seismic activity, the building department is undergoing where the city identified the unreinforced masonry buildingsnd an effort to seismically upgrade those and the caps program is identifying the next levels of risk of buildings with these soft story buildings that almost our entire rental and rent controlled stock in the city. >> caps study seems to show the housing impacts are, in fact, some of the most -- >> right. then some of the older cement board buildings that don't have proper rebar in the cement itself really the things we can do at a policy level with the commission encouraging the board to make changes to, like, for instance, we had $100 million available to loan to building owners to upgrade their unreinforced masonry buildings. that wasn't used because people could get money on the commercial market cheaper. that money could be switched over to these new risk identified buildings and soft story buildings and the concrete board to encourage and incentivize these building owners to upzbraid. >> i'm a building inspector and doing it for a while and it sometimes leak making people do som

. >> just as we did for unreinforced masonry buildings, we all know sooner or later, ideally sooner, we're going to have to bring another set of buildings into the group where owners are required to do upgrades. we may have to revisit unreinforced masonry buildings and require them to be upgraded to a standard that will allow them to be reinhabited rather than torn down after an earthquake. >> right. the standard is collapse prevention you won't die and the bilgd won't collapse around you but it may not be repairable. >> yeah. we can look at action to the board of supervisors like we did with the unreinforced masonry to require it, but you can look at changing the rebuilding -- you know, looking at state law and relaxes around crisis and how we can amend state law to require rental rent controlled units to be replaced on the market in those kind of cases. i mean there's many things you can do legislatively in different level. >> right. one of the interesting ideas that came up from the caps project that we're working on in terms of rebuilding was to amend the planning code which says

unreinforced masonry building. safe building or not such a safe building? not safe at all. you have deep set windows, arched windows, metal plate, then we can work. weak morter, what is that? brick on top of brick on top of brick. there's an ample of the header row, you see how they are turned perpendicular to each other, you can see the header rows in this one, see the brick going the other way about every 5 or 7 rows. deep set windows. here's a close up of one of those plates. a parapet wall is a clue that this building is an unreinforced building. which direction can that building go? right back out. this building, brick or wood? what are some of the clues? okay, what are the windows? they are deep set. there's a clue right there. deep set. deep set window, unreinforced masonry. can you see the metal plates? there is a metal plate right over there in the corner, there's another one over there. hard to see. also has a parapet on it. deep set windows. even though it has stucco on it, don't be fooled that that's wood up above. it's all brick because it's deep set windows. h

building, brick or wood? what are some of the clues? okay, what are the windows? they are deep set. there's a clue right there. deep set. deep set window, unreinforced masonry. can you see the metal plates? there is a metal plate right over there in the corner, there's another one over there. hard to see. also has a parapet on it. deep set windows. even though it has stucco on it, don't be fooled that that's wood up above. it's all brick because it's deep set windows. here we go with part of the roof and the parapet. this is over on (inaudible) street. see where the bricks fell, right on top of a car. there were 5 people in that car. buildings like this, you are nearest, where's the best place to be, do you think? you want to be far away from it? you want to be far away from it initially? yeah. but what if you are not far away from it when it starts happening, are you going to try to outrun it? no. you want to get up close to that building because the bricks have a tendency to fall out, fall straight down. if you'll notice right up next to the building there's not that many bricks. tilt up buildings, premade buildings. they are made on the site. generally sp