what is student housing? it is high-density housing. the legislation provides the zoning administrator to have a simple hearing that will allow the private owner to convert and be allowed to rent the housing. that is not protecting the housing stock of san francisco. it is creating a nice big profit making machine for people who want to invest -- to have an assured supply and then eventually turn it over out of the students and have the public rented and it will be rented at the high rates and it will be paid by the students. i am happy to hear what is happening to housing and san francisco is a disgrace. it's destroying our economy and you can get high tech jobs which cannot live here if you don't have affordable housing. [tone] you are doing that on behalf of institutions like the academy has $200 million to spend and they have been doing things illegally for 15 years. i would appreciate it if you would explain that. >> thank you. i think this problem has been with us for awhile but it has become more critical with the loss of redevel

and" -- housing"? >> it depends on the income of the household. if they are looking at an ownership unit at 100% ami, if they feel they can stretch a bit and tell the full appreciation of that unit, sometimes it becomes a little frustrating for them. if that are at 80%, they would never be able to appreciate. i think the program is a little more challenging for people. as you move closer to 120% and think you might be able to stretch and purchase something if you wait it out, you concede that appreciation. it depends how feasible they think they are to actually buy some kind of market rate unit. in some neighborhoods, the below market rate unit -- sometimes, the original price is higher than the market rate has gone too. in the bayview, the market rate -- chairperson farrell: what is happening to those families? >> that are under water. they want to get out. it was not anticipated the market woods change so drastically that you could be under water on a bmr unit. in has been hard to sell those units in

house. we have to let our light shine. go to revolutiontruth.org. host: all right. thanks very much for your comments this morning. general allan is on capitol hill right now on c-span3. that's about the situation in afghanistan. president obama will speak around 11:00 a.m. today in oklahoma. c-span.org for more. now, live coverage of the house. the speaker: the house will be in session. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. eternal god through whom we see what we could be and what we can become. thank you for giving us another day. send your spirit upon the members of the people's house to encourage them in their official tasks. be with them and with all who labor here to serve this great nation and its people. assure them that whatever their responsibilities, you provide the grace to enable them to be faithful to their duties and the wisdom to be conscious of their obligations and fulfill them with integrity. remind us all of the dignity o

i mean, what was left of the white house and what did they work with to come up with the white house that we have today? >> essentially it was just the exterior shell that was left. and they still used that same structure and built it from the inside out. there are reports of all the walls standing completely and then there are reports of some of it actually being destroyed on part of the eastern side. but for the most part, if you are ever fortunate enough to get on the inside, in the bowels of the white house, you can still see burn marks. >> some parts of the white house were not flammable. that's why they were still there. >> yes. >> did someone try to put the fire out? >> actually, there was a rainstorm that helped singe everything -- i'm sorry. not singe. put everything out. which was very lucky for them. it happened the next day. >> thank you. >> sure. >> you mentioned when they burned washington, they didn't burn the entire city. >> correct. >> they left taverns? >> yes. >> and what else did you say? >> hotels. >> hotels. >> there are actually several accounts of british sold

both the white house historical association, which has shared the stewardship of the decatur house property since 2010, and, in particular, neal forsman, john reilly, mike melton, as well as the building's owner, the national trust for historic preservation, and in particular cindy, and gail berry west, who i think is here today also, who served on the boards of both decatur house and the white house historical association, have all made and kept a commitment to sharing the lessons that this building has held for over a century and a half, treating it with care and listening to it as well. you know, historic buildings i think combine a degree of permanence and stability with the capacity to record and embody change. and it's from this fundamental ability to hold profound lessons intact as the world changes around a building and we impose our will on it that buildings ul maltly derive tremendous power as primary sources. the slave quarters at decatur house certainly exhibits these qualities. the fundamental form, the architectural features and finishes, and the uses of this building remain r

this is not from the white house collection or from the white house suite. but it is an example of the finlay's work that still survives. this is from the kauffman collection that was just donated to the national gallery of art. you can see here obviously the antiquity influence, the splayed legs and the form and also the decoration, the grotesques. also, another chair the finlays created as well. what also you'll see as a huge trend here is the caned seat. the 40-piece suite of furniture the finlays made were painted and lacquered in white and gold. here is one of those examples which you'll be able to see closer up later on. but this is one of the couches that the finlays created that latrobe designed coming from the grecian examples that he saw and used from thomas hope's book. here's a close-up of that design. these are all on display for you to see afterwards. here's an example from what the cushion looks like that you could see formerly on the last design we saw. more of that. okay. and the -- some of the furniture was also grained in imitation of high

live in the housing. i noticed that a lot of people whose complaints do not cut to the meeting, you will sit there and be left out and have that violence. you're not communicating with all of us. i would like to thank you all for this and i hope this project goes through, because i would like to be a home buyer. >> thank you for listening to me, supervisors. i am a homeowner on park view heights and an active neighbor in -- member in my neighborhood. as well as volunteering on the community group, since moving into my home in 2004, have looked into the redevelopment of the amex. i have met and befriended a number of residents that i had never gotten to meet. there is a lot but i feel uneasy about. many of my neighbors expressed concerns. the implications for transportation in our area, they have talked about the no requirements for parking spots, given that a lot of public housing is on flat land. a lot more people have cars. especially as it were made to the public transportation problem. i think that co

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

the housing market may have bottomed out. none of that good news has yet been sufficient to show the good times have returned. that's a caution for americans. his opinion which is worth more than most perhaps is that we're not there yet. >> it was important enough for a candidates to get off the campaign trail and go back to congress. >> any opportunity to get in front of the cameras, right? >> thanks very much for being with us. this is "washington today." we're streamed on the web on c-span.org. and today a bipartisan luncheon. we saw somewhat unusual because it was the first time in seven months the president hosted a white house meeting in which congressional leaders sat down in this election year following the luncheon. the speaker of the house joined by mitch mcconnell talking to reports. >> good afternoon, everyone. we had a positive lunch at the white house today and we discussed a number of areas where i believe that there is common ground between the two political parties and particularly on jobs and on energy. i'd

housing, where san francisco tend to be a barbell sort of city. you have a high number of households at the low-end, a high number of households at the high end. there is a much smaller range in the moderate to middle income level. this reflects that. >> maybe this was answered before, but we do not have the comparative data with other cities? >> not with other cities. this chart is what was referenced by the director in terms of the first 5 data. this talks about the decline in the last 10 years in number of children overall. in the last 10 years, the child population declined by about 5%. however, the number of children 5 and younger increased by 9%. you can see that increase of 9% was more than outweighed by the decrease in children 5 to 18. chairperson farrell: it just exacerbates how big the difference is with the five to eight teen group. i think there is a big difference for us as legislators in city hall to think about. if this is a national trend or national issue, that is ok, but tha

decatur house. the event took place at st. john's church on the edge of president's park. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, neal, for that kind introduction. i can always tell when my staff works on an introduction for me because they tell you everything about me except the fact that i was president of my third-grade class. two years in a row. [ laughter ] there's hope for everybody. i can't tell you how pleased i am to be here today, to be part of what is a very important conversation that will illuminate african-american life and work in this neighborhood, which has always been an incredibly important integrated neighborhood. but as i thought about this today, trying to think about how i felt about being here, i kept remembering a letter that i received when i was at the smithsonian, which i guess is now. and the letter said -- well, it started out dear left-wing historian, so i knew it wasn't going to be good, but forget that part of the letter. the letter went on to say that the author worries that we are spending so much

housing and also market rate housing. we want to introduce additional work force units to the city and introduce additional market rate units. this was created in 2007, and we go mayor newsom as well as supervisor maxwell a lot of credit, because they started the initiative, and they started it the right way, with a task force of the public and private sector, and they laid out the principles. the city also started in addition to the task force, they said they needed investment on our part, so they dedicated $95 million from the beginning to do hope sf, some of which we have already dedicated to hunters view. the balance we will look at to see the balance of the funding goes as we look at the feasibility of the remaining projects. i know we have been talking a lot about the redevelopment agency and its dissolution, but this is a perfect example, this initiative, of what these funds were able to do. $47 million was given to hunters view, was funded. we used to fund the hunters view project. $54 million was funded for alice

in the house of representatives.oining us live from the white house is the principal deputy white house press secretary john ernest. as always, thanks for being with us. what is white house reaction to this plan? >> steve, quite frankly i think the white house here is disappointed. this is very similar if not exactly the same as what congressman ryan proposed last year. and what republicans vowed to back last year. at the end of the day, the consequences for the budget plan that the republicans rolled out are very significant. at the end of the day what we're looking at here is a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires on the order of about $150,000. and making draconian cuts in things like education, basic research, opportunities in new sources of energy and, yes, medicare and medicaid. you know, ultimately this plan would undermine the basic promise of a secure guaranteed retirement for seniors. that's something that the president's not willing to budge on. now, the president actually advocates a more balanced ap

look at the kmechlt i think that the housing market will have to improve, but the housing market is not as big a share of the economy as it was in 2007. so yes, we want the housing market to improve. and yes, if we get it top improve the economy will do better. but i'm not entirely convinced that it's the linchpin to everything that makes the economy recover. >> susie: account fed do anything to repair housing? >> i think some people have come to expect that the fed has all these tools and we can just solve the housing market. we can solve the labor market. we can solve the automobile problems. monetary policy is not a very useful tool for solving a lot of these problems. we're a very blunt instrument. >> i'm sure you hear this all the time that people complain that it's so difficult to get a mortgage or refinance their home even if they have a good credit cord. isn't there anything that the fed can do to encourage banks to lend more? >> we don't want banks making the type of loans they made in 2005 and 2006 because that's what got the banks in trouble. so supervisors are naturally

house of prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 184, the nays are 236, the motion is not adopted. the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote on the bill. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. [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 247, the nays are 174. the bill is passed. without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? mr. wood

this type of group housing. supervisor wiener: to follow up on the group housing issue, the supervisor and died about six months ago dealt with the situation at 16th and albion, where group housing was going to be put in there and we believed it would be. there was no noticing requirement and the neighbors found out about it very late in the game and it created a very chaotic situation with a lot of confusion and anger. i came away from that, and i think a lot of people did, with a belief that it was better to let people know ahead of time what was going on so that they can have appropriate input, discussion, and avoid miscommunication. i think that this brings it in line with the planning code. in that situation there were people who advocated having a cu for housing, which i do not support, but i think this was a good accommodation. >> it was a part of those discussions as well. what is the word? i started to analyze the change a little bit more after talking to some of these other departments and that sort of

louis housing authority. this is a far cry from the crowded collapsing 10 amounts that many of these people have known with spacious grounds they can live. >> it's a beautiful place like a big hotel resort i'd say. >> it was like oasis in the desert. all of this newness. i never thought i would live in that kind of a surrounding. >> what happened? >> well, one day we woke up and it was all gone. >> pulled up with a moving van, i knew at that point that it was hell on earth. >> looks like a battle ground. vandalism and neglect. >> in the middle 50s st. louis, it solved its low cost housing. instead a monster was created. >> the experiment had gone terribly awry. >> could i go to such a symbol that we tend to forget it is no different than the city that surrounded it. what happened to st. louis was tragic. but that simply is not how we told the story. >> pruitt will igoe was always fighting against this terrible rip tide of destruction in the midst of an economy that was dying. >> the strong tightly knit commun

i might rather see middle income housing, workplace housing built. >> the first thing we talked about was shadows. there is no actual shadow limits for the park. there is no shadow limit which stands to reason. i want to understand the relationship of golden gate way, also with the western athletic club and maybe you can explain or talk about who your project partners are and the relationship. >> thank you, commissioners. we have no relationship with golden gateway center other than they are selling the land. there is no residual interest other than there is a portion of the land which has been set aside for the new club that we will not be buying but we will be paying for the new club. there is no partnership interest and there is no residual benefit from this project. we are simply under a purchase agreement and our partners at the port of san francisco and the california state teachers retirement system. >> in terms of the club, the decision about the size and scale of the club, was this a project this edition or what direction they want to go. they felt this would appeal to the ma

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so you have the house republican leader telling the senate to pass the bill as passed by the house of representatives. meanwhile, back to transportation because today the white house continued to pressure the house of representatives to accept the senate transportation bill. a bill passed last week by the senate, but now may have some extensions without the two-year plan passed by the house of representatives. it was the first issue that jay carney brought up at the daily briefing earlier today. >> before i take your questions, i wanted to start with a statement by the president. "last week, the senate passed a bipartisan transportation bill that will keep construction workers on the job and keep our economy growing. now the house of representatives needs to take bipartisan action so i can sign this into law. an economy built to last depends on a world class infrastructure system that allows us to transport goods as quickly as possible. that's why we need to continue to make investments that will create jobs by rebuilding and modernizing our roads, bridges, and railways. that's why my

what can we expect from house republicans? what kind of reaction do you think the gop will give to this plan? >> one of the things that is interesting about the way we're doing it this year versus last year, i think everyone recognizes based on the experience of last year that this is going to be a big symbolic fight between democrats and republicans. so no one is going to be taken aback by that as they were a little bit last year. and so until last week what we saw was a very highly produced web video unveiled of congressman ryan. he didn't give any details of the plan, but he was walking down a hallway on capitol hill and talking about generally the need to reduce debt and how this is a moral problem that needs to be addressed. >> as you're pointing out in today's story, rejection of the house budget by the senate is almost assured. so where does this go? >> yeah, this is pretty much a symbolic statement of republican priorities in the house. if this budget gets out of the house, it's not picked up by the senate. the real co

turn around and sell the house higher. right. sell the house higher. so that's kind of the ways that segregation worsens over time. and then there was another argument that hirsh made about public housing. and i want to just briefly show you one clip from a really, a new documentary. hirsh makes the argument that public housing and the explosion of public housing, in primarily african-american enclaves but not solely, but public housing that responds to the needs of people in cities, so activists, black activists in chicago, detroit, new york, they want public housing, they need public housing. they get public housing but they get it along racially segregated disinvested lines. and they get it again at this moment when so many of them are moving, so many of them need housing, and so few of them are finding jobs. so what started out as a welcomed change in policy turns into a nightmarish situation. which literally in the late 20th century people just destroyed. they just bull dozed these down to the ground. this is a really good documentary about a publ

13,000-square-foot house. >> how many bathrooms in the house? [silence] >> seven. >> you had to count? >> [laughs] yeah. i was thinking five bedrooms, the pool bath, and then the powder bathroom here. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. in this edition, we examine the american work force and we discover what stimulates new homebuyers. but we begin with steelworkers. steel, the so-called backbone of america, is suffering. at the beginning of 2009, steel plants across the country were hanging on for the stimulus package to kick in, with its over $100 billion for building things like highways and bridges. as i first reported in february 2009, the package included a "buy american" clause that the steel industry had fought hard for. it says any infrastructure project paid for with stimulus dollars must use steel made in the u.s.a., not cheaper imports. >> the whole purpose of your stimulus package-- and it's the right purpose-- is to stop the bleeding of jobs and to create new jobs here in america, not overseas, not in china, not in e

these are two individuals that have worked in affordable housing very heavily, and middle income housing and in height and housing at times. this is not a place where you can put affordable housing nor should it be put there. the comments come at two people who are involved in the city, in landscape architecture in this city for as much of their working lives for as many years as i have known them. in addition, the comments on in the historic nature of this area. you can go right on to the suitability to the area and the right place for the project and the right density for the area. these are people that are respected within this concept of san francisco. they have been around us for a long long time. they understand the history of the city, what it was, how it is developed, and where it should go. my wife and i are down in the farmers' market on saturdays from it is actually open three days a week, tuesday, thursday. we have shown friends and relatives and shown them the businesses and the developments that have happened to their. -- happened tthere. this is something that has happened

housing and that's the solution. relieved the developer of inclusion ary housing and i supported that legislation and i think sooner people realize this is not going to work for them because of rent control and the sooner we can focus on building in the mid market area, they can be leased out to a number of smaller institutions the previous speaker talked about. having students is great for the city in the economy but not at the cost of cannibalizing existing rent control housing. [tone] >> i have a comment to make about this proposed legislation. thank you very much for including the fact you are trying to protect residential dwellings from being converted into student dwelling. i wanted to point out the planning section at currently, under residential zoning, conditional use for post- secondary institutions using group housing definition and so far, what i have seen happening is a lot of apartment buildings. i know it is a landlord agreement as to how these buildings are going to be used. but even though they are a

the hiv housing subsidies, residential support of housing. it is about $6.5 million.s expense $7 million for usf. the mayor's office is taking responsibility for whether or not nonprofits. they should not be cutting these services. we're cutting the services to the most vulnerable. i hope he will work with the mayor to take care of both. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. i want to echo what the last couple of speakers have said. at this point, flat funding is a cut. we have seen a significant increase in the health care costs. if you look at the flat funding and you look at the increases, we're seeing that on the ground. we are seeing higher acuity. we are seeing higher caseloads. at this point, we need to refund the cuts and increased funding. thank you. supervisor chu: next speaker. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak? >> i am a volunteer with the coalition on homelessness. i would like to speak in favor of hospitality house. these people are the best. when i first came here, you cannot tell by as much weight as i have

create a definition of family friendly housing. crit housing for vulnerable families. make sure there is a 20% minimum of family-friendly housing. and create a permanent dedicated mobile source of funding for housing for families with children. chairperson farrell: family- friendly housing is probably subject to a lot of subjectivity. how you phrase it? >> in terms of what came out of this policy council, when we were creating family units, is the design family-friendly of the overall building? for example, picking one at random, in a multi-unit residentsdo

the third item relates to affordable housing. this project will do nothing to enhance affordable housing in san francisco. it will only create two very expensive houses. this project fails on all ground. the result of past planning policy has helped in the creation of a great street and it would be a shame to ruin things by encouraging destruction of a nonconforming housing. i ask that you denied a variance and not create any new precedents for any such project like this on the street. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. sanchez. i'm michelle, 20 belgrave. i just want to go over a couple of points that the representative made earlier. he talks about a pattern in our neighborhood. he is absolutely correct, there is a pattern, but it was not the one that he suggested about what size. what it is about is green space. he continually talks about what size, but never talks about density. the average density on our street is 0.5 house to lot. both of his projected projects would be 1.0-plus. i am also concerned about every time w

plan has for housing production. shows we're heading in the wrong direction if our mission is to retain families in san francisco. considering market reproduction is not producing housing to affordability levels that will keep this families here. if we do not get our policies in line in order to stem the production of market rate housing and increase the production of affordable housing, lot of this will not matter. if we do not have people who can afford to live here, we do not have parents who can advocate for better education or resources because they cannot afford to stay here. housing should be viewed by our policy makers and the population as a right and not as a commodity which i feel like it has been looked at. in san francisco for a long time. thank you. supervisor farrell:. -- supervisor farrell: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. i am so pleased the government audit and oversight committee is taking on this task as -- on family flight. as much as these statistics, but to thousand eight -- 2009, eight r

house republicans agree. thus we are happy to bring to the floor on a bipartisan basis the jobs act. the president has issued his statement of administration policy. endorsing this legislation. again, a rare occurrence and i believe it's something that our constituents would like to see us do. they want to see us stand on principle but they also want to see us compromise on policies to advance those principles. so this is a bill that will give these emerging growth companies, again, perhaps the future googles, perhaps the future apples, the future home depots, the future starbucks, that opportunity to now begin to access equity capital, where the hurdles, the red tape, the cost burdens have been too high. we know of many of the root causes of the economic debacle we had, clearly this was an economy that was overleveraged. so we in the congress need to do whatever we can to enable the startup companies, the job engines of america, to be able to access the equity markets, not just the debt markets. so this is a

housing. supervisor mar: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you. today on the agenda, we have legislation creating a definition of housing, where none existed before, and clarifying and creating some rules, so we are creating additional housing and converting it to student housing. i am going to be offering some amendments to this legislation. we were not able to get them reduced to writing by today, so i would like to continue to march 26. that would also give us some time to back into the discussions, because i know there are some folks in recent days that have expressed some views, so i've afford to hearing from people who would like to discuss the legislation. please feel free. colleagues, we do have several from the planning department here. barring that, i would move to continue this. >> let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, without objection. supervisor wiener: can

prices and the house bubble? eventually pleaded to recession? i know there is a book called "the big short" where investors were shorting that. what is your take on that? >> the decline in house prices itself, by itself was not a major threat. the head of the chair -- i was the chairman for president bush. in 2005 we did a analysis of what happens if house prices came up. financial crisis. have a broad based effect on the system. what i became chairman in 2006, house prices were already declining. two weeks after becoming chairman, i did a testimony thatthat will have negative impacts on the economy and we are not sure of all the consequences. the fact that they've might come down, that was always a possibility. the hard thing to anticipate fully is the fax on the decline of house prices would be so severe compared to the dot.com stocks. soundness of the financial system and created a panic which in turn led to the instability of the financial system. it was not just decline in house prices, it was the whole chai

the house. this was taken out of frank leslie's newspaper. weekly harper also covered it and london "times" covered it. his international stock contributed to the media event around this. the last and final remarkable thing about menard's life is, when he arrived in congress, in 1869, he was only 30 years old. he accomplished this entire career of being a leader within the united states abolition movement, one of the instigato s instigators, a captive and victim of the morant bay rebellion, and the first african-american elected to congress by the age of 30. with that, i'll turn it over to matthew who will speak about his congressional career. [ applause ] >> mr. davis, if you would stay just for one moment. so i am not matt. i am rod ross. and i want to thank both mckendra, a board member here, as well as congressman for coming. arkansas's loss has been illinois's gain for both of them. i'm especially pleased that the congressman was able to come. b.j. durham is a close friend of mine. her book

to those at decatur house and located even closer to the white house. such compounds and urban slave quarters were found in other cities like savannah, charleston, mobile, new orleans, and were relatively well documented by the historic american building survey in the late 1930s. the home of the slave, written in 1901, buildings like this and like those at decatur house, called town group quarters where he said few house servants were fairly welhoused. the slave quarters at decatur house ceased being there for enslaved people before 1862. in late 1861, the u.s. government took possession of nine lots belonging to the gatsby heirs, adjacent to lafayette square. this shows decatur house and slave quarters as part of the complex of buildings planned by quarter master general. it is clear from correspondence by commissary general that the military wanted to use the second floor of the slave quarters to house sub cyst tense bureau civilian and military personnel. the commissary general vacated decatur house in 1874, turning it over to edward beal who purchas