. >> my name is mary helen. i'm the mother of 12 children and i loved each one of them. i was born august 19, 1924, in north carolina. the south was always hard on blacks. they didn't want to feel that you were equal with them. but i always felt like i was as good as anybody else. i had no inferior complex at all. in fact i was a little arrogant. i thought i could do anything. ♪ >> in high school, we were -- i think we were in the -- what was it -- the tenth grade. she was so kind and so nice, you know. i proposed to her in a letter. i wrote her a letter. i was in new york and asked her if she would marry me and she wrote me back and said "yes." ♪ this one here, this is when we lived in lived on paris street and everyone was very, very young. that's george, carla, quinn. >> it started about ten years ago. i try not to show it, but i take it very hard. >> what are we doing today honey? >> we're going to church today. we'll be at church. why should a person like her, you know, have to go through that? ♪ knowing the type of person she was, she -- [ crying ] -- she was alway

the late mary helen rogers lived in this property and was very ininstrumental in its construction. it has 104 units, 80 percent are section 8 tenants and todays press conference was to stop the sale of this affordable housing complex by the non profit responsible for the care of this complex. this would completely jeopardize all these units and last thursday i was first along with the residence informed of the sale and it was disturbing and timely since i was inl new york last week with the san francisco mayors office of housing learning and exploring what new york is doing to aggress vly builds new afordable housing yurnts and also preserving their existing affordable housing stock. some may be familiar with the blauzio housing goal to provide a ambishish 200 thousand units of affordable housing but what is less whidely known is that number include 60 percent of existing housing units. preservation is at the forfront of this house plang, preserving affordable housing is key and 40 percent of the plan is for new production. like new york, san francisco must prioritize existing afob

the late mary helen rogers lived in this property and was very ininstrumental in its construction. it has 104 units, 80 percent are section 8 tenants and todays press conference was to stop the sale of this affordable housing complex by the non profit responsible for the care of this complex. this would completely jeopardize all these units and last thursday i was first along with the residence informed of the sale and it was disturbing and timely since i was inl new york last week with the san francisco mayors office of housing learning and exploring what new york is doing to aggress vly builds new afordable housing yurnts and also preserving their existing affordable housing stock. some may be familiar with the blauzio housing goal to provide a ambishish 200 thousand units of affordable housing but what is less whidely known is that number include 60 percent of existing housing units. preservation is at the forfront of this house plang, preserving affordable housing is key and 40 percent of the plan is for new production. like new york, san francisco must prioritize existing afob