Native san franciscan. I went to elementary through high school here, and i just retired as a Deputy Sheriff up sheriff about three years ago im still working. As far as housing, i was a homeowner, but i got into an upside down loan and lost it. Im sorry. God bless. It has been hard for me to get home, and probably about four years ago, i lost my home. I had a short sale, i had been looking at this program for a long time, and i was able to put my application in, they picked my name, and i call it a blessing. Im sorry, i dont want to be in here crying. [laughter] anyway, so my family grew up here and all of my family members moved out. They are in other cities, and my grandmother to this school. Thats great. In the sixties and seventies. So just being able to have a down payment assistance, and being able we need the programs, we need a 100 affordable because it is even hard to save enough money. We have to make a lot of sacrifices to even save to get into the down payment assistance program. Another thing that i believe is important is the Housing DevelopmentHousing DevelopmentCorporation Council because half of them probably would not have even gotten into that program. I could have gotten into something affordable, and that wasnt down payment assistance, that was just regular. So that is very important. And just the education on what to do and what not to do, i was the first person on my moms side of the family to purchase a home. I grew up in subsidized housing in fillmore. So it is great to be able to have a home and to also have other people native of San Francisco to be able to stay here. I will never leave. I have something to leave my daughter now. It is very important. And they see me with a home, and now they believe they can buy a home because i never believed that i could even own a home. It is about your kids, this is real, i appreciate i love that you are in bayview. Yes. That is great. I am able to give back as a retiree. I do still work, but i can give back to my community because i do make my own schedule. That is one thing i love to do, and they love to share in the program and being a testimony that people think, you cant even get it, and then, well, i got it, so let me show you how to get in, and then once they pull your name, i believe that god did not take up this part to leave us. Once they pull your name, theres all of this red tape you have to go through. They ask you for something, they ask you for something else. Just do it. I remember one time i was called up and she said i know this is nerveracking and i said no, it is not nerveracking. Whatever you need, i look at it because you were getting are getting me down payment assistance. [laughter] so i would say, some people may want to quit once they are chosen because of all of the paperwork, but if they pull your name, you are getting a home. Dont quit. Dont quit. I can go on thank you. [laughter] i need to talk about it. Have you started the application process . No. I know about it, but i havent. Do a lot of your colleagues know about it . I believe so. Is there a buzz about this . [laughter] the resources that the city gives you a lot of people are just unaware. My phone blew up once when i find out when i found out i got the program. That is how i found out i got it you become an expert as you walk through the process. You are happy to give it to them because you want a home, and a lot of people are in the same position to own a home. They would do anything. Yeah. Thank you, guys, for putting a human face. Thank you for sharing your story , and thank you, mayor for everything you are trying to do at a local level and what is not surprising about this conversation is we could be having this conversation in any other part of the state of california. When you look at the 50 most expensive cities for rent in the United States, 33 of them happen happened to be in the state of california. Not surprisingly, not just from a rental perspective, but even more broadly, does finding housing that is accessible in your price range, the costs are astronomical, but for one fundamental reason. We are not building enough housing. We are 49th out of 50 in per capita housing. It is only utah on a per capita basis that develops less than the state of california. It has been decades in the making. It manifests in every conceivable way, but fundamentally, the expression of frustration relates to the time and value of money and the patients one has to develop a project, even at 100 affordable , taking up to seven years, foundational he is one of the greatest impediments to this states future, to your future, to our collective future because i posit that the california dream is in real peril if we do not address the housing crisis. It is a world i went to Great Lengths over the last 20 years not to say because i think we are often using the word over using the word crisis and it dilutes its meaning. But when it comes the cost of housing in this state, it is a crisis. You dont need any more evidence of that beyond this conversation than to see its ultimate form in manifestation and that is homelessness, which is skyrocketing. It is not just growing. I consistently make this point. I said for all of the focus on San Franciscos homelessness, you have one of the most modest increases compared to other parts of the state. This is serious stuff, and it requires a much more serious and intentional response. It is significant, it is important. The challenge is the scale and scope, and the amount of resources that are needed at a local level that can never meet your demand, a collective demand and aggregate demand. Weve got to do a lot more. The state of california needs to lead that effort. I wanted to just briefly talk about some of the things that the state is advancing and please feel free to leave or answer any questions. I dont want to keep you away from your skills a great on science, as we were talking your skills upgrade on science, as we were talking. This is almost 3 billion of new investment in housing and homelessness. 2. 75 billion dollars to be exact 1. 75 of that was to help support local efforts on housing, go through my financing and tax credit perspective as well as loan perspective. 1 billion in new tax credits and loans that were set aside. That is all about leverage. Leveraging what is happening at the local level, leveraging what is happening in the private sector, and being able to pull down more federal dollars. We believe our Tax Credit Program can leverage one and a half to 2 billion of Additional Resources beyond the half a billion that we put into that program. We have put up 250 million to help cities, large and small with their predevelopment work, with their planning work. They update their master plans to get the experts and consultants so that we have mitigated one of the principal complaint i hear, and that is we simply cant afford the staff. There other priorities in the state, so we have offered that as resources. Half a billion dollars just in infrastructure financing. A lot of cities cannot afford the sidewalks, the lighting, the sewer hookups, so we have an unprecedented amount of money in that space to draw down. That was something that came out of a dozen plus conversations that we had with smaller, rural cities, in particular that are struggling, just to, quite literally, do basic things, let alone help invest in jumpstarting housing construction. A billion dollars and homelessness, it is substantially more than we have ever put in the past. Much of that is directly to cities and counties for flexible purposes. Rapid rehousing, conversions of old motels, to preserve and not just expand s. R. O. S in San Francisco and other preservation efforts but all that is not enough. I will close with this. There are three additional things that we are working on in the legislature over the course of the next few weeks. We have to deal with the rent gouging in this state. Some cities of rent control, some dont. Some are more aggressive as it relates to those issues. I dont think any city is more aggressive than you are, mayor. It is still challenging. We are working with the legislature to get rent gouging ordinance to my desk, and this is one of our Top Priorities over the next few weeks before our legislative session ends. We also are trying to get 331 million set aside to help tenants that are on the verge of eviction, to help them with legal support. Were trying to create an endowment, instead of it is something that with surplus dollars to potentially look at one time investments, forget ongoing because those are stressful for mayors, but an annuity of sorts. Were setting aside 331 million regardless of recessionary pressures that will be set aside for rental protections and legal aid. Those dollars will be made available to San Francisco and all across the state. That is a legislative effort. And finally, weve got a bill that goes directly to your frustration about permitting. Nancy skinner has a bill, i dont want to bore you, but it is a streamlining and permitting bill to address the abuses and address some of the abuses of local government that our down zoning that are down zoning in a time of crisis as opposed to up zoning. It is a really important legislative effort that we are hoping comes to my desk in the next few weeks. That is the message we want to send. Were getting more serious about this than ever. We have half a billion additional dollars. I know you got all of this up, i have lost two, but there is no place like home. It is a bond that we are able to put out for supportive housing, for people with Behavioral Health issues. A lot more resources than there has been in the past, but never have we had a challenge this big in our states history. We have to meet it head on. You are doing it at the local level and we need to help you more at a state level. And yes, the federal government needs to help support cities, large and small, that are the economic engine of this country, and increasingly, not just this administration, that Previous Administrations, government has gotten out of the housing business. It is a skeleton of what it once was. I think it is incumbent upon governors and local leaders to call that out, as well. We cant do this, even at the state level alone. We need the federal government to get back in the housing business because urban and Metro America is struggling with these issues, even chicago, not just here in San Francisco, and this is incumbent upon us to call that out, as well. That is the Broad Strokes message. It is a big issue, an important issue and a complex issue. We are grateful for your leadership and all of you for being with us today. Im happy to take any questions. Do you have any for them . I dont want to burden all of you. They are just here for you. [laughter] if that is what the mayor is saying, then i need to get out of here. [laughter] that is great. Im happy to take any questions. [indiscernible] what is your position on the new ballot measure . They have refiled, but i want to complement not only those that have refiled, but others for their willingness to engage and to pursue a compromise, pursue an alternative, pursue a strategy to avoid a historically costly ballot fight. I dont know what will come of those conversations, but those conversations are ongoing. They have been for some time. They have been renewed with a deeper sense of urgency over the next number of weeks, but my position is to see if we can process those conversations along and try to build a monochrome of consensus because at the end of the day, there are winners and losers in a property tax debate, and not everybody will be left happy. I dont want to overstate these efforts, but those are ongoing negotiations. As it pertains to housing, obviously homelessness comes up so much because the problem is so acute. We see the effects on our street everywhere we go. But when you sit down at a roundtable have a conversation like this and you hear from teachers, firefighters, and people make up the Service Fabric of the communities, and they are being displaced. Does that represent an existential crisis . I dont thank you do overstate. I love the way you framed it 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