we of course don't own housing. we don't develop housing. we are part of collaboration wts mayor's office on housing and with affordable housing providers to allow us to pay subsidies and put services into affordable housing units so that the rents are lower, so that homeless people and people with disabilities can live in those units, and also get the support of services that they need in order to maintain the housing there. i don't have a lot of time but i took a look at number of seniors that we house so in our supportive housing program which is called direct access to housing we have 1600 units. at least 26% of the units are set aside for seniors so that earmarked for seniors. you have to be a senior 55 or older to get in. in reality 58% of residents are seniors and we have subsidies for people with hiv and we had people earlier testify going that and 41% and 72% of those units -- actually of those vouchers, of the subsidies are used by people over 50. that's probably no surprise but i want to give you those numbers. in our medical resi

housing for lgbt seniors. the price of the one bedroom apartment now is $2,700 and the average ssi payment is $1,200 if that, so just numbers alone most seniors are not going to afford a market rate apartment in san francisco or anyone that is disabled and receiving a government subsidy. for us in terms of housing discrimination complaints and about 65% of the complaints are discrimination complaints are regarding housing and about 40% are alleged discrimination on disability or alleged sexual orientation and disability is the one that we get the most complaints about. a big issue for us definitely is reasonable accommodations which is reasonable change in policy and procedure for disabled people to stay in housing such as having a care giving, physical and emotional support animals and food delivery and the third party subsidies. definitely if somebody is living alone and away from their families and lgbt or otherwise and rely on people and face discrimination of providers that don't understand the concept a

that's for the total agency. 630 were housing related so you get a sense of how critical housing is forour clients. >> yes. >> thank you bill and thank you for the good work that your agency does. >> thank you. you save a lot of people. >> okay. next speaker. >> good morning. i am ellen bloom bloomfield and i serve as the social services manager at open house. we provide community support services and housing for lgbt older adults in san francisco. >> having trouble with the mic. >> yeah, sorry about that. many of the things i wanted to address mr. hirsch addressed so eloquently so i won't go into that. i do want to say that we too at open house are seeing many no fault evictions. we have a housing clinic that we've had for about two, two and a half years in which we try to provide information to assist people in finding affordable senior housing. i realize this month earlier in the month they was taking appointments for this clinic in march for may and june. that's how great the need is right now. i would like to share with you actually a few examples of the kinds of people that are me

it's it's about housing. housing is a critical issue. that's what we're faced with with people getsing evicted. there is a mass exodus of low income working class people in san francisco. it's tragic. we see it everyday. it's accessibility and affordability and if they're not accessibility as they age and develop disabilities they can't use them. it is true some of the things that we see going on in senior disability action. if you're a senior or person with disability in a rent controlled affordable housing and been there for a time you're walking with a giant target on your back and it's causing mental anguish of people. you see landlord it's people in the housing and you know this they pull the mickey house games, not cashing the checks, low level harassment and low down thing just to force the people out. that's what is happening. another thing is the senior and disability service provider community which does generally pretty good job but still there's a great need for more cultural awareness sensitivity toward lgbt seniors and peop

, into that housing. but that's what we focused on is housing first. the success was defined keeping that person in housing. housing retention rates over 90% for a difficult population is laudable. however we're at the next phase where we built up our portfolio but not seeing a lot of turnover. we're not seeing a lot of turnover because our goal is to keep folks in housing. i think it's probably time to look at what our next phase is, and what that looks like to start to generate more positive exits from our housing for folks, whether through employment, through connection with individuals families or friends, through getting on disability assistance where we can raise someone's income. so thinking through what that might look like in our buildings and we have 30 plus buildings, and what that staffing mix and investment might look like. that's something we're discussing internally now. >> chair farrell: in terms of those 3200 units is there a formal waiting list in terms of knowing what the the backlog of

>> even by then, the white house had become america's house. one of the reasons why its occupants have been targeted often for criticism, much of it not fair, it is because we all think it is our house. rs. monroe would be criticized for an alleged obsession for fashion. she paid up to $1,500 for her gown. it was alledged she painted her face, applying ruche. as silly as it sounds now, it takes us back almost to a debate at the very beginning about what kind of nation this would be. >> it really reflects to this day the monroe administration, the blue room at the white house. we will show you this clip next. >> if i could go back to one time in the white house, i would probably go back to the monroe period. the united states began to come to life. monroe thought the era of good feeling would last forever. and political parties would issolve. think that would be the period i would like to listen to what was going on. in furnishing the house, james monroe and his wife were into french everything. he spent a lot of money bringing these things, suc

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

you were involved in developing housing as a supervisor. is there a role that you see that the city attorney could take in the housing crisis, the eviction crisis that we face now? >> well, thanks for that question because i think by the time the eviction issue comes to us it's done, and in essence the train has left the station. there is very little that we can do except what i expressed to you. the city attorney i think in tandem with the board of supervisors and the mayor could do a lot more. there was a new sort of bill of rights established on the state level in sacramento over the last couple of years dealing with evictions. that has yet to translate down to county governments, to local governments to really make it meaningful so i am concerned. i don't know if it's lack luster or just confusion that we're not more assertive in san francisco in intervening on this process how to protect those that are vulnerable but also those maybe evicted. >> jazzy. >> thank you sheriff mirkarimi. i do have a question concerning the delay of the evi

this house sort of became like the winchester mystery house. it kept growing and growing, and having more additions and more cars annexed on to it. so at one point it has up to 10 cars. you can see they're using old dash signs or destination signs for fencing, actually, here in the front. so everything gets recycled in carville. later mrs. patriarch's bed and breakfast becomes an episcopal church called st. andrew's by the sea. so here it is in that incarnation. in the back there's a shed there. that's the sunday school, it says. you can see the fence. it was necessary to sort of fight the sand and keep it at bay. it's another pretty famous house on the great highway. it looks sort of like a mechanist myian temple or something. it kept being boxy and then growing. it's in the center here. it was made up of about four or five cars, actually. you could see people had different takes on it. some people liked to keep their cars very exposed and open. kind of have that old sutro land quality to it. so people could see it was a car. and others really

that california housing agency. the federal home loan bank through its federal housing program administered and brought to us by silicone valley bank. and the coordination of supportive housing was special supporters. i want to thank jonathan. [ applause ] . those corporations for supportive housing were social and innovation fund grants and put that together nationwide with one of four projects across the country to be awarded funding through the social conservation fund. thank you jonathan. we have a very special partner, the marry's office is part of every single project that cbc undertakes and in this case the san francisco department of public health is a crucial key part of the project and they will be providing projects for 15 years and beyond. barbara garcia, are you here? thank you barbara. and i would like to thank one very special person. anyone involved in the project knows what who this is? mark, where are you? [ applause ] i think it was 7 years ago that mark conceived this vision and it really was a v

even before they bought the house. they were given a letter signed by all the same neighbors who are now here saying, we oppose expansion on this particular lot. we believe that it would impact the historic resource and that was provided to them by the realtor who sold the house originally and also have copies of that if you want to see it. so, they came into the situation knowing there would be opposition. the neighbors asking for plans, they didn't get any plans. the first update after the preapplication meeting that they got was a mailing of the 311 notice on christmas eve 2012. after the 311 notification went out, then a meeting was scheduled and that was held january 16, 2013, two-and-a-half weeks after that went out. there has been no dialogue, no give and take and no so-called concessions. any changes made were in response to staff question. this is an rh 1 d zone neighborhood. the houses are all single family houses with wide side yards, large rear yards, open space provided in nearly every lot. every lot excep

canibalize >> we can't afford to lose further rent control and housing in san francisco. and the stocks have been diminished enough and can't be replaced and again, i can't say it enough that it is lost forever, we need to protect that, i am seeing more eviction and more elders that are coming into my office and it is heart breaking because these elders and people with disability are scared. they are scared, of being intimidated and it is, it is very life changing and a lot of these are ellis acts and i understand that the percentages of ellis acts, evictions has gone through the roof within the last year. i think that the legislation is fair and it does provide a solution to tic owners. s and it is really not about putting tenants against the tic owners, it is about protecting current rent control housing for the future, while allowing current owners to convert to condos and being able to refinance. and holding accountable that caused a lot of this to happen and the banks from displacing tenants and the owners themselves by curbing the future speculation. >> [ speaking i

the general, the regional housing shows that san francisco continues to build really high income housing and not enough affordable housing for the folks who really need it and why are we talking about not focusing on that deal so that we should not be focusing on the deal. for looking at the few folks who are saying. >> and i am going to call names. >> ramond, castio. >> and (inaudible). and peter coen and andrew, (inaudible) and cythia cruise. and paula (inaudible) and becky lee, and tailor and young and also alfred chin. >> thank you, good afternoon. my name is steven tennis and i would like to say that my last name is tennis means or may look like (inaudible) but it has a nice ring to it. and any way, i support the amendments and proposed by the (inaudible) yee and campbell. and the (inaudible) units are lost forever. we need to insure that the working class and low income tenants to have secure and affordable housing. >> the common conversion is set to combine the real estate speculation and being able to keep our neighborhoods safe from evictions. thank you very much. >> thank you v

it's under the mayor's office of housing. >> it's under the mayor's office of housing. you know, i'm not familiar with that particular property. the housing -- you know, this is the first year we do have a more robust chapter on housing than we have had in the past because of that -- they were not owned by the city. they were owned by nonprofits. >> in this case this is one particular asset which is owned by the city which is a very unheard of unique situation which is where whether housing section existed or not should continue to be part of the capital plan. >> right, right. and again, that's one i would need to follow-up with you on because i don't have someone from the mayor's office of housing or someone from real estate -- i recall some discussions of that, but i don't know all the details or enough details. >> okay. i wanted to also express my concern about the ability -- i know that many may think that san francisco is made of money, but i think part of what we're charged to do is make sure that we're spending money in the appropriate places. and i think when we

one of the reasons why we had a housing crisis and a housing bubble, then caused a crisis because of of these incentives to buy homes, including wall street securitizations. >> sure. >> tangentially involved government regulation and that did up the price of homes, to a point where people couldn't afford it unless they got one of these crazy loans, like, nothing down. >> no money down. >> balloon payment the end of the two years and that's the problem with these. they actually inflate prices beyond where the market could be. and listen, my dad worked three jobs. we had a house, moved from an apartment to a house, but it was chief enough to buy. >> and what, is this the answer then, adam. is this some sort part of the fairness doctrine. >> this is a point where i'm going to disappoint you, i agree with everything that charlie just sa. this is horrible policy. it a bipartisan horrible policy. i'll make you happy a little bit. >> it's nothing to do with the community reenactment. >> it's called a fee, but-- >> and by the way, adam, he didn't need the community reinvestment act to have t

colleagues, can we take this same house same call? same house same call, item passes. the ordinance passes on first reading. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item 11, please? >> item 11 is an ordinance authorizing the juvenile probation department to accept and expend a grant retroactively in the amount of 461,000 for funding cubed the fiscal year 2012 second chance act juvenile defender reentry funding program and amending the annual salary ordinance for fiscal year 12, 13, 14 to reflect additional class 129 grant funded position at the juvenile probation department. ~ >> colleagues, any comments or questions? can we take this same house same call? same house same call this ordinance passes on first reading. madam clerk can you call item 12? >> item 12 a medsv the planning code and administrative code regarding the transfer of development rights. >> president chiu. >> thank you. colleagues, this amends transfer of development rights otherwise known as tdrs in the downtown commercial c. zone the district and other areas. it will create more broader transparent sale

is produce net new housing, we're creating new housing. bmrs through the inclusionary housing are also creating net new housing. last year the success of the housing trust fund, i would argue, is because it was primarily based on production strategies which could then make everyone happy. it was production for homeownership, for rental, for mod income, for low-income. the lottery for condo conversion has at least historically provided a pacing for how we convert and, therefore, lose our rental housing stock, allowing some head room for affordable housing to try to at least keep up at a minimum. therefore, any bypass of the lottery as is being discussed and is now before you with an amendment must recognize this linked relationship between preservation of existing housing stock or its conversion and then on the other hand, production. and we have to stay whole. in fact, we have to stay ahead of whole because we have a net increasing population and we always have unmet demand. so, we really do emphasize that. we look forward to the hearing c

house. >> this is the earliest existing house. they lived here in the 1830's and 18 40's. >> she was educated and taught school. >> she would work. the north and south fought all over the civil war. it changed hands 26 times. they did have domestic help. >> it was used as a hospital, it was used as a place to stay and it was destroyed. >> aleezeh liza wasn't able to get out much. >> she brought home many gifts. >> this is the room she returned to. >> she is obscure. who he needed. >> abraham lincoln's assassination weeks after his second inaugural shocked a war-raffvadged nation. johnson's wife eliza was 54 years old when she was thrust into the role as first lady. he navigated the end of the civil war, reconstruction in the south and his own impeachment. this week on "first ladies, the life and times of eliza johnson." . we learn more, let me introduce you to our two guests. jacqueline burger is in the midst of a biography collection called "love, lies and tears" and joining us from her hom

the oldest house is 1907. there are two things that certain me. one is the details of the proposed construction which mr. sanchez and the architect have laid out to you and the other pursues by which the improvements can be made. over 40 years i've seen every house made some improvements many are internal but some have roofs and some have had garages put a underneath and everyone has had meetings in the neighborhood and there's been compromise where there's a - difference in taste. i'm here to make sure that this can be reviewed and we can get a is in it. what hasn't been mentioned is terrace is on a steep hill. and the house in question 2325 is at the bottom and if i read the plans right once it's constructed it will be as high as the hill. so all the people on that block have been there a long time. we all consider ourselves shepherds of the block. and that's what i wanted to say >> and the square footage of your home? >> the square footage is about it thousand feet. and by the way, everyone on the south sid

welcome to if white house correspondents' dinner.ral because we decided to add that to the program to get eople to listen and pay ohmage to people who have served and you did. we thank you, general. [applause] finally, for now we decided to get 2,700 of our closest friends together for a little dinner. we welcome you. we want you to enjoy your dinner. we have a great program for you but for now, enjoy your dinner and we'll see you in a little while. bloomberg news, carol lee the wall street journey" jay carney press secretary to the . esident, ed henry fox news , the tribune newspaper. >> so now you can enjoy your dinner. thank you. >> as you heard announced dinner s about to be served here at the white house corps spon departments' dinner. a lot of tweets commenting on michelle obama's appearance. stunning is the most common word used. here's a couple of words i don't understand. they will begin with a salad with crab meat. that's the salad. peared e is a filet ith poached halibet with whipped potatoes, seasonal baby egetables. fina

we haven't built enough new housing. last year, we began to make some progress in november the 0 voters passed the housing trust fund for the next thirty years for affordable housing for first time home buyers and thank you to this gentleman for our first responders. today, there are more than 20 times the new housing built in 2011. that's just a beginning with 23 thousand new units? the next several years never have we seen this since 1906 when we had the great earthquake. housing in treasure island and? center market and downtown. we can't built our way to affordable. all of this will do little to help our poorest residents in need of subsidized housing. what we're doing now with our pickup system isn't working either. supervisor cowen knows this because she works on it everyday in her district. if we can't mend that structure we should end it arrest that have despite what we've said residents who keep your which i think so ups and strategies that are already making a difference if we make the com time arrest we have a

the house of representatives is the people's house, the house of representatives is where each member of the house listens to their constituents, brings their ideas forward, and then in a good legislative process works together to find common, acceptable solutions. there is absolutely no doubt that the ultimate solutions to this process will have to be bipartisan and will have to address a number of different issues. no one should take the limited bills that we are introducing here this week to be in any way an indication of our overall interest in solving all of the various aspects of immigration reform that are before the house and senate. thank you. i now want to yield to the chairman of the subcommittee, trey gowdy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am not going to belabor the points made by chairman goodlatte except to say this. the result and process to me at least are intertwined. the best result or product in the world is sometimes mitigated by a process that is less than confidence inspiring. that's true in the civil justice system. that's true in the criminal justice system. and

so the house servants. i think there were 13 house servants here. and they were totally her supervision as was the care, the medical care of the other servants in the plantation. they were happy in this household. and she loved it. she refers to the melody of his voice. she always refers to his intelligence. she had a wonderful time here. >> and also the newlyweds then commenced raising the large family that we talked about. seven children born to the tylers before he died in 1862. is that when he passed? >> i think. >> so a question, she refers to the slavery issue which we have come back to throughout the program and country itself is marching inexorable towards the civil war. what was john tyler's post white house role in that omentous period of time? >> well, in 1861 there was an attempt to stay succession and john tyler was very instrumental in that articular, that last-ditch effort to do that. there was a peace conference held in washington and he was very much -- in february of 1861. and he was very much a part of that. once that failed he de

housing. i think that a lot of people would not have anticipated that their once $543 apartment would now be $1,100 a month, so i am seeing a lot of people from all parts of the city and i am also seeing people who have had to leave the city, but want to come back into the city. >> right. any other questions? thank you very much ellen and thank you for the work that you do. >> thank you. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge supervisor david campos came into the room. thank you for coming in and we will ask you if you want to speak in a few seconds. we're running behind because we had a late start today. anybody that would like to testify line up over there. everyone is welcome to speak. next speaker. take up too much time this morning. i am jason alley and the outreach coordinator working closely with our lovely folks here who are hosting this housing forum in addition to a group of community based researchers, advocates, and alleys who are concerned about the challenges facing lgbt seniors her