Foundation. This is a little more than an hour. Mr. Clinton thank yall for joining us for the second edition of building an inclusive recovery. I hope wherever you are tuning in from, you are staying healthy and safe. I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to our sponsors for this session. I want to thank those who have made action. I hope all of you will think about specific ways you and your organizations can make a difference or partner with others to increase your impact. Our topic today, the housing crisis, has plagued america long before covid19. Now, it is even more urgent. Especially in dense urban areas. Without enough Affordable Housing, they face new challenges from Economic Impacts of the pandemics. Home ownership has long been recognized as one of the most effective and Proven Solutions to Building Wealth and Financial Stability in america. Even before the pandemic, homeownership rates for black americans were at an alltime low. Latino homeownership is the Fastes
A unified Global Response u. S. President elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 100 days in office hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs in the wild west affected country in the 1st day im going to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days a mask now for over 100 years and i think well see a significant reduction in recurrent everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerable considerably. More than a 1000000 people in iran have now had corona virus nearly 50000 have died but the Health Minister says the actual number is probably much higher but the government is considering easing restrictions in several areas iran is the worst affected country in the middle east aid workers say at least 1600 Rohingya Refugees are being forced to move to a Remote Island off the coast of bangladesh the u. N. Warns its prone to storms and flooding nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squali
Ministers of q 8 and carter say there has been some progress made towards resolving the gulf dispute cotta has been under an illegal land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt since june 2070 we have achieved certain progress at certain points of dime more than a year ago and then things has slowed down and right now there are some more moments that we hope that just will but and thought of this crisis because we see and we believe actually that got a few nitty is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for for the sake of our people this need this crisis needs to end. The International Watchdog says iran is installing new more advanced equipment to enrich uranium the i. A. E. A. Says centrifuges are being added to the underground plant at natanz on the nuclear deal any less efficient machines can be used irans leaders recently passed a law or allowing for more enrichment and limiting watchdog inspections the uns
That are sitting in on his to make this great decision. Thank you. Chairman can we have the next caller, please. Caller hello. Can you hear me . Chairman we can hear you. Please proceed. This is reverend brown. I was just giving my introduction earlier. If i could add some humor to this occasion. Madam chair chairman mr. Brown i am proud madam chair, i want to say thi this im sorry, dr. Brown, but we have a board rule that only allows each person to make Public Comment once. So any additional information, if you want to provide it in writing, we will make sure to add it to the record. Thank you so much. Chairwoman next speaker, please. Caller good morning. My name is felicia jones. Im the founder of wealth and disparities in the black community. And i would like to make some points. Of course i am in support of reparations, but im also in support of reparations now. There have been three reports in 55 years written on black people, studying black people. And as of today, we are worse o
That housing remains a priority, Small Business remains a priority, and that San Francisco really goes back and actually makes due on its promise to include black san franciscans in every part of the Economic Development and the success of the city moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. That completes the cue. Chairwoman thank you so much. Thanks for the tremendous amount of really knowledgeable and compelling Public Comment. Supervisor mar . Thank you, chair ronan. I also just wanted to thank all of the Africanamerican Community leaders and activists for sharing your powerful comments. And, of course, thank you to supervisor walton, director davis, and mayor breed for your bold and thoughtful leadership on reparations for the Africanamerican Community and reinvestment and full support and equity for the Africanamerican Community looking ahead. So, yeah, i you know, as so many speakers noted, this is long overdue, but im really excited that, you know