Red despite betterthanexpected durable good. A lot of concerns on the International Front with ukraine weighing on the market. Getting over to julie hyman with a look at the big stocks as we watch things heading into the close. A big potential deal in the satellitetv business. Ergen has had talks with his rivals over direct to be about potentially some kind of deal. Share look at the reaction, both stock surging. Up 6. 4 . Facebook heading in the other direction after buying a virtual and agreeing to for 2 billion. Investors not to thrilled about the news and seeing facebook shares selloff today. Finally, looking at qwest diagnostics and lab corp. Both of those groups rising. Bill that is positive that removes an overhang about concern about clinical reimbursement rates at labs that these companies own. Shares are rising over that. Thank you so much. Time for the big story. Taking tech timebomb. First facebook announcing a 2 billion bets on Virtual Reality company oculus. A company tha
Im margaret im the cleveland of inhome consumerism we provide home care to 16 hundred seniors and people with disabilities every year. Were supportive of the program with 21 thousand consumers im delighted to speak on the proposed legislation to allow the addition of inlaw units in the castro and hopefully, if its effective into other areas of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all awaref the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. People have done it but you have to have a bunch of money. The inlaws is one solution to increase the housing opportunity and allow them to stay in the city and as maria talking about earlier. I urge you to pass this legislation and much. Thank you very much tha
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. I am shawn brooks director at the Sf Marin Food Bank and i want to express my appreciation for your leadership on the issue and the supporters of the Food Security task force for highlighting the opportunities that lay before us. Although i support all of the recommendations i would like to speak on the need for a city wide home gresh grocery delivery program. We serve over 30,000s a week and the majority of the pantry participants are older adults and whom receive ssi and ineligible for benefits. Many are frail and disabled and struggle to attend food pant reese regularly. When the burden is too great they stop coming and some dont even try to show up so with the projected aging supervisor mar you talked about if San Franciscos population coupled with rising costs the numbers meeting but unable to access Food Assistance will continue to grow without a concerted effort to expand services so we believe that recruiting Commu
Pilot program and understand that people want to add amendments and the Housing Coalition didnt support adding legislation or worse have them built illegal and please move this legislation forward thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon sprirgz. Im margaret im the cleveland of inhome consumerism we provide home care to 16 hundred seniors and people with disabilities every year. Were supportive of the program with 21 thousand consumers im delighted to speak on the proposed legislation to allow the addition of inlaw units in the castro and hopefully, if its effective into other areas of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all aware of the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. Pe
Supervisor jane kim and supervisor malia cowen i want to thank sfgovtv specifically Jessica Larson and others madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Mr. Pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices items acted upon today will be in the april 14th agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay madam clerk, call item one its an ordinance amending the planning and administrative code for the inlaw unit within an ax letter structure. Im the author of item number one so colleagues before us you today is legislation that will allow for the creation of inlaw unit in the castro neighborhood for for the first place in more than 3 decades will add rent control united and was supported by Planning Commission. The legislation has broad support by the bay area report and the lgbt 0 Democratic Club and liveable city and by spur. Colleagues im sure youre aware of we have a Housing Affordability countries are the upper castro area other than the projects along Market Street weve added very little housing