Volunteer at San Franciscos Suicide Prevention and i see callers call in regularly about the distress theyre going through because of the inability to afford housing or living on the street because theyre homeless and also on a personal level because my mom, my mother is a recipient of low Income Housing in washington state. Without this ability for her to qualify or not having a place for her to stay, i dont know how i personally would be able to help or support her as im the only family she has here in the country. I think about it as racist, it is not okay and its inhumane. There is no excuse for us not to provide options for everybody and the solutions should not be if you dont like it, go somewhere else. Thank you so much for your support and that is all. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker . Hi, this is munoz, calling from district five. I want to thank supervisor preston for introducing this ballot proposition. I am in strong support of municipal social housing here in San Francisco. I want to point out the cities that supervisor preston mentioned modeled around the world, vienna, singapore, barcelona has a density that we dont see in neighborhoods of San Francisco. Did you know that San Francisco among other large American Cities was a victim of red lining, which is a racist policy that essentially did not allow black and brown folks from acquiring housing in exclusionary whiter, higher income neighborhoods. Red lining still shines today. So i love for the board to add the next step, look into 100 Affordable Housing overlay for the entire city, including Single Family home zones. A lot of our Rapid Transit in San Francisco is adjacent to Single Family and duplex buildings, which unfortunately doesnt work for Public Housing. As we seen, Public Housing does require a level of density to allow enough space for everybody to live comfortably in a city like San Francisco. So again, i am in strong support and i cant wait to see article xxxiv repealed because its incredibly racist. We have to couple this social housing plan with the space to plan for the housing and it has to exist all over San Francisco, not just in waste dumps like we saw in the bay view plan where the land there was radioactively poisoned and were building tons of housing there and avoiding places like glenn park. Its important that we look thank you, speaker time as elapsed. Can we have the next speaker please . Hi, good morning supervisors. My name is tessa. I live in district five and work in district six. I lived here for 23 years. Im a doctor and therapist. Im particularly aware of how much of an impact this has had on black and brown people in our community. Im a member of San Francisco burning crest. This ordinance will overcome a racist barrier to municipally owned social housing with the support of segregationists which allow municipalities to exclude low income tenants and people of color, including black tenants. San francisco will lay the ground work for a pilot Municipal Housing program that will address our homeless crisis and serve the needs of the citys working and middle classes from i think its important that we have different classes and races here within the city otherwise we will all suffer. I want to live in an inclusive city. We need a diversity of class and race. Please recommend this ordinance to the full board so we can move towards guaranteeing Affordable Housing for all. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. Thank you. I will note that members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 146, 308, 2077. Then press pound and pound again. If you have been already done so, press star three to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comment. We currently have 12 people in line to speak at this time. Can we have the next caller . Good morning supervisors, my name is angie. I live in San Francisco in district two and im a middle School Science teacher. Im calling in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing. Its been wonderful to hear so much support from the supervisors and so many other callers today. Most of what i had wanted to say has already been said. I will add a couple of things. We see in schools the negative impact of unstable housing in the city and you know, a lot has been said about homelessness, gentrification displacement. With this ordinance we can overcome our relic of the red lining era and end the displacement of people of color from San Francisco and in terms of the environment, you know, were facing not only a housing crisis but an environmental crisis. The board passed the requirement of Municipal Construction be all electric. This would include all housing built through this program, the Pilot Program will focus initially on the acquisition of buildings, which is more environmentally friendly than construction and much faster by adding new housing, as well as providing displacement. This will help reduce commute times and prevent Greenhouse Gas emissions. By approving this ordinance, the board will show leadership and adjust the roots of our housing crisis and pave the way for affordable Municipal Housing programs. Please recommend this ordinance to the full board of supervisors and thank you for your support. Thank you, can we have the next speaker . Good morning chair ronen and supervisors. I want to thank supervisor preston and all the cosponsors for your support of the motion ordering an ordinance be submitted to the voters on november 3rd authorizing the city and county to rehabilitate up to 10,000 affordable rental units in the city under article xxxiv of the california constitution. Voter approval of this companion ballot measure is essential to clearing the way currently blocked by arbitrary law at the state level, to grant our city the authority to provide desperately Municipal Housing. I echo the words of several Public Commenters today. Its about time. Its about time to create equity in our housing policy. Thank you. Thank you. This resulted in what we have now and the policies of the Social Security administration was that people must be housed and if they couldnt get the housing on their own, we had to get payees to get them housing. We didnt get out to expect them to find it. Housing was a human right like water and we didnt have to discuss it then and the fact is that right now, the sites are being approved by the city for condos rapidly. A couple years ago, the housing, david baker, were already to build on a site that is now condos and i had a couple ad hoc meetings and thats what they wanted to see there and im certainly hoping this will happen. The bad conditions of Public Housing, it wasnt like that in buffalo when i worked there. That was the result of complete neglect. Speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker im with the coalition of slashing the San FranciscoPolice Department budget and i would like to implore the board to not only excuse me. I would like to note i will pause your time at this moment. I would like to note that were discussing item number 2 on the agenda which is authorizing the development of up to ten thousand units. I understand. Were not discussing the Police Department item under this matter. So i will restart your time. If you would like to make comments on item number 2, please. Please proceed. Speaker ill call back, thank you. Thank you, the next speaker, please. Speaker good morning, supervisors and thank you, thank you, thank you for this breathtaking ordinance which i hope flies through the process. My name is evi posmentre, i counsel for the Housing Rights Committee and i am a member of faith in action and its truly great to be sanfranciscans today. At last, we are make a one and first bold step towards achieving racial equity. Im very concerned, also, as a senior and a person with a disability, im concerned and hopeful that our seniors will remain in dignified and safe housing which i think this ordinance will provide. Thank you, thank you again. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Speaker hello. Hi, please proceed. Speaker im kathy livkcom and im a maternal of district 8. Imember of district 8. This is , article 34, ballot measure to the transfer tax. And in preparing for my remarks, i looked at the board of supervisors budget and legislative Analysis Office report that was issued last year and it spells things out clearly and i quote, we need to plan for an additional 9300 Affordable Housing units, three times the number of approved units in the citys pipeline, to keep up with the rise of lowwage jobs expected over the next six years, end quote. And so, apparently, for every highwage job, theres an 18to 20hour position doing Security Work for office buildings, cleaning homes and driving uber. And so we know very well who is forced to sleep in their cars or drive 60 miles from antioc everyday to get to work because they cannot find a place to live in San Francisco. Such a situation is morally out of whack and unsustainable. Lets change that and start on the path to social housing. We can make history this way and i would like to thank all of the supervisors who are presently in support and i hope that every single one of them joins in this effort to win this in november. Thank you for listening. Thank you. I would like to state if you have not spoken yet, please star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, wait until the system is unmuted. We currently have six people in line to speak. May we have the next speaker. Speaker hi, im asher. Good morning, everyone. I live and work in San Francisco, district 7 and i go to school at city college in San Francisco. Im calling in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing and i dont need to tell you right now we have had an Affordable Housing crisis for decades that disproportionate impacts folks who are, you know, not white, not upper class or middle class and thats going to get even worse with the pandemic and recession incoming. Being a student at city college, ive seen the best and brightest of my generation, to deal wit hurdles caused by the history of San Franciscos racist redlining and not only that, its time, like, with this history, that the city ha has wh the progressive policy to implement this solution to work towards gaining sole access to necessary needs and proximity to education and healthcare, Public Transit and groceries and so, i just want to say thank you for the support and San Francisco has an opportunity to become a leader with the Municipal Housing programs in america that will address our housing crisis and serve the needs people working in midclass. Thank you very much. Thank you, can we have the next caller. Speaker im mark and i live in San Francisco and i would like to give you some rhetorical points to consider because i understand youre all in support of this. But weve been looking at this horrendous housing crisis situation here for pretty much forever here in San Francisco. So here is what you have to understand. There are approximately 100 billionaires Walking Around the streets of San Francisco. And, yet, this city is degrading to the point where its becoming unlivable for most people. San francisco was once known as a city of the Golden Gate Bridge and trolley cars and all that stuff. Well, guess what . If you go around the world and you talk to anyone and say, youre from San Francisco, guess what the first thing is out of their mouth . What the hell is up with all of those Homeless People on the street . And you know why theyre saying that . Because thats all they see. Entire swaths of this city have been taken over by encantmen of Homeless People. It is sick. It is unhumane an inhumane, exe ones at the top and even theyre complaining, because they have to move their offices to other cities and everyone has to leave. This is a crisis. I dont care that youre in support of it. Nothing has happened. Time should be running around like your hair is on fire. We have a crisis and this is city is known globally as the laughing stock. It is the laughing stock of the world, the city in which you have ultra rich, the richest in the world, in a growing mass of Homeless People shooting up on the street, clearly dealing drugs and clearly suffering from mental illness, in a scale unheard of worldwide. Ladies and gentlemen, you have the laughing stock of the world, the laughing stock of the world. Do i think you should do something about it . Hell, yeah thank you. The next speaker, please. Speaker hi there, everybody. Im otto, im the resident of district 10 and thank you for listening to all of us speaking and i just wanted to briefly add my support to agenda item number 2. Im sure everybody listening to this chat knows better than i do that the current model of mixed housing is just by no means going to solve what we have happening and i think were building 1. 5 times the market rate housing that we need and less than a fifth of the Affordable Housing we need. And yeah, i believe very firmly that socialized housing is the only meaningful solution. I look around the city and the only communities of workingclass people, of africanamericans and immigrants that i see that have the facility are the cooperative housing that we already have, although not created by the city, like over in japan town. So, i dont want to speak too much, but i want to think everybody for putting this together and putting forth my extreme support and i hope everyone will do the same. Thank you. Thank you, next caller, please. Hi, may we have the next speaker . Speaker can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please proceed. Speaker good morning. I live in the San Francisco district 6 and i work for sunnyville Community Services emergency nonprofit emergency food and Financial Assistance during this crisis. I know that all of you are in support of bringing this ordinance to the full board but im calling to add my name to the board to create social housing and doing something to make housing a human right. My only complaint is that the proposed number is so much smaller than what weve been hearing is the perspective number. Working in sunnyville, the small municipality knows what is going on in a larger scale. Despite the moratorium on evictions, i know lowincome and immigrant families are strongarmed in illicit removals. This is stacked against lowincome families, fully exacerbated by the pandemic. It shouldnt be up to private nonprofits to dole out nonfinancial aid. We need a real solution that makes sure everybody has the housing they need and not worrying about spending more than half of their income on having a roof over their head. This wilthis was passed in 1950h the support of segregationists to allow municipalities to exclude lowincome tenants and people of colo, particularly black tenants. The board will show leadership in addressing the housing crisis and pave the way for permanently affordable Municipal Housing. Thank you. Toucan we have the next caller. Speaker can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please proceed. Speaker thank you so much. Im zach collinde resource. R. I live in San Francisco in the tenderloin and im calling in support to authorize the city to create social housing. We have had an Affordable Housingrise for decades and this is threatening many with eviction and homelessness. In the tenderloin and across our city, we are not meeting the most fundamental need for secure and stable housing and we are specifically failing our black and brown neighbors and lowincome tenants. We need a com par compassionate equitable solution. This can address our hopelessneshomelessness and secs and we need to meet the city towards policies of antiracism. We know when using the more more comprehensive accountant, there are many on the streets indiscernible . Black people are in 6 of the general population of the city and we know that threequarters had housing in San Francisco before becoming homeless and jo. Lastly, this is very aligned with the Housing First approach granting stability and the basic need of a home before anything else. And weve been doing trickledown econ