They finally got haengjeong. All they got. Seng gung ho, seng gung seng, the whole dog. Hi, fellow. Go july, get jesse fuller to the tilings. Like you. Now lets start with leadership. First of all, Political Leadership is critical to moving the ball forward in this city. And we want to really thank the mayor and we want to thank the board of supervisors for working together politically to sustain these programs because its taken about five years for us to get to this point. And that could not be done in isolation. So thank you , madam mayor. Thank you, jonah ortega, coeur dalene gang. But we also want to thank our city departments and the leaders from our city departments for the collaboration that theyve done in getting this program to where it is. We want to give a big, big thank you to the Housing Authority led by tanya liturgy and chaired the commission chaired by Joaquin Torres. Thanks for coming out today. We want to give a big thank you to the Mayors Office of housing, eric shaw. And of course, we want to thank the department of building inspection. Who in many ways built the foundation for this program over the long term. All they see are being at pomona or they have been gasoil yapping. Nyala all they get yapping. Im gonna zhong yao tsai they get of my mind. Im gambling get darling lets all day. Lets get on and last but not least and this is critical we know that nothing in this city, nothing in america cant happen without people, without people who are pushing. And so mainly i want to acknowledge the role that the sro families themselves have played in lifting up their stories and being constant vigilant and pushing these programs forward. So a big round of applause to the sro families themselves. Gambler zhongyang ortega. They somehow got my name on cinco de la. Now what milestones are we talking about . So first of all, let me just give a little bit of context. Going into the pandemic, we had estimated about 500 families living in single room occupancy hotels, right. And these are families with children. These are 80 square foot rooms with no private kitchen, no private bathroom. This is not an environment where children should be raised. And for a lot of sro families, this is the only option they have when they start in San Francisco. So that sets the context. The program itself was a combination of portable vouchers and project based vouchers issued by the Housing Authority and the ongoing deep rental Subsidy Program thats administered by the Mayors Office of housing. And in between those two, we were able to move 187 sro families out of homelessness from 2019 until 2023. Thats incredible. Ill pull gamla ortega. For joe cole foong. Gamla covid. Zhuhai edgar yu. Hong kong. Yong hong sila. Hold on. Like cody. Highly gagasi carrington. About go, go, go, go. Joe. Come on. Hold on. Yeti the yeti. Hayati and bojo. Gamla show your face up. Samsung like samsung. I think im a yeti. And not to get competitive here but sorry eric. The Housing Authority was responsible for 133 out of the 187 move outs. So just putting that down, laying a marker and maybe a little friendly competition can even up it more. Okay. So geylang in. Your league or sweet home. So so in terms of data and we have some print outs for press if youd like it later because this will get confusing. Im sure between 2019 and 2023. This program has reduced sro family homelessness less by 37. So weve gone from basically, you know, 500 to almost 220, 230 right now, about 40 of which was done by these programs 16 was done by families themselves looking for options during the pandemic at a time when it was hard to live in an sro. But i think whats more incredible is by june of 2024, were projecting another 76 families moving out, which will mean that this program alone will have cut sro family homelessness in half by june of 2024. Thats incredible. Thats advancement. Thats progress. And what that said. Oh, wait, i guess rachel has. Oh, yeah. Okay so, um, so alexa got denying. Haagendazs. Samsung bagel dialect. Im going to let her back up. Go enjoy. Okay. Ill say sub percent say sub percentage bafanji say sub go gaywyck. Let her bounce. Okay, so yall look sub look, yall. Haley go get gum. Aliagha what you say they. Like. Hey, how you say like how you dont like go bounce. Okay. Thank you. And with that said, im going to hand it over to our citys leader, mayor london. Breed me and go. Well, first of all, i want to thank malcolm and i want to thank the sro collaborate live for all the amazing work that they continue to do to ensure our that families are seniors and so many folks who are in our low Income Community have safe and affordable places to call home. And i want to i thought you were going to interpret me, mason, and i want to just take us back a little bit because this did not happen easily. This happened because, as president biden, when he was first elected, he made the best decision to appoint hud secretary marcia fudge and hud secretary marcia fudge used to not only serve in congress, but she used to be a mayor. And she came to me and asked, well, what can we do to help San Francisco . What can we do to help with the challenging situation around affordability . And i said we need flexible vouchers. We need options to help get people off the streets to help get families moved into something more permanent and sustainable. And she said not only done, but she made it happen for the last couple of years, which has been extremely remarkable role in helping us to not only support these families , but to support so many people, so many individually homeless people, even get off the streets and directly into housing. And let me tell you, it has everything to do with the incredible work of tanya pettigrew and the San FranciscoHousing Authority under the president leadership, Joaquin Torres. And i cannot thank you enough for all the amazing, extraordinary work that you have done to get people housed and to keep them housed. So. And so why are we here today . I met with malcolm a couple of weeks ago from dc and he told me that mayor carr, i couldnt believe he was all excited. And because usually most people, when they meet with me, theyre complaining about something, theyre asking for something wrong. Theyre upset about conditions or what have you. But he said said this is something that ive never experienced for the time that ive been at dc. Dc. Ive never seen anything happen of this significance. The fact that we were able to, with our project based section eight vouchers, with our housing subsidies that he and the collaborative fought for, for the Mayors Office of housing, how we were able to take all of these resources and dramatic quickly, dramatically reduce the population of families who were in crowded, cramped conditions in sros in chinatown was something that he and i think most people have not seen before. And what i appreciate most about just highlighting this experience, is it it shines a light on these people and it shines a light on these families who are living in these conditions, who are not complaining, who are who tend to find sros affordable. And as one of the first places that theyre able to live in community and be a part of the community, but more importantly, what they can afford and the fact that we are able to Work Together to provide Better Living conditions, provide support, not just maintain our sros, but to help transition people into more space. That gives people dignity and the ability to, you know, not have to share a kitchen or not have to go down the hall to use the bathroom and have your own bathroom where you can leave your items. There is nothing like that. And for those of you who dont who have it, its something we take for granted when it doesnt exist. It is really tough and very challenged thing. So this is significant because of the number and by the end of the fiscal year, we expect to reduce that 500 number that malcolm talked about even more and reduce that to 140 families, which we hope to hopefully get to zero. So that we can ensure that folks have have a way to live in dignity, that they have pride in their Living Conditions, that they can participate in their community and not work around their Living Conditions, not make decisions around whos going to use the bathroom today or this hour, or whos going to use the kitchen. And is there a kitchen and what am i going to do with this stuff and that stuff . The stuff that people go through to adjust to their living environment, it makes their life less productive in some ways. The ability for kids to study for their homework and all the Different Things. Again that so many people take for granted. So this is a big deal. Its a big deal because we all Work Together. Our city agency stepped up, our Community Partners stepped up and they made magic happen. So i am grateful. I am excited and im looking forward to this work continuing. But lets be clear. This work does not continue without making sure that we have people here who want to work with us to make it happen. And the fact that we have and i want to reiterate that we have a president and we have a hud secretary that i have a direct relationship with has everything to do with why we were able to make this possible. It has been extraordinary and i am looking forward to doing even more work to continue the progress weve made and to help get families into Living Conditions where they can live good and Thriving Lives that truly represent San Franciscos values at their best. So thank you all so much for being here today. Going. To where we come. Out of my. Time. For python. Dong, dong, dong dong song. Im going to quick limbong song why tongo . Tongo. Tolong. Bondo san fancy dong toy kong. San francisco de haiphong. Toma de moga. Hi. Come come, come. Yamo tong legal. Limbong go. Ho, ho. Come quick. Choi seung choi gangtok come, come. Proyecto title yang xiong yin. Hi dojo kang kigen hoi sum. Hi. Yang zhongjian title. Hi come yip cheong san si. Hi mokin. Go, go, tiger, go san teng. So moga default title lee chong wei. Hi. Hey. Go hi. Hi. San francisco. Kang dong ho bondo. Pawnshop hi. Hi. Tiktok sake. Go a tortuga y. Thank you, madam mayor. This is a true San Francisco success story. All right, next up, we have somebody that needs no introductions in this part of town, for sure, but also somebody whos intimately familiar with this issue. Having been District Supervisor here since 2000 with some interlopers in between. But well forgive them. The president of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin. Would you take it, cmc, would you come. Come recto hi, all the cmc some tamsi thank you, malcolm. To the sro families behind me. Mayor breed to the Housing Authority. Doctor leota zhou and to the president of that body, Joaquin Torres to the head of the Mayors Office of housing, eric shaw. This has been a priority of this community and this supervisor for many, many years and it is important every once in a while to take a moment and acknowledge that we did something right and we got something done and we worked together and this is that moment the mayor thanked and appropriately so, many of the individuals and institutions, including the United States government tonight that helped bring this. So far. But we also need to acknowledge that a light was shined on this and that light was shined by the media. And i want to actually thank and acknowledge judge han lee for the stories that he did in february of this year that made the case for what a super visor and a mayor . No no, a single resident occupancy room is a small room that it is adequate housing. For one person. But absolutely inadequate for a family with children. And when han wrote that story and the mother in that story said through tears that she felt like she was a bad mother because she was raising her children in that 200 square foot room that had an impact on this government. And it was a reminder that we needed to speed it up. We were already moving in the right direction, but that was a reminder that we needed to get those vouchers out the door and those vouchers was because of the process. Those are hard to get out the door. And so i want to acknowledge that were it not for ccdc staff and im talking about juan garcia, we would not have been able to help these individuals apply appropriately. Many of them had applied in the past, but those became stale and they needed to reapply. So i want to thank and acknowledge ccdc and juan and his team. And this is not just a chinatown phenomenon. This is not just a chinese population phenomenon. This applies to multiple races, multiple ethnicities in multiple neighborhoods. So its not only about chinatown. This has brought relief and a quality of life to people in the tenderloin and in the mission. So this is of citywide import, and i want to say that as as malcolm said and as the mayor acknowledged, the role of the sro collaborative is also critical. And by the way, that is, i think the last time i stood with these people in this square is when they were standing up for funding for the sro collaboratives. And i said at that time it was not a want to have, it was a need to have. And that gets me to my last point and sorry, calvin, because youre going to have to translate all of this, which is this situation doesnt get cured once. This is a perennial forever commitment because there are always going to be poor families who are always going to have to be transitioned out in this very expensive town. So weve got to keep the program going. Weve got to have portable vouchers. We have to continue those efforts in our appropriations at the Mayors Office of housing, at the Housing Authority. Our job has only just begun. But i am very proud. We should be very thankful. Thank you, mayor breed. Thank you to the various departments and particular thanks to ccdc and the sro collaboratives. I see some. Heisman some fancy to my wife eloy mantilla. You. Dont give thoughts all day and all the laham. Hi ho topic get get some and bojan the gondola. K mantyla always fancy waffle. Waffle samphan mantyla. Zhongwu gondola samphan yao gondo gigi lindo supinyo guji lingdong i k k k kow toh ho guan li go. Im sorry. Come and all the public. You blah blah wahhab say fema okay, come on tang tong. Or do you think the hall may be sansheng soy . Okay. What do you think you d. O. J. All the k k k. How could they help . Totally. To care . Fong leng dong tong hongyi for gambling. Fong okay. 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Xie fushimi fong okay fong yi sifu see me younger fonzo sam zhou zhihua fong fong hong kong face and lindsey toilet they found mo ye senpai chong san jojo, yin yang , gong yong Chow Chee Yong san toy tang hao. Okay you fan ye yellow tapatio for okay. Okay hong yi zhou yi jin san san fong sang yao fong fong see . Okay. Tang yi fan enjoying han fei hung fong. Tecumseh. See tam see sassy san fong departing from okay. Kaira mojito one giraffe ferguson fong yang so you for okay or hey mao zedong see tam guangdong tai. Fan for off platform bay san fong garden guy cinco fong one ken doordash. Hello everyone. My name is yang fan li and our three generation family used to live in an sro in chinatown. Im very grateful for the support of San FranciscoHousing Authority mayor breed and supervisor peskin for allocating section eight vouchers for the sro families. As my family was fortunate to receive a section eight voucher and we are now moved to an apartment with much Better Living conditions than our previous sro as a family with extremely low income, we could not afford the expensive rent. Previously our three generation family could only rent an sro unit in chinatown that was less than 100ft s. The space was extremely cramped and with no room for a desk and my son had to do his homework while lying on the bed. We all had to share one kitchen and toilet and bathroom for every 20 households on our floor. And we had to wait in line every day. When my son returned from school, he often had to wait until very late to have a meal. Now, with the section eight housing voucher, my family can finally live in a space with our own toilet and kitchen. My son has his own room with a desk and he can now enjoy a hot meal. As soon as he returns from school. This housing opportunity has changed our lives and i will be forever grateful for it. I would i would like to thank the San FranciscoHousing Authority mayor breed and supervisor peskin for their support of our families. I know that there are still many families in chinatown who are in need of this housing voucher. Please continue to support our families to improve their Li