Thanks everyone. My purpose is mostly to be here to thank all of you for coming, so we have this opportunity to kind of examine what is going on in our real estate environment, and in particular, to thank the San Francisco Business Times for putting on this event. And i think for most of us in this room, we rely very heavily on the San Francisco Business Times to keep track of what is going on in San Francisco, and the greater bay area, in the real estate world. And it is the best source of that information for all of us. Mary asked me if i would make a few observations about the general state of the real estate economy here in San Francisco and as i do that, i always have to think about what to say that mary hasnt already said about it. And if you look at the real estate economy generally in our nation, and the fact that it is still soft. That we still need more jobs. That there is a recovery, but its a slow recovery. You cant do that without thinking gee, will i sound like a politici
That does not you have to deal with long term entitlement costs and revenue. Any real solution will be a combination of the two. That has been the real holdup. President obama got hammered. The head of the House Republican Campaign Committee came out instantaneously and slammed him. He was quickly followed by progressives who saw this as another betrayal by the president. On the issue of longterm deficit challenges, medicare, Social Security, do you see trends in Health Care Spending or with reform that might provide some reason for caution in going too far in medicare . And how severe is the challenge on Social Security . I think Social Security is the least complicated of the two. Health care is much more difficult. The trends have been down lately. Whether that continues, i hope that is the case. That it reflects change in practice that slows that cost down. I am optimistic about that, but not certain. If that is the case, it would help immensely. What you need is to figure out how
Assigned to that issue, that seems like a big concern. I would wonder how many times you have to bundle them before something happens . My recommendation as a partnership. I was a citizen and worked at that d. A. s office and was concerned about car break ins. On one side, they say there should be more arrests and the other side says there should be more prosecutions. When we sit and the room and say we dont the same offender is getting out, that is probably where there is a solution. There are other folks that i know that d. A. Said being responsible to Community Concerns is a priority. There are some system things we have to work on but it starts with people like you insisting on it. I would recommend a process that is collaborative in nature. Thank you for your report. What is your sense in terms of the quality of life on broadway . What is your sense as to how much of the problem can be attributable to the party bosses and how much is attributable to other issues . The party bosses
These values of public safety, Good Customer Service, accessibility and sustainability. And weve heard a lot of comments are the ble report so i wont go into the details about public safety, but we know include insurance and vehicle inspections and clearly marked vehicles, drivers training, background checks, et c. We have noticed through our Enforcement Team that there has been an up tick in violations associated with street hails of non tnc vehicles and non taxi vehicles so this is something were concerned about. General public drivers picking up street hails. Last week in the last few weeks there was a registered sex offender actually found to be trying to pick up a street hail so this is a real concern to us when private vehicles that are not clearly marked are providing services so we know the values of Good Customer Service and non discrimination. All customers are required to be served in the taxi industry, all neighborhoods are required to be served. We can do better on that. A
Welcome to the journal here on dw. Heres whats coming up in the next halfhour as french troops to engage with rebels on the ground in mali, germany supplies transport for the mission. U. S. President barack obama unveils a draft for sweeping gun proposals to set the stage for the battleground with firearm activists. A helicopter crashes in Central London in heavy fog. The conflict in mali has seen a dramatic escalation with french troops now involved in heavy fighting with islamist rebels. International support for the intervention is growing with germany providing two military transport planes. The fighting threatens to spill over to other countries with islamists in algeria taking western hostages in response to the french deployments. We will have more on that later in the show, but first, the latest from mali. French Armored Vehicles headed north to the front line after setting out from the capital. Another convoy had left tuesday from a town close to the offenses target, which fel