olson lee. ken rich's presentation pretty much covered the, sort of the nuts and bolts and sort of the dollar amounts of the plan going forward. i just wanted to talk a little bit about how both first the redevelopment agency and [speaker not understood] the mayor's office of housing has used and intends to use the affordable housing parcels. clearly one of the goals of the early involvement of the redevelopment agency was to front money towards the completion of the boulevard and facilitate that at a time when there were not entitlements for the remaining parcels. and, so, we were able to enter into agreements with the city early on, provide funds, funds that were from our low mod housing funds to the city so that the city could begin working on the octavia boulevard. and we were very, very glad to do that, in part, because one of the goals of the -- both the neighbors as well as the city was to restitch the neighborhood. not only were we talking about transportation improvements. we're talking

i'd like to ask one for olson lee and ms. yunga.e of the affordable advocates raised questions about the true up amount from 17 million dropped to 13.2 and the amount in our -- the ordinance before us is 9.8 million. could you talk about how we're going to ensure that we're going to have the maximum amount for affordable housing in the city? >> thank you. thank you very much. olson lee, director of the mayor's office of housing. the memo that was cited by fernando really was the understanding early on in the process. i think that the notion of the amount of the van ness improvements were probably accurate a while ago, but things have changed on the transportation side. i think this m-o-u will be structured in such a way that the affordable housing number will be fixed, at least the 9.8. the structure that will be, as ken explained, that after the additional ancillary improvements and some staffing costs, the affordable housing will be paid out of the next set of proceeds. and then the remaining funds for the van ness improvement. an

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