Be rented. Right . Maam, your time is up. Thank you very much. All right. Appreciate it. Next speaker, please. My name is rafael picasso. Born and raised in the Mission District, and i cant afford the mission. Thats a shame. I grew up here. I work for the city. I make decent money. Do you think i want to spend 3 to 6,000 on rent . That would take my whole paycheck all year long. It would put me like the lady that was just speaking, on the streets. It doesnt matter if i make 75,000 a year. I cant live here no more. Its getting too expensive. A lot of my people, just like the lady that just spoke, are becoming homeless because weve got these developers who want to build these units, but theyre not building it for me. I cant live in these units. My people cannot live in these units. None of us. We want Affordable Housing. We need Affordable Housing. We dont need techie people coming into our city driving up the rents on the natives. We demand it. Think about it. Be human. Have a heart. Th
Born and raised in the Mission District, and i cant afford the mission. Thats a shame. I grew up here. I work for the city. I make decent money. Do you think i want to spend 3 to 6,000 on rent . That would take my whole paycheck all year long. It would put me like the lady that was just speaking, on the streets. It doesnt matter if i make 75,000 a year. I cant live here no more. Its getting too expensive. A lot of my people, just like the lady that just spoke, are becoming homeless because weve got these developers who want to build these units, but theyre not building it for me. I cant live in these units. My people cannot live in these units. None of us. We want Affordable Housing. We need Affordable Housing. We dont need techie people coming into our city driving up the rents on the natives. We demand it. Think about it. Be human. Have a heart. Think about the people who was born and raised here. Straight up. Im not looking at them. Im looking at you because i know who you are. Okay
75,000 a year. I cant live here no more. Its getting too expensive. A lot of my people, just like the lady that just spoke, are becoming homeless because weve got these developers who want to build these units, but theyre not building it for me. I cant live in these units. My people cannot live in these units. None of us. We want Affordable Housing. We need Affordable Housing. We dont need techie people coming into our city driving up the rents on the natives. We demand it. Think about it. Be human. Have a heart. Think about the people who was born and raised here. Straight up. Im not looking at them. Im looking at you because i know who you are. Okay . Think about us. I was born and raised here. I cant live here. I cant live in the city that i love . Honestly . I ask you now. Do the right thing by the people you represent. You guys represent me. You guys represent everything back here. These guys dont even live in San Francisco, but theyre outside developers, and they want to come in
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