tenant education and input and tenant protections. it's very important that there are people in these properties educating and empowering and listening to the tenants. many tenants have discussed that this development is chosen and now with the properties they didn't have a say. the tenants want to be involved in these processes, and now that there is time for door-knocking opportunities and the beneficiaries of rad, are not left in the dark. and for the tenants to understand the protections in rad. there needs to be education to ease the fears. it's important to get out-reach teams out there to teach others and to get more leaders on the ground. so that the residents know their protections and can get their concerns heard. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to say thank you for the opportunity to speak at this hearing, and actually for you guys to have the courage to call this hearing. to flush out some concerns and issues that people have around the rad program. you know it isn't an option

tenants do their improvements. >> yeah. what an allowance we'll carpet it for you. >> commissioner brandon and yeah. i had a couple of questions you gave us the unpaved land but didn't discuss parking. so i see from our report 89 hundred and 80 thousand square feet of unpaved land and 9.9 million of paved land and 8 hundred and 31 thousand this the the budget of our space is parking part of that configuration of all those numbers and what's happening with parking we didn't get a report on the parking side. >> thank you commissioner the parking that's subject to the perimeter rent schedule is generally, the stalls of the parking we lease on an individual basis like port employers like 3 hundred stalls we manage on the seawall lots those are through a competitive process. >> i guess at some point we'll proposed it as an informational item it's a breakdown exactly again but to refresh us again in terms of how the real estate sort portfolio whether that's a direct lease or how the real estate is putting forth and the components

have right now is that it's very hard to do any leasing the transition documents in place because tenants feel that there's a significant amount of regulatory uncertainty until we actually have our deal in place so hopefully this summer when the deal is in place will be able to really reassure the market that at this point all that's left is the construction execution but we have talked to a lot of tenants on what talk a lot more about tenant mix later in the presentation but in terms of mix of uses our goal is really to build a community and every project we do the community is really an evolving community and some of the considerations we have at this project of the types of uses so we have industrial uses, large industrial uses. we have office use. we have restaurant uses them we have small maker type uses and accommodate all those together. then we have commendation of public space and private space. there's major balancing act between things like loading and public areas, but it's up there with extremely focused on that the transaction documents cover and that the community have been

hurting log our tenants. we also posted i'd like to show this it's right here we posted the notice prior to the october hearing is there a way to zoom but we posted the notice sorry. we posted the notice on the rear detached garage as well as mr. herself logs window so he was e he was notified about the events that were going to occur you see his unit and it's facing outward our project manager checked to see mr. why there was something about dethe courses but the rear portion that's the storage and rear area that's not part of his habitable unit we can resolve that if it impacts him but the issue is all the conditions that are listed here - here's the let me show you this. this is the parcel map showing where the line is going through. i don't know if you can see that and other properties in the area facing hickory in the past have been approved with the surveillance from the planning department and the public works mapping. as far as that is concerned he had every tint because we did invite him with not onl

and maybe the folks enter the program, knowing that they have tenant's rights and they have a program that requires a certain level of engagement and what that looks like, i think will be a nice dialogue with the providers and clients and you all but you know, whether it is volunteer activities or employment training or agreement, or applying for disability and getting on the benefits and the range of things that we think would lead to positive, you know, improvement to people's lives and getting them out of permanent housing to open up another unit, to someone who is chronically homeless. so, a few quick questions. >> yeah. >> so in that vein, i think that what i have heard from a lot of the providers as well is sometimes we have the supportive housing services, but for one reason or another. we don't have the tenants in those services actually are or become part of our street population during the day, if you will and add to this kind of public around the homelessness, which i think is healthy because we want to get the people off of the streets and focus on those people but if we a

the existing tenants are spread over 7 building on parcel a and b. you see the buildings numbers on your slide most of the buildings are occupied building 103 is vacated but the artist that is in this building is there. building ton one will not be demolished. building one 10 is the building that is occupied by the cookery which is a commercial kitchen. the existing artists community of shipyard tenants has been viewed as a - the mass developer has agreed to make sure that relocating tenants including the artists and commercial kitchen will be moved off site but those new buildings that include the new artist that building and a new replacement kitchen will be conducted near one 01. additionally tenants are required to vacant the facilities are entitled to benefits according to federal and state like contemplation for moving and compensation to other issues. we'll be caesar's the conditions of the artists studios and their kitchen facilities and their task is to look at the design facilities and most important making sure that all relocation requirem

sterling was to gain entry into the tenant uniits to determine which tenants she would look to evict. before any sale, 75% of nba team owners must vote to force disgraced clippers boss donald sterling to sell. earlier this week, dallas maverick's owner mark cuban raised concerns. >> if we are taking something some body said in their homes and frying to tutrying to turn something that lead you to devest a property in any way, shape or form, that's not the united states of america. >> yesterday, cuban tweeted his support of the nba decision to b ban. sterling. today, abc news called all 29 owners to ask how they would vote, only one of them, of the sacramento kings said he would vote to oust sterling. >> these teams really belong to the fans and to the players. we owners are simply custodians. so i fully expect commissioner silver will get sat part he seeks. >> today, lebron james, basketball's biggest star turned up the pressure on the owners. >> no matter how long it takes or how much money it costs, we need to get him out of there you. know who ever is associated with him doesn't bel

we've also been working with many of our tenant counseling agencies. and at our last meeting, we asked them what would be most useful in term of access to information and what they told us is that an online affordable housing data portal -- and with that or more than that is what they called a hotline where someone from any service agency could call one number and [inaudible] for example, you're familiar with the disability community services list that comes out. often when you look at that, it can still be very confusing. so, is it a tax credit unit or what's the eligibility? so, what we were hoping to design was a data portal in which a resident or a case manager could actually enter in the characteristics about themselves and their families and then hopefully what would pop up would be all of the unit for which you are eligible. it would have information about whether or not is there a waiting list, is the wait list open or closed. and in an ideal world, if it's something that has a lottery, for example, they could take that information that you've

and the first step is to get a notice and then the tenant only has three days to respond to that. and three short days and if they don't respond, then the land lords starts a lawsuit and, if they do not respond if five days, the tenant can be evicted from the start of that three weeks. it can be a quick process, contrary to what the people think that it is a slow process and takes a long time. >> because it is such a fascinating process and because in the units often have a difficulty navigating the process, they need extra timing and extra help, even though there are 25 percent of our number of clients and they take up more time because they have a harder time processing the information often times. and we do see a significant number of evictions from agency such as tender loin development corporation and the housing, and housing and... >> keep going if you want to finish up. >> 44 percent of these cases are for non-payment of rent, and 40 percent are for nuisance cases and many are for, things like failing to properly recertify your agreement. >> i have patrick here who has more

including light to the living room windows at that tenants unit. staff made a visit and looked at it, you know, checked out the windows looked through the windows and the light court and revisited the design team again and reviewed all the evidence and also a pact which you have from the adjacent tenant and the tenant basically described they're concerned and included a photograph showing the current light from their living room to the light court. and our evaluation is this light court the adjacent apartment building is part of the light off the building and that provides adequate light to those units surrounding the light court it serves as part of the driveway allowing vehicles to go through and pausing behind the apartment from and to 27th street. the light core and the project sponsors pact you can see the dimension about 18 feet long around the common sideline and about 16 feet wide. that's why we believe this light court provides the light to the surrounding unit. it's self-sufficient and the proposed building will not have significant impac

mary went through the list of tenants. in total generating approximately 110-120 new jobs at the property. the property and proposed tenants will continue to use the first source hiring program to hit local hire placements. and any city center has historically been a location for formula retail. all of these tenants are replacing prior formula retail at the property. mattress seller, this will be their first unit in the city of san francisco. they are going to occupy 3400 feet and generate three new employment positions. this is their location at property generally. a space plan for their space. and these next three slides are just representative examples of their store interior. this is the before photo and this is the after rendering once it's done. we're next going to move to parking e, three tenants are located in this area, penyero, chipolte and gnc, i think it will be helpful to frame what is happening in the area. this is the before photo for this area and this is what the after will look like. the before where we h

immigration status to everyone participating in supportive housing, our program needs it, and the tenants themselves need it and staoet needs it and manage this population. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> okay. just real quick, we appreciate the enthusiasm but we have a policy of no clapping, you can wiggle your hands, but we want to move a long hearing along. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is big hersch and i am the director of the aids legal panel and we provide legal services for people living with hiv and aids and housing is the single biggest issue that our clients face, the eviction crisis is very real and it is great that we are talking about eviction prevention today. sometimes what you really need is a good attorney. last week, our office small office saved four people's housing. i can't tell you how many thousand sands of dollars we saved the city, but i can tell you that we were also facing an eviction of one of our clients last week who was just served a formerly homeless african american grandmother living with hiv, at a non-profit and this is unconcunale, the

they're not letting tenants have their own board to say the money is there for tenants to have their meetings and then get back. we want to make sure in the future that san francisco stands like the president has stood up for so many different things our country have today, that it's important we have those independent bullies as residents. we know how to make the system better for the people who are homeless coming in or coming out of prison. we are often the forgotten people who are not there. thank you for being here for the mayor -- i seep him at the earthquake. i didn't make t. weird day. thank you. [laughter] >> all right. we're going to move on. thank you, teresa and mr. chu. okay. we're going to go on -- >>> juicy edmonds. thank you. i forgot to say that. >> okay. moving on to item number 4, the independent living resource centers, jessie lorenz. >> good afternoon, councilmembers and staff, members of the public. my name is jessie lorenz and i'm the executive director of the independent living resource center san francisco. i want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to

and so i think that that is another challenge and it is not just the tenant community that is worried about it and also it is land lords who feel that they have rented out their apartments to long term tenants and then the tenants themselves are using the apartments to make a little side money and i think that is where it gets complicated and we are in a way planning does have to come in with the zoning issue and it is whether or not it is allowed in the residential neighborhoods and so i understand the fact that dbi and the fact that we do have many more inspecters in the field than planning but there are some that are under the purview of planning. and i want to thank the department and the staff for working with the supervisor on this, because it is important legislation, especially the tax aspect that we have not been getting. and even if the rentals are found to be legal, the city is not getting any tax basis for it. and so that is an important issue, but at the same time, at what point do we allow just to kind of go on ward? but i had another question and i was wondering if i co

do we have prospective tenant for 2016? which building is that? >> if you really at the last meeting james madison from orton development --. >> a bank or something. >> (inaudible) of the pacific, building 115 and 116. >> right. the other thing that i know there's nobody here in opposition to this. everybody is so supportive of seeing pier 70 something happening over there. just to start with these old buildings and bring them back to their former beauty is incredible. i'm supportive of moving forward. >> thank you, commissioner. i'd like to say about nobody speaking in opposition here today, i think thanks goes to orton for their public outreach which has been very vigorous on this project, working with trina and toby and others to make sure the community needs are addressed. >> thank you, phil, and jonathan for a wonderful presentation. i think commissioner woo ho has asked most of the questions i would have asked. i want to thank orton development, eddy and james for doing community outreach and working with the community to bring this project

the beginning of management controls be trained as managers and all parts and in order to are the tenants to operate the affordable housing by the way, what's happened in 1998 people were trained monies was diverted there's plenty of money i've stated this at the board of supervisors on tuesday there's plenty of money that has begun to city hall under the name as the mayor's office of housing, the hope program that began in bayview hunters point those funds was to get people off drugs and put them in draining e training and become employees. the monies being funneled all over the place at the end of the year may or june we're going to hear a story oh, we found $20 million you ain't found nothing those funds have been coming here because the community has not been benefited talltall:. under the city planning land use, the so-called infrastructure of the redevelopment agency all of those programs that's been set up have not been adolescence for the city and county of san francisco you all need to ask questions you as city planners where's those monies don't believe what olsen lee actual i m

opportunities is is it possible to look at creativity financially i filling up to create multiple tenant spaces especially transportation is easy by low income individuals. funding that we talked about in a little bit is not intend for that kind of acquisition and rehab business it's important to look at the possibility to create a large multi tenant space in especially intense districts. >> so the next budget of the recommendation is related to directly financial assistance to nonprofits. the various areas we've imaged in intermediatey providing the assistance about include the acquisition and rehabilitation fund to carrier space for the tenants to upgrade of or that space to be fully accessible to the 0 public again for long term structural impact this is not an ongoing subsidy we don't want to encourage speculation or the landlord to raise the rents knowing that rentals are receiving a subsidy but we want to encourage the time restricted allocation for rental stipend for a period of time or to assist the nonprofit in transition it will support security deposits for people needing to p

the impact of the rent increases and the oci and the earlier survey this year to confirm the tenants to move into the building and this is done in close collaboration with the non-profit organization that represents the shipyard artist and whose mission it is to maintain affordable space at the shipyard. and all artists respond that they wanted to move into a new building and many of the artists will be happy to sign a lease as soon as possible. and for some artists approximately a third the rent increased poses a problem and they requested smaller studio sizes as an order to be able to afford the rent and as a result. oci requested to provide more small studios in the new building and the ibi group that will replacement studios and the architect to adjust the plans for more spaces in order to address the artists of the affordability concerns and as part of the survey and the subsequent follow up conversation with the artists a small group of less than ten, indicated that they would have the difficulties with the new, rent, but they were not interested in increasing the studio size a

we will work with the tenant adsoicaa advocat advocates, with the tenants themselves. this is an opportunity to change things, to blur the lines between affordable housing. and take thepp

hud also awarded us ongoing operating subsidies which will allow the tenants [speaker not understood] their income toward rent. and lastly, as supervisor breed mentioned, you know, we're really gratified by the support that we have received in the neighborhood from both the [speaker not understood], the neighborhood organizations as well as all the immediate neighbors. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> hi, good afternoon. i'm jeff [speaker not understood], i'm the new director of housing services for the arc. i just wanted to talk a little bit why this project is so important to us. you know, in the last five years, our ability to place persons in independent living situations has dropped by about 80% and there are really not any other options in san francisco right now. when our clients need to leave where they're currently living, they basically get shipped out of the city into a group home pretty far away from here, away from their friends and their families. so, also living situations are probably one of the biggest roadblocks to getting employment also for our cli

again we're working on safety issues but mostly on a tenant basis. we think that the properties are primarily cleaned up and safe but there are issues with the individual tenants and how to get a handle on that. >> supervisor campos. >> yes, thank you. again thank you very much for your service. i had a question wondering if you have any thoughts -- some of the challenges that we see with some of the sros in neighborhoods like the mission, north mission area. you have a number of privately owned sros and there are many challenges that come with them, and challenges that include the very issue raised of safety. any thoughts on sort of how we can move forward and address some of those concerns? >> well, from an operator standpoint? yes. i believe that it's almost better sometimes to take a tough love approach and i know that the city as a whole is adamantly against eviction, but when you have certain tenants who are actually causing the problems because they're not following the rules. they're bringing in people that are using and selling illegal subst

we will work with the tenant adsoicaa advocat advocates, with the tenants themselves. this is an opportunity to change things, to blur the lines between affordable housing. and take the opportunity to figure out what works best. >> and we talked about transfers from one. >> that's an issue. the whole question of transfers. we have spent a little time talking with the questions of transfers. and i think the questions of transfers is really a fu fundamental goal of getting residents in the right place. whether it's seniors

and then we are going to talk about tenant protections and tenant engagement, which we feel is very important in this process. and also our labor communications and work with our employees and bargaining units. >> mrs. smith, before you go on, is the slide set up to show the public? >> sfg-tv, we have a powerpoint. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i am new at this -- i wonder if this works. it doesn't. so the san francisco housing authority was established in 1938, under california state government code. it's separate from the city departments. and it provides housing subsidies for over 27,000 households. that's both with the housing choice voucher program and public housing. we currently have 5,372 public housing units that we are managing. that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete

jack said it's time for the inspection of your sprinkle system i took the building over the tenant had it for 40 years i want it in my name the tenant want a consul use permit they said you have to install the superstitiously system and officer jack said because it's been a while since the 5ier test you need a 5 year test i said okay. i called up the company to the 5 year test part of the requirement is to make sure that the outside works and the alarm company is out of business and the alarm didn't work so the test failed. the officer said why not put in a new staiks system i'm all for safety god for bid having an fire in the building and not have to invite the neighborhood the permit is implied for that's why we're here. the sprifrnl system was installed i'm here e the fire department instructed me to get the tests done and all the stuff will the permits i've never received any letter and the prior system been tested every year since 1994. >> so 0 with that, mr. patterson brought up the past action it's mr. macy's only building in my brief only one complaint and with loud constructio

i think the issues raised around tenant rights, the right of tenants to be have assurity of staying in their property. that they will be able to return to their units. and the ability to be transferred. whether it's, you know, trying to avoid a dangerous situation they are living in. or other ways, other reasons why they have been transferred. i think it's a right that has to be upheld. i am concerned about financing and who the investors and lenders will be. often we are at the constraint of the banks and the lenders. it's incredible that the profit model, even if we are creating a public/private partnership, the model from the lenders perspective compromises our resources, i am concerned about that. i have worked on since july of 2011, to create our own municipal bank that could be infused with our values as a city, and infrastructure, and education infrastructure. and to couple our resources, and to add resources. the public bank is one to make sure we have adequate dollars for our housing is an area to focus on. there was recommends -- recommendations that came out of the fsu and r

without where it is actually going to reduce the tenants gas and electric bills. and finally, working on a new ordinance for solar and new construction projects. we also on the legal side of things are working on improving, code compliance which in some sectors means helping contractors and inspecters actually improve the projects so, permitted projects actually achieve the intent of the code. and then the second part of it is getting non-permitted projects to actually take out a permit and comply with energy code. and these are things that we are using grant funds to perform. and on this renewable side, just going to briefly touch on solar. we operate the, or the staff, and the solar task force that had been started by the tax assess ors office several years ago and we worked on a number of purchasing strategies using employee groups, or types of buildings, like private schools. and we provide some technical assistance and we worked on multy tenant buildings and the strategies, and we do the targeted out reach and aggregate and then we educate the contractors abo