Families back together again with the Public Housing families were residents were part of this city and all residents will benefit in this city through the wealth and the things that exist because were a city that cares taking care of of our residents we care about taking care of of each other i want to thank the mayor hes kept wording and worked tireless to keep Public Housing starting with the 4. 7 million to help to formerly homeless families theyre in those units and the elevator money that fixes the elevators in Public Housing clapping. so this mayor is not just talking the talk but walking the walk that means so much because the way we get it done is Work Together and make sure that we continue to keep it at the forefront of everything we do in this city no more neglect wire finally doing what we need do to take care of the residents in the Public Housing Development Im as i said ill emotional as someone that remembers what it feels like im enjoying even though moment and cant wa
Hud thank you very much. clapping . Thank you very much mayor ed lee i think the mayor said it all laughter . And well too let me begin may i mayor by thanking you for your convalescent leadership i think that in the six months ive been on the job spoken to you and mayor b. A. Abhors the most San Francisco has quite a champion in the Mayors Office with mayor ed lee and thank you to you maam supervisor and our tenant advocates and big thanks to our regional coordinator clapping and all our hud staff and want to recognize jimmy bryan our acting secretary and Jennifer Jones from the ti h thank you for your great work that led this this moment . An important moment in the about two things first of all, it is about getting things done as the mayor said we recognize that getting things done in the context of Public Housing has been harder and heard over the years weve developed about a 26 employed backlog in terms of capital repairs for Public Housing stock we need to get more and more resou
Is rehabbed when we do work at west side court and holly court and west point and those elements that have been delipidated for many many years i want to emphasize the importance of not expecting services to find their way or people to find their way to where services are it is difficult it fourth how Many Services are available all over the city were using those services and bringing them directly to the Community Room of the Public Housing development were going to be bringing hope to the Public Housing residents and i look forward to the day when we change the way this city does business were our resident and no longer being operating in isolation thank you to olsen lee and highs team and hud and Mayors Office of housing and allowing the red tape and the bureaucracy not to get in the way of progress and thank you to Barbara Smith if he Housing Authority to do the best they can with the limited resources this is a great day im looking forward to the changes to competency clapping . S
Entire housing challenge housing crisis in the is city is one im up to the challenging challenge were up to the challenge and the Housing Authority is just beginning ive got thirty mouse u thousand housing to build were going to get to that with the housing bond this november with a complimentary you infusion of dollars weve seen time and time again help us with the city challenges but ultimately all of us who work in government can say that you work with hud and the Housing Authority and the in Housing Office and with nonprofit and proud to be san franciscans were demonstrating how to help each other be successful i met secretary castro along agree as mayors and ill tells you this im thankful to president obama who picks mayors to be cabinet secretaries wherever you met a former mayor in a position you only have to talk half as much they get it laughter i know that secretary castro was picked by president obama not only do we get things duplicate when he saw the challenges we were all
Wanting to take the risk why would they join in its about transforming the bureaucracies to a collaborative and strong spirit ive named those people i want to give them total credit for the collaborative strong effort were dooements today, we so the opportunity now to use this rad program with all the neglects that weve asked for that also were taking on more risk as a city because its worth it to invest in our members you know some of them all they seven hundred was better elevators and now theyre getting that and all they wanted was heat and hot Running Water in the winter and no cook roaches and fire alarms that work in fires those are simple things how come were not doing that many residents ask and i ask there will be reason after reason after reason that transformation will be sustained by a very knowledgeable resident basis and inspired staff and our pocket sectors as tremors commentator theyre no my office saying hey, its not about the brick and mortar we have to have services