Outer taraval has historically been a frontier of affordability , a real working class workingclass enclave with small apartment buildings. It has since been undergoing dramatic changes with fewer affordable and neighborhood serving businesses, and more luxury condos being built, like the ones right here which were just sold last year for 1. 3 million each. The tenants here have been for decades have been here for decades in our neighborhood and they have witnessed the spiraling change. For the small sights program, we have secured a formal housing for their families so they need no longer worry about their future in the sunset in our cit. The work must continue and im committed to future small acquisitions here in the sunset district, as well as 100 Affordable HousingDevelopment Like the educator Housing Project going up into outer judah, and really just pursuing every creative solution we can find to address the Housing Affordability crisis impacting so many moderate and lowincome residents, seniors, families, and everyone here in our neighborhood and in our city. I really wanted to thank mayor breed for her partnership and her support on making this project happen and for her strong leadership on addressing the Housing Affordability crisis city wide. I wanted to invite mayor breed to speak while spas. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor mar. Thank you for doing the hard work of identifying the location and seeing that this could potentially have ended differently then what we are experiencing today. This is the kind of leadership we need to make sure that we are coming together, working together to preserve Affordable Housing in San Francisco. And sometimes it feels easy to focus on new development, but we also have to remember where San Francisco was such a special place in the first place. It is because of people who make up the fabric of these incredible neighborhoods. People like these people who have raised their families here. Folks who have raised their children and grandchildren and generations of people who make up what we know is one of the best cities in the world. And part of the challenges that we are experiencing now around affordability has a lot to do with not producing enough housing, but also neglect of our existing residents who are struggling. And this is part of our plan. Preservation of existing Affordable Housing has to be just as important as building new Affordable Housing in our city. The Small Sites Acquisition Program is just an incredible, Incredible Opportunity to do just that. Yes, it may seem like six units is small, but just think about what six units means to the families who live here. Who had this bill had this building been purchased, they may not have been able to continue to live here. This is an opportunity to not only protect the existing community that is here, but to maintain affordability on this building permanently. That is what our Small Sites Acquisition Program has done to date. We have been able to preserve 278 units in 34 buildings, with 110 more units in the pipeline and another 12 buildings and that has been absolutely incredible. Supervisor mar has been a champion for this program and identifying properties all over our district. I want to give a shout out for supervisor sandy fewer who is also really helping to push and highlight this program, which has led to us adding an additional 75 million to help with small sites acquisition in the entire city, and we will continue to make the kinds of investments that are going to make this program even better. I also have to say that we have a 600 milliondollar Affordable Housing bond on the ballot. Without raising property taxes, and it provides opportunity for low and middle income residents. The opportunity to actually do more small sites acquisition purchases, so just be on the lookout for that because that will be critical to the success of Housing Production in San Francisco. We so appreciate the fact that this was really about a partnership. With supervisor mar and his leadership, working with meta, working with the Housing Accelerator Fund because the city moves so slow, that we need partners who can instantly put up the cash, but we dont have to miss out on an Incredible Opportunity like that. I really want to thank all of you here today because it really did take a village to make this incredible project possible, and i am just happy to have played a small role in the success of what we know are going to be even more projects in this community that will allow for families to remain in their homes and to continue to afford to live in an expensive place like San Francisco. More work to do, but today is a great start. [applause] thank you so much again, mayor breed. Now i wanted to introduce two of the tenants who live here at 3534 taraval. Mr. And mrs. Lee. My wife, cecelia and i first met them when we came out to the building and talked to tenants about their situation and the possibility of turning the building into permanently Affordable Housing through this program six months ago. I really appreciate mr. And mrsd commitment to working with us and actually working with the other tenants here to make this happen. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [applause] voice of translator we have lived in this apartment at 3534 taraval street for over 25 years and we have lived in San Francisco for over 30 years. We are grateful for supervisor mar and london breed for choosing this building for the program. We have been worried about losing our housing and couldnt sleep at night since the building was for sale in the market last year. We are happy to know that San Francisco has a small sights program. We are grateful for organizations like meta and selfhelp for the oral elderly for taking care of us and we enjoyed living in the sunset where the state we can stay and shop chinese businesses , and there are places to walk. Its important that San Francisco supports seniors and people on fixed incomes. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you for sharing our story. We are also very happy and excited that you and mr. Lee and all the other tenants here are going to be able to continue to live in our community and in our neighborhood and in our city through this small sites acquisition. Now i want to introduce Johnny Oliver from meta. They have been the leading organization working with the Mayors Office on developing the small sites strategy and the small sights program and they have been such a great partner and we are excited that they are now going to be owning and managing this property. [applause] my name is Johnny Oliver, adMission Economic develop and agency. This is our 24th small sites acquisition that we have been part of in San Francisco and the target approach that we have used to keep residents in their longtime homes is not unique to this property this is a case at 3534 taraval where six households, all of which have seniors as residents can now age in place with dignity i want to think mayor breed for their support of Affordable Housing in San Francisco. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development for their ongoing support of the program, and the San FranciscoHousing Accelerator Fund. Once again for providing the needed bridge funding to make this possible. I want to thank the Housing Rights Committee who has played a part in organizing residents and helping them understand what small sights programs are, and if not, and i want to give thanks to supervisor mar. He has been a staunch advocate for his constituents. Our conversations with supervisor mar made it clear that he was concerned about gentrification and displacements in district four. He looked forward to not just making this an Affordable Housing development, but also a quality one. We will be starting the reability asian of this project within the next auto months and providing seismic reinforcement, updating electrical and fire code safety, and again, meta is very honored to be part of this project. This will be our first small sights in the sunset. The first on the west side, and hopefully part of many future ones here in San Francisco. Thank you. I know how complicated and challenging it is to move forward on opportunities like this that we identify. So now i want to introduce rebecca foster, who is the c. E. O. Of the San FranciscoHousing Accelerator Fund. She played such a key role in helping to finance projects like this. And make the program happen. Rebecca . Thank you so much. We are so excited to have been part of funding the acquisition for the first small sights project in the sunset. An echo that we hope that this is the first of many more to come. I think that what we see here is just another proof point the preservation really works and it is proven as an effective strategy for preventing displacements and building the citys permanently affording 40 will Housing Stock dock. This also is a big milestone for the Housing Accelerator Fund. This loan got us over 100 million in kabul till deployed over last two years. It is really exciting. We also were able to bring in a new philanthropic philanthropic partner, that ferguson foundation, with a through many dollar commitment to low income Senior Housing in San Francisco and we used the first million of that funding for this project. That is what we need more of a . Want to continue to scale, with that 100 million, we have been able to permanently preserve units, give homes for 443 residents in San Francisco, and we need to keep scaling this work. So i look forward to being part of this partnership and the Long Term Solutions that make preservation citywide and every neighborhood to continue to provide solutions for people like the residents in taraval. Thank you. [applause] thank you everyone for being out here on this really momentous occasion for Affordable Housing and for preserving and protecting seniors and longtime Longtime Community members in the sunset. We are just getting started. We will aggressively pursue all creative opportunities to expand Affordable Housing in the neighborhood and city. Thanks again for being here. I wanted to acknowledge some of our leaders here. Alberta chow. Hardware upon taraval, and rabbi frydman who is with the congo nation congregation right across the street. Thank you for coming out here. I know mr. And mrs. Lee have kindly agreed to allow reporters or press that might want to view their unit, unit number five right here. And then we are also available for any further interviews or questions you might have. Thanks again for being out here, everyone. [applause] i lived in the Mission Neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of San Francisco. I am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the Latino Community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. We were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. When we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. I heard about the Small Sites Program through my work with the Mission Economic agency and at met with folks from the mayors Housing Program because they wanted to utilize the program. We are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. Conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a Letter Writing Campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, its your land, but please work with us. What i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with San Francisco. We have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. My favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me and i i would like to welcome the color guard. [ ] [instrume [instrumental of starspangled banner] [ ] [ ] a very special thank you to the color guard. You can take your seats. My name is louis luven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association, which is the organization responsible for organizing fleet week. Before we get started, i would like to introduce, if you would just stand up, the chairman of the board for the San Francisco fleet association, general mike mayet who was the inspiration for this program. Thank you, general. San francisco fleet week comes to San Francisco once a year. It is a wonderful celebration and it is built on the foundation of troops, community, and the fleet week center for humanitarian assistance. We have wonderful programs to the troops all week long, including friday evening at pier 30 32, in the shadow of the u. S. S. Summerset is a free concert and festival that will take place friday from 5 00 to 9 00 in the evening. We invite all san franciscans to join us in celebrating the men and women that serve in our military. The community, theres so much that we do with the community. We work with the business districts. We work with the foundations that run nonprofit programs. There were a lot of community activities, including of course the nations greatest air show featuring the blue angels. You will see all of that. Its all on our website and your media packages is all of the events. Here we see the results of the fleet week center for humanitarian assistance, bringing together agencies at all levels of government, both civilian, military, nonprofit, for helping to prepare your nation to do a better job on Disaster Response and humanitarian assistance missions. Today youre going to hear from some real leaders. We have in our lineup today mayor london breed, rear admiral john gumabledon, director mary carol, deputy cheer victor wirsh, police chief bill scott, the director of our port of San Francisco elaine forbes. Im going to invite mayor breed up now. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you, louis. First, i would like to thank the San Francisco fleet Week Association for putting together what i think is an amazing week to celebrate fleet week right here in San Francisco. For 39 years we have been honoured to host this opportunity to bring the incredible men and women of our military from the navy to the coast guard to the marines, having you here in San Francisco is an absolute pleasure. So i welcome you to our incredible city. I look forward to all that i know you will do to not only showcase what our military has to offer and what you continue to do to defend our country, but more importantly the work that you are doing in San Francisco to give back, whether its working with our high schools or nonprofit organizations, serving meals to our seniors. So many things that fleet week has planned in store for this week is all about giving back. But i also want you to know how much we appreciate your sacrifice and the work that you do to protect our country. This week is really about celebrating everything that you have done to put your lives on the line to protect each and every one of us. We also take this as an opportunity to think about Disaster Preparedness. Because we know its not a matter of when a disaster strikes, its not a matter of if a disaster is going to strike, its a matter of when. When it happens, not only do we need