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Use. Reporter they also weighed in on governor good afternoon newsoms plan to spend 750 million of taxpayer money to fix the states homeless crisis. Up for debate, the way in which the money will be distributed. Newsom wants to hand out the funds through regional administrators. Assembly member phil ting said adding another layer of bureaucracy doesnt add up. The dollars need to go where the responsibility lies. Those of us who are accountable should be able to get things done. Reporter state lawmakers will take the i didnt want from todays hearing as well as other subcommittee hearings to craft their own budget. The state budget is due by june 15th. In San Francisco, melissa colorado, nbc bay area. This impacts almost all of us. What do People Living here in the bay area think about the housing crisis . A new poll asked 500 San Francisco voters about life specifically in the city. 64 ranked homelessness as the top issue facing San Francisco. Nearly 80 said in order to combat homelessn
Other sound devices are prohibited. The board respectfully requests that you turn them off. Minutes of the february 4 regular meeting, mr. Chair, ive not received a request from the member of the public to address you. Is mr. Kennedy coming back . Clerk yes. So Board Members, unless theres a question, ill entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Okay. All those in favor . Opposed . Item 5, miss boomer. Clerk item 5, communications. Board members, any new or Unfinished Business . Clerk directors report. Director tumlin . How are you . Im still great, and im litt still loving about 80 of my job. 20 in three months. Good afternoon, directors. So last week, San Francisco was called to testify in congress at the house energy and commerce subcommittee. Theyre hosting a forum on Autonomous Vehicles and pending litigation. San francisco was called to testify, and i spoke covering a couple of critical topics related to the pending legislation, including asking that we put safety first,
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