we were fortunate in one of the housing developments to get money from cmlj. they may not have been what we wanted it to be. they had youth and it was probably one of the safist summers. to get those people come here. every time we go to speak. we end up in trouble. we are being identified as trouble makers or we're being identified as not following the rules and they feel like they are being punished for the stand they take to better their community. it's great to make policy. but if we're not involving the community, we will have the same problems. >> i am going to call on you. what program were you referring to that was working. that you said had community involvement? >> it was called open arms. it was a name that was group at that housing development created for themselves. it may not have been up to codes or standards, but what i would like to see is us put money to those who are prepared to go not community and train them. instead of saying, it's great you got 50 kids. they weren't doing what we wanted them to be. we are going to pool the money, give it

called for housing developers to come together and create house for youth ages 18-24 that at were risk for homelessness. they asked that baby in a transit rich neighborhood. study showed that too much affordable housing in areas that are saturated. there are specific warning points to have this in a low crime rate neighborhood and did not have saturation. there are two brokers along side the search. it was for sale. it met our criteria. it would fit up to 24 units. it would be delivered vacant. it was in a transit-rich neighborhood with a low crime rate. the minute we were awarded funds for a loan, we began community outreach. we began by saying that we were looking for offices in district two. we began community out reached. we have support letters from residents in district two, from city-wide organizations and a documentation of over 65 community outreaches we have had. i would like to address how this will impact the neighborhood. this is a rich and vibrant neighbor to any community in seven francisco. we will have 24-hour staffing on-site. we will be a good community neighbor. by

they both have award winning reputations for their work weather is housing development, management, or support of services. i trust they will bring this work ethic and professionalism to the project. hall at all, it represents a small but meaningful contribution to the transitional aged youth housing plan. each one represents a significant investment in preventing homelessness right now and preventing the emergence of a new generation of homeless adults and families. please support the efforts. the '90s appeals for the conditional use permit. thank you. >> good evening, president chiu and members of the board. i am here in strong support of the project which takes a 29- unit hotel down to 24 units. the neighborhood outreach that we have conducted has been amazing. there is a website for community meetings, house parties, fires, the males, and door hangers. and it matches those of your political campaigns. sometimes you can't completely overcome through claims and fear that the opposition is putting out there. in this case, it has been the comparison to the bridge hotel. it is a private

they both have award winning reputations for their work weather is housing development, management, or support of services. i trust they will bring this work ethic and professionalism to the project. hall at all, it represents a small but meaningful contribution to the transitional aged youth housing plan. each one represents a significant investment in preventing homelessness right now and preventing the emergence of a new generation of homeless adults and families. please support the efforts. the '90s appeals for the conditional use permit. thank you. >> good evening, president chiu and members of the board. i am here in strong support of the project which takes a 29- unit hotel down to 24

the ceo of the housing development board tells us how it works. >> in singapore, there is a very high homeownership rate. 9% on their own homes. it did not start out that way. in the 1960's, we were really living in slums. there were a lot of squatter colonies. that is why the government formed the housing development board in the 1960's. -- 90% own their own homes. the unique thing about the board is that they pursued a path less-well traveled. we aimed for home ownership rather than rental housing. we have many ways to help singaporeans own their own homes. we actually take care of them almost cradle to grave. when the couple first is married, we look into their housing needs. to make housing affordable, we subsidize a lot of costs of housing. at the same time, we build different types of housing to give them a lot of choices depending on the affordability. one of the key success factors in making housing affordable is the use of the central provident fund. it is like a pension fund. it is called the cps. everybody contributes 16% of our income to the cps. our employer contributes 2

housing market. buyers have snatched up 21 of the development's 26 homes and a third of the 15 lofts housed inside a former grade school. >> so, here's the master suite. this is a great room because it has this awesome window seat here. >> reporter: developer john mclinden shows off one of the few bungalows still on the market. school street was a huge gamble for mclinden. he bought the project in a foreclosure sale last year after the previous developer went bust. instead of continuing school street as a development of million-dollar townhomes, mclinden scaled it back to smaller, less expensive bungalows. >> the style of a single-family bungalow connected to downtown was very appealing and we had early-- very positive early response. in fact, we sold six of the homes before we closed. with hard contracts and 20% down. >> this was a subdivision where there were over 450 home sites. >> reporter: rick levin auctions off foreclosed properties, including abandoned developments like school street. he says these so-called broken developments or redfield sites can be a tough sell if a potential buyer envisi

most of our housing developments are very island-like. we are talking about the whole neighborhood of services. this can turn it into a vibrant mixed income neighborhood. the exciting thing about choice neighborhoods is that they have strategies for education. as somebody who has been falling policy for a while, talking about educational outcomes in early childhood. this is a grant provided by housing and urban development. given the scope, the constellation the partners, the grant is given to the lead developer with national expertise in rebuilding housing communities in a joint partnership with the housing authority and the school district as well as the mayor's office of housing and redevelopment. the school's strategy and plan, in many ways, it is about breaking the cycle of poverty for families who have lived in public housing for too long. creating opportunity for the young people. we have the opportunity to look at the schools. the majority of the people think about the strategy for strengthening the community and thinking about th

housing. family development training, it is called kids talk.ave worked with them to provide environmental health expertise. she has developed a curriculum with parents at the housing authority. that curriculum was turned into something of a day trainer model by consultants. the goal is to train community health leaders and have them invested in one topic and building activities around that topic. they became nutrition specialists, looking for ways to promote nutrition, along with community members that have hosted potluck dinner clubs or cooking class is. -- classes. promoting child development through reduction of urban stress factors and the reduction of toxic exposures to children, basically helping to promote activities that parents can do. once again, this is a health improvement project for the community. supervisor chu: thank you very much. let's turn this over to the budget analysts report. >> on the bottom of page 9 of the report, expanding the funds over a three-year period, so that the budget submitted to us is strictly an estimate.

housing. they said the bar very high for the quality of its development. we look at it for the long run, for 55 years, the quality of construction and the operations to keep the housing stable. among the colleagues and neighbors, as a leader in developing a very sophisticated and successful model of property management. the project is desperately needed to address the needs of transitional youth. the city is responsible for the funds. they will be incorporating the units into a project that we are in development for right now. it is important that all of the neighborhoods understand that we are really one city, one community. and we have a responsibility to take care of each other. i sought a t-shirt as i was sitting in the overflow room that said that the solution to homelessness is affordable housing. i would say high-quality affordable housing less affordable services is a solution to homelessness and this project does just that. i urge your support. >> i am speaking on behalf -- everyone knows that we are not here because of anybody spreading passion fo

housing imbalance. recent master plan development, including mission bay, bayview, hunter's point, shipyard, yerba buena island, treasure island will yield the balance with 30% affordable housing, including but inclusion airing and nonprofit affordable housing. a principal goal of the western soma community plan is to ensure an mixed income community for the long term. since the 1990's soma redistricting was done, it has actually been 38% of the total housing units built. 38%, 707 units of affordable housing, out of 1862 total units of housing. therefore, the same 30% minimum standard for affordable housing development can reasonably be set as a community of said the goal for new residential development in western soma. data used in the environmental analysis for the western soma community plan shows that in 2005, a job that tells of a mix of 7.67-1. without the western soma committed the plan over the next 20 years, the jobs-housing mix would drop to 5.8-1 as household growth is projected to outpace job growth in the neighborhood, what with the provisions included in the western soma community plan, th

and notice of intent to approve a housing development. this was already a done deal. >> thank you. >> i was not going to speak today. i just came to see what was happening. we were originally told with 24 rooms dawns when i went to the other hearing, the public speeches, then the commissioners get to say what they say. they called us elitist. when has an elitist ever been at the bottom of a hill? they are putting that in a newspaper and we're supposed to go for that? that is a done deal. we will see if it is. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, i and a property owner in the area and i just have one statement. october 22nd, 2010, the neighborhood advisory committee was formed. i found this out through the neighborhood association. there was a letter stating that they would support population density and when the majority of participants refused to sign the document, the chp suspended the vote after one meeting. >> hello. the chp purchased this and it is a special use district. when searching for a site for the project, there criteria was a

that there would be housing developments in downtown instead of offices. about 18 office buildings were converted to housing. there was also an increase in walking, biking to work, and that is something that is not thought of. downtown today, the unemployment rate is pretty much stable. it is down from last year. office vacancy is down to 12% which is not bad considering the amount of space that has been built and the fact employment was stagnant. there is about 5500 housing units in the pipeline, just in the downtown area. and as far as the commercial pipeline is concerned, there is 3.8 million square feet. that is its. president olague: i have one speaker card, sue hester. >>> i was going to defer because you're tired of hearing from me, i am sure. john and i are part of san franciscans for reasonable growth, the driving factor on the downtown plan san francisco has a history of boom and bust cycles, so we were very much in the boom cycle in the 70's. after dianne feinstein became mayor, we started moving with office development again. at the same time, w

senior housing, but usually there were certain incentives, exceptions that come with senior housing developments, and one has to do with parking and density, so i want to know if there are requirements over who has to be living there were some of the rules that govern it. i am not familiar with it, but it would be good to find out. thank you for bringing this to our attention. >> thank you for your time. >> we will get more information to determine whether or not this is the right one. is there additional public comment on items that are not on today's calendar? seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> in memory of steve jobs. >> howard graves and the senior housing advocate who passed away last week, and he was very active in the lgbt community. >> objection. >> with one objection. >> not to howard grace. >> with that, the meeting is adjourned. >> despite efforts street violence continues to effect san franciscans and it is not just important to be part of the gang prevention network we want to learn the best practices that you have to offer. we are going t

tempered with prop m growth regulations and i was unclear in reading the proposal about where new housing developments were going to be included in the fund and large-scale housing like rincon hill and are some of the examples of large scale projects that would be great to contribute to this. i would like to echo the previous speaker's feedback on the percentage since there's not as much popo space within the areas to be a greater contributor to the general art trust fund created here. and with the exception of the nonpublic arts group, it would be best to maintain control of the funding. and there is a new fire station and please require them to pay the 2% public art fee. all the public wants to see that. president olague: thank you. is there any additional public comment? >> i have to open up one thing. i am brad paul and i became involve in arts policy and issues in the city in 1975 when i moved into the goodman building and that is a test for how many are old enough to remember where what the goodman building was and about affordable livable and workable space in the downtown. back in 2005 i was i

the housing authority resident in particular spoke about the british housing development in charge ofure development. there is already quite a bit of investment going on to build a small community garden. they have already established a project where people can have a mineral sized miniature garden at their front door, promoting more neighbor engagement and growing fresh food at your front door. that program is available for soil testing. something that we routinely do. bridging housing, working with public works and community parks, the park trust, to have been mou housing authority -- have an mou housing authority project. eventually other participants could partake on a participatory basis. the task force was instrumental in suggesting how we could utilize these funds. at the hospital, all primary- care providers can refer to this. it had started as a half of the day clinic, it has expanded into a two and a half-day clinic. they have a medical social model where they used health workers to help families. we cannot spend enough time to solve the housing problems of every one. they a