Hello, board of supervisors, my name is cory monroe, i work at every middle school and been working for 20 years and over the past 20 years i have seen so many coworkers have to leave and so many students and its to the point to where so many coworkers have left our school i barely know my coworkers, and its just sad that they cant afford to live in San Francisco, so im totally for supporting Affordable Housing and something has to happen soon because sooner or later people wont look to teach in San Francisco and it could really get that serious and something we need to look into and even with me like i live in berkeley, grew up in Hunters Point, used to always get a place in Hunters Point but im affected with the community when im there, and when you have teachers and educators there, they could talk to teenagers and stop a lot of violence, so it was really important that we are in the city of San Francisco that i love. Ive been canvasings the neighborhood and the mission for uesf and its just sad and the mission that its barely any students or parents that live in the mission district, and we have to find a way to bring and keep our students and teachers back in San Francisco. Thank you. Good morning. My name is claire merced, a spanish teacher here in San Francisco. I had a speech written and then i started listening to the 3,000 studio that people are expected to live and it brought me to what my conditions were when i actually got divorced. This is a story that most of my colleagues dont know. I couldnt afford anywhere to live, and i had a studio. I had two teenagers. I could only have one teenager at a time living with me. One of my children, here in San Francisco, could live with me because i didnt have enough space for the two of them to live with me. This is what is happening. I am speaking on behalf of the affordable home for educators and families, and families. Because its not just us going to School Every Day to teach, we have children. We had children, we can barely afford anything to do in the city. I would like to go to the opera, i would like to go to the symphony, i would like to go to the shows that are performed here, and i cannot afford it. And i know that my young colleagues cant afford living here. They dont make the money to live here. So, please, please, please listen to what we have here. And listen to educators, thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Susan kitchel. Ive served as a pediatric and School Practitioner almost 40 years. Hospitals and clinics, and the last 23 years as a school nurse in the San Francisco Public Schools. Im here in support of the Affordable Housing for educators and families now initiative. Ive lived in various rental apartments in district 1, Richmond District since 1982. Two years ago i was evicted from a more than 20year tenancy under the ellis act. It seems as though being a longterm excellent tenant is now a liability when seeking housings. Landlords want turnover to take advantage of the vacancy rent increase control. After a long and anxiety laden search i was able to secure an apartment and remain in the city and continue to live in the Richmond District. However, the apartment i secured was half the space for 50 more money, resulting in a rent payment of greater than 40 of my salary and i am at the top of the salary schedule. Im planning to retire at the end of this calendar year, i will be leaving San Francisco because i simply cannot afford to stay here. It is, i take with me my years of experience and activism. Our city and schools lose my long Time Commitment activism for the children, youth and families of San Francisco. It is too late for me and many other educators, i urge you to support this commitment to educators, which in turn benefit students and families of the city. As my very own supervisor, sandra fewer said earlier, it is time to stop the greed. I would go a touch further. It is past time to stop the greed. Initiative of the board of supervisors in conjunction with the educators is just the measure we need. Thank you. Good morning. My name is steven oreilly, i live in the sunset, district 4. I also teach in district 4 at jefferson elementary. Ive lived in San Francisco 29 years. My wife and i live in a rent controlled two unit building, in the sunset for 12 years. Although im committed to teaching for the next school year, my wife and i cannot wait to see if and when our unit is sold. The first weekend in august we are meeting with a realtor in portland, oregon to look at condos to purchase. This will not happen soon, may happen sooner or later. But we cant wait. And as regards to the Francis Scott key, ive looked at the proposal, looked at the unit sizes, and the cost. It will be a smaller unit for nearly twice the price we currently pay. I love living in San Francisco, lived here 29 years, i feel like im a sense of the community in my neighborhood, my families i serve are my neighbors, and i dont i walk to work. I consider myself very fortunate in my situation right now. We cant wait for the other shoe to drop, we are looking elsewhere. Thank you for your time. Hi, my name is tom ashby, p. E. Teacher in a middle school, and how i got the position, late september of last year, my first year teaching, the only way i got the position, educator before me tried to make a commute from all the way from sacramento because he tried to save some money and pay for his rent and obviously did not work out for him. So i had to take his spot. I was fortunate enough to take his spot but quickly we learned, me and my girlfriend, both educators, struggling to pay rent and i converted garage inlaw, and so its always been a struggle. We are not sure where we are going to move next. I had to move in the last five years, had to move seven times. So its questionable whether the amount of stability we are going to be seeing with our housing situation the over the years, whether we are going to stay in San Francisco or not. We are making all sorts of different plans whether we want to move to the east bay where i came from, or even move out of state, so its always been questionable. I want to also point out from whats said on the podium before about sfusd collaborating with the Mayors Office about this initiative. I feel like it was kind of i just think that you know, for us who are trying to struggle to fight for our raises, prop g fought in court, to also ask that we are fighting for our housing as well. Its a little bit ridiculous to me. Thank you very much. Good morning. My name is jordan davis. Speaking only for myself, i didnt have to be nice. I didnt want to come here today, i have a bit of a headache, but that headache is due in part to another potential duelling Ballot Initiatives gunk up the ballot and designed to confuse voters. I support item 1, the board proposal and oppose the mayors [bleep] amendment. Im not a land use wonk, but its supported by the dot dot dot, the teachers, the people who know what they need, who the Board Members work with, and who are the Board Members who support the board proposal, supervisor and former School Commissioner fewer, walton, and my supervisor, matt haney. That means because they were on the school board, they know whats going on here. And ive tried to hear all these stories and reminds me of why this is so important. And the Disability Rights Community we have a term, selfadvocacy. I ask you to respect selfadvocacy of teachers and school board alumni and not yimbis and respect the [bleep] Charter Amendment, basically the mayor working in a smoke filled back room and presenting to stakeholders like the koolaid man busting through a wall. Listen to the teachers, the educators, reject the [bleep], and anyone who votes yes on the Charter Amendment and on the ballot for us to vote on, needs to surrender their progressive card. If this Initiative Comes on the ballot, im sure pretty they are going to come out swinging against it. Thank you. Good morning, sumzs. Jeff rego, a citizen of the city since 1976 in the outer sunset since 1984. My comments are that the Housing Market is already significantly skewed in favor of developers, maximizing profits, glut of luxury housing in San Francisco. Mayors Charter Amendment based on Affordable Homes for educators and families now act, streamlining housing for teachers and support staff but less than half the building for the purpose. It continues the policies contributed to the housing problems we are experiencing and now asked to streamline them by removing other Things Community input. Particularly troubling, inclusion of the Charter Amendment component, changing without taking it back to the voters. I support the supervisors initiative and strongly oppose the mayors legislation and Charter Amendment and i agree with you all, stop the greed. My name is erica, 45year resident of the outer sunset. I live within feet of the Francis Scott key project and right from the beginning all of our neighbors supported that project and we support Affordable Housing in the outer sunset, extremely strongly. And i want that to go on the record. The Charter Amendment is a work around in the same way that trump comes out with his work arounds. And we dont need a Charter Amendment, we need our legislators to think through and correct Affordable Housing in our neighborhood, with some voice talking to Big Developers putting up getting all the giveaways from all the new legislation statewide and locally. And im extremely against the idea of giving any public property to private investors. That needs to not happen, whether its in whatever the initiative or the Charter Amendment. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thanks for having us here today for the lovely conversation. Sam moss, executive director of Mission Housing development corporation. Im here to speak in favor of the Charter Amendment number 3. I bring that up specifically because i want to say its impressive the way we have managed to conflate all three issues when the Charter Amendment is saying we should make it illegal to appeal Affordable Housing, hard stop. Definition of what is affordable, a. M. I. , that is trailing and i have the naive hope the body can work with the executive branch to come to that agreement. Nothing is stopping you from saying it should be impossible from San Franciscos perspective. Not from the state of california perspective in sb35, but San Franciscos charters, perspective. To appeal Affordable Housing. You could just do that. Nothing is stopping you. And i hope that in the end thats why you all ran to represent all of us. So i look forward to that coming about. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Shell medina. Thanks for having me this morning, or afternoon. Hi, supervisors. Out of curiosity, does anybody know salary as of a teacher in San Francisco . Do you know how much they make a year . Ok. Cool. Well, how much does a public teacher make in San Francisco. The average public teacher salary in San Francisco is 71,854 as of june 27, 2019. The rates stability between 62,731 and 82,954. Salaries can range depending on many important factors, including education, certification, additional skills and the number of years the teacher has spent in class. Im in support of the mayor, i think we need to get housing as soon as possible, eliminate the time frame, more money, construction is more expensive, pay teachers more money. If we are living in one of the most expensive parts of the cities in the world, if you had to pay 3,000 for a studio, thats a mortgage in somebody elses cities or country. You know, we need to figure something out. We need housing. Im in support of the mayor. Thank you so much. Hi. My name is dana, and im here to speak in support of the Charter Amendment. We are the only city that has a thing called discretionary review, anybody can file to block any project for any reason or no reason. I read the d. R. S and every Planning Commission packet and interesting to see how people are explicit about their greed. I have seen neighbors try to block housing because tenants might live there, because tenants would not live there but the building looks like the tenants might live there. Personal favorite, landlord worried that new housing would block shadows and he might have to do something crazy like lower the rent. Why are we needling peoples worst instincts . Discretionary review is an embarrassment to our city. Abolishing d. R. For Affordable Housing should be a no brainer. Its going to be a lot more important as we Start Building Affordable Housing in exclusionnary neighborhoods, people are going to get mad. We have a massive shortage of Affordable Housing with 8,000 applicants for every unit. We cant afford to waste time and money on frivolous appeals. I hope you guys can work with the Mayors Office to come up with a way to eliminate these terrible appeals for Affordable Housing. Thank you. Hi, my name did ira kaplan, a renter, live in district 3. I want you to support the mayors Charter Amendment. Some concerns from supervisors today about the high rents that some of the streamline projects would have. Thats what its like out here for those of us who are not housing secure, who did not have the opportunity to purchase a home in San Francisco 10, 20, 30 years ago. Thats what this process has done to us and the rents you are concerned about are the below market rate rents. Discount from the private market where most people are forced to seek housing in San Francisco. Just near my apartment every day i see people sleeping on the streets every night and breaks my heart we dont have enough housing for them. Its a moral failure. The mayors amendment does what you all say you want. It streamlines 100 Affordable Housing and if you oppose it, because it also streamlines other housing, thats playing politics with peoples housing. Please dont play politics with peoples housing. Please let the mayors Charter Amendment go to a vote of the people. Thank you. My name is gabe. Ive heard stories from teachers that are just heart wrenching, im sure they are to you as well. Im in support of the mayors Charter Amendment. Great if we lived in a world we didnt have to we could put rents at a place teachers could afford them and housing prices to a place teachers could afford to buy in San Francisco. Thats not realistic and i think that if you want to help the teachers and people of all walks of life to afford to live here, you have to be realistic how to accomplish that, you cant do it by stricting or protecting the institutional blo kadz to prevent housing from being something affordable. Hes that the mayor is trying to address. A pretty courageous stand and said we are not going to do it the easy way by just bashing developers and talking about greed, but the hard way about taking on the institutional blockages contained in the charter right now. I understand this is not politically the easiest thing to do, but i think its the right thing to do. We need to help these people and one of the ways we do that is by addressing the systemic problems, not a little piecemeal work here and there, frankly how we characterize the supervisors proposal. But rather to make the hard choices and that includes market rate housing. Now, the mayor has done her part, i think the voters will back her, and whats in the middle right now is you guys. So, please vote to put her Charter Amendment on the ballot and let the voters decide. Thank you. Hi, jennifer fever with the San Francisco tenants union, 8,000 members strong. Im here to support the boards measure for Affordable Housing on public lands. We are very much opposed to the Charter Amendment, everybody is opposed to the Charter Amendment. I want to commend you all for working with the Community Stakeholders on this, and rather than just dreaming up tools for Developers Behind closed doors. We work very closely uasf and 2121 during elections so i thought it was very important to show up and support their ideas today. I have appreciated their sensitivity and always considerable vulnerable tenants and essential workers of the city, whether they are School Teachers or not. And so they always work to come up with the best possible plans. So, thank you for all your work on this ballot measure. Another thing i noticed, i thought the Mayors Office of housing and staff was supposed to be neutral like the planning staff. So my mind was blown today by the very bias presentation and thats not how i want my taxpayer dollars to be spent. Hi, laura foote, mb action. Two quick technical points. The first one is about the two competing ordinances. Both of them rezone, and the worst outcome would be for neither to reach the ballot. If neither reaches the ballot, if we pursue a legislative way of doing this, a citywide e. I. R. , set back literally years, thousands and thousands of city dollars would have to go into this citywide e. I. R. And just like you are seeing with the navigation center, subject to a lawsuit. We are making it more high risk to do upzoning. So, while i have a slight preference for the mayors upzoning, please make sure that either, both, or one of them makes it to the ballot. We need to do this at the ballot in order to make sure the e. I. R. Is not subject to all the nonsense. And broadening affordability, more projects as federal and local funding is limited, growing it, more complicated projects that use a variety of income types. And the mayors proposal allows for more of those cross subsidies so we can spend less. I was middle income when i lived on my friends couch for months. And i was middle income when i lived in a bugbite in fested warehouse apartment that had sort of been converted into something habitable. Middle income people need housing. When i was facing being a single income person in San Francisco who was middle income, where was i supposed to live . I run a nonprofit. We have so much tech money, i make 75,000 a year. It sucks. Thanks. Hi. My name is julian pressman, i have been in nonprofit my whole life. And i wanted to voice my support for the Charter Amendment. In particular, i want to speak to the question of who we would be leaving behind. We dont get this amendment from the ballot. One is, so i live in district 6, i volunteer in the tenderloin working with the very poor and very sick people of the city who live in undignified and inhumane life because they cannot afford rent or barely squeeze by, they dont have enough for food and medicine on top of that. We need to move much much much faster when it comes to building. We have been way too slow. We have not moved the Homeless Population in the city has swelled. By 14 in the last two years. And i appreciate the assurances could approve one by one, but the people suffering outside this building cant wait for all of that process and we have to move more swiftly. Second, leaving behind middle income, nonprofit workers. Again, been in the sector my whole life again and again, entry level employees who come in, try to live here, cant live here, work for two hours and work the grueling and intense job and commute two hours back and leave the sector and decide im going to go work at a bank because i cant do this. And our sector in the services that your communities and our most vulnerable in San Francisco really depend on are not able to get fully staffed because we cant, these people cant live here. So, really encourage you to put this on the ballot and thank you so much. Hi. My name is jessica hernandez, i am a teacher at paul revere. We are one of the lowest 5 performing schools and all though a lot of contributing factors to that, having a really vital School Community is one of the biggest problems that affects all of our schools. And i would like for all of our staff to, that are passionate, our staff is passionate. They love our kids, to Stay Together and build something there. And so i appreciate the board, sorry, the, sorry afford and homes for educators and Families Initiative now. I would like to let you know that in the last five years ive been teaching ive tried everything. Living in san jose, commuting 1 to 2 hours, living in the east bay, living in liver rooms, considered living in my car. Until i was one week from being due, i lived in hayward, and commuting on bart and that was hard. Its like people know that when you are pregnant you want to start taking time off and taking care of yourself. You cant do that if you know you are not going to be able to afford rent next month. And taking time off for my child, i cant because we have rents to pay, our rent is as much as our daycare, so we are paying what some people are paying for a full house right now, and its both of us are teachers, so again thank for your support and i would like you to support the Affordable Homes for educators and Families Initiative. Thank you. My name is harry mudd, born and raised in San Francisco, 45 years, fillmore district. Homeless all my life, could not read and write. I think that this needs to pass, a lot of Homeless People on the street, women and ladies standing in cars and sleeping in parks and on busses and sleeping in hotels, and late on rent one time and kicked out with a newborn baby. City is claiming they need money and funding but if you have 7,000 people that are homeless in one city and you get everybody together and put the money together, you wouldnt need the citys money, just someone to trust, San Francisco, stockton, where there is land and i think a lot of these companies might, a lot of the schools and target and stuff that have people working for them, that dedicated that comes to work every day, and sleep in their cars with their kids and children, i think a lot of the schools and companies should Start Building housing for them, you know, so therefore you can help the people working for you and not turn your back on them. Peace to my son, kareem malcom shakur. Im here to support the mayors Charter Amendment and ordinance. I want to say im thrilled that there are two ordinances that countenance, upzoning the rest of the city, 80 of the citys subsidized housing in the last ten years has been built in two supervisor districts, which means nine supervisor districts split the other 20 and thats wrong. Its economic segregation, it is wrong. So i cannot tell you how thrilled and proud i am that this body is competing to move forward with something that will facilitate integrating all the rest of the neighborhoods. And echo what laura said, keep your eyes on the prize. If we mess this up and cant get this before the voters, something a real goal for everybody here will be lost. I have noticed that supervisor peskin will characterize the fighting as fighting between the board and the mayor and i think the public is going to feel, is going to interpret it that way. That really is what it looks like. Up here, there was a lot of discussion before Public Comment but there were no points raised, actually. There was a lot of purposeful confusion between allowed and requires, the mayors Charter Amendment allows projects up to 140, and supervisor fewer repeatedly claimed that that meant it required, all projects to be 140. Theres a big difference between allows and requires, and when you meld those things together, people in the public hear that you are being insincere and it really makes it sound like there are no reasons that this is just fighting. I was disturbed by the cavalier attitude supervisor ronen had towards waiting 100 days. One hundred days is a big deal. If you run out of your time good afternoon, supervisors, robert, i live in district 5 and money for Affordable Housing is hard to come by. One supervisor said the real need for resources, money for building and acquiring land. Good news is that the mayors proposal would help with that. It would lower construction costs, it would streamline Affordable Housing, i mean the real question is like are there actually streamlining issues. The answer is yes. In your committee packet today there is a memo and says in the year and a half since the Effective Date of senate bill 35, which allows for streamlined approval of Affordable Housing projects, six 100 Affordable Housing projects have gone through the discretionary review project and paid fees. They expect 8 to 9 annually. People are filing discretionary reviews and if you are a Neighborhood Group you can do so for free. I think this is pretty this is patently ridiculous. If we think theres no problem with discretionary reviews, it should be uncontroversial to get rid of them. And if you dont like the mayors proposal, which i support, i would hope to see legislation which gets rid of discretionary reviews, apparently not a problem, from the office of the controller. I think overall there is a real need thats just being confused here. This is not about building studios for everyone, this is this is about actually providing funding for Affordable Housing somehow, like although i will say i would be happy if we upzone west side in any sense of the word. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is susana parsons. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comment, particularly on the mayors Charter Amendment. On behalf of spur, i urge you to support placing this proposed Charter Amendment on the ballot in order to streamline the review and approval of 100 Affordable Housing and housing for educators. We believe the passage of the measure will have a real impact on how quickly and cost effectively the city and industry will be able to produce the types of housing urgently needed in San Francisco. We know that the full board of supervisors supports creation of housing for educators and low and moderate income households. This measure will address our infamously complex approvals process that provides many opportunities for opposition to delay or halt Affordable Housing. All at the expense of our city residents. The measure will require the city to create a more efficient and less risky approvals process, resulting in quicker delivery and less expensive production of exactly the kind of housing San Francisco needs. We urge you to refer this measure to the full board and give our supervisors the opportunity to show leadership on housing in San Francisco. Thank you. Good morning, laurie, inner sunset resident. Delighted that lawton and 7th avenue is a site for 100 affordable educator housing. I support Affordable Homes for families and educators now and oppose the mayors Charter Amendment. Public land is a public resource that should be reserved to serve the greatest need not to enhance developer revenue. Homes for public educators, including very low paid support staff, are vital to supporting Public Education itself. It is shameful that the Mayors Office would use widespread support for affordable teaching housing as cover for buy right Market Rate Development and offer affordability upwards in the same breath. There should be no buy right development on public land and no public subsidies for market housing. Who are we leaving behind . I would add, why are we leaving them behind and on whose behalf are we leaving them behind. Returning to the 7th and lawton project and the questions of affordability levels. One proposal for this location is 325 square foot studios. Two people or more in 325 square feet, that is not a home, that is temporary shelter. It is frankly tire some that we continue to hear from the Mayors Office the mantra that rarely used discretionary reviews are the reason for high housing costs. When will they decry speculator demands for sky high returns on their investments. Finally, supervisors, thank you for your work with the unions representing our public educators, exactly how Work Force Housing should be envisioned and enacted. [please stand by] i want to thank the board for standing up for the ability of the board to assert its own legislative authority. As i see it, the Charter Amendment basically bypasses the legislative branch of the government and we still have a belief, i think, in the separation of powers. And what the unfortunate thing about the Charter Amendment is, reminded me of prop 13. How installed and california constitution was linkage between commercial property and residential property, and it has become impossible to change that and the results are devastating to california. Idea of installing buy right for developers under the false front of teacher housing in our constitution is another way of bypassing the legislative authority which actually represents more of the people of San Francisco than the Mayors Office. And i just think that i want to associate myself particularly with supervisor fewers remarks at the opening, i feel like they covered the realm of what has really been happening and echoed by those of you up there. And i hope to see frankly that the overwhelming majority of the board supports [microphone cut off] supervisors, my name is ken tray, served San Francisco Unified School District from 1985 to 2017. Most of those years was as a classroom teacher teaching social studies. Working with the children of San Francisco. Im here today representing uesf, a staff member of the union in support of the initiative. There was some illusion earlier to whether we worked with the Mayors Office or with the supervisors. I think uesf would say as up front as we can that we started good faith negotiations with both sides of the legislature here in city hall. We did meet with the Mayors Office, talking about the Charter Amendment. Never really had an opportunity to talk about their initiative. At the same time as we told the Mayors Office, we were invited into discussions with the board of supervisors, and we, in fact, did work very closely with the board of supervisors on the initiative that we are speaking in favor of today. At the end of the day, what the board of supervisors came up with in intense discussions with San Franciscos teachers and para educators, is policy that will cover Affordable Housing for our lowest paid para educators to our most veteran teachers. It will allow for a scope of housing which includes 2, 3 bedrooms and not jamming in the members and provide support speaker time has elapsed. Good afternoon, supervisors. Peter coen. Council Committee Housing organizations is very pleased to see the boards proposed Affordable Housing and educator housing and Family Housing initiative. Teachers have been working with several Board Members since the beginning of this year on legislation to build on, if you recall, last falls very successful legislation with the south market sally district, Industrial Area and legislation specifically to allow Affordable Housing on the sites. Overlay zoning approach. We wanted to build on that, and the density bonus programs and apply the policies citywide to all residential districts, neighborhood commercial districts and importantly, our public sites, public lands. For 100 Affordable Housing. This is baseline zoning. Rezone all up front, dont have to go by one by one, thats the biggest time delay, zoning and the e. I. R. S triggered. A huge boost in whats called geographic balance. Everybody says lets build housing on the left side, lets do it, a goal we believe in. Money now in the housing bond this november. We all agreed on that. But an entry level question. Where, and what sites . We dont have those sites. The fundamental value to rezone the sites up front. And it sounds like the yimbis agree on that, too, fantastic. Lets do it. Also pleased to see that educator housing have been included in this initiative so we can really start focusings on that particular population group. We know you have choices before you today. Maybe even some competing ideas, but we encourage you to pick the boards measure, well thought out, we Work Together the educators and move together all together as a ballot what we have heard today. More sites for more housing. Thank you. Supervisors, steven boss with m. B. Action. I like some who spoke before me, thrilled there are competing measures to upzone the west side as we have been advocating for for years. We need zoning equity for Affordable Housing on the west side. I want to note the only actual Affordable Housing developer who is out today supports the mayors proposal, i think thats worth really soaking in, really, you know, taking credence and support for that. And i also want to talk well, supervisor fewer, i was frankly offended by what you said, you said two People Living in the studio, thats not thats not acceptable, basically is what you said. Ive lived with my partner in a studio, 500 square feet. I, you know, lots of people live in small studios with their families, with their partners, and to imply that thats not a real acceptable way to live is the height of privilege. You are insulated from these problems as a homeowner, of course. But the rest of us have to deal with our housing shortage. Its also the height of privilege to kill the mayors proposal here and not let the voters decide. This is a very small Cross Section of San Francisco. We have all taken off work, most people cant do that. The people most affected by this cant be here. So lets let the voters decide, bring them both to the ballot, and i mean, im hopeful, im hopeful that the voters will make the right choice. Thanks. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So, colleagues, perhaps i want to see if anyone wants to make any comments before we vote on the three items before us. Looks like supervisor fewer would like to start us out. Supervisor fewer. Thank you, chair. So, i think that in listening to public testimony we have heard people ask me so who are we leaving behind. I actually think that we should probably vocalize who we are leaving behind. According to latino parody report of 2016, household medium yan for White House Holds, 106,000, 919. Asian, 105295. Latin x, 70,000. And blacks, 46,000. Blacks Resident Experience poverty three times the overall poverty rate in San Francisco, 46 of black children living in poverty in comparison to 27 of Pacific Islanders children, 15 latin x, 10 of asian, and 3 of white children. Nearly 40 of San Francisco households that bring in less than 30 of a. M. I. , or asian american, or pacific islander. The majority of latin x households in San Francisco make less than 100 of area Median Income with the largest population latin x households falling in the 30 to 50 a. M. I. Designation. Between 1990 and 2014 and 15, decrease of low income workers living in San Francisco, 30 increase in median rent associated with 21 decrease in low income households of color. Correlation not seen for low income White House Holds. As housing prices rose, the share of low income black households in San Francisco living in high poverty rose 41 in 2000 to 65 in 2015. In comparison to low income asian, 27 latin x, 19 and White House Holds 12 . When people ask who are we leaving behind, and it is not a requirement they build at 140 of a. M. I. , it is allowable to build at only 140 of a. M. I. So, when people ask who are we leaving behind, when we dont require Affordable Housing levels to be built at every level, these are the people we are leaving behind. They are our friends, they are our family members some of them, they are our neighbors, our educators, they are social workers, they are people who are working every day jobs to serve those in San Francisco. By our own analysis, the average black worker in San Francisco makes 60,000 a year, compared to the average white worker that makes 156,000 a year. So, who are we leaving behind if we say that we allow developers, and again, not require, developers to build Affordable Housing at 140 of a. M. I. These are the people we are leaving behind. And this is why this issue is so profound. It is not simply about streamlining because both of these initiatives i think also allow for streamlining. It is about redefining what we are requiring developers to build when we identify what we identified as Affordable Housing, and then giving those developers streamlining to build that type of housing for just this group of people. So, people also ask me who am i protecting. I am protecting the same people that we are leaving behind. I think that, and i just want to also speak to the comment that the public commoner said, i didnt say it was unacceptable for two people to live in a studio. I just said it is unacceptable to assume that it is i just think some of the speakers today were absolutely right. We have two competing issues here. We want one of them to get on the ballot and of course being on the boarding it should be the boards initiative. I think i agree, i hope that the Mayors Office and the supervisors come together and Work Together as we had during the city budget as well as the housing bond, and i have said to the mayors representative that i hope the mayor will come on to ours, the one that is actually being supported 100 by educators in San Francisco. I believe that educators know best about what they need for their work force, and as i said, as a former School Board Member, i work closely and i was a School Board Member for eight years and all three of us actually have been on the school board, all three of us have been president s of the school board. We know intimately how hard it is to retain and also to recruit teachers. This is a truth that has been true for a very long time, and whose responsibility to build the housing, quite frankly. I say it is envy. It is inclusiveness in my backyard, people of color, of all chick groups. People of San Francisco, and, hopefully, the good people of San Francisco will see that in order to actually include everyone, we must include in this crazy Housing Market, we must include Different Levels because people in this city actually earn incomes at Different Levels. We must mandate it, as we must always mandate things for people of color and also poor people. So i dont have a vote on this committee, but i am urging my colleagues to do what we were elected to do to represent the people of San Francisco that we are a city of diversity, economic diversity, racial diversity, diversity of thought the it is a slippery slope to redefine what Affordable Housing is at such a level and in such a way that we will not require developers to build at any lower rates. I think what the board of supervisors has brought forward this initiative is very well thought out. I think it is with our stakeholders who we are designing this for, it allows flexibility. I would like to see this get on the ballot. I hope my colleagues agree with me. Thank you, chair and colleagues. I am sure that most of what needed to be said has been said. I will be brief in my comments. I want to thank the Mayors Office of housing and everybody who came out today to speak. I especially want to thank my friends, Public School educator here from usf especially on your summer break to be here advocating for something that you shouldnt have to continue to keep showing up to fight for. Our educators as has been said do some of the most important work in our city. To have to have a conversation about whether you all can afford to stay here in the city that you have given and continue to give so much to is one of the greatest shames that we have as a city. It is something that i know as former School Board Member, School Board President alongside supervisor few errandual ton that you have been fighting for for a long time. When people tell me that you dont understand how housing works or you dont understand what is best for you, i know that nothing could be further from the truth, that it has been our teachers, educators showing up again and again saying you have to address the housing crisis our members are facing and up to do it now, and it is the city and School District as well that is slow to respond. When i first got elected to the school board, one of the main things the teacher said we need you to address housing. It wasnt for years after that that we finally moved the conversation forward and have our first project moving forward. There are a couple things i remember from the experience of being involved in the Francis Scott key project. And supervisor fewer said this. It was always not just a priority but requirement to our educators that it be available to their members at a broad range of affordability. That was always one of the most important things they fought for. They said we ca cannot leave paraeducators out. That was something that they always said was a requirement. If we are going to move forward a policy and initiative and Charter Amendment that claims to be for the educators, lets make sure to include what is a requirement for them which is access for educators at a broad level of affordability. The other thing that was always important for the School District that we had these parcels that are now being discussed for a long time, and what happens on those parcels, who gets to live there, how they are used on this public line is incredibly important. This is a huge decision that is being made right now how we use this land. I know supervisor fewer can attest we have been talking about what to do with that land for a long time now we want to build housing for educators on that land. I think maintaining that principle that is part of the conversation not just at the city but at the School District is important. I would like to see the school board more involved in the conversation. One of the concerns i have had is that they havent been able to weigh in on this including the City College Board of trustees, as the publicly elected bodies. I think there ar are basic principles that under lie the proposal that we put together as a board. I also want do say i am really happy we are at a place where the city and School District and city college this is at the top of the agenda we want to put more money into educator housing and rezone for educator housing. That is a huge change from a few years ago. That is due to educators fighting and advocating to make sure we address that with the urgency it deserves. There is a lot of agreement here. There is a lot of agreement to rezone much of the city to allow for 100 Affordable Housing to be built. That is in all of the proposals. There is a lot of agreement and potential for moving forward. I think there are essential requirements that need to be in the initiative which includes access at a broader range of affordability including lower end and make sure we use public land for educator housing 100 for educators. With that i guess it is no secret i support the boards initiative. I am a cosponsor. I want to thank colleagues for their leadership and working so closely with the stakeholders. I thank the mayor and Mayors Office of housing. When we make the changes and come to compromises and go to the voters we will be in a much better place and we will see hopefully in the near future hundreds hopefully thousands of units of educator housing come on line in the near future. Supervisor mar. Chair mar i want to offer brief r