Chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 3, 2020 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of sep
Peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item 1 is a resolution receiving and approving
Redlining and the idea how the Real Estate Industry was institutionalizing or solidifying racial bias the way the autonomy was built but this new book that has been written picks up the story and it doesnt get better. And that the unc press could support this and university of North Carolina press it is amazing vital work of the Civil Rights Movement i would recommend checking out it is an amazing list. It is just the latest in that so please join me to welcome ms. Taylor. Thank you very much. Race for profit how banks in the Real Estate Industry undermine black homeowners. It isnt particularly conducive for reading bits and parts i have a 15 minute overview of what i think are the most important aspects of the book. So to give some context that we can discuss afterwards. And to describe the baltimore as a rat infested mass but that cool and thinly veiled code and to convey that fatalistic disregard to have a decided lack of ambition as rodent infestation. So it is not evident of afric
Home ownership. Is in discussion with the very acclaimed scholar. Thank you for coming. We are very glad to be here in philly to begin this project and 2008 2009 okay, mostly its about chicago and detroit and then i moved to philadelphia and found out there is a story here. And then part of rewriting this book so it is a very difficult book to read from it is dense the readable. [laughter] and so what i will do is give a narrative arc that in Broad Strokes what the book is trying to do and then the conversations between professor robbins and i. So now in a typical spasm of the tree all donald trump describes the city of baltimore as a rat and rodent infested mess it was a cruel and vote to disparage the hardship of the communities of that city and in doing so it conveyed fatalistic disregard for those conditions while expressing a lack of ambition to attend to something as serious. Despite the rhetoric black poor workingclass communities is not of africanamerican indifference but marke
Seal the holiday weekend. For morings in visit booktv. Org or check your program guide. [applause] yes. Hi. Im the event coordinator. I am glad to welcome back Keeanga Yamahtta taylor, assistant professor from princeton, and she is writes and speaks on black politicssocial movements and racial equality in the United States. She is here for her third back, race for profits, how banks and Real Estate Industries undermine black Home Ownership. She will be in discussion with professor together the roberts, who is a very acclaimed scholar, public bell electric to all and social justice advocate. So i would like to he introduce keeangayamahtta taylor. Hello, everyone. Thanks for coming. My fourth talk this week. Very glad to be here in philly, which ended up dish began this project in 200820082009 and mostly about chicago do i need this . Okay. I mostly about chicago and detroit, and then when i moved to philadelphia issue found out there was a story here. So, philly has been an important pa