special good morning to the residents of tehama.e to this beautiful building today and every day. i have the awesome honor to lead a scrappy and hardworking team of affordable housers at the accelerator fund in the front row. as doug said the city helped design and launch this in 2017 to explore and implement solutions to challenging housing delivery. we came together with tipping points in 2018 around one of those deeply frustrating problems. we know that supportive housing is one of the most effective ways to end chronic homelessness. yet we were severely short on affordable units needed to serve our residents. not only that but it took so long and cost so much to build it seemed impossible to hope that we would ever be able to connect many residents to the supportive affordable homes where they could thrive. we have altogether been part of the hand wringing analysis about the layers of regulatory burden and complexities and financing affordable housing that result in projects costing upwards of $700,000 per unit and taking over s

in less than two years after having moved to san francisco i find myself at the tehama realizing i was enough the entire time. my dreaming doesn't stop. when one goal is realized i dream bigger. no matter where we find ourselves along the way i invite yous to gratitude right now for the steps we stand on. it is and so have we always been enough. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you so much. today is unusual. we are not able to offer a full building tour. tour the ground floor. for covid reasons we are not touring the entire building. i want to thank monaco who i forget to thank. they do a great job. you are here somewhere. thank you very much. ribbon-cutting with the speakers. i want to end with a prayer at mercy housing. i am not a deep lereligious person. i find this one resonates with me and with mercy housing for many years. for those on the project it will make sense in this context. may you have discomfort and easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships live deep in your heart anger on earth and wisdom to work for justice equity and piece. compassion for those who suff