From a moral perspective in terms of who we are as a society and what we represent, how to define community and a commonwealth when so many people that appear to be doing well are actually struggling, and so many people that clearly are struggling are also struggling in historic numbers. So this issue it has been with us for decades. I was a former supervisor here 20 plus years ago. This was the issue. It hasnt gone away. It is just more acute than ever. And the nature of the change has now been fasttrack. I am even feeling it as a fifthgeneration san franciscan with family here and businesses here. I am acting like that old san franciscan, i remember the days, and this place im starting to act like that. I know where those impulses come from because they are warning. Im also concerned about that. I am concerned broadly about the state. Rather than complain about it and lament about it, we are trying to do something about it. Im doing something no Previous Administration is doing, in a holding folks accountable. I talked about the carrots, not the sticks, but we are suing i sued Huntington Beach because they didnt want to get in the housing business. They werent doing enough. Fortysix other cities were being threatened with lawsuits. Tomorrow we will announce seven of them now that are in compliance. Another one across the bay just came into compliance. Were working with the others to get them in compliance. I just passed a trailer bill in the state that will allow courts to actually take over as conservators for some of the cities and the resources that they receive from the state if they dont produce housing. We are going to get much tougher because at the end of the day, the state of california cant develop the housing. At the end of the day, california cant solve the issues of homelessness for local government pick localism is determinative. It has to happen at the local level. My job is to amplify good behavior, support these local efforts in every way i can with support but also accountability and we have to see it on the back and the accountability. We have to see results. You cant just keep throwing money at this. I want to know what they will do with this billion dollars. I want to see real results. We gave them flexibility, deep urgency, new rules, new regulations, we will help you with the nimby is an that exists , and i will push back against that, as well, but i want to see real results. Forgive me if that isnt a soundbite, but it is a mouthful because this is just so profoundly complex and get so simple. More housing, deeper prevention dollars, key people in their homes, and lets preserve existing housing stock. [indiscernible] significant. You have seen a number of announcements which are examples of those conversations now being made public with some of the Largest Tech Companies in the state of california that have committed funds for housing, not just for low income housing, but for workforce housing, as well. I can assure you there are a number of others that will be making public announcements very soon that also will be a point for those conversations. Absolutely we believe in accountability. We think it is a twoway frame and i can assure you this, talking to the c. E. O. S, they get it because their number one problem is housing for their employees. It drives up the costs for them as it relates to recruiting talent, salaries, and it drives most principal complaint that they get in terms of retaining their key talent, because their families are earning a great deal of money and cant afford to stay in the bay area. Developers say they are being distance that devised [indiscernible] let me just say this. Theres more money in this your s budget than the amount of money that was set aside when we had the redevelopment. I could go through the list on the atkins transaction bill, the no place like home money that we put up, the money we put up for tax credits and loans, we created a new Tax Increment Program called an enhanced infrastructure financing. I dont know why this doesnt get more attention. It doesnt because what the hell does that mean . We have to change the names of all this stuff so people understand it. But it is a variant on redevelopment where we eliminated the voter approval to do tax increments. That was a big deal. In and of itself that was a big deal but it got lost with the larger housing package, but the impact fees are great. We have to call that out. The reason why is exactly to your frame of the question. It goes to carlas question because the way our property tax allocations work. And prop 13 is the principal source. If you want to go to the y. , you go back and you have prop 13. You have to connect that. What im trying to do in these conversations is to connect the impact fee conversation to the larger negotiations. That is a bank shot of sorts because it makes it particularly more complex, but i think it is so fundamental and foundational in terms of addressing the affordability issue in the state you cant build an 800,000dollar Affordable Housing unit. That is what you are doing here. It is laughable. Someplace his and i said you have to be kidding. They were half a Million Dollars , not in a big urban center like this. That will never happen. We are incentivizing new styles, forgive me, but in that list of things, we are encouraging and we are prioritizing new modular and prefab strategies. We are doing a lot with excess Surplus Property in the state. We have 45,000 parcels. We reviewed state property that we could set aside for development and we are prioritizing those methods for those parcels, and we already have six cities that are partnering with us to fast track the development of those units in order to get those costs down and waving all of those state related fees and fast tracking our permitting process. In order to be able to afford housing, you have to be making enough money. One of the problems is theres a bigger and bigger part of the gig economy. Would essentially make it harder to make people independent contractors and actual employees with benefits. How do you stand on that . We are negotiating on it. We have been negotiating on it for nine months. Can you say, wait a second, you have been governor only seven, right after i think a week before the election we started having very robust conversations it was continued for about two hours yesterday and six for the day before. My chief of staff is consumed most of her days to see if we can accommodate different points of view. As you know, many folks have been accommodated with amendments to the bill. There have been a number of industries that have been carved out, and i know this impacts all of you, as well. So many others would like carveouts or accommodations would like to be considered differently, and im open to argument. We are pursuing that and i am not naive about where the prevailing wind is on any of these issues. [indiscernible] i had just walked in and i try to avoid my thread on twitter because i have enough emotional issues from my early a Early Childhood trauma, but i was just made aware of this. It was a very serious issue. It goes to the core of people wanting to live in a city as spectacular as this and that foundation is safety. I hear it all the time. These qualityoflife crimes, these crimes that were stopped, and it appears, in this case, she was very fortunate. It could have been a terrible incident. It was just a traumatic one, and how often they are dealt with. Sometimes people flippantly deal with it and not seriously deal with it. People are back out on the streets, potentially to commit the crime again. I am very sensitive to what was presented to me, but i dont have the benefit of the details and fax to address a tweet, but i deeply respect the emotional tenor of not only that example and that incident, but more broadly, what i hear when i come back in the city about car breakins, about qualityoflife , about what is happening on the streets and sidewalks, and as a former mayor , im deeply sensitive to that. Your mayor is doing an extraordinary job, but she is going to need, as we all do, more support and that is one of the reasons we are here in the city. [indiscernible] yeah. He was up in our office two days ago. I asked him about it and we are really looking forward to his exploration. He was very pragmatic about it. He says we are pursuing it, but it continues to be a pursuit. So we are monitoring that closely and i am intrigued by the concept, but i want to see where he takes it and i know that there are a number of people, including the conversation i had with our leadership three days ago in the capital, that are also looking at that and thats all i can say right now. There is no pending legislation, but there is intrigue around that frame. [indiscernible] 2020, that is the most important thing we can do because our current h. U. D. Leadership is well, 2020 is important. It is not just 2020. I will be candid with you, it has been a point of frustration going back to when i was a parking and traffic commissioner in San Francisco. And you look at the trendlines of h. U. D. In terms of their housing support, and it has been declining for three or four decades, and i just think, you know, you meet with mayors, you meet with governor his. I was just with the governor association. The issue of affordability is not unique to california. It is just extreme here. But this persists in large metros all across the country and it is a growing issue in america. The reality is, at the end of the day, we need the government to help support some of these regional and local efforts, and i thank you will start hearing a united chorus around this that hopefully can fundamentally answer that question, not just with administration change and leadership change, but he foundational understanding of whats at stake in terms of affordability in america at large. Bayview. A lot discussion how residents in San Francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and theres not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the Arts Community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. Nonprofits cant afford to operate here. My name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in Housing Insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. My name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to 10,000 a most. And chad of the arts project pursue. The evolution of the orientation the focus on Art Education between children and Patrol Officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. Im the nonprofit manager for the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute Technical Assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. Snooechlz is rob the executive director and cofounder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of San Francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know theyll not renew our lease the last years the city with the nonprofit displacement Litigation Program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and Technical Assistance. Fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around 40,000 a year now 87,000 taylors dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota Street Project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a Nonprofit OrganizationNational Anthem and turned out the Northern California fund they accepted us into the Real Estate Program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the Litigation Fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. Which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didnt know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits Displacement Mitigation Program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a 946,000 grant that is provided through the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and thats going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. The purpose of the Organization Trust to stabilize the arts in San Francisco working with local agency i go like the Northern California platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property were sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years well renting 10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. The loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been weve had tremendous support from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. Our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as were doing the work weve been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. The single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. It has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. With the Economic Development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of Economic Workforce Development oewd. Com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit Mitigation Program and the Sustainability Initiative and find their information through Technical Assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city im rebecca and im a violinist and violin teacher. I was born here in San Francisco to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew up surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. All types of activities happened in my house. I began playing piano when i was 4. I really enjoyed musical activities in general. So when i was 10, i began studying violin in San Francisco. And from there, i pretty much never stopped and went on to study in college as well. Thats the only thing ive ever known is to have music playing all the time, whether it is someone actually playing next to you or someone listening to a recording. I think that i actually originally wanted to play flute and we didnt have a flute. Its always been a way of life. I didnt know that it could be any other way. Could you give me an e over here. Great. When you teach and youre seeing a student who has a problem, you have to think on your feet to solve that problem. And that same kind of of thinking that you do to fix it applies to your own practice as well. So if im teaching a student and they are having a hard time getting a certain note, they cant find the right note. And i have to think of a digestible way to explain it to them. Ee, d, d, e. Yes. Then, when i go on to do my own practice for a performance, those words are echoing back in my head. Okay. Why am i missing this . I just told somebody that they needed to do this. Maybe i should try the same thing. I feel a lot of pressure when im teaching young kids. You might think that there is less pressure if they are going on to study music or in college that it is more relaxing. I actually find that the opposite is true. If i know im sending a High School Student to some great music program, theyre going to get so much more instruction. What i have told them is only the beginning. If i am teaching a s