has spent a lifetime house across. the postcard like. the big gray house itself. to me. to say just don't you think it's something. i'm sick and tired of it but it's. his grandfather alexander. in the one thousand. he held the post of food minister in a country that had gone through the upheavals of revolution and civil war a person responsible for food supplies was almost as important as all the law makers put together. instantly complied with special paramilitary groups made the rounds of villages to peasants. as a result many of them to starvation. very extensive. executions with troy. did what they had to by providing the nation with an adequate supply of. alexander to save the country's scientific and industrial potential by preventing the urban population from starving around about the same time stalin came up with a costly and ambitious project. to build a big apartment house with all modern conveniences for the country's ruling elite. the architect. a graduate of the italian academy of fine arts. the first ever. city within a city down to. his domestic architects

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of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. dreier: madam speaker, i offer a privileged concurrent resolution and ask for its immediate considering. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 1, resolved that pursuant to clause 4, section 5 of the united states constitution in the 112th congress the speaker of the house and squorte leader of the senate or their respective designees acting jointly after consultation with the minority leader of the house and the minority leader of the senate may notify the members of the house and senate respectively to assemble at a place outside the district of columbia if, in their opinion, the public interest shall warrant it. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the concurrent resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> i ask unanimous consen

, 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

when we bought the house in 2002, there was a single-story house on the property. the house was abandoned in the subsequently became a nuisance. not long after i witnessed a couple of men undermine the foundation on the west side and subsequently began to have the building inspector called for the house -- it was in imminent danger of falling over and it was demolished without any notice to the neighborhood. we believe the house was intentionally damaged to acquire a permit. we believe the owners were involved. the demolition permit -- they were subsequently asked to resign. i realize it is very old news, but this property is the foundation of this project. we have received several sets of plans dating back to 2007. the initial proposal to

get cheaper housing. >> what about the lack of affordable housing in the city. contribute to it or foreclosures? >> both contribute to it, especially when you think about family sized housing units and you look at san francisco and oakland, there were not a lot of affordable family sized housing units built over the last several years. a lot of families went for affordable housing over across the bay to richmond, to vallejo and other where there was affordable rental housing. >> tell me about the community land trust? >> community land trust was our response to our partners with the foreclosures crisis. if you go out into east oakland, block after block you see foreclosed vacant properties. so we created community land trust. we were able to get some money from hud through the city of oakland. we're essentially buying houses that are foreclosed, green rehabing them and selling them to families. land trust model we sell to family improvements, the house and garage and underlying real estate so it makes the houses more affordable. >> that is an attractive idea. do

gwen: but at the white house there is not going to be a congress-centric white house staff anymore and that's part of what bill daley is there to do. >> it is one of the reasons he's there. he'll remind this president that he has the pow of the executive branch. you'll see a lot more executive orders, and the power of the cabinet as well. a lot of cabinet sex were former governors. they -- secretaries were former governors. they formed a group, a coalition and said wait, we know how to win elections. we've done this before so i think you'll see a lot more from this cabinet going forward. but you're right, this is not a congressional centric white house. he'll be in the country more, they'll be talking to the country more. talking to the private sector more with business. gwen: how well do barack obama and john boehner know each other? >> minimal. >> there was a scene that boehner talks about -- back barack obama is not known for a lot of heavy emotion, and he basically pointed at boehner and said you're scaring the country. gwen: because of what? >> because of the way that republicans

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

i am not sure that rises to a serious concern on my house. the house is a comfortably design house. i think there is nothing one could qualify that is subject, anyway. unless an the other commissioners have any feeling that the buccaneers or debts -- or? proposed for the rear yard -- have the feeling that the balcony'ies ories or decks are t appropriate, that would be my motion. commissioner antonini: i am unhappy with the plans. on 4a, there is not a good view of what the front of this is good to look like. there is no detailing as to materials or colors. i think that is something we should have in our reports, because once it is approved we want to note how it is being done and the quality of the construction. i have that same picture, and it is not clear what they are doing. with the plans, the lower floor, you have a family room, a bedroom, and a garage. you have sliding doors that go outside. i assume you can access that lower floor without having to go to the rest of the house. is that true? >> you cannot have direct street access to the garage through the family room. that is

of your house. -- if you don't want one in front of your house, will put it in front of your house. we have not found any volunteers yet. they're usually on the corner, which is the worst place to put a piece of equipment like that, getting and the way of handicap access, but that is the way they are done. they're doing a better job this time because they are notifying you entellus give -- there notifying you and they are telling you that if you don't like it, we will put it somewhere else. than any other public comment? seeing none, commissioners, the matter is before you. commissioner hwang: consistent with my vote before, and for the same reasons, i would move to grant jurisdiction in this case. >> any other commissioner comments before we call role? seeing none, if he could call the roll, please. >> the motion is from commissioner hwang to grant jurisdiction request. on that motion -- [roll call vote] the vote is 4-0, jurisdiction is granted and a new five-day a p appealeriod -- a new five-day appeal period which ends monday is now open. vice president goh: thank you. we're goin

the house is a majortarian institution. the house is all about 218. right? a majority of the house is what you need to win. once you get the majority in the house, if you have the votes, let her rip. right? if you have the majority, you have a lot of momentum going for you in the house. you have a lot of potential for good. if you have the majority. if you have the votes. right? and it's a majortarian institution designed to carry out the will of the majority. so when nick suggested that one opportunity -- one way to think about -- remember, we're talking about venues. one way to think about that was, gee, we think we might have a good chance of getting this in the house. once we demonstrate we have the votes this might happen pretty quickly, pretty certainly. why would the certainty, why would the certainty provided by the rules of the house be important to you as a lobbyist? you win, you make your client look good, he takes you to dinner or pays -- his checks don't bounce, sure. but what else? how could you use that, the knowledge of the majority and the c

i think it's time that this house put its own house in order. but we have to remember that actions speak louder than words. difficult times mean leaders have to lead. and we have a chance to take a bold step to say that we are going to try to stop this culture of spending that we have all gotten used to and say, let's start a culture of savingings--savings. that's not going to be easy. it's going to be hard. it's going to be difficult. it's going to be did you have. but we must do it. that's where we begin to start. that's what this resolution does. it says that we are going to take the first step, we are going to cut our own spending, we are going to do more with less. and i think right now we can do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. i know that, you know that, and i think the american people know that. but we all know that we need money to provide services. but right now it seems to me that government needs something more. we need discipline to rein in spending. we need courage to make the right decisions even when they are hard. and we

at least that's how much is alotted for public housing. that money actually goes may unfortunately be another question. at least 43 local housing officials were convicted of crimes in the last two years, and some of the allegations are shocking. tonight, brian ross is here with his investigation. brian? >> reporter: cynthia, our "nightline" invest game found that the federal housing program is plagued by theft and corruption and income me tenls at local levels, spending millions of dollars on housing for sex offenders and dead people, and all too often, failing the 3 million families who rely on federal housing for a clean, safe place to live. officials in washington have long praised the way the philadelphia housing authority opera operates. apparently unaware, or unconcerned, that its executive director, carl green, was spending lavishly on parties, belly dancers and all, and used more than a half million dollars in housing authority money to secretly settle a series of claims by female employees, with his own board later concluding that

when we bought the house in 2002, there was a single-story house on the property. the house was abandoned in the subsequently became a nuisance. not long after i witnessed a couple of men undermine the foundation on the west side and subsequently began to have the building inspector called for the house -- it was in imminent danger of falling over and it was demolished without any notice to the neighborhood. we believe the house was intentionally damaged to acquire a permit. we believe the owners were involved.

that is the house ought to doors down from us. -- that is the house ought to doors down from us. all these on urbano drive have aluminum windows. iand then the pitch -- president miguel: thank you. speakers in favor of the project sponsor? >> my name is steve, i am a licensed land surveyor, and they hired me to check the building height at urbano drive. here is a picture. the instrument i am using is a swiss leica and i have a pdf data collector, all state of the art. the measurement will measure -- instruments will measure through a glass prism or it will measure it through a window. so will measure to it places i cannot get to. here are copies of my field notes. and also a copy of the. out from the computer points. -- and also a copy of the. out from the computer. i'm just proving that i was there and did the survey, on october 22, 2010. i went and preparations for this hearing and went back to check the roof height. and i am going to show you what i actually measured. it is kind of hard to see, but the approved height from the reference point to the top. pat to the topparapet

we need a historic but house. we need to save about house. we do not need to save grace. we need bicycles. we need something charming in golden gate park. we do not need another commercial teacher joint. i walked in there with a huge community of people every day. there is an entire community of people that love the bucolics ready. i believe in saving the boat house historically. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> my name is sandra we'll and i m proposed to this change of use. i have documents to be included in the record. as you know, our local coalition is against this change. but we have provided you numerous solutions for this very bad lease, which must be included as you move forward. for example, page 24 we see that they shall not be required to make repairs or alterations, including improvements, in connection with seismic retrofit. since the least he does not pay, guess who will? please ask the city attorney if this was misinterpreted or if the city is going to be on the hook for this money because of the changes in use? it is fiscally irresponsible to expos

i am the owner of the house. i bought the house back in 2009, intending to move in with my family and in-laws. i actually own a t store a couple blocks away from the property and i originally thought it would be great to work. my father in law is living in the house. compared with all the adjacent buildings, i think it is an eyesore. it is a very deteriorated shack. at the outside has a huge front lawn with lots of, like, just weeds, and the facade of the houses damaged. we intend to move in with my wife, my two kids, my mother in law, my father in law, and also my mom and dad. we would basically be one big family living in a house. it originally when we bought it in 2009, we were pondering keeping it the way it was, but the more we thought about it, it is in excess financially to remodel the house to make it livable. we came to the conclusion to hopefully demolish it and make a new house again. right now, our whole family is anticipating and hopefully we could have this project approved and move on, since we hav

white house? >> we'll be in constant battle over jobs and the economy. my father was an air force pilot and if there was a problem that stopped him from doing something he said another rock in my knapsack. every bit of weight you put on is a distance you don't go. you wouldn't want to be bomber pilot over english channel and find out you have too many rocks not enough fuel. we have $1.7 trillion in regulatory costs already in the government. if the president wants to throw another $300-$400 billion, he's taking it out of businesses and employment and competitiveness. we need to make sure we compete. people talk about china. we need to compete against brazil and europe. the countries are doing regulatory reform to reduce the amount of rocks in the knapsack. we need to do the same thing. >> chris: other than holding hearings, what are you going to be able to do? >> my committee is the committee primarily of efficiency and regulatory, some oversight. fred's and some of the other committees specifical

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

it's not eight, it's 10 houses and the first house, 500 pennsylvania, is the house that has been improved. we're not going to the extent of that house. we have been very modest. we have followed the recommendations and i thank you. [bell] president olague: thank you. thank you. public hearing is closed. commissioners? commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i am confused, if staff could clarify for me. does the d.r. requester currently live in the property for which the person is requesting the d.r.? >> if you don't mind, i would like to defer the question to the requester. commissioner moore: may i ask the d.r. requester to identify whether or not you are currently living in the property? >> tenant occupied. my tenants have moved. my husband and i plan to downside. my husband is terminally ill, cannot navigate the stairs in our current home. we will be moving into the house, we will be moving into the house and the depiction that they gave you. commissioner moore: i only wanted to ask a question, yes or no. at the moment you are making the d.r. request, you are not living in the property

the house. a man who i hope i can always rely on for advice and i hope i can emulate in his commitment to this institution and his willingness to reach beyond his personal interests i want you to join me in thanking him for his years of service congressman bob michael. [applause] i am very fortunate that i have my mom and my dad here. i am so delighted that they are both able to be here. sometimes when you get to my age you cannot have everyone near you you would like to. i cannot say how much i learned from my dad in his years of serving in the u.s. army, and my mom who is my most and is est cheerleader. my daughters are up. -- most enthusiastic cheerleader. and the person who is my closest friend and who i listened to 20% more, my wife mary ann. [applause] i have not a very large extended family. they are virtually all in town. we have done our part for tourist season. when i first came on the floor earlier i saw a number of the young people here on the floor. the young adults who are close to

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 t 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 th

one house was on occupied the second house, was occupied by two residents.ut without any injuries. it took 40 firefighters and a third alarm, to get this fire under control. there were a lot of hot spots for several hours after. investigations are at 47 may warrant, that house was under construction. they will look at that house and figure out whether it had anything to do with the fire. for now they are removing debris from both houses, tried to figure out structurally how safe they are and whether not 43 to move back in. >> we'll have to wait and see. that is in francisco after a heated eight and half hour debate san francisco board of supervisors appears to have picked a top candidate for the mayor during, mayor. it looks like he has a six votes needed. take listen. we did had an opportunity, we made the biggest fall in political history, the blame goes to many places. certainly squarely on the shoulders of president david shute, i'm willing to appoint others out as well. i will have time on my hands, i have to run an establishment, i will involved active

, 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

a deep water maze feeds you through house after house abandoned left for the flood to inflict its misery, while most have left some have decided to sit it out. >> hi, how are you? >> reporter: but these days life for the robb family consists of daily trips to the supermarket and not much else the school holidays are not usually like this. >> it's okay, we are learning to manage. >> reporter: today, we joined the water police out on patrol. their main task to discourage looting and identify. they are also monitoring those living on their own. mary young is nearly 91, but she won't be letting nature's powers defeat her. >> how you getting on mary? >> i'm getting on all right. thanks. >> reporter: we flew over acre after acre crops are ruined and livestock still clinging on just factories deserted swamped by swell. businesses are facing ruin. >> we won't know extent of damage for several weeks. >> reporter: the river may finally have peeked. some have taken that to move back home. for others, it will be a long time before they can smile about new year 2011. >> holman: the flooding also has

that is the necessity of building more senior housing and more housing all around. that is another reason. thank you. that is all i have. president miguel: thank you. >> commissioners, my name is isabel marshall. we oppose the parking lot. we know for a fact that the parking lot consists of a lot of unsafe, unsanitary, unattended, and watched spaces where people do all sorts of activities, including drugs and crime. we cannot seem to get the parking lot gate to where it can close and lock. it is open all the time. we have tried for years. i have been a manager for 10 years there. we try to keep it secure, but it is unattended. they are doing all sorts of things. community helping partnership is a nonprofit agency helping the homeless community. they may be taking a while to get it together, but we would like to put two buildings there for seniors. we have been successful in the past with doing this type of operation. it may be taking a little longer than we expected, but we would appreciate if you give us a chance to try to change this community. it does change the

peters housing commission. the panel will be able to answer questions that conclusion but we request you make your questions brief and to the point and limit them to one minute in order to accommodate others. i'd like to invite donald duh! if i to speak on his session. >> hi i'm donald duh! if i and inspector with building inspection and my role is to investigate complaints and issue notices of violation and in the event of noncompliance to refer them. a brief overview of each function the complaints. two complaints. that could be referred and operation ss handled by the building commission work in the scope of work with it. and once a complaint has been logged into our system it will be the same to inspector and work pe yopd that is handles by building up speck tore and unsafe structures are handled by inspection team. we'll utilize things and investigate only that area of complaints. upon the investigation a notice of violation will be issued. a notice of violation is official citation to document sigh tabss

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,

the bbc parliament channel covers the house of commons, house of lords and other government branches. its website offers eight channels of video from legislative sessions and committee actions. to explain it all, we talk to peter; knowles, the controller of the bbc parliament channel. this is 35 minutes. >> what's the history of the bbc parliament channel? >> that's been a -- there's been a parliament channel for getting on to 20 years, explicitly modeled on c-span in its origins. it was origin family -- originally run by the cable companies. the cable companies didn't prosper in the u.k. as they did in the united states, and they dropped out so the bbc stepped in about 11 years ago and took it over as one of eight or nine digital channels in the u.k. the bbc runs. >> in the beginning, who owned it and who controlled it? >> the cable companies owned it and controlled it. when it was set up, there were quite a number of fairly strict understandings with parliament as to how it was going to operate. most of those actually to some degree still apply to how we operate, because many of the

that is the way the house looks now. that is the way the house looks now. she does not even realize what she is looking at. i am sorry, but it is true. we have a look into alternatives. can you see these? i talked to the department of public works. we talked about encroachment. they said that there is not a chance you can do it. there is not a chance it can be done. the size of the property, in good building areas of some of this land, this property is very similar in size to many of these. i think that is it. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner. >> thank you. i do not find it unusual, extraordinary circumstances for the following reasons. i do not see any significant impact to any of the neighbors. we have the huge mid-blocked open space. most of the neighbors are quite some distance beyond or across from the mid space from the proposed rewrite edition. --rear addition. you can see that the deaths of therear addition is about the same depth as all of the other structures. i do not feel that is an intrusion. there is no visual change to the historic facad

and also families who were also housed so there was a policy change in the district focusing on housing. >> do you have any numbers on how many houses like yours in the country now? >> it's a good question. we do have information in the report about the number -- total number of beds broken out by -- into three categories. sort of permanent supportive housing beds. also looking at transitional housing beds and emergency shelter beds and so i think the 2009 numbers on shelter beds were about 180,000 in terms of transitional housing beds, about 185,000 and in terms of permanent supportive housing beds around 215,000. >> there was an increase also, i believe -- there was an increase in permanent supportive housing beds of 11,000 between '08 and '09. >> given the variation that you found among states, did you look at what was working in a systemic way in the states where there was a decrease? i mean, you focus on the risk factors in the states where there was an increase but did you see in terms of states that spent more and allocated more of their budgets to this or what did you see that's

don't film the house. because of the people there just a building that investing money and houses and they're giving it in because it is very high note in europe. and europe all much as it was say this this is. the twenty thousand twenty thousand u.s. dollar was worth. but it's hard to know who receives the money and in this case you know who the owner is is someone from the government or. especially this is because this is the area which was. taken by people in the us or some other people from women in the poor people who are skipped from the cd. and the same in this case that make this. push that this man was one of the very first to inform on the sheer poor situation a member of parliament who is waging a war against corruption. just by a little nationalist is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist in terms of number of votes he's number three in the country today he's going to create quite a stir in parliament. indeed winter is here and with it comes famine and ex

reduce housing demand. thirdly, it needs to be consistent with rotp. it does encompass $200 billion of transportation investments that are reallocated every three to four years. all of these need to be coordinated in a single process. the regional housing allocation is another process that typically has been happening in parallel but not necessarily in coordination with rtp, requiring everything to be done at the same time. the allocation process is started at the state level, the association of government with each jurisdiction. san francisco has always done their fair share of providing planning and affordable housing, particularly the lowest income housing. this process is really a way for us to all link housing with transportation. particularly using the transportation investment as an incentive to bring other communities into the fold. you can see that i have highlighted policy questions. how well does this incentivize local planning for housing, especially affordable housing? with regards to the rptp,

of all the support for his house or their house. the original reason why i purchased by home at the address it is right now because of the detach. , on an independent base if any of this proposed attachment is going to be made, is certainly would change the structure and also the appeal of my home and probably would create further decreasing value. i believe that the vacant building without the hedging or without the setback, i would be o.k. with it. that's all. commissioner olague: thank you. speakers in support of the d.r. requester? are there speakers? are there any supporters out there? if there are any supporters. [inaudible] commissioner olague: this is the only time they'll have an opportunity to speak. it's up to them. i just wanted them to know that. [speaking chinese] >> i'm jojung oh, and i am the owner of 912 silver street. i'm real concerned about the fact that if they fill up or, you know [inaudible] one of the reasons the original proposal for the building was because of the fact that they have [inaudible] my objectio