Year that the voters came out in strong support of prop k and demand more afford housing to be built. Well speak out loudly again this year and we wont stand for people being throun on the streets while cabeal tv shows glorify million airs for producing luxury housing. We need to make a stand as a city well put public land in the communities hands. Good morning supervisors dean preston executive director of [inaudible] strong support of the measure and thank you supervisor kim and Avalos Campos and mar and hopefully other supervisors that will state their support. Also want to recognize the work Housing Organization is helping to craft. Different legislation i think it strikes a good balance and it is very well written and i know they work with your office. I think the numbers speak in terms of how the Surplus Property ordinance has not been implemented beyond the fwo two properties mentioned so this measure is critical. It wont solve all the housing problems but with respects to the sites it is a essential tool. I want to state the obvious, this is public land. This is publicly owned land. It should be used for the public good and there is a real trend now in San Francisco of privateizing things that are public assets. Doing it in a way that doesnt benefit the public. In the anteevection mapping project released a study that looks at the phenomenon and st. Disturbing trend. Without a measure like this, there is no doubt that these properties will bea lot of the properties will be developed for market rate luxury housing. We need this, we absolutely need this. We all recognize the need for Affordable Housing kwr need to have public land measure to put teeth in our rules and some transparency and it is really essential the matters come before the board, that the public knows what is going on, and we get beyond 2 properties in a decades. Thank you very much thank you mr. Preston and before mrs. Boiler comes up i want to call, gabriel [inaudible] tony robeilous, whitney jones, shannon dodge, duwane sears, theresa [inaudible]. I did call antany nehin before if you still want to come up. Good morning supervisor, my name is chelsy [inaudible] children and youth and here today representing the San Francisco rising alliance. Our members are low income and working class people of color and for culmin in particular among the young people impacted by sth housing crisis. Rien and others talked about the impact of the housing crisis on individuals lives. Our membership is among the low, low and middle income. Focks in San Francisco who are the 75 percent of san franciscan shut out of the Housing Market right now. San francisco rising feels the San Francisco voters have spoken both around prop k, which passed by over wellm majority, 66 percent of the sloteers voters. San francisco rising did a program where we identified over 2553 voters, 91 percent of all the voters we spoke to agreed neither the market nor the city are producing enough Affordable Housing for those earning 65 thousand a year or less. Our members have been active in the work around the upper yard and making sure there is a public site. We are clear there are a multitude of strategies nest necessary to address but the public lands are a key of that straetagy. We feel this is important to make sure the voters prioritize public lands for Community Hands and prioritize Affordable Housing so on behalf of sf rising i urge you to support this measure. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Gab rg [inaudible] policy manager for [inaudible] Economic Development agency. Worked for 42 years for social and economic just frs the mission. We serve 6200 clients a year of which only 3. 3 percent can afford market rate rent in the mission. One thof things we are seeing with a lot of our clients with the Mission Promise neighborhood project is where w the 4 schools. Bryant, chauvs, oconal and everant. We have over 200 homeless youth. How are we not prioritizing the public sites for these youth or for Homeless People in general . We have done a lot of placement recently with Home OwnershipSan Francisco for 1400 mission to try to get people into Affordable Housing there. That is a great opportunity, but at the same time we found a lot of the clients that have come to apply for those projects to live there dont meet it income requirements. We see there is a lot of need for having more products available where they can actually afford to live. Further, public sitesthey are the easiest to build Affordable Housing. That is why sites like 1950 mission which we thank the body and supervisor kim to expedite that, we wouldnt have that. That is the first rp we worked on to build the first new affordable project in like 15 years outside mosaica. Without that we cant get Affordable Housing done in the mission and that is the problem. Wrout the measure Going Forward and make tg more trance parent and available for public sites that is why i need support and thank this committee and your leadership on this. Thank you good morning [inaudible] 5 years ago 8 thousand members lived in the city. Today it is 7 thousand. 2 of the people who left the city in the last 5 years work the union square hotel. They commute from the suburbs of sacramento. They leave the house at 3 a. M. And get home at 7 p. M. And try to raise their kids. That is the crisis they put on workers in the core industries, the industries that keep the city going. I dont subscribe to the the argument that the reason housing prices are going up is because wree a small city with just a little bit of land and there is always high demand for the land. That is a factor, but there are policy decisions, planning and zoning and regulatory decisions that drive the affordability crisis. For those that believe this is about supply of available land, there cannot be any argument that public land, surplus land that is in the hands of the people now should be prioritize for the moust urgent crisis facing our city. Thank you for binging this before us and putting it to the voters this november. Thank you thank you mr. Lewis good morning. My name is cong and lead organizer with jobs of justice San Francisco and we are a Community Coalition that represents Diverse Membership groups representing teachers, nurses domestic and retail workers. All of these people every day san franciscans who could be effected and benefit from the ordinance so i strongly support this ordinance coming before the voters ipthe fall. Just like to mention i was at the barber shop yesterday getting a hair cut and this came up. My barber was a born and raised san franciscan. I asked him how he was doing and he said hanging in there. Many family and friends moved. That his grand parent that lived in the soma just moved [inaudible] and the landlord was trying to get them to move and finally offered them 30 thousand dollars and they took it and moved to the philippines. This is just the insanity that is the Housing Market as you know. This is the kind of conversations happening across the city. They are happening on the buses and at the dinner table and in the barber shop. Everybody knows about this. When it comes to solutions i was saying how do i slide this into the conversation. It looks so complicated not coming from a housing standpoint, but he got it right away because i think the essence of the ordinance is really basic, really straight forward and understandable to people which is public land should be use frd public good and that is why i believe this is a great thing so thank you for your support. Good afternoon supervisors. I have been hearing the terms underutilized sites, surplus sites i think this measure, this ordinance has to be taken as a mandate from the people. If you look at the different polls youll see there is a overwhelming need for affordable hoizing to be made a serious priority. Seniors and we represent seniors at senior and disability actions we see eviction of seniors on a daily basess. Affordable housing must be made a priority and think the ordinance goes in that direction. Again, public sites, public lands, underutilized sites, land that hads been hoarded so no hoardsing of public land in this time of emergency. The city wants Affordable Housing as a priority, lets look at this as a mandate. We also have to look at the fact we have fire and police and other people that work very very very very hard, Service Workers that are as much needed as anybody else and deserve to be a part of this community. Again, i cant stress more the need to have a Public Discourse in the use of the public land and no more of this give away because really it is disgusting what is going on with the give away of our land. If we have a finite amount of land lets use it in the right place. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Im whitney gens and director of housing development. Been developing Affordable Housing for nearly 23 years in the city. China town [inaudible] developed some of the innovative air right project to which supervisor kim stated and we are the developer of the 2 Surplus Properties done in San Francisco. One at [inaudible] and 255 broad way. What is frustrating and challenging is despite our hard work and hard work of colleagues in the Affordable Housing industry, in the last 10 years we only developed 3 thousand more affordable unit that we lost. We are at about 20 percent affordable and the prop k goal is 33 percent affordable. 2 days ago the city spent 18 and a half mimian dollars to acquire a privately owned site for saechb 2 units for Affordable Housing. That level of cost will burn through our Affordable Housing quickly and serve very few people. We need to insure public land go tooz Affordable Housing so the dollars go further towards the prop k goals. Thank you thank you mr. Jones hello my name is duwane [inaudible] and with Community Housing partnership. I live in Affordable Housing and believe that [inaudible] shouldhave a chance to live in that kind of housing. I believe the public land should be used for that and it has made a difference in my life so thank you for the moment and happy birthday. Thank you mr. Sears. Thank you fl birthday wishes hello, good morning my name is betty and work with [inaudible] i just want to say that one of the first things is the public sites ordinance hasnt been nuf to get public lands into peoples hands [inaudible] it has been through organizing with thousands of families over the yearwise allies like cuhj and fcc and colman jz the peoples plan. The organizing the thousands of folks we have been able to get. Mission and folsom and the upper yard into had pipeline of the Mayors Office of housing. I think that really whenever we have the door knocking and do Community Meetings people need Affordable Housing. Public lands need to be there for had 6819 house hold evicted in the last 5 years. That is approximately 5 houses a day. They have been kicked out and have no where to go. For the 50 percent of the people that dont have staplace to go, how can we use public land to make sure they are able to stain the city for many generations helped build the city . How do public monies and public land serve the people of San Francisco and not create opportunity for had trend which is house new people with money who want to move into our city using our tax dollars and land. Im here to support the ordinance and pub lack land is for people and need to build howing for those that need it. Thank you thank you good morning [inaudible] Community Housing partnership. When it takes winning a lottery against other thousands of struggling san franciscan to survive and Homeless Individuals suffer on wait lists and yet the majority of the housing in the pipe line is made for people whos cash flow is equal to multiple years of the average wage we need to create opportunities for existence of the citizens mptd history judges on not well we acamidated the wealthiest but how we well care frd those that struggle. We can accommodate the needs of the citizens if we sunday message their well be sg a priority. The public land use measure will send a meshage to the community that the city is taking the Affordable Housing crisis seriously. We strongly support your support for Affordable Housing. Good morning supervisors. Thank you. Alex walker. With [inaudible] trust me it isnt the first time that happened. We need to get a laugh out of it. I want to introduce myself since i was mention said by supervisor kim. I wanted to say im not authorized to speak about 2135 today but we are watching this very very closely and will be in communication. I want to tell the audience that if you have question frz the office see me and well get back to you. Come in the office in San Francisco and im low on cards but ill see what i got and it gichb our Contact Information and contact us. So, no problem and it is your bithday. Happy birthday. I would give you a free pass. I wanted to say hello and we are watching this closely, it is really intrigueing and want a open dialogue with your office and members of the public. We appreciate Assembly Member tangs efforts on the issue in sacramento. Good morning my name is shan aen dodge and i have been a Affordable Housing developer in San Francisco for had past 11 years. Im a projpect manager with china town cdc which drep dweped the 2 Surplus Properties. Im a resident of the mission since 1993 having been displaced myself. Asa fordable housing developer i know how challenging and costly it is to acquire sites for Affordable Housing. This initiative represents a exciting opportunity to expand San Franciscos supply of Affordable Housing. The Public Sector and the Mayors Office of housing is our partner in creating thousands of affordable apartments. The Mayors Office [inaudible] developable land is getting expensive. Every dollar the sit a spend is a dollar they cannot spend to build Affordable Housing. 18 and a half Million Dollars is another 18 and a half million we cant spend. Currently most thf Mayors Office of Housing Resources preserve existing Public Housing which is important but it doesnt add a single unit to our Affordable Housing stock at a time when we need t. Many city agencies own sites they no longer need for their core function. This is a public resource that should go to public good. I support this measure and look forward to the passage and implementation. Thank you thank you mrs. Dodge. Good morning supervisors. My name is marilyn [inaudible] with [inaudible] thank you supervisor kim for introducing this measure. So, im learning about how this works but i worked with [inaudible] 12 years. [inaudible] which is what a lot of the youth are having to do so im excited to [inaudible] so the youth can see the leadership at city hall that cares about us being here in the city and to make sure that we definitely prioritize the public sites so as a Organization Many other sites have continued to be doing this. [inaudible] Mayors Office of housing have that up there and want to make sure they know we fought for the land. It was for the public good. I hope the supervisors support this because when we are older and choose to have kids zee to make sure they can stay in the city. How will we stay here when everything is 3. Something Million Dollars . Calvin welch, San Francisco information Clearing House which is a member [inaudible] i want to speak in support of this measure and thank supervisor kim and avalos for their sponsorship and urge supervisor tang to join with them in sponsoring this important issue before the ballot. It is important to understand that this amends the existing administrative code that limits only to very low income homeless housing. The disposition of surplus base land. It is not at all correct if the implication of the office of work force and Economic Development or your comment supervisor tang that this ignores the needs from the Affordable Housing community of the plight of middle income people in this town. This ordinance will allow surplus base land to go as high as 150 percent of medium. Another point that is often lost and im kind of taken aback by the Mayors Office of work force development, the largest housing subsidy in the nation goes to the middle class. Not to low income people and that is the mort gj tax deduction. By a factor of 10 to 1, it out numbers huds budget that pays of every other low Income Housing group in the nation. For the city and county of San Francisco to use its limited resources to provide assistance to the lowest income people in the city simply balances out what thiboard routinely does. 2 years ago you increased conversion of condo, 10 thousand people all middle income or above. The board passed a ordinance that allowed short term rental uses that took thousands of units out of the Housing Market including rent controlled units to benefit middle income people. Please dont tell me this one measure will unbalance a already unbalanced Housing Organization. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. I red all the cards if you would like to speem come up good morning. I dont think i need to wait to be called. [inaudible] i lived in San Francisco for 36 years since 1976. If you agreed with the arrythmiatic there are 3 years missing. Those were years i moved from the city to fremont who took care of my mom and stayed with her 3 years until her death. When i moved back to the city i couldnt afford the rent because it had gone up so much. In that sense im in favor of the ordinance and i think we need low Income Housing. Im not in favor of Affordable Housing because i feel the word is played with and defined many different ways including way to exclude low income people. I am low income. Im also part of a group of senior and disability action. I have gray in my beard, i call myself presenior because im not old enough for Senior Housing and we dont have enough. Im also disabled with chronic depression and dont qualify yet for ssi, but if i did qualify for it and got 850 dollars a month i couldnt afford the market rate rent in the city. For the past 30 years i have been a professional handy man [inaudible] i repaired a lot of apartment s and put them on the market and they have been paid city taxes. I cant afford the [inaudible] that i worked on. Basically i am here today to say that seniors need low Income Housing, disabled people with mental problems need low Income Housing especially those who have been homeless and yes im homeless. Not only do seniors and disabled people need low Income Housing but i need it. Seeing no further Public Comment for the chair if we can clous Public Comment close Public Comment. It is closed. Thank you. I did have follow up questions but think well have a opportunity to continue this discussion. For the sake of time i would like to wrap up. I want to thank everyone who came out and your eloquent words on why this is so important for us to fully implement and how the measure in the ordinance will go to strengthen both the transparency and accountability in the process and original intent which is insure available public sites that are not fulfilling a essential department or need go toward production of housing. Again this ordinance expands to include housing for homeless and low income working class, middle and moderate income up to 150 percent. We know we are not building middle and moderate Income Housing here in San Francisco. Most recently i know supervisor avalos and i work would the giants to 40 percent of affordable and middle income but 12 percent was Affordable Housing. Close to 30 percent of the hoizing is going to be for households between 90 and 150 percent ami. That is unprecedented and go towards what we call middle class households here in San Francisco. I look forward to had continuing dialogue. There are 2 parallel tracts for the ordinance. One with 4 signatures that cannot be aminded and one that can have potentially 6 cosponsor squz maybe take on the feedback. I think my intent is to go forward with the strong est measure to the voter squz this is something we herds over and over from the voters. I make the point wrun of the members of the public made, we just puchsed a site in the mission, a former gas station on 16th street at 18. 5 million for 1 percent Affordable Housing. This is great and important for the mission but imagine what we can do on our own land where that cost isnt a primary driving factor. I look forward to the continuing dialogue and thank my colleague frz the hearing. Supervisor tang i want to thank supervisor kim forbriing this fort. There are very good improvements and look forward working with you to see how it is we can actually make it even better so with that then i know this is just a hearing today so well take further action on the other item. Great thank you. The other item will appear next thursday in rules or i think that is when it will appear at the regular rules committee meeting. Well announce when that will be. That is a item that can be considered for amendments potentially. This one cannot and so by city charter we are supposed to have a hearing on item put on the ballot by 4 signatures, that is this here and i believe we can jus