michael steele and correspondent shane harrison and jennifer palmieri. first this is extraordinary event at white house. everybody might have their own cynical view -- but this is what you want any president to do here. we heard from both sides of an argument and you heard impassioned and he sat there and took it. >> it is a catharsis for many of the people. he is demonstrating that the president is listening. and that it is called a listening session and that is what he was there to do. so month -- for many of them it was profound and i don't know if policy was abound and he went around the room and asked for people's ideas. it is not something as we sat here and listened and we expected to hear. so it is a symbolic moment. but a significant one as well. >> look, it could raise the stakes for action. you don't hold an event like this and -- i had a feeling he turned the tv camera and doing this, the question was would he do it live like this. so it raises the stakes for him to do some action. >> but it raises the stakes but i don't t means he will -- th

harrison associates. here and available for questions at the end, but now shane hartz. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is shane hart, project manager for transbay. you can see from the slide we have a very busy year planned in transbay. we will begin the construction of the folsom street improvement project, anticipate completing and bidding out underramp park, provide community outreach and complete the design of transbay park. anticipate construction of blocks 5, 8 and 9, and following up to the construction reimburse certain developers for streetscape work. we plan to negotiate the block four dda and complete design. you can see from this slide that the bulk of the transbay funding is bonds, and then if you see the other category, that's primarily developer reimbursements, and then park fees that we get from developers. with that, i'm going to introduce elizabeth, and she'll come up and talk about affordable housing. >> good afternoon, commissioner. senior development specialist. this pie chart shows a snapshot of affordable housing uses of funds. contributes to the mayor's goal of 10,000 a