On high risk of displacement. It is also important in these times to continue tenant rights counseling as tenants often given correct information. Landlords sometimes trick them. Sometimes even landlords lawyers tell tenants they have to leave, write them letters in languages they dont understand, or with hope s. F. Properties or others, repairs not made, no matter how many tenants ask for them over and over, and basic calculations over what rent is owed in the past or in the present is often badly calculated, and tenants need help navigating that system. We are part of a network of tenants Rights Groups that do this kind of important outreach and counseling. We really want to make sure that these services continue. We cant even begin to get to mat joert of tenants who need these services. Majority of tenants who need these services. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller . Hello, supervisors. My name is david wu with soma filipinas Cultural Heritage district. Mohcd must take the leads from the organizations on the ground doing the workday in and day out. One proven way to do that yet is underfunded and underresourced is acquiring existing rent controlled buildings. This strategy must be expanded and done directly with Community Based organizations and tenants in impacted communities. Mohcd must support and provide resources for the creation of neighborhoodbased nonprofits who can do this type of work. There also needs to be a meaningful and expanded result of community planning. The dynamic of a toptodown Community Development and Community Stabilization must be referenced. Mohcd must invest in communities, providing resources for them to engage in the Community Development process. These are the types of strategies we are looking at, and we look to all city departments for support in these efforts. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your time. Im with the San Francisco coalition for help and wellness, specifically with the black Led Organization coalition, and what i would like to say is thank you, first, to supervisor walton, supervisor fewer and supervisor ronen responding to our letter, dehad noting that we have equity for blackLed Organizations in this budget process. We would also like to say that no one else, including the mohcd, has responded to us at this point with over a week since we wrote the letter. I understand that director shaw is new, and i understand that you inherited im going to use the colloquial bit of a mess, but i need you to. We will not fight over money, and we will not allow money and funding to divide us any longer. We want this Budget Office and committee to hold accountable the following questions. What percentage of funding goes to black Led Coalitions, what percentage of rent assistance goes to black renters or what percentage specifically goes to black Led Organizations. At this point, we can only attribute this to antiblackness within mohcd, so i respectfully ask that you investigate this, and you do not allow this to continue. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hi, supervisors. My name is alex, and i am the director of Mission Language and Vocational School. I would like to start by saying that im in solidarity with the black coalition who came before the mohcd demanding more income and help for black communities and black led agencies. Black lives matter every single day. The Mission Language and Vocational School was not recommended for funding, and even though weve served as a hub, we are training now essential workers in the health care industry. I would like to thank the supervisors ronen and walton for attending our mission Food Distribution hub during covid19. We continue to each online and virtual classrooms during the pandemic. Some of the some of this training comes from the mohcd Computer Training Program which is required, a required course for the medical assistance and hospitality certification programs. The grant of 50,000 allows us to open an Access Center for youth and those coming out of the justice system. Were asking that mohcd continue to meet the recommendations. L. V. S. Has recently won our building back, and now more than ever we need the city to continue to support these comments. I want to end my comments with black lives matter, and i really hope that mohcd takes that into account. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. This is director of soma filipinas and filipina Cultural Heritage district. I want to acknowledge the point that mohcd has placed for decades in partnering with Community Groups to support new and innovative models for community preservation. 15 years ago, soma group selected mohcd to be home for the soma stabilization fund, and we also picked mohcd to be the Home Department for different cultural districts across the city. Today, were proud to work with eric shaw and were very hopeful that under his leadership and with his background in Community Development and recovery, the community will have a recovery strategy. We hope that other communities that were also recommended for cuts will be made whole. For example, the Filipino Community, there were over 300,000 in cuts recommended in the mohcd fiveyear r. F. P. As you know, the Filipino Community is the community who faced great displacements and we have lost half of our population as we have been priced out of the shopping market. Vital to our survival is the Community Organizations that provide cultural and inlanguage access. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im emma lee, and i am the director of San Francisco rising, and we are a Community Alliance made up of eight organizations. And just testifying today because as the other speakers have already mentioned, the pandemic is hitting communities of color the hardest, and before the crisis, asian, latinx and black families are more likely to be evicted and face disparities than white families. We hope that a Just Recovery will take an equity lens in funding recovery programs for these communities that have been historically marginalized, such as communities of color, the Lgbtq Community and other communities that have been hit hard by covid, such as unhoused residents and people with disabilities. We stand in solidarity with people who lead the black community and black organizations that need to be funded in this moment, especially when the whole population is taking to the streets to demand justice for the murders of george floyd, breonna taylor, and others. We urge that cuts made across the board the board will hurt communities of color the most. Clerk thank you for your call. There are approximately six callers in the queue. Please queue in the next caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you. My name is georgia, and im the executive director of third street youth clinic. First off, i just want to thank our folks on the line who have really been standing with us in solidarity. Lots of love and peace to you all. It really means a lot to us. Couple of things i wanted to highlight is that we are wondering what strategies will mohcd be implementing to increase the rates of black applications for Home Ownership. Of the 9,000 applications received, only 11 were approved. 12 of the 16 latinx folks were accepted for housing. This is unacceptable, and according to the 2019 pit count, over 30 of the Homeless Population in San Francisco is black, and 18 of them are latinx folks, yet they cannot get housing from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. We are looking for answers, we are looking to work with director shaw and staff around making sure that mohcds policies and strategies will be steeped in equity. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hello, caller . Hello. Thank you for holding this meeting. Im with soma filipinas. [inaudible] we are very concerned that even before the pandemic, there were already proposed cuts for mohcd towards filipino organizations. [inaudible] clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hello, caller . Hi. My name is lenna, i am still in my unit because tenant right groups came knocking on my buildings door, when my landlord, one of the largest San Francisco landlords in the city was trying to get us out with misleading information and even harassment. At risk tenants are tricked into moving out if they do not get the correct information, and that is why i believe that outreach is very, very important. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is katrina, and im an attorney at the Filipino Community center. I am born and raised in district nine. With the covid19 pandemic, s. C. C. And other organizations had to make drastic adjustments to be able to work remotely. Every day, we conducted wellness checked over the phone to continue Case Management and recording. While learning news we hear traumatic stories of sheltering in place with abusers, homelessness, racial discrimination, severe food insecurity. As the only filipino district in neighborhood with the largest concentration of filipinos in San Francisco, we set up programs that did not exist before. For example, this is not being met with the same support by city agencies. Neighborhood organizations have been historically underresourced, and this is being brought to light even more in this pandemic. Cuts made across the board will Impact Communities of color the most. We count on the city and mohcd for standing side by side with us to fight trauma during a time like this. This is not the time to cut funding for programs that have been proven to strengthen us which needs to sustaibe sustai with growing investments by mohcd. Clerk the speakers time has expired. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hello. My name is keyonna, and im a volunteer with the San FranciscoHousing Authority for almost two years. Its now more important than ever to help tenants at risk of evictions. They provide counseling for folks across all different types of housing every single type of housing in San Francisco to public housing, s. R. O. S, and many of the other groups that others have mentioned. During my time as a volunteer, ive seen evictions be prevented because of the counseling provided by the housing rights committee. We already have this pandemic, and if more people end up unhoused, that will increase the deadly effects of covid19. To all the supervisors, please keep in mind that the budget is a moral document, and it will reflect who or what you all prioritize, and it will affect the future elections. Please put our black lives services and Community Groups at the forefront. I also stand in solidarity with everyone whos spoken so far, and please help us as they are the reason for many of our black, lgbtq, and just everyone in San Francisco. Theyre the reason that theyre taken care of. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hi. This is jackie white calling. I am the former head of the San FranciscoAmerican Red Cross. I was with the American Red Cross for ten years. I was Public Affairs manager at kpix, and ive worked with a number of nonprofits over the years doing consulting work. One of the things that ive seen over the years working with various organizations is theres been limitied funding, so i stand with the San Francisco black Led Coalition saying do not cut funding for them. The minimal percent that theyre asking is not sufficient. There should be more, and i think you should look at historically what has happened to the black community over the years as it has been ravaged by a lack of proper funding, and that needs to be corrected. They need to be brought up to parity. They need equity, and there needs to be help now. When you look at 9,000 applications and only 11 approved, we need to ask why and what steps can be implemented to keep this moving forward. I commend you, i thank you for the opportunity to speak, but i do think action needs to be taken moving forward and then a retrolook at what was kept from the black community, and that reconciliation should be achieved. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller. Hi. Im sarah susa, and i work at nlvs housing services, assisting monolingual residents in the mission district. [inaudible] for job search for thousands of immigrant families. Our home is essential and, you know, we have complied with other requirements. I am asking you on behalf of our organization to not take this asset from our community. We also stand with the black community to make sure that there is equitable costs in terms of funding allocation. Thank you for this opportunity to speak, and i hope that you reconsider and give us the grant that we need to support our community. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. So my name is francisco decosta, and ive been listening to many of the comments, and i just want to talk about history. That at one time, the army, the department of defense built a lot of homes, okay . And most people who had jobs and lowincome families had good housing till that housing was turned over to the San Francisco housing with the intent of deferring maintenance and ruining the housing. Now they talk about 30,000 homes we built aon Candlestick Point and very contaminated land. What i want yall supervisors to do, i say again and again, is to do a needs of assessment. Theres no history of the housing, and youll just follow what the Developers Want to do, and now, we have families living on the streets of San Francisco in tents, and people are dying. And yall are just beating around the bush, having Public Comment, that people are saying things because you want some help or some you know, they want somebody to solve them, but not you, supervisors, you will not be able to solve it, let me tell you, because you cannot do a needs assessment. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hi there. My name is dina mendoza, and i represent [inaudible]. Prior to the budget, our budget was cut by 38 . [inaudible]. We wish that tenants in the tenderloin and the mission remain houses. [inaudible] so we can continue to do this work. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hello . Clerk hello . Hello. My name is [inaudible]. And im the clinical coordinator for the english technical school. Many students have shared how the Technical Assistance program has changed their life for the better. It is important that we continue to change the lives of the future generation. [inaudible] especially now in light of the hardship and the pandemic. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller. Hi. My name is najeeb crawford, and i am the director of community foundation. Im calling because im concerned how the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development are prioritizing and funding their actions. We all know that the black Community Came to San Francisco in the 50s and 60s en masse and built amazing communities for themselves in the bayview and the fillmore. Because of programs like urban renewal, red lining, and other government sanctioned programs, our communities were stripped from us, our housing was stripped from us. Ten square blocks of fillmore was bulldozed, and the community was forced to live in highrise housing projects built to temporarily housing until the housing was rebuilt and we could move back into the community. That never happened. We have young people finding themselves on the floor in the tenderloin in s. R. O. S. We have thousands of black people thats been impacted by San Francisco housing policies, waiting for years for housing justice, and it seems like the mohcd, its not even on your radar. You know, we have Certificate Holders that are expired, not transferring to their kids, or their kids kids. So now im asking that you prioritize and move it forward; that you make a concerted effort to rehouse the thousands of people that have been unhoused because of San Francisco housing policies. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Operator madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. So now i think in the queue, i have supervisor walton. Supervisor walt