Welcome to north beach. Sunny day. Thank you everybody for coming out. Especially if i if i may special thanks to all of our board of supervisor who are here today. Elected officials, our commissioners, police and fire department. People. The city are recreational about our libraries, all of this is is better up here. Many of whom ive engaged in many dialogues around the last month. I want to say thank you everyone for getting your input to me. You know, i want to say that this is an exciting day. While my little tired because of all the activities of the last 30 years, i had to do a marathon i know that this isnt, district 3, is a very, dated, very diverse, and one of the most exciting districts in all of San Francisco. , i recognize that because i spent a good part of my adult professional career indecision degree in chinatown and i know that chinatown, north beach told rafael, russian hill, nabil, both lower and upper and middle, middle upper, lower you know, fishermans wharf, the f
Housing production, building for residents in our all income brackets here in San Francisco is essential to our success as a city and we acknowledge that the vast majority it is my role to fight for my Affordable Housing in each development and area plan and to secure funding for Affordable Housing. I look forward to working with the boards and Mayors Office in making that a reality. In the past few years we welcome the opening of Affordable Housing throughout the district whether its the richardson apartment. 60 units of Affordable Housing and soon the Ground Breaking of the affordable Family Housing on sixth and howard, known affectionately as the demonstration building or the building where the furniture is falling out of the windows. I have also been successful in if supporting the rehab of former vacant sites, such as fifth and harrison which much more work to ensure the production of housing means housing for everyone and we look forward to the introduction of legislation and fun
Forward to the introduction of legislation and funding that will make that a reality. A piece of housing of course, is the ever present issue of homelessness in San Francisco. Many of my residents live on the streets and as a Public Servant im accountable to everyone whether you live in a penthouse, or you live on our streets, im accountable to you and treating you with dignity and respect. No one wants to see our brothers and sisters living on the street and through the data that we have asked the department of Public Health to collect we realize actually many of them are also our grandmothers and grandfathers and i saw them certainly when i spent a night in our shelter. Our homeless shelter is not growing, but ageing in place. Housing is a part of that answer but we must also address the health and physical and mental well being of our residents. Ive been working to enhance shelt shelter shelt Shelter Services and also increase the number of beds that we provide. There are roughly 16
Is essential to our success as a city and we acknowledge that the vast majority it is my role to fight for my Affordable Housing in each development and area plan and to secure funding for Affordable Housing. I look forward to working with the boards and Mayors Office in making that a reality. In the past few years we welcome the opening of Affordable Housing throughout the district whether its the richardson apartment. 60 units of Affordable Housing and soon the Ground Breaking of the affordable Family Housing on sixth and howard, known affectionately as the demonstration building or the building where the furniture is falling out of the windows. I have also been successful in if supporting the rehab of former vacant sites, such as fifth and harrison which much more work to ensure the production of housing means housing for everyone and we look forward to the introduction of legislation and funding that will make that a reality. A piece of housing of course, is the ever present issue
And just take a breath. Im usually hounding the past to talk to them. Its kind of interesting to go the other way around. People asked how far id be willing to go to look after district 3 and i hope this answers the question. I want to thank mayor lee. When a person puts this kind of trust in you its kind of aweinspiring and i am truly humbled by the confidence that he has in my ability to take on this important district especially because i know how important this district is to him traditionally. Im very grateful for that. Its interesting to me that mayor lee started out as a Community Activist and as a Civil Servant and only entered politics when he felt that was the way to do more. I know were all grateful for that and i take it to heart because although it was not my original intention to come into politics, i decided that the way that i can get done some of the things we need to get done in district 3. And so i am honored to put myself in the service of the city. District 3 , int