i want to welcome the ceo, president and ceo david sobal, thank you for being here. >> thank you so much mayor breed and whatever title you have going forward, we're so thankful to have you. i'm going to be brief but i want to hit a few key points. founded in 1988 by a group of community leaders focused on ensuring that african americans and other people of color have a chance to stay in san francisco. unfortunately that mission is still very much an issue in san francisco and not to bring us down today, but it is unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to all of you that we have a city with fewer than 50,000 african americans as we stand here today. it's unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to you that we have lost half of our artists in the past 20 years in san francisco. i'm sure it's unacceptable as it is to us, that we have thousands of homeless people still on the streets and i'm sure it's unacceptable to you as it is to us that we have thousands of working families that can't afford the median rent of a two bedroom apartment in san francisco, which requires an income of $120,000 a ye