Place in my heart, because it represents the vision of my late husband, joseph koret. Joe was born in poverty. He his wish was for no one to go hungry in his beloved San Francisco community. Joe would have been so proud to support this wonderful building that will provide so much care for so many people in our city. For me, st. Anthonys also represents the three cs. Care, community, and continuity. I bring you many congratulations from all of the members of the board of directors of the Koret Foundation and our very best wishes for continued sucrose in success in the future. Thank you. [ applause ] i saw merl and larry, if you want to join us. As we said, this building is complex. And it starts with the funding. It will get more complicated with the construction pretty soon, but it has really been an unbelievable group effort to pull together the different funders of this work. We heard about the korets foundation amazing con tributionss and i know there have been so many amazing contr
Of supervisors, many of the members are here. Our fire chief, our police chief, our homeless connectors, bevin, who has been on the streets and i will be out there with you tonight to do the Homeless Count as we need to do to make sure were doing our best to cover everyone. Barry said earlier this is a lot of miracles happening and i will tell you this is the city of miracles, because we want those miracles to happen. We wish it to happen. Lucille wouldnt be here without those miracles. [ applause ] worldclass miracles, right . But there is a lot of challenges in our lives. And things that were confronted with, but as doug kind of explained we got it together when we knew we were challenged. I think, i mean, i look at people, like leader pelosi, to give me the kind of personal incentive that i need to move things forward. Because if you talk about someone who is fearless, you will go back to washington, d. C. I mean, here in our setting, we have a lovely time, thanking each other, but
But for giving back. [ applause ] so father, we have been together on many occasions, like this and father is the president of usf and he knows that this city of st. Francis has been a city. When they talk about San Francisco values, i take it in the most complimentary way. The values of st. Francis and that is exactly what we are doing on this corner today, being channels of gods peace, giving love and light where it had not existed. But to thank each and every one of you for what you do. Our mayor has been sort of the catalyst. He is where a lot of this comes together, public policy, private philanthropy and nonprofit collaborations all works with the spark that makes it just ignite in a much bigger way. And he has been really a champion in that regard, not just as the mayor of this city, but long before that in his various capacities in leadership in our city. So we thank him for that leadership. Because of each and every one of you sitting here, and most of all because of the vips
I told my children when father floyd told me. A long time ago, i said father floyd, what makes you be able to do this over and over year in and year out . That you never burn out . That you have a constant source of enthusiasm for administering to the needs of people in need . He said when i was growing up, my parents told me that god loved poor people in a very special way. And so that we all must love them in a very special way. And that was his motivation and i believe the motivation of many of us gathered here today. I know it is of where you are father . Father from u. S. F . Thank you for being here. I see so many of you in the audience who have been so magnificent in this and here we are. Coming together in a partnership, in a partnership between mercy housing; now its mercy housing because its the sisters of mercy, but its mercy housing because that is what it is. And that is what it means to the people who benefit from it. And this collaboration with st. Anthonys. The coming t