it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible.

a unit was added, i think it will lower unit. it would make more sense that the unit was a lower yet it legally. again, we have to draw the line where we don't interfere with people's ability to meet their needs. we have of lot of units and not the 1700 square feet. a number of children, they have the adults, only 21% of the and that -- of the units have three bedrooms or more. we want to keep families in san francisco. >> i would like to support the comment and i have a real reluctance to see the loss of a unit knowing that there is a limited supply in the city. got to take the discretionary review and approve the project requiring the removal of the windows. on that motion. [ roroll call vote] that motion passed 4-3 with moore, sugaya, and wu voting against. item 14a and b. 14a is 2011.0221d. 14b is 2011.1438d for 551 22nd avenue. mandatory discretionary reviews on the demolition. >> it is new construction of a three-story two-unit building. i will keep my presentation short and correct the record. on the second page of the rep

including an article about the s are units in the city -- sro units in the city, of varying quality. if the city is ever going to make a dent in refurbishing that stock, they need to embrace refurbishing an innovative idea like this amendment, because only then will we start to see units replace the substandard and in many " -- many cases squalid units that many of our residents live in now. >> any questions? thank you for bringing in the module. it really kicked the tire visual. looking at the designs in your submitted to us here, there is an open space. >> which? >> on this page. i wanted to underscore the demolition is not as much as it might think. it all does stay the same. an important part of the buildings, typically are buildings have no parking. people usually use bicycles, transit, without driving. as a result the ground floor is largely given over to uses that enhance the experience of people upstairs. there will be a kitchen-like area. we hope that other areas will provide a stimulus for the people living upstairs. these still have to abide by the open space requirements

-- in an illegal unit. i am not feeling confident about the safety of this unit. from what i read, there is one exit to this unit, which could be a fire hazard. i do not know. i have not heard anything to the contrary. that would be my concern. it is the safety issues for the appellant. president garcia: may be what we could accomplish, then -- commissioner hillis wanted to continue this. that would give someone from dbi an opportunity to go out there and check on life safety issues. i am sure mr. duffy would see that it happens in a timely -- si would support a continuation for the reason raised by commissioner hurtado. and i would so move. do you want to go to june? >> the board is currently calendar ring -- calendaring cases for june. president garcia: the appeal could be withdrawn if the client is ready to move. the board will not be generous about allowing her to remain past the graduation date. can you tell us the time when you think it is going to be? either one of you. i do not mean the day she will

states as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that cease to be step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of this sort your politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind come on then they will when you when the united states as well hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have a say in what leadership and what they should go if if i might come in here jumping if i might come in here years you know i think tha

over the last five years, units were built. about 500 of these units were affordable. this is 37% of the units that are affordable compared to what the -- what we are mandated to produce, which is 60%. this is a breakdown of the targets by affordability. 59% of the total production targets have been achieved. 36% of affordable targets have been achieved. you will see the darker column is the actual production. light blue is what the targets should be. you will see that we are doing fairly well with market traits and not so well with low and moderate income. this report is based on the most recent support the report rates submitted to the state -- this report is based on the most recent report we submitted to the state. we were on time. >> not so well is an understatement given the lack of affordable housing. that is an understatement. we need to do much better. >> hell are we to meet the shortfall? -- ;how are we to meet the shortfall? this is a breakdown of where these units are in terms of development. just under 3500 are under construction. the units in the pipeline

that is about 60% of the unit. despite the changes at the regional level, san francisco is pretty much the same. i think that is what we need to remember. before i move on, there is something i want to add. one thing mentioned by the audit was the first implementation measure that you helped us adopt last year. it was that we provide more information on how we're doing with the permits of projects. i am happy to share with you that we have developed a methodology wiur

the united nation conference on environment and development in 1992 where i headed the united states delegation, the expectations for it were much greater than for rio +20. one cannot but feel the sense of meeting fatigue, of resignation, of lowered expectations going into rio +20. i think it's probably a good idea to lower expectations for a conference, frankly. there are some very specific things, however, and i just went through them i thought in a compelling way that can be achieved there. and it will advance the cause. perhaps not as dramatically as what was achieved and agreed 20 years ago, but nevertheless, effectively to continue the country, the world, the environment moving in a better direction. now what rio did, i have a number of really indelible memories of rio. i think one of my most compelling is of flying back from a meeting that i had had with president calor and three of his minute stores and laid out the terms under which i would support president bush attending the conference. president calor said heads of state were waiting to see if president bush was coming an

>> hinojosa: has the first latino president of the united states already been born? some say, "yes." as the youngest mayor of a top 50 u.s. city, my guest today symbolizes the emergence of a new generation of latinos in american political life-- the mayor of san antonio, texas, julian castro. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> tnk y vermuch f having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved

i think this is really a signal to the united states that if the united states or israel attacks iran and iran's nuclear facilities then iran can increase the support to the taliban. so far we haven't seen very sophisticated weapons go to the taliban including advanced surfa surface-to-air missiles that could target u.s. helicopters or explicitly foreign projectiles that do so much damage to the u.s. forces and cost so many u.s. casualties in iraq. but there is the possibility that iran could step up its support to the taliban in case of an attack and this fits iran's overall national security doctrine of letting others do the fighting for it. there have also been reports of iran having significant ties to al qaeda. iran is known to host senior al qaeda members within its territory. it's not clear how active iranian support of al qaeda is currently. a lot of al qaeda members are known or reported to have been actually under house arrest in iran and iraq could be using al qaeda members as a negotiating -- as leverage against the united states. again, if the united states attacks iran,

a dwelling unit. i am available for any questions. >> i do not know that you can straighten this out for me, but in exhibit b, i assume this would be the permit holders brief, it appears as though there are six units in this building? and the tenant has the right of first refusal? i do not think it has any bearing on whether or not we agree to jurisdiction, but i am just curious. >> exhibit e is the agreement for premises. i do not recognize this as a city document, an official city document. whoever prepared this, maybe this was a tic agreement. but it is not something that we would use as reference for establishing the number of legal units in a building. president garcia: i was just curious as to whether or not it was three units, this being the third, that the request for lives in. or whether there were actually six minutes -- six units? >> if it was being rented out as office space, that would be illegal. this is not a city documentary we did not generate this, so i cannot comment on it. >> i bel

in response to the horrors in syria, the united states and our partners at the united nations have supported an immediate halt to the vie leps and negotiated peaceful transition and a responsible democratic process. despite russia and china twice vetoing security council action, the united nations general assembly and human rights council have repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned the carnage and the united nations has played an important role in supporting arab league efforts to end the crisis including through the joint appointment of special envoy co-fee annan. in line ya the u.n. led gadhafi from massacring his own people. to end nuclear weapons programs, the united states pushed the security council to impose the toughest sachss ever on iran and north korea. as the president has made clear, we will prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. and as long as iran fails to meet its international obligations, the pressure will build. the united nations played a critical role in supporting the creation of a newly independent south sudan. the u.n. ensured a democratically elected presiden

most of our work is for multi in a housing project eric -- anywhere from two units to 106 units. thething that is -- the thing that is so poor and to me is my experience in san francisco, most projects of any size, anything more than six or eight units that has to go through environmental review can take up to four years to six years from inception to actual sales. and so proud six that are in an section now probably will not see the light of day and tell twice 16. the economic times right now are not very good. there is a little more activity. i did also attend a couple of presentations by ted egan, who predicts things will not come back to the level they were at the truck -- top of the mark in 2007 until 2016. and so in my opinion, i believe this deferral should go on for another three years until june or july of 26 teen. because again, there will be projects that will be anchoring themselves all the way up to 2016 in a lesser economy than we're used to. the other part of this is the eastern neighborhood and the other fees are new. and on top of the fact that the economy is not

it is not a good unit. this is the property resource database which still shows as a single-family dwelling. they get their information from the assessor's office and i will show you that in a moment. this is the map which shows just one address, 138 fifth ave. i went through the directories going back into the 1950's, 1960's an 1970's. it was 138 fifth avenue. if i could go to the overhead. 138 fifth avenue is the only address that the assessor's office has and this is the assessors building record which very clearly is indicating it has a single family dwelling. it was never a permit issued to change the use. which is what is required for the planning department to act, to create a new dwelling unit. the point at which the second unit first shows up in the record is sometime in the 70's. -- 1970's. the polk directory never shows an entry until the 1982 poll, where -- polk. it shows as a new address in the directory system. the building department has reviewed all these materials. the only problem i have i

the united states at the detriment of everyone else in the world everyone. yes well you have to remember that immediately after world war two we did develop an instrument play that was called special drawing rights as the r.'s and the reason we don't have as the us today is because nobody wanted to use them the dollar has become as good as gold central gravitated good is we've all been a little busy to figure you guys are figure of speech ok ok josh i'm going to be the last word of the prose is going to change my point go ahead joshua well yeah i think he's make an important point that bretton woods taught us that you can't make an artificial currency and at the end of the day people trade what they have and in this economy people have dollars people trillion dollars and that means good news for the u.s. in the short term yeah ok we'll see if the chinese can get rid of them one way or another you guys go way over a lot of time many thanks to my guest today in orlando and in chicago and take your viewers for watching us here are to see you next time never. ta

and i just think that the justices are out of step with what's going on since nine eleven in the united states this is not going to turn the frowns upside down that's pretty darn sure since nine eleven the people of of the united states of america all suffered greatly and we are suffering more and more every day because it's turning into a police state and i think that the outcry of trayvon martin is the finger of the pulse has to be touched it's an outrage because it's happening in every state everywhere the brutality and the invasion of privacy by law enforcement and now it's going to continue in the jails and if you look at what happened in this case what happened to albert lawrence you know you guy who was strip searched this is right where the kids came from he's in the passenger seat his pregnant wife is driving he's got a four year old son in the back seat they're going to the mother in law's for dinner and she gets pulled over for speeding and he says this is my car here's the registration sir you have an unpaid ticket well i really don't and i have a piece of paper proving i've

of mexico, and it is consumed here in the united states. so the energy that we are create ing here in the united states is partly responsible due to fact alone we imported less than a million barrels a day than we had in the prior year. a million barrels a day. so the energy that is being produced here is, in fact, being used here in the united states. on the issue of gas prices, as everybody here in this audience knows, it is determined through global economics no one has the abili ability, not even harry potter, to wave a magic want and say we're going to have gas prices $259 or $2.50 or $3. it doesn't work that way. it doesn't happen that way, and that really is the point that i hope most americans understand, that there's no silver bullet, there's no magic want. and if we're going to find our way to addressing the -- one of the very most important fundamental questions of the united states, you need to have an energy framework and energy policy in place like the one president obama and his team have put into place, and that's an "all of

the united states have to deal with. as long as i ran it says the state announced it to your weapons, this could be even longer. so if president obama said, nuclear armed iran is unaccustomed. so that leaves us with one option. it is not an attractive one and there are many downside is. it's better than the alternative. a u.s. military iran could almost certainly destroy the capabilities and it's difficult to estimate with any capability, but i has to it would set the program back between three and 10 years and this would create a lot of time for some thing where it ends up without nuclear weapons. there is a significant upside to strike. there's also downsides to military action, but i think that these risks are often exaggerated and are not as crazy as many people believe in the united states of putting a strategy. so the most obvious cost of military action bpa ronnie military action. it's important to understand iran does not have a strong conventional military said that there has been in the military actions. so a m

the united states did in libya. primarily with our force, the air force and supplying arms. the secretary panetta said that the united states legally could not intervene in syria because the u.n. security council had not authorize the operation as it did in libya. as a member, the obama administration waited three weeks to get the un security council before intervening. we have a debate. we can always talk about whether mr. panetta is also correct when he said we don't need congress's permission, but the u.s. permission. there you have the secretary of defense publicly saying that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent international organizations to give its approval before the united states can do something. another one is in the alien tort statute litigation that has been going forward against american corporations, the supreme court has a case right now called the coble case where the question is , of foreign governments violates international law and the treatment of its own citizens and alle

if we were producing units at that level, all $334,000 would have to be used to do one unit. however, we're taking that payment and producing units for 60% ami below, and the recycle money would be for access to a significantly higher level of subsidy, meaning that we could leverage the money on a two to one basis. we're watching the money back into the 60% ami program and below, so we are in a better position to be able to produce more units. commissioner moore: if i understand you correctly, you'll be running both programs, correct? >> yes, we will. we will be administering the current program we have and administering this new cpmc program, plus clearly administering the traditional affordable housing subsidy program. commissioner moore: managing the two different programs, i am concerned about what it says about public policy. it is a program that is treating people and working with people. i am concerned that it leaves certain questions open. i just wanted to put that on the record, that i am concerned about this. >> we have a variety of programs that get developed over

. -- third unit. what's that application got to city planning, city planning said, the zoning will not permit a third unit. that was rh2 at the time. it would have required a variants going back into the 1950's to legalize the second unit. in order for city planning to have acted to include a second unit, it would have taken an action of the a master at the time and it would have taken an application to planning that did that. the record shows there was never an application that showed an actual change of this building for one to two. someone did overtime by gaining -- gaming record. reading history, you see the thumbprint of this property owner and the contractor watching how he did what he did at the time. it is an interesting forensic expiration. >> thank you. mr. duffy. >> commissioners, when i read this, i thought it was a little unusual. i started reading it. i need to see this building. if -- you can read all you want. when you go to a building you can see what happened. i did go to the house.

going to be increasing likely the united states. war anxious about its position united states. house is going to car which will which will fade away over time but for the next twenty thirty years he is going to be. an angel think the americans may feel that. they need to take military action in a certain stumble into that will walk into that. front line and in great distress at all the countries in the region. the other countries which are. close we think. you will get i think what is quite interesting is the the indian. standing clear of it now. all sorts of very complicated things going on ok we'll have to leave it there for there are a certain age especially bill thank you for that. government is acquiring for a dentist a cheap deals on alcohol an effort to curb binge drinking it's a bargain prices in supermarkets are encouraging people to drink while but others saying prices won't help authorities either bend it now reports for some the consequences could be fatal. this is your average friday night now in britain is not yet midnight many people have already drunk well over

was pressing for him to be taken to the united states but the russian citizen was in. jail for some two years and during two different courts hearings type courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr putin a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer are should not be extradited to the united states nonetheless in november two thousand times mr boot was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s. officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the u.s. government spent an enormous amount of time trying to get custody of viktor booth following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables u.s. president barack obama was urged to personally call thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department and the attorney general of boardings will weaken the documents were encouraged to call the thai embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration's commitment to thailand to the u.s. federal judge says she will recommend that mr bloom remains in the prisons general population fo

the bar has to be set extraordinarily high for the united states. these are the things i would ask myself. has every other option been exhausted, diplomatic, sanctions. is there smoking gun evidence the iranians are actually going for a weapon? not just concerns but actual evidence. there are non-overt ways of getting at this issue that would require large amounts of military force? are we able to forge a large coalition? and here maybe i think, matt, you and i probably differ. i think the only scenario in which military action conceivably makes sense against iran, ever at some point, is if it's like the 1991 war with iraq, not like the 2003 war with iraq. that is a very large coalition. and the reason is two-fold. one, because it's the only way to mitigate the consequences of the strike itself and second and most important, if you don't have a large coalition going in, not just the french and british, i'm talking arab states, nato, ideally a u.n. mandate, though that i might not be required, it's going to be very difficult to maintain the isolation

and settled in the united states, at united states children and citizen wife. as a whole we want to address this issue. >> host: palm beach, florida. >> caller: thank you. very hard work. i want to comment on the integration of the u.s. army with the mexican army and heading towards north american union and something that might be dangerous for our health and safety laws friday while enforcement perspective. >> host: do you see a lack of sovereignty? >> guest: that won't happen. very simple, mexico is a sovereign nation. they are proud to be a sovereign nation. we are sovereign nation in the united states. we all need to cooperate as neighboring countries for the security. not just of our region but the security of the entire world. we work closely together. i want to say i am proud of the service, work very much on our

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cameron and his obsession with trickle down austerity thrown the united kingdom into another recession when will world leaders come to their senses and realize that austerity doesn't read build an economy it ruins it also the use of domestic drones is on the rise which means is a good chance one is flying somewhere near you officials say they're used for law enforcement protection purposes only are all these drones affecting our privacy and officials are saying a cow found in california with mad cow disease its job is to isolate incident now but not worry about it but if some government had their way this wouldn't be just one incident it would be an epidemic killing thousands of americans i'll tell you why tonight's daily takes. in screw news the u.k. is officially in a second recession as the british economy strong shrank for the second straight quarter conservative prime minister david cameron whose government has been pushing trickle down austerity for nearly two years now called the new economic numbers quote very very disappointing the u.k. joins the long list of other european na

so these are serious threats that the united states would have to deal with. so as president obama said, a nuclear iran is unacceptable. a u.s. military strike could almost certainly destroy iran's key nuclear facilities. this could set iran back. i estimate it would set iran's program back between three to ten years. iran could end up permanently without permanent weapons. there's a significant upside to a strike. there are also down sides to military action. i think that these risks are often exaggerated and aren't quite as severe as many people believe and that united states could put in a straty to mitigate many of these down side risks. it's important to understand that iran doesn't have a strong conventional military. rather that i ear developingcy symmetric military attacks. it could cause problems in the persian gulf, up to and including of closing the strait of hormuz. we have to think, what would iran do? iran would have its own strategic dilemma after the strike. on one happened, it would want to strike back to save face domestically and internation

chamber's agenda here in the united states. and after a tenure as president maybe tom donohue will invite you back to the chamber to talk about how we can work together. i thought that was a terrific comprehensive speech, not only because you also plugged the u.s. chamber's mexico leadership initiative, and we thank you for your strong support, but because it gave you a true sense of what has happened in mexico under president calderon's leadership. i'd like to open up the floor for a few questions. go ahead. ahead. even though you are known to all of us, please introduce yourself. i want to congratulate the president for his great speech today. mainly because of the numbers you have presented to us today the i am sure i am speaking on behalf american chamber of commerce to mexico to congratulate you during the five years. you have really supported free trade. you have really supported foreign investment in mexico. and that is something that is helping the country and the numbers are showing it today. congratulations, mr. presi

it looks like a small unit. i imagine the unit would not be that high. possibly a couple of thousand dollars, which to me is not to that time. based on my experience of seeing those penalties. we have the permit in place, which was taken out by the owner. thinking ahead they were going to get a notice of violation. with the the permits there, the penalties could be waived because there is a permit in place. i am not saying there will be penalties. there may not be. they handle their own notices of violation. if the owner has a permit in place, i would say that the penalties would be a non-issue. i would imagine you would be sympathetic. i am available for any questions. >> i have a question. in granting the permit to remove this unit, given we do not know if it is illegal or not, was there any consideration to the fact that someone reside there? i do not understand why a permit would issue for demolishing someone's home. >> that is a good point. the applicant must have provided our department with something that there was no third unit. when you look at

that's why i'm in this unit.'s the gang unit. >> the first time i spoke with michael jones when he got out of seg and we brought him to a-1, he was just filled with ignorance. he's a smart kid who was just ignorant about a lot of situations. he didn't like anybody from any other race, any other religion. >> i was born into white supremacy. my family is mixed up in it. i was hustling, breaking into houses, i would beat people up. we was growing weed, we was selling weed, we was toting guns. we was doing a little bit of everything. >> early on, we did a room search, actually found a picture of ava brawn in his belongings that he had posted like a centerfold.ç like, he thought ava brawn was a supermodel or centerfold he would look up to because of the ties with adolf hitler. >> in a highly risky move, staff decided to place jones in pendleton's grow unit. a unit where rival gang members have to live side by side. >> the white supremacists are a small minority here. when he was in general population, he and one of t

than a country with three hundred million people such as the united states but i think what we really need to focus on is the ability of china to sustain it for a prolonged period of time and to achieve the quality of life their people and united states have if you look at the g.d.p. per capita in the united states it's significantly higher than that of china and will continue to be seoul for years to come furthermore if we look at other quality of life indicators such as pollution political risk control of corruption those are all the issues they're still struggling with in this simply focus on g.d.p. i think is misdirected well i'm joshua if i go to you i mean it this not just focusing on g.d.p. i mean we're looking at different sectors the economy in china that are expelling while they're dying in the united states we just don't have to look at g.d.p. . yeah. one hundred percent you don't know how it's going to be cheaper capita g.d.p. per capita in the us is ten times greater than g.d.p. per capita in china and even my point is that even if you look at g.d.p. overall i still think

who will who want to become the president of the world bank typically whoever is nominated by the united states is chosen they have been eleven world bank presidents and they've all been americans but this year things might be changing president obama did nominate an american dartmouth college president dr jim yong kim who also co-founded a non-governmental organization that focuses on getting hiv aids treatments to some of the world's poorest people but there's also jose antonio compass for a professor at columbia university and the former minister of finance in colombia the dominican republic formally nominated him for the world bank position and then there's an goes away lot the finance minister for it nigeria she was a managing director at the world bank already and if chosen should be the world bank's first female president and south africa has already declared it would be backing her for more about all of these items i spoke a little bit ago with eva golinger a lawyer and author with expertise on some of these issues and i first asked her if the other great countries would back off

you can go back and look at any of the wars the united states has fought. but, if you consider why we're there and the fact that thank goodness we've not been attacked again since 9/11 and we have dismantled al qaeda thanks to a lot of great work when leon was at the cia before going to the defense didn't. i think there is no doubt that america is more secure. afghanistan is more secure. but, we're not resting on our laurels. we're looking forward to what kind of relationship we will all have, nato and the united states after 2014 to help afghanistan continue on this path. >> you trust afghan's president mr. secretary? >> he is a leader of afghan tan. >> you trust him? >> i have sat down with him. we talk pretty frankly with each other. he is the leader and she the person we have to deal with. >> does that mean you trust him, though? >> certainly you trust the leaders that you have to deal with, but you always kind of watch your back at the same time. >> that doesn't sound like a reigning endorsement of the leader of afghanistan. >> it is true for any leade

most optimistic viewpoint of their time is economy may already be twenty of us and largest in the united states one so we aren't entirely sure where it is but certainly from our point of view the perspective of anyone from the united states and europe is generally a that still china is letting far behind and we think that's clearly not true and apart from the i.m.f. study by the economists really is just now saying was a lie the i.m.f. that china will be surpassing the u.s. as the number one economy in two thousand and sixteen the purchasing power parity terms and two thousand and eighteen a nominal g.d.p. terms or when you would think if they have not already overtaken the u.s. which is quite possible then to the and sixteen to those nations that's probably the latest date so clearly from an investor's perspective you better look at china gaining some exposure in some way from a geopolitical perspective clearly it's. gaining influence quite strongly and it's probably a good thing that this is happening you know china and russia have been criticizing a lot in the west but then as we all

but the united states has global responsibilities. it can choose and in the past has chosen on occasion to deny those responsibilities and let the world go its way. the consequences have generally been negative. you can also point out that when we have not let the world go its own way, there have been negative consequences to. there is an intermediate position and that's the that i would try to find. the details of the budget are such that you can argue with a lot of the individual pieces of it. and our budget has not done the same way as other countries do theirs. health care is about $60 billion of the defense budget. in other countries, that is not in the defense budget. i am talking about not only active duty people and families and everything else, but the health care system is outside of the defense budgets in other countries. another way of looking at it is this. the defense budget of the united states is now -- 5% or will be 4% of the gross domestic product. in the good old days of 1950s it was about 8 #%. so in some sense def

12,326 units have been built since 2007. about 4500 or 30% of the units were affordable. this is below the 60% mandated by the rhna process. the 11,000 units represent an achievement of just under 60% of production targets to date. this slide shows the breakdown of targets by affordability. 36% of the affordable housing targets were achieved. this can be a bit confusing. when i mentioned that 37% of the production was affordable, but actually, only 36% of the targets have been achieved. clearly, the city has trailed dramatically in terms of meeting targets for low and moderate income housing. we are doing slightly better with the units affordable to very low-income households, and we are also just keeping pace with the market rate units, 90% of the target. this is new to the overall, very low production count in 2011. so how are we going to meet the 64% shortfall? there are about 49,000 units in the pipeline. about 3500 are under construction. over 3/4 of the pipeline have just been in title. this includes the very large development projects in treasure island, hunters po

i have legalized dozens of dwelling units, illegal units, for people in san francisco. in the last 10 years, there has been a sea change within the bureaucracy, the building and planning departments, where the attitude has been very proactive in trying to help property owners bring things up to code and to save these old, illegal units, rather than force them to be abandoned. the attitude of the city has really changed a lot and people are more likely to get help from their building inspector rather than enforcement. >> what i had hoped we could do is look at this little hand out for further discussion. starting on page one, it is from a website, home remodeling magazine, there is a long list of things supposedly san francisco-based, adjusted for local conditions, and how much of the cost you can expect to recoup for the work you're doing in the building. if you're doing work because you want to live there and you want to appreciate the improvement, that is different. if you're doing work with a clear eye to how much you can get back, i am shocked to see under the colum

just have more and more sanctions and more and more talk of war against iran by israel and by the united states and its allies what's different this time. what's different this time is the political environment you know as we saw from these talks there was no concrete results really i mean we're still at the status quo but president obama achieved what he wanted to achieve which was to make sure that the tension isn't escalating i mean the last thing that he wants is any sort of possible military confrontation before the election what the iranians got is they got they they're now able to buy time until baghdad if not after baghdad and so i think and the europeans as well so i think that everyone at this point aside from the israelis were trying to buy time and this is why i think we saw prime minister netanyahu voice very his dismay and he said that iran as he put it got freebies because in his view they got a pass and so and i think that that's a fair characterization of what happened ok and one of those people we get across i'm going to let me hear the other side professor marandi in b

it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. just to confirm, the property is located in an rh-2 zoning district. we have the authorized use as a for family dwelling. a fifth unit would not be allowed under the density requirements in the code. there is no way to legalize the unit of this property. it is already over density for the zone. >> mr. duffy? >> joe duffy, dbi. it started back in 2009. we got a complaint. actually, housing went up on a routine inspection, and noticed there was an illegal units. we sent a notice of violation. there was a subsequent permit obtained. that building permit never got signed off. there is no history after that time of an electric problem being taken out, which would have been required as well. in 2012, the enforcement acti

these are broken down into family units, a senior units, and supportive housing units. those are the target populations we serve. with in 2013, another almost 500 units will be completed. by 2014, over 5000. in 2015, some projects have yet to be entitled. we're only projecting 500. that number will likely increase. after 2015, when we take into account housing parcells the mayor's office has taken over, we will be developing almost 9000 within the foreseeable future of affordable housing units. related to rhna, you can see the units completed and the pipeline. it says about 9800. we have about 1900 units that have committed funding. another 3400 have un committed funds. we do have funding sources identified. i will turn it back to olson for the conclusion. >> in conclusion, we agree with a budget analyst's report on reporting, tracking, the exclusionary program, as well as funding. i would like to leave the supervisors with one last conclusion. we have had a very robust affordable housing program. i think the slides have shown the importance of the redevelopment tax inc

and a full unit on the upper. it accommodates good-sized units. yes, 2841 square feet means each unit is about 1400 square feet. there are nice-sized units but they are not huge. the hike is only 2610 in a 40- foot area. i think this is a really good project. >> the motion on the floor is to not a discretionary review. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. you are now on item #8. 62 collingwood street. >> good evening. the proposal is to legalize the implication of a triple-pain, and double on aluminum windows. they are all located on the second level. the existing structure will not be enlarged by the request. the property is locating -- the department has concluded it is these of from review and the residents reviewed the projects following the fall it -- following the filing of the d.r. they found the project to be consistent with the residential design guidelines.

move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout now this comes on the heels of the united states building up its own military presence in the region. syria says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning in accordance with the u.n. brokered deadline for a ceasefire with opposition fighters despite some western countries again lashing out of the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit acts. and a powerful earthquake and subsequent aftershocks triggered tsunami warnings in indonesia and several other countries in the indian ocean there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage following the eight point six magnitude quake. china is poised to become the next global economic power player but just how soon will it happen and to find out right now are crossed. and you can. start. to. build. a low a welcome across the uk i.q. level rising and surpassing this is one way to describe china's truly amazing ascent on the international stage but with success comes challenges is the u.s. ready to be second best in china and as china becom