This. Hernandez and ianes. Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones. All documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on february 27th innocence otherwise stated. Chair thank you we are also joined today by supervisor jeff shea. Thank you for joining us. If you can please call item number 1. Clerk item number one is ordinate submitted by supervise is r sore for the amended regulated codes to impose a 1. 7 tax on the grocery sheets from the rate of commercial space for low and middle Income Housing and social services. The chair thank you. So this is a measure that myself, supervisor shae and supervisor tang and supervisor colin and now farrell all signed and promoted. If i have forgotten any names, let me know. But this has been something that we have been talking about in this building for years. But in earnest we have been talking about this issue of housing and the housing crisis for the past year. This really began with the conversation about our inclusion near housing update. It was the first time in 15 years that we updated our inclusion near housing, and we were really, really conscious about making sure that this was not a conversation about taking and robbing from peter to pay paul. And i made a comment then that you know paul hasnt had a drink in over 20, 30 years. And what i meant about that was those that are working in middle class families and those that traditionally were able to access housing in this Housing Market are no longer able to do so. And as someone that has lived and worked in the excellier for going on 15 years in the southern part of San Francisco that has traditionally been a working familys part of our city, that neighborhood that would sell for 200,000, 300,000, those homes are going for well north of 100 1 million and same thing is happening in peaks and glen park. Our super vision sore lives in glen park and has expressed that story. So many of the neighbors that were accessible to are working families have disappeared or are disappearing rapidly. So this conversation, at least from my perspective, from what im coming from. Is how will we, one, include working familie families and those that work in organized labor. Teachers, nurses, firefighters, those in the building trades. Those in the teamsters, those that are cleaning our hotels are those that are caring for our children. Those in the nonprofit sector. So many of the different folks that are part of our working and middle class families, how are they going to be able to continue to live in San Francisco . And how are we going to expand housing and how are we going to ensure that we have a well balanced city . Because if anyone and i know many of the folks on this board are students of history, any time a city becomes so out of balance that its middle class disappears, that is a recipe for a failure for our city. And its happened over and over and over again. So i believe and i think many of the people in this room believe and we all are pretty much unanimous on this board, that we are beyond a crisis in San Francisco. This is truly a crisis of dramatic proportions. And so this attempt and in measure, this housing measure is a step that we believe its not a silver bullet. Its a step we believe in the right direction to fill buckets of funding that dont have steady Funding Sources. So going back to the robbing peter to pay paul, when we are talking about low Income Housing, we have gone and done very, very aggressive measures. The Affordable Housing bond. The Affordable Housing trust fund. We have the lohausing Tax Credit Program although it might not be enough. We have millions upon billions of dollars to fund low Income Housing and those are for families making 50,000 a year or less but anyone above that or anyone slightly below that going tonight that category doesnt have an existing Funding Source. So we are talking about folks in the 70 to 150 ami range when we are talking about middle and working class families. And then we have this added conversation that no one can avoid, and its visible and its real. And we confronted it on a daily basis and that is our homeless crisis in this city. And it is vexed the city for decade. It is something i know everyone in this room has a strong reaction to and believes strongly in. We have dedicated public servant, the director of homelessness and Supportive Housing the director of housing. We have the nonprofit sector. He we have folks in the Supportive Housing net work. We have so many different people that have dedicated and are dedicating their lives to dealing with this crisis. But again this is not consistently a Funding Source to housing individuals who are homeless or formerly homements. Yes we will not be able to deal with this crisis on our own. It is a regional problem. It is a state problem. It is a federal problem. But this again is a step in the right direction with the housing funding measure to create funding streams. After my presentation, and my opening remarks i will ask the departments to come up and do their presen presentation. And then we will hold questions from this body to after Public Comment and remarks from this body. Because i know my colleagues here have some really strong statements and supervisor shae was a major part in putting this initiativing to but im going to ask you for you to hold on your remarks and we will have the department speak. But i wanted to say also a little bit about how this came about slightly a little bit more. So we had the conversation about inclusion near housing. At the end of that we talked about funding. And then we started having conversations about how we can create more rev if you for the Funding Sources. Homeless and formerly homeless along with working and middle class fundings and transitionalaged youth and low income seniors we are talking about purchasing property and acquiring property but we are also talking about creating new property and creating new units of housing. So actually and i share this with the general public because it had such an impact on me, the day that mary lee passed away i was with him mayor lee pass the away. I was talking to him just before his death and we were talking about this issue. And he was saying to me about how dedicated he was and how committed he was to putting tremendous amounts of money and effort into getting people off of the street. That was his number one priority and i expressed to him my desire for creating working middle class families and that was the basis of this final conclusion of this coming together. We had been in conversations since the beginning of last year but more in earnest once we passed inclusion near housing in september, october with the Business Community, some of whom will come up and speak with them today. The Business Community knew that we wanted to create new revenue. Where we were going to go for that revenue we hasnt fundamentally decided 100 but the conversation about new revenue came and we do have other measures that are on the ballot that are similar in nature and are going for similar Funding Sources. But at the end of the day, in our conversations with those with the Business Community it was very clear that housing was a crisis for them too and they were committed to this issue. So the final day, the final conversation with mayor lee is where this really came together and then we worked in earnest over the last two month with many people in the room from the housing sector and from labor, from the Business Community and from the Department Heads and we brought this Initiative Forward with the support of five of my colleagues, including myself, and we are committed to seeing new revenue for a crisis in San Francisco that we believe that we should all be a part of. So the at the end of the day we named this housing for all and we are committed to seeing this forward. So im going to stop there. Im going to ask the departments to come up kate martially from the Mayors Office of housing and martin from homelessness in support of housing and they will have their presentation and we will take Public Comment and open it up for questions for my colleagues. Good afternoon, supervisors. Jeff with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. I want to talk about the overall purpose of this measure and specifically how it will impact the lives of people. Experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. As i said at the two other hearing that i attended today the solution to homelessness is housing. Its not shelters its the not temporary measures we need to have more housing in the city that said forrable for people at a various active different income levels and that is it key to ending homelessness in San Francisco and around the country is having more Affordable Housing and im pleased that this measure does just that. It will provide additional housing and shelter for people experiencing homelessness and it will create interventions to help prevent homelessness and will prevent single room occupies Hotel Residents to help prevent homelessness and help control with building and affordability and build new housing for middle income households. As you know we have a very serious homeless crisis here in San Francisco. When we did our important time count in january 2017 we identified 7,499 people experiencing homelessness on that night. However during any given year we have about 21,000 people experiencing homelessness here in San Francisco. The problem is very visible here. 58 of the Homeless Population is unshell erred, one of the highest unsheltered Homeless Populations in the u. S. 32 of the population who are experiencing homelessness, or over 51. 39 pars report having some sort of psychiatric condition. 31 report Chronic Health issue and 41 report having drug or alcohol abuse issues, and 18 are transition aged youth from the aims of 18 to 24 years old. This problem has certainly been noticed by the citizens of the city and county of San Francisco. Will you see it here, we are experiencing nearly 5,000 nearly 10,000 calls and the 311, and to 911 with people who have concerned about homelessness or homeless encampments. We can talk just for a moment about what this measure will help to address. That 45 of the revenue, approximately 30 million a year over a 12year period of time will be spent on addressing homelessness. It will help expand a Rapid Rehousing Program for youth. Really focusing on help. Ing the transition aged youth population, be able to serve 100 youth a year to help them get off of the streets and into housing. That is 1200 people during the life of this tax and with it will also help them find employment as well. It will help fund 350 units of new permanent Supportive Housing to serve individual who are experiencing homelessness. And it will provide funding for permanent funding for three of our Navigation Centres. We are constantly opening and closing nav centres for 12 years with 100 additional beds as well as opening up a new Navigation Center for transitioned youth. Alltold with this funding we will be able to assist nearly 25,000 people experiencing homelessness. And again i just wanted to point out that 20 of the fund will be used to serve transition aged youth and again that will be through that Rapid Rehousing Program and a new Navigation Centre. And i will turn it over to my colleague kate hartly from the mayors housing office. Good afternoon, kate hartley, the director of Community Development and housing. As the supervisor described this measure provides critical Housing Resources so a continuum of need. And as jeff kasitski described we need serious Additional Resources for homelessness but we also need gaps in our delivery for Affordable Housing for very important members of our community. And just to talk about what we are up against, our housing crisis is exacerbate by many things that are complex. First of all, we have diminished resource, from the state and federal government. We have extremely High Construction costs which continue to rise. We have historically low production in San Francisco. And across the country, there is increasing income disparity that has led to rising rents fueled by our strong economy. So this graph shows the availability of apartments in San Francisco relative to increasing costs. And i think that its pretty self explanatory about the need for additional housing. I know that theres many people in this room who themselves have been hurt by the housing crisis. At least Everybody Knows friend and loved ones who have just to take an example, a household of 3 in San Francisco. That makes 80 of area median income. Say two wage earners and a child. They make about 83,000 a year. A good salary. Two people making around 40,000. These job types that where would you earn that type of salary includes construction workers. Teachers aids. The developers can cover the cost ask we with house the extremely low income seniors safely and permanently and also as we have discussed, middle income households have no federal programs with which to assist their housing need. They have to state programs. In measure will help us address that hole in our housing ladder. We will use most of the money for acquiring and rehabilitating existing rent control buildings that means it is an antidisplacement measure. It will serve people at an average income of 80 ami. Which also allows us to serve people at slightly higher incomes and extremely low incomes sort of balancing out the range of people we conserve. In addition, these funds can be say this housing speaks to the microcosm of issues we are seeing in chinatown in virtually every facet of the measure. For years now, the tenants we work with, particularly at the Tenant Association have been supporting Affordable Housing, yet they dont have enough income because most folks are in fixed, in. They dont have enough income to actually qualify for Affordable Housing. This deal with. That for years now we have been fighting against gentrification and eviction and displacement in the neighborhood surrounding chinatown which actually used to be 40 chinese at one point. This measure will address that through the middle income piece to actually loot city to expand its Small Site Acquisition Program and i really want it relabel this into an antidisplacement acquisition program. I think its really critical for folks to think about it that way. The same something now happening to our sros. Sros are going crazy in terms of rent. Speculators are looking at them and buying them and kicking people out this. Will help us address that as well. Nobody is talking about that issue as well. And it needs to be talked about. And lastly homelessness, is a huge issue in chinatown. I cant go to any Community Meeting without this issue coming up we have been pushing for a nav centre and pushing hard for a nav centre and every time im told we need more funding for the nav centre and permanent supporting on the back end. This measure will support. That please support this measure. Thank you. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is joseph. And ive been formally homeless for many years and im moving on and i want to support changes especially when it comes to homeless and the people on the streets because that brings the lack of protection in the homeless and the stability in the city and crime. We need to provide more funding for housing. And i support jeff kasinski100 because he makes a different city. I want him to run for mayor of the city and i thank you so much for your time. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, have advisors. Mark gleason with Teamsters Joint Council 7. Our organization sits with private sector employers throughout the bay area attempting to get good wages and benefits and i think we are exceeding with that. But our members that receive those wages and benefits and im talking about members who work in the solid waste and recycling industries and the hotel sector, the construction. Private sector. Bus drivers, automotive workers and so many more, regardless of what we are able tie chief for them at the negotiating table, it is not enough for them to stay here. And they find themselves sevenning with their families for adequate housing. Outside of San Francisco, while conversely coming here to purchase all the tasks that people in San Francisco expect to enjoy. This issue that is before us today is number 1 for our union, and im sure im speaking for other trade unions here in San Francisco as well. Housing is crucially important to retain a vital and Thriving Work force and the families that they support. And i applaud everyone who is supporting it and i encourage the entire board to back this measure as it goes before the voters. Thank you. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors, Vince Courtney with the international union. I represent 5500 men and women locally and another 600 in california. We do enthusiastically support this measure and theres a couple of reasons y. We have done an outstanding job the advocates have done an outstanding job in terms of advocate for Affordable Housing and often we ask for who. But we have been able to negotiate for the men and women for the private and public second sore and yet we can still say we represent the working poor whether they are maintenance workers with the city ask county. These are folks left behind from this town. Im fifth generation. Ive been here my whole life but we have managed to make sure the middle class and the working class and the Union Households are being left out of these housing formulas. We have excited about the leadership we see in this measure. We want to assist in every way possible. We also want to make sureby recognize the work the men and women do in public works with respect to the homeless crisis. These individuals are being asked on a daily basis to intervene in the encampments and the breaking down and all we want to is make sure that the folks that are from these communities these underserved and underrepresented communities have an opportunity to have a good job with good wages and then we talk about them when we talk about Affordable Housing so thank you very much and you can count on the laborers. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Jim has russ, San Francisco chamber of commerce. Thank you, supervise sore for having this hearing, and for working with the Business Community on your measure. I beneficiary i could say we are here tie. announcer our support today but we havent finished that process in the organization and many of our Partner Organizations but we appreciate the chance to be there at the beginning, working on this, basically let you know some of the concerns we have on behalf of many of our tenant members who will be paying the tax as well as those collecting it from the city. Clearly there theres a need for on the housing front for middle Income Housing and to expand our middle Income Services but im concerned that any tax measure that goes after a particular category of tax and the gross relates business tax ordinates at this time should be of concern. This is bides property tax, the largest source of general fund money, over 700 million a year collected in business taxes in San Francisco for the general fund. There are 8 different grosser receipts categories. One happens to be targeted here. Our goal was to get rid of the payroll tax and that was the gross receipts ballot measure we allege supported to transition the city away from a payroll tax. We will not get there next year. We are going to have to come back in discussion asks come up with a new ballot measure that adjusts rates across the board to retire the payroll tax. That should be our first goal. That being said we look forward to working with you on these measures on any tax measures that effect the local economy, the hiring, and the revenues the city needs to solve major problems. Thank you very much. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is john corso. Im representing the membership and leadership of local 38. The plumbers and steam fitters of San Francisco. We in a housing crisis. Affordable housing and homelessness are the issues of the day here. And its time to do something about it. Something comprehensive in the housing for all measure is exactly the answer. Without this, more of my members and their families will be pushed out. The measure has to pass. And its our priority to have our members work and live here in San Francisco. Thank you. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Hi there. My name is alison snowpeck im the Program Director for sports faan a Nonprofit Organization that supports artists who live and work in San Francisco. Our city and studio event has taken place since 1975 and our organization continues to provide opportunities and resources for the artists community. Within recent years it has become all too frequent that we hear about artists moving out of San Francisco due to the increase in rent and the high cost of living. It is apparent that something need to be done to keep working artists in our city and preserve the Creative Culture that brings so many new people and businesses to San Francisco and to the area. We believe that the housing for all measure will serve our communit commune communities who come from middle and working families we recognize providing Affordable Homes to artists and their families. The housing will allow the city to meet these goals and ultimately help keep aart alive in San Francisco. Thank you. Chair touch next speaker. Good afternoon, supervise sores my name is tamika moss, ceo of hamilton families. We are one of the Larger Service providers for families experiencing loss in San Francisco. And im really encouraged by the leadership around this measure everyone its really important to us that we are thinking about housing for all of we dont want families to experience homelessness forever. We want folks to come out of poverty and for their children to come out of poverty. So we need to be thinking about housing ladders and opportunities for people to have access to safe and Affordable Housing at all levels so i think that piece is really important. And i appreciate your nod in this measure towards. That the other things that i think is important in this measure is around the youth. As we serve more and more families in San Francisco we are seeing a lot of the youth have small children. And those children are now being served in our programs and we need Housing Support and resources for them. So the rapid rehousing subsidies as well as the Navigation Centres i believe are really i critical in the ente interventions that we need to be supporting now these young families who are youth but have children of their own. And lastly, i hope that the city continues to take this leader examin do more. This is a step. This is not the only step. Thank you. Than. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, todd david on behalf of the San Francisco coalition. I would like to align my comments with miss moss. She talked about a lot of thing we dont talk about enough in San Francisco. The need for ladder housing the need to move. You through move up from Affordable Housing to low and middle Income Housing. We do not do enough of that and the need for it is unbelievable the need for both of those. The San Francisco coalition advocates for housing in all levels of affordability, it means the da it clearly demonstrates that where we have lacked building housing in San Francisco for the last 30 years is for middle income true worker Work Force Housing as a parent of three Public School children in San Francisco, i know every year San Francisco has 150 classrooms that they are waiting for a fulltime teacher and one of the reasons that that happens is Teachers First and second year teachers just simply cannot afford housing in San Francisco. They make too much money to qualify for Affordability Housing and they dont make enough money to be able to afford market rate housing so that i think is really it really point to how difficult it is to be a middle income worker. You know firefighters, emts, my friends in the building trades. We are asking them to commute hours upon end to come into the city to work. And not only is that bad for our city, its also horrible for our environment. The commuting adds so much to our greenhouse gases. So this is the place where we can do the right thing by our workers, the right thing by our city and the right thing by our environment. Thank you very much. Chair thank you. Next speaker. Supervisor of building and trades construction council. Right at the start i will say we have not taken a position on either of the gross measures. Wwe havent in the first round of ballot measures however i will enforce what was said about the housing in San Francisco. I in private conversations and right here at this podium i told him that the a missing component of his effort for local hire was the provision of middle Income Housing. We have for more than a aga generation now, taken in apprentices from underprivileged communities of San Francisco only to watch them flowout of the city. Once they had a few dollars in their pocket and we were look for better homes for themselves and their families i know we talk a lot about firefighter firefighters and teachers and Police Officers appropriately thank you, tom. But i will tell that you after the 89 quake, i myself did a lot of work pinning back together buildings in San Francisco that were on the verge of slaps. Some of the scarrier work i ever did, they were buried under a pile of brick than a fall from height. But its important to note that youre going to need workers with that kind of skill here. And its better to have them here than to have them commuting in under those kind of circumstances from tracy and stockton and sacramento. Thank you. The chair thank you. Next speaker. Supervisors im with Neighborhood Development cooperation. Tdc has not taken a formal position on thi yet and im here to speak on the favor of the funding and the need for funding in particular. Si rose represent the housing for the most Vulnerable People in San Francisco. The team operates more than 1,000 of them but its been more than a decade since we have acquired them. I also want to add that one of the difficulties around si rose is many People Living in them live on fixed incomes and operating costs and rents rise faster than Public Benefits rise so sros are become increasingly unaffordable. Finally i want to say not only tdc but many sister industries and the capacity and sites to develop Affordable Housing and we lack funding. So i hope this is not the end. It is important for San Francisco to find more resourcing for Affordable Housing. Thank you, next speaker. Good everyone. A im beth stokes. The executive director of Community Services of San Francisco. Ecs is in partnership with the city of San Francisco and other nonprofit partners currently serving over 7,000 unduplicated members of our community annually. Through the provision of shelter, Navigation Centres the interfaith winter shelter, popup shellers when asked. Supportive housing, including nine master lease properties. A seniors centre. And provision and work force development. We are on the frontlines of this crisis. We have a clear understanding of the challenges that lie ahead and believe we as a Community Need to do all that we can to raise additional revenue to help unhoused seniors and those throughout Affordable Housing portfolios who are aging in place. And families and veterans and those experiencing chronic homelessness and those marginally housed. With the additional funding for Navigation Centres and rapid rehousing and Supportive Housing and preservation of existing units and Affordable Housing we will be on the right path. Those this path is long, and a frustrating one at times, with no short cuts or quick fix wes need to do all we can to generate additional revenue. This is a step in the right direction along this long and steep path. So thank you. The chair touch nexthank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervise sores my name is tom oconner. I almost feel like i shouldnt come up here speaking of firefighters but nonetheless i will continue. We in a crisis here. Its no secret that i ad forrable housing and homelessness are the issues of the day and its time for us to do something comprehensive. Something that really provides housing and solutions and housing for all this measure is the answer. We have been going through a hiring binge lately to try to replenish the ranks and i watch these young members and i watch the firefighters and emts and paramedics struggle to pay rent and strug toll pay for a deposit on a home and strug toll pay for schooling and i think some measure to keep Police Officers and firefighters in the city would be beneficial and its often said you want Public Safety officials here for the big one. But in my opinion the big one isnt an eart earthquake that is a big one but the big one is when your mother falls or break their hip or when someone gets hit by a car or when there is someone creepy down the block and you want that paramedic or Police Officer to come help you so more than the measures and we push out and lead this great city. So i think its critically important for us to keep a have i entrant strong middle class and this measure i believe has to pass and should be our number one priority. Thank you. The chair touch nexthank you. Next speaker. Doug, president in california i too will preface any statement on saying with havent taken a position on either of the gross receipt measures. I want to say a couple of things. I want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues don. They operate 10,000 homes and we bought in the early 90s they are falling apart and notwithstanding the great efforts by the mayor of housing and Community Development, they are some of the hardest to keep going and the hardest to refinance using the normal means that we have. So i think i have a lot of confidence in the moces ability to work with those and as well as jeff kasinski saying its around homelessness. But i want to say two thing. I have been in the city for 12 years and i have yet to meet someone who cant afford Affordable Housing. Whether you a medicals assistant or a teachers aid or a firefighter or somebody who isnt able to afford San Francisco. This measure is a good step in that direction but i want to say if we want this measure to be really effective i would like to ask that we come back and talk to you about the regulations and rules that San Francisco is imposing, that are adding to the cost of Housing Development in ways that i think are highly inefficient and can be solved in different ways and i think theres a lot of selfinflicted practices here in San Francisco that if we really want to stretch the dollars in this measure we need to make sure we do our job to help you to understand some of the unintended consequences passed by the board and others. Thank you. Chair touch nex the chair thank you. Next peeker. I want to thank you, supervisor, your leadership, getting this ballot on the measure i mean signatures on the ballot. Long overdue. We stand at the ready to help get this passed. Housing you know that our membership, that we represent, not only badly need to live in but stand at the ready to also build. Thank you very much. The chair thank you. Are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues i know you wanted to say something. If anyone else want to speak please put your name on the roster. First i want to solute you, supervise sore. Since we have been on the board we have been talking about Affordable Housing for the middle class and audacity and boldness of your vision in trying to address this is totally commendable. And bringing in also addressing the twin issue of homelessness, im proud to stand with you in moving this forward. I think realistically if anybody talks to the people of San Francisco, these are the two issues that they talk about all the time. And i know jeff kasiski was at Neighborhood Services and Public Safety today and we had two hearing on this subject. It could have been one hearing it. Could have been the sprea predicate to what we are talking about today. Because people are really we are spending a lot on holenessness and we are spending it the wrong way. On Police Officers and neighbors call and want somebody moved. We are spending it on the department of public works. Cleaning up our streets. We are spending it cleaning up the stations. Which is how its being used today and in San Francisco general where people become acute and emts and firefighters who are having to collect people off the streets when they are in absolute states of distress and we are spending it on everything but what we should be spending it on which is housing for homeless folks for the services and capacity to deal with what we need. And when director kasitski talks about serving 25,000 people over the next few years that, will make a significant change in this crisis. That will change the trajectory for what we are seeing. And i think in a lot of ways the city at least where homelessness is concerned, is getting closer and closer to a breaking point. At least thats what i hear from consit wents, their frustration. You hear it from homeless folks who get moved from one corner to another and get into a Navigation Centre and then they are out. The whole system is just not working and the only way we can change the way things are going is to make significant investments. I hear from the chamber of commerce and some of the Business Community that they are challenged by this. But if you go and ask them what are their biggest challenges, one is homelessness. It impacts their business. And secondly is the ability to retain and recruit workers in those early hours. And they cant comb in and this they are spending an hour on a commute, they are less productive. This is a crisis in our city. Just to be clear i will read these into the record, so when we do talk about the rent we are excluding production, distribution repair. We are excluding retail sales and services. Entertainment. Arts and recreation uses. Nonprofit uses and small business. So to a large degree a lot of the income that this is going to generate is coming from large commercial entities that frankly are getting great tax breaks on their federal tax bill court sieve developer and chief in washington, d. C. So the urgency of this cant be understated. And i feel as a member of the board, that we are shirking our duty if we dont take some steps to address this crisis. Just going to the middle income i know one of the speakers talked about the problem with teachers. Were not going to have an education system. We are already pe perlously close. And what are you going to do is not have classrooms with teachers. But if we can keep raising salaries for teachers but in a lot of ways. Our housing the way our housing mark is organized right now we will never be able to catch up. Not for the milling income workers. Teachers, construction workers, firefighters. We have named them all off but its true that this city is losing its middle class. When i first moved into glen park, it was affordable for middle class families. There are a lot of low and milling class houses in the neighborhood and now houses that used to go for 400,000 are going for 1. 5 million or 2 million whom can afford that . And they mentioned this happening in his district in eagle side and as the city we have a responsibility to have a Diverse Economic environment. We have the responsibility to make sure that our kids arent in a society that is haves and havenotes. And i fear that that is where we are headed. We need as a parent, you know i look at my daughter, who is 13. Public school kid. Raised in the city. With all the rest of her friends. And i see her. You know its a cool thing. It takes a lot of work. But being a kid in San Francisco is a cool thing. Being raised in San Francisco is great. I see all of these kids from Different Countries and different backgrounds. Very diverse kids bopping around the city and i look at them and i know that almost none of them will be able to live in the city when they graduate college. And thats just not right. That we as parents are not creating a San Francisco that our own kids can live in. And the reason they are not going to be able to live here is not because they dont work hard. Not because we havent worked hard to raise them right. They are not going to be able to live here because we did not put in place the types of howing that they could afford on the incomes that they will make. Maybe one or two of them will make the killer app and become a tech millionaire. But for the most part they will do the job a lot of us have done that are middle income jobs. So for me as a parent, as a neighbor, as someone from my community, you know, we have to have the services to catch people when they come here as i did. An exile from texas coming here in 1988 as a bike mess egge messenger who could afford on a messenger salary. Now somebody has to live on the street. We dont have the services for them. Thats why im so grateful we have gotten in the 20 for pay for young people in the Homelessness Services so we can continue to accept refugees from the rest of america which is even a more acute situation now than it was a year ago or a year and a half ago. So i urge first of all i urge the community to support this. And i urge my colleagues to support this. And again thank you supervise sore safiu. Thank you. Supervise sore yu. Thank you, chair. Thank you for bringing this to this hearing. As you know, we have been having discussions around all of these issues that we discussed today so far for many years now. And i think when we talk about our ability to keep a middle class, middle income families here is something that ive probably heard since the first year i was here. Thats why i went on a little crusade to get the city to actually talk about Family Housing because many of our middle income families were all leaving and for not only because of the price, its just that there isnt any housing for them. And i think yesterday was it yesterday . Wednesday. Yesterday at the food Board Meeting when we talked about the giants. Development mission lock. People were worried even before last years discussion. People like supervisor kim, it was already in the forefront and pushing for a bigger percentage of Affordable Housing that would include middle Income Housing. The alberta reservior project that is in my district initially they were talking about 33 of Affordable Housing for low and mod. Because of the consciousness of everybody we were able to push it up to 50 , in which 17 of it would go for mod to middle income individuals. [ please stand by ] one of the issues. Im curious because what i think in terms of one project. And im adding 17 for middle income. Then that is 170 units in just one project. So when you look at the funding that could be available for suggesting milling income i think it says 35 . Which means about 25 million a year. What are you going to do with the 25 million . You can explain exactly how its going to work . Is it to help bill or help to buy . Or what is it . [ please stand by ] type of building and the land value. We think we can negotiate pricing for the mixeduse development because the developers are working with us already and the purchase will allow inclusionary at a good price and the price point for the units which would be affordable serving generations of people at affordable rents is it can be a good price point and at least equal to or sometimes less than just building new. Its certainly faster. If you were to do a combination in terms of approximately 25 million a year, how many units can you purchase in a year . We think we can preserve and build 1400 unit its and with turnover thats close to 200 units over the 10 to 12year period. Its a good number of units and again it will remain permanently affordable. So about 140 units a year . You said 1400 in ten years . Yes. So 140 per year. Okay. Thanks. Jeff director kazinski. So i see a big percentage of this initiative will be helping with homeless issues which is a good thing. Im curious, in terms of was it last year we had a sales tax and if had not failed how much was that going to provide for our efforts in addressing homelessness . That would have provided approximately 50 million in new funding so a little bit more than whats being proposed in the measure. And with some of the services proposed for this initiative similar to the one that was proposed for the one that the sales tax one . Very much so. We have identified what we think the gaps in the system are so anytime were asked the question where do you need to spend the money its split between temporary shelter and other innovation are appropriate in our homelessness response system. Thats helpful because i wasnt sure it was a whole new set of things you want to do. Great. Supervisor stefani. Thank you because we have a crisis around homelessness and housing and its what i hear in my direct and we need a strong and vibrant middle class. What i like is how it will help homeless families and a didnt hear stats of how many families are on the streets and homeless. One of the why i like this is i was on the board of director for the Homeless Program for six years and the Mission Statement is to break the cycle of childhood poverty and you do that by investing in them and housing them and you have wrap around services but if we want to break the cycle of poverty we need to invest in our very young and our families and invest in families so that their children dont grow up to be on the streets and we dont have this cycle. So what im really interested in is how many families do we have on our streets that are homeless and what are the provisions that would help those families . Theres two ways we count the numbers. Hud in point in time counts families literally homeless living in our streets or shelter or transitional housing and there were 600 individual in families that counted by the hud measure. However, the u. S. Department of education counts families doubled up or living in sros as homeless as well. So if you included that number i would estimate theres somewhere between 1,000 and 1500 families who are experiencing homelessness or house instability in the city at any given time. We are very fortunate in that mayor lee ed investments around family homelessness significantly during his tenure as such. During the past year we saw a 13 reduction in family homelessness and we also have engaged with Hamilton Family center an initiative called heading home and in the next year and a half well be placing an additional 600 families into what we call rapid rehousing and we have 500 units of house for permanent support of housing for families in the pipeline. So we do have a pretty robust pipeline of services coming up for families experiencing homelessness under this measure. We havent determined if wed be using the funding for families. We know well be using about 6. 5 million for transitionaged youth and that population is under funded regarding