of housing types. there are lots of different means. let me touch on more details in terms of what the project is proposing in terms of unit types. the project -- to the site -- there are two typologies. there is a distinction between them. there are the two-story garden apartments. in terms of the current unit makes, 65% of the units are two- bedroom and larger. 35% are 1-bedroom. there are a few studios. of the ones that are two-units and larger, 7% of the total units are 3-bedroom and larger. a little bit more than half, 52%, are in the towers. in relation -- there is a broad range of housing types. there is a gap between existing low rise and the towers. there will be a component of town home. three stories, four stories. going up towards the scale of the existing towers, there will be 8- and 10-story buildings. there will be a wide range of housing types and building types for people of different means -- needs. multi-story units can become challenging. people may prefer to live in elevator-serve

by the house. instead, they went back years to find better testimony. not that long ago, mr. creely, just a matter of a few weeks, said that he gave money to the judge because they were close friends. he testified that he never expected any benefit from such small loans or gifts, and that judge porteous would never give him any benefit. and he stated repeatedly, these gifts had nothing to do with curatorships. in fact, mr. creely noted in the few times he appeared before judge porteous, porteous ruled against him, including one case where judge porteous cost him a 400,000-dollar judgment. the house continue to advance this allegation on the basis of the statement from amato about what he remembered creely telling him. we have creely. creely just testified and said that he did not give money in relation to the curatorships. he himself has now expressly denied that in a sworn testimony. we can disagree with judge porteous' decision to remain in lifemark. but judge porteous had good reason to refuse t

another is housing first.nd i think we need more research to address that gap, and what are the people that most appropriately respond to housing first? what are the people that need the abstinent-contingent housing? dr. clark? well, obviously homelessness is of major importance to our administrator, pam hyde, and to samhsa. working to provide the critical services that have been mentioned is an important part of that. we, using our grant portfolio, are trying to make sure that in the housing first context, mental health and substance abuse wraparound services are provided. i've mentioned our soar program that our center of mental health services has, and then dealing with people who are in transitional or shelters because that's where they are, as was pointed out, those are the things that we're doing. and i also like to put in a pitch for our access to recovery program, which allows wraparound services to be provided. it's a state-run program. we are in 19 jurisdictions and 5 tribal organizations, and we all

the community developers are around affordable housing. particularly around the teacher housing.the conversations we had with our committee organizations as we formed around that to coordinate space and four memorandums of understanding so that everybody is welcomed into our schools. it speaks volumes to the work we have done over the years. i am grateful for our board members to have facilitated those conversations. to have been open to us being open. we had a conversation around the community project that we had when we open school yards on the weekends. it is a collaboration with the city. these are schools that have been identified as furthest away from open space. that allows the city to open up sites on the weekends. it has been a really wonderful partnership that we have had over the last two and a half years. whether it is our current schools or new schools, to increase opportunities is a top priority for us. the resolution will help us get closer and closer to that goal. i want to say thank-you to president kim for bringing this forward and being part of the resolution.

properties to student housing. but not all of these were incorporated into the final legislation. we will have to return to you after the first of the year for the amendments in the planning code to select some of the problems -- to fix some of the problems we have had in the past. we will need to explore and review as well if the commission with light, for further regulation. changes to chapter 41 to prohibit conversion of residential hotels, to student housing. at this time, this is allowed if this is returned to another residential use suggested housing. and this can also be amended or other usage, for the conditional use authorization. we'll be coming back to you at the first of the year, for these amendments. in terms of the process with the general employment, we finished the inspections of all 36 properties at the end of july. what we found is that in many of these buildings, they had safety violations. and at this time, we have been working with the representative from the academy of art. about 180 permits

house of lords? >> i'm always there. it's a very nice place to be and i tend now to be involved in the committees which are mostly concerned with the administration of the place, the main political committees that do that. in fact, i had a big part in reorganizing the house of lords' expenses system because as you know we have some terrible trouble with the house of commons systems and we did our very best to avoid trouble in the house of lords. we didn't entirely succeed but we did fairly well. and i was chairing a committee which has a new system which i think will work. >> how many are in the house of lords? >> the truth is that over 50% of the membership was put there by mr. blair and mr. brown. the place is physically not big enough for them now. >> don't i remember that when we started covering the parliament that there were something like 1200 members? >> yes. but there were a lot of hereditary pairs who most of them didn't turn up. of the 750 or so hereditary pairs, only about 125 ever came r

from the white house and senate democrats. >> it is not acceptable to the house democratic caucus. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: politically, liberal democrats feel ignored and claim the white house cut them out of negotiations in favor of republicans. >> we were told yesterday by the vice president this was a take it or leave it deal. we're saying leave it. >> reporter: substantively, liberals reject changes to the estate tax that would reduce how much wealthy families pay on big inheritances. >> the inheritance tax thing is something that goes far beyond anything that any of us anticipated. >> reporter: that one provision would allow wealthy families to save an estimated $70 billion over two years. liberals argue the rich just don't spend that money on the kind of essentials like food and clothes that would boost the economy. >> you know who benefits from the estate tax? the top 0.3 of 1%. 99.7% of families do not benefit one nickel. >> reporter: today, the president held his ground, telling democrats if they don't go along, the unemployed and middle class families suffer.

house. mr. turley. mr. turley: thank you, mr. president. i thank you for allowing me the chance to rebut some of what my esteemed colleague has told you today. i have to begin by making an observation, and perhaps you noticed what happened. we were told today that we were going to speak to you this morning about constitutional issues, and the first thing that the house did was they started to go through the specific allegations against judge porteous, the merits of the case. it may be that i'm a bit sensitive, but the way that i heard it made it sound as if if you don't like this guy, if you don't like what the merits say, it should influence how you read the constitution. as many of you know, i believe all of you know, constitutional interpretations don't depend on how you feel about someone. it doesn't depend how you feel about a case. it depends how you read the constitution. and so my opposing counsel took you up to about 10,000 feet. as you look down at these articles and say look at al

the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 1766 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 4853. the chair appoints the gentleman from the northern mariana islands, mr. is a plan, to preside over the committee of the whole -- mr. sablan, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 4853 which the clerk shall report by title. the clerk: an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986, to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the airport and airway trust fund, to amend title 49, united states code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the senate amendment is considered read. general debate shall not exceed three hours eq

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 416, the nays are three. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, proceedings will now resume on s. 3307 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: senate 3307, an act to re-authorize child nutrition programs and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. >> mr. speaker. i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota. the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, the chair will reduce to

the family and educator housing, educator housing allows us to retain our teachers and para professionals and low income families who may heave san francisco because of housing prices. we have vacant sites that could be utilized as low income and educator housing. the stability of the families and educators will support or schools. we also will establish a budget and revenue plan for procedures involving the public school buildings and grounds. healthy safe and well maintained and that the superintendent immoment one pilot program for low to institutionalize partnerships and where school district properties could be an asset for closing the gap in 2010-2011 school year. such as a community empowerment program partnering with a community organization on underutilized school district property and be it further resolved that the board of education asks all schools and administrator departments to put the following in to practice and in collaboration with the support of the facilities real estate department, by the end of 2011, 2012. i have read the aend mr.ed language from budget committee,

, and it is going to be a housing unit. interestingly, in that article is that in addition to the cost savings they would have by relocating to people to areas that were a lot less expensive, they also felt there was a shortage of qualified personnel within maybe not necessarily only san francisco, but in the general area, so i think this is very much in keeping with the symposium i was part of today on middle-class housing and what we can do to promote that because there probably is a situation where many of the people who might be possible employees for firms such as this are having trouble finding housing in san francisco and are having to come from a distance away. so it is something to think about, something to reflect on. hopefully to work with companies to find out what we can do to address their concerns. commissioner sugaya: when i first came on the commission about four and a half years ago, the issue of the brisbane bay lands -- i do not know what they are calling it now -- was on my mind because i knew the plann

to student housing. at this time, it is allowed if that residential housing was converted to student housing revert to residential housing, so we will be returning in the early quarter, and coming back to you with some of these legislative fixes to the planning code that would conserve the city's residential housing stock. in terms of our enforcement program that is continuing, we told you that the planning department organized a coordinating into department task force. this consisted of several departments, specifically city attorney, public health, department of building inspection was also included. their code enforcement division, there housing division, electrical and plumbing divisions, as well as our planning department. we essentially inspected all 36 buildings of the academy of art. many notices of violation and correction notices were issued. we have worked with the academy of art. there were over about 100 -- specifically about 108 permits that have been approved, and work is either completed

if you don't have the boats in the boat house, it is not a boat house. it seems like money and effort will be wasted on the starbucks- ization of stow lake, changing the atmosphere of the whole place. if it becomes an historical monument, which i hope that it does, a handmade boats that are there, they should be preserved. ithank you. >> michael, mary ann, christiana, raymond, suzanne, don gibbs, susan, and larry. if you could come up in that order, please. come on up. >> commissioners, i am dennis. i have two points. one, what is going to happen to the employees, including the fellow that just spoke? what i just heard from the mackenzie is the staff was going to be expanded. does that mean that the current staff would be capped while additional folks are at it? have you considered that? i know that i it won't get an answer, but i want you to think about it. these are real live people. you should not lay them off. they're not going to bring people from new mexico. they're going to hire people who are there. the second point, you need to realize there wil

housing. we are still doing the master plan. we were supportive of the legislation that didn't allow students to go forward without the inclusionary housing. >> may i have a minute more? >> sorry, david. public comment is closed. i would like to state to ms. roberts, and randall, we appreciate what any institution does for citizens and visitors in this city. we do not underestimate that. that is not what we sit here for. we sit here for different situations. your comments are interesting, but they are not pertiment to the situation where the planning code is violated. we do not evaluate the -- how good is the institution, how good this is in the educational operations or in their benefits to the community. what we do concerns the planning code. this is the sole reason this is in front of us. we appreciate your comments, but they are not pertiment to what is before this body. he is correct. i know there are ongoing discussions. hopefully to consider certain areas of the city and a consolidation

it involved a housing case, land put into trust and used for housing by an indian tribe. what the supreme court has done by a very narrow interpretation of the 1934 indian reorganization act is create two classes of indian tribes, some of whom can receive land in the trust as they have for 80 years by secretaries of the interior of both parties and some of whom now cannot. almost all the cases involved here, almost every single one, involved cases that have absolutely nothing to do with gaming. this is a solve trinh issue and process issue. if this fix is not made, it would not have been made without the support of the members of the committees of jurisdiction and the united states senate who said this was the best vehicle and the best way to go. but if the fix isn't made, we are going to have billions of dollars worth of litigation and have enormous disruption of economic development, soing my friend is under a misimpression, mr. speaker. i wanted to make that point for the record, again, i wanted to thank my friend, mr. obey for working with us and his staff and my good

we don't just do the housing. we have to work with hud, we have to work with administration of children and families, work with hrsa, work with the corporation for supportive housing and other nonprofit groups, so that we're dealing with the full spectrum. and working- so that would require a very extensive assessment of that individual. we definitely prefer a case-by-case assessment of the individual. so you want outreach workers addressing the unique needs-why is that person homeless? what are the circumstances? is it a sexual orientation issue, is it a family issue, is it an economic issue, is it a chronically mental illness issue? what's going on with that person, and do they have potential access to resources or no access to resources? if you don't do it that way, then you operate on this one-size-fits-all, and that generally doesn't work. dr. milby, we've thrown around a lot of terminology. why don't we get you to explain to our audience what co-occurring condition is? well, co-occurring condition really mea

you expect tweaks on the house side? the senate ping ponging back to the senate after a massive vote 83-15. does that give it momentum. >> there are no tweaks back in the senate of any importance. i think what democrat going to do. liberal democrats will do what they did with health care and they bluffed about opposing the bill . if there were no public option. in the end they supported the bill. this is also a bluff. there is no way they will undo this with the president on the line and they will be the one that is will be responsible if taxes are raised on january 1 and kill the bill over the estate tax. what they will do, they will hold a demonstration vote or two, and in which everyone understands it will be meaningless and they will show they opposed the estate tax and then they will have a vote afterwards which includes the compromise on the estate tax and they will support it. but i must say when you heard those congressmen arguing it sounded like a school yard fight in which one said you are holding hostage. no,

a lot of family rental housing -- it will provide some stimulus for the development of new housing. none of it will be utilizing a residential hotel buildings. these are people that like to live as a vibrant, active lives. i think -- again, i want to thank them for working with us on this. we appreciate your support. president chiu: any further discussion? can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, it is passed as amended. >> item 20 is amending the administrative code for city funded private projects. supervisor dufty: first, i want to thank supervisors supervisor alioto-pier -- supervisors alioto-pier, chiu, mar, and maxwell. we want to look at the development of a facility to ensure that a feasibility study is conducted. there are reasonable affordable housing developments that include child care and them. we know that child care is an afterthought and it is almost always impossible because of state licensing requirements, safety features, access to outdoor space, and they really have to be made up front. i will say that in conjunction, it is the instrument c

oxford house-in terms of when a person goes to an oxford house, since it's such a good model, do theylready have a job? does the oxford model provide the jobs for the person, or are you sending them out and saying, you've got to go out and you've got to find a job? basically, when you come to an oxford house, employment is not a mandatory thing. you don't have to have a job. obviously, being that oxford house is self-supported and self-run, they must at some point in time be able to financially maintain their membership. it's a membership situation. what we found is that, a lot of times, especially with the homeless, what we don't have is immediate funds availability to move into an oxford house. that's something which we work with samhsa and other state and local agencies to try to procure funds to allow the homeless, just to subsidize them for a month or so, to give them that, that time to get comfortable, get the support structure, then we have a lot of resources. one of the things which we're doing in oxford house is we're creating a member resource directory for all of our member

one of the things we didn't want was just a typical replica kind of house. instead of a brand spankin' new american mansion, the van noys wanted their house to look like an old european hilltop home, right down to the ivy covered walls.we said you know lets grow ivy up the walls.. people said that it's going to look it's going to ruin the stucco. fine let it grow up the stucco. i said i want the look. hinged wooden shutters framing the windows... the shutters are actually working shutters which is surprising in the united states but you see them virtually everywhere in europe. and earth colored stucco... that took three layers to get just right.we were very concerned about building a home here that would fit the landscape and uh we actually picked dirt samples and rock samples and started to mix the color pallette for the houseyou'll find traces of europe inside the van noy home, as well, like the arched hallways and cathedral ceilings.we wanted to bring some of that back to california.the counters are french limestone.ann says she is inspired by ones she sa

today the white house pushed an extension of unemployment benefits while house democrats pushed through a symbolic tax cut extension bill. chief political correspondent carl cameron following all the action on capitol hill. >> the motion is adopted. >> against bipartisan opposition, house speaker nancy pelosi and liberal democrats passed the tax cut. >> the tax cut for middle income families will create jobs because people will spend that money again, inject it into the economy and create jobs. >> but 20 democrats joined the nearly unanimous republican opposition, which was denied any opportunity to offer amendments and wants all the tax cuts extended for all incomes. >> trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap. all right? but this is nonsense. >> now that the house has dealt with taxes and funds to avert a government shut down, all the action moves to the senate where the house tax cut bill is considered dead on arrival. >> house democrats are getting ready to send us a bill on taxes they know won't pass in the senate. this is a purely

and house democrats. how is this going to play out in coming weeks and months? >> well, it will be interesting to see. obviously there are some who work for the president who are saying every time you can get house democrats angry with you, it makes you look like you're a moderate. and i'm all for compromise and moderation. but you've got to look at the content. and from a political standpoint, it's just put out the headline, obama comp proo miromises with republicans. the content of that compromise matters. in this case, if we did not act, then in january the clinton estate tax bill would be in effect and if we had waited for that to happen, we would have had all the bargaining leverage needed to get a much better deal. and that's why i wish the president hadn't made the deal that he did. >> this is what the speaker-elect house speaker elect john boehner had to say this morning about what happened last night. >> the speaker took a hard line against the bill? i don't think so. the speaker took a hard line

that is already there. >> i think what also houses we also delineated suited housing -- student housing so this is really perfect in that we have already done that in the planning process. you mentioned in boston. boston is similar in a number of ways. housing prices are higher. they have managed a way to do its. >> you could think of them as a city of neighborhoods also identified as a college town. the mayor said, why are we bringing all these students and throwing them into the neighborhood? i think there were possibly cultural issues as well, but they explosively took inclusionary off and certain other impact fees of about $8, and you will never guess what happened. they started building about 1000 units a year for the next decade. they require it go through a decision-making bodies, but they got behind a policy that is going to deliver that, and i think that would be a terrific outcome. >> it has been important, so having them integrated in the city is did as well, because they have been a part of our entertainment. that is important, and we need to do that. next speaker please. >>

the house tomorrow. you've tried to get house members to try to continue to fight on this thing. do you think there is a chance for opening up the bill in a way that you could get it changed such that you could support a package that would be passed before january -- before december 31st? >> no. zero percent chance and here's why. if you take the issue of tax cuts for the rich, if you take the issue of stimulus, if you take the issue of unemployment benefits, all three of these are issues that democrats can win if president obama and the democratic leaders are actually willing to fight and exert pressure on republicans. why would you call something a compromise that hurts you on any of these issues as opposed to having the fight. we need a democratic party that embraces the fight particularly one where majority of americans are on their side. >> where do you go from here, adam? you were trying to get this steered in your direction. you now see senators like al franken agreeing with your exasperation abou

in value of housing. all over the country. san francisco is kind of like there little teeny island that hasn't had the whyte wipeout that everyone else has. it is not that we didn't have inflated housing prices. we have had and we had really high expect dations -- expectations and we had high expectations this was a sustainable way to function. guess what? the chi says not. what i am cautioning you is -- this is your third extension for this one. next one, full-court press. to say, why are we continuing to keep these projects alive. they have no affordable housing. they are hitting a real high part of the market. i question whether the environmental review is valid. it is based on data that is five, six years old. what quev is a site that is right next to a free way entrance. the freeway entrance sites are more attractive than other sites because you could do reverse commutes down to silicon valley. what is the valley, to the city, to the people needing housing if all we're doing is pumping up the sly of

housing. to define what student housing really means. the more accuracy we can bring to the legislative tools, the easier it is to track performance. what i find quite helpful, it is the fact there was a second appeal to the 460 townsend street. the designation you made. if somebody doesn't get it and has to appeal twice, bad habits die slowly. it will only be in the performance, it is going to be the length. and the repeated nature of what is not working, with the lack of tolerance. just enough is enough. the one or two intersections in the eir doesn't mean anything. they continue to go around downtown empty, in the way of every possible pedestrian when people want to go home. they block intersections in front of academy-owned property, hindering everybody else. that students ride public transportation for the rest of us. i can work myself up to more frustration. performance matters. a changed attitude to all the rules that exist. and we catch any vagueness in the code and in the regulations.

visual alchemy is the foundation of a tiny house. skylights and picture windows are strategically placed to flood the home with sunlight and create the illusion of spaciousness. in the last decade, micro-houses have caught on, especially among young middle-class families, yearning for the stimulation and convenience of urban life. >> ( translated ): of course, there are advantages to living in the suburbs. but then, you end up with a long commute to work, which means less time with the family, and you're exhausted. so it's better to live downtown. >> reporter: although they're custom-built, micro-homes are relatively inexpensive, often constructed on odd or otherwise useless parcels of land, like this once-empty triangular lot on a busy tokyo street. technology has drastically lowered the cost of designing a home. number-crunching that once took a year can now be done in a matter of hours. young japanese architects like satoshi kurosaki are driving the micro-house boom, building on centuries of japanese experience of living in small

they extend for feet from the house. our actual house has a setback of 14 feet. the house on the south side had a further setback. we believed the setback for the project was to be set sometime between 1956 and 1968 when it was being decided how far the setback should be. it appears it was not calculated with our 14 foot setback, but from our steps in the front of the house. the original front yard setback may have been tucked elected correctly. we think there front setback should be somewhere between our house and the property at 1968 great highway, which is a larger setback. it appears the house should have a 14 foot setback or more according to the planning code. even if the murrays had to build a house with a point setback of 14 feet to make it even with our house, they would still have paper 25 foot by 40 foot tall for story building that would have about 2,500 feet with two units and a 1000 square foot garage with a large square footage of living usable space behind the garage wall. that would be an approximate total square footage of about 3500 square feet

boehner disagrees. >> considering the democrats control the house, the senate and the white house, i thought on balance it was worthy of my vote. and i voted for it. >> the republican said republicans and democrats won't always have the christmas spirit. there are tough fights ahead. but he said there is a lesson here. >> when we can put aside the partisanship and political games and put aside what is good for some of us in favor of what is good for all of us, we can get a lot done. >> former president bush says he really doesn't like having the tax cuts named after hill and his aide had no comment on the extension of him. perhaps in the spirit of the season but more likely eye toward 2012, democratic committee said they're happy to call them the obama tax cuts. >> bret: i bet. thanks. . index of the economic indicators rose 1.1% in november biggest jump since march. the dow lost seven. nasdaq gain ed 5-2/3. there are several lawsuits against bank of america alleging that they misled consumers trying to get loan modifications. bank of america is disappointed with the filings. >>> spe

times we had at the white house. we flew over the canal this afternoon, as you know of william douglas, one of our great justices of the supreme > court. that is where used to run in the afternoon. i was running about 40 miles a week, which is a lot in washington, around here and at camp david on the weekends so i just think about the good times we had and when i fly back to congress and half thankful i am now that i had the super bipartisan support that existed back in the 70's, which doesn't exist anymore, so i think about the similarities and often the difference is. >> host: is there a republican in congress that the senate that you personally learn to enjoy working with the you became friends with? >> guest: senator baker from tennessee was in charge of the republican side and he was a great personal friend of mine and i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and of course michael in the house was a minority leader in the house of representatives and michael was also a great supporter of mine, so the

did you see apple jelly old house. they destroyed the house. my total cost was blowing the bomb exploded inside. here sixteen's came back. and they bolted again. and destroyed my tunnel a second time over how many meters seven meters with two bombs it could be destroyed over twelve meters. debris. look they are bringing it out now is it everywhere yes the pipes of melted and the planks are broken. that you know. i know a guy whose tunnel was not bad at. all the power it was compensated and his tell all was destroyed when they bombed the house close by. about i don't know if we told them our total had been bombarded. they said we don't give compensation for tunnels there was a host destroyed i said it was established. they are going to compensate him. i swear. everyone says it was his. father. wasn't it your grandfather's house. yes but a long time ago israel needs f. sixteen s to make fireworks. they think it'll scare us. no we'll replace the broken planks we'll break free in fargo i mentioned if they don't like it they can go and take a jump i

there's the carter white house and then there is dealing with the hostage crisis white house. in retrospect is their something you would have done different for about the course? i know you said on extra helicopter on a mission, but can you -- with a drawl and look at the polls situation would you wish you would have done something differently? >> guest: not really. if i had known completely what was happening and what had been in the future i might have done something different but i don't think so under the circumstances because that was the last holdout on my top management team in letting the sharnak come to new york infrequent of his terminal cancer. and henry kissinger and dr. brzezinski and all of my advisers let him come. it's a humanitarian thing to do, and so i contacted the president and the prime minister of iran, and i told them i was contemplating in having the shawl, free treatment, and i wanted an assurance from them that they would protect the americans over there and at that time there were about 8,000 americans in iran working in different forces including 6