[speaking foreign language]. Tenants are forced out of homes due to competition for Affordable Housing,s especially in soma. Developers need to wake up soma is not exclusive. Soma needs the housing. Lets support the jobs housing linkage fee. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am amanda representing the coalition on homelessness. We would like to voice support for updating the jobs housing lynx age fee linkage fee. It will ensure accountability to ending the housing crisis. We have the opportunity to generate 500 million over the next 10 years to allocate to constructing more Affordable Housing, preserving already Affordable Housing and building additional Supportive Housing. We urge you to stand up for housing justice in San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am susan. I am a 20 year resident of San Francisco and former nurse at San Francisco general. I have been running a Small Business for 15 years. I work with the coalition. I am here in support of this legislation. I think it is a step in the right direction. I think it is an extremely modest fee. My only criticism, i think it should be three times what it is. Yes, i definitely support it. What is happening in our city is heart breaking. I live in d5, and i see luxury automobiles driving past people sleeping on the street every day. I walk past people sleeping on the street. It is heartbreaking. It is taxing the Office Developers seems like a logical thing to do with no question whether or not to support this legislation. It is incredibly heart breaking and cruel that we have so many wealth and so many people on the street. I hope that you will support this. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am curtis bradford. I am the cochair of tenderloin Peoples Congress and organizer for the development corporation. We are here in support of this legislation the way it is written. I mean, honestly, we are thinking about the situation as we see it now, the crisis in the city, housing, homeless crisis. A lot of problems are severely amplified by the Massive Development of office and commercial space without Subsequent Development of housing. That is devastating to the mission and soma and impacted the tenderloin. The truth is that Unchecked Development is bad for the city. It is bad for the communities and it is our residents paying the price for the development. They continue to pay the price both physically and financially. It is time to put responsibility back on the developer. The fee increase is not over the top. If i had my way, i would think bolder. The crisis seems worth bold decisions. Ththe modest change is the chaos we have seen on the streets. I ask you to pass this and support it. We need the money for apAffordable Housing. It is the right thing to do. Thank you. Business next speaker. Good afternoon, jordan davis, district 6 resident. I support supervisor haneys jobs linkage fee update. I will tell you one thing. It did not go far enough. We are are to need Affordable Housing the city citys nexus e should charge 193. Supervisor haney has a modest proposal, but lets face it, people in the whatever are claiming it is only feasible if we jack it up by 10 bucks. That is not going to cut it, and that is bad Public Policy. To give you a daunting statistic. A baby born in the year this jobs housing linkage fee was last updated would have already completed college and would be looking for work. If that baby was born in San Francisco, they would have a hard time finding housing no matter what. I am glad we are going to basically like with new development and with great power to affect Development Comes great responsibility. We need the housing. I am also glad that 30 of the funds will be going to new Supportive Housing. I live in an rfo. I it is on the task force. I dont want people with low income tenants competing with less lowincome people for sro housing. We shouldnt be fighting for scraps. I am just like sickened by the idea. If we max out the fee, it is going to stop all Office Development. Well, that is bogus. Believe me, if the worst was to come to past, all Office Development stopped, it wouldnt be any worse than what we have now. If we continue to have this very insignificant nominal fee it will keep getting worse. Please make the right decision. Lets jack up this fee, build in actually Affordable Housing and not luxury housing. Lets do the right thing and also reconsider then maxing it out. Lets face it i am a socialist and i like to push the envelope. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am catherine. I have lived in San Francisco since 1975. I came here as a student and raised two children. I ai representing the south of market group. I am a single parent. I have worked until 20 years ago. I have experienced homelessness. My daughter was raised in sro. She is 25. If this job linkage fee would have been increased every year there would be housing built for people of low income or people who could afford it, i dont think our homeless crisis would be as great as it is. It is really important to pass this and even though matt haney has suggested 60 to start with. I honestly think we should think boulder. For so long having Affordable Housing at the low income for teachers has been neglected in the city. It is very stressing to realize maybe i wouldnt have been homeless, maybe my daughter could have had a better life. There are so many people leaving the city because they cant afford to be here. Their jobs are here so they commute. The cost of the commute is great. Why cant we have enough housing here to keep it so people at the lowest who may not make that great of an income may be able to live in a better condition and to avoid having a lot of stress because when you have to commute back and forth to the city on low income, it is stressful on you and your family. People have been here for so long have to move somewhere else to afford to live. We really need to pass this. I would really appreciate it very much, like i said, if we could push it higher, i would say go for it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am theresa. I am a long time resident of the soma philippine Cultural Heritage district. I am one of those tenants, and our families and fellow tenants in the building that went through four eviction cases, three different landlords. Three different lan landlords, t we won all of those four. Because community support, our families worked hard for this. It is heartbreaking for me when i walk on the streets of San Francisco, all of these tall buildings, high buildings, actually sprouting up especially in district 6. It is inside soma philippine. I want to share that i dont have a good experience with the planning committee. This Planning Commission. Before it seemed like we were led to believe, go ahead and speak, but behind the scenes something was already in the works. I dont appreciate that. I dont appreciate developers who come inside the neighborhood, they dont have any care, no sensitivity, no mindfulness, no awareness. [please stand by]. Dot housing linkage, which was introduced by district six supervisor, haney. The proposed amendment before you, address the growing demand for Affordable Housing. The Veterans Center has been a Service Writer for 20 years, and serves the very low income, older adults and others within submit disabilities in the city. Affordable housing, for our consumers, when they become available from the city, they are extremely difficult to navigate. Preservation or acquisition of assisting existing housing. Dedication at the potential with the fees for all project which is only allowed for central soma project with Additional Resources and opportunity, the proposed amendment, to the existing job house edge housing linkage fee will eliminate the crisis and give relief to those in dire need of a formal housing. We commend the San FranciscoPlanning Commission to approve the proposed amendment to the current job housing linkage fee. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am gina, i am here to support the legislation and update on the job housing linkage fee. This linkage fee has not been updated since 1997. Which has led to lackluster development on a portal housing. With rising rents we have seen families pushed out because of a lack of affordable unit while most developers prioritize commercial development and luxury market rate units. In order to find find Affordable Housing in soma, the city, the city must increase the jobs housing linkage fee. When the jobs housing linkage fee is increased and updating, there should be more Affordable Housing so families on the respectable applicant on the Affordable Housing waitlist will be placed in these units. Increasing the jobs housing linkage fee for Affordable Housing will reduce rampant displacement identification among families and communities of color. Please update and increase the jobs housing linkage fee, because it is overdue. We are in 2019, going into 20, not 1997. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. We are in full support of this legislation. An upset update to an existing jobs housing linkage fee should have been done years ago. Since 2018, we have been demanding the release of the updated nexus study on the jobs housing linkage fee from the office of economic and workforce development, during the central soma hearing. We do not know how long is set on the desk of oewd staff. What is clear, this report should have been released during the hearing of central soma hearing plan. The study was nonpublicly released until june of this year. This kind of report is really important to be part of public discussion since we see the impact of of new commercial developments in our community. Commercial development, especially Office Develop and has impacts to the existing communities and neighborhood and San Francisco. We have seen rapid gentrification and displacement as a result of the first, and Second Technology boom that comes with speculation and highrises Office Development. We want to thank supervisor haneys office and continuing this work, and working with us, and our partners in getting the legislation in front of you today. The jobs housing linkage fee is not new for the city. When it was increased in the late 90s, the same issue we are bringing up today which was Office Development create massive impact to existing neighborhoods in San Francisco. The city acknowledge that this development had an impact in these fees are necessary to mitigate those impacts what we are talking about our existing these. They are not new. This legislation is simply an update to this existing fees. One that has been kept artificially low, which has been an additional profit benefit to developers. It is way past time for this we need to prioritize the development of Affordable Housing. We need to preserve the existing housing, the impacts of this Luxury Development must be mitigated, in the highest standard. Not what gives more benefit to the Developers Area thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners i am alyssa dao, i am a student intern from San Francisco state university. We support the legislation, and the update to the existing jobs housing linkage fee. The economic displaced and, of the community, has been in a effect of the gentrification cost with the boom of Tech Industries coming into the city. This reflects how the Tech Industry grows is top priority, and not the needs, nor the welfare of the people of the community. Our community does not need to prioritize the needs of highrises, things. But rather, we need to prioritize more affordable, and equitable housing for the sake of our community. We need to ship the job housing talent shift the job housing balance, by making it equitable for the people in the families that are originally from the city and the community. This is why it is essential to fundamentally change the citys priorities through the update of the exist linkage fee for housing. Our people first, not corporations. With that, i urge you to support this legislation. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is alexa, i am also a resident in the south of margate and i support the legislation and the update to the existing jobs housing linkage fee. One of the speakers earlier, i think jordan, was thinking about babies, i think that baby is me, i was born and raised in the south of market, im in college, but ironically i am actually going through a housing issue where, in high school, i was evicted one in 2014. Right now im going through a foreclosure and it in one year. Our building, likely having tenant rights and organizing my building to fight this foreclosure, whatever dirty deeds the bank is doing. The constant thought is, how are we going to keep our housing . Living in San Francisco there is rent control, there is tenant rights, there is always this thought of what is going to happen if we get this lease from our home . The first thing everyone thinks about is Affordable Housing, we are going to apply for that. Even with Affordable Housing, it is tough. It always feels like it is a competition. There are 3,000 people applying for Affordable Housing. The fact that there is not even availability of housing, in the area, that is really disappointing. The fact that the last time these were raised was what i was born in 1997. I think it is time for a raise in the system to be uptodate, and also the updated fees would generate over 500 million over the next decade which would produce about 2,000 new units over the next ten years. If anything, i urge you to support this legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, commissioners. My name is ramon. I am a resident of district 6, the market area. I support the legislation and the update to the existing jobs housing linkage fee, because many of our existing tenants are being pushed out doing to the growing competition for affordable units, especially near the area where with concentrated Office Construction area. Development should pay for its fair share to house its workers. According to the city, at least one of every three Office Workers [inaudible] cannot afford market rate housing. When a date has been anticipated for many years, and it has been overdue. I just urge the commissioners to support this legislation, and thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is sam luke on my work at the coalition of homelessness, i was also born and have watched my city change a lot, for the worse, over the past 25 years i have lived here. I am in support of the jobs housing linkage fee. Particularly for the fact that 30 would go towards housing. Those units go to people who are experiencing homelessness. The other reason why i am in support, when we are talking about this fee, it talking about tackling the homelessness and housing crisis. Were not talking about something that is sterile, we are talking about people who are literally dying on our streets every day. One of the things that has happened to me, since working at the coalition on homelessness. I have been two more funerals and memorials and any other time in my life. We are literally seeing people die by day, languishing on our city streets. Right now, there is 1,098 people on the shelter waitlist. The oldest person on that list is 89 years old. These are our seniors, these are people that are the most honorable people and without Something Like updating this fee , we are not going to have enough Affordable Housing units and permanent Supportive Housing unit to really address and tackle this issue. The other thing i want to bring up is that people are always talking about the homelessness crisis area the fact is, 70 of Homeless People were housed before they became homeless. We have to begin to invest in Real Solutions to actually prevent homelessness before people are out on the streets, which is one of the things that this piece of legislation redo. We are at a point where the department of homelessness will tell someone like me, and other community members, hey, you have to choose whether you want us to house a pregnant woman leaping on the streets, or a homeless family that is being on the streets. We know in a city as rich as San Francisco, we do not have to choose between housing two of those vulnerable pop