Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining
Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining
Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining
San francisco examiner, the dog patch. The Democratic Club and the executive association and please vote for thea selby for district five supervisor. Administration has been planning for many years on building a new facility for the Chinese Community. Without this legislation, the planning code would not allow us to build a new hospital, right here on this site. It is our dream to have something to continue on for our future. But now, our dream is becoming a reality. I would like to bring up the one supporter, the friend, who helped us, the organization and the project, the mayor of San Francisco ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, brend brenda. Good morning, everyone, welcome to the chinese center, where the hospital has been since the late 1800s. This is history for all of us. It is history for our city. And those of you who know about that history, know that chinese hospice was built in a time when immigrants came here and faced discrimination. They faced a whole lot of barriers. They c
Okay. Mr. Mayor good morning everyone. I am mr. Alva residence and the director of the Housing Authority and today mayor lee will be announcing one of the most extraordinary funding announcements in the history of my 26 years in this business to ever occur. Today were going to get twins. Were going to get the mayor is going to talk about two Choice Initiative Planning Grants, this i believe culminates the mayors leadership, cements the idea for hope sf and restores hope to hope sf and we have resident leaders here, the commissioners. I want to be clear this is a priority for the Housing Authority. Its a priority for me. Its a priority for the residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to