the san francisco housing association has a virtual security deposit they'll provide up to one thousand dollars that's available once an individual moves out of the apartment it helps to streamline and move veterans in i've gotten to speak to the small property owner property organization and the aspects of the section 8 they've been reticent to participate and made it difficult and we've had to be more creative it is may or may not thinking. i know that ah a we're going to pilot programs to look at people that are homeless the allocating and this is an important part in addition to hud and the va and the human services agency and the plowshares the housing authority gets a lot of criticism but nicole tour lead point of contact with barbara smith they've been incredibly focused focused in helping us to audio identify on the case by case basis and i'm excited to hear from our partners >> thank you, mr. duffey. i want to invite joyce up from ah a >> good morning, supervisors. i want to point out on the slide when scott gets it up are the two housing buildings under the umbrella of the hum

the san francisco housing association has a virtual security deposit they'll provide up to one thousand dollars that's available once an individual moves out of the apartment it helps to streamline and move veterans in i've gotten to speak to the small property owner property organization and the aspects of the section 8 they've been reticent to participate and made it difficult and we've had to be more creative it is may or may not thinking. i know that ah

san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. joyce armstrong, president of the public housing association, phta, not pta, that shows how little he works with us. i am joined by the president of ccde, that is the council of disabled, and she wants you know that she supports the rad program. as far as we know it's the only program that can help the public housing in dire need of help. and she wanted me to tell you that the elevator problem, and they are blessed that something bad hasn't happened in the senior disabled buildings. she's hopeful they have service providers. right now we don't have social worker in the building, except maybe four. that's a service that is needed in the senior disabled buildings as well as the family developments. yes, as president of the phta, i support the concept of rad. we are still contacted and we requested training so we can understand and articulate what is going do happen to residents in the proper way. residents have to get up off of their behinds and become active. we send out information and beg them to come to meetings. and we don't have a grassroot

bring his skills and commitment to making keeping san francisco a city of families in order to do that we have to have affordable housing. i associate that with his remarks of all the people he's acknowledged this morning and especially to the residents. this is all about you. and >> yeah. >> all right. and it was not that long ago person here for the groundbreaking and asked for your suggestions and we were generous with them mostly to be able to stay if you worried about through the tradition of groundbreaking to what we're celebrating today. i'm proud of the federal proclamation i want to acknowledge secretary for the 50 millions for the city and county of san francisco and more to come and the $100 million in tax credits that the federal government's has enabled the private sector to loan in the tax credits that's a collaboration we were early with early money to pressure this initiative and what was really important at the federal level we're excited about affordable housing and market value rate housing here that weather we did didn't diminish the public housing sector of that that's an important priority for optd as we go for

our great city ways i love san francisco shared progressive values and i began work as a sifted lawyers and at night i chaired a neighborhood association and an affordable housing nonprofit. in 2008, i decided to run for officer because city hall was dysfunctional elected officials were not able to work together and since then we're going bringing people together. just a few short years ago we had double digit unemployed and we've created 70 thousand jobs 2/3rd's outside the rattle and manufactures we have one of the lowest unemployed rates we're moderating forward affordable housing we have invested in pedestrian safety and social services for our most vulnerable we're move forward your city forward we have opposition to pedestrian safety and helping our families opposition that moves our city backwards there's been negative talk about working together our campaign is about unity my effectively deliver results as we face new changes. we have a housing crisis making our city unfuneral our transit system accurate and you're trying to see who to send to sacramento temples times as politically complex your our city history our legislators worked to deliver and we

housing in those other communities. mark leno's bill would have prevented serial evictions but it lost by three votes. san francisco's apartment association one of the real estate groups that opposed the bill. >> we believe that there should be no protection on an owner's ability to sell their building. >> reporter: the vote went down, leno's bill defeated. but within the past hour, a key opponent, senator jerry hill of san mateo, changed his vote. mark leno has been on the senate floor for the past hour offering up amendments. within the last 30 minutes there was a new vote and the bill passed 21-13. we still don't know the details of exactly what happened on the senate floor. we are gathering them for you now. we will have an update coming up at 6:00. reporting from city hall, mark matthews, nbc bay area news. >>> coming up, slapped with a fine. the tv commercial that got southwest airlines in trouble with the feds. >>> law enforcement on a special mission. the honored guest that attracted a lot of attention in the south bay. >>> it's really exciting. but it's also really scary at times. >> and she knows, how do you spell success? this

housing policy and his goals and you can't do that by laying on layers of bureaucracy. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, i'm debby lerman with the san francisco human services network an association of about 80 health and human service nonprofits. when we first heard about this legislation we were deeply concerned about the potential chilling effect on our community-based nonprofits who engage regularly with elected and appointed official in the development of public policy through partnership and collaboration to improve our systems of care, our health care system, how we address homelessness and a broad range of other issue that affect our communities and the clients that we serve. this requirement to register as a lobbyist if you had five contacts would have had a tremendous chilling effect on that participation and i can speak from firsthand experience from many conversations with nonprofits, many of whom don't understand their rights to engage in public policy. many board of directors are averse to that participation. there are foundations that hesitate to fund organizations. if they were registered lobbyists, the irtion would increase scrutiny of those organizations. and th