there are a number of distinct advantages of using this voucher system. the first advantage is you can reach into populations that aren't reached in other programs. what we're proposing today we reach into the ssi population because they're not eligible for calfresh. obviously not eligible for school meals, meals for seniors in many cases so they're difficult to reach with other programs. but the other beauty is once you have a voucher program up and running you can distributed them to anybody you and want anybody's needs you're prioritizing and this supports local vendors. the money gets spent in the low income neighborhoods where people live. we know that a dollar of snap benefits genigates more economic activity and we expect this will do the same thing and the vendors like the program and they can stock more nutritious foods and other people in the neighborhood can take advantage of it and we know that low income populations have difficulty affording fruits and vegetables and anything we can do to help that will help people stay healthy. there are sim

you will use what we call project-based vouchers. and others choose what makes sense for their needs for repair. hard to say there is any one particular model. >> okay, looking around the country, are we seeing any main organization or company that is taking a large chunk of rad ownership or management? >> you know not that ti -- that i know of. there are for-profit developers who are appearing that have experience managing these developments through hope 6 or choice applications. i don't know that their is one particular company doing the bulk of the deals. >> and here in san francisco? >> i am not sure who is all of your nonprofits and developers are, i think that olson can speak to that. >> i had a few questions about the requirements for the list. for example, when we, as we move forward and begin to implement rad. there is some confusion, and i know, the challenge i have right now as a supervisor, who is asking questions is there is so much information i know that will come as a result of this hearing. some of these questions ma

you take section 8 voucher and out of the city. we are calling you on city leaders to ensure that african-american economic development that we are doing in excelior and hopefully you can include some african-american equity in what is going down. because everyone is winning except us, they are getting ready to build the warriors thing over there. and getting ready to move on the rad. like i said, people take money and they are gone. and you got them bought and paid for. and what do you ensure our being endangered. what is john evulus that will have his name on. you have a unit with 40% african-american population and now sitting at 4%. if we can as a nonprofit acquisition that building that is 27 units. then you lend your name to include the african-americans to stay here. because we have economic impact, then we can provide jobs and things of that sort. that's what i count you y'all that you ensure our viability in this city, thank you. >> thank you. ace, you want to go last, like you usually do? or you want -- okay. >> hi, how a

because we are not going to have a voucher program. i ask you to have someone with authority to sit at the table with us, that can guarantee our jobs for the city and county. or see that the voucher program is dealt with as the system and being mismanage perianagemisman. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is teresa lee, i have been an employee for the housing authority for over 20 years. though i stand here united with my union members, i speak to you as a union member but also a member that is a product of public housing. my siblings and i was raised by our parents that were responsible for the first successful public housing rent strikes in san francisco at chinatown housing development, i share this bit of my family history to illustrate my commitment to the residents of public housing. and the concerns i have for the future, should the rad program with its public/private approach not succeed for the residents. at this point we still know lett letter -- know little about the rad program. and to the employees of the ho

as it stands right now the corporate vouchers is a win-win situation. able to fund children to go to school. it's a win-win situation for them. they get a tax break. the public system saves money and the state saves money. i did support that. as it was a good return on investment. >> the issue here from the story, more resources will be going to the charter schools in a for-profit system than the public schools. >> right. >> is that what the public wants? >> no. absolutely not. i wouldn't don't want my tax dollars going to a for-profit system. >> says who? >> listen, we give tax breaks to all sorts of corporations, including stadium thars being built here in south florida, day in, and day out. these are privately owned operations, yet our public is also sponsoring a lot of the refurbishments that go into these stadiums. if we do it for sports why can't dewie do it for our children if it affords them better education? >> does it? are charter schools outperforming public schools? >> no, they're not. >> i don't think they're comparing apples to apples. if

we are creating these sort of rental assistance vouchers. the lenders a s ans and investo used to project-based rental vouchers. in the 80s there was lots of projects with project-based rental assistance vouchers. and in san francisco after the 20-year cycle, the lenders and the investors are very familiar with this tool. they can underwrite with this and buy credits based on it, they couldn't do that with that section 9 financing. this is part of reason this is part of the solution. in terms why we are looking at rental assistance demonstration program. and the other part, the rental assistance program comes with an obligation. we will talk a little about the rehab obligations and the tenant obligations. and one of the reasons, to take part of this program, you need to be obligated for 20 years. and we have to put more money and we have to increase the housing quality in these units. therefore a part of this, and i wanted to answer the question about whether this is a demalatide demoliti demolition. absolutely not. this is a rehab program.

but we will be growing on the public voucher jobs. some of those jobs will be to the voucher jobs, eligibility for example. >> so availability workers and property managers, what are the jobs we're talking about? >> and some maintenance workers impacted as well. >> so in previous years, i recall 2009, there were hundreds if not thousands of jobs of clerks in our human service agencies and as well as laguna honda and general hospital that were descaled. they were laid off and hired back at a lower rate. it was really terrible thing that happened. as a matter of fact all members of fciu put together their money so those descaled wouldn't lose their salaries. and we want to be sure that we transfer jobs, and if we transfer, the model is that we transfer with equal pay and benefits, and not lose anything at all in that process. everyone is trying to maintain their standard of living, a difficult place to maintain your standard of living and create a huge disruption if -- in their lives. >> that's part of the matching and we hope to identi

we were seeking to get from the state of louisiana information about their voucher program.never, ever took the position that we were against vouchers. >> is that the division that went into court in louisiana to ask for that information? these are not complicated questions, mr. secretary. >> no. they're answers that i -- >> i'm sorry, mr. attorney general. >> what i was saying is that we never sought to do anything with the voucher program, as much as to get information -- >> okay, is -- >> and which a federal judge ultimately agreed with us, and we worked out something with the state. it's a talking point that governor jindal and others, i guess you, think makes good political fodder. but it's totally inconsistent with -- >> mr. attorney general -- >> inconsistent with fact. >> mr. attorney general, i'm going to take issue with that. >> well, as i -- >> i actually care about the education of children as governor jindal does. and to suggest that we use talking points any more than you use talking points is personally something i think should be above the level. to just have

i think the charter schools tuitions, the voucher, is really important.i've been in some of the schools in the district of columbia. it is making a difference. in my old neighborhood in philadelphia where mr. fattah knows well, that's an opportunity for kids in the inner city to get an education. i was the first in my family to go to college. an education gave me, so i think mr. harris, dr. harris is passionate about that, and so, in defending dr. harris, i think that's what he was concerned about. we don't have to go into it. >> let me just make clear, my only point was, that what happened in the court case in louisiana was not about charter schools. not our view of charter schools. we can certainly debate about charter schools, support them, whatever. that's not of any consequence to me or the department of justice. we were seeking information about charter schools that dealt with a court order, a long-standing discrimination court order. >> i just want to -- >> mr. chairman? i just think it probably would not be a need for a hearing action if there cou

paypal vouchers, linked in premium. they're trying to lure you in. onone is trying to remain top. >> interesting strategy. david, chancellor merkel is set to visit greece today. she is expecting a little different reception that you got last time. >> could be a little bit at her. -- she'sare a lot more going to meet some smaller start up companies and some medium-size enterprises. handle blatt is reporting she's going to announce the formation of a greek-german development bank. we will be hearing more from david throughout the morning. we'll watch the asian markets as well. stocks fell from a nearly three-month high following the renewed tech selloff in the united states. we also saw chinese inflation stay below the government's 3.5% target. that could be interesting heading into next week. we get gdp numbers from china next week for the first quarter. could that be the weakest quarter of growth for china since 2009? that is something that markets are watching right now. what also they watching? >> selloff in asia and the u.s.. isa going to carry th

it voucher rises medicare -- voucherizes medicare, weakening that opportunity for america's citizens.as we go forward, we will talk about the affordable care act. the question now is about the president's budget, which is about education and job growth and the future and the investment for the future and science and technology and the rest versus a budget that takes us backwards. it has a poverty of ideas that is really stunning. host: nancy pelosi outside the white house yesterday talking about paul ryan's budget. republicans will use this as a political document to run on for the next round of elections. the democrats plan to use it as well? guest: absolutely. their economic message will be their strongest going into the midterm elections. they plan to focus on how democrats are better for the economy, job growth, middle and lower income workers. that is going to be an essential argument for there's in the midterm election -- their's in the midterm election. medicare will be a big talking point for democrats. they view privatization is selling out older americans s. you will hear th

got a voucher. the voucher they go up to the -- cashier to try to cash it. the cashier actually looked at the credit card. looked at the id. and noticed the credit card appeared to be counterfeit. they ran the magnetic strip and some -- the strip didn't work. >> investigators also recovered a couple of stolen cars and some drugs and a laptop computer with a card reader, and dozens of counterfeit cards the losses are estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. >>> now former secretary of state and potential 2016 democratic presidential candidate is here in the bay area right now. what hillary clinton is doing and how long she'll be in town. >> today will be slightly warmer inland and it's a tad cooler at the coast but rosemary will be here to tell you when we can all expect a drop in temperatures. >> and troubling new information about the pings presumed to be coming from the black box of malaysia airlines flight 370 as the investigation into the jetliner's disappearance continues. >>> right now, hillary rodham clinton is kicking off a series of west

springs one of the most conservative people should be allowed to live in those communities or have vouchers to teach kids would never their values are. i don't think people that lived in those communities that teach witchcraft so people will do the right thing on their own. >> so when it comes to that does it get rid of the energy department or department of education? >> i live in a theoretical world and the real world but that will not happen let's be honest the best we can do is rely starting with obamacare that probably will never be repealed but that is reality moving forward to have laboratories of democracy. >> what about direct election of senators? >> i think if the states legislature elected senators there would be less concerned about national policy and more about their states which is what i think the founders had intended the we're not changing the constitution in the near future but i think the original way was far superior. >> host: david you talk about the bandwagon effect. but is that? >> there has always been a debate many years and then all of a sudden there is the bandw

we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do p

program, like -- it's voucher, like for senior citizens. 69% support the program as it is.sn't the move just as much bad politics as it is policy, and won't the democrats capitalize on this? >> i think they absolutely will. >> oh, yes. >> and the medicare changes we know are deeply unpopular, the voucherizing of medicare, deeply unpopular. the other piece of this that is amazing to me, he repeals the affordable care act in his budget. so strips health care away from millions of americans who have it now for perhaps the first time. meanwhile, he keeps the taxes in place. so you have all of the obamacare taxes and none of the health care. it's not feasible. the whole budget is based on a lot of accounting tricks and gimmicks like that so it doesn't even make logical sense. and it is a truly heartless, immoral document. >> congresswoman karen bass and krystal ball, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> and be sure to catch krystal on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> coming up, should billionaires get more influence on elections t

he gives you a voucher. that is going to be more costly.cide you want to stay in traditional medicare, your premiums go up 50%. 50%. and at the same time under this budget, they reopen the donut hole, which means you get hit with a $1200 additional bill for your prescription drugs. so once again, this budget is -- takes from seniors, takes from students, raises taxes on the middle class, raises out of pocket costs for seniors. and for what? to make the special interests more powerful. to reward the special interests. >> let's get to the catch-22 here. they're going to take this to the house floor? >> oh, yeah. >> they're going to get every republican up for reelection. and they're all up in the reelection in the house to put their name on it. >> a few probably won't, but they should have enough to pass it. >> the 50 that are in tricky districts that mr. israel is trying to knock them off, are they going to vote for it? >> maybe 25, 15. >> whatever. >> some of them may not because of the reasons he just put out. now, the republicans think th

the republican plan turns medicare into a voucher program that would end medicare as we know it. . . [inaudible] i think it is important for us to go back and talk to 30 seconds about what happened when we were here. we had a balanced economic plan in the clinton administration. we have all of these problems, catastrophes on the way, budgets are going out of balance, we have to fix them immediately. not one member from the majority party has the courage to ask the wealthiest in the country for any contribution at all. we have this huge catastrophe. no one has the guts to ask them to pay a little bit more. the people making hundreds of millions of dollars a year. that does not make any sense we could take some of that money and soft in some of the blows -- soften some of the blows. we are going to roll back health care. we will ask college students to pay for their loans while they are in school? what if we ask these wealthy for a little bit more money. raising rates for average families cap a driving people to the suburbs so we can build more roads and more sidewalks and more public

so nobody has been able to rye true t review the vouchers on bills. are getting $650 an hour which supposedly is a discount to the taxpayers. to me what i read and saw, it sounds like a defense attorney summing up before a jury. it has very little fact in it. we don't know quhwhat the notes will show us. and they talked about al leler letter i had written and maybe they should have asked what did do you do when they received that letter.i had written and m should have asked what did do you do when they received that letter.had written and maybe th should have asked what did do you do when they received that letter. as to there are omissions in the report. >> we know a judge turned down the -- basically kelly and stepien pleaded the fifth. you could potentially grant them immu immunity, but that would immunize them from the federal investigation. how much has this u.s. federal investigation complicated the work of your legislation difference super committee? >> i think for the los angeles lit difference committee it, we he have a different charge than.

when i've been bumped from a flight, i thought, i'll get a $50 voucher, lucky to get a shuttle bus ride. but the law says you're entitled to more. if you're bumped from a flight, get this, and you take the next flight that the airline gives you, you're still entitled to 650 bucks or double what your original one-day fare was. if that flight doesn't arrive later than an hour. in other words -- >> who knew that? >> and you're entitled to four times if your new flight arrives more than two hours later or up to $1,300 maximum. who knew? >> even if you, let's say, voluntarily get off, right -- >> that's right. >> they take volunteers. you say, yes, but you suffer the delays, you're still entitled to that kind of money? >> yes, you're still entitled if you're delayed either more than one or two hours. here's the other thing. you're also entitled to the baggage fees that you paid on your original flight. they have to reimburse you for that. you're entitled for the money you're paid to sit in the exit row. only one in ten people complained about it, according to the survey. and they left like 3

last thirty to 35 years roughly put over thirty thousands of housing another 8 thousand section 8 voucher holders and single hotels as you know over one hundred thousand housing of rent control the point being most of the population we serve are extremely transit riffling. so from a user standpoint it's important. we freely support free muni for youth for you'll youth we should think about a future for kids whether or not they quality to ride a bus as it is now encourage you to make that a permanent program and same thing for elders and sdabltsz e disabled folks. we can't have a barrier being the access to transportation. and lastly pedestrian safety it's unbelievable we allow death to happen for folks crossing the street we shouldn't fund walk first in years and years away we should think about the mremthsz to accelerate those improvements so we don't have folks taken outgoing from curb to curb >> let's call the public hearing part closed. >> okay one more that's it. >> hi, i'm leo the youth leader at chinatown i'm here to support of the free muni for seniors and people with disabilities

personal retirement accounts, social security, converting medicare into a defined contribution sort of voucher system with extra assistance for lower income, means testing higher income. >> paul ryan's 2015 budget turns medicare into a voucher system. i wonder if the new republican party would stop this in from happening. that is the $64 question. next up minimum wage. here's where the republican party stands on a livable wage for workers. >> as a former small business owner and someone who's worked on this issue for a long time, you just have to shake your head. what i've long said is that raising the minimum wage destroys jobs. and that was confirmed last week by the congressional budget office. >> so mr. bush, tell me, are you for or against raising the minimum wage? simple. you either want to help workers who are in poverty or you don't. where's the new republican party on that? some republicans want to abolish the minimum wage all together. i wonder if bush and jindal, if their bottom up economic plan provides a livable wage for workers. probably not. then there's health care. it's pretty

>> reporter: the $1,000 tip was followed by vouchers for a free trip to hawaii. >> what? what is happening today? it was just too weird. >> cue the yoga book, make sure chelsea can see it. >> reporter: things were about to get weirder. her next customer had a yoga book that caught her eye and offered chelsea a dream job, a position teaching yoga at a studio that happens to cater to young women with eating disorders. >> this could be a great fit. >> reporter: and even that wasn't all. >> i'm good to go. >> reporter: when she picked up the next bill, there was something hiding underneath. >> car key. that's you. >> i'm thinking no, my car key is in my pocket. >> see that car? that's your car. >> why are you doing that? >> reporter: in the car was chelsea's mentor diane, the woman she credits with saving her life when she was struggling with her eating disorder. >> the work she's doing now is impacting and saving lives and how could i not want to be a part of that? >> reporter: good friends and strangers tipping their hats, showing how much they care in an unexpected way. re

. >> when they turn in travel vouchers they should be credited back for the per diem. >> that is notning. >> after the investigation aired the housing authority changed travel forms making them more detailed and decided to audit all travel. we are awaiting the results of that audit. it is important to note commissioners change over the years. some have been there for a while and others have not and have not travelled every year. now, if you have a story for us, call our tip line at 888-996-tips or send an e-mail to the unit. finally, we thank you for watching. we invite you to join us regularly here on nbc bay area. why you may ask? because we investigate. i'm tony kovaleski. good night. fleas are fast. in less than a second, they can jump 150 times their height. and one flea can get in 400 bites a day. yeah. fleas are fast. fight back fast with frontline tritak for dogs. the triple attack of frontline tritak for dogs means fleas have less time to bite. it starts killing fleas and ticks in just 5 minutes, and keeps killing fleas, flea eggs, larvae and ticks for a full 30 days. ask yo

that's both with the housing choice voucher program and public housing. we currently have 5,372 public housing units that we are managing. that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons households. this is after we have done a clean-up of our wait list. these are people that are actively seeking public housing at this time. and the applicants were asked to self-certify their preferences. over half of the applicants did self-certify their preferences. we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of those applicants are actually homeless, single individuals

that's both with the housing choice voucher program and public housing. we currently have 5,372 public housing units that we are managing. that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons