to 49 affordable units. that is the increase. that is dramatic. that is 25 new affordable studios and one bedrooms and 24 new affordable two and three bedroom units. finally, for future projects, we're lining the affordability requirements with home s.f. tier 1, which means no additional height, which i've heard from the community. they do not want over six feet. and we're going to go for 23% for rentals with a mix of 10-8-5. that is 10% at 55 a.m.i., 8% at 80 a.m.i. and five at 110% a.m.i. the 23% is higher than our economic feasibility study recommended for renle thats. it is recommended 20 to 22 for rentals depending on the rents. the great thing about aligning home s.f. tier one is that this affordable requirement will be studied by the technical advisory committee and moved with home s.f. to ensure that it's appropriate during future economic changes. otherwise, we would have to revisit this every time there is a major change in this economy. this legislation today is being introduced to next week, land use on the 29th. it will come to -- it w

is why we're here to announce that we're going to be doing this by buying down the affordability levels on 13 of those units, which will move these homes from 60% of area medicinit willcost $710 a month. the deepen affordability is made possibility through the city's investment of $1.5 million. this investment represents my commitment that when we build housing that our city meets and we need to make sure the people in these communities where we build affordable housing can qualify for the housing we build. i'm truly proud of the work that has gone into this project. i want to thank bridge housing for john stewart company, the port of san francisco, the mayor's office of community housing development. i want to acknowledge our community partners in this effort. china town community development center, the chinese progressive association, the community tenants association, and i also would like to thank barburcy coast neighborhood for this support. this is a project that is a part of this community and we haunt to make sure have a real shot at being, maintaining and continuing to be a part of this community

as for the affordable unit, just to bring it to an affordable rate of 120% a.m.i. ou have the discretion to actually add these things if you don't want to send it back to the commission. but there definitely was an error and what was stated by the project sponsor as affordability for p.d.r. and the commissioners did not have all the information we know from working with other developers and from being at the commission all the time that they would have asked the project sponsor to do better. and the reason this came back and was continued several times, the commissioners scent it back twice because a project sponsor was not working with the community and the project was terrible and they were not happy with it. it was continued several times. the rest of the times by the project sponsor. and the community did not ask to have a continued and we tried repeatedly to meet with them and to work out an agreement. we often get very long term leases of 50 years. we've gotten p.d.r. space for one dollar and we are not asking a a lot of this developer. thank you. >> excuse me

the loss of affordable housing in san francisco. in the mission alone, we would lose 62 affordable units. dignified housing for 62 low income individuals or families rest on your shoulders today. be a leader who represents solutions to the housing affordability crisis in this city. prove to voters that as civil servants you honor their votes. the very votes that got you here. show us all that san francisco politicians rise above and that you put people over profits. do not allow the extension to pass. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is john corso. i'm representing union 38. we support dis to be dinnance. this will save over 4,000 units including over 600 below market rate units. we're seeing less projects built and more approved projects are not getting built and we can do whatever we can moving forward. thank you. >> good afternoon. we are opposed to this legislation. it feels like they're being sacrificed for more market rate. even though we're getting a little bit, it feels like scraps but it's not enough to keep our communities intact. for example, 2675folsom street, if this were

the tuesday meeting. we want affordable housing done right. the developer ask say -- is saying he will include 13 units affordable. we don't know how many are for low income bracket, how many middle, how many high end? please do not approve this project until we know the final afford builtty requirement is four 650 divisadero. let's not just a an approve and solve this later. i am happy to see the supervisor brown's legislation moving forward. we don't want to do things in the wrong order. again, please listen to the community. we have over 100 e-mails requesting a continuance until that legislation is finalized. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. kevin hill. i am the land use chair. i think i support a lot of the comments that gus just made. this is a project we have been watching for many years. it is the architect and sponsors have been putting forward for many years. it has changed from 16 to 66 units. various community action great increase in affordability. we have in the position we are waiting for the board of supervisors to specifically approve the plan for this area with a l

this is to commemorate another 120 100% affordable units in san francisco. with the unit right next to it, this is 190 affordable units here in the city and county of san francisco. it is such a beautiful day to cut the ribbon on the property, but also to honor a person who fought for low-income tax credits dating back to the 1980's. natalie was an incredible advocate, and i see many of you wearing buttons. you had the opportunity to work with her on creative solutions for housing affordable not just in san francisco but throughout the state of california. we know this is not just a battle to make sure that we have affordable housing in san francisco, we need to make sure that we have affordable housing throughout the state of california and look at our dated policies that have existed since the 1960's and make changes. it's why i was so proud to lead the effort around neighborhood preference legislation, so that 40% of all new developments would go to the people who actually live in that community first to avoid displacement of the existing residents. [applause] >>

units. the other thing is the cost of construction for an affordable housing unit is exactly the same as the cost of construction for a market rate unit. there is no discount to build an affordable housing unit. so, when these developers are building more units of all levels of affordability, you have to multiply how much it charges them per unit. there is not a discount for the affordable housing units and cost. and finally one last thing. i heard a previous speaker saying that we have built 217% of our market rate units of our goal and that is factually wrong. that is in the number of units that have been aplied for at planning. the number of units that have been constructed are much closer to 50% of our market rate goals. it is nowhere close to 220%. so that's it. thank you. bye. >> hello, members of the committee. calvin crick. district five commissioner but speaking in my personal capacity as a resident of district five. i wanted to appliance myself very briefly with some of the comments that have been previously made. i think that as a young person, it is extraordinarily important for

the first was 100% affordable housing across the street, renee casa nas -- casa nueva. 190 units of affordable housing is an extraordinary project in a single -- in a single building. and on top of that, it has really been our affordable housing developers in transbay that have been the first to lease up their ground floor retail, so whether it's phil's coffee or our affordable child care site, it has been the retailers that has been the first to lease up to child care, and ensure that the amenities provided to all of our residents are there from day one, and so i ask the market rate developers to follow in their leadership in activating our neighborhood for all of us. [applause] >> supervisor kim: i do want to recognize the staff of ocii, our director, nadia cesae. finally, beyond, of course, recognizing the amazing staff at mercy housing that bring our policies into actual fruition and make this a reality for our residents that get to live there, i do want to give a special thanks to natalie gub and her family. i know that her family and husband, david, are here today. i learned a little bit

rally in front of city hall, one man who lives in public housing in the missions, the project offers some affordable unitst's and good first step. >> i'm all for housing and we need it now in 2018, it's not the time to be picky you, 46 affordable units is not enough. >> one san francisco native who lives nearby, if this project is approved, it may drive up its rent. >> it's pretty concerned, if they ever raise the rent, we'll have to -- >> supporters say after years of delays, it's time to move forward with building much needed housing. >> it's been here, in order to kind of, i think soften it, we have to be a part of it to make sure that our culture isn't erased. >> the next step in the year's long process is the community meeting to be held by the planning commission. i'm told it will hopefully take place early next year. amber lee, in san francisco, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> the time is 4:57, the 2018 fire season was a brutal one. new information about the millions of acres that were burned. and plus the midterm elections are around the corner, the initiatives and the candidates to pay attention to before y

we were able to establish the permanent affordability of these units, beyond the covenant years, and are currently maintaining these units as permanently affordable, as long as by allowing the project sponsor to apply these affordable housing credits into the future for a different project. they have decided to partner with strada and community housing partnership on their project, and it matches the preservation of the moderate income of below-market rate apartments with the b.m.r. units at 1629 market street. so they will not be used as end fee credits on units, otherwise designated for low or very low-income households. they used the credits on a project with significant on-site below market rate component with approximately 17% affordability for very low-income levels, and this project will be managed by community housing partnership. i just want to recognize gayle gilman, the executive director, michael cohen, the cofounder of strada, and larry madala jr., and i am very excited for the development of this parcel. it is very neateded on this corr of market street and south of mark

the home s.f. provisions that supervisor tang worked so hard on with regard to unit mix and unit size. we know that affordable housing includes many different things and b.m.r. units only hit a certain kind of middle class income level. we appreciate that we need the other pieces as well and appreciate that you are working on those too. i also want to remind people that there are a lot of housing, even in our district five, that has been approved and isn't being built. i encourage our supervisor to look into seeing what needs to be done to get those kick started. but for many people, the affordable housing is going to have to be the subsidized housing. b.m.r. will not be at their income level. i am fortunate enough to be where i am as a homeowner. i want to keep my neighbors and my friends in the community too. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor brown, do you have any other remarks? >> i want to thank everyone for coming out today and i am sorry we have meetings in the middle of the day. i am sorry. i know. i know it is easier to com

on the list, 519 ellis shouldn't be on the list, but as to those couple of remaining projects, yeah, you're talking about a total of eight more units of affordable housing. i suspect those projects will be built. i mean, the 95-unit project on 7th street, if it's family owned, their basis in the property is probably pretty low, but, you know, i'm happy to do it -- take a totally different approach to this, which is we can stress test each and every one of these things. having said that, i think we came up with a pretty good compromise, and then with all respect to the representative of the mayor's office, generally the way this works is when the supervisors say last week, hey, city attorney, we want you to craft some amendments, generally we work collaboratively in the intervening week, and you don't go and dump your own amendments on this committee, particularly amendments that were not in any way discussed with the supervisors who were indicating that we wanted to work together, compromise, and that we were drafting some amendments. that's just the way it works here, and that's the way it's worked here for the almost 20 years that i've been on

one man lives in public housing in the mission and the project has some affordable units that's a good step. >> with we need affordable housing and it's not the time to be picky. >> 46 affordable units is in the enough. >> one san francisco native lives nearby, if this project is approved it may drive up his rent. >> i'm concerned, if they raise the rent i definitely have to leave, you know. >> supporters say after years of delays, it's time to move forward with building much needed housing. >> gentrification is here and in order to soften it, we have to be part of it to make sure our culture isn't erased. >> the next step is the community meeting to be held by the planning commission, it will take place early next year. in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> across the bay, a new crime report is out for the city of berkeley, the crime numbers that are up and the ones where police say they saw a big decline, a south bay man quitting his job at apple to make a unique journey across america, the preseason for this big trip from california to new hampshire. i'm dianne feinstei

the first project, there were 28 affordable lottery units. the balance of the other units are the 94 other units were public housing replacement units for those of you who attended. those people living there now in the 94 units are relocatees from the old one to the if you. there were a total of 12c.o.p. holders who applied to live there. two c.o.p. holders were successful. demographics of the 28 householdses are 43% are black, 7% asian and and 25% are latino. this is interesting. there are 61% of the households living there, 61% are returnees. it's one of our special project that has a special preference for households that were living there. they -- they moved before the new unit was developed. they have the first preference to relocate pack at alice griffith. who's really excite -- what's really exciting many households are taking advantage of that. 32% were rent burden and 7% the people now are c.o.p. holders. 12 of the households originated from district 10. i thought that was interesting too. total of 21 households were from san francisc

i'm really concerned about the people living in the affordable units. rather than do that, can we reverse our thinking a little bit in terms of what is the incentive we could give them? and to get them off the vehicles for some people. i think the incentive would be to give them free passes in terms of transportation. they can make a choice. they could either take public transportation for free with a low income, or if they really need to take their cars, they could take their cars. that is my suggestion. if we were to accept this policy at some point, that they should really extend this policy to provide free services for low income residents on treasure island. >> thank you so much. director chang? >> i wanted to appreciate your guidance and feedback, chair kim i think that these are all really important questions. there's a lot of uncertainty still to go. i did want to acknowledge that it is important for us to adhere to the principle that the board embraced early on. his said we want occupancy to correspond with tolling. it will be important for new

the city has affordability crisis. i urge you to vote for the project to bring affordable units in housing. what is good for the goose should be good for the gander at 1600 jackson. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> i am ann marie. i am in opposition of whole foods 365 at 1600 jackson. i work in the neighborhood. we need more house us. do not approve the units. >> next speaker. >> i am richard. i live next door to 1600 jackson. like my neighbors i strongly support whole foods at this location. ours is a densely populated and rapidly growing neighborhood wand whole foods here would be within walking distance to thousands of residents. it would also almost certainly be very good for the retail environment of the neighborhood. >> thank you very much. >>.>> commissioners, overhead, please. >> thank you for your time. housing, housing, housing. people have been asking us eight units is great, a compromise, why not. you got your housing. i want a brief visual to show you why we say this is not enough. that is 1600 jackson, whole foods, eight units no buy low market housing. one bloc

i'm really concerned about the people living in the affordable units. ther than do that, can we reverse our thinking a little bit in terms of what is the incentive we could give them? and to get them off the vehicles for some people. i think the incentive would be to give them free passes in terms of transportation. they can make a choice. they could either take public transportation for free with a low income, or if

requirements are imposed not as a benefit, but as a mitigation for the increased need for affordable housing created bid new market rate units. in 2016, the city's residential affordable housing nexus study calculated this demand as an on-site requirement at 24.1% for rental projects and yet we are allowing these projects to go forward with between 13% and 16%. the link between market rate housing and increased demand for affordable housing is not something that we can simply ignore. when we lower the inclusionary rate to meet investor's expectations of financial return, we dig ourselves deeper into a hole. beyond this list of pipeline projects, i look forward to working with the community and developers to get projects back on track to meeting our inclusionary housing needs. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i want to add my support for the compromise moving forward today. when we originally crafted this grandfathering ordinance in 2016, anticipating the passage of proposition c, which would raise the inclusionary obligation of market rate developers, who is our single largest sour

the term affordable by design is extremely misleading. the phrase begs the question, affordable for who and designed for her? sro units are being rented for costs that are out of reach to existing residents in the neighborhood. 41% of households make $50 thousand or less. the park contributes to the neighborhood character in this immediate area and this project proposes increased shadows on the park. again, we are urge you to vote no on 1075, 1089 folsom street. we demand that not cast any shadows on the park. further, the type of housing should be rethought to be consistent with the purpose of the sud in the youth and family sud, that is 2-4 units and this must be reflected in this project. >> president hillis: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. good evening. i'm born and raised in the south of market. i currently live and i'm 21 years old and have been living in this neighborhood. we urge you to vote no as someone born and raised in the south of market i can speak to the importance of the park to everyone. the park is busy all year round with seniors, youth, children, families and workers using eve