i am rich with enterprise community partners. it is a little disconcerting to be surrounded by barbed wire. [laughter] i was going to start by flipping a coin, but i figured only a portion of the audience would get the joke so i will not. i love the events like this. it is kind of a moment where there are no cost overruns, no change orders. there are no issues of tenants and property management. it is all wonderful. it is all a great project. i think we all need to it is a good idea to celebrate those moments as long as you possibly can. let me do my quick ad for enterprise. what are the largest investor in affordable housing in san francisco, the bay area, and california. we have $250 million invested within half a mile of this site. to invest particularly in the nonprofit developers and special needs of housing. it is a very much to what we feel we want to do and to our mission. that is very important to us. we have worked with chp and bridge many times. we re very prou
in the most expensive housing market in the country, providing such an opportunity is extremely difficult. it takes patience, determination, and wit two qualities he had. he was not too good on the patience side. confronted by the philosophy that says we cannot afford health care, public education, and affordable housing for the broad majority of our fellows, both national and state governments have withdrawn their support for affordable housing. currently mayor lee has undertaken a process involving private and public sectors because it will take both to seek to provide the minimum of $50 million a year for that purpose in the city of st. francis. that effort will require a ballot measure or two, patience, determination, and wit. if this opening is merely an homage to his past, my old friend would simply remind us that he never came to these kind of events anyway. but if this ceremony is a demonstration of a commitment to the future of providing many more thousands of unit
point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. the department of public works they maintain what goes o