[indiscernible] from the state of california, so a really amazing line up of speakers. I want to say that, passion and determination patience are what the residents and the community have shown for more then a decade while participating in the creation and evolution of the plan not just for housing, but also for jobs, for services, for families, for children all here at sunnyvale. And while it is incredible to see and celebrate the progress, which we are doing today, we know there is a lot of work that still needs to be done, and in fact, work being done in the background behind us. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done and we are here for it and hope you are all too. We do want to take a minute to celebrate this really important milestone. We are celebrating the construction of two hundred percent Affordable Apartment communities together will provide 170 new homes, including 127 that will be set aside for the sunnydale residents. And amazingly, this is not just housing. We also will have 24 thousand square feet of ground floor space that will house vital resources, including child care, health and wellness, neighborhood serving retail and that is in addition to the 30 thousand square feet right next door under construction at the hub, so incredible resources here at sunnydale. And it is windy. Turning my page for me. Alright. I do want to acknowledge that this development would not be possible without so many of you. Pat yourselves on the back. There are so many people who have given so much time, energy and commitment to this Development Starting with the San FranciscoMayors Office of housing and Community Development. Thank you all so much. You know who you are, but in case [calling names] [applause] and of course, the San FranciscoHousing Authority, dr. Tonia. Linda masonboard of commissioners including Joaquin Torres we saw here behind me. Thank you again for all that you have done for this project and our partner. I am reallyi am honored [indiscernible] im too. Nothing to do about that. Im honored to be standing here with doug. Doug and i have known each other for i dont know, 25 years. We have been in and around this industry, and it has been so rewarding to really lean into something that we both feel passionately about and think is so important. Im so imprezed and amazing by doug and the entire mercy team. Cannot thank them enough. Im looking at ramey who moved on, but still her heart is here and gave so many years and commitment. Elizabeth, ashley, Claire Murphy as well as the entire mercy Real Estate Development team, Property Management and the community leaf team. Thank you all so much. It is a honor to partner with you. I will turn it over to doug to say a few words. [applause] ann and i have dueling script s. Nobody knows what will happen today. I will return the complement. When mercy housing california years ago decided we were interested in trying to work with the residents, we knew it will be a struggle to do this, not alone because there are so many other folks involved, but jean reached out to bill whity here. He was a teenager at the time, and said, do you want to work on this with us and for whatever reason bill said yes, and so the partnership has been great. I also want to thank ann and bill and the other folks on the related team. It hasyou cant imagine how much work goes go into these projects and developments so it is a real team effort. Just really thrilled we are here today. Im very excited. And keep looking over there at the center at the hub and getting more and more excited about the opening that, so i just also want to thank all the city folks here today. Well be introducing a couple of them in a second, but it is a unbelievable amount of work for all the parties involved. I see the mayor breed is not yet arrived, which means that we have the opportunity to introduce supervisorsorry, senator wiener. Dueling scripts. Here we go. I am so honored to introduce our very first speaker. I had the pleasure introducing senator scott wiener in the past and feel i never do him justice because he is that amazing but ill try again. Senator was elected in 2016 and reelected in 2020. And he represents the 11 sinatorial district. Senator scott wiener worked tirelessly on so many very important causes, transportation, lgbtq, criminal justice reform, clean energy, poverty eleaveiation and most important to many isthey are all very important, but housing. He chairs multiple communities including the Senate Budget committee so important now and authored 75 bills that have been signed into law. He is so productive in sacramento. Thank you. Among the recently passed bills isi know, yes. [applause] im not naming all 75, but among the recently passed bills, sb4 [indiscernible] the landmark laws of sb35 and sb43 which has changed the landscape of entitlement for housing and resulted in thousands of new affordable homes. Some that are now being occupied by residents instead of on the planning books, so it has been a huge change. We are so grateful. Please join me in welcoming, senator scott wiener. [applause] thank you thank you ann. Always happy to stand in for the mayor. So, i love coming down to sunnydale to see the progress and i go out of my way to do it, because im so excited about this project. Yes, the buildings that we are talking out today, but the entire master plan for whats happening here. The housing, retail, the community, support services. The hub is so exciting. When the state still had money, which we dont anymore, hopefully temporarily, but when we had money we were able to get 5 million from the state to support the hub, which is just to me so essential in terms of the health of the community for young people for older people, allowing people to be physically active and have a place to go. It is super exciting. And of course, i love this project because it is lots of new housing and i love anything that adds a lot of new homes. Im for it. It is fantastic, but what is exceptionally exciting about sunnydale project at large, i think a lot of times some of the fights we have around housing is there is sometimes a perception that housing like is being put in not for the people who live there, and we can have all our discussions about the overall Housing Market and building more homes is a good thing, period, but sometimes there is that tension and that frustration like, how is it going to benefit our existing community. And this project is such a Perfect Blend of adding a lot new housing and lot of new capacity period for a lot of people, including people who dont live her now or born yet but intentionally and directly benefiting the local community. Benefiting the residents of Public Housing who have struggled for so long in Public Housing that is simply not up to par. Benefiting the young people and older people who are here and need recreation, directly benefiting the local community in a very specific and tangible way, while also helping the city of San Francisco meet our very ambitious housing goals and just putting the city on a more solid footing with housing. Lastly, i just want to say that, our south eastern neighborhoods and supervisor walton and i had many conversations about this as i did with supervisor cohen, before when we served together on the board of supervisors, south eastern neighborhoods have been just so neglected for so many years, and you know, it needs to end. I think it is ending. We are seeing much more focus on the need of this community. It is a essential part of San Francisco, of the fabric of our city and long past due for us to be making these incredibly important investments, so congratulations to everyone and just very very exciting. Thank you. [applause] thanks so much senator wiener. It is also my pleasure to introduce someone who doesnt need much introduction in this neighborhood. Very well known from time as president of the board of supervisors, district 10 supervisor and well known to the Community Long before that for his work as a non profit leader working on jobs, Community Development and really every issue that facing these communities. He dedicated his life improving the communities particularly of southeast and proven track record for positive change. Needs no introduction, supervisor shamann walton. [applause] thank you doug. Good morning once again, it is no surprise the sun is shining in the southeast sector of San Francisco. Since the early start of the millenia, we had several conversations about what it would look like to rebuild in sunnydale to make sure that the community had the housing that it deserves. Obviously that conversation is also a big part of hope sf and making sure that all our major Housing Developments in the southeast sectorer were revitalized so folks could have the homes they deserve. So, we are here again really just to celebrate another milestone and fulfilling a promise. We said that we would build new housing. We said that folks wouldnt get this place. We said we would bring an amazing facility to community where young people would actually have a place to go. Often times people get frustrated with the youth and they talk about the fact that they may hang out in areas where typically people dont think young people should be, but they never put their money where their mouth is, so i want to thank senator wiener, i want to thank mercy, i want to thanki want to thank of course the folks in community who really worked hard to make sure that we could realize the space where our young people would actually have a opportunity to thrive, poorticipate in activities, participate in programs right in their very own community. If you look at the building that is being built, the hub, if you look at the new housing, you can kind of get a feeling and understanding that people were not coming to the table to say they are getting things done but working together to make it happy. Im happy to be here with all of you today. We are not finished yet. There is still much more work to do, but most certainly over the course of the next couple years we will see a vibrant space in sunnyvale in the heart of the community so thank you for your work and participation and thank everybody not just coming out today, but continuing to understand how important it is to make sure that folks thrive here in sunnydale and in the southeast, because so goes district 10, so goes San Francisco. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. [applause] thank you so much supervisor. Now it isbefore i introduce mayor breed, as i said, ann and i work different scripts and forgot to mention something very important, which is our staff works Work Together with the resident to try to figure what the two buildings should be named and i think naming has a incredible importance and tells you where people are from and what peoples history are and where people are going so the residents came up with these names and ultimately voted for them so happy to announce these two buildsings are called nia, swahili for purpose and [indiscernible] swahili for peace. Give it up for the residents. I think it will be fantastic. P [applause] with that, my honor to bring up mayor breed. Obviously the mayor of San Francisco. Shes been working on just like the supervisor for years back as a district supervisor, a Redevelopment Agency commissioner. She has been working on issues of housing, Community Development, economic insocial security all her life and career. Unbelievable champion of the work we do here and also particularly of the work in Public Housing, so with that i bring you mayor london breed. [applause] okay. It is a little windy, so bear with me, because i dont want my hair whipping all over my face i am so excited to be here, because it has been a Long Time Coming and i when i say a Long Time Coming, even before i was mayor, a lot of the work that the community here in sunnydale wanted to do to help address the conditions that they were living in it, was a ongoing battle and i remember there was hope 6, and hope 6 promise to rehabilitate Public Housing all over San Francisco and at the time, i remember the director ronnie davis and i was living in plaza east Public Housing when we were given all of this hope of rehabilitation and investment and then the money ran out. Gavin newsom was at the mayor at the time where he made a commitment to create a program called, hope sf. Even though the funds to rehabilitate Public Housing were not longer completely available from the federal government, he made a commitment from the city and county of San Francisco to put together all the state, federal, local resources to fulfill the promises we were making and ed lee came along and said enough of new promises, lets work hard fulfilling the old promise s and when i came along, one of the first budget or i forget which speeches i gave was here in sunnydale to make a commitment that we were going to make sure that we did everything we can to deliver on that promise, but also work hand in hand with the community to do it. This is a Long Time Coming and there is a lot of blood and sweat and tears to get to this point, and i couldnt be more excited and proud to be here with so many people who have had a real Important Role in helping us to get there. It does start with the residents and the people who live here and the people who lived here when it was problematic to the people who are still here, larry, who are a part of the solution to make it happen. We are finally getting to a better place, not only the 222 units that have already been completed but 170 units we are topping off today to make sure there is a real one for one replacement to support the existing community in sunnyvale. [applause] but, having housing is just one part of it. Making sure that the amenities, the grocery store, well ness center, child care and i got to say, you go, working with mercy and working with related has been different for this project more then anything else. They have made it very personal and they have gone out of their way to not only help us to raise the private dollars necessary to get this project done and the Community Center we are seeing here today built, they actually put up Financial Resources themselves so i really want to thank bill whity and related for their work and advocacy to help invest in this project, and to thank mercy and doug for all of the work that they did as partners to really get us to this point. Thank you for being more then Just Developers but being a important part of the fabric of making sure we have the Financial Resources to get the job done. [applause] and of course, success has many parents, because there is a lot of money that is needed to get it done. Between supervisor shamann walton, senator scott wiener from the state and also one of my favorite people from the stateim talking about him, because let me tell you, San Francisco is very expensive to build, and we need a lot of tax credit, state resources. We need a real partner in this work, and he understands the importance of getting the job done. He has done incredible work hand in hand with the city and county of San Francisco not just in this project, but also through the pandemic where there were serious challenges around housing and we want to appreciate you because we wouldnt have been able to get the all most 5 thousand affordable unit we have been able to build since i have been mayor, we would not have been able to do that if not for your leadership and the governor at the state level so thank you so much gustauvo. I think there is a bunch of other folks who need to speak, but im so happy to be here. I dont know what to do. This is a Long Time Coming and i am so grateful to each and every one of you, whether niby, whether the community, whether the boys and girls club, whether it is all the folks who are part of the community. This is extraordinary. I want to give a shout out to Housing Authority. Tonia has been able to work with our hud secretary who we brought out here at one point. She just retired, former mayor my friend marsha fudge who made a commitment to section 8 vouchers for this project. All the things that had to happen to make this pencil out to get this work done has been extraordinary and i just want to thank from the bottom of my heart, the people who put the time in, who put the resources in, who made it really personal and who helped deliver this project for the sunnydale community. Thank you all so much and thank you everyone for being here today. [applause] so, by way of introduction of the Housing Authority, we are lucky to have commissioner torres with us. He has many other rolls. You pay your taxes through him among other things and also a unbelievable champion and want to echo the mayors comments. I was thinking about it last night bought tonia was nice enough to attend our event and just thinking what a incredibly hard job to run a Housing Authority thin midst of a transformation. No one gives you the credit for propping up a very very difficult ship and i think i just want to say thanks to you and everybody else there. It must be a unbelievably different psychology to do that then to build something up and i think s