and it is my pleasure to introduce you to rebecca foster, the ceo of the san francisco housing accelerator thank you very much. thanks macy. so i wanted to take us back to july 20th, 20, when everyone here was all hands on deck in response to the pandemic. and that was when, as folks have mentioned, the state issued its first homekey nofa. for $600 million for our cities and nonprofit partners to apply to buy buildings, to provide housing for the most vulnerable residents, at risk of homelessness and experience homelessness. a ton of people here got together and put in an application for this building. that application went in on august 12th and we were waitlisted on october ninth. so yesterday, a few years back, we received the notice that this project was awarded the max amount of funds from homekey $26 million for acquisition and rehab and another $3 million in an operating subsidy. but these are federal funds. and the condition was we had to close by december 2nd to get those funds. so less than 60 days and as you can imagine, this beautiful building which was built in 1912, has all of

foster. great to meet you, mark. you're a legend in our neck of the woods. we've got some good swimmers in in in nottinghamshire. rebeccareat swimmer. but you six times world champion . but it was a bit of a bad boy back in the day, weren't you? 15, 16. tell me about that. >> i don't know how bad it was. i think looking back and reflecting on obviously we all reflecting on obviously we all reflect when we were much younger. i think a lot of my bad boy was down to the fact boy image was down to the fact that i gay. i didn't want that i was gay. i didn't want anyone to see it, my anyone to see it, and my frustration was taken out on, well, i create this facade, well, if i create this facade, then no one will see the sort of real me in a sense. and also i was just a young teenage kid that was probably just playing up like most kids play up. but i think the deflection thing was because i was going, didn't because i was going, i didn't want see it. want anyone to see it. >> at that time they >> so i guess at that time they 80s, early 80s, mid 80s and being a gay man in the spotlight , that must have been very difficult you t

foster. great to meet you, mark. you're a legend in our neck of the woods. we've got some good swimmers in in in nottinghamshire. rebeccareat swimmer. but you six times world champion . but it was a bit of a bad boy back in the day, weren't you? 15, 16. tell me about that. >> i don't know how bad it was. i think looking back and reflecting on obviously we all reflecting on obviously we all reflect when we were much younger. i think a lot of my bad boy was down to the fact boy image was down to the fact that i gay. i didn't want that i was gay. i didn't want anyone to see it, my anyone to see it, and my frustration was taken out on, well, i create this facade, well, if i create this facade, then no one will see the sort of real me in a sense. and also i was just a young teenage kid that was probably just playing up like most kids play up. but i think the deflection thing was because i was going, didn't because i was going, i didn't want see it. want anyone to see it. >> at that time they >> so i guess at that time they 80s, early 80s, mid 80s and being a gay man in the spotlight , that must have been very difficult you t