Please enjoy the reception and thank you very, very much. [applause] the hon. London breed good morning, everyone. Im london breed, and im the mayor of San Francisco, and im so excited to be here with you today to talk about what we are doing to provide more Affordable Housing to the residents of San Francisco. [applause] the hon. London breed when i first became mayor last year, i noticed that in the capital plan for the city and county of San Francisco, there were no plans for Affordable Housing, and that was not okay. We made changes, we made adjustments, and we started off with a 300 million Affordable Housing bond, and that 300 million has turned into 600 million, the largest Affordable Housing bond in the history of this city. [applause] the hon. London breed without raising property taxes. We did this in a collaborative way. We did this with the leadership of the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee. We did this with our community partners, including four amazing people who led the Community Working group consisting of so many stakeholders. Folks from labor were at the table. People from the community were at the table. Folks from the housing community, from Public Housing, from all sectors of the community from this city because when we know we need to do something this big, we need to come together. And yes, it was not easy, but i want to thank everyone because the people at the table were openminded, provided feedback, fought for what they believe in, and now we are here united to make sure that the voters pat this bond in november november. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you so much to the folks who led this effort, including myrna melgar, tamika moss, malcolm young, and annie chung. Because we knew how much money we had, but we also had to make sure that we provided the resources for the things that we needed the most. And as someone who grew up in Public Housing in this city, there was no way that i was going to allow an Affordable Housing bond to happen without providing the kind of support that would help residents of Public Housing, and i want to thank all of you for being unwaivering in your public support for delivering Public Housing in San Francisco. [applause] the hon. London breed this Affordable Housing bond has something for everyone, including our seniors. And president yee was such a true advocate, not because hes a senior himself, but because [laughter]. The hon. London breed i thought you were proud of that, president yee . President yee i am. The hon. London breed but let me tell you, no one does salsa like president yee. But he knew it was important, that fact. You knee it was important that we do good investments, and thats what were doing with this bond. In addition to providing senior support, well be providing housing for our teachers, for down payment assistance, so theres something for everyone. It was a compromise. And again, i want to thank all those on the working group who came together to help make this possible. But you know what . Theres also a need to make sure that these Affordable Housing units that preservation and the rehabilitation of Affordable Housing are done with our brothers and sisters of labor. And so i want to thank the Labor Community, including the leadership of larry mazzola, jr. Who sat at the table to make sure that labor was an important part of this effort. [applause] the hon. London breed so many amazing people, so much incredible work and time went into this effort. Thank you to president yee again and all the members of the board of supervisors who are very supportive of this Affordable Housing bond. As i said, this is the largest Affordable Housing bond in the history of the city without raising property taxes, and so now, the real work begins. Once the board passes this bond and places it on the ballot for november, were going to be looking to all of you and the voters of San Francisco to make sure that we pass this ballot measure. We need at least two thirds of the votes of san franciscans, and so were going to be working out there and stomping and doing everything we can to get it done, and im going to be counting on each and every one of you. Thank you all so much for being here today, and now i want to turn the mic over to my partner in this amazing effort, president of the board of supervisors, norman yee. [applause] president yee thank you very much, mayor breed. This has truly been a partnership. Its almost like a model where we start with another end, and another end, we talked to everybody we could talk to, we figured it out. What is the collaboration that we need . What are the elements that we need . How do we serve all the people in San Francisco . Whether youre a teacher, whether youre a senior, whether youre someone who lives in Public Housing, whether you just simply cant make it because of the salary that youre living on, well, i think weve done it. Weve done it. Its a start. Is this going to answer every question . Probably not, but this is going to be a big, big achievement for San Francisco for us to put 600 million for Affordable Housing for our residents. [applause] president yee ill tell you this right now. I wont outline what mayor breed what she had already outlined. It was a battle. We had to fight, we had to claw, we had to prove our point. This came from labor, it came from everybody. Even the middleincome folks to came in and say we need help also, we hear you. We will put something in there for the middleincome, as well as lowincome. I am so proud of the process that we that we took to get to where we are today. Today is going to be a historical vote where the board of supervisors will vote on this bond measure, this measure for housing in San Francisco. And then, once we get it on the ballot, its going to be another historical moment in november, because all of us, all of you will fight for this and make sure that we get 17 , right . And i cant thank the staff and the supervisors enough for their part because the community weighed in early, and we needed to figure out what are the issues that we needed to address. All my supervisors weighed in on the whole process. I want to thank them personally. Almost every one of them. Thank you supervisors. Give them a hand. [applause] president yee and i really want to thank their staff who did a lot of work. Please join myself, mayor breed up here, labor, and just say to you just talk to 20 people, all your neighbors, and say this is the most important thing you can do to help our residents in San Francisco. We need Affordable Housing, yes we need Affordable Housing, right . Thank you very much. The hon. London breed thank you. Thank you, president yee. And as he said, this was a collaborative effort, and i just want to recognize, theres so many people here today. I cant start naming names because you guys will get mad at me if i forget somebody. But i do want to say to the nonprofit Housing Developers here that work in the community, whether its tndc, Mission Housing and others, who continue to provide this muchneeded Affordable Housing, ccdc and others, thank you so much for being here today for your advocacy and Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Thank you to the yimbys in San Francisco. It means a lot. Now i want to bring up one of the cochairs of the committee to help bring forth this amazing 600 million Affordable Housing bond. Tamika moss spear headed the effort. I remember a couple years back when we discovered we had empty Public Housing units. We worked with thenmayor ed lee to come up with 200 million to rehabilitate those units. And because of those services, we were able to place 179 formerly homeless families in Public Housing, and so tamika moss, come on up [applause] thank you so much, mayor breed. Good morning we are here on this momentous occasion to acknowledge the leadership of our mayor and our president of this board of supervisors, mayor breed and president yee. I have had the Incredible Opportunity of leading one of the working groups with my cochairs, malcolm young, annie chung, and myrna melgar to make sure how the community has a voice in this bond . How do we make sure that every single san franciscan has access to permanent, supportive, Affordable Housing in their communities . And we have been able to come together and bring folks together around this bond, and i am so honored to be a part of it. This bond, as the mayor said, as the president said, is something for everyone. We have to make sure that the residents of Public Housing are supported. We need to make sure that the seniors in our community have a place to age with respect. We have a responsibility to make sure that we take care of our First Responders and our teachers. The mayor and the board of supervisors didnt just talk about an Affordable Housing crisis, they did something about it, and i am so excited to stand with them and support this and get this over the finish line in november. Guess what, folks . We have a lot more work to do. This is our first attempt to making sure we have Affordable Housing in San Francisco. We have a lot of work to do. Lets get to work. Thank you so much. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, tamika. Now many of you know this, when we talk about Affordable Housing, often times when we found in the past in San Francisco, you basically make too much for Affordable Housing but not enough for market rate in San Francisco. A couple years well, not even a couple years. Maybe two years, we worked with a number of folks to change the affordability rates to level the Playing Field because i wanted to make sure that teachers and people of our Labor Community were able to have access to the Affordable Housing that we build in san francis francisco, to the down payment assistance loans and other things, because thats what makes San Francisco a great place is when we have true diversity from various economic levels. So what im really excited about in this bond is the amount of support it will provide for Affordable Housing for middleincome residents. We have here someone who is a beneficiary of the Teacher Next Door Program who provides down payment assistance to teachers for the purpose of purchasing housing in San Francisco. With us is a sevenyear employee of the San Francisco unified school district, and she has been working as an educator in our schools with our kids. And now because of this program, shes going to be within a short walking distance of the school that she works at. And so ladies and gentlemen, please welcome cheryl lu. [applause] hello, everyone. Thank you for letting me share my story with you today . As mayor breed mentioned, i am an educator, i am a teacher, and i have actually been teaching for 13 years now. Eight years of it seven, eight years of it was in San Francisco, out at star king elementary school, which is out in potrero hill. Its always been my dream to live in the city that i serve and to eventually buy a home. And because of the down Payment Assistance Loan Program and the Mayors Office of housing and community and development, i am actually living the impossible San Francisco dream right now. As of last week, i closed on a property in San Francisco, yeah. [applause] pretty exciting, and it all worked out. And as with any buying process, you face a couple of challenges. Along the way, we made it happen, and there was low inventories when we were looking we were getting out bit. But thank you to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and assistance down Payment Assistance Loan Program, i was able to i was able to buy a place, and im a teacher, so its pretty amazing. So i really do thank the support for what the we can do on the lowincome, middleinco middleincome, teachers, First Responders, and the labor industry. If i can do it, and i can live the impossible San Francisco dream, many of you can, also. Thank you. [applaus [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, cheryl. And our final speaker is someone who grew up in the bayviewhunters point community. She started as a carpenter and is now working as a plumber. Shes in fact working at 1950 Mission Street on that project, and this is why this program was created to make sure that local residents of our city have access to the trades so they could provide the opportunity to help to build this city and also get good wages in the process. But more importantly, she has a daughter entering college this fall. We are so proud of the work that shes doing to help build the city. And so ladies and gentlemen, please welcome stacey provost. [applause] thank you, mayor london breed, for having me. I am a proud member of the pipe fitters and Plumbers Union local 38. [applause] i was born and raised in hunters point, and i began making my living as a cosmetologist. I owned my own business. I opened a hair salon, which i had to close due to rising rent. Being a single mother with a daughter going to college, i needed to find a more stable career. At that point, i had found the city build program. Throughout city build, i learned the skills required to be a to have a successful construction career. I have benefited from Affordable Housing which is how i was able to provide and support my daughter during the city build process. After i graduated, i became a carpenter, working for Carpenters Union local 22. Before having the opportunity and the blessing of joining local 38, which is the plumbers and Pipefitters Union of San Francisco. Living here in San Francisco in the 94124 has given me the benefit and a stable career to be in and pay rent in San Francisco. Thats why we need more Affordable Housing. We need more Affordable Housing for all of the reasons stated above. We also need this bond to create union jobs for all unions to build more Affordable Housing. Right now, im working for obrien mechanical in the Mission Street housing at 1950 mission where we are building 157 100 Affordable Housing units. [applause] so what im really trying to say is we need to build this housing so we can support more people like me, more stacey provosts. The hon. London breed thank you, stacey, and thiank you to all the members who came out today. And thank you to all the supervisors who came out today. I know youve got to run back to get back to business. I know we are all looking for a unanimous vote at the board. Right, supervisor mandelman . You heard it from supervisor mandelman and president yee first. Were going to get a unanimous vote and were going to get it on the ballot. Were going to knock on doors and talk to people so they know how important this is for the future of San Francisco. We know we have a number of challenges, and the longer we wait to get this housing built, the more delay it is for so many people we know are struggling in San Francisco. Yes, sadly, people who are homeless but also people who are living paycheck to paycheck, people who are losing their housing. This is more than just building Affordable Housing, this is also about preserving our existing Affordable Housing for the people who are here who are struggling to survive. Thank you all so much, and lets get this ballot measure passed [applause] [ ] i actually knew when i was young, when i was in high school. It was the iconic dancer. [ ] the hula that he did was what im totally accustom to. The extensions that he did where he left hula flavor of the rest of his dance and performance was almost like stepping into a new sphere. Its not just the physical, the movements and the tempo and the lyrics, its that he keeps it, i think, philosophically connected. [ ] he was young. He was ready to be molded. He came with a combination of fear and respect and awe many of its a Perfect Place for a new student to be because it offers you that opportunity to mold them. With patrick, when he came to class, he was like a sponge. Like a sponge. And he kept true to it. You know what im saying. When it was starting to study, he was so intense. He had to be told to relax. Patrick is a sweetest, kindest, most loving man i met. He is charismatic. He is motivating. He is inspiring. He is brilliant when it comes to choreography. Youve got the whole package. I think patrick is a good example within the whole world of being able to have a firm grasp on past traditions while shooting forward. The First Time Ever i kissed your mouth with hula songs, theyre in hawaiian. Not Everybody Knows hawaiian. When you watch a hula, you dont understand the story being told. He can use ledge songs and put a hula do it and everybody understands what its about. [ ] when they came out in that black and that one simple hairpiece, less is more. You get to enjoy the dance. You get to enjoy the faith. Those are the things i look for. [ ] i think he is one of the best risk takers. And he makes me braver, to try things. I love thinking of an audience going, what the hell. What . [ ] i think its all about variety. He looks for Something Else that could relate to other cultures, other people other than just hawaiians, it allows him to explore other cultures. They are so loyal to him. Whatever he brings, they know that they will be surprised, entertained. A part of something that is inclusive rather than exclusive. [ ] he loves San Francisco. San francisco embraced him when he needed it most. And he is on a constant give back. He has built such a nice inga tral working relationship with the community. His passion for it is, i think what touched me most. Theres a drive there. Theres this energy that comes from him that motivates you to do better. It motivates you to do more. It gave me that encouragement to start my own group. To do what he is doing. I want to replicate that. I have some young hula students that are excited to be a part of that lynn age where it falls back and goes all the way back. It motivates them to want to keep doing it. Im very proud to be the fly on your wall. To know that you have made me proud and that you will carry the legacy with you. He is so deserving of this legacy and it will carry on. With everything that he has given. You do leave a legacy in passing. You go. You go catch your legacy. And you continue to teach hula. You come back and you learn more stuff and you keep teaching me about that kind of stuff. And then, with all of that, laugh. [ ] all right. Hello, sunny day. [cheers. ] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. I am sorry for those we dont have chairs for. We didnt expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. I am so glad to see the residents here. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. Today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. As someone who grew up in Public Housing, i have lived these conditions. I know these conditions. I dont expect everyone to understand the challenges of Public Housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. I wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. Thank you to everyone who joined me today, especially the members of the board of supervisors and we have the president with us, norman yee, thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for being with us. Supervissupervisor per visor gor and earlier we had supervisor safai, and he had to take off. Why arent you in your seat . You know, today is not just about the investments we are making in our up coming budget, it is about the commitment behind those investments. Commitments to communities like s un nydale for those who have been left behind. San francisco is a city with a heart but we also have to be a city with a memory. A memory not only for the commitments we have kept but also the ones we have failed to keep. For too long our Public Housing communities were one of those failed commitments. We are changing that with our programs where we have rehabilitated over 2500 Public Housing units. [applause. ] and through hope sf, which is revitalizing and france forming communities in hunters view and right here in sunny dale and with the reconstruction of the long overdue transformation of the San Francisco Housing Authority. We are building and rehabbing housing, creating stronger and healthier communities and investing in the people who live there. We owe it to them to keep our commitment and make a difference for this community and those across the city. With every decision we make, i want to make sure that equity and accountability are at the forefront of our minds. We have to be focused on people in all neighborhoods, like the people who live here, who for too long have been living with broken pipes, mold, infestations, dilapidated conditions. People like breanna, a Third Generation resident. She and her Three Sisters have lived through the conditions you saw today. Despite these challenges, breanna is a leader in her community, and she is fighting for the next generation. She has not given up on this community and we will not give up on you. We have to be accountable to the thousands of residents across the city living in Public Housing and our low income communities. Our budget would be accountable to them both by continuing our work to improve the conditions here and our continued commitment to provide funding to keep thousands of Housing Authority residents secure in their homes. Yes, Joyce Armstrong and happy birthday. Also by recognizing that we need to do more to keep people in these neighborhoods safe and supported. For too long this was not a safe community. Families were torn apart by violence, gunfire, crime, tragedy, frustration. This community has lived with that. That is why i wanted to come here to acknowledge the past, yes, but also to make a commitment to a better and brighter future. To make communities like this safer. It is not just about enforcing the laws to make sure we have more officers on the streets. It is about giving people opportunities and investing in changing peoples lives. [applause. ] it is about interrupting the cycle of violence and despair. That starts with doing more for our young people and so that the next generation can transform their futures. Offering stipends to teachers who commit to teach in Public Schools facing those challenges. And fully funding Free City College so that everyone has a path to higher education. [applause. ] we are expanding Public Health recreation and nutrition programs for kids, including Mental Health services to provide support for kids experiencing trauma so that he can build up their lives and thrive. All of our young people, no matter where they live should have access to the amazing opportunities that this city has to offer. applause . And as we work to support the next generation, we also must do more to help those who sadly are living on our streets. In this budget, we are following through on our commitment to add 1,000 new shelter beds by 2020. We are also using our funding to create 820 new units of permanently supported housing over the next two years. However, reducing homelessness means more than just creating places for people to go. We need to do more to prevent homelessness and keep people housed. That is why we are adding 5 million to increase Homelessness Prevention and diversion efforts. We are fully funding our tenants right to counsel so they have a right to Legal Defense when they are threatened with eviction. We are providing housing for transgender who are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. We are creating a new five Year Pilot Program to provide rental subsidies subsidies for seniors to keep them secure in housing so that rising rents dont force them out of their home in the first place. With these commitments, we can keep people stable, keep them housed and prevent homeless necessary for ever becoming a part of their live. We are helping those with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder by adding 10 new behavioral 100 new Behavioral Health beds including 50 at San Francisco general for homeless residents with Mental Health challenges and 50 beds for those suffering both Mental Health and Substance Use disorder. [applause. ] combined with the 100 beds we announced earlier this year, that means we are committing to 200 new beds for our most vulnerable residents. There is the most significant expansion of Behavioral Health beds in a generation. And, chief nicholson, we are expanding the emx Emergency Response crew helping those on the streets suffering Mental Health and substance disorder issues. This will provide coverage 24 7 so the city can help people every day of every minute. These are some of the investments we are making to help our residents today. We have to be accountable to the next generation. We have to have vision and not lose sight of what is going to happen to San Francisco 10 and 20 years down the line. We know the crisis on the street is not just about a place for indoors or Mental Healthcare. It is about housing. The costs of housing are too high. We know these challenges did not develop overnight. It wont be fixed overnight. It is going to take fundamental change. Lets start increasing funding for Affordable Housing. I am proud to be working with so many members of the board of supervisors to place a 6 million Affordable Housing bond on this years 600 million Affordable Housing. Thank you, president yee, for working with me on this. It will be on this years ballot. This is the largest Affordable Housing bond in the citys history without raising property taxes. [applause. ] we are providing support not just for low income households and seniors but also for middle income residents. We are increasing investments in the budget to add over 140 million for the production and preservation of Affordable Housing so we can buy moreland, fully fund more projects and preserve our much greater rent control housing stock. [applause. ] all land through this bond our current budget, our previous spending and other efforts over the first year since i have been in office, we have identified 1 billion in new funding to build, preserve and support Affordable Housing. [applause. ] thank you for your help in building housing. This builds on top of the over 900 million that we already have committed to build and support Affordable Housing throughout our city. However, our support for housing cant just be about funding. If we are ever going to make a difference on housing, we have to make changes to how we build housing. We cant fear solutions that make it easier and faster to build housing. If we say we support Affordable Housing, our actions have to follow our values. We have to cut the red tape to barriers not just for some Affordable Housing and not just for some homeless shelters but for all housing for everyone. [applause. ] and was we build we must expandr transportation and infrastructure to support outer neighborhood goes like here in the southwest. Every neighborhood in our city needs better and more reliable access to public transit, and they need better and safer streets. This budget adds 30 million to fund transit operations, including speeding up the purchase of new light rail trains and modernizing the train control system so we see fewer delays in the subways and so that we know that we can get to where we need to more faster and more reliable. applause . We have also added 2. 5 million for vision zero improvement projects to make our streets safer. We have seen too many traffic related deaths on the streets. This funding will help double the pace of the protected bike lane and make the streets safe are for pedestrians on the most dangerous corridors through the capital plan we will spend 130 million over the next two years to improve our roads. This will get you excited. That means fewer potholes. [applause. ] and smoother rides for buses and bicycles and drivers. You are the one who have given us the potholes. We will invest in strengthening the support for cultural centers, libraries, health centers, Public Safety facilities and improving parks and open space. We will also continue to support improvements to making neighborhoods cleaner, safer and more vibrant. We are adding 12 million to our existing cleaning budget to expand our street cleaning in the tenderloin and soma and chinatown. We are fund being 80 more big belly trash cans and adding new pit stops including expanding the hours so people can use the bathroom with dignity. This is on top of 74 million that we spend every year to keep our streets clean and not only are we going to invest money in keeping San Francisco clean, we are all going to make sure people know we wont tolerate dirtying up our streets. We are supporting our plan to hire more Police Officers to get more officers out walking the beats in the neighborhoods and we are going to continue the work to reduce violent crime, property crime and auto breakins in the city. We are committed to 9 million to support Small Businesses and commercial corridors which builds on the work to streamline the bureaucracy that gets in the way of growing businesses. Our Small Business owners should focus on serving customers not navigating the bureaucracy of city hall. These are just some of the priorities we are funding in this budget. I am proud of the investments we are making and proud of the city we are working to build. I really want to thank everyone who put time into helping with this budget including the budget team and budget option director kelly. Thank you for your hard work and thank you to ben from the Controllers Office and your work. Thank you to harvey rose and the budget afternoon r analyst analyst team who is not going to touch the money i am proposing in the budget. You know, so many people have been working tirelessly day in and day out to get the budget done, and i am so excited about this. I want to end by talking about a young man named wallace pullet. We are so proud of wallace. You know, life hasnt been easy for him. He grew up with the violence i talked about earlier. He faced challenging times, including his own challenges with the law. Unlike so many others, we lost to violence or the criminal justice system, wallace worked through all of those challenges. He is now focusing on doing what is right including raising his daughter right here in sunnyda sunnydale. Now, just down the hill from here is a construction site. It is the first new building being constructed here at sunnydale as part of hope sf. It is a bright sign for the future of this incredible community. Wallace is a member of this construction team. He is building up this Beautiful New Community with his hands and with his heart. He is being accountable to himself, his daughter and his community. He is being accountability to the next generation so they have a sunnydale to grow, live and thrive and building a better San Francisco. I am committed to this community. I am committed to this community because people likua like wallae committed. Let us remember our job is to be accountable to everyone in the city, not just those who have time to show up and advocate at city hall. We have to be there for those who have hope, those who need hope, this budget is part of the commitment and represents is very best of our values in this city. By keeping those commitments, we can and we will build a stronger, more resilient San Francisco, a city not just for some, but for all of those in San Francisco. Thank you all so much for being here today. We are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came we had a good time. Made a lot of friends here. Crisises part of the 2008 clean Neighborhood Park fund, and this is so important to our families. For many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. This is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. A reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of San Francisco. They took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert American Airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. I would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping pong, so i accept your challenge. It is an amazing spot. It is a state of the art center. Is beautiful. Quarkrights i would like to come here and join them
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