[applause] >> my name is darnell boyd and i am a tenant organizer. i am also a tenant representative at the mission hotel. when i got here two years ago, i used to run from the emergency shelter to the hospitality house, in the rain. the hospitality house helped me a lot. i used to have to run past people huddled over in doorways, in the rain, sleeping in wheelchairs'. i used to think, how can a city -- a rich city -- let people sleep like that? now that i'm on my feet, i still look over in the mission district, people huddled in doorways, sleeping under tarps, and these are human beings, u.s. citizens, and they need help. we should do more, we should add more money to the hospitality house, not cut it. and open up two or three more. people need help out there. i just want to plead for the homeless and people that need mental health. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is peter gulotta, i am a resident of district 6. i am also a city hall fellow, working for the city of san francisco for the next year. i'm also a board member of the harvey

my name is darnell boyd, and i am an organizer from an sro glenarden and and also at the mission hotel. i live in the mission district. it is a community of divorce people, and we cannot displays the mission district where high- income housing because we would be displacing our families, our friends, our brothers, our sisters. we need to keep them in affordable housing. if we displaced families, we know what happens. they fall apart. the mother ends up one way, the mother ends up another place, and the kids and up somewhere else. we need to stop catering to high and people and help the lowest of the low. we need to go around the neighborhood and hand out keys to all of the people who sleep under tarps and in doorways and on the streets. we need help for these people. thank you for listening to me. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i am josh. i am also from the mission sro collaborative. just like kendra, i am going to read a statement from someone who could not be here. he writes, myself, i recently coming out of homelessness from being on the streets and parks to shelters. i wil