Allowing new opportunities for the filipinos for art and culture to be showcased this is unprecedented and we applaud forest city for making arts and cultural a priority in the 5 m project we believe that art and culture can you think if i and lift people up and the art benefits package has the ability to do just that historically individuals suffering in the lower income ranks call central soma home and soma has neglected the community 40s people including filipinos to leave the 5m is different it seeks to work with and exclude ethics itself but especially the Filipino Community this approach is different than any weve experienced 5 m understands the needs and stresses the residents in soma and through the plans and agreement that have obsoleted on tackle ways to address the needs the community has always throughout the Community System for the studios and manila Town Foundation and at San Francisco Filipino Center the building would be the fifth center for the filipino arts and Educa
Part of that. The majority of our complaints were about non compliant barricades and damaged curb ramp requests. And another denied entry with their service dog and pedestrian signals. Most of the inquiries from people requesting information about football Affordable Housing and how to file reasonable accommodation requests on housing. We noticed more people dropping into our office and asking for information about financial assistance, discounted or Free Transportation and employment and housing opportunities. We also had a referral Success Story that i would like to inform you about. A couple months back we had a client who came by our office who who was homeless and unemployed he came to our office and received housing and resources information and he now reports that hes housed and employed fulltime and he wanted to thank our office and he was actually on the way to the bank to cash his first check and we wanted to give a shout out to tool works that was the referral we had given t
This issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessible Parking Advisory Committee and our Councilmember Wong wa
Low cost to construct rather than low cost to live in and you have 40,000 families in San Francisco waiting for Affordable Housing on a waiting list, and thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is Raymond Castillo and the lead person and chairperson to advance the youth and i wanted to let you know most of the our members is pretty much student, city college, San Francisco state university, and we work a lot of youth at soma and other areas and just to give you background youre building a lot of things with schools and going to college. Theyre dealing with tuition cuts and money for books and all of this, and having this efficiency dwelling units i mean i want to speak my mind and 1300 to 1600 a month is not affordable for students alone and theyre dealing with this at the same time. As families we want to keep the students with us. I dont want to be separated from them so please focus on building more Affordable Housing here in San Francisco and afford this cap on the legisla
Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessible Parking Advisory Committee and our Councilmember Wong was also a member and it was made up largely of people with disabilities and we met for 6 months starting last october and w