soma is homogenized. it's all about to rent. the cost of space, cost of space, cost of life. what the market will bear today is more than what our neighbourhood and long-time communities can afford to pay. the city planners say there's nothing they can do about this. that these changes are inevitable. the central soma plan they propose now if fatalistically assumes that. but we know that is wrong. we'll have to reinvents our central soma neighbourhood, that is true. but its foundation won't be a subway or the office towers or the luxury planners. the foundation will be on something much, much more important than those traditional city planning tools. that foundation will be genuine community building and real neighbourhood diversity. invest $350 million to improve community recreation centres, neighbourhood parks and a new i4680 freeway echo district. our neighbourhood has park, and recreation centres today and needs parking spaces of several kinds. a dog run, tot lots and a new public swimming pool. and the ugly i-80 freeway could be transformed as overpasses could be decorated. street level parking lots and overgrown landscaping could becom

but if soma is to continue to be a genuine, diverse, mixed-income neighbourhood, and the targets of homeless residents are ever to find a place to live, it will take thousands more affordable housing units in future years. in 2014, city voters set a goal that 50% of all future housing built in the city should be affordable housing of some kind. including not-for-profit subz dieed housing, renovated s.r.o.s and inclusionary affordable housing and new market rate projects. this will include middle-income housing as well as lower income housing. but the fed proposed central soma plan falls far short of that 50% goal. it only proposes that 33% of all future use soma housing will be affordable. that is not enough. if soma doesn't achieve the 50% goal, there's no hope that the r*els -- that the rest of san francisco ever request. it will take direct city intervention to acquire those sources and hundreds of millions of city sources to build them and development of middle income housing. the missing mid is vital to maintain the social and cultural diversity. otherwise, we may back very divided soci

the private sector to really make sure that the central soma plan is inclusive to the overall soma neighbourhood. the areas that are really important for us to discuss are around affordable housing, community facilities, resident services, open space and living wage jobs. and our priorities that we're going to be talking about today are around stabilization, preservation, community involvement, community control and what growth towards a holistic community really looks like. so here's mario to speak about stabilization and preservation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. happy black history month. thank you for this opportunity to speak to the commission. my name is mario demira, i'm the community development manager with soma filipinos. we're a cultural generation in the making. filipinos have lived in the south market for a century, a continue wows influx of filipino families pushed out of our homeland has formed the life blood of soma filipinos. our struggle to make home, preserve culture and build community is the story of soma filipinos. for decades, we faced and resisted displacement from i