my name is teresa flandrick and i work at senior and disability action and i try to work with agencies to get deeply affordable housing especially for seniors and people with disability. so because we believe that there is an affordable crisis, there has been a lot of housing built in market rate which makes a lot of it unaffordable. i live in north beach -- there are many seniors -- as you know, north beach, chinatown, we have the greatest concentration of seniors and people with disabilities. our s.r.o.s, which are last affordable places, which are also being used for high earning young tech workers because you can get more money from them. so we are fighting very hard to keep and preserve the housing we do have, but to make damn sure it is accessible. there are many ways that things can be done, but we also need to make sure that we are building housing that is from day one accessible, and so senior and housing that accommodates also wheelchairs, right? all sorts of different mobility mechanisms that people need in order to simply enjoy life. so one of the things that we have seen a

. >> teresa flandrick of north beach tenants committee. i will echo what mr. parsons said also being someone who is on the street on the ground seeing so many tenants losing their homes and all for a matter of profit. it's not about our communities. it's about the dollar. and this sb50 is only going to further all we have been trying to preserve. preserve communities that are ethnically, economically diverse. those who have various occupations all on one block. you would have everything that is part of what a city and community needs in terms of jobs. occupations, your doctor, your mechanic and we are losing all of that and as an inclusive city we're becoming less and less so so few people can afford to live here. it's an affordability crisis we see seniors having to move away from their medical assistance. there is nothing affordable today. and this does harm to san francisco and other cities going through displacement. i oppose this and ask scott wiener to go back to the drawing board and to include people in various communities especially in his own city. t