Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Up here, there was a lot of discussion before Public Comment but there were no points raised, actually. There was a lot of purposeful confusion between allowed and requires, the mayors Charter Amendment allows projects up to 140, and supervisor fewer repeatedly claimed that that meant it required, all projects to be 140. Theres a big difference between allows and requires, and when you meld those things together, people in the public hear that you are being insincere and it really makes it sound like there are no reasons that this is just fighting. I was disturbed by the cavalier attitude supervisor ronen had towards waiting 100 days. One hundred days is a big deal. If you run out of your time good afternoon, supervisors, robert, i live in district 5 and money for Affordable Housing is hard to come by. One supervisor said the real need for resources, money for building and acquiring land. Good news is that the mayors proposal would help with that. It would lower construction costs, it
Issues, both the policies and politics of it. I want to thank everybody that came out today to share your perspectives on either side of the issue and the many that have communicated directly to my office and to my colleagues. I think this sort of contentious nature that we have gotten to around the proposals to streamline Affordable Housing highlight how complex these issues are and there are a lot of different perspectives to best address these problems. It highlights how important it is to get the details right and to consider the specific details. I think the presentations today, thank you so much to the Mayors Office of housing and Planning Department as well. The presentations have been helpful along with Public Comment in clarifying my thoughts. I want to say that i am proud of the board of supervisors measure. It will rezone and streamline Affordable Housing sites across the cities specially the western neighborhoods serving a wide range of people without pitting it against low
Going to interpret it that way. That really is what it looks like. Up here, there was a lot of discussion before Public Comment but there were no points raised, actually. There was a lot of purposeful confusion between allowed and requires, the mayors Charter Amendment allows projects up to 140, and supervisor fewer repeatedly claimed that that meant it required, all projects to be 140. Theres a big difference between allows and requires, and when you meld those things together, people in the public hear that you are being insincere and it really makes it sound like there are no reasons that this is just fighting. I was disturbed by the cavalier attitude supervisor ronen had towards waiting 100 days. One hundred days is a big deal. If you run out of your time good afternoon, supervisors, robert, i live in district 5 and money for Affordable Housing is hard to come by. One supervisor said the real need for resources, money for building and acquiring land. Good news is that the mayors pr
I have noticed that supervisor peskin will characterize the fighting as fighting between the board and the mayor and i think the public is going to feel, is going to interpret it that way. That really is what it looks like. Up here, there was a lot of discussion before Public Comment but there were no points raised, actually. There was a lot of purposeful confusion between allowed and requires, the mayors Charter Amendment allows projects up to 140, and supervisor fewer repeatedly claimed that that meant it required, all projects to be 140. Theres a big difference between allows and requires, and when you meld those things together, people in the public hear that you are being insincere and it really makes it sound like there are no reasons that this is just fighting. I was disturbed by the cavalier attitude supervisor ronen had towards waiting 100 days. One hundred days is a big deal. If you run out of your time good afternoon, supervisors, robert, i live in district 5 and money for A