The committee on banking and housing and urban Affairs Committee has come to order. We thank the witnesses for joining us. Home is where you go after a long day of work and where your kids play and do their home work. Home is where you plan for the future and build wealth. Home is where millions of families join the middle class. Our homes are an anchor in our lives but for too many families around the country, a home they can afford and build their life around just feels out of reach. I hear it in ohio, i hear it from people in lima city, somewhere i grew newspaper mansfield where a new building with 54 apartments just opened for working families. Of those 54 apartments they had 511 interested families. I hear it from rural Washington County in southeast ohio, marietta, church town, where they struggled to build 48 homes for seniors. I hear it from Franklin County in columbus where the population has grown to 14 to more than 4. 3 Million People but housing supply hasnt kept up and sur
Testified on increasing housing supply at reducing costs for borrowers but this before the Senate Banking committee. Its an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] committee on Housing Urban Affairs is called to order. Thanks to the two witnesses joining us. Home is more than four walls and a roof for the play and do their homework home as we plan for the future and build wealth. Home is millions of families during the middle class. Homes are an anchor in our lives for too many families are in the country home they can afford and build their life around feels out of reach. I hear it and ohio, hear from everywhere from people mine by the city similar to where i grew up in mansfield. Fiftyfour apartments for working families just opened 54 partners at 50011 interested families but i hear it from rural Washington County in Southeast Ohio marietta, church town, they struggled for years 48 homes for seniors right here in Franklin County in central ohio, columbus populatio
Above 11 of the federal Poverty Level. Then, we took the median of each decade and weighted the decades where there was heightened drug arrests in San Francisco, and thats how we get to 17 of households with federal excuse me above the federal Poverty Level, and thats very confusing methodology, but im trying to commissioner toursarkissian what was the Poverty Level . It varied. Commissioner toursarkissian on the number of family members, correct . Yes, but there were 197 census tracks in San Francisco, and after our calculations, we pulled out 91. Are those available, like, publicly . Yes. Yeah well. Commissioner zouzounis theyre public. Well, you can pull them from the National Historical gif website to get it all commissioner zouzounis no, i mean, like, specifically, the areas in which the cause it says as determined by the director, so is that now within the auspice of cannabis no, because its still a proposal, but the plan is to map this and make it available on the website so tha
Affect the vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you have questions, you can start at the Small Business commission. Clerk this is the Small Business commission, regular meeting on november 13, 2017. Members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes perspeaker unless otherwise allowed by the director of the meeting. Completion of a speaker card, while optional will help ensure procedure spelling of speakers names in the written record of the meeting. Please place speaker cards in the basket to the left of the lectern. Names will be called in the order they are on the cards in the basket. Item one, call to order and roll call. Clerk [ roll call. ] mr. President , you have a quorum. All right. Next item. Public comment. Allows members of the public to comment on matters that are in the Small Business commissions jurisdiction, but not on the agenda and address f
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