. >> reporter: sam moss is the executive director of mission housing development corporation. he told me the one thing that has been standing in the way of building more affordable housing is the appeals process. >> anyone could appeal. anyone with about $150 and enough time on their hands could appeal affordable housing. >> reporter: fighting an appeal takes lawyers, staff time, you would have to redraw documents and of course the longer the appeal, the construction costs go up. this amendment would eliminate all of that. >> if the charter amendment passes, there won't be an appeals process. it will go away. >> reporter: take this affordable housing project in north beach built several years ago. at the time, the builders held meeting after meeting with the community and ended up conforming to their wishes. the project took longer and ended up costing more. >> if this charter passes, what will be different about this? >> this would have been allowed to be another ten feet and they would have just been able to build it done. no appeals not worry. >> reporter: so the mayor want

i'm sam moss, the executive director of mission housing development corporation. i don't know what else to say that hasn't already been said. i certainly echo all of the support. i really do want to stress about the need for the board of supervisors to officially make it be known that we will be having a bond every five years with the absolutely avalanche of data and white papers and whatever you have about it how housing is the most important thing, that it touches everything from health to street safety. you know, we even build parks, too, so i would urge you to do that. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. i was in a workshop this morning about this issue at a senior center. couple of things that were said by the seniors is that one said that we need to create housing for seniors and not create homeless seniors. another person says let's fix the crack in san francisco's heart. i want to just echo what others have said. we need to really address the needs of extremely low-income seniors in san francisco. i showed the seniors in the program this morning the char

thank you, sam moss and all the people who are here and the work that you do to make san francisco a better place. and i just want to end it by saying that we have to be aggressive when it comes to getting more housing in this city. and, yes, the housing bond is significant. it's the largest housing bond ever introduced in this city's history and it doesn't raise property taxes, but we have to fight to get that bond passed. let me also say there two other measures that i'm proposing and i'm asking all of you to contact your supervisors for my proposed charter amendment. that charter amendment will make it possible so that all 100% affordable and teacher housing can be built as a right. so when meta and mission housing, when they're trying to go through this process to build housing and they have sadly sometimes people who are trying to stop it and they're not asking for anything other than what's already required by the code, they need to get it built and get it built faster. [applause] and there are people who don't want us to do that. they say they want affordable housing now, but

. >> sam moss is the executive director of mission housing development corporation. he told me the one thing that has been standing in the way of building more affordable housing is the appeals process. >> anyone could appeal. anyone with about $150 and enough time on their hands could appeal affordable housing. > fight an appeal takes lawyers. stafftime. you would have to redraw documents. and, of course, the longer the appeal, the construction costs go up. this amendment would eliminate all of that. >> if the charter amendment passes there won't be an appeals process. it will go away. >> take there affordable housing project in north beach built several years ago. at the time, the builders held meeting after meeting with the community and ended up con forring to their wishes. the project took longer and ended up costing more. >> if this charter passes, what will be different about this? >> this would have been allowed to be another ten feet and they would have been able to build it, done, no appeals, no worry. >> so the mayor wants to get this on the november ballo