Is this working . What a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. You know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. Everybody is celebrating 88. Were here and going to be celebrating this new project. I am the director of public works here at the city of San Francisco. I want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. This facility will be a facility that will serve our First Responders and we are very excited about it. Just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. That project also is going really well. Then today we are celebrating another Capital Infrastructure project here in the bayview. This job is not only about serving our First Responders, but will also give a lot of people from the community jobs. It will be able to give a lot of our contractors an opportunity to participate in bringing supplies. Of course make our city more resilient. Its also been one of several projects that the southeast sector of our city has been benefitting from. Just in the last two years or so we finished the medical examiners building, the two shops for large and small vehicles are right around the corner. Coming up soon is the new Southeast Community center. So a lot of good opportunities here, and its great that the partnership that we have with all the contractors and all the city departments, that were all working together to really improve San Francisco. As you all know, today is very, very special because its the Traffic Company and Forensic Services division that will be in this site. The building itself is going to be over 100,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet is huge. Its two storeys as you can see. More than three quarters of this lot will be a building with a twostorey building. Were invited about that. Inside the building will be many labs that would be used to help solve crimes. Also our Motorcycle Police department, they will have their vehicles here but well also have offices for them so that they can do their administrative duties, which is highly essential because now theyre spread all over the place. This building will change that. This building will also be a hightech building. Our crews have been working very hard. As you see this pile of dirt behind us, right after this ground breaking, next week well be levelling it out. All that dirt actually is going to be on site here. This area is a little bit of a low land, so were going to be increasing it by 2 or 3 feet high. So were keeping the dirt. Were recycling. As you know, our city leads the nation in recycling. Were following a lot of the building technologies. With that said, the team that has been working on this, i would like to say a huge thanks to clark construction, our architects, h. O. K. And m. I. I. Have been on this contract. Some of our subcontractors, i just want to say thank you because this new facility will make San Francisco much safer and put us into the 21st century building. Isnt that a great opportunity . [ applause ]. I can theres a lot i can say because im excited about this building because i personally have worked in this area for over 30 years. The Public Works Department yard is just up the street. So every day we see these changes. Were very excited. In the capital plan the mayor is putting money for us to look at more opportunities to do more projects here. With that said, i would like to call her to say a few words and thank her for our leadership. Our city is changing in the right direction. Lets call mayor breed and give her a big hand. Mayor breed. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Mohamed is really excited about this project, isnt he . Hes always excited about projects that move the city forward in the right direction. San francisco is in earthquake territory. And its not a matter of if but when the next big one will be prepared. So we have to be prepared. More importantly, we have to make sure that our Public Safety officials are in seismically safe facilities so that when theyre trying to help the citizens of San Francisco, they dont necessarily need help themselves. We know that the Traffic Division and the Forensic Services division are located in buildings that are not seismically safe. Especially with the Traffic Division and motorcycles and their need to get to people and help protect people throughout San Francisco, thats going to be critical. If we have a next earthquake and something happens, how are they going to get their motorcycles out . We have to start thinking about the future and ways to protect all of our citizens, especially making sure that our Public Safety officials from the police and the Fire Department and other departments can get out there on the streets and protect and save lives. This project, along with so many other amazing projects that weve done in this city, were headed in the right direction. The new Public Safety building that just opened in mission bay is absolutely incredible. The medical examiner building that just open not too far from here is amazing. Station 49, the firefighters are going to get a new stateoftheart building. We just cut the ribbon on station 5 and 21 for the Fire Department to make sure that our First Responders have seismically safe buildings that are just really outstanding and worthy of San Francisco. Now, moving forward in the capital plan finally, after the voters approved a 2014 ether bond, we are finalley here breaking ground, ready to get this building built, not only by 2021 but also on budget, right mohamed . On budget. I dont see many claps for on budget. So i just want to thank everyone whos here today with us to celebrate this milestone and just raise the profile of how significant it is to get these projects done. In fact, the voters have been really generous because through the work of the capital plan and under the leadership of our city administrator, weve been able to bring the bond for these projects forward to the voters in a responsible way, without raising property taxes. I know they usually love that. Which is why in march of next year, well be bringing forward another bond to continue the great work that were doing to make all of our buildings seismically safe throughout San Francisco. This is a great step in the right direction. I want to thank d. P. W. And the Capital Planning committee and all the contractors and people that are going to make sure that this is not only a beautiful building, but one of the most environmentally friendly buildings and it will be a safe, great place for so many people who serve our city day in and day out to work. Im looking forward to it. Im sure these guys behind me cant wait to use a nice bathroom for a change in a great facility. With that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the supervisor for this district, supervisor walton. Thank you so much, madam mayor. First of all, good afternoon and welcome to district 10. Youre actually in a place that is going to be very well protected in the future in San Francisco. As the mayor mentioned, we have crime lab out here now in the district. Were going to have keep your fingers crossed everything goes according to plan our evidence facility. Naturally we have the Traffic Company and Forensic Division that is coming right here. Our district is going to be well protected, which is exciting for us. Any time we can have Brand New Community gems that are going to be in our district, we get excited about that. So i want to thank everyone for coming out here today. I want to thank the commitment from the voters. Thank the mayor for her commitment and dedication to district 10. I want to of course thank mohamed who is a constituent here in district 10 and who worked very hard to make sure that we have the opportunity to bring facilities like this here into the district. I want to thank the chief for his partnership on all the work and for looking at district 10 as a place where we can bring stateoftheart 21st century facilities to the district so our police and Law Enforcement can be a staple in the community. Were all excited that this will be here in 2021 and we look forward to all the seismically safe opportunities were providing here in district 10. Thank you all for coming to the district and thank you for being here this morning. [ applause ]. Okay. And now lets hear from the chief of police, bill scott. He is a big partner with public works every day, 24 7, all of the partnership we have with the Police Department, thank you for everything that you do to support public works. Thank you for everything you do for our city. Welcome, chief scott. Thank you, mohamed, and thank you for your partnership. First of all, i have a lot of people to thank here. Mayor breed, your leadership and commitment to this Police Department and city is just off the charts. This is a Long Time Coming and it took vision. It took commitment. I just want to thank everybody who made this happen, beginning with the mayor and the director, all the contractors that will take part in this. The officers that are standing here behind me and onto the sides, this is for them. These are the frontline people that do the work. They keep our city safe and they deserve seismically safe facilities and facilities that are stateoftheart as stated. We thank you for appreciating our work and your gratitude for voting to allow this to happen. This facility will not only move our department into the future, but through the advanced services that have been built into this project, we will be better able to serve our city. It will be seismically safe. Our employees will be able to respond to major emergencies quickly and efficiently. And as supervisor walton said this part of the city is excited to have us here, and we really appreciate that. Our crime lab will be fully modernized to accommodate evolving technologies and employ sound scientific principles to process data. At the end of the day this is about keeping our community safe. We thank everybody for making this happen. Our elected leader, the voters, the architect, the engineers, the consultants. Finally, we thank you, the people of our city again for allowing us to be here and making this happen. Thank you. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go over to where the shovels are and we will throw a little dirt and then these contractors can get back to work. Right . All right. [ ] it is nice we can do this outside. It is so nice out. It is 110 degrees in sacramento. We have this weather ten days a year, maybe, but now with global warming, it is 30 days. We are here to talk about affordability. It has got to be one of the number one issues for you. Housing, homelessness, cost of living, it certainly is for the state of california. Thank you for hosting us, thank you for allowing us this opportunity to dialogue with some people who have beneficiaries of your leadership and the work that has been done at the local level to address the issue of affordability. Not just as it relates to the issues of rent, but also for homeowners, which all of us aspire to be. I am still aspiring. [laughter] can you take advantage of your own Home Loan Program . I wish. [laughter]. By the way, you do. And then after taxes, its like, student loans, rent, and this is crazy. So lets talk about that. You guys feel the same way, i imagine. You are a firefighter, you just came here for a very short period of time, eight years later, youre still here from illinois and chicago. Still here. And you spent 22 years as a Deputy Sheriff,. I cant believe you retired. Early. [laughter] and you have nothing in common on this topic with them, but you want to have something in common, and you want to be a beneficiary of the program you have all been able to take advantage of. Why dont we talk about that program and mayor, maybe you can set the table on what that loan program is all about. What is so great about the programs that we have in San Francisco is it is not only the first time down payment assistant program, which we know can help people to get a significant amount of money to put as a down payment on a home, and not necessarily have to pay that loan back right away. Theres also the teacher nextdoor program. Sometimes there is just an additional amount of money that you need to put you over the hump because the cost of living here and the cost of purchasing a home is really challenging for so many families, and i know that, you know, when you say, you know, you have a family of four making 200,000 a year, people think, oh, my god, 200,000 a year is a lot, but just think about it. With kids, with the expense of living in the city, it is even hard to save money to put a down payment on a home in the first place. So having an option like this can be absolutely incredible. So we in San Francisco have made a lot of changes. We have put 600 dollar 40 will housing bond, the largest Affordable Housing bond without raising property taxes, that will provide Additional Support for programs like this so that we can really get to a lot of our middle income residents and get to our educators and or Public Safety officials, and the people that are really struggling to afford to live here to making sure they there are easy ways to get access to resources. It is critical to making sure our city remains diverse. It is important. Lets talk a little bit about , and the Practical Application of what the mayor set out. You have been a firefighter in San Francisco for three years. Four new four years. And you were able to navigate this lottery process. Tell us more about that and what ultimately transpired and why you are sitting with us and why you think it is so damn important. Im happy to be sitting here on the other end of this program i am a firefighter of San Francisco. I had friends who came who went to the program and i know that that would be my only way to stay in the city. My mom and dad live here and i grew up here, i was born and raised, i have had so many friends and coworkers leave San Francisco to as far as idaho to find Affordable Housing. And my own fire academy, i would say about half wherefrom here and a quarter are still with here. It is still unfortunate that folks who want to stay cant, but i lucked out, and some of my classmates lucked out where we got this program through the city. I havent even got a chance to personally thank you so thank you. I have a wonderful home in silver terrace, i love it. I love it to death. A great view, it is my dream home. I cant wait to go home every night every morning after work. This program is a help for a down payment and there is no way i would have been able to pay them for the down payment. The amount that you need to compete in this market is astronomical and even with the program, as im sure other people no, the only thing that really helped me was my program. If i didnt have the money from the city, i have been eyeing it for years. It is at it it is competitive. It is competitive. We put additional money in a couple of years back for First Responders, you know, basically trying to get more First Responders to live in the city and theres additional money for that and so the money goes fast. Yeah,. Even with that, use it still has to be a lottery because theres not enough money to go around. Mine wasnt as large as some of the other lotteries that i saw on their, and some of you guys the odds were a little stacked against you guys a little more than i was, but still, it was still really tough i was doing it i knew about this program for a while and i think i had about three years trying to go for it and do it. Even with this program, you still need enough down payment on your own and help from all corners of your own community. I scrounged and i saved. A lot of trips i didnt go on, a lot of nights out i didnt go on , and i lucked out. There is not no other way about it. You lucked out for whatever reason and you decided that you had had enough of the winters in chicago and you came out west. I did. But you didnt expect to be out here this many years. No. I moved from six from chicago about five years ago and i thought, it will totally be a temporary thing, so did my family, and eight years later, im still here in San Francisco as a teacher. I am teaching second grade. My name is cheryl and i closed on a condo in Outer Mission around the 4th of july weekend just recently. It is very close to your school. It is very close to the school and the children that i serve. It is a 16 minute drive every morning in rush hour traffic. It is amazing. Thank you to the Mayors Office of housing. It has been an amazing learning experience similar it is a Lottery Program and it was a good three years that i was trying, but you just keep pushing forward and you keep trying and one day you get lucky and i did. After that, it was a whirlwind process with the down Payment Assistance Loan Program, and also i was a beneficiary of the Teacher Next Door Program so that was another good lumpsum. Both programs you were able to connect with. Yeah,. And then with a down payment of my own, as well, i was able to get my home, and a home that i live in, that i can go home to every night, and not have to worry about paying rent or be pushed out of the city to go move into moved to the suburbs or something more affordable. I just read an article two days ago saying that your income needs to be about three and 43,000 343,000. [laughter] yeah, and i was thinking, that is not me, but because of the Mayors Office of housing in the down Payment Assistance Loan Program and the teacher nextdoor program, all of these resources, i was able to get a home and have me stay in the city and serve in the community that i have worked in and lived in and breathed in for the past eight years. So you want to be sitting in her seat. I have a lot of questions for her. [laughter]. Tell us about your background , what are your aspirations to stay in the city and struggles with rent and housing . My name is yolanda, i teach second grade at San Francisco elementary. I was born and raised in the city and went through the Public School system. You know, this is home. A lot of people i know have moved out of the city because they cant afford to live here. I know some friends and colleagues of mine that have moved out to the pacific northwest, nevada, other places where it is more affordable, and theyre constantly telling me that i need to get out there because it is a lot cheaper, costofliving, houses, it is easier out there to own a home and, you know, every time i am checking listings out here and i see my salary, im just thinking , oh, my goodness, maybe i do need to research this a little bit more because it gets harder and harder each time. But i love where i work, i love San Francisco, so right now it is a struggle for me to own a home, but im constantly trying to save money, you know, and hope that one day that will happen. Without getting too personal, what percentage of your income do you spend on housing . Right now im living at home because im trying to save. You are still with mom and dad . Ive tried to save them money for a house in the bay area. I have realized that i might not live in San Francisco, but hoping i can stay in the bay area because i still want to work where i work. What do your parents say . They talk about do they talk about the good old days when they could afford to raise a family, and now here you are, you cant even afford the home you grew up in . Even my mom, she sees how hard it is for me to eventually own my own home. When she and my dad moved here 30 plus years ago, it was hard for them, they were still able to manage to buy a home, and pay mortgage. They worked at hotels and sales. I am a teacher, i cant i dont even know if i can afford to live here. Right. My mom wants me to save money and hopefully one day by something in the area, but realistically, i dont know if i can anymore. We have relatives up in washington who constantly tell us to go up there. It is very cold in the winter i know. It is terrible. The other thing is, this is also why, in addition to programs like this, we need to deal with the process. For example, the old campus, where it is slated to be 100 educator housing, the additional two year delay through the process and rezoning of the property is just ridiculous. And thats really presenting an opportunity to make sure that we are building more educator housing, and we need to address bureaucracy. You dealt with that when you were mayor here. You want a project done, then it takes up to seven years before you can even get a 100 Affordable Housing project done. It is ridiculous. I wanted to talk about that a little bit more. But first, you spent 22 years, Deputy Sheriff, he retired and you are working. Did you grow up in the city . Yes, in the city. And struggled with housing despite a pretty decent salary. We negotiated a couple of those contracts, but not good enough. Tell us a little bit about where you have been bouncing around, and your family background. Okay. My name is elaine and i am a native san franciscan. I went to elementary through high school here, and i just retired as a Deputy Sheriff up sheriff about three years ago im still working. As far as housing, i was a homeowner, but i got into an upside down loan and lost it. Im sorry. God bless. It has been hard for me to get home, and probably about four years ago, i lost my home. I had a short sale, i had been looking at this program for a long time, and i was able to put my application in, they picked my name, and i call it a blessing. Im sorry, i dont want to be in here crying. [laughter] anyway, so my family grew up here and all of my family members moved out. They are in other cities, and my grandmother to this school. Thats great. In the sixties and seventies. So just being able to have a down payment assistance, and being able we need the programs, we need a 100 affordable because it is even hard to save enough money. We have to make a lot of sacrifices to even save to get into the down payment assistance program. Another thing that i believe is important is the Housing Development Housing Development Corporation Council because half of them probably would not have even gotten into that program. I could have gotten into something affordable, and that wasnt down payment assistance, that was just regular. So that is very important. And just the education on what to do and what not to do, i was the first person on my moms side of the family to purchase a home. I grew up in subsidized housing in fillmore. So it is great to be able to have a home and to also have other people native of San Francisco to be able to stay here. I will never leave. I have something to leave my daughter now. It is very important. And they see me with a home, and now they believe they can buy a home because i never believed that i could even own a home. It is about your kids, this is real, i appreciate i love that you are in bayview. Yes. That is great. I am able to give back as a retiree. I do still work, but i can give back to my community because i do make my own schedule. That is one thing i love to do, and they love to share in the program and being a testimony that people think, you cant even get it, and then, well, i got it, so let me show you how to get in, and then once they pull your name, i believe that god did not take up this part to leave us. Once they pull your name, theres all of this red tape you have to go through. They ask you for something, they ask you for something else. Just do it. I remember one time i was called up and she said i know this is nerveracking and i said no, it is not nerveracking. Whatever you need, i look at it because you were getting are getting me down payment assistance. [laughter] so i would say, some people may want to quit once they are chosen because of all of the paperwork, but if they pull your name, you are getting a home. Dont quit. Dont quit. I can go on thank you. [laughter] i need to talk about it. Have you started the application process . No. I know about it, but i havent. Do a lot of your colleagues know about it . I believe so. Is there a buzz about this . [laughter] the resources that the city gives you a lot of people are just unaware. My phone blew up once when i find out when i found out i got the program. That is how i found out i got it you become an expert as you walk through the process. You are happy to give it to them because you want a home, and a lot of people are in the same position to own a home. They would do anything. Yeah. Thank you, guys, for putting a human face. Thank you for sharing your story , and thank you, mayor for everything you are trying to do at a local level and what is not surprising about this conversation is we could be having this conversation in any other part of the state of california. When you look at the 50 most expensive cities for rent in the united states, 33 of them happen happened to be in the state of california. Not surprisingly, not just from a rental perspective, but even more broadly, does finding housing that is accessible in your price range, the costs are astronomical, but for one fundamental reason. We are not building enough housing. We are 49th out of 50 in per capita housing. It is only utah on a per capita basis that develops less than the state of california. It has been decades in the making. It manifests in every conceivable way, but fundamentally, the expression of frustration relates to the time and value of money and the patients one has to develop a project, even at 100 affordable , taking up to seven years, foundational he is one of the greatest impediments to this states future, to your future, to our collective future because i posit that the california dream is in real peril if we do not address the housing crisis. It is a world i went to Great Lengths over the last 20 years not to say because i think we are often using the word over using the word crisis and it dilutes its meaning. But when it comes the cost of housing in this state, it is a crisis. You dont need any more evidence of that beyond this conversation than to see its ultimate form in manifestation and that is homelessness, which is skyrocketing. It is not just growing. I consistently make this point. I said for all of the focus on San Franciscos homelessness, you have one of the most modest increases compared to other parts of the state. This is serious stuff, and it requires a much more serious and intentional response. It is significant, it is important. The challenge is the scale and scope, and the amount of resources that are needed at a local level that can never meet your demand, a collective demand and aggregate demand. Weve got to do a lot more. The state of california needs to lead that effort. I wanted to just briefly talk about some of the things that the state is advancing and please feel free to leave or answer any questions. I dont want to keep you away from your skills a great on science, as we were talking your skills upgrade on science, as we were talking. This is almost 3 billion of new investment in housing and homelessness. 2. 75 billion dollars to be exact 1. 75 of that was to help support local efforts on housing, go through my financing and tax credit perspective as well as loan perspective. 1 billion in new tax credits and loans that were set aside. That is all about leverage. Leveraging what is happening at the local level, leveraging what is happening in the private sector, and being able to pull down more federal dollars. We believe our Tax Credit Program can leverage one and a half to 2 billion of Additional Resources beyond the half a billion that we put into that program. We have put up 250 million to help cities, large and small with their predevelopment work, with their planning work. They update their master plans to get the experts and consultants so that we have mitigated one of the principal complaint i hear, and that is we simply cant afford the staff. There other priorities in the state, so we have offered that as resources. Half a billion dollars just in infrastructure financing. A lot of cities cannot afford the sidewalks, the lighting, the sewer hookups, so we have an unprecedented amount of money in that space to draw down. That was something that came out of a dozen plus conversations that we had with smaller, rural cities, in particular that are struggling, just to, quite literally, do basic things, let alone help invest in jumpstarting housing construction. A billion dollars and homelessness, it is substantially more than we have ever put in the past. Much of that is directly to cities and counties for flexible purposes. Rapid rehousing, conversions of old motels, to preserve and not just expand s. R. O. S in San Francisco and other preservation efforts but all that is not enough. I will close with this. There are three additional things that we are working on in the legislature over the course of the next few weeks. We have to deal with the rent gouging in this state. Some cities of rent control, some dont. Some are more aggressive as it relates to those issues. I dont think any city is more aggressive than you are, mayor. It is still challenging. We are working with the legislature to get rent gouging ordinance to my desk, and this is one of our Top Priorities over the next few weeks before our legislative session ends. We also are trying to get 331 million set aside to help tenants that are on the verge of eviction, to help them with legal support. Were trying to create an endowment, instead of it is something that with surplus dollars to potentially look at one time investments, forget ongoing because those are stressful for mayors, but an annuity of sorts. Were setting aside 331 million regardless of recessionary pressures that will be set aside for rental protections and legal aid. Those dollars will be made available to San Francisco and all across the state. That is a legislative effort. And finally, weve got a bill that goes directly to your frustration about permitting. Nancy skinner has a bill, i dont want to bore you, but it is a streamlining and permitting bill to address the abuses and address some of the abuses of local government that our down zoning that are down zoning in a time of crisis as opposed to up zoning. It is a really important legislative effort that we are hoping comes to my desk in the next few weeks. That is the message we want to send. Were getting more serious about this than ever. We have half a billion additional dollars. I know you got all of this up, i have lost two, but there is no place like home. It is a bond that we are able to put out for supportive housing, for people with Behavioral Health issues. A lot more resources than there has been in the past, but never have we had a challenge this big in our states history. We have to meet it head on. You are doing it at the local level and we need to help you more at a state level. And yes, the federal government needs to help support cities, large and small, that are the economic engine of this country, and increasingly, not just this administration, that Previous Administrations, government has gotten out of the housing business. It is a skeleton of what it once was. I think it is incumbent upon governors and local leaders to call that out, as well. We cant do this, even at the state level alone. We need the federal government to get back in the housing business because urban and Metro America is struggling with these issues, even chicago, not just here in San Francisco, and this is incumbent upon us to call that out, as well. That is the Broad Strokes message. It is a big issue, an important issue and a complex issue. We are grateful for your leadership and all of you for being with us today. Im happy to take any questions. Do you have any for them . I dont want to burden all of you. They are just here for you. [laughter] if that is what the mayor is saying, then i need to get out of here. [laughter] that is great. Im happy to take any questions. [indiscernible] what is your position on the new ballot measure . They have refiled, but i want to complement not only those that have refiled, but others for their willingness to engage and to pursue a compromise, pursue an alternative, pursue a strategy to avoid a historically costly ballot fight. I dont know what will come of those conversations, but those conversations are ongoing. They have been for some time. They have been renewed with a deeper sense of urgency over the next number of weeks, but my position is to see if we can process those conversations along and try to build a monochrome of consensus because at the end of the day, there are winners and losers in a property tax debate, and not everybody will be left happy. I dont want to overstate these efforts, but those are ongoing negotiations. As it pertains to housing, obviously homelessness comes up so much because the problem is so acute. We see the effects on our street everywhere we go. But when you sit down at a roundtable have a conversation like this and you hear from teachers, firefighters, and people make up the Service Fabric of the communities, and they are being displaced. Does that represent an existential crisis . I dont thank you do overstate. I love the way you framed it from a moral perspective in terms of who we are as a society and what we represent, how to define community and a commonwealth when so many people that appear to be doing well are actually struggling, and so many people that clearly are struggling are also struggling in historic numbers. So this issue it has been with us for decades. I was a former supervisor here 20 plus years ago. This was the issue. It hasnt gone away. It is just more acute than ever. And the nature of the change has now been fasttrack. I am even feeling it as a fifthgeneration san franciscan with family here and businesses here. I am acting like that old san franciscan, i remember the days, and this place im starting to act like that. I know where those impulses come from because they are warning. Im also concerned about that. I am concerned broadly about the state. Rather than complain about it and lament about it, we are trying to do something about it. Im doing something no Previous Administration is doing, in a holding folks accountable. I talked about the carrots, not the sticks, but we are suing i sued Huntington Beach because they didnt want to get in the housing business. They werent doing enough. Fortysix other cities were being threatened with lawsuits. Tomorrow we will announce seven of them now that are in compliance. Another one across the bay just came into compliance. Were working with the others to get them in compliance. I just passed a trailer bill in the state that will allow courts to actually take over as conservators for some of the cities and the resources that they receive from the state if they dont produce housing. We are going to get much tougher because at the end of the day, the state of california cant develop the housing. At the end of the day, california cant solve the issues of homelessness for local government pick localism is determinative. It has to happen at the local level. My job is to amplify good behavior, support these local efforts in every way i can with support but also accountability and we have to see it on the back and the accountability. We have to see results. You cant just keep throwing money at this. I want to know what they will do with this billion dollars. I want to see real results. We gave them flexibility, deep urgency, new rules, new regulations, we will help you with the nimby is an that exists , and i will push back against that, as well, but i want to see real results. Forgive me if that isnt a soundbite, but it is a mouthful because this is just so profoundly complex and get so simple. More housing, deeper prevention dollars, key people in their homes, and lets preserve existing housing stock. [indiscernible] significant. You have seen a number of announcements which are examples of those conversations now being made public with some of the Largest Tech Companies in the state of california that have committed funds for housing, not just for low income housing, but for workforce housing, as well. I can assure you there are a number of others that will be making public announcements very soon that also will be a point for those conversations. Absolutely we believe in accountability. We think it is a twoway frame and i can assure you this, talking to the c. E. O. S, they get it because their number one problem is housing for their employees. It drives up the costs for them as it relates to recruiting talent, salaries, and it drives most principal complaint that they get in terms of retaining their key talent, because their families are earning a great deal of money and cant afford to stay in the bay area. Developers say they are being distance that devised [indiscernible] let me just say this. Theres more money in this your s budget than the amount of money that was set aside when we had the redevelopment. I could go through the list on the atkins transaction bill, the no place like home money that we put up, the money we put up for tax credits and loans, we created a new Tax Increment Program called an enhanced infrastructure financing. I dont know why this doesnt get more attention. It doesnt because what the hell does that mean . We have to change the names of all this stuff so people understand it. But it is a variant on redevelopment where we eliminated the voter approval to do tax increments. That was a big deal. In and of itself that was a big deal but it got lost with the larger housing package, but the impact fees are great. We have to call that out. The reason why is exactly to your frame of the question. It goes to carlas question because the way our property tax allocations work. And prop 13 is the principal source. If you want to go to the y. , you go back and you have prop 13. You have to connect that. What im trying to do in these conversations is to connect the impact fee conversation to the larger negotiations. That is a bank shot of sorts because it makes it particularly more complex, but i think it is so fundamental and foundational in terms of addressing the affordability issue in the state you cant build an 800,000dollar Affordable Housing unit. That is what you are doing here. It is laughable. Someplace his and i said you have to be kidding. They were half a Million Dollars , not in a big urban center like this. That will never happen. We are incentivizing new styles, forgive me, but in that list of things, we are encouraging and we are prioritizing new modular and prefab strategies. We are doing a lot with excess Surplus Property in the state. We have 45,000 parcels. We reviewed state property that we could set aside for development and we are prioritizing those methods for those parcels, and we already have six cities that are partnering with us to fast track the development of those units in order to get those costs down and waving all of those state related fees and fast tracking our permitting process. In order to be able to afford housing, you have to be making enough money. One of the problems is theres a bigger and bigger part of the gig economy. Would essentially make it harder to make people independent contractors and actual employees with benefits. How do you stand on that . We are negotiating on it. We have been negotiating on it for nine months. Can you say, wait a second, you have been governor only seven, right after i think a week before the election we started having very robust conversations it was continued for about two hours yesterday and six for the day before. My chief of staff is consumed most of her days to see if we can accommodate different points of view. As you know, many folks have been accommodated with amendments to the bill. There have been a number of industries that have been carved out, and i know this impacts all of you, as well. So many others would like carveouts or accommodations would like to be considered differently, and im open to argument. We are pursuing that and i am not naive about where the prevailing wind is on any of these issues. [indiscernible] i had just walked in and i try to avoid my thread on twitter because i have enough emotional issues from my early a Early Childhood trauma, but i was just made aware of this. It was a very serious issue. It goes to the core of people wanting to live in a city as spectacular as this and that foundation is safety. I hear it all the time. These qualityoflife crimes, these crimes that were stopped, and it appears, in this case, she was very fortunate. It could have been a terrible incident. It was just a traumatic one, and how often they are dealt with. Sometimes people flippantly deal with it and not seriously deal with it. People are back out on the streets, potentially to commit the crime again. I am very sensitive to what was presented to me, but i dont have the benefit of the details and fax to address a tweet, but i deeply respect the emotional tenor of not only that example and that incident, but more broadly, what i hear when i come back in the city about car breakins, about qualityoflife , about what is happening on the streets and sidewalks, and as a former mayor , im deeply sensitive to that. Your mayor is doing an extraordinary job, but she is going to need, as we all do, more support and that is one of the reasons we are here in the city. [indiscernible] yeah. He was up in our office two days ago. I asked him about it and we are really looking forward to his exploration. He was very pragmatic about it. He says we are pursuing it, but it continues to be a pursuit. So we are monitoring that closely and i am intrigued by the concept, but i want to see where he takes it and i know that there are a number of people, including the conversation i had with our leadership three days ago in the capital, that are also looking at that and thats all i can say right now. There is no pending legislation, but there is intrigue around that frame. [indiscernible] 2020, that is the most important thing we can do because our current h. U. D. Leadership is well, 2020 is important. It is not just 2020. I will be candid with you, it has been a point of frustration going back to when i was a parking and traffic commissioner in San Francisco. And you look at the trendlines of h. U. D. In terms of their housing support, and it has been declining for three or four decades, and i just think, you know, you meet with mayors, you meet with governor his. I was just with the governor association. The issue of affordability is not unique to california. It is just extreme here. But this persists in large metros all across the country and it is a growing issue in america. The reality is, at the end of the day, we need the government to help support some of these regional and local efforts, and i thank you will start hearing a united chorus around this that hopefully can fundamentally answer that question, not just with administration change and leadership change, but he foundational understanding of whats at stake in terms of affordability in america at large. Clerk good morning. To
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