mr. shoemaker brought up a good point, which was basically, show me the money. if it redevelopment go south, somebody has to pay for all of the things that everybody is talking about and is hiring. if we don't have public funding, and chances are there will be varied little in the next 10 years, what you have to do if your going to build anything in meet the goals of sb-375 is to harness the forces out there. there's a lot of information and social networking and that sort of thing, and i think what i understand sb-375, very simple, you want to locate jobs, housing, and transit together, where people can get to their jobs easily. that is a good concept. it is about 100 years overdue, but we're finally getting close to it. what i think we need to do in san francisco is attract and retain the jobs which fit into the existing built form. if we spent billions of dollars to create a downtown area with a built form and transit system for business, basically that most support the business and professional, retail to some degree, cultural and institutional. those other

mr. shoemaker, our director of the mayor's office of housing, would tell us that in san francisco the production numbers are more on the range of $535,000 per unit. i just want to conclude with this point. i think one of the conversations among the commissioners tonight is trying to really pay attention to the infrastructure gap with regard to transportation, and i think the same lens has to apply to affordable housing. if we do not produce that housing over the next 25 years at the rates that are necessary based on the housing element requirement, we're going to be in a situation where san francisco is going to transform into a city of high income dollars. i think a lot of studies show that the people who tend to use transit are folks on the moderate to low income scale of things. we can have all the transit and the structure we want. even if we find a way to pay for it, if we transform our population like that, we're not good to have a population that is going to use transit. i think affordable housing is critical not just from the context of equities, but from the environmental goal we are tr