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Honda. [applause] and the difference between then when we had a decertification and now is the sad faces the tears and now the smiles, joy and excitement. For the people when work at laguna honda this is in the just about their jobs. This is about their patients. This is about the people this they help every day. The people this depends on them. For help for support because they cant take care of themselves. We know what is at stake. When the decertification came to us. We knew we had no other choice but to come together to make hard decisions and to fight for laguna honda. And fight we did. And as a result, we worked really hard and i gotta say no one worked harder then and there the people who physically worked here. And we did all the paperwork. But it was touch and go for i minute and one of the best decisions this the department of Public Health made, doctor coal fax was to send the best add administrator anywhere to help us and guide this ship. I want to thank roland pickins for his work. [applause]. Times i came up to lug luge and walked the halls with roland i know you want to keep him. You got a new director. Sandra will be great it was so like over the past year see the excitement serving folks. How people felt and mote the patient and Family Members and hear the stories. We had no choice. And we had to make very decisions that were criticized. I want to thank david chu for the lawsuit. Because it did take a lot of courage because people discouraged us from going there. But we reached out to everyone on the state level and on the federal level. And i got to point out key leaders on the federal level who were instrumental with helping us to get tow this moment. I want to star with jackie spear. Who really not only sounded the alarm but worked hard up until the day she left office to help support us and man, what will we do without our fierce leader nancy pelosi. She was absolutely invaluable in this process. And really pushed aggressively it make sure that it was clear where we stood on saving this institution. I want to thank our governor and Gavin Newsome and scott wiener for heard work on the state wide level and helping us get to this point. So, this irrelevant was a collective effort of National Support of state support and of course of a lot of local leaders. I said our City Attorney and the supervisor who represents this district, melgar and thank the president of the board of supervisors aaron supervisor peskin. And i want top extra super thank the members who are the staff but especially our partners in helping. Seiu for your work. Because of the advocacy that was helpful to put the pressure on. But again i want to keep back to the doctors and the nurses and the clinicians and the people who distribute the food and hands that make the food. The blessed machine when makes the food the people from the food makers and creative to the folks who have patience and people taking care of everyone and the folks in between who show up daily to take out the treasure to make sure that we are discarding needles appropriately there are many moving parts to laguna honda and the people here when you have done to work hard to fight your concerns about what was happening in the uncertainty. You know men of you could say i dont want it and i gallon some place and he wills do manage so my financial situation is protected but no you rolled up your sleeves and worked hard and smart and said im stick with laguna honda i want to take care of the people i care about the patients at laguna honda. Thank you all so very much. Thank you. [applause] whoa if i dont when to say anymore. But i want to say to the department of Public Health e approximately and i know grant colfax will talk about how this works because it is different layers the patients at laguna honda depend on medicare and medicaid and the state after going through the various processes and trying to get up to parmaking adjustments to new policies. Giving a list of new rules that weep had to adjust to, we got to the accomplice on my birthday august 11 we submitted an application. And in record time the state responded with, you are approved. What does this mean . That means the majority of the money over 200 Million Dollars a year this we rely on from medicare from the state will now come flowing in laguna honda to ensure that we protect this institution so that those who are most vulnerable and those who could least afford tell not only be in laguna honda and get the passport and care but mean this is if sillity will be open to the next generation of folk who is need it the most for another 150 years. So i can go and on. I will come back later. In the meantime i want to say that doctor colfanatic be proud a pandemic now make sure we save laguna honda you got a lot of great things under your belt and appreciate this more than anything else. And we are truly grateful to you and the folks you put in accomplice to get us here. Ladies and gentlemen, to provide the specifics when this means is doctor grant colfax. Thank you, thank you mayor breed. Thank you mayor breed. Have we been waiting for this day or waiting for this day 200 Million Dollars in medicaid dollars will flow to lug luge. A great day. I really want to thank everybody. Because with this funding secure laguna honda is here to stay. And this represents a new beginning for laguna honda. Going forward, laguna honda will be the if model of the new modern guild nursing facility. Our job is to ensure the health of our community especially for those who are most vulnerable. And laguna honda is a key part of that mission. Over 150 years laguna honda served san franciscans. It is a place and will continue to be a place where we provide compassionate longterm care for low income people when need us. For them, this is not just a Skilled Nursing facility. This is their home. This is why all of dph pulled together with our colleagues at laguna honda and collaboration with many others to put time, resources and effort to making significant improvement this is lead to our ref certification. We brought in experts skill in the nursing home care to sustain improvements from Clinical Operations to staff training. We moved record pace and for those. You who know this city it was a referred pace. Outstanding pace to hire our new nursing home administrator and ceo sandra simon. [applause] and sandra 2 assistants Jennifer Wade and jill. Yea. Our new Leadership Team is in place. And we were not alone we could not do this alone we had partners who worked with us advocated for us and done everything in between to get us here. We could not have done this without passport and mayor london breed. Thank you, mayor. I was not happy going in the Mayors Office and giving her the news we were decertified the mayor said you can and will do it i want it done. Thank you, mayor. I want to thank yes. I want to which thank the support of City Attorney chu. And his team lead boy julie. Amazing work. This team the teach attorneys every day worked with us. Advocates. You we think the legal side is remove from the clinical side this was a close relationship. Thank you, david for you and your teams leadership thank you to the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin and melgar incredible making sure weave got it done and i want to thank the leadership of the Health Commission for effort in guidance. And of course, we are grateful for the leadership and support of Speaker Pelosi and not without laguna honda itself this team crucial low included the per inship and support of the leadership and membership local 1021. Under the leadership of theresa and union employees. We had to mission in minds and thank you roland pickins. I called you. You anyhow that call was coming you took on daily responsibility, leading the change. You truly went above and beyond. Thank you. And you know i dont i feel like with roland and the team it does come to minds the quote from st. Francis do what is necessary then possible and soon you will do the impossible. I feel like this reflects the ethose you and your team brought to this work. [applause]. Most of all we are grateful to our residents and their families. Who despite uncertainty in the situation were supportive of us. Gave us the reason and will to succeed. And if you stay patient centered you keep resident in mind the work will take care of itself we went become to when is benefit for the residents of lug laguna honda this is why laguna honda represents the best San Francisco and why we work so hard and success have gone low for our residents, fells and our city. Thank you, and i would now like to turn it over to City Attorney david chu. [applause] brother and sisters inference france the sun is shining today. Who ask happy about this day so, let mow sill this every time i come to laguna honda i think this is true for so many, we may have had quibbles with regulators the last couple years. When i step through the doors, we feel the care. We feel the professionalism. We feel the spirit of the city of st. Francis in this building and that would not be the case but for the men and women behind us first i want to star boy thanking and sallowing the staff and workers of laguna honda. Thank you very much. Friends, this hen quite a journey. It turns out it was one year ago this month when this facility under the threat of closure our Office Joining the mayor, dph the leadership of the institution and otherings we filed a let you to continue funding. Pause resident transfer and keep laguna honda open. We all heard from countless resident fells and staff when faced uncertainty. Who were worried more transfer exclude the tolls the transfers could have on vulnerable patients. And through this litigation, we reached a fair settlement to condition funding pause transfers and give the institution the troop apply for recertification. There were thanks today. And of course i want it echo the thifrpgs for federal and state partners but irrelevantment to thank the local willful, mir, doctor colfax, dph come laguna honda staff there is a joke with relationships with lawyers and health care professionals. Im so proud we came together to preserve this Critical Institution that so many of most vulnerable san franciscans rely on. I want to take a moment and acknowledge folks from my office work helped lead us today. San francisco City Attorneys office we are the best municipal law office in the country no part because of those who are part of team laguna honda. I wish that the folks were here next to right in front of me were behind us. I want to tick a moment and thank julie. Hen row lip ton. Tera steely. And medina. Glen levy. Michael. Jessy smith. Sarah, jen. Star. Katie. Lilly and pam. [applause] jop love it when lawyers and heck folks come together. I want it take a moment and acknowledge the efforts of my former City Attorney lewis. I will close by saying this together we have preserved this incredible institution and restored a safety net for San Francisco. Laguna honda taken care of most vulnerable we look forward to this happening for the next 100 years. With this my honor to bring up someone helping to represent our neighbors and residents of the city of San Francisco the supervisor of d 7, supervisor melgar. Thank you very much. I want to say thank you, mir for your leadership and for being able to tune out the noise. While the task at hand needed get done. Sometimes we have contentious rep with the board and the majors office. [laughter] and i remember very vivid low that meet whenning we decided no we need to Work Together. Tune out the noise and figure out how to get this done and cord nit and Work Together the messaging together the same page and get it done. This was you, mayor. Thank you very much. For your leadership. I want it thank a couple people in your office. This is shawn your chief of staff. Thank you for all that. And someone when has in the been thanked from dph besides pickins whom i appreciate is doctor baba. And i look forward so much to working with sandra simon through the work ahead. Come with years of experience as a nursing home add administrator in San Francisco worked at the jewish home the other institution that does this time of work. I thank you for stepping up. In doing this. And of course local 1021. For all of the partner help the work and strategy and communication and organizing all of that thank you. I also. To say thank you to the advocates joe request urban. The doctor palmer the california advocates enoughsing home reform and gray panthers than i organized the letters to the feds and a annoying folk and made sure everybody understand to preserve the people we serve and the gem for 150 yearers Florence Nightinggale over seen in terms of making sure we are doing right. And being true to our San Francisco values. Thank you so much, everyone. Keep going it is now on us to make sure this never happens again. We have the appropriate compliance, training but also the wonderful things we need to make sure this is the tradition continues to serve san franciscans thank you and with this i will bring up the machine of the day. Our ceo and director of the San Francisco Health Network mr. Roland pickins. [applause]. Good afternoon will everyone. Supervisor melgar said, wonderful day to be in the saddle of the statute of Florence Nightinggale. This is a great day for everybody the laguna honda. Nurses, doctors and therapist and the staff most of all or residents and their families whom laguna honda their home. Will past 18 months seen nothing short of trans formation laguna honda in a world class the world class Skilled Nursing facility. One this will continue to serve for generations to come. Our goal has been dem strit this we meet the highest standards and meet them every day. We have prouven this in multiple surveys the past 18 months. Those results taken an extraordinary effort with extraordinary dedication and attention it detail. Everyone working at laguna honda in every capacity has done outstanding work. And they have done this under stressful and challenging circumstances. And im so proud of them. And grateful. For their commitment to our residents. I want to express my thanks to theical Cal Department of Public Health and the Federal Center for medicare and Medicare Services working with us on this journey and recognizing the progress we made. We all share the same goal to provide the best Service Public to those who rely on public funded health care. And finally, im grateful to residents and families who have been patient and supportive of our people and our efforts. It hen has been stressful for them. With todays recertification our residents can feel secure about the future of the accomplice they call home. Today, we are all prud of what we accomplished together. We are a different and better laguna honda. And we intends to keep this journey going. For our residents, city and our nation. By meeting high standards every day, day in and day out and in every way. This is how we will ensure San Francisco can be proud of laguna honda for decades to come. And finally as i introduce our next and final speaker whom none of this would be possible were not for she and her members and those of our other Union Partners my longterm cowork and friends Kristin Hardy Vice President of 21 San Francisco. [applause]. Thanks roland for this great introduction this might have been the best in awhile. But im Kristin Hardy. Im the Vice President for San Francisco for 10 to 1 and this is a very, very proud moment for me. Im a San Francisco native born and raised and i grew up and born and raised in this neighborhood. I live 5 minutes from here i drive past this place every day and i am also a 12 year employee at San Francisco General Hospital with customer competence roland back in the day when than i were there. I anyhow when colfax appointed and pulled terry i was mad. And brought them here i knew they were the right people to the make sure laguna honda survive and got through what it needed to get through. I wanted to say, it is in the one person. It is me and my members that you see behind me the nurses. Janitors the hair dress ors, central supplyers. My nurses. Clerks. Everybody and everybody i come from General Hospital i know when the level of care is like i want to appreciate my members. I have one of my fabulous leaders here with me. Debbie dobson, she has taken charge on making sure that she hen in the weekly meetings when im not available to join. She has been there. And i can get an update with her and our rep who k could not be ear jessica done a fabulous job day and night supporting the workers. Helping them understand education and training than i needed. Third and second and first shift whatever was. We are celebrating the work of member and resident and bringing back laguna honda so we want to know i just want everybody to know that this is a hard work of our member and this was i team effort not just my members the residents joint effort i dont think we do this often but my political alis. Our wonderful mayor. Board of supervisors, melgar is my supervisor and aaron. [laughter] and the rest. You know, im just glad we are at this day and like i want to i especially want to thank our City Attorney david chu. He has been a great alli for us in the labor movement. I know we dont do too much with attorneys and at a federal level you know secretary came through and tap in the and just grant colfax and the administration you have done an awe some job you kept us in the loop. Mark leech. Everybody else that represents other members. My brother. Vice president of organizing. Brandon dawkins. Used to work here at laguna honda and a shop store and a shout out to my president to speak theresa who is a cna used to work here and is still a member and wants to give her love and support to all you guys and administration i am turn it back over to doctor grant colfax. Upon again, thank you for being here a great day and think we will you heard the story and the different partners involved. Many groups that helped lead the way and i think we have time for a few questions. For the mayor. My grand mother lived here. Well, my grand mother lived here for about 13 years. And i used to come up to laguna honda when it was the patients in the old location and the new. And the difference is the building butt people and the care she got were the same. And to think that there are other people who could not get this care was heart breaking this was a life safer for me personal low and my family when we could not take care of her daily. It was hard. And it was harder to leave her some accomplice like laguna honda until i first coming up here every day. The nurses rubbing my back while i was crying i did in the want to leave my grand mother they made me feel okay. Her nurses like albert and denise and others. Just the joy this changed in her from no smiles to smiles demonstrated all i needed to know the care she experienced over the years of coming here an accomplice i thought what would have happened. So there are other people who need this accomplice. And when was important to us buzz in light of when was going on with the recertification. You know when this monies for the families who cant you know get their Family Member in laguna honda, that was weighing on me heavily as the people who are already here getting services. When are we do when we have to tell people, no when they need this place and so this was so important on a whole level and im grateful to god today for you know putting forth a blessing to not only the people who work here and live here and those who will be able to eventual low call laguna honda home and cared for at the end of their life in most case and live with dignity. This is truly amazing we are happy to be here because it is a challenging time for so many people this is a joyous occasion. Thank you. [applause]. Okay. Thank you so much, appreciate it. Thank you for being here we move forward together. Thank you. [applause]. Well, well, well. Thank you for all being here. Im annette garcia. Im the Communications Managers at Mission Housing and todays master of ceremony. Its my pleasure to welcome you to the Ribbon Cutting ceremony. This was a great undertaking and the completion symbolizes the dawn of the rehabilitation of homes for many people. [ applause ] as we gather here today well celebrate the positivism pact of the many lives here. Admittedly Mission Housing couldnt have achieved this on our own. It took a team and all of our wonderful partners. Some who will speak shortly. Some are dedicated funders, architects, and communed leaders that work to make this project a reality. We thank you. To our amazing Mission Housing team. Your commitment and devotion to making our community a better place and working ever so tirelessly. Most importantly, for having trust and patients in our team. We appreciate you and we look forward to building a vibrant community here at noey street. So thank you. [ applause ] without farther ado. Id like to invite our first guest speaker Mission Housing executive director mr. Sam moss. [ applause ] thank you, everyone. I will keep this short and sweet. There we go. Id just like to thank everyone for coming out today. This development 363noey is part of the portfolio of Public Housing sites that mission Public Housing, San Francisco Housing Authority, western Alliance Bank, and every other person you could think of were required to get us to where we are today. Im very proud to be Mission Housings executive director. Im proud to stand up here and give speeches like this. Its everyone here that it took to get us where we are. I think about that to get to the longterm occupied rehab projects and how hard they are. Its really easy to widthle them down to what it cost per unit. What was construction costs. Was that the number we could write about or not. We get bogged down and forget why we do what we do. Its for our tenants current and future. Its for our neighbors. Because we all here believe that housing is a human right and being a human right means you do what you need to do to get it done. To make whatever compromises is needed. Decades and decades later after the original building was built and rebuilt. I for one amex am extremely proud to stand up here today. Im glad you took timeout of your day. There will be food later. Its important to celebrate when you can. Its important to stop and smell the roses. This is what that looks like. From me and the Mission Housing board of directors and entire staff. Wed like to say thank you and how proud we are and god bless. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you sam. Our next guest is california senator. [ applause ] thank you. You can call me scott. So, this project is very meaningful to me personally. First, i live two blocks from here. I have been here 26 years and proud of the Affordable Housing that we have in the neighborhood. Wed like to protect it and preserve it. The neighbors that live on noey street are living in topnotch housing and we want more of it. As we create Affordable Housing and work hard at the stately level and locally to provide refund and speeding it up to make sure we create more Affordable Homes. We need to make sure the Affordable Homes we have we are taking care of them and not falling into disrepair and people are able to live in the housing they deserve. Thats what this is about. When on the board of supervisors i had a lot of interaction with 363 noey. There were really problems here. The property fell into disrepair it wasnt right for people to live in those conditions. I was excited to learn Mission Housing would be taking over the management of 363noe. Its an amazing renovation and great for so many residents around the city. Im thrilled the rehab has happened. The management has improved and this project can be all it needs to be for the recognize resident. This program has been fantastic overall. We had so many problems with Public Housing in San Francisco. Thousands of San Franciscos living in Public Housing in very bad conditions. Under the leadership, we are seeing that transform. We are trying to do away with the distinction between the afford housing and ol old school Public Housing. Its all the same. This is a big step forward. Thank you Mission Housing and thank you to everyone that made this happen. [ applause ] thank you so much senator. Id like to invite our next guest linda mason and chief officer of the Housing Authority. [ applause ] hey, everyone. I just wanted to say our ceo tonya couldnt be here today. She sends her regards and congratulations to the grand opening today. Id like to thank our residents. I have been here for quiet sometime and we would come here every year and we would have a meeting to hear concerns about the building and we would lead this to the executive director and figure out if we would have the funding that year to make repairs necessary. Most years, we couldnt make all of the repairs and we couldnt meet the needs of the residents. Id like to thank the residents on behalf of the Housing Authority all of the time to living in the housing they deserve to have. Without this project and this conversion the funding would be have been available to allow them to live in these conditions. Secondly, id like to make sure i take a moment to thank our partners. This wouldnt be happening without the department of housing development, including lydia that hosted the events along with helen who lead our Services Efforts as well and continued to do so for all of our conversions working closely with the Housing Authority. I wanted to take a moment to thank our lenders mayor lee and Mission Housing who we are, at this point handing off the huge responsibility of taking care of residents. Lastly and most importantly we would like to welcome Mission Housing to the portfolio family with the closing of todays 363 noe project. We have completed five of the projects. Its actually the first set of properties Mission Housing will be managing after the convergence. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much, linda, that was amazing. Id like to invite next monica of modern alliance. Im here representing western Alliance Bank and california bridge bank. We are the lender and credit equity investors. This was a phenomenal project to be apart of. I remember when i first got the call about the challenging project, multiple sites in San Francisco. High cost. Not to be worried. There were a lot of great partners involved and the project would be a success. I said, sign me up. So, our typical project would be a single site and new construction where this was five separate sites and rehab. Complicated project but happy we could come in and take the time to understand the project and the benefits to the community here and be apart of the partnership with everyone at the state and local level here that have been involved. We are happy to be here. [ applause ] thank you so much, monica. That was beautiful. Id like to invite next Mission Housing deputy executive director marcia. Well, im not going to repeat what everybody said and everybody has shared. What id like to focus on acknowledging every single resident that lives in this location. Relocation is never easy. I always tell our team at Mission Housing to put yourself in our residents shoes and think about what that looks like and feels like. I know, a partner of ours, helen knows that. She constantly reminds us what that is. I want to acknowledge, first and foremost, the community at 363 noe. To my right randall. He walked the property when we took it over. We werent necessarily the owners of the property. It was a tricky situation. We had to walk the property and understand the needs of the problemty. Randell showed us the way and introduced us to the residents and you should the building and we understood what we were getting into and how to best support the community here at 363. Im not sure how many residents we have here but can we please give them a round of applause. It took patients and the most important component was trusting Mission Housing and an organize walking in without them knowing a lot of history about us but trusting the fact that we can come in here and make significant changes to the community. Im appreciative of that. The second thing today, i know sam talked about our staff. Id like to talk a bit about every single team member that represents Mission Housing and this wasnt an easy thing. This was during the core of the pandemic. You see a few more gray hairs in my head this is what it took to get this done. If i can have the residence and Housing Department of Mission Housing and every single staff member of the Mission Housing team, raise your hand so we can acknowledge you. We couldnt have done it without your support, dedication, and also just being there to support the entire team. Lastly, what id like to say is acknowledge our board of director. We have a few here. Id like to invite previous and current board of directors joining us today. Can you please raise your hand. Irvine severed on the board. Thank you for trusting on the management team. We are here to celebrate along with you. With your leadership and support we are able to do that. The last thing id like to say to ever partner that supported our effort, im grateful. Our construction team. Our gcs. They work very hard. I see a few of them here, correct, maybe . Yes. Id like to honor them. You probably received a ton of emails from us and you kept that dialog under really difficult times. Id like to thank the Housing Authority. Team members as well. Id like to honor them. This wasnt an easy process and they were patient to work with us. Also our architects. Thank you for taking the feedback we were bringing back from our residents to you and you kept making changes. Id like to thank all of you for that. At this time, im going to go ahead and introduce a person, like i said earlier that opened his doors here at 363 , noe. Ran dell randell support. He continues to support us. Hes also the president of the tenant association. Come up and share your thoughts. Welcome, to everyone. The one part i got to see that was missed was the neighbors. I invited them. Thank you neighbors. Thank you neighbors for the constitution. Its over. Yes, the relocation was tough. Working with Housing Authority was tough at the beginning. Thank you to mayor reed. We had many of our Tenant Council meetings and you were there. Its coming full circle. There is about eight tenants here. Half of the Tenant Council is present. One thing i look forward to is working with Mission Housing. Figuring out the services. Keeping going forward. Its in the process. Sam, we can talk about the mic and the mic cover. No, well leave that alone. Thank you. Before i introduce the next very important person that will speak and advocate for Affordable Housing. Id like to honor them as well because they have been working closely on the site. For that being said, id like to introduce the next speaker. Shes a dedicated person that has been focused on San Francisco on Affordable Housing. Shes an advocate. Every time we hear her speak. She speaks about creating Additional Units that open up to the community. Please welcome our San Francisco mayor, london reed. Thank you for all at Mission Housing for all of the amazing work. Not only to build more housing but preserve the existing Affordable Housing. We started a conversation early on. Someone who was in Public Housing. 200 were built to replace them. I realize, more than ever enter the world of public service. This is how it supports them. How we as a city need to think about it from start to finish. What are we doing to help each of the individuals maintain dignity. As we make the very hard decisions to uproot their lives and change the communities and change all of the situations that they have been struggling in from challenging to better. How do we get there together and how do we continue to Work Together and not make the mistakes of the past in doing so. I have to say. The only way we do it is with a village. Its with partners. It starts with people like randell and the people that live here. It continues with organizes like Mission Housing who really is Mission Driven to make sure people are able to live in dignity all over San Francisco and be able to afford to live in San Francisco. It continues with our verious city agencies. The Mayors Office of housing. I know eric shaw is here and members of is team. It continues with our private partners. It does take a village. This talks about the need to build. They have to build 82,000 units in the next 80 years. Never the less in the process of focusing on all of the new development we cant forget about preservation. Preservation of existing Affordable Housing to ensure the People Living in buildings like this are protected. I know this project was complicated. Five locations, 69 units. The program around preservation, especially at the height of the pandemic has done more than just 69 units. In fact over 200 million of investments to preserve and protect the units throughout the city of San Francisco. Im grateful we have so many dedicated people helping us to do that. We know there is so much work to be done. Thats why its so important to have the celebrations and acknowledge the work. Part of the work wouldnt be done without state support. Your former supervisor and current state senator scott weiner is here. Without his advocacy. People walk into their new home and know they are protected for decades to come. Thats what this is about. I know, its a happy occasion here today despite the challenges of the city. Im looking forward to continue the great work. Im looking forward that under my housing plan that we continue to break barriers. We continue to get all of the bureaucracy outoftheway so we can move and do projects projects like this faster and less expensive. So we can continue to make sure we are not the only ones that can live in San Francisco and others have the same opportunity and feel supported and protected. We talk about San Francisco being a diverse city. The only way it can be diverse economically is if we have people in all kinds of industries that can afford to live here and commit our promise to build the 82,000 units is important. People think, oh, thats impossible. We have approved over 50,000 units to be built. Can you image, can you image what over 50,000 units builtin San Francisco could mean for affordability in the city if we can get it done. So, today is a proud day. Todays an exciting day to talk about housing and continue our push, work, and advocacy to get the Financial Resources necessary. Get rid of the bureaucratic red tape and make sure we are focusing on handing keys to people so they walk into their new beautiful home and continue to love and enjoy their neighborhood. People apart of if neighborhoods and everything the great city has to offer. Thank you for being here today. [ applause ] thank you, mayor. That was absolutely beautiful. To the speakers, id like to invite you for a photo opportunity. Then our contractors we would like you to join us for a photo op also. You can also join us in the back. Join me in the count. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [ applause ] i didnt sound familiar do you keep on getting up theres an easier way. 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