Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 311 calling center i know that our director nancy welcomes me usually we get to announce another great tool if not a modification of our 311 center the public and residents like to see you know when we first created the 311 center we were here for that start we wanted a tool that lifts the burden off all the vacuums of calls going to 911911 is for real emergencies life or death and whatever it happening on the street currently that will be of the emergency nature needs to be called through to 911 well get an immediate fire and police and department of Emergency Response on that on to day to day basis we have a lot of other calls we have tried to direct those now thousands everyday that come to 311 and were glad because their calls for information, for refers for how to do this and that of the various departments of the city. As you may know weve been active in helping our people on the streets particularly our Homeless Population to get the services they need a challenge because we not had all the hours housing we want were building that as soon as possible and rehabilitating affordable units as much as possible but things happen on the streets our residents say should i call 911 or Small Business i see somebody they dont look healthy weve had a few instances on the street if we had an earlier call appropriate there can have been a health check, if you will, or check on someone that may have not looked at not an be able they doesnt see something happen that is an emergency often myself ive made calls to 311 someone is not necessarily in a door front but passed out and needs help those are things that happen on the street were very congested city we want to make sure that if it is not a 911 call but perhaps there could be a health check or care check on someone maybe 356 can do something about that over the past weeks 36 through the leadership of flabs our city administrator that oversees it w the putting and Police Department and Public Works Department and hot team through dpevenz combevenz hope program to you work tot to respond to what neighbors are telling you there should be an act perhaps something a little bit more modern use people dont have to the time to make the call but can actually with their footprints r fingertips simultaneously complun with 911 and not try to figure out whos responsibility but 311 will figured out for the residents for someone that seize something on the sidewalks we should be able to respond to in this app were excited in the past fewq weeks to see whether or not to develop an app to low people to scroll through a push bum efforts something on this street or particular intersection you need to see and someone should check on this individual ear r we care about the people on the streets and make sure it is not an emergency but ought to being sure to follow up on someone that is in need of help a care arrest health check followed up we created the 3 11 a. 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And i know that nancy will pop up it on the details i want to lead this effort by saying a big thank you to her team working with all the other departments they want to also be able to get to where someone suggests to us there might be something that is happening with someone we care about i believe that this is an infection of combpgs of the city having a deeper compassion to people on the tree we want to provide it to the right agency to follow up with this is why all the departments here are working together 0 so they can be part of it in the meantime we do what we do everyday the dpw and the hot teams visiting encampments of people on the street we assist them more and more and getting them into places like the Navigation Center or referring the services to the shelters we have or inviting them to the latest project Homeless Connect Program we have all the services housed on a quarterly basis in different parts of city and while we work on short term and long term answers to getting temporary and more long term housing were focused on ending chronic homelessness for the veterans by the end of this year weve been focus on the transitional aids youth and more and more getting the data together to respond to more of our families and youth being homeless through the School District and food for thought creative ways to tackle this challenge a housing crisis in the city were trying to build and stabilize neighborhood as were doing these so a lot of people from the development and the business segment to the nonprofits theyre all collaboratively with our city agencies to do better and Barbara Garcia and i are working diligently with interpreting moreno has has as we introduce trying to figure out the Mental Health and challenges happen on the streets in the meantime we ought to make sure that the things happening on the streets can be respond to weve done with the 311 app to invite the people the people that walk our streets an ability to communicate request City Services that do care and will respond to situations on the street and particularly to people who might be on the street in need of something may not be a 911 situation i want to distinguish between 911 and 311 911 will continue to be the number everybody calls if there are a true emergency if something something is happening whether a Public Safety issue or health issue but 911 is where it may not but in your mind someone ought to follow up with something and persons on the streets we dont know all the time whether in immediate need or not but if it appears to someone that someone is in need that they dont look like they are comfortable at all perhaps this is where the 311 health check ought to be had with that, id like to introduce over the course our director of 311 nan ofarrell to go over the details thank you, mr. Mayor for your asking to implement those changes all of us can make a differences by reporting streets events at 311 were looking at improving ways for the public to connect with government over 50 percent of the questioning requests for broken street lights we see the demand is high for people wanting to assess Government Services and expanding the 311 app of nonemergency to include homeless concerns a convenient way for the public to be proactive in reporting issues as they see them at this time id like to to a thanks my team as well as the departments here the office of hope and department of emergency and the Police Department and public works the Public Health department and the City Administrators Office took all those departments to build a partnership today with this ill introduce the police chief greg suhr thank you. The nonemergency number it cant be stressed enough that the way to report on emergency is still call 911 if you want or need someone in a hurry you have an emergency something that process or someone in danger youve got to call 911 with that said, nancy and the team she mentions to come up with that 311 app is a fantastic way in a city that, you know, how the Innovation Center of the word now to come in the term an app we met this smurp is mo magic and the Mayors Office and the hope sf and one of the things we have is apps to reporter things we have an entire generations that has touch phones it would be great for a whole tech safer i didnt city like San Francisco to call on a. M. We could be headed for a especially pick winter and make sure that everyone is taken care of this 311 app will go a long ways not only is it about time it is timely this year ahead of a wet and cold winter to take care of the less unfortunate none can imagined how much they need you applaud the team behind me certainly the mayor that know how and nancy alfaro shes modest but nothing short of a he or sheic effort before the winter is upon us to check on the wellbeing the less unfortunate fortunate i appreciable are appreciate it now to introduce the next member of the team from fellowship this would not have happened larry sprinkler. Morning public works is out on the streets two r 27 we understand were facing challenges this app hemming heels a lot thanks to the leadership the mayor and nan alfaro for alexander this to the app we have 3 pro activities crews through the city many times a week we may adjust and be responsive as well as with the predefined im looking forward to getting the data to evaluate the route, however, with this information allowing the public to report it will gridlock help us to go our job. Ill now introduce my other partner Barbara Garcia. Good morning were excited about this new app preservation our Homeless Team has doubled the members on the team weve responded to 311 but multiply calls someone calls 311 and determine what status it is with this new app well have that directly and that will help us in ronalds to the call i want to note the deducting 23 23w47 programs people are i will are picked up were able to provide that care as an e in San Francisco General Hospital we have teams that are out there we have teams that go out to homeless issues and violate issues on to twentyfour hours those are Homeless Teams in every district and compared to the 311 call theyre excited and trained and ready to continue as i walk down the street i see everyone with a cell phone the public will be responding as they help those no need and make sure the public we respond to the Homeless Needs to the community thank you very much. Now i will introduce Erica Sandburg shes an example of a Community Member began calling and helping us lead this program. Hi so, yeah im a resident of San Francisco i am a lover of San Francisco as soon as i set eyes on the city i fell in love he have a daughter a Second Generation san franciscan it is unconsciousable it is so depressing and so upsetting to walk by people every day on particular every block and say i cant help them i so ordering my neighborhood and beyond we have to something has to be done is it not right who can we call not just helping people on the street but combrrn the neighborhood this is okay. We cant continue to walk by so someone had a great idea there should be an app everyone has a smart phone and next thing i know theres an app great idea and great minds think alike i vibrate an what is happening he want it on everybodys phone and i want it on visitors smart phone in ms. Shorts windows they download this app lowerincome and moderate income a major victory of that because it is so necessary we need to find a way to get those peoples anybody this is getting them off the streets im a huge optimistic this is a great way to go i couldnt be more excited i want to get the word out i love innovations it is San Francisco and so thrilled absolutely atheist and happy to be i dont know who there you go. Prior to concluding i want to show the types of concerns record to the app and this demo. inaudible at the top inaudible that concludes this event thank you very much for amazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I live there more than half my life, right down the street at eddie and laguna. Good morning out, everything my name is linda and breed in him the supervisor for this amazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I lived more than half my leaf at eddie and laguna. When i became a supervisor and met with the mayor he asked me, what my three Top Priorities were on the board. And, number one, Public Housing. Number two, Public Housing. Number three, Public Housing. Since then, the mayor and i have been working hand in hand to do something different. 1960 housing policies cannot solve our housing crisis in the city and county of San Francisco. Nor, can we continue to allow the residents of Public Housing to be neglected. The conditions that exist in many of these developments existed when i was growing up there. Bad plumbing. Rodents. No response to fixing the problem. Discovering that we had about 10 12 million to fix over 4000 Public Housing units, and we had over 200 million of the deferred maintenance, well, it really upset me because there was nothing that i felt that i could do to change the lives of the people who live here. So, i did working hard with the mayor, with edward lee to try and figure out something different. No, its not a perfect solution, but its whats going to change this community for the better. Today, we have our amazing representative, leader nancy pelosi, who continuously fights for San Francisco and fights for the rights of those who dont have any fighting for them in congress. It is a battle she deals with every day. Ive witnessed it personally. We are so appreciative of her hard work. We also have the hud secretary, julian castro, here today was a former mayor, and he has a few words that he wants to say and whats great about having the mayor and these incredible federal, National Leaders, to talk to us today is that they get to see firsthand the experience of people who live here. They get to meet the residence. They get to see the conditions, and what i hope that they walk away with is a desire to want to do better. A desire to want to work hard for the folks who live in these units. Every single day i know its a struggle. I have not forgotten about where i came from. That is why, on the board of supervisors, it is been my priority to deal with changing the lives of folks here because even though i made it out, even though im a success story, even though so many people who i grew up with are proud of me, they deserve the same opportunity that i have and today, is a new day for that opportunity. So, at this time, i would like to welcome mayor ed lee to the podium. [applause] thank you. Thank you, pres. Lyndon breed. Were very lucky to have you as not only a supervisor for this district but as our board president and obviously all of you can feel the passion she has and we have ours to share our family stories with each other for quite some time now. With the hopes that we would have a better outcome for our residents here in San Francisco. Let me begin by saying that its not only a pleasure to work with the supervisor, it is a privilege because not only do we share the stories we get to do something about it. One of the things that we get to do about it, we get to and the description that oftentimes is made about Public Housing residents. That is to say that, i want to be here when all of us can say theyre not Public Housing residents. The residents of San Francisco. Thats a difference. Its a complete difference in the relationship that we have with our Housing Authority, the relationship we have with the tenants association, the people that live in a just so happens, it might be economically challenged, but theyve got the strength and hope like all of our families do. When we talk about our stories, we often talk about the strength of families, the hope that people have, the things theyre doing for themselves and for each other to build strong communities. This is what i think, but it was all about when they first began to build these Housing Units and over the decades been challenged with all of the Asset Maintenance jones, the lack of funding, the lack of cooperation between local governments and the Housing Authority. We have been through all that. But we have new leadership. We have walking torres and all the new commissioners that are in line with the Mayors Office of housing and the board of supervisors. We have a federal government that not only listens. They fight for all of us to make sure were doing the right thing. We have a hud secretary that i got to meet again. The last time sec. Castro and i met we had not won the nba championship yet. Of course, i probably stuck out my tie. Welcome former mayor. San antonio. This is warriors ground. Of course, he got it immediately but i also say to the secretary, too, having a former mayor in that position means an awful lot and will go into detail later on about that. I am here today to announce, again, that the robert pitts housing complex is the third of 15 sites that weve already begun. This result Assistance Demonstration Program with our federal government. We arty started at hunters view. If you go down there, take a good look at it. Without rebuilding Public Housing. Rebuilding a community with residents formerly of Public Housing. You are part and parcel of that through a program that leader pelosi has helped that be so much hope sf. It is giving everybody the chance and hope to be part, equal parts, of building a stronger community. Second project, up and center wasnt within urban and thats down that alice griffith. Thats already underway. In fact, the Senior Housing is under construction and pretty soon see some of the seniors that will move over from the dilapidated housing bearing, Public Housing, into a very modern complex as we knock down and rebuild their housing. Now, its robert pitts is turned until the 15 sites for this, over 700 million effort that we call phase 1 of that. Phase 1 of our rental assistance program. It is a program that is new, quite frankly, to hud and to all of us. Because when we got together with supervisor breed and with all of our people in the city we no longer wanted to have a Housing Authority that would build and maintain poverty isolated housing. We wanted to invest in the people first. We had to make people believe that we are going to do a new model. Something that involved them in their futures. So that we could try to do and demonstrate, what i think is a discussion all across the country. How do you and intergenerational poverty and needed to ask not just have poverty go from generation to generation, from kids to the grandkids, and it takes an entire village to do that. Housing is a great part of it. Affordable housing is a great part of it, and thats why we have a 310 million commitment on the ballot, opposition a to use that money, to use that resource to rebuild Public Housing but also in the private sector as well to upper middle classes as well as our low income residents have we built housing for them. But, we never lost sight of the other things that we have to do as a city to end poverty as well. Our communities have to be safe. So we invest in our kids. We invest in education. If a Good Transportation system. Will we rebuild all of this housing, its going to also be accommodated by worldclass Transportation System. How does it feel to have our kids writing for free by the second year in a row. He didnt do that with having a strong city. They got municipal so excited after we got the google donation that now we have free invisible for our seniors and people with disabilities to ride a worldclass Transportation System that is accessible to everybody and used by so many people. Dont have to own a car to get around to your job and anyplace else. You also have to be safe and thats why we are investing in not only police force, but in job programs. We have tech programs. We have healthy San Francisco. We have so many programs that were investing in to make sure communities are strong. So, i say to you that im a in addition to a revitalized Housing Program for Public Housing residents, where we are no longer building isolated low Income Housing, their integrated communities. They are building the strength of our best nonprofits that are now integrated with our Housing Authority. In working with the residents to make sure they are part of the voice as to how these units are built, and we are hiring as many of our Public Housing residents to do the building themselves to city built. Another Great Program that weve reached in to the heart of our residence in Public Housing and say, we can train you to build and to manage this housing at this same time. This is all part of what we call brad. It takes a lot of different parts of hard and i know that leader pelosi, every time i called her, shes been so wonderful in answering my calls as we explain the latest thing we have to do with hard and to make sure that everybody understands, because we are all subject to old ways of doing things. San francisco is subject to many old ways of doing things. That is why we didnt build enough Affordable Housing and how could we go for two decades without having an Affordable Housing in the city . Are we embarrassed by that that we do not build housing in operation for young family to grow up in different ways . This is what were fighting against. Old traditions of not building well, not building efficiently, not doing it in collaboration with our residents, and getting their talent involved in using the power of hope sf to do so. This is all part of those hours of conversation that ive had with london with the board of supervisors, with our Housing Authority, with our Mayors Office of housing, in our commissioners. So, we have a lot to celebrate as we begin these projects. Robert pitts is going to be retouched, we first, all 203 units. Guess what . Weve got to make sure we do this to give hope to families that are headed up with people like marty anna johnson. You know, she is a 15 year resident of robert pitts, and i know having raised two children herself and being a Strong Family leader, she cannot be more excited than any of us to see a refurbished unit become her permanent home for her and her family and to have it not only upgraded, but maintained for the long period of time and having the touch of other residents feel the same, that theyre not Public Housing residents. There residents of the great city of San Francisco. So, i would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to someone whos working directly with us. As a parent, as a woman, as a strong leader of the tenant here, residence here, Arianna Johnson. [applause]hello. Hello, good morning. My name is Arianna Johnson dominated here of San Francisco. I resided here at robert pitts for 15 years and am the mother of two beautiful daughters. Today is a very special day for me. My grandfather was James Henry Johnson almost San Francisco first African American Services Group what an honor and blessing and for for me to be here. [applause] this project is also very special to me. Not only is a resident here at the robert pitts community but also as a former employee of San Francisco Housing Authority. I was a building concierge here for six years. We as residents affected by this process are excited for a new horizon. For generations, Living Conditions have been heartbreaking and challenging. The majority of us residents that live in low Income Housing desire a clean, peaceful, habitable, safe, functioning and desirable place to live. The majority of us are working or senior disabled persons that are committed to the improvement of our community and our family and refused to leave our great city. But, the reality is, our city is very expensive. So, we have to live here in low Income Housing. We are praying that the citywide that project is not only improves the Living Conditions at home, but that it also ratifies permanent jobs and great benefits for all us residents, such as San Francisco Housing Authority has done for me and many other residents during its history. Im currently in the application process for Construction Administration jobs and renewing my security certification license. We are hoping and praying for new Youth Services and violence prevention here. Here, at the robert pitts community alone we have several mothers that lost children under the age of 25 years. So, i would like to say, let that stand forth. We knew, additional desire. We are the city of champions. The new, additional, desire, for all those who live here, welcome back, government officials and thank you. [applause] now you can see why arianna is our concierge. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Well, i get excited every time i leader is able to come back to it aint easy to maloney type working in dc these days. You all know that. We all read about it you will see it and you all feel it. Every time that we in San Francisco can demonstrate to our federal leaders what weve done locally, it gives them hope that all the arguments that they have to have them all the challenges that they have to meet on a daytoday basis, back in dc, it is not forgotten. It is deeply appreciated by those of us that are here in San Francisco, and someone who as i told you earlier, honestly takes our calls, goes into detail with her staff about what it is we need and what exceptions to different rules that we might want to be advocating for, but also gives us a forethought about where congress is going so that we can be prepared. I have been with her when we got funding restored in hiv cuts and aids programs. I have been there when she says, hey theyre not going to do but be prepared. Start working with your folks. Get ready. We are always ready and the constant partner for us. I so appreciate her every time her visits here that we have Something Else to announce because we are getting things done. That is of course democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] thank you very much mr. Mayor for your very generous and for your tremendous leadership. And for making possible this coming together here today. We use the word demonstrate, and the rad rental assistance demonstration has that word demonstrate in it. So here we all are to demonstrate to the secretary as to how San Francisco, not only responds to initiatives from the federal level, but really demonstrates how they could work and how they could work better. Its really an honor to be on the program with a arianna, James Henry Johnson, her grandfather is in a pretty exciting . How proud he would be to see you a leader carrying on in that tradition. Wasnt she wonderful . [applause] San Francisco is a very special pl. , mr. Sec. , honored to welcome you here to see how we respect people. We respect our residents and when were going to have new housing is oneonone replacing the residents who were here for those who want to continue to be here. It is also about their selfdetermination, about how a project will function, how it will be to run. This project, this will be a demonstration to the country of a way to get the job done. In San Francisco were entrepreneurial in our thinking. We like to take advantage of exploits in the best possible way every opportunity that hard provides to grants and policy and the opportunity that the code enables us as low income tax credits and other tax considerations, which enables us to have publicprivate ownership joined with our nonprofit partners. Really, demonstrating to the country how we can respect our residents, have them have Affordable Housing in a way that maintains community. Because, this site over housing is a challenge that is about the soul of our city. We are a city that wants to be representative of every aspect of life in our community that Cultural Diversity as wells economic variation is something that is important to the father of who we are. Our mayor has been such an incredible champion on this subject. He and london bridge, she said she was the supervisor from this area that she grew up in the neighborhood and the mayor acknowledged that she is the president of the board and has used that opportunity to benefit individuals. I salute london. Mdm. Chairman, mdm. Pres. That has a nice ring to it. [applause] for your leadership. The mayor has done a great deal to bring jobs to San Francisco and back dimension transportation mr. Mayor because it gives me another opportunity to salute our president barack obama. Under the recovery act that was passed we were able to do so many things for San Francisco. You know why . Because San Francisco could demonstrate that they knew how to be a model to the nation. To have initiatives that were of national significance. Its a continuation of thursday rail, central subway, transbay terminal, the puppy whatever it is, jobs immediately promotion of commerce and transportation, cleaning the air, promoting qualityoflife, this is really important but sometimes those advances raise the price of housing in a community. So we have to mitigate for that one part of that success by addressing it directly. That is the mayor is the full package. Job creation. Transportation initiative. Jobs immediately and jobs jobs long term but also recognizing the responsibility we have to have Affordable Housing in our community. This secretary is really remarkable. He was amir sue will grant him that. His brother served in congress with me. His twin brother. Joachim castro former mayor of san antonio. We will talk about the spurs in the warriors just now. However, i had the privilege of being invited to his swearing in. I wish you could have been there. I went of course to pay tribute to the new secretary of hud but i mainly went because i was honored to be invited so i could say directly to his mother , rosie, congratulation kit woolseys mom had was actually barefoot into archives. This is the American Dream personified. She made a success of herself but these twin boys trailing along to public civic events, growing up with a sense of responsibility. Of getting back. They had the advantage the best education someone say, that our country could provide, and they were prepared to give back. As i said, i served with walking in the house of representatives. His twin brother, and mayor caster went from being the mayor of san antonio to be the secretary of hud. On that day, read this i get it right. The president said, walking is a proven leader a champion for safe Affordable Housing and strong sustainable neighborhoods. In building a Housing Market we do some homelessness among veterans, thank you and connecting neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs that have our citizens succeed. He has in the one year he is been secretary, lowered mortgage insurance premiums to make ownership more affordable, help families access strong neighborhoods with sure housing choice vouchers and empowering local leaders with new tools to invest in their communities and thats one of the reasons we are here today. That is one of those new tools. In july of 2015, just a couple months ago, pres. Obama wants one of secretary casters signature project. Connect home. Which accelerates internet adoption in 20 communities providing broadband Electronic Devices to children living in public or assisted housing, secretary castro continues to strive to make housing a platform that helps folks achieve a better quality of life. How perfect. How perfect. These two measures, one for mayor my current mayor at that goal, to achieve a better quality of life for the people for whom we are responsible. We think, mr. Sec. , that San Francisco is a model to the nation. We are very proud of the successes and the challenges, and the successes that we have had. We think that when we take on a project we will do it in a way thats about national significance. We are not competitive or anything. We are not proud or anything. We just want to help others and i know you did to. Please let us welcome this wonderful great sec. Of hud, boolean castro. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much mdm. Leader. It is wonderful to be here whoever worlds great cities. I want to say thank you for hosting me. You know, my brother joachim is a privilege of serving with the majority with leader pelosi soontobe speaker pelosi. Again. And by brother joachim, habitually introduce himself by saying a way that tells about since wetlands, minute other than he is. So, hope youll disabuse them of that notion in the future. They told me that was unseasonably warm here in San Francisco. Some glad that i got home a couple days ago to 97 heat to practice for here. Mayor, thank you for having me. This is not the first time that weve had a chance to spend time here in San Francisco, but each time that you visit very impressed by the work that you and the board of supervisors and all the folks that you collaborate with are doing to provide housing opportunity for san franciscans. I also want to commend supervisor london reed could we are in her disappeared as she said, she is only talked about this shes lifted. Because of that emma i know like me, she feels very blessed in her own life to had opportunities in the doing everything that she can for Public Service to give that opportunity to others. Thank you supervisor breed for your leadership. [applause]i also want to recognize just briefly Barbara Smith the second director of this in francisco housing. What about ago . Thank you for the work that you are doing here we cannot do it without a Housing Authority. And of course, to Arianna Johnson. Great Community Involvement and tenant leadership is so important to success in all that we do, so thank you for your inspiring words today. Keep it up. Keep it up. I also want to just briefly recognize all of our private partners who are here. Theyre too many of them to name, but they are integral to the success the reynolds assistance budget please raise your hand if youre one of our private partners. [applause] thank you. We are here today because we believe that housing is a powerful platform for greater opportunity in peoples lives. And because we believe that everyone ought to have access to good Affordable Housing, to build up to other American Dream. We also know that our nation is in the midst of an a for the housing crisis. In fact, just a couple months ago the national low Income Housing coalition reported that in no single community, if youre working 40 hours a minimum wage, can you afford a twobedroom apartment. That in very few places, could you even afford to rent a onebedroom apartment. In fact, here in california the person would have to work 92 hours a week to afford a place. The Affordable Housing crisis comes at a time when our nations Public Housing stock is particularly challenged. We have roughly 26 billiondollar backlog in capital needs. We lose 10,000 units of Public Housing to disrepair every single year. Now, we know that leader pelosi and folks like her have been fighting like crazy and then right on this issue. To ensure that the resources are there. We also know, though, we live in a resource constrained environment and for that reason, in 2012 hud wants the rental assistance demonstration. Also known as rad. Fundamentally, it is housing authorities and owners of assisted housing convert to longterm section 8 contracts. That allows them to better Leverage Private debt and equity to improve their properties. So, instead of falling into disrepair, they get renovated. I am proud to announce that this effort has established a proven record of success in just three years, that has leverage over 1 billion in new construction dollars of Public Housing properties throughout the united states. [applause] that is making a difference in communities throughout our nation and committees like this one. The rack conversion of robert b Woods Apartments will of the San Francisco Housing Authority and its partner to invest 31 to rehabilitate over 200 family units. This investment will help ensure that these families have a modern and safe, good place to live. We want to see rad make a difference in more communities. So hud is working with congress to lift a cap on this program so that we can help more families across this nation also have good housing. We know that the Affordable Housing crisis is growing, and we also know that that is part of a solution. Ive had the opportunity now as hud secretary to travel to more than 50 cities in 14 months. I can tell you that San Francisco is a National Leader when it comes to collaboration and creativity in creating and sparking new housing opportunity. Congratulations, to San Francisco. [applause] so, we look forward to the renovation of these homes and to all the wonderful opportunities that will be made possible because of the work that you are doing here in this beautiful community. Thank you very much. [applause] my pleasure to bring back up leader pelosi. Thank you seconded. Well, let me thank everyone here today. I see across this wonderful field a bevy of nonprofits that i know i can help us rebuild all of our communities from Chinatown Development to bridge to mercy to tabernacle to tenderloin, and then i also does a thank you to bank of america. They won the right to leverage. Two words secretary breezy more often these days in San Francisco. When teaching it to kids. Were teaching it to parents. That is, invest and leverage. Invest and leverage. Because the best investment anybody can make in San Francisco is to start your family here because when you start a family, that means schools, transportation, housing, safety, are all been taken care. Thats the best investment. Then we got a leverage that by people participating making sure you vote and making sure we pass proposition a and all the things we need to do to build an rehab and stabilize our neighborhoods. Thank you everybody very much. Thank you to our federal representatives, two. [applause]
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