Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Distrust in federal government. However, like any other challenge, also comes a lot of opportunity. We have a message to every San Francisco resident at they count they matter and they have a right to be counted and participate. There are Job Opportunities with the u. S. Census bureau. I heard that mentioned unlike in 2010, if you are not a citizen, a u. S. Citizen you will not be able to apply for those jobs. We need as many San Francisco residents to apply for those openings as possible. It makes a huge difference. We can as a city stand up to hate and intimidation. We can call to action and energize the next generation of voters. Many of whom will be eligible to vote for the first time in the 2020 election. And we can test the field for future Mass Mobilization efforts. Just very quickly i wanted to run through the who and where are San Franciscos hard to count communities . San francisco has a lot of people jammed into a very small city. We have one of the highest density rate falls with the u. S. We are very diverse. There are a large number of people who are historically hard to count because they may lack access, they are difficult to locate. They dont live in traditional dwellings. They face many barriers to participating. They may be scared they may be unmotivated or they may distrust government at any level, local, state, and federal. The hard to count in San Francisco, besides large numbers of people, color and imprint we have other populations that are very hard to count. The lgbt community, seniors, people with disabilities, you can check me if im wrong with this. Almost 11 of the population is noninstitutionalized. People with disabilities. That we have youth and veterans, the most surprisingly undercounted group in the 2010 i mean, the 2010 census wasnt children ages 05. Often times their parents, or their guardian did not count them as members of the household. We have a lot of educating to do. If you look at households. The Census Bureau counts households. We have a big challenge, we have a lot of renters, a population that moves around a lot. There are multiple unrelated family members in a single dwelling. There are a lot of unrecorded nontraditional housing and individuals would no housing. Lots of households where no one over the age of five speaks english well enough to understand or navigate a largely english system. This map was created by Robert Clinton who was not able to join us today. As you can see, the southeast sector where, south market and tenderloin, these are our hard to count areas with the lowest response rate. The bottom line is, in San Francisco we have so many hard to count people, over 25 of our population might be considered hard to count. They are spread out all over the city, in almost every neighborhood and district. You cant just go to one area. They are everywhere. Here is the challenge. If everyone is hard to count in San Francisco, how are we ever going to get the job done. Job done . We have to make sure every San Francisco resident is included, and formed accurately county. Accurately counted. While april 1 as the official census data. The efforts actually started in early 2018 with the Census Bureaus local address verification operation. In other words they have master list of addresses in San Francisco and that is how you get your census notification and your pin number to go online. So the question must be finalized and we will all start hearing Census Bureau messages. We are already started to hear a few. You will get saturated with ads in the fall. Meanwhile cities and counties are launching a full on outreach and education efforts which will probably kick up steam in september all the way through october 2020. The period for residents to self respond and jump online, will be from mid march to the end of may. It is not a long time. After that, the Census Bureau will start contacting people. They will send a paper format by mail. If they do not respond and some but he knock on the door. We have a lot of people in the city who may be vulnerable they may be dont want somebody knocking on the door. Thats very intimidating to them. Heres a snapshot of the plan. Im going to run through these quickly. The mission is to remove as many barriers as possible. Make sure every resident has information to participate and make sure our residents are not afraid to participate. It is increasing access, fostering trust and then motivating our residents. The strategies that we are going to use that work in 2010, and we think will make a difference in 2020 is a coordinated Citywide Campaign, relevant messages coming from trusted voices, such as yours. Boots on the ground. Grass roots community, these are residents and volunteers that can educate and inform our residents. We just processed over 200 million in community grant. We are looking at some areas where we have gaps. We are looking for your advice and your guidance on that. And then ensuring assessable locations on assistance, so at 27b van ness, where it is not a former mortuary, but it is next door to one, the assessable center will be set up and i believe that used to be the Veterans Service center. It already is assessable. We will have someone there all the time helping people jump online. Our San Francisco library beacon centers, community spaces, public spaces. Finally, we also have our secret sauce which will make our campaign a little bit different and that is that Creative Arts overlay. Its going to take a partnership of just about everybody to get this done. I wanted to run through some of the accessibility priorities. I have to think nicole for always giving me such great advice and opening our eyes and trying to make accessibility something we do all the time is not something out there, but it is something you naturally include in everything that you do. Some of our priorities would include census questionnaire accessibility. Outreach accessibility. Physical accessibility. Auditory, captioned videos, as we learn from our presentation today, really important. Visual accessibility and different formats. And then language and cultural accessibility. I think somebody earlier mentioned that when you are accessing services you also need to have people who provide linguistically, culturally competent services. So people feel welcome and they feel included. This is just an outline of some of our accessibility priorities. We could definitely use your help in identifying any gaps or anything we have not thought of. With the Disability Council could help us with, we are currently in training and organizing. On thursday, july 25, the state of california is partnering with the city on an Implementation Plan workshop on the census. This will be our complete count committee, computing partners. The meeting will be held at the county fair building. From 1115330. As you know, you are all welcome to attend. Please let the office staff know so we can get you registered. We need your partnership. We need to council to advise us on strategies and approaches to reaching the Disability Community. We ask that you and your network and incorporate census into your regular work, just make that a part of your natural outreach. Identify Key Community touch points so that people can get handson assistance, help us identify how outreach gaps and opportunities. Leverage your network. Educate people and then call people to action. We need to work on encouraging residents to complete the online census questionnaires. In closing i wanted to touch on using creativity and imagination what the power of arts, word and images that reflect all of us can have. Starting in the fall we will be be inundated, as i said with repetitive messages about the census coming from the u. S. Census bureau, the state of california, advertisers, organizations, and elected officials. Our San Francisco campaign will use a more creative overlay using arts and images that reflect all of us, everybody in this room. I want to give you a couple of examples of what that might look like. These are actual art exhibits around the city from 2018 and more recently. Courtesy of the San Francisco arts commission, one of our other partners. The inspiration of our Campaign Came from the powerful use of these images, and words, and communications that reflect all of us. The image in the middle is not a photograph. It is a largerthanlife charcoal graphite drawing by an artist named joel daniel phillips. It was an exhibit on displacement of people who might be migrants, our Homeless Population. When you are standing in front of a podium and behind you is a largerthanlife drawing like this, you cannot help but notice it just captured our attention. Imagine that on buildings, billboards, you know, something that says something about our values as san franciscans. Finally, you mightve seen this last one. This is a recent work by a french artist, a 65foot image of an immigrant child. You will notice the two Border Guards on the u. S. Side. A powerful image with a message about our humanity. That is really what we want to reflect in the 2020 census. Thank you again, very much, for inviting us. I will be happy to answer any questions. The final image, for those of you who could not see the image was the border wall, and then there was an oversized drawing of an infant peeking over the edge of the border wall. The previous images were of various multi ethnic individuals, and then a representation, a very detailed drawing of who we would assume would be a homeless person. Very artfully rendered. Thank you for that. All right, do any of the councilmembers like to ask any questions . Just a brief comment. It has been interesting, the comment you had about the third tactic of coming to a home and knocking on a residents door. I live in San Francisco. I know there has been a scare lately with people posing as public work individuals, electric workers and so forth. I think there is a trust issue, especially in my neighborhood. In the bernal hill area, it has been happening quite a bit. You know, places where this has been, people have taken advantage of posing as a service worker, or city worker. I understand, if people dont have access to the internet and theres an issue, and youre trying to get counts. How do you get them into a place to be counted . It is something that, you know, we cannot force people. I understand it is a desire. Just thinking about looking at the northeast, there is a sign Language Group under the u. S. Government sorry, in the Northeast Area of the United States has a person who is skilled for her census county. That is in that region of the United States. I know we dont have that here in San Francisco. Im putting that out as a possible way to get the Deaf Community involved. Especially when you are talking about deafness and immigration status, if thats an individual situation i can be more challenging to involve them in account for various reasons stated. Thank you for your comment. Alex. Thank you for coming. Im not sure if i heard you correctly. Can you tell us how would you reach out to the Homeless Population . Just clarify very good question. The Homeless Population are one of the hardest to count, because the the Census Bureau is not going to recognize their own city council. Although, i think our citys is more accurate. We are going to utilize places for Homeless Individuals where they might go to get their services, could be project homeless connect. The plan is to have a booth there. We are going to be working with our Broad Network of community partners, and Nonprofit Service providers. We also have city departments who identifying natural touch points. If we have caseworkers on their working on something, for an individual, theyre going to encourage them and help them jump online and fill out the form. If you have other ideas, this is why it is important for us to have this conversation. Just trying to think of every opportunity that the city can leverage to get to people. We have our own community ambassadors. People who do the day outreach. I know participating in the census may not be somebodys number one priority when youre trying to survive in the streets , and just figure out where you are going to be, sleep or get some services. You will be survive surprised how many individuals once they understand how the census participation translates to funding, and decisions, and services and support for the things that are important to them. Thank you. Next we have sally. Is the hot team the Homeless Outreach . Is that what you were talking about when you say the hot team . We also have our own team of community ambassadors. Was going to suggest, that the Outreach Team would be a good one because the disabled homeless are apparently not in the shelters. Also, just as a side note, i dont know where i heard this. In texas, there is no funding for the kind of work you are doing. Whereas california makes it a priority. Texas has had rapid growth, i mean, all the people in texas that would be in your position are going to lose out. California does such an excellent job of this, as a whole. San francisco does, as well. Texas is going to lose out on representation and those services because they do not put a priority on it. You are spot on. If you look at california and texas where the majority of our immigrant population is in the country reside, we have 25 of all immigrants live in california. You think about the intent to intimidate individuals from participating. So fearful that they are afraid to fill out a piece of paper with information that frankly the government artie has. That is the intent. We leave people intimidated so they wont be participating. You hear words from our leadership saying you dont matter, you dont count. If youre not a citizen, you are not contributing. Its just so, i think, detrimental to our democracy. You are right we are lucky in california that we have leadership with people who really care about this. We are working right now with a network of cities all over the country that do have large immigrant populations and we are all grappling with the same issues and trying to share resources. One other suggestion i would have for the disabled community, maybe you already do this, is to include the schools of San Francisco unified. Maybe nobody else is getting to them. A lot of kids with disabilities are immigrants in all of these hard to count populations coming at you from all angles it seems like. That is a great suggestion. Not just to see if we can get to the parents of the Service Programs but also in the school curriculum. I think the youth are best ambassadors. We are hoping to start a Youth Ambassador Program for the census. Students teaching other students, and parents, maybe even their teachers about the census. My name is kate williams, i know my question is going to be selfserving. I run an employment program. You mentioned there are Job Opportunities for individuals. My research has shown that most of those jobs are out to in the field which may be a challenge for visually impaired individuals. Since i have you as a captive audience and youre not online, are you aware of a resource where i can find jobs that are not online. They could be available for people who are visually impaired and are not able to drive a car or maneuver throughout neighborhoods. Is there a place where i can find other types of jobs that you would consider hiring . Yes. If you go to the Census Bureaus Job Information section, youre not going to find the information youre looking for. Im just being honest. But, if you will give me your Contact Information i do know the area representative for the u. S. Census bureau who bugs us all the time about do we have people to send to her who are looking for jobs, i would be happy to open up a conversation and forward your name to her. I am so i spoke up. Her name is leah bowden. Thank you. Thank you Council Members. Lets go to staff great are there any questions from a staff this is nicole again. Thank you adrienne pon for coming. Thank you so much for being here. I know you reiterated it in the video, but i just want to say again how critically dependent Adequate Funding is not an accurate count. Im wondering if you can speak for a minute on how we would anticipate, San Francisco in particular would be impacted by some of the funding choices if we do or do not have the that we need. If we have an undercount like we did in 2,000. In the year 2,000 the city was undercounted by an estimated 100,000 people. Which, i forgot with the number was, but at the time, you know, if you look at the current estimate for per person who participated, per capita, each person who participates in the census translates to about 2,000, per person, per year in federal funding that comes to the city and county. Imagine 100,000 people were undercounted. It took us a decade to recover, and get those numbers corrected. That is one of the reasons why this census is so challenging, because it is going to be online. People only get their information this time by being in the Census Bureau master address file. Our San Francisco Planning Department has been doing a fantastic job. They submitted over 80,000 unrecorded addresses that were not on the master file of the u. S. Census bureau. They did this in the beginning of 2018. There would be one more opportunity. The other thing that we could use your help on is identifying if you think there are places where our Disability Community resided, but are going to be particularly hard. You know, they are not may be located, they are not registered in our database. They may be an accessory dwelling. Please let us know so that the Planning Department has one more opportunity later once the census kicks off to add those addresses. You absolutely right. It is so easy to miss so many people, in the city, and we figure out a way to have a unified, Citywide Campaign where every San Francisco person feels the urgency, and understands why this is so important to all of us. It is our neighbors, friends, family members. It is everyone that we care about. You dont have someone in your family that has a disability, still a San Francisco resident should care about this community as well. We have a big job to do. If we have an undercount that is going to cut into it, you know the administration already tried to cut into a lot of services earlier this year. Medicaid, cuts and home care services, that kind of support. Imagine if the actual federal dollars that are dependent on a census count get cut. That is further going to be a detrimental situation for our community. Thank you. One final comment, i know we will continue to work on our outreach strategies. As we are talking to our colleagues at the federal level, through the Census Bureau, i just want to make sure we are continually bringing up the need for both having an accessible online version of the senses that is accessible to assistive devices, and also having any asl specific video of the census information. Specifically for folks where english is not the first language, their first language is asl. I would like to pitch to the council that we are going to find resources and create our own San Francisco version of a census video which i would like your advice on how to make that fully accessible. I learned a lot from heather and the council on how to do this. Hope we did okay today. I think we are going to have to customize some things. Also, i would recommend that you contact the city attorneys office. They actually had a Litigation Team working on the citizenship question. You know, its amazing that they would go to bat for all of our people in San Francisco make sure we get a fair count and that we are included. They are not free to litigate. Thank you very much. Can i ask one more question . One more. You mentioned something about an implementation workshop and you said to sign up online. Do you have an address for that . I consented to the staff and they can forward it to you. Just register. If you cant do that, if you just give your name to heather or nicole, and then they can send it over to us, i would just have my staff register you. I thought i had it in my things i announced earlier today, but the actual link is on my document. We will make sure to for that. Any other comments from staff anyone on the bridge line . Hearing none. Anyone in the room for Public Comment . Okay. Thank you, adrienne pon for your presentation. Great information. All right. Running a little bit behind schedule, so lets move on to our third presentation the Affordable Housing bond. Presentation by amy chan of policy and legislative affairs the Mayors Office office of housing and community development. Welcome to the council. Good afternoon cochairs on councilmembers. My name is amy chan, im from the mayor office of housing and community development. Thank you so much for having me present on the Affordable Housing bond that will be going before the voters in november. Im going to go into a presentation that will describe why we need this bond is so badly and what the eligible uses of the funding will be and why we are so excited to have a go to the voters. So, we are incredibly excited to be put in board of supervisors in the mayor to be putting forward a 600 milliondollar general Obligation Bond to the voters in november. it is currently in the legislative process of the board of supervisors, pending two more votes. Once that is completed it will be on the ballot in november. This is really incredible given in 2015, when we had our last housing bond, it was 310 million dollars. The amount has doubled, thats really exciting. We have also talked about putting Affordable Housing in the citys capital plans. We are really planning for Affordable Housing needs as part of our overall city needs and that we are accounting for that every 45 years. When we have expanded the bond proceeds that we are in q4 coming back for the voters to fund the Affordable Housing needs that we have two meet what our residents need. The bond will Fund Acquisition construction improvement, rehabilitation and preservation and repair of Affordable Housing. The bond funding will further our offices work in meeting the need for the population of people that we care about, including persons with disabilities. It would do so by providing the funding that we need to build out all of our new construction Affordable Housing. Those housing projects meet the needs of persons with disabilities through assessable common areas and amenities on all of those sites. Those are include 90 of units that are adoptable. 10 of units accessible with mobility features which is double the amount that is required. Those percentages are higher in senior and Supportive Housing projects. 4 of the units, in the new construction project that we fund provide communication features. We also include a preference for persons with disabilities, in projects and consider reasonable accommodation as well. Funding for Housing Preservation is really important for protecting persons with disabilities who are living in existing housing that may be at risk of displacement due to the housing either being converted to market rate housing or falling into physical disrepair. The 600 milliondollar total for the bond is broken up into these five categories after a process where the mayor and board president , convened a Stakeholder Working Group process and had deliberated with Many Community members and stakeholders about how to proportion the many needs that we have for Affordable Housing. The consensus was to provide the following amount of funds in these categories. 150 million for Public Housing, 220 million for low Income Housing serving households up to 80 of the area median income. 60 million total for Affordable Housing preservation and middle Income Housing which serves very low income households at 30 of ami for the middle income portion at 175 of the area median income. A new category that was not included in the last bond specifically which is for senior housing. That would be 150 million for households up to 80 of area median income. Finally, 20 million to fund teacher housing serving educators from 30 up to 140 of the area median income. Im just going to talk a little bit about these categories why there is a need to fund Affordable Housing in these categories. Our Public Housing needs. The city has been committed to revitalizing our extremely dilapidated Public Housing through the hope program. We are at the remaining stage of revitalizing two additional sites which is at the sunnydale site. The funding that the bond would provide would be to address the emergency and life safety repairs that are needed for the existing units to rebuild and replace the housing remaining at those two sites. Also to add additional Housing Units at those two sites. And to really complete the work that we have begun to really revitalize the housing and infrastructure needs for these communities. The 150 million would be as an eligible use to go towards the repair and rebuilding of distressed Public Housing. Prioritizing sites that have these urgent capital needs, creating new Affordable Housing units and accelerating the construction timelines of these units because we know that the units are in a very poor physical condition. In terms of the low Income Housing category. We know low income households are most at risk of displacement here in San Francisco. These are populations that we want to house, and its really important for us to do that. We continue to need to build more Affordable Housing to meet the needs of households at these income levels. Unfortunately, we dont have the federal resources, they have been in decline for Affordable Housing for low income families. What this bond would do is enable 1,000 more units of Pipeline Projects to Start Construction in the next four years to serve residents that are seniors from Homeless Individuals, veterans and families. Also, while we await a decision on proxy funds tos tran07 funds. This funding will help kickstart predevelopment, for securing new sites for Supportive Housing. The 220 milliondollar in the low Income Housing would go toward the construction acquisition that we have permanently Affordable Housing that would serve individuals and families earning from zero up to 80 of the area median income. Prioritizing projects that are ready to Start Construction in the next four years. Which will include predevelopment funding to jumpStart Construction where we have permanent Supportive Housing. Projects that are close to public transit. Projects that can leverage additional funding whether through the state funding or other resources to leverage the city dollars that we are putting in. Also projects that are located in neighborhoods with limited Affordable Housing. In terms of the preservation need. We know there are extremely low, low, and moderate households that are at risk of being displaced from the city. Through our work, our small Faith Program and other preservation work its really critical that we acquire and preserve existing Affordable Housing so we are keeping low income and middle income households in in San Francisco. The bond would also go towards this need. We have an older stock of Affordable Housing that is in need of rehabilitation. The bond funding would go towards the need to rehab and existing stock of Affordable Housing that are in physical disrepair. 30 million for preservation under the bond would go towards the acquisition i rehab whether it is at risk, due to loss of affordability, or the buildings physical decline. We would be prioritizing. Buildings are at imminent risk of conversion to market to rate housing. We would look at neighborhoods prioritizing doing this work in neighborhoods where there are limited Affordable Housing production and also a documented high eviction or displacement rates. In terms of middle Income Housing. This is a group of households that we definitely want to serve. Unfortunately, the market does not produce housing for middle Income Housings houses. We are also we dont see Funding Sources to meet the need for building middle Income Housing. The city is a critical source of funding. We provide a critical source of funding for building middle Income Housing. Providing firsttime homeownership opportunities for low income households to be able to purchase a home and stay in San Francisco. We have an affordability gap in the bond would be helping with that. The 30 million for the middle Income Housing category would go towards the creation of new Affordable Housing opportunities for middle income households with assistance loans, purchases for building or land for new construction that would serve middle income households. We would prioritize down payment systems, loans for firsttime homebuyers and also we have a teacher next Door Grant Program that serves the San Francisco Unified School District educators. This would be serving households between the 80175 and 200 of the ami. This new category of funding under the bond is for senior housing. The working group that was convened by the mayor and the board of supervisors identified this as a critical need as San Franciscos population continues to grow and age. We have found that we have not had the pipeline of projects serving senior households keeping up with the pace of the needs of a growing senior population and so it was a priority for the mayor and the board to include funding specifically as a category to meet housing for seniors. We have for that in the bonds, 150 million specifically for creating affordable senior rental housing through new construction and acquisition. We would be prioritizing projects that are ready, able to leverage Additional Resources and locate neighborhoods where there is opportunities for production for senior housing. This would be serving households between the extremely low to low income categories from 080 levels. And then finally, is a new category for funding under the bond that we do not see in the last cycle which is for educator housing. This is a critical need to, because we have seen attrition annually in the San Francisco Unified School District where teachers are leaving because of housing affordability, thats one of the factors they have cited. We have seen through these surveys that the majority of teachers and para educators are saying that they have some level of difficulty, very difficult, or somewhat difficult ability to actually afford their housing costs. Including 69 of teachers surveyed, saying they pay more than 30 of their income towards their housing cost. We know retaining teachers in the school district, is really important for the stability of our students for the growth and success of our students. Addressing the Affordable Housing need for teachers or something that we wanted the bond to include. That is why there is a 20 milliondollar category in the bond for educator housing that would go towards predevelopment and construction of permanently affordable educator housing serving San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco educators , and employees between the 30140 ami income levels. Similarly prioritizing the projects that i have mentioned before. With that, as i mentioned, the board of supervisors is moving the bond forward through the legislative process currently. We will soon be taking its last two votes to move the bond onto the ballot. We are really excited for that to happen. For us to have the opportunity to basically use this large amounts of critical funding that we need to advance our mission. Probably early spring of next year, we will start with the first issue is of the bond around 200 million and then be able to issue a notice of Funding Availability for projects to come forward and apply for funding. With that, i am happy to take any questions. Thank you for that excellent presentation. Do any Council Members comments or questions . Yes. Weve got sally, and councilmember madrid and councilmember sassouni. First of all, i apologize, i was supposed to send you a list of questions from the council and i realize i never did that. I appreciate your presentation. I have a very basic question. What is the ami in San Francisco the area median income, literally it is the median i know, what is the number . Let me pull it up for you. It is roughly 80,000 for a Single Person household. 82,900. That is for a one person household. It is adjusted for the size of the household. And then we can also calculate it at, you know, lower than that 100 and that higher ami. I can pull up the chart. I just wanted to get an idea of what 30 of ami actually was. When you Say Something is affordable, how is that defined . It is defined as 30 of that household income. Really . Okay. That would qualify someone for low Income Housing if they made 25,000 . In our low Income Housing category we have units that are between people who make a 0 of the ami, up to 80 of the ami. The affordable rent to would 30 of that household income. Our units are priced at a range of incomes between the zero and 80 low income households. The moderate income household level, we have done much less of the moderate Income Housing, because unfortunately we do not have other Funding Sources to really leverage for building this type of housing. For low Income Housing we have something called tax credits that we can use, and that is the 080 level. For middle Income Housing it is all city subsidy. We have done some, but very few of these units. The ones we have done we are looking at excuse me the 80 up to 120 of ami typically. We do have the down payment assistant loan program. That does serve up to 175 and 200 of ami. We have been meeting the needs of middle income households primarily through firsttime home loans. We have done some new construction housing for middle income households. Much less than we would like to. For the low Income Housing we are serving between 080 of the ami. It is assuming someone satisfies that low income statu . There has to be more people wanting housing. We use a lottery system. We have a great housing portal, we have counseling agencies. If someone cannot go on their smart phone or a computer to look at all of the listings we have on the site and apply they can also go to Housing Counseling Agency to help them with their Affordable Housing search and application. Through that housing portal, an applicant can look at what they, can apply. Redo the placement of those units, the occupancy of those units through a lottery system. The city also has something called housing preferences. This is mandated through our city laws. We have preferences for cop holders, people who were formally displaced from San Francisco do to redevelopment actions. In the western addition. We have a displaced tenant housing preference, this is a preference for people who have been evicted do to an eviction or fire. Then we have a neighborhood preference. If someone is applying for, a unit in a project. Helping residents to stay one that neighborhood. Finally we have a live work in San Francisco preference which captures the large segment of applicants. Through that lottery system, people that fit into these preferences are prioritized essentially. Okay, who is next . Alex. My question is, Affordable Housing, i know some of Affordable Housing is 15002500, speaking on people with disabilities, most of them receive ssi, does that consider qualify for those Affordable Housing . How would you, or the city fix that . Because, as you know, the city of San Francisco, when they are doing Affordable Housing the amount is already [inaudible] what i am understanding your question to be, is how do we meet the Affordable Housing needs of people who are extremely low income like with disabilities, or seniors who are on ssi and have limited income . That is a challenge we have been addressing. Typically in the Affordable Housing stock, what you see in our lotteries are units that are 30 affordable at what is priced , that is because of funding requirements we are seeing. With changes in rules of the tax credits, we are allowed to do income averaging. That might be more technical. But now we have this tool, when we are using tax credit financing for projects we can use this new option to provide basically income averaging an hour units. As long as projects are averaging 60 ami, we can do a range of units that serve less than 60 , up to 80 of ami. That will be one tool we can use to provide units for households that are less than 60 of ami. Aside from not tool, we do recognize the need to have more rental subsidies and access to rental subsidies for those extremely low income households. And, the mayor and the board have addressed this by including funding in the budget for rental subsidies for a populations of people. I think the mayor and the board have included rental subsidies, i think, up to 10 million in rental subsidies for different populations of folks. We recognize that there is a need for doing that. Board president yee is in the process of creating a senior operating subsidy. It is project need, rental subsidies that go towards the households to help them pay their rent. Or, the buildings need operating subsidies where we are basically helping to meet the gap and what tenants are able to pay and how expensive the projects are to operate. It really is trying to find more rental and operating substitutes. We have been trying to do that for the budget process. The city of San Francisco, section eight,. [inaudible] i think it would be great. I dont think there is any more voucher capacity. I think you are bring up a great. It would be incredibly helpful if we had additional voucher capacity and we were able to issue more vouchers to households who need them. Hi. This is a brief comment, question rather. I was looking at your Powerpoint Presentation and it looks like you are prioritizing 4. 5 regarding children in Public Schools, talk something about 4. 5 of children there, im assuming that youre talking about k12 grade children . My son for example, goes to school, and he is in the San Francisco public unified in the school is full. The classes are really full. I dont even understand how they do it. We definitely need more teachers. Im wondering how children how we are going to deal with this in the future with the rise in . I am wondering where you get the numbers from . 4. 5 seems rather low. Am looking at the site currently, im not sure if i see 4. 5. There was a percentage based on the s. F. Unified school district, related with educators in San Francisco unified. It was referencing the children, just wondering where that percentage was based on . I looking, bringing up the slide, there are statistics about the San Francisco unified district requiring 3600 teachers to meet their classroom needs, that maybe the statistic . 10 attrition rate. Specific the child population. Where did you get the numbers from . Maybe its a previous presentation where it was discussed, there was 4. 5 of children that live in San Francisco are in the Public School system . Im sorry, i did not reference that number. Maybe the question is also about how are we going to meet the needs to continue to increase specifically thinking of the families with children and families that live together in a household. Part of the population, im just assuming, maybe this is from the other powerpoint. Im thinking, are we talking about the entire population of San Francisco . Which population are we referencing . I thought that count was low. I know we never we need to hire more teachers in the future. Im wondering what the prediction of population among children will be in the future . If that references Different Levels of income and households in the city . Are we talking about a family in a one bedroom . When we talk about families in general, with children, there is a variety of living spaces, you know, and so many people, especially families are leaving the city because they cannot afford to live here. They cannot afford childcare. They are working on paying for child care and they cannot afford rent. There is a lot of factors involved with being able to stay in San Francisco. If you are thinking about bonds that will assist families, families with children. Im just thinking of, you know, we are thinking of not, you know, traditional style housing are wet people might imagine that should be. If youre thinking of the range of people that would be served by that those bond resources. My concern is lower income families, families with disabilities and obviously families with children. Our office funds a variety of types of housing including family housing. Family housing serving low income families. And all of our projects we include high number of 23 bedroom units in those projects. In the ground floor, of our projects, we also include Many Community serving spaces including Childcare Centers on facilities. That is built into the work that we do with our project sponsors and the Affordable Housing developers in meeting the needs of family when we are looking out the projects that we are funding and building. We do have