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Lawrence, john stewart, a special shout out to our very own Margaret Miller who has spent much of the last seven years of her life helping make this dream come true. applause so, thank you, thank you, and truly happy new year to all. Thanks. applause thank you, jeff. So, this is, again, one of those San Francisco moments, right . We dont do things easy and we want to do things that are pushing the envelope. And one of the things that were pushing the envelope on is trying to look at how we provi...

John stewart, john is right here being led with his development team. We have howard here as well. You have the ridge point, which is i think the most mature of the housing managers here, ridge points been around since 68, right . Thats right. And all of you amassed together with the Mayors Office of housing with hope sf, with the Housing Authority to make sure this dream comes alive. And, so, im just here today to say this is just the first of many announcements. Weve got three phases just at h...

Yes, we have part of the District Land including the tower we be looked at that and one of the solutions i think weve all embraced is the plazas west of howard theyll be requiring a number of properties and demolishing those properties south of this and howard would create some major visibility for the pedestrian. If that happens whats the entry experience like. We do have a rendering of it. Is that designed in the front. The consent is theyll be some time and pg a hadnt acquired those propertie...

Has. Thank you very much. [cheering and applauding] alice, you and the family know better than i do that the bunkers that were built in the 50s that represented hunters view for many, many years were actually built for the military housing back in those years. They werent really meant for longterm dignified respectful housing that this community deserves. And, so, you are part of the first of 25 families that are in this initial phase of a whole 107 units that will be completed in may. And thank...

And welfare of the existing families and invites new families and creates complete neighborhoods. And only in San Francisco are we willing to take on this task to really change the lives of the current residents and preserve Affordable Housing for all future residents so that we in San Francisco have a diverse community. So, we have a very Short Program today to acknowledge many of the people who have participated in this development. It has been a partnership, as we have talked about. It is a p...

Because, yes, its still the redevelopment promise that we had, but its much more than that. And we want to get away from the old negative legacies that redevelopment had with many members of our community in San Francisco, on to investment and infrastructure, investing in people, investing in their lives. As we rebuild physically here. Youre also going to see a lot more parks, open space. Youre going to see a Community Center here. Youre going to see people that will see Employment Training as t...

Annual basis, the hud and the federal government were only able to come up with 16 million, and decreasing every year based upon their inability to get together on hud priorities, that we created hope sf. And out of that came a 95 million commitment. Im going to see to it that not only every penny of that comes in, but there will be more coming from the private sector because hope sf is about the Publicprivate Partnership that we have, that we should never allow our Public Housing residents to l...

Wouldnt be supportive of demolishing those buildings in the great are sxhoks of the district. That said mr. Patrick has never submitted any applications to the department. So im happy to answer any other questions you have about the proprieties or the inspection we have a question from director metcalf. Josh its a clear presentation. It strikes me that really the only problem i have is yes, we have part of the District Land including the tower we be looked at that and one of the solutions i thin...

Okay, were just about ready to get started here. If everybody could gather round a little bit. My name is olson lee. Im the director of the Mayors Office of housing. And this is a great day, isnt it . Yes, it is. Its a great day. And one of the things about anything that we do in San Francisco is that it does take a whole village, and we have a whole village here. And its about a sense of partnership that we are able to celebrate. And i really want to emphasize celebration, because this is the f...

The producer of the wildly acclaimed and really important new documentary, bully. And the coeditor of the book by the same title. Both of which about our nations dirty little secret about bullying in schools across america. Both of the movie and the book put a human face face on what its about, what impact skids on both sides and on the sidelines and their families. So, thank you so much, cynthia, for being here today. Why dont we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself. How did yo...