Construction is more expensive, pay teachers more money. If we are living in one of the most expensive parts of the cities in the world, if you had to pay 3,000 for a studio, thats a mortgage in somebody elses cities or country. You know, we need to figure something out. We need housing. Im in support of the mayor. Thank you so much. Hi. My name is dana, and im here to speak in support of the Charter Amendment. We are the only city that has a thing called discretionary review, anybody can file to block any project for any reason or no reason. I read the d. R. S and every Planning Commission packet and interesting to see how people are explicit about their greed. I have seen neighbors try to block housing because tenants might live there, because tenants would not live there but the building looks like the tenants might live there. Personal favorite, landlord worried that new housing would block shadows and he might have to do something crazy like lower the rent. Why are we needling peoples worst instincts . Discretionary review is an embarrassment to our city. Abolishing d. R. For Affordable Housing should be a no brainer. Its going to be a lot more important as we Start BuildingAffordable Housing in exclusionnary neighborhoods, people are going to get mad. We have a massive shortage of Affordable Housing with 8,000 applicants for every unit. We cant afford to waste time and money on frivolous appeals. I hope you guys can work with the Mayors Office to come up with a way to eliminate these terrible appeals for Affordable Housing. Thank you. Hi, my name did ira kaplan, a renter, live in district 3. I want you to support the mayors Charter Amendment. Some concerns from supervisors today about the high rents that some of the streamline projects would have. Thats what its like out here for those of us who are not housing secure, who did not have the opportunity to purchase a home in San Francisco 10, 20, 30 years ago. Thats what this process has done to us and the rents you are concerned about are the below market rate rents. Discount from the private market where most people are forced to seek housing in San Francisco. Just near my apartment every day i see people sleeping on the streets every night and breaks my heart we dont have enough housing for them. Its a moral failure. The mayors amendment does what you all say you want. It streamlines 100 Affordable Housing and if you oppose it, because it also streamlines other housing, thats playing politics with peoples housing. Please dont play politics with peoples housing. Please let the mayors Charter Amendment go to a vote of the people. Thank you. My name is gabe. Ive heard stories from teachers that are just heart wrenching, im sure they are to you as well. Im in support of the mayors Charter Amendment. Great if we lived in a world we didnt have to we could put rents at a place teachers could afford them and housing prices to a place teachers could afford to buy in San Francisco. Thats not realistic and i think that if you want to help the teachers and people of all walks of life to afford to live here, you have to be realistic how to accomplish that, you cant do it by stricting or protecting the institutional blo kadz to prevent housing from being something affordable. Hes that the mayor is trying to address. A pretty courageous stand and said we are not going to do it the easy way by just bashing developers and talking about greed, but the hard way about taking on the institutional blockages contained in the charter right now. I understand this is not politically the easiest thing to do, but i think its the right thing to do. We need to help these people and one of the ways we do that is by addressing the systemic problems, not a little piecemeal work here and there, frankly how we characterize the supervisors proposal. But rather to make the hard choices and that includes market rate housing. Now, the mayor has done her part, i think the voters will back her, and whats in the middle right now is you guys. So, please vote to put her Charter Amendment on the ballot and let the voters decide. Thank you. Hi, jennifer fever with the San Francisco tenants union, 8,000 members strong. Im here to support the boards measure for Affordable Housing on public lands. We are very much opposed to the Charter Amendment, everybody is opposed to the Charter Amendment. I want to commend you all for working with the Community Stakeholders on this, and rather than just dreaming up tools for Developers Behind closed doors. We work very closely uasf and 2121 during elections so i thought it was very important to show up and support their ideas today. I have appreciated their sensitivity and always considerable vulnerable tenants and essential workers of the city, whether they are School Teachers or not. And so they always work to come up with the best possible plans. So, thank you for all your work on this ballot measure. Another thing i noticed, i thought the Mayors Office of housing and staff was supposed to be neutral like the planning staff. So my mind was blown today by the very bias presentation and thats not how i want my taxpayer dollars to be spent. Hi, laura foote, mb action. Two quick technical points. The first one is about the two competing ordinances. Both of them rezone, and the worst outcome would be for neither to reach the ballot. If neither reaches the ballot, if we pursue a legislative way of doing this, a citywide e. I. R. , set back literally years, thousands and thousands of city dollars would have to go into this citywide e. I. R. And just like you are seeing with the navigation center, subject to a lawsuit. We are making it more high risk to do upzoning. So, while i have a slight preference for the mayors upzoning, please make sure that either, both, or one of them makes it to the ballot. We need to do this at the ballot in order to make sure the e. I. R. Is not subject to all the nonsense. And broadening affordability, more projects as federal and local funding is limited, growing it, more complicated projects that use a variety of income types. And the mayors proposal allows for more of those cross subsidies so we can spend less. I was middle income when i lived on my friends couch for months. And i was middle income when i lived in a bugbite in fested warehouse apartment that had sort of been converted into something habitable. Middle income people need housing. When i was facing being a single income person in San Francisco who was middle income, where was i supposed to live . I run a nonprofit. We have so much tech money, i make 75,000 a year. It sucks. Thanks. Hi. My name is julian pressman, i have been in nonprofit my whole life. And i wanted to voice my support for the Charter Amendment. In particular, i want to speak to the question of who we would be leaving behind. We dont get this amendment from the ballot. One is, so i live in district 6, i volunteer in the tenderloin working with the very poor and very sick people of the city who live in undignified and inhumane life because they cannot afford rent or barely squeeze by, they dont have enough for food and medicine on top of that. We need to move much much much faster when it comes to building. We have been way too slow. We have not moved the Homeless Population in the city has swelled. By 14 in the last two years. And i appreciate the assurances could approve one by one, but the people suffering outside this building cant wait for all of that process and we have to move more swiftly. Second, leaving behind middle income, nonprofit workers. Again, been in the sector my whole life again and again, entry level employees who come in, try to live here, cant live here, work for two hours and work the grueling and intense job and commute two hours back and leave the sector and decide im going to go work at a bank because i cant do this. And our sector in the services that your communities and our most vulnerable in San Francisco really depend on are not able to get fully staffed because we cant, these people cant live here. So, really encourage you to put this on the ballot and thank you so much. Hi. My name is jessica hernandez, i am a teacher at paul revere. We are one of the lowest 5 performing schools and all though a lot of contributing factors to that, having a really vital School Community is one of the biggest problems that affects all of our schools. And i would like for all of our staff to, that are passionate, our staff is passionate. They love our kids, to Stay Together and build something there. And so i appreciate the board, sorry, the, sorry afford and homes for educators and Families Initiative now. I would like to let you know that in the last five years ive been teaching ive tried everything. Living in san jose, commuting 1 to 2 hours, living in the east bay, living in liver rooms, considered living in my car. Until i was one week from being due, i lived in hayward, and commuting on bart and that was hard. Its like people know that when you are pregnant you want to start taking time off and taking care of yourself. You cant do that if you know you are not going to be able to afford rent next month. And taking time off for my child, i cant because we have rents to pay, our rent is as much as our daycare, so we are paying what some people are paying for a full house right now, and its both of us are teachers, so again thank for your support and i would like you to support the Affordable Homes for educators and Families Initiative. Thank you. My name is harry mudd, born and raised in San Francisco, 45 years, fillmore district. Homeless all my life, could not read and write. I think that this needs to pass, a lot of Homeless People on the street, women and ladies standing in cars and sleeping in parks and on busses and sleeping in hotels, and late on rent one time and kicked out with a newborn baby. City is claiming they need money and funding but if you have 7,000 people that are homeless in one city and you get everybody together and put the money together, you wouldnt need the citys money, just someone to trust, San Francisco, stockton, where there is land and i think a lot of these companies might, a lot of the schools and target and stuff that have people working for them, that dedicated that comes to work every day, and sleep in their cars with their kids and children, i think a lot of the schools and companies should Start Building housing for them, you know, so therefore you can help the people working for you and not turn your back on them. Peace to my son, kareem malcom shakur. Im here to support the mayors Charter Amendment and ordinance. I want to say im thrilled that there are two ordinances that countenance, upzoning the rest of the city, 80 of the citys subsidized housing in the last ten years has been built in two supervisor districts, which means nine supervisor districts split the other 20 and thats wrong. Its economic segregation, it is wrong. So i cannot tell you how thrilled and proud i am that this body is competing to move forward with something that will facilitate integrating all the rest of the neighborhoods. And echo what laura said, keep your eyes on the prize. If we mess this up and cant get this before the voters, something a real goal for everybody here will be lost. I have noticed that supervisor peskin will characterize the fighting as fighting between the board and the mayor and i think the public is going to feel, is going to interpret it that way. That really is what it looks like. Up here, there was a lot of discussion before Public Comment but there were no points raised, actually. There was a lot of purposeful confusion between allowed and requires, the mayors Charter Amendment allows projects up to 140, and supervisor fewer repeatedly claimed that that meant it required, all projects to be 140. Theres a big difference between allows and requires, and when you meld those things together, people in the public hear that you are being insincere and it really makes it sound like there are no reasons that this is just fighting. I was disturbed by the cavalier attitude supervisor ronen had towards waiting 100 days. One hundred days is a big deal. If you run out of your time good afternoon, supervisors, robert, i live in district 5 and money for Affordable Housing is hard to come by. One supervisor said the real need for resources, money for building and acquiring land. Good news is that the mayors proposal would help with that. It would lower construction costs, it would streamline Affordable Housing, i mean the real question is like are there actually streamlining issues. The answer is yes. In your committee packet today there is a memo and says in the year and a half since the Effective Date of senate bill 35, which allows for streamlined approval of Affordable Housing projects, six 100 Affordable Housing projects have gone through the discretionary review project and paid fees. They expect 8 to 9 annually. People are filing discretionary reviews and if you are a Neighborhood Group you can do so for free. I think this is pretty this is patently ridiculous. If we think theres no problem with discretionary reviews, it should be uncontroversial to get rid of them. And if you dont like the mayors proposal, which i support, i would hope to see legislation which gets rid of discretionary reviews, apparently not a problem, from the office of the controller. I think overall there is a real need thats just being confused here. This is not about building studios for everyone, this is this is about actually providing funding for Affordable Housing somehow, like although i will say i would be happy if we upzone west side in any sense of the word. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is susana parsons. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comment, particularly on the mayors Charter Amendment. On behalf of spur, i urge you to support placing this proposed Charter Amendment on the ballot in order to streamline the review and approval of 100 Affordable Housing and housing for educators. We believe the passage of the measure will have a real impact on how quickly and cost effectively the city and industry will be able to produce the types of housing urgently needed in San Francisco. We know that the full board of supervisors supports creation of housing for educators and low and moderate income households. This measure will address our infamously complex approvals process that provides many opportunities for opposition to delay or halt Affordable Housing. All at the expense of our city residents. The measure will require the city to create a more efficient and less risky approvals process, resulting in quicker delivery and less expensive production of exactly the kind of housing San Francisco needs. We urge you to refer this measure to the full board and give our supervisors the opportunity to show leadership on housing in San Francisco. Thank you. Good morning, laurie, inner sunset resident. Delighted that lawton and 7th avenue is a site for 100 affordable educator housing. I support Affordable Homes for families and educators now and oppose the mayors Charter Amendment. Public land is a public resource that should be reserved to serve the greatest need not to enhance developer revenue. Homes for public educators, including very low paid support staff, are vital to supporting Public Education itself. It is shameful that the Mayors Office would use widespread support for affordable teaching housing as cover for buy right Market Rate Development and offer affordability upwards in the same breath. There should be no buy right development on public land and no public subsidies for market housing. Who are we leaving behind . I would add, why are we leaving them behind and on whose behalf are we leaving them behind. Returning to the 7th and lawton project and the questions of affordability levels. One proposal for this location is 325 square foot studios. Two people or more in 325 square feet, that is not a home, that is temporary shelter. It is frankly tire some that we continue to hear from the Mayors Office the mantra that rarely used discretionary reviews are the reason for high housing costs. When will they decry speculator demands for sky high returns on their investments. Finally, supervisors, thank you for your work with the unions representing our public educators, exactly how Work Force H