Minimum established by state law provides. And im really worried that if San Francisco does not catch up on all of the Housing Demand created by all the jobs that have been created in your city, its going to deeply impact my neighbors and push folks out here. You cant find a twobedroom apartment for less than 3,000 a month. Every year that goes by the area Median Income for San Mateo County goes up and up as more of our residents are displaced. It is directly a result of not building enough marketrate housing in San Francisco where the jobs are. 75,000 san mateo residents commute to your city every day in normal times. Im sure that similarly large numbers commute from the east bay as well. It is crucial that you make space to allow these folks to be able to live in your city. I take you all at your word that you care about lowincome people. I think that this is the wrong approach. If you look at the resolution it talks about 49,000 residents who are rent burdened. They are by definition living in marketrate housing. It would be great if the highly paid workers that are competing with them for marketrate housing had brandnew units with a lot of amenities to move into, instead of bidding up prices for older ones. Please take a different approach and please build enough housing for everyone. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Hello, caller, if youre there just start speaking. Caller i am sitting here and i cannot handle the First Amendment violations that i see you, miss calvillo pulling on the woman attempting to speak on illegal aliens. She has a right to speak and it is not your job to decide what is and is not offensive speech. If she wants to use slurs, she can. You wouldnt cut me off for being deaf, would you . This board needs to stop taking bribes. We need to get some of you out of office, especially you, aaron peskin. Nothing but a sellout cunt. Clerk yeah, Public Commenters may not make discriminatory or harassing remarks that have anything to do with harassing City Employees based on race, color, ancestry or National Origin i could go on and on. Operations, next caller, please. Caller okay. Whew. I spent so much time waiting. Hello, supervisors. My name is make che mike chen ae resolution 16. Im a renter living in district 2. And, you know, its been interesting because for a long time people have argued that adding more housing supply increases demand or increases the ability of the people to move into San Francisco. And the data has shown that demand is not constant there. And other things like the supply of jobs that and the ability of people to live in the city and the desire. The marketrate rents have fallen but its still very high, still around 3,000 average. And thats prohibitive. And for someone like me who was a gay asian person born in ohio who wanted a place where he could feel like he was at home, you know, 3,000 is still tough to move to. And its and we need to really think about that weve had 40 years of marketrate housing emergency, because the emergency act was passed in 1979. And thats also coincided with about 35 years of underbuilding housing. Its not just about this pandemic, but its thinking about the next 40 years who we are as a city and who wants to live here and making sure that were the most inclusive place that we can be. And the marketrate housing is a major funder for Affordable Housing as people have said. And it does not have to displace or have pressures if it goes into sensitive communities. San francisco is not a giant sensitive community. If you look at the prices, like presidio heights, the prices go over 2 million. And the prices in the sunset, and over 1. 4 million. We can put marketrate housing in these neighborhoods without displacing people. And that marketrate housing can then fund Affordable Housing for people in sensitive communities. So i really urge you to think about the consequences of doing this. We have clerk thank you for your comments. All right, operations, lets hear from the next caller. I believe that we have five in the queue and were going to take this group to the very end unless you are in line you are one of the group in line, press star, 3, now and otherwise well take this group to the very end. Welcome, caller. You have up to two minutes. Caller okay, thank you. My name is philip and im a renter in district 8. Im calling to oppose supervisor mars resolution. Unfortunately, i listened to parts of the Republican National convention the other week, and if you heard any of that, or have heard the news on that, you may have heard people saying things like keeping out apartments from their neighborhoods. And something that the president is promoting. I have to say that it is very distressing to hear our board of supervisors echo some of the policies that i heard from the president at the Republican National convention. I also want to make the point that its really a fundamental policy failure that marketrate apartments are not the more Affordable Housing option. And everywhere else in the country, they have more Affordable Housing and you live in an apartment. But that seems to not be the case here in San Francisco. And there are a lot of solutions to deal with our housing crisis. Im sure that theres lots of inventive ways to come up with more funding for subsidized Affordable Housing, which we should absolutely do. But denying that building more marketrate housing is a part of the solution really just denies the existence of the problem in my mind. And to the regional aspect, if we want others to build more housing regionally, which is, again, absolutely something that we should do every city has a role in fixing our regional crisis, what signal are we send figure were saying that we need to stop building here . It says to other folks they can stop too. So San Francisco has led by example on so many great progressive values and we should continue to lead on this one. So thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller well, thank you for taking the time. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, yes, we can. Welcome. Caller okay, yes. I was unmuted at the beginning and i waited all of this time. I am Madeleine Mcmillian and i live in district 2. I am a very tough Tenant Association member as well as a sciu 1021 union member. And im calling in support of supervisors peskins right to organize for tenants. I feel that i am also a San Francisco native and i feel that tenants should be able to organize and to talk with their neighbors and negotiate with their landlords. Whether negotiating payment plans or rent reductions or just living conditions. I feel like Tenant Associations need to have a seat at the table in making decisions about where we are living in our homes and the conditions. I also feel like our Tenants Association cant get to the table if the laws do not recognize us. And we need to be able to negotiate whe with our landlord. My landlord will not come to the table with the Tenant Association. So, again, i am in support of supervisor peskins right to organize for tenants. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller good evening, supervisors. My name is jordan grimes. And so im disappointed but somehow not surprised that the board is considering this motion. I have a few thoughts that id like to share. The first is that San Francisco somehow become indiscernible without anyone noticing . The request under rhna, and its been every cycle in recent memory. I cant believe that San Francisco would want to put itself in lead with palo alto, but maybe they want to be seen this way. And wealthy cities have gone above and beyond their above marketrate housing goals. And some by 2600 , and the other by 600 . The rhna goals dont make you special or mean that youre doing well on market production. And third, marketrate housing is a Harm Reduction and can reduce displacement, including with a study from the antidisplacement project, berkeley. And i will say that as someone who considers themselves a socialist and i mention it because i know that supervisor peskin called me a libertarian, which is is fine thats fine its not accurate but its fine i too would love to expropriate the vacant units and have stronger rent controls and build mixed income housing. In will that blessed day comes, people are harmed by not building enough housing, including marketrate housing. The wealthy people who move here for highpaying jobs do not leave if theres not enough housing. They drive up prices for everyone else. And we should upzone areas and set a high rate, which we have done, and get rid of bear areas like discretionary review. And one thing i want to leave with you, for the first time san may theysanmateo county clerk operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller good afternoon, evening, supervisors. Corey smith on behalf of the San Francisco housing coalition. Urging you to reject item 16. Because it will make building Affordable Housing harder in San Francisco. Since 2015, inclusionary units have accounted for 1,700 new affordable homes. Thats about 35 ever the housing built in that time period. Over the same period of time, 350 milliondollars have been paid in fees for 100 Affordable Housing. What this resolution is effectively saying is that all housing should be built as a right, except for th mixed incoe housing. And if we want indiscernible it doesnt make any sense. Senate bill 828 went through the legislature and senate bill 35 went through the legislature. And the democratic process and the outcome is requiring cities across the state to have a higher target than if theyre not able to meet those rhna targets, the process to approve housing in those cities should be streamlined. So this idea that we have a dilemma between the market rates and affordable and saying that we must choose one, doesnt make any sense. Its impractical. Marketrate units create and fund affordable ones and supporting this is saying that the building the maximum amount of affordable units is not helping San Francisco. I urge you to reject the resolution. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hi, im john posco from district 4. I urge to you reject item 16. San francisco absolutely needs more greenhousing and housing in all forms. I urge you to reject this resolution. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hello, my name is ted rackhall and i have been in San Francisco since 1973, live in district 4. And im calling in to support supervisor mars resolution. We absolutely do not need more marketrate housing. Its been overbuilt to 140 . What we need is moderate and below moderate housing so that we can have homes for our artists and our musicians, Service Workers, health care workers, and for these reasons i believe that you should pass supervisor mars resolution. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller good afternoon. My name is greg miller and i strongly support resolution 16 by supervisor mar. I have a background in banking and as far as i can see, producing an overabundance of marketrate housing does little or nothing to support the production of lowerincome housing and Affordable Housing for people who need it. As a matter of fact, the building out of all of these marketrate units basically ends up displacing the kinds of homes that people can afford. So, please support this. And stop supporting the neoliberal fiction that somehow we can produce marketrate housing simply by taking a few pennies off of the profits of the developers and giving them their sway on everything in the city. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is tyler and i live in d4 and i call to oppose supervisor mars proposal. Many people have already called in to voice their opposition and they covered everything that i was going to say. So with that in mind ill say this im tired of hearing supervisors talk about the problems in other cities or what other cities are or are not doing. You are elected to serve San Francisco so stop blaming other cities for problems that you were elected to solve. Lets cut the crap. Lets just upzone San Francisco. I dont care if its market rate or affordable, lets build more housing and not these squabbles. So, please, do not vote for this. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hi. Calling again, not exactly in support. Essential not in op certainly not in opposition. I am an organizer in district 3. A lot of the commenters here say that we need to build Housing First for the most vulnerable san franciscans and we need Public Housing that suffers as reparations for black and brown communities who left because they cant afford old marketrate housing and they cant afford new marketrate housing. But i do feel that we have not had an honest conversation about how much is contingent on the marketrate Housing Construction. We are leaving our communities in the dark by not being honest about promises that we cant keep because at the end of the day our land trust and subsidized funding is dependent on construction to finance the lowincome units through a ridiculous means tested system. As a former financial professional and a current tenant organizer, i feel that were giving the conversation to neoliberals, by pretending that we have a financing that is independent of marketrate financing when we actually dont. Were letting those people eat our lunch. We need to look this in the face. We need to come up with creative solutions. We need to talk about consistent sources of funding through income and very much property before we make determinations to cut marketrate allocations. And we should. I absolutely believe that we should, and it pains me to say this as a socialist. I dont believe in filtering, i dont believe in trickledown economics. But i believe that the funding question has become so opaque to the public that we need to have a more intelligent conversation about rhna allocations and about how much of our funding for subsidized housing is unfortunately currently determined by marketrate highend luxury housing. Before we can have a meaningful conversation about how to change that. And so i really hope that people think about how we change that. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. President yee thank you. Thank you for the comments. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Okay, madam clerk, lets call the reference in item 16 through 19. Clerk item 16 through 19 were introduced for adoption without committee reference, a unanimous vote is required for adoption of resolutions today on First Reading. Any supervisor may require a resolution on First Reading to go to committee. President yee colleagues, anyone want to discuss any of these items . Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar item 16, please. President yee supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin item 17 please, mr. President. President yee saf supervisor safai supervisor safai for item 19. President yee madam clerk, call roll call on number 18, please. Clerk on item 18, [roll call] supervisor mar, aye. And i will state for the public listening this is a resolution to proclaim september 15th, 2020 as Affordable Housing week. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin . Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor stefani. I believe that supervisor stefani hello. Aye. Clerk on item 18, stefani, aye. Supervisor walton. Walton, aye. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer, aye. Supervisor haney. Haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, go ahead and call item number 16. Clerk item 16 to urge the association of bay area governments in its upcoming Regional Housing needs allocation process to focus on San Franciscos unmet needs for housing affordable to lowand moderate income residents and to main the rhna allocation level of above moderate housing in San Francisco. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you for your time and consideration of this resolution and thank you to my cosponsors, supervisors ronen and walton and preston and fewer and mandelman and peskin. And finally thank you to everyone who spoke during Public Comment today and previously and who also emailed us on such an important process in our region. We need to prioritize actually addressing the Housing Affordability needs of our residents. That begins with setting the right goals. While consideration of this resolution has been more complex and longer than i had anticipated, i believe that it is imperative that we get the framework and our goals right and that there are consensus