directions and it goes in both directions so you need to take care of your house you know you need to take care of your house for your house to take care of you properly house to take care of you properly. we just close. with just close the skylights which are bases the skylights which are basically the hut during the day cleaning the hut during the day if vacuum i.q. weights three of these the sky lights and it's the sky lights and beacon because it's no night time we just want to hear this now nighttime we just want the heat at this time at this time to stay to stay inside inside the house to house them. every night every night which is close to just giving the first of the clues it's really close it's retaining the opening to retaining the open it really really. we we . use touch tires ayers. for they are they struck the structure of of the building with the building we call them. call them. radio radially reinforce in force ram morse rammed earth bricks and earth bricks is what this is what they really really are they are the tire the tires are radially reinforced with stairs are radially reinforced with steel feel for

this is how house this test this type of hype of houses house is very good very good because it's resistant to hurricanes because it's resistant to hurricanes. and as well as as well as quakes quakes. also fwe think think of canada california for me and the world in the wildfires fires that they that they have have become because you can you have you have the tires highways are protected checked it's in it's all covered it's all covered with a berm this house could it also this house could also produce protect protect you know you know from from farm fires in the fires in the future which are. so here's this here's a simple simple survival of all it's the first one though it's the first one that we've built ever and we've built ever and since the since then we have and we have built and built several all over that several all over the world the worlds. come on come on in your work you're welcome. so these so these houses of course houses are called simple simple survival levels because because because the systems themselves themselves and sell it also and also though the way the way that th

house went on, build, rebuilt, reused. as we heard earlier, democracy plate is part -- played its part in the use of the house. normally houses in america were not this big. the ceremony they did not want, but finally had to do. staff was hired, sometimes 30, sometimes 15. and the house lived on. it served for the rest of the century. sort of paralleling -- washington in the constitution was an extremely powerful figure. this was cut down and the election of 1800 and cut down variously from that time on until 1898 and the spanish-american war, when prevacid -- president mckinley, one of the most significant presidents almost forgotten, retained for his war power, the status of power known to washington. the house survived all those years, just sort of the house, like the house of a banker in an american city somewhere. in 1902, president theodore roosevelt, looking for a new image, mckinley was assassinated. this young man came to office, a young and vigorous man, living publicity and loving to be around. he ordered the house restored. it wasn't really restored. but the stone walls were not harmed. there was a lot of damage t

house. there was some bills voted on and some did not. where are we in the result part of this? bighis is going to be a week for immigration in the house. house republicans have been trying to craft a bill on their own pretty much without democratic input to present something on immigration that president trump could sign into law. they got a little close last week, they voted on, they were set to vote on two bills. one was a more conservative measure and it was supposed to do a compromise measure, something that has been negotiated between the house conservatives and the more moderate republicans. what happened last week is what often happens on this immigration measures among republicans and they cannot get to it on their own. struggling with immigration for years and last week was no different. they voted in the house on the conservative measure and it failed and did not receive the majority threshold needed and they punted on this compromise measure because it was sort of hanging in the balance about to fail and they wanted to see if they could take one more swing at it and try to craft different provisions that would bring on more suppor

housing projects cited in the mandates. the housing balance report gives context to these three different housing production goal. the housing mandated by the state to be updated periodically set as production goal of about 28,000 units built between 2015 and 2022 this is commonly called brina. 57% should be affordable to low and moderate income household. the planning departments submitted annual report on the city's progress in leading this goal to the state department of housing and community development. the department prepares a quarterly report to the planning commissioner. prop k passed by san francisco voters in 2017 set a goal of that 57% of new communities be affordable. the late mayor set a goal of -- affordable unit. i would like to add this has been more or less consistent in the last two decades or more. [ please stand by] >>> the net affordable housing stock totalled about 10,282 units. this net affordable housing stock over 4738 is about 25%. this is the city's cumulative housing balance over a ten year period. it is two percentage points higher than the previous year's housing balance reports. the

housing bond. as you recall, we had three categories of expenditures, public housing, affordable housing, low-income housing which had a subset of low-income housing for the mission neighborhood, and middle income housing. the first bond issuance is projected to be 93% expendedy 2018 and ful expended by 2019 and we do have a little bit of news to just follow up on. we presentationed this information at our last meeting and we did reallocate funds in our low-income housing category. we took funding that we had reserved for 250 laguna honda road for senior housing and applied it to senior housing at 296 shotwell. 448 mission, we moved that to family housing in the embarcadero neighborhood at 88 broadway. i want to state for the record and this is something you'll be interested in, there were some news reports regarding our reallocation of funding for 250 laguna honda that suggest thad the reason we pulled away from that project was because of neighborhood opposition. and there was strong neighborhood opposition. most ot does get neighborh opposition on every project we work on. it's a job hazard for b

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ext >> next on "the presidency," a white house historian discusses the scottish stonemasons who helped build the white house. he is an author about "a white house of stone." this was part of a daylong symposium and focused on the history of british and irish connections with the white house. it is about 45 minutes. >> the next session is one that is special for me personally. as a 10th generation scottish american, the story of the scottish stonemasons at the white house is very meaningful and important. our presenter for the session, dr. william seale, literally wrote the book on these masterful craftsman, available to you today in our shop, if you would like to use your 10% discount. he will also be at the reception this afternoon and will sign your copy of the book for you. this is a wonderful book that tells the story of the scottish stonemasons and the work you can still see evidenced on the white house today. we're also honored to have an actual scottish stonemasons, is chuck with us? he is in the back. if you have not been to the blue tent to see his masterful work, please take time to do so between sessions or during the reception this

housing streamlining. san francisco is in a huge housing crisis and we desperately need more house, especially affordable housing. i think anything we can do to ake 10 affordable housing projects go faster is going to be in the best interest of the city and in the best interest of those who can't afford to take time off of work and come and voice their support for this today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. ction f san francisco neighborhoods. we support the planning commission's recommendations and i want to point out that these were hammered out after a -- i believe it was a five-hour meeting and there were a lot of compromiinlv so i hope that you will incorporate them. in particular, we'd like you to keep noticing for the rear yard pop outs. as one member of the commission pointed out, he would not want to make up one more when the cement mixer pulls up at his next door neighbor's backyard and finds that the time that a two-story building is going up right next to his home. so this is something that is very important to people and they just need to be notified about it. if th

item 40, a resolution to authorize the director of the mayor's office of housing to enter into an agreement with mercy housing housing, californ. the california limited partnership for subsidies for formerly homeless families in mission family housing. or 9.7 million. item 41, to enter into an agreement with the salvation army church street for operating subsidies for formerly homeless adult households. for the 15 year and six month term, through december 31st for 5.5 million parikh and item 42, to enter into an agreement with the housing services affiliate at the neighborhood centre to provide operating subsidies for formerly homeless adult households. for approximately 1.6 million. >> colleagues, can we take those items? same house, same colloquy without objection, those items are adopted unanimously. >> item 43 is resolution to approve the fourth amendment to the contract to the tied centre to provide supportive housing property management under the delivering innovation and supportive housing program, to extend the contract term by one year through june 30th 2019, and to increase the contract amount by 5.8 millio

house you house to take care of you properly. we just close the skylights which are basically. during the day evacuated through the sky and because it's no night time we just want the heat at this time to stay inside the house say every night which is close to me please it's retaining me. we use tires for the structure of the building we call them. radially reinforced rammed earth bricks as what they really are the tires are radially reinforced with steel for being tires but that works perfect for a radially reinforced brick. full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they will last forever termites don't eat them they don't rot and they're tremendous structure and tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun. absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. but let me. go to back to just when i thought this point you're not going to be really whaling on this third thing yet because the church still thought i was. so what we're going to do is i'm going to use a tool to

pursuant to house resolution 923 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house. will the gentlewoman from new york, ms. tenney, kindly resume the chair. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole on the state of the union for the further consideration of the bill, h.r. 5895, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2019, and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, pursuant to house resolution 918, a request for a record vote on amendment number 39, printed in part b of house report 115-711, offered by the gentleman from south carolina, mr. norman, had been postponed. pursuant to house resolution 923, the further amendment printed in part a of house report 115-712 shall be considered as adopted. no further amendment to the bill as amended shall be in order except those printed in part b of the report and available pro forma amendments described in section 4 of house resolution 918

housing. they have the certificate, but not everybody's looking for housing. and honestly, a great many of those folks are housed and -- and in sustainable housing, but they have the opportunity to come back, and that's their right to come back for as long as -- >> how many people last year got there? >> yeah, sony mcdaniel is the program coordinator. >> i can't hear you. >> she said last fiscal year, we housed 26. >> 26. >> households? households. i'm sorry. so far this fiscal year, we've housed 26. well, fiscal year is over in 20 days or something like that. >> is that households or individuals? >> that's households, head of household. >> that's really bad situation for the people who are looking for a home and they will never get it. >> there are about 200 folks that are -- that are actually applying for housing, and many of those who are applying are, you know, are -- when they -- when their invitation in a lottery to go and visit the space, maybe they change their mind, maybe it isn't what they want, maybe it is what they want or they don't have enough rent income for that particular rent, so they wait for

its name little house all wrapped house for use here the far north is layer is holding a lot of air so besides becoming a search. for an searcher it's also it's directly. a cardboard houseis made up of segments and can easily be added on to the pluses on minimalism and mobility this is the essence of the vehicle house concept. tiny houses are gaining more and more fans. this specimen is located in the austrian state of styria the weatherproof wooden structure belongs to martino and peyton is from cots that living in bedroom cooking area are all squeezed into twenty two square metres they had reasons for wanting a tiny house one constant you don't concentrate on arranging rearranging at pre-arranged you keep your eye on the basics the. tiny houses set no limits on the imagination as an endless variety of layouts like a tower. living capsule. treehouses and designer your the trend toward downsizing isn't driven so much by necessity as by a change in consciousness most tiny houses are also mobile. the one in austria was brought from the factory in spain by truck it can be moved any time that dispenses with one of the main disadvantages of home ownership. we don't know wher

house this type of house is very good because it's resistant to hurricanes and as as well. x. also if we think of california on the wildfires that they have because you have the tires are protected it's all covered with a berm this house could also protect you know from fires in the future. so here's a simple survival it's the first one that we've built ever and since then we have built several all over the world. come on in you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because of the systems themselves and also the way that they can be built should be easy for anyone in the world with a set of plans and basic training to be able to build the systems themselves are sustainable the same as in all other us ships but they're very basic and they have a lower cost. in terms of disaster relief the electrical system in this house is also very good for traveling because this is our storage system which consists of a car battery and then it has different fuses which can be found anywhere in the world and also an inverter it works with a flexible solar panel which is on the roof which you can also travel with so with two bags basically you can go with your solar system. so all the water that's being used in this h

went back a year ago and i built the first house of the center with different volunteers most of them who i met through biotech and we started building the house and we train local volunteers. and with the children also from the orphanage participate.

house peered there have been -- the white house. there have been hundreds of them from the queen to the beatles and every british prime minister look forward to his or her first white house visit. the first time i got to the white house was when i was working as an advisor for dav cameron. guess for golfers, it is winning an open championship, for actors, it is appearing on broadway, but for diplomats, it is walking across the threshold into the white house and even more into the oval office. you feel if you do that, you can die happy. anyway, the british prime minister who i suspect would approve this, who spent the most time in the white house was i think winston churchill, because in 1941, he pd a 24 day visit to the white house. it is impossible and modern diplomacy to imagine a 24 day visit anywhere. a 24-hour visit is hard enough. indeed, churchill thought of the white house as a second home. here as a bigive family in the greatest intimacy and informality, and i have formed the highest regard and admiration for the president." looking carefully at the record, i am not sure every element of that was entirely reciprocated. [laughter] >> i imagine you have heard the

>> recognizing the role of manufactured housing in this country, 10% of single- family housing is manufactured housing. 22 million families. and the regulatory burden has been ridiculous and in new mexico, the oil workers cannot use a manufactured house because some of those regulations. we are getting rid of them. because manufactured housing has made so much project -- progress, you cannot tell a manufactured house from an on- site build house.>> and when we want to help people achieve that dream, we need to -- >> no question. >> and finally, we hear this refrain from many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that the tax bill was tax cuts for the rich, even though according to the nonpartisan tax policy center, households in the top 20% of earnings will pay more in 2018 compared to last year in terms of the total income tax collected. and by contrast, those in the lower 60% will contribute less, so i just want to -- my time has expired, but these opportunity zones are an example of the tax cuts helping low income americans.>> the time of the gentleman has expired. we now recognize the g

house this type of house is very good because it's resistant to hurricanes as well ask. makes also if we think of california and the wildfires that they have because you have the ties are protected it's all covered with a berm this house could also protect you know from fires in the future. so here's a simple survival it's the first one that we've built ever and since then we have built several all over the world. come on in you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because the systems themselves and also the way that they can be built should be easy for anyone in the world with a set of plans and basic training to be able to build the systems themselves are sustainable the same as in all other us ships but they're very basic and they have a lower cost in terms of disaster relief the electrical system in this house is also very good for traveling because this is our storage system which consists of a car battery and then it has different fuses which can be found anywhere in the world and also an inverter it works with a flexible solar panel which is on the roof which you can also travel with so with two bags basically you can go with your solar system. so all the water that's being used in this house

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after the night attack, he comes done here and stay that a plantation house known as the mccarty house. it would be similar to house we have out on the property, but jackson's headquarters at the mccarty house burned down in the fire of the late 1800s. it had the same style of dormer windows that you used to look out and survey the entire battlefield to help decide where he was going to build his defenses and what the british were doing. when the british watched the ground assault of january 8, they launch a fairly complicated assault. the reason this spot was picked is that it is so narrow. it is one of the narrowest chunks of ground all the way into the city. that helped to jackson concentrate a smaller force, negating some of the british's numbers. he starts by having a rampart created along the rodriguez can out. the can out its dugout -- can now -- canal. this gets dugout and provides a long fortification that the men can stand behind. this is our regression of the rampart wall. it is similar in terms of construction, oh it is short. it would've been closer to a two tall. the side facing the british would have

it is to preserve existing affordable housing and prevent the creation of new garages in new housing in order to preserve the existing affordable housing stock. so, you know, kind of designed around preserving the existing affordable housing, and just while i'm up here, if i may, commissioner fong's point, separate from the rationale about existing residence and converting to nonresidential use, the other goal which i hope came out in my original speech, identifying the possible sites for new development in the district and really prioritizing residential use for those new developments. it's not just about the conversion, but prioritizing that use for new development. >> president hillis: just, sorry, clarifying question. in the rh district, you can't get a c.u. for a hotel, can you? >> you can, but it's more like a bed and breakfast type use you can do. >> commissioner johnson: so, it is really interesting these two have, the last two items have been next to each other, just looking at one, how do you protect the character of a neighborhood and find a balance, and i think on this one in particular, and both of them, frankly, i hear th

housing myself. lived in public housing until such time i graduated law school, with my parents. and as i look at public housing today is it not what it was then. the investments that were being made in public housing so a child like me would have an opportunity and at the friend i have, would have an opportunity, are not there. when i look at budgets and where we're emphasizing, et cetera, the opportunity that i had are not there. and what i'm trying to get is a clear vision of where we're going because i still don't see under the current proposals how we get to there. those things that benefited me. my parents. and one thing that is a talk to individuals in the public housing developments that i currently represent, they were -- in all very concerned but their rent going up. the number one issue that's come to me. in that proposal i understand you're saying now it's not but in that proposal that you had which becomes even more troublesome is how to get to deducting or not? so, in your proposal, i think proposed to eliminate deductions for medical costs, child care costs, which i know the city like mine, be ve

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these subsidies will provide housing stab housing sta housing stablity, and one-third of the housing in san francisco are seniors. and we need to provide for that. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jessie johnson. we recognize that many of the people who live in the streets ago were just our neighbors, people who have been thrown out of their houses by landlords eager to make a profit off of the housing crisis. tonight, people in the tenderloin will sleep on the bare friends of their friend's s.r.o. rooms, they'll sleep in bathtubs, they'll sleep in closets. i've seen people in the tonederloin lend their best shirts for a job interview, i've seen them lend their last cigarette. please give us back the 14.8 in budget cuts. fund something positive. fund employment services for homeless people, fund transgender services. forget tasers. tasers only mean heartache and death. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tess davis. i'm here today to urge you to fully fund the hspa budget ask of $14.8

housing subsidies for families. i think what we heard the most, for families going into homelessness, these subsidies are going to keep them housed and in housing security. when we look at home delivered meals, i would say 1.2 million over one year in congregate meals. >> supervisor cohen: that's great. i was going to ask, how do we want to think about delivered meals compared to congregate meals as opposed to in home -- home delivered meals. >> supervisor fewer: home delivered meals, 1.2. >> supervisor cohen: okay. home delivered meals, 1.2. >> supervisor fewer: and congregate meals, 300,000. i believe they serve a different population, but they're all about food security. >> supervisor cohen: now you mentioned something about flexible housing subsidies. how do you suggest we split that up? >> yeah. housing subsidies are primarily for seniors and people with disabilities, that we funded them before, and that they were need based, but actually, we have heard repeatedly how these people need funding if they're going to be able to stay in their homes. so i would say we look to seniors and people with disabilities to give them priority for this fu

white house has a serious problem it's leaking a shocking secret memo leaked to the new york times white house's most prolific leakers all the weeks we get out of the way else why this white houseleaks and all the reasons it's hid there's always so much fun in this white house is so leaky there are even leaks about why they're leaking and so in an effort to deal with the issue it's just funny to move on from its fatigue to war of words with the media and show a bit of muscle wrong with the press. or the press are also where the fire is very. well charms verbal disputes with the press have become commonplace his latest step can be seen as a watershed moment that is crossing the line into spying on journalists now at the center of this is new york times reporter ali watkins whose phone and e-mail records were secretly seized amid a justice department investigation into this guy james a former high ranking ate at the senate intelligence committee who's suspected of leaking classified information to reporters and he also happens to be the former boyfriend of what kids during their three year romance that what kids they excelled in her career even being shortlisted for a pulitzer he

the country in terms of rad conversions and giving housing authorities powerful tool and a means to preserve affordable housing by converting public housing properties across the country and a $26 million ba backlog. hud has levraged $5 million in capital to make critical repairs, something that hud could not have done alone, so critical to have public, private partnership. what does it mean for places like san francisco? 1400 units have been preserved including the hundreds of units here and what is exciting to me is that over 2,000 are in the pipeline. if everything goes as planned by ptember 2019 we should have 2000 additional public housing units preserved through ra we arweare not stopping there. hud is seeking to extend the rat and we have lifted the cap from 455,000 units from 225,000 to 455,000, and it more than doubles the capacity of units that can participate in the program. in the 2019 budget we are seeing $100 million to help housing authorities who need the support in converting. i will close with this. i will give you a sense of what it would be like without rad, it would take public housing authorities over 50 years to do

house. when the look at this fantastic view the house is basically built around the view of. the house faces south west. huge windows capture the sun's rays and fill the living space with light the office living room and dining room. here is that that was the south that so that means we get sun flooding the valley even in winter song out lots of parts of iceland especially in the west are your odds don't see any sun for two months by morning but it's sunny here until the eleventh of december and then the sun comes back on the first of january but between those two days the sun is only there for thirty seconds. winters in iceland are not only dark they can also be harsh with strong winds and heavy snow. and then. these are photographs of the house completely snowed under for going for snow and clearing the top windows i had to climb up two metres from the ground to dig them out to let light in and. given the often inhospitable climate the house is built from weather resistant. it's completely made out of concrete covered with the launch of dolly minium and has a blanket of cross on the

need but the same amount into house—building as we do with spitfires, this is according to oliver let win. this is notjust about building houses, it's also about building housesso about building houses, it's also about building land in order to build the houses on. you need to get the infrastructure right, which is what he is saying that you've also got to relax regulations in places where people actually want to live and that is so politically toxic to the other section of tory voters, those who already own the houses and vote conservative that the government is going to do that is a little bit of a non—story then. yes, we need houses but we need in the right places it will be not good to get. am i pointing at the right... let me show you the front page? that is the headline, there, war spirit needed to fix the housing shortage. do we still have that war spirit?m is not only the stock of housing thatis is not only the stock of housing that is non—existent but the rhetoric stock of world war ii is completely used up and i think it's a bit ofa completely used up and i think it's a bit of a dodgy do. sir oliver is known for his missed timing in politics. to evo

what i found frustrating, is we are the elected house, the house of commons, ifeel the the elected houset this came close. very close. the man up the steps on the left is the government's chief whip, the man in charge of making sure the government never loses. having a casual chat with some possible rebels. a promise made that the government would after all budge? three behind discuss what to do all budge? three behind discuss what todo— all budge? three behind discuss what to do — stick or twist. all budge? three behind discuss what to do - stick or twist. i and the government are looking at amendments that may be tabled and that will be the product of any discussion i have with the honourable gentleman. translation, the ministers will consider giving parliament more powers. the government chose to bend rather than break. no surprise, the tory party is trying to put on a show. their backbenchers showing the government what it means to strike a deal. before the vote there were 15 potential tory rebels in the prime minister's office pushing her to budge. but a government source said to me