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[no audio] good afternoon and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of the mayors. I am the mayor of the great city of new orleans. [applause] start, we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver is here. She wants us to note that today st birthday of vancouver. Birthday madam mayor. [applause] honor to introduce Steve Benjamin of south carolina. Second Vice President of rochester hill. Director tom cochrane. We also have with us in the audience, our past president. Elizabeth of burnsv...

Dc for the u. S. Conference of birs by annual meeting annual meeting. It started with an address from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Mayor landrieu chatter] good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to the conference of mayors. I am at mitch landrieu, the mayor of the great city of new orleans, president of the conference of mayors. Thank you. [applause] we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver wants us 161st that today is the birthday of vancouver. New orleans i...

It is can use public dollars to leverage some kind of change even if its a small one. If we could start for how things operate in terms of their dancing of housing and not just affordable but housing in general. Yes. Were working hard to bring all parties together to get the best possible benefits for San Francisco, and we have some leverage by being able to take advantage of obligations the bank has and our developers , the Market Rate Developers are very interested in participating, especially...

Discusses Race Relations in america. We still have a long way to go. There is still racism in our country that needs to be addressed accurately and i think the Confederate Flag has been something thats a lingering element of this. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More in...

Is crime like in your community. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email us. Phone lines are open. Start dialing in. What is crime like in your community . Take a look at some of the most common avenses in this country from offenders in federal prison. Us a take a look at federal offenders in prison. Federal offenders we want to get an idea of what crime is like in your community. U. S. A. Recently had this headline. So we turn to you this morning. Give us your thoughts. Thoma...

We still have a long way to go. There is still racism in our country that needs to be addressed accurately and i think the Confederate Flag has been something thats a lingering element of this. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and by the...

Do what is best for the residence in cooperation with the residents, and thats why this buildout plan is as long as it is. As you know, other localities and even San Francisco and some of the very early hope six deals did move everybody offsite and it wasnt a great return of tenants and we dont want that for sunnydale and retro i just want to agree with supervisor avalos on the need to look beyond the cities core for even towards the western neighborhoods for different projects. I like the idea ...

Quickly about that new middle Income Rental Program. I want to thank jeff buckley for keeping my office well informed about the bond as it moves forward good i have some concerns when where increasing the ami percentage for middle income, and i potentially hit lower income renters or lower income people against but i clearly agreed theres a need for middle income bands or our approach to prevent displacement or help house people. Could you give us more of a sense does i think he said the vast ma...

Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congr...

Tenants and we dont want that for sunnydale and retro i just want to agree with supervisor avalos on the need to look beyond the cities core for even towards the western neighborhoods for different projects. I like the idea of mixed income developments. Acquisition and rehab approaches. I wanted to just as quickly about that new middle Income Rental Program. I want to thank jeff buckley for keeping my office well informed about the bond as it moves forward good i have some concerns when where in...