and i live in hope of the hope s.f. in one of the hope s.f. sites in san francisco. i am here on behalf of sunnydale residents to remind you all that sunnydale was built 77 years ago, and these housings for specifically for temporary ship workers at that time, and we re still occupying those units, and with that being said, our families are basically sharing units with pests, infestation of roaches, mildew, mold, never ending plumbing and maintenance issues. and i just want to let you know that sunnydale and potrero have been forgotten, and this will increase the level of life for residents in sunnydale and potrero. thank you. my name is arturo hernandez, i m here to represent our mission, no eviction. we re in a neighborhood who has lost 10,000 people who have been gentrified. 8,000 of those were latinos. i know an elderly woman who is currently renting a closet for $700 a month. i was going to call and report the landlord, but she begged me not to do that because she wo
issues. and i just want to let you know that sunnydale and potrero have been forgotten, and this will increase the level of life for residents in sunnydale and potrero. thank you. my name is arturo hernandez, i m here to represent our mission, no eviction. we re in a neighborhood who has lost 10,000 people who have been gentrified. 8,000 of those were latinos. i know an elderly woman who is currently renting a closet for $700 a month. i was going to call and report the landlord, but she begged me not to do that because she would be evicted and would have nowhere else to live. i know a family that s living in a back yard. he setup the landlord setup three tents, tossed them a hose and gave them an extension cords. i know many people that live beside freeways, under bridges. it is criminal to take these tents away. if you re not going to provide a place to people to live then you should not be taking their tents away. if you look at somebody who makes $15 an hour, and we re
month. none of the seniors that i talked to qualify. most knew they didn t qualify. others were somewhat aghast when they were looking at the income requirements. so let s dedicate some funding to seniors in terms of housing. we don t want to see anymore houseless seniors, we don t want to see any seniors on the streets. let s fix the crack in san francisco s heart and let s pay ample attention to this. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. tere teresa flandrick with seniors and disability counseling. we have an annual report of 500 seniors, all of whom live below the poverty level, and all of them go to counseling because they re about to lose their housing because of their disabilities, because of eviction, and all sorts of reasons. so this is the ugly reality. so this is just 500 seniors from one counseling group, and you know in the city we have many. do we have the housing that they can then go to? we have preference certificates that aren t working because you know
we re going to have to get more money and loosen the rules so we can get even these speculatives off the market, as well. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is annie chen. thank you so much for giving us the $100 dlmillion to add to t $500 million housing bond. there s a chart that we have been showing that when before affordable housing units were built, they were built for seniors that make a minimum of $2,000 a month in order to even qualify to apply. but really, many of the seniors, 24% of the seniors in san francisco are over 62 and live in poverty, and the number s probably around 20,000, and these seniors were never able to apply for those affordable units. so there s been articles that talked about affordable housing not affordable to the extremely low-income seniors. so i want to let you know that approximately right now there s 669 units or about 12% of senior housing are in the pipeline. and to address the needs of these extremely low-income seniors, our comm
sachs. in burlington, vermont, we speak to vermont first and today only feel governor madeleine may kunin. women s issues like child care, equal pay for eagle work, paid family and medical leave those are gut issues for women because we have lived them. so the world still looks different through the eyes of a woman. amy: plus, we go to denver, colorado, where ice agents have detained a mexican immigrant who once sought sanctuary in a church, but left after being told he was no longer a priority for deportation. but now the trump administration says there are no priorities. coming to the united states to work in the future for the families. we are not amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the white house on wednesday outlined a tax plan that would add trillions of dollars to the u.s. deficit while overwhelmingly benefiting the wealthiest corporations and individuals, including presiden