for this event, rich housing corporation and san francisco international airport as well as our city government sponsors and chris pruell our finance adviser thank you for your support and partnership. so with that, let's begin. the first award goes to the dahlia housing portal team. >> dahlia stands for the housing information. >> was onerous. you had to go to the developer and turn in the application and they then gave you a circus ticket. if you lost it you didn't know your lottery number. was i in it and you had to fill out an application for each and every development. there was not one place to find out about affordable house. >> we're trying to create a one-stop resource. we have a good guide to how affordable housing works where you can find it. >> the challenge for us was to build this electronic system but make it very accessible and get all that information into the one place. >> now, every application is accounted for with the dahlia system. people are fe

.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofi

. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and giv ♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many tim