housing? also, i think i have mentioned this before, why doesn't san francisco have their own section 8 type of housing, where we take affordable housing money to have san francisco aid and give it to the people who needed civic and rent out units and you don't have to be stigmatized by saying it is section 8 and you use that money anywhere in the city and you diversify the people who are on section 8, san francisco section eight. that way you put more money back into the market. i don't know why we cannot do it. if the feds can do it, we can do it. then let the marketplace out. but you diversify. maybe lived in pacific heights. these are some of my comments after the eight years, the second housing element. i think we still need more data there. when we look into the future, my question is, we have more people here in the city, but because we have a lot of single people living here and they have more space, it seems to be more crowded. i think people have less children here now. we need to lo

we don't house young people in senior housing. we don't house well people in aids housing. we really have that figured out. we know how to do that and we to do that and it's a disservice, sir, for you to imply that we don't. it's beyond a disservice. >> calvin, one of the things we ⌞> calvin, one of the things we should look at to make sure because when one person has a two-bedroom, how do you explain that affordable housing? how can you get no one to address that issue? one person gets a two-bedroom affordable housing, tell me, calvin. you've been around a long time, you would know. >> that is not part of the housing element. commissioner lee: one person gets away with it, how do you know other people don't get away with it? >> i have know idea if the children went to college. i have no idea what you're talking about. but your assertion that we have no idea who is in affordable -- annual reports are required and done -- commissioner lee: the mayor's office was asked to give us information. [inaudible] >> let's not have an argument on this one, mr. welsh. do you really want

we have looked at red control, the amount of affordable housing, senior housing, and veterans' housing that we have in stock, i think we need to see the data. every time i think of the 555 washington, $15 million of affordable housing, and the project was killed for whatever the reasons were. i guess the key the general public has to understand is we do more than anybody else in the bay area, and i think pressure needs to be pushed by our state legislators and the assembly saying, hey, we take our fair share, none of the other bay area counties have homeless shelters. we take them. i think the key is we need to let the public know and the bay area know, when are you going to pick up the slack we have taken up? i know for a fact we have more affordable housing units in san francisco that i think the whole bay area combined. you look at marin, they don't have a lot of density or affordable housing. you go to san mateo county, you don't find

i have been working on the policy and objective piece of the housing aliment -- housing element. i am here to give you a quick status update on where we are since the last time we were before you and how we hope to go through the process after the e.i.r. hearing. we start the planning process for the 2009 housing element in the fall of 2008. we had a three-pronged approach. we had a community advisory body which included 15 committee members -- 15 community members. we had about 10 meetings with them. we had stakeholder sessions with special interest groups and a round table, followed by 30 city-wide workshops, helping different communities go through the different parts of the project. following this extensive outreach, we released the first draft of the 2009 housing element update. we also held a hearing here on parts 1 and 2. during that time, after we released the document, or received a number of comments from community advisory body, yourself, and other members of the public. based on those comments, we made a revision and released a second draft of the 2009 housing element

housing? how does it really? there was always that notion you could increase the supply and lessens the pressure on lower income. i remember looking at the inventory and i remember it indicating there was no real nexus that was really identified, at least in san francisco. so flooding the market with million dollar condos doesn't seem to be really helping us in reaching or meeting those needs of middle class or low income, not really. i don't think so. and i'd like to maybe have some more discussion of that or more consideration or a look at that sort of thing. president miguel: commissioner lee. commissioner lee: i'll follow up with christina olague. how can one person afford two-bedroom affordable housing? i asked the mayor's office of housing to figure out, when people leave, how do we know those units, three units actually have three families in it, or two units? the question is, are we managing our affordable housing stock correctly when we know someone with a two-bedroom affordable housi

it's not just my house.i agree with what joyce said regarding the bulk and the monolithic size of the building. it would be great to see some changes there and i'm willing to work with the project sponsors. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you. president miguel: randy lee and john manly. >> i'm brandy lee and i actually wanted to give my time to joyce lively so she can come back up. president miguel: your time is your time. >> my time is my time? president miguel: correct. >> i got it. i didn't know the rules. ok. then for the record, i will say that i grew up in actually a family of my mother started the head start and even start programs in our town. my aunt is the executive director at casa in her town, so very much involved in underprivileged organizations. that said, i live on post street and the architectural design, and i've actually reached out in the hall to the architect and also the executive director, and the program -- or the skin, i believe it's called, itself of the design i

it's an old cable car house. guy who lived there in the early 1960's, he had a boyfriend named cliff. they paint it yellow. when he got a new boyfriend named dennis, they painted it red to get rid of cliff. but it was a beautiful little car. he still remembers it. it disappeared, we think, sometimes in the 1970's. but this is what keeps my hopes up. this actually isn't in carville. this is in the richmond district on ninth avenue. people say, are there any car houses left? are they all gone? have they disappeared? this is an example of how one can surprise you. this is on ninth avenue in the parking lot behind the old coliseum theater. before that park being lot was there the city was looking for houses, spaces, near merchant corridors to create these little parking lots. they bought this house from a mrs. suggs because they wanted to tear it down and put the parking lot in. when they started tearing the house gown, they realized that this kind of boring house was made up of three old cable car trailers. even tho

, market rate housing, and other. this is very much a public- private partnership. we meet all of the time, literally every week, with the housing and redevelopment agency's. we have seven city agencies that join us through the interagency council to look at services and delivery note and teams that are actively talking to us. and this will affect the redevelopment and rebuilding. they have really stepped up on the efforts to bring philanthropy to the table and help us. there are some that are a part of this effort. back in the day when we were looking at this, the housing authority fiscal needs, millions of dollars on a million -- on a regular basis. this was not the resources, and it was a long type of -- in the meantime, these eight sides were part of a larger story which was about families in crisis and where were families in crisis living, and as they went out to work with those, we were not 26 us for helping families of we were not able to do anything about the deterioration and concerns the people had, particul

, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >> we love redevelop it, but we are going to have to do some development ourselves. that is what we want the city to do. let the people year, starting with the people out here in bayview, to the development here. at the shipyard, whatever it is. you do not need anybody out there. you give me all about lead, i could get the money to develop it. >> first of all, we have a very public and open process. when you look at a public the size, you are looking at a national developer to have the wherewithal, the resources, the expertise and the finances to really complete a project like this. >> the residents of this community said they needed very affordable senior housing because many of their residents were aging in place in the community. that was a response to what the stated community needs were. in addition to the senior housing on the front, we are also looking at building affordable homeownership projects. this is 132 units of first-time home buyer units. that again will be affordable to

they could be used for news stands, fruit stands, lunch stands, play houses, poultry houses, tool houses, coal sheds, conservatories and polling booths, etc. and it really is a testament to the market street railway's imagination that these cars essentially got used for all of these different purposes. here's a shoemaker in oakland. he opened up his little cobbler shop in an old horse car in his backyard. he locked it up at night with a long nail going through. he said, who's going to steal old shoes? a little bit more dramatic, a man named james mcneal took four old horse cars and put them on a pontoon to make a house boat near bell very deer. he called it the nautilus. he rent it out to people, tricked it all up in the inside for rich people to come have a little summer vacation in a very novel setting. and a watch maker. there was a realtor who used a car as a real estate office. we'll talk more about him in a second. charles stall took three and put them in the sun dunes of the -- the sandunes of the sunset district, created a little ouse -- house out there. and this guy on the botto

they could have bought a house, maybe a more modest house, but it would have been a house. now they are in a position where they are facing foreclosure. we have a golden opportunity in front of us. we have millions of units. in the first instance, we should not be taking these people and by one form or another, second mortgage or whenever, forcing them into foreclosure even when the lender does not want to foreclose. and is happening. in the past, we have been able to turn the crisis into an advantage. we have millions of units that are vacant. if we are going to spend money, do a rented to on program. we know it works. we have seen it work over and over again. -- we should do a rent-to-own progrm. millions of units that are now turning into abandoned properties, we should make them work. this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to come in effect, and franchise a holder for people like we did in taxes. for those of you who do not remember, we were selling houses in houston at $10,000. he literally took all of the inventory from all of the banks, because it was all ensured,

a lot more interest to create market rate housing and above and even luxury housing. chris: there's been a lot of friction, most of that friction has to do with certain assumptions that are made on the part of the new residents. and rightfully so, they've moved into a neighborhood, they've just spent a pretty sizable chunk of change and they have expectations about what their quality of life should be. but unfortunately those expectations are trumped by the realities of inner-city living. lisa: i work with the recreation center advisory board here and there are a few of the neighbors that live in the lofts that come out do have some of the loft people come out and volunteer at the center and they're very much involved. and some others that just see anything outside their window as a problem, and... i think that's just typical of people in general. ben: i think there's probably a stereotype that south of market is just... just the freaks and the super-yuppies. and kind of there's no in-between, and perhaps there is some truth to that more than, say the mission, where t

. >> same house, same call? the resolution is adopted. >> item 13, resolution adopting -- authorizing the fire department to enter into a 10- year agreement with the national park service to provide fire and emergency medical services to national park service managed areas within san francisco. >> this is adopted. >> item 13 -- 14, the hiring of permanent career severely and federal firefighters displaced by the closure of the national park service fire station in presidio. >> this resolution is adopted. >> item 15, ordinance amending the planning code to allow new full-service and small self- service restaurants with a conditional use authorization to permit some said especially for the establishment as the right and to prohibit all large fast- food astonishment. >> this ordinances passed on the first reading. >> 16, a resolution approving and authorizing the single line relocation agreement between the san francisco. this commission and the state university to relocate existing centauries sewer and storm drain

the clerk: house calendar number 231. house resolution 1606. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 1586, to modernize the air traffic control system, improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by air in the united states, provide for modernization of the air traffic control system, re-authorize the federal aviation administration, and for other purposes, with the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment thereto, and to consider in the house, without intervention of any point of order, a motion offered by the chair of the committee on appropriations or his designee that the house concur in the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment. the senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. the motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations, the chair and ranking minority member of the c

>> tom: the white house tries to find new ways to finance america's housing industry. >> it's safe to say there's no clear consensus yet on how best to design a new system. but, this administration will side with those who want fundamental change. it is not tenable to leave in place the system we have today. >> susie: with mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac backing most of the nation's new mortgages, experts like bond guru bill gross say those changes need to be big. coming up, what he and others thought of today's housing conference. you're watching "nightly business report" for tuesday, august 17. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening everybody. how to fix fannie mae and freddie mac. susie, that was topic "a" today at a housing conference in washington sponsored by the obama administration. >> susie: tom, treasury secretary timothy geithner kicked things off, sa

after that, a forum on housing finance included remarks from timothy geithner and housing secretary sean donovan. later, the heritage foundation report on the economy, but it, and foreign policy. -- the budget, and foreign policy. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow on c-span. the national business group on health will report on how large companies urge employer provided health benefit programs to prepare for the new health care law. that is it 10:00 eastern. the funeral service for ted stevens who was killed in a recent plane crash. speakers include vice president joe biden. talks between the two leading political parties in iraq have broken down. next, former ambassador to iraq chris hill on the plant will situation there. this is 14 minutes. -- 40 minutes. >> could afternoon and welcome to the state department. it is my great pleasure to introduce a man who literally needs no introduction. ambassador christopher hill who is just out of his 60 amount to or in iraq and to answer questions about his time there and the transaction and looking forward. thank you for coming.

housing and urban development agency estimates nearly sixty million people either live in public housing or on the waiting list for a unit however the obama administration is gearing up to transform the future of public housing this congress out of it let's get the federal government out of it and just take this private housing three million units of housing and cravat tad's it under the obama administration petra the preservation and hansen and transformation of rental assistance act would hand over the public housing system to the private sector to say that we're going to convert it to private ownership is a way even to me getting rid of public housing linda leeks of unpowered d.c. insists it will lead to desperation like this scene played out in atlanta georgia i am. where thirty thousand people scrambles for public housing applications that would only be guaranteed two thousand one hundred people the best example of what petra would offer public housing is washington d.c. washington d. . he has always been known and perhaps will forever be known as chocolate city the demographics her

housing prices? >> right now housing prices in this most recent what we learned from the n.a.r.today their evidence suggests the median is going up slightly. that's the median. a more accurate overall picture would be that housing prices for the nation as a whole are flat. the worrisome thing is that the inventory has now gone up which actually has been decreasing. it's now increasing. that's a precursor to further housing price decline. >> lehrer: and the rise in inventory. the foreclosures, do they affect that in any way? >> yes, the inventory is due to housing construction and housing construction is at historic lows. but it's also due to foreclosures. thereby lies the problem because as housing prices, if they fall-- and we don't know that they're going to fall-- but if they fall, that could feed a cycle of falling prices, increased foreclosures. in fact that's where we were before the recovery of this past year. now it's possible that housing prices will even with this remain flat. they'll just

my house. ever the love that. i said, it it is not exactly in of -- everybody loved it. i said, it is not exactly universal. we had a 50's kitchen. we had a second garage. we put in storage. we always wanted to redo the kitchen. that was the main thing. people say, i love the kitchen. we sold that without redoing the kitchen. we made more money than we thought we ever could. they loved the kitchen. we separated the appliances and painted the whole thing. we did all the things around it. we made sure there was storage, and parking. all of the things that that was one thing that was not on, for somebody who would like to have it your personal, the kitchen, particularly, do it -- do everything else. that was a very big lesson in some ways. i thought the value would be taken away for that. it was not. >> that is a good point. you are right. especially if you -- did you do a countertop change at all? you didn't. you did appliances. >> yellow. >> new appliances can help a lot. especially today, the c

zheng's house. commissioner hwang: you are 10 feet short of what the neighbor wants. >> after my last meeting with him, he was on his way to his attorney to draw up some kind of a deed restriction, because he was worried that my clients, because they are elderly, they are going to pass away soon, and he was worried that some of the heirs or someone would cut down the tree again. our clients want the trees. they are not interested in looking down into his house. if you look at the site study, they are not going to be able to see in the first two floors. on the top floor, there are only two bedrooms. it is not a place where people congregate. commissioner hwang: is this tree issue not another area of potential compromise? >> we are planting the trees. commissioner hwang: so the answer is no? >> we never stopped compromising. commissioner fung: 20 say that it was that these trees were 15 feet, -- let me say that. your documentation is that these trees will eventually grow to 25 feet. commissioner hwang

it is a white house photograph of him in the gulf coast. he is also going on vacation at the end of this month. what is the story behind this weekend's visit and the attention he has been getting with his vacations -- weekend getaways? >> any time he spends on vacation during a time of tribulation or what we're fighting wars, he will take some heat. george w. bush took heat for the time he spent in crawford appeared this week and is about showing the gulf coast is open for business. it took a lot of heat when it went to maine last month instead of the gulf coast. he has been telling everybody to go to the gulf. it is safe. it is open. seafood is safe. this is about putting his money where his mouth is. they went swimming yesterday. we all lament when they ought to go with the official white house photographer. he did not want to end up on "people" magazine short list again. he will head to the vineyard after a rather intense few days on the campaign trail. it has been a long year. despite the criticism from the left, they have worked very v

one of the park's that we don't go to is the snow house. i have worked on other pieces and i would like to let everyone know that they have a lot of pride. we are serious about the qualifications putting in a bit and there are really thorough and but everything that this goes through if the report recommends the of family, i think that the commissioners should approve that. >> i am a 35 year resident of the haight-ashbury and a long time walker at snow lake. i am here to echo the concerns of hundreds of my fellow walkers to have signed petitions opposing this development. it seems to fundamentally contradiction that you would set out that the recreation and parks department would be to enhance a culture and a century that is valued chiefly for its tranquillity. this will bring in more and more people, more traffic, more noise, most alarming given us no assurances that i'm aware of that all sorts of issues will be respected and addressed if this project moves forward. people are very concerned about the colony. also the possible effect of ni

we have matches from the cliff house and see gul.u know the sea gul, it's not there anymore, is it? we have candles. be careful with lighting candle until you've dealt with the gas leak or the -- >> or the after shocks. >> after shocks. something i think you really need is note pads and marker. i went somewhere and be back disbloon if you're not there an they come look for you, they're going to kick in your door. >> more markers. >> maybe a little money stashed there. >> now there's other stuff you really should have in here. money, you should go to your at and get yourself now a couple hundred dollars in 20s and put it and hide it in your house because the atm's aren't going to be working and it will be a cash economy for this 72 hour period. >> at least 72 hour period. >> right. >> i like the idea of buying a couple of cost co's flash light and leaving them in the kit and forgetting about them. >> across the street, here's th whole thing four floork lights with batteries , 9.99. how can you go long. this week's special, 13.99 for m

public housing, excuse me.san francisco has torn down dozens of cinderblock and other big blocks of nondescript housing such as the laguna hauers and -- tower towers and public housing at north beach. there are current plans to build a beautiful community two blocks away at the west side port public housing complex. this has voofled lot of community outreach to design a property that meets housing needs and has an appropriate design style for the neighborhood. all proposed developments of booker t. washington over the years have involved practically no meetings or community outreach at all. the e.i.r. has an astounding conclusion that this project with its modern design and size is somehow not incompatible with the neighborhood and has no -- president miguel: thank you. ron cardin. i take cards as they go. >> i didn't know this. you have my -- president miguel: thank you. >> you can just submit your written comments. >> we already have. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners, my name is ron cardin at 2555 sutte

they represent 15% of housing at the site. we voted unanimously to support this project and direct approximately $2.70 million of the fees to support the affordability. the remaining $450,000 of the fees will remain in the fund and be released by the mayor's office of housing through the legislative process. and we understand the some fund -- we understand the soma fund is to benefit the area. the city bylaws prevent us from favorable or targeted community housing, so it requires additional benefits from the developer which will see outlined in the larger resolution. i will call my colleague up after i read these revisions. i think you all have copies. the revisions began on page 2. -- begin on page 2. would you like me to read the whole thing? chairperson avalos: just the revisions is fine. >> at the bottom of page two, we are adding a consideration of the housing unit, not subject to the rent control act. employ at least 30% soma residents for all end-use jobs for the project. have an objective but not a binding requirement

very simple we tell the beggars that as you go from house to house begging. to carry so much and as we do some cookie some candy some foods as you go you will give people option whether they want to give you some charity or they want to buy something from you so you have your giving anxious trying to turn them into into micro business absolutely that's what ideas then if people buy something from your cave you have an income out of that. if they want to give charity take it well that bed begging is for isn't just going in your part of the world as well as by the way in russia also it's part of the cultural tradition so give money to beggars isn't it not to become a beggar. else society kind of pushed you and pushed too to the brink. bring it to the tipping point and finally you can take care of yourself so you started. asking for help from your neighbors then you see the your neighbors are getting fed up because you still don't have your income you can really you can feed your children so you go a little farther down and it becomes kind of a survival techniqu

throughout the process, the preservation of the boat house was in keeping.he boat house was designed to support the rental operations on the lake, not the cafe gift shop. we included the indoor seating that staff wanted, preserved the repair facility, thereby preserving the visual as well as functional historical character of the boat house, converting the boat house to a cafe gift shop, even with a nautical theme is a departure from the historical use. second, this is a voting venue, not with food offered as an additional amenity. the big you are creating creates a food give shop operation with boating as an amenity. we proposed 85 new boats, practical caring capacity for the lake and size of the current fleet. the staff has recommended a proposed fleet of 50 books, which would not be sufficient to meet the public need. even if the concessionaire were to increase the fleet, which they can do at their option is my understanding, there's not enough room to service these boats in the basement area, which is roughly 1/3 the size of the shop we're using. 3, the

>> working in the white house. >> what position in the white house?> officer management and budget. is that important? >> he was the head of the political office. >> is the white house very important? am i going through this question? >> one of the problems is -- >> the most powerful entity in the white house is the omb. >> but if you work for george w. bush who ballooned the deficit, is that a good credential? >> we keep hearing about daniels in the real circle. >> he's a friend of mine, but he -- >> ratings as governor are in the 70% positive. does that tell you something? >> he's a good governor. >> privatize roads and he's a great ideas. he is a good governor. he is short. >> let's settle the matter. exit question, time for april 2012. you got it? april 2012. who will be the republican presidential nominee? >> palin or romney. >> give me one or the other. >> palin. >> if she wins iowa and wins south carolina, good-bye and good luck. >> she's looking better now? >> she looks good all the time. >> there's a difference between getting a sliver of the