we are literally losing -- living in the most unaffordable city in the history of earth. and not building more housing for people will only exacerbate that. given all of the knowledge, i think the one thing where everyone can agree is we have seen a high concentration of new housing in one portion of this city, and i wholeheartedly want to work together with everyone in this room to build more housing in neighborhoods that include but are not limited to, pacific heights, i'm rich until, the richmond, the sunset, the excelsior, definitely forest hill. west portal and coal valley. i think all of those neighborhoods would improve with a few more neighbours. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. these project by project battles are miserable. they are exhausting for the community that has to come out here and voice their support or opposition. they certainly don't bring out the best in all of us. they are miserable. we can't keep making decisions like this. if we want to stop building market rate apartments in the mission, we need to down on the mission and ups own we

unaffordable. >> housing is a local iss i was a veteran and severed in vietnam. 18% reduction of vietnam homelessness because they have an effort in the cityounty. >> homelessness is a culture in california in particularly. i moved here from texas. i've never seen a place embrace homelessness. some people feel like they can't afford california. they are truly emprov improve i. improve issued. ished. you can't throw more money at the problem. you want to talk about housing that's absolutely true. why stack on more regulations. >> yes, that's a really good point. it's so expensive to build a house here. you compare it to houston where you have different zoning. >> california environmental quality act. you can live-in san francisco and come up with a housing project in l.a. if we could have an exception for sports arenas we could stop homelessness. >> don't you think the governor -- steve: he has had two terms. this is not a new problem. don't you think he should have done more. >> we have made progress over the last year. governor davis is right we need to change our laws -- steve: the environmental. >> the problem is so many people want to