housing than i am and this will help us create more middle-income housing. you don't help middle-income people who want to be here by constricting the supply of housing so significantly that you then inflate the cost of housing. it may work well for the people who are already here but doesn't work well in the future as new people come and new people create families and i believe the housing element moves us in the right direction in recognizing that reality. so those are a few of the reasons why i will be voting today to support the housing element and i look forward to working with the people in this room and others as we move forward with more specific community plans and more specific plans for the future of housing in san francisco. and with that, i move to forward this to the board with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: supervisor cohen, if there are no other comments. i would like to thank you for the hard work. i share some of the concerns from a number of the neighborhood organizations that we have to work harder to make sure it's a meaningf

you can provide new housing. you can provide new housing in all different districts. i have spoken at many meetings, and we talked about this numerous times. but to state that they are in support of parkmerced plaza development and not in support of building along the empty areas along their neighborhoods -- [bell rings] supervisor mar: [reading names] >> good afternoon, supervisors. draft 3 of this housing element, which is before you, spells of the city's character for money in the form of grants were going the extra mile in establishing a policy to densify a city that is already denser than any other major u.s. city other than new york. you ought to exercise your power to protect your city and its residents from planned degradation by refusing to accept this housing element and sending it back to the planning department to be redone. this element has been doctored by spur with the connivance of the planning committee. without environmental review or public street to cater to ideologues, densifying interests to sell the city sold for quick cash. i call on you to rej

house of representatives.] the chair: the yeas are -- the chair: on this question the yeas are 246. the nays are 173. the amendment is agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment 47 presented in house report 112-88, offered by the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 47, printed in house report number 112-88, offered by mrs. maloney of new york. the chair: recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for poli

existing housing stock. in addition, the housing element before you includes policies and objectives around three san francisco specific areas. connecting housing growth with infrastructure development. prioritizing sustainable development, and then also maintaining the unique and diverse character of san francisco neighborhoods. those three issue areas came out of our work with the community, the advisory body and the 30-35 workshops we held throughout the city. in closing on the discussion about the state, the state wrote us a letter accepting this version of the housing element pending local approval. i just wanted to make really clear what this 2009 housing element does not do. it does not call for future rezonings to represent meet our housing needs. the things we have been doing between the redevelopment agency and the planning department and our infill capacity more than meet our needs. it does not call change the development of any site or location in the city. that is really important to keep in min

there is a housing element that complies with housing element law, or three. the eir includes a reasonable budget of alternatives, and none of the alternatives or those suggested by the appellant would reduce the trade the impact identified in the eir. they specifically involve issues two and six. these were fully evaluated by the san francisco public utilities commission, which found that the slow release requirements would not result in some of the impacts to the available water supply. furthermore, the eir looked at would be likely to result in an increase in water use in the long-range projections. the impact does not present any new information that would change the conclusions in the eir. lastly, the appellate claims that the 2009 housing element policies are intended to support the unreasonably lead community's strategy a draft will not be available until 2013. the appellants claim that the 2009 housing element policies are intended to support it. it is unfounded. the scenario to which the poet refers to was published after the 2009 housing element comm

we try to bring new development on to public housing land, mixed income housing, senior housing that would help those raise their kids in public housing and now need more support in smaller units and it was like banging our heads against the wall too often, senator, to try to bring those tools to public housing. so it's time the federal government got out of the way and allowed many of the entrepreneurs and the communities that have despite some of these pressure actions done creative things to look into that. that's why we have a proposal, demonstration of allow over to under 50,000 units through some fairly simple legislative changes to change the way that that land is zoned to allow the deeds of trust to change and change the way we fund public housing. right now we supply capital funding and operating funding and we are really the only source of funding that can support those units by changing it to in operating subsidies similar to the way section 8 works with all of the other owners. we would allow public housing authorities to be able to access all of these sources. we estimat

we tried to bring new development on to public housing land mixed income housing, senior housing that would help those who had raised their kids in public housing and now needed more support in smaller units. and it was like banging our heads around the wall, too often, frankly, senator, to try to bring the tools to public housing. so it's time that the federal government got out of the way and allowed many of the entrepreneurs in local communities who have despite some of the restrictions done some very creative things to let them do that. that's why we have a proposal, demonstration in the budget that would allow over 20,000 units through some fairly simple legislative changes to change the way that that land is owned, to allow the deeds of trust to change, and to change the way we fund public housing. right now we supply capital funding and operating funding. we are really the only source of funding that can support the units by changing it to an operating subsidy very similar to the way section 8 works with all other owners. we would allow public housing authorities to be able to

housing than i am and this will help us create more middle-income housing. you don't help middle-income people who want to be here by constricting the supply of housing so significantly that you then inflate the cost of

the houses in parkmerced are among our newer housing stocks. i wanted to comment on something totally different. i'm a member. we had a meeting last night on disaster preparedness. formally the differdeputy direcr of dbi was the speaker. he expects the big one to be close. the most of the damage will occur on old concrete buildings. parkmerced has 11 hours with load bearing walls of concrete. they are very vulnerable for earthquake. i think the whole project is done from the wrong end. if they need to demolish something, demolish from the earthquake safety point of the. -- point of view. the towers, not the garden apartments, provide a wonderful quality of life. the project and the eir denies there are problems with the existing tower. a second project is that -- supervisor mar: thank you very much. thank you. next speaker, please. >> i have lived in parkmerced for 38 years with my husband. we happen to like it very much there. i will make this very short. we have a lot of respect for the management. we find that they have been very honest with

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not about building new housing. and for the mayor's office of housing and our nonprofit partners, make that into housing that can be secured over the long term through community land trusts, 3-d restrictions to make sure it is available for moderate and middle-income residents. it looks at expanding the inflationary option, which is something we piloted in eastern neighborhoods, which allows developers to explore the option of providing more housing than they would under our existing inclusion their programs toward middle income households. we get more units provided at a slightly lower income level. and it promotes the idea of affordable by design, which is designed housing as efficiently and effectively as you can to keep the cost down, and that is something that is a market-based strategy. we are trying to work with developers so does not require a subsidy, and we build units that are less expensive and makes sense for people at those income levels. supervisor cohen: really quit -- when you noticed your meetings

what type of housing is going to be produced? for the most part, market rate housing. that does not jibe. there is something wrong of the housing element indicates one problem and the solution -- please accept draft two. draft 3 is not acceptable. >> president of westwood highlands association. i am for a generation of san francisco, born and raised here, work downtown. i have been involved with neighborhood politics most of my adult life, but i have never seen anything quite as bad as the arrogance and blanket dismissal that your board displayed to all the neighborhood leaders that testified at the eir appeal last tuesday. without discussion or explanation, you voted to approve it in favor of only one individual who testified in its favor, it paid housing activist. this housing element is wrong. it is a huge sellout, and i guarantee you that the benefits the city was promised from spur, the housing action coalition, whatever that is, developers or whoever, is not enough to make it worthwhile. you are being used. my daughters live and work in the city and what to remai

house. and we're here tonight to support the project and every one of your votes tonight. after a decade of planning it was, of course, very disappointsing that the governor proposed to eliminate re-development right at the time the project was going throughout approval process. this impacted the financing of the project, which resulted in the decrease of affordable housing units. this is hard, but the housing plan does have specific provisions to restore this decrease by creating changes to the state i.f.d. laws. even with the decrease, there are 2,000 affordable housing units in the plan, 435 of which are for homeless families and individuals. it will also create thousands of construction and permanent jobs for san franciscans, 25% of which are for homeless and economically disadvantaged people, with a priority to those who live on treasure island. the plan also includes significant opportunities for nonprofit social enterprises and joint ventures that employ and train people with various

much more of our work has been on the communication between housing, the location of housing and the location of transit. we're going to look get help employment in certain regions might impact the region's growth. we will be in touch with you on that. supervisor campos: can i ask you a basic question? this is a very aggressive plan if you look at what it means for san francisco. we're talking 90,000 housing units. that is a lot of people. you know, you have to think about the ability of san francisco to incorporate that kind of growth. so, what resources are going to be made available to make sure we are able to meet that objective? this is a very ambitious objective. >> that is really the $64 million -- it is only so much of an exaggeration -- question. that will be leading up to 2013, what is the growth pattern? how can we supported both through the regional transportation plan, related policies, as well as, what will be rtp not be? it cannot do everything. much of what we will be looking for is the back from the jurisdiction, including asset, as to what it will take to make this

we've got the live picture of the white house up., again, they are getting ready in the east room, as wolf blitzer said. it should happen, first we heard as early as 10:30. wolf is saying probably pushed back to 10:45. also ed henry, our chief white house correspondent, is available as well. wolf, as you know, the worldwide resources of cnn, we've got everyone on top of this. and we're going to carry it live. again, i'd have to say, ed, you're sitting here listening to wolf and i. and it is unusual. wolf says he can only remember a number, just a few times, that this has happened in history since he's been covering politics. >> absolutely, don. i mean, on a sunday evening and, in fact, there is something called a lid where a traveling press corps with the president, the pool, he had been out playing golf early this morning, and then they called a lid saying he would not do any more movements, no more speeches. basically he could go home because he was going to stay in the white house and not do anything tonight. all of a sudden a cou

the magnitude of what we are adding to the city's housing supply, increasing by 2.5% be occupied housing units, which will have the impact of reducing some of the pent-up demand for housing, exerting moderate downward pressure, which was estimated at 2% upon project completion. the effect of this reduce real- estate occupancy costs will be to increase economic outlook. these cost savings, shifted to other sectors of the economy, the project increase in the city's housing supply and the impact on values is projected to results in direct and indirect jobs. that is through the 2015 projection. . supervisor chusupervisor kim: he to that number? i know we have had i love -- i know that we have had a blood of development, how did you come to that number to reduce city- wide housing prices over the long term? >> that was calculated by looking at the elasticity of demand. as well as the impact of a change in quantity supplied pricing. it is a mathematical formula whereby a look at the increase in the city's inventory of 2.5%. a factor to that, about 2% in value upon full completion in 2013, 2032

or housing authority. we wanted to stress that you please get someone to clean the common areas. >> great. >> thank you. >> ms. lee, good to see you again. i'm thankful you didn't ask me about the elevator, because i don't have an answer for that. as far as for the common area and stairs, we'll get right on that. i wasn't aware that you were still concerned about those. i thought our folks had got to that. >> i'm going to run interference. i think, mrs. lee, excuse me, she has the tenants, 35 tenants she brought with her, and they have a whole list of questions. so instead of 35 answering you each question, will take that long, maybe we should allow her to finish her little list of all the complaints so that then you can, you know, answer it better instead of keep on cutting it off like that. >> how many folks are her here? just raise your hand. [speaking foreign language] >> let me ask, how many folks are here who have issues or complaints with the housing authority? raise your hands. if we could have a t

in housing prices, but what we saw during the housing bubble in san francisco, despite the fact that we were producing a huge amount of housing by our standards, it was going up by 10% per year. it did not mean that the laws of supply and demand had been suspended, but we are basically bending the curve by 2% rather than driving prices down. supervisor kim: so, if city prices continue to rise, we will see a decrease from that decrease. let's again, that 2% savings is a positive in terms of the economic impact. that value is funneled into other sectors. one of the final factor is that we look that was determining how the development would affect the property tax base. upon completion in 2030 or so, we projected a $25 billion increase in assessed value, which explains the units that would not be taxable. i have included here a blurb about property taxes and how they are allocated city-wide. we get about 65% of the 1% base tax rate with the balance going to schools and other local jurisdictions under the proposed financing plan. 57% of the space would be allocated to the eye of the with

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had under consideration house resolution h.r. directs to the house no approval thereon. spoipt chairman states that committee has had under consideration h.r. 15440 and has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. mckeon: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that during further consideration of h.r. 1540, pursuant to house resolution 276, amendment number 26 printed in house report 112-88 may be considered out of sequence. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the request? without objection, it's so ordered. pursuant to house resolution 276 and rule 18 the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole commel for turt consideration of h.r. 1540. will the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock, kindly resume the chair? the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h.r. 1540 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the d

finally, affordable housing -- obviously, there has been a significant impact to affordable housing from our switch from tax increment financing through redevelopment to an infrastructure financing district. we are proposing a reduction in affordable housing from 30% to 20%. chairperson mar: 25%? >> thank you. which they hope to get back to 25% if there is additional funding. we remain committed to tihdi -- supervisor cohen: he said if we get back to our affordable housing dollars? >> we are in process -- as you know, the other ifps were only able to get 69 cents on the dollars for projects, whereas with redevelopment we were able to get 80 cents on the dollar. that loss in increment was recommended to make up for that loss. what we intend to do and are already doing is looking at making legislative changes at the state level to try to get back to that 80%, if we possibly can. that mirrors what we saw under redevelopment. that is to be determined, how exactly we are going to do that. but there are five pieces of legislation now before the state legislature that would look at making chang

the cost of housing there is just the fact that there is not enough housing in the city. every neighborhood once a working people's neighborhood is threatened to becoming a neighborhood where only people of wealth can live. you have seen how many people there are that are committed and dedicated to the work now going on out there. they are not going to give up this project. it will be guided by this type of dedication. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisors. i represent -- >> please pull the microphone closer to your mouth. >> we have been performing landscaping services on treasure island using a disadvantaged workforce since 1992. so we have actually been there with the knave and he then with the city of san francisco. we source 100% of our employees through the tidi program and helped over 70 people enter the workforce and obtain long-term employment and totally change their lives. we focus on hiring people with homelessness. they have minimal work history, poor general health, some suffer from mental illness, have poor education, social skills, family issues, prior su

, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >>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 peop

and housing.e're going to have a transient work force and we need to shift our perspective about the belongings that we are lugging around and the rules about housing. in other words, we need to be able to own a piece of property, be able to direct alternative forms of housing on the property within a certain set of rules by men is a palace, but they need to change the building codes to allow transitional housing that people can generate by communities on their own. host: what happens right now, those municipal codes that prevent transitional housing? caller: you have the housing industry, the builders and all that, these huge lobbies to put these regulations and the place. host: what are they? caller: the building materials that you can use. i do not know the actual details. but they are locked up by lobbyists from the building industries. it is all to keep in place this whole dynamic of the 30-year mortgage. what has happened in this country is that now we are -- i saw this coming 20 years ago.

the house is spilling over with flowers. every time i walked out of the garage, and told how beautiful our home as. tourists stop and take a picture of our home all the time. i devote my life, five days a week, to trying to make this city a better place to live in. our home is a big part of that because our home is open to everyone for any charity event they want to give. i'm involved with st. anthony's, where events are starting at our house to fund-raisers and get the homeless off the streets and the hungry fed. i started fence -- [tone] oh, mt god. supervisor wiener: just to be clear, you placed these decorative medallions on your home in the planning department sent a letter saying they would have to do a historic evaluation? >> they said we had to remove them with a certain time or pay $250 a day until they are removed. >>supervisor wiener: that is because your home is a historic? >> i would just like to say, this is heartbreaking when i work five days a week to make this city a better place to live and some wants to co

attached is the housing plan and financial plan and our commitments to affordable housing on the island. that will be before the budget committee next week. >> in that item 9 is that also the agreements on the transfers of land as well? >> right. as well as the navy agreement will transfer the land from the navy. we talked about such an agreement between other city agencies to review and accept infrastructure. it is a long-standing partnership that we have that started when the federal government announced that the base is going to be closed. the navy conveyens agreement is a long negotiated agreement we will pay the navy $55 million as a base payment and an additional $15 million depending on certain participation levels and again in the d.d.a. obligates the developer to make these payments. this will be before the budget committee next week. because treasure island is encumbered by the public trust because we want to build housing on treasure island, that is not an allowable use under the guidelines so we are doing swaps to transfer it to parks and open space. i will turn it over to j

house. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 227. the nays are 158. the concurrent resolution is adopted. without objection, a the motion to reconsider -- the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the unfinished business is the vote on adoption of house resolution 264 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 36, house resolution 264, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 754, to authorize appropriations for fis

and produce more middle class housing. the planning commission unlawfully approved the project because it failed to make a finding that there's no feasible alternative that would reduce the significant impact on transit and ceqa prohibits approval of projects with adverse environmental impacts if there are viable alternatives, then substantial changes were made to the element after the public period to the e.i.r. closing august 2010. policy encouraged new housing that relies on transit in areas well served by transportation infrastructure including b.a.r.t. trains and muni light rail trains and said changes would occur through a neighborhood supported community planning process. language referring to community bus lines was removed from that version. after environmental review, the february 2011 draft greatly broadened the areas where housing would be encouraged to include the areas along the muni bus lines not just infrastructure and these run throughout city neighborhoods in policy 1.10. this expansion is unnecessary bec

the new housing. the demolition of the most affordable housing is something that even the housing element in the past has recognized is a policy that should be opposed by the board as a policy for our city. however, that has been ignored by your predecessors in the redevelopment areas in the western addition, iand as a result of freeways, we have demolish housing. as a result, we demolish the most affordable part of our housing stock. the result of that, we had a housing crisis for the corporations fled and took hundreds of thousands of jobs to the suburbs. we now have the economy in a straitjacket. you do not now go to parkmerced and most 1500 units of housing. [applause] this is nothing more than the continuation of the failed policies of your predecessors. if you want to do your job correctly for the city and county of san francisco, you preserve the existing housing and tell the developers to build new housing in vacant lots. supervisor mar: thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. fifth generatio

we were at the white house for the rally. >> reporter: those of people gathered outside the white house even before the president made his remarks to the nation tonight. they cheered usa, sang god bless america, over joyed that osama bin laden is dead. >> usa, usa, usa, usa. >> reporter: they came to the white house full of american pride, waving flags, climbing trees, shouting into the night. wanting the president to hear them. many gathered here called the death of osama bin laden a major victory in the war against terrorism. >> i think he is hearing us inside. we've been screaming. >> sarah was in the fourth grade when the 9/11 attacks took place. she remembers it well. it was the day her father lost a good friend. >> i actually teched him, and he said you know, it doesn't bring the pain back for the family, but it is making strides for america and giving hope to the people and the families. >> reporter: many couldn't sit at home after hearing the news. even david arquette who was in the town for the white house correspondents dinner joined the celebration. >> amazing, as soon as i h