To unite, to fight for justice, not just in protests on the street but also in making policy changes. Many in the standingroom only crowd of 300 people are wearing black to protest the Police Killings of africanamerican Michael Brown junior and garner. He supports protests supporting his son. Saying thank you to the people of the bay area and when we looked at the television and the amount of people that turned out in the streets to express their disgust at the grand jury decision. Reporter the churchs pastor invited brown senior to speak. At this point we are waiting for brown senior to speak. Had he is also scheduled to speak tomorrow afternoon at 4 00 at mission high school. We are live in San Francisco, sharon chin, kpix5. More details about million march, the crowd was between 2500 and 3,000 at the peak. Down to 500 at nightfall. Protesters were peaceful but 45 arrests were made for various crimes like vandalism, failure to disburse and resisting arrest. Get ready for the next rou
Talk about sros, they say its great that you work with affordable housing. The first thing i say is, is not affordable. Its available housing stock. 700 900 a month is not affordable housing. Not what you get for an 8x10. You get Better Benefits in jail. That is sad. That we do this to our fellow citizens. 30,000 people in san francisco. Chair we will go to ken stein. I want to personally thank the presenters today and to point out that even though we in this room and in this community are a bubble of disability and none of this surprises us, the reality is that this discussion is a quantum leap from anything the city has had. Even in the most recent years, we were not able to get disability demographics. We always staff about accessibility, and they would say next time. A number of people with disability in sros. The fact that we now have senior action network, the last 10 years would could not even get large print. Oh yeah, they would see us there. There was never a demographic. If y
Chair you are back with the Mayors Disability Council friday, november 16, 2012. Thank you for rejoining us. Our next agenda item is an action item. It is the cochair election. For the position of cochair, wendy james has successfully executed her leadership role for one year. Her position is now up for a vote. We will accept nominations. Offered by oneself were nominated by ones colleagues. The first to cue in is cochair james. Cochair i would like to nominate myself and continue as cochair for another year and continue to learn how to cochair. off mic chair okay. We have one nomination, and one second. Do we have any further nominations for the cochair position . Yes. Chair roland . Councilmember wong i like to dominate idell wilson. Nominate. correction nominate laughter i would really say, i would be honored. I would like to third, for wendy to have a second year. Chair you are declining the nomination . Are there any further nominations . Seeing none, okay, this is where we have t
My head is swimming actually. I would like to say that what we are talking about here most of my colleagues would agree clean, Affordable Housing are human rights. In the city of San Francisco we have resources to see to it that that is the fact. With that said, first i want to talk a moment about bedbugs. I have a friend in an sro on jones he went through quite an ordeal to get management to respond; he call the department of Public Health. There were people in the building who were undocumented. Others for whom images a second language and there were other cultural barriers to opening the door to someone who looks like an official for the government. There was a delay getting the exterminators in there, doing their job. I dont know if you are aware of this and is an effort is being made to educate the residents about the procedures necessary in order to eradicate the bugs. People will come and talk to you. off mic i know from experience since i had bedbugs in the past, i did most of
The reality is that, based on the way rent control is in san francisco, when the tenant moves out, the landlord can put the rental at any price they can get, it moves closer to market rate. When people first year about the kind of work that i do and talk about sros, they say its great that you work with affordable housing. The first thing i say is, is not affordable. Its available housing stock. 700 900 a month is not affordable housing. Not what you get for an 8x10. You get Better Benefits in jail. That is sad. That we do this to our fellow citizens. 30,000 people in san francisco. Chair we will go to ken stein. I want to personally thank the presenters today and to point out that even though we in this room and in this community are a bubble of disability and none of this surprises us, the reality is that this discussion is a quantum leap from anything the city has had. Even in the most recent years, we were not able to get disability demographics. We always staff about accessibility