how do you guard against- gentrification? that is to say, how do you guard against people feeling they are being pushed out? now that you can buy a home for $5, people are again being cast aside. how do you guard against that? >> in detroit, they will have to take a fair number of the residual homes and cluster them into a real community. you cannot have a community if it looks like a scrabble board of isolated blocks here and there. this is interesting. in san francisco, there was an area that had about 200 very poor families living in substandard housing. a developer came in and said, "i am going to build a 1000 unit of hi and housing." the city said they would like the revenue, but you are going to put 240 affordable homes in there, and put the people in decent housing while they wait to move in. it was a battle, but in the and, that is what happened. people's rights when the changes occur have to be respected. we have to take care of them. they were part of the community before it became popular again. >> who is in the fr

to engage in recommendation or at some of the neighborhoods that are suffering from gentrification but also require [unintelligible] very explicit support for for housing. those projects are the priority. here we stand but it would be nice if there would be a priority and we would know about it. we could more wholeheartedly support offsite contributions knowing where it is going. that is the only thing i want to say. i am comfortable with all the mechanisms being discussed in the mayor's office about affordable housing. how to attract developers. we have enough confidence and thoughtfulness in that group to let this go. i move to approve the motion. >> second. >> on the motion to approve. commissioner antonini, aye. commissioner borden, aye. commissioner moore, aye, commissioner miguel, aye. so moved. that passes anonymously. this places you on your final regular calendar item, number 18. case 2007. the back up pipeline project. all written comments will be accepted at the planning department's office until the close of business. there is no action required today. >> good afternoon. i

the only safeguard i have seen to address gentrification are those proposed by supervisor wiener. i think that the hpc, certainly the ones proposing economic hardship waiver -- we advocated in actual affirmative vote before districts are created to ensure the maximum amount of safeguards. we think it is very reasonable doubt. i think that is advisory. i think we have been proposing a 100% threshold from the beginning, and today, we heard it might have been lowered to 50%. more than reasonable, especially since it sounds like it is not binding, but to be informative, the folks who may not want to live in a historic district, but may want to be ok with not demolishing their home, may not be able to keep up with the expenses of what it takes. very reasonable to have an economic hardship provision. i think that promotes affordable housing. i agree with what mr. tony kelly said earlier. the ami definition, when we talk about middle income housing, particularly for blue-collar workers trying to stay in san francisco -- we do not want to use the area median income when we look at what is

demolition babylonia i vas told reporters when asked about her reasons for taking the plunge gentrification is happening it's a serious issue that affects poor people and especially people of color and this is just the beginning of the fight the supreme court should have officiated their wedding after all if corporations are people why not abandon warehouses to the ceremony went smoothly with the attorney minister asking a vase if she would love and cherish and protect this warehouse to which i replied with a line from the famous cat power song sea of love is even added her own verses verses to the ceremonies saying do you remember when we met i cleaned your rooms and washed your floors build community opened some doors you changed my life i'll never forget the day we met i'll cherish your community spirit until the day i die the ceremony ended with a large banner reading i do being draped from the building and the wedding attendees singing lean on me unfortunately they have honeymoon had to be cut short because the building the husband was demolished on friday it's unclear if ricky man on

this was her way of kind of protesting gentrification of the neighborhood.upposed to tear this down. they wanted to make it into a community center but it's being torn down to make way for another apartment complex, which protesters say only makes the area that much more unafford pbl. and this woman says if corporations can have the same rights as people so can buildings she says. local station in seattle reported bulldozers already on the way so, it may not have been effective but it is a creative stand. the building's more than 100 years old. >> so many different ways we can go with that story. for all of you women out there, i know that i don't look great in the morning but there's a lot of women that are showing their au natural face when they wake up, no makeup. this is -- yeah. they are morning beauties, aren't they? this is a story out of the "daily mail." they decided to show the world what they look like au natural. it's part of this project, xo's "jane show us your morning faces." the women feel liberated to do this. it's the bare-faced honesty. an

gentrification, call it what you want, but the fact is that the mayor's on top of that, and there shouldprovisions that's going to address the issue of changes of the district and the changing face of d.c. >> in conversations that i've had with mayor gray, one of the things that he is very proud of, and you heard it in the state of the d.c. speech, is the fact that they had this surplus. >> right. >> the economic house is in order. now, what do you do with that surplus? do you keep it for a rainy day fund? do you invest it in various pet projects that council members have? the other thing that i find interesting, and maybe -- i'm not trying to say i have a deaf ear to it. but you know, we don't hear a lot of complaints about how the city runs. now, we hear complaints about metro -- >> right. >> but remember, we used to hear complaints about the trash not being picked up, the streets not being cleaned -- >> haven't had any snow removal yet, but you're right, we haven't heard a lot of complaints at all. >> it isn't really a major issue. so, i think those are the two things that i know when

he pushed in a direction of what we might call it gentrification of the democratic party. am not sure it helps the democrats a lot. gentility and abandoned is nice. it does not have the punchy campaign that truman was capable of. we have lots of references to a true man now. finding the real truth is hard under the mythology. if you were a democrat in the senate now he would be considered a left winger. host: the caller mentioned our "the contenders" series. go to the website and scroll down to the bottom. the contenders is there for you to take a look at. there is lots of stuff to take a look at on this president's weekend or any time. c-span.org. we have a weeks -- a tweet. as the professor to briefly explain what the 17th a manicure, such as states with no senators. guest: are you say that because there is a direct election of senators, the states do not have senators? host: he does not flesh it out. speak to us in general on the 17th amendment. guest: it is part of the progressive era reforms. there are figures who say we should go back to the in direct election of sen

a lot of attention and in february last year, said it requested and foreign minister lavrov x gentrificationits should be enforcing and you really haven't heard a lot about this. part of the objective today on the panel is to correct that and talk about what's happened in terms of implementation and how has that gone and then also take a bit of a peak looking forward, what sort of things might follow on the new s.t.a.r.t.. in the first panel we have a terrific set of speakers in the u.s. government. i'm not going to do the full biography because you have it in the program, but on my left, rose gottemoeller, the acting undersecretary of state for arms control in the national security. we have from the joint staff mike elliott, deputy director for the strategic stability and on my far right we have ted warner from the office of the security fence. the senior adviser to the undersecretary for policy of arms control and stability. >> i think what we have here it's fair to say this is really the core of the leadership team that negotiated the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. this by the way is the treaty t