As a teacher i have been quite honest that we have been looking on in horror how our city has been completely decimated of the workingclass people by certain members of city hall and i hold you responsible some of you not all of you and in particular our mayor, i have to say quite honestly. We have been completely horrorfied about that. Is that any time . Stop the luxury development. Stop the building of the luxury developments. Prop a with 650 units makes us compete with the rest of the community for very few housing opportunities. This is not a solution. Im really concerned that google is mentioned as part of the solution as a partner in the solution. Thank you. You can finish your sentence. Okay. Just so we understand im the last person on my block not to be evicted. I pay 45 income in rent. These assistance plans were geting are never going to be effective for me. 1 million homes are out of reach. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. Like graham, i want to put a human face to what is going on. My name is Susan Kitchell and i have been a renter in district 1 since 1982. I have been a nurse for 40 years. I have been employed by the sfusd has a school nurse since january of 1997. I have lived in my current apartment since february of 2000. The building recently changed hands and the new landlords have begun the process ousting the tenants. I am a single mother since my childs birth. I spend my salary in the city and shop along geary boulevard and clement street. I know where to buy the best bagels in the city, in district 1. I see many students as i travel throughout the city. My neighbors know me. I know my neighbors. While two of the three tenants in the buildion i live in are members of the socalled protected class, myself being one of them. Many Legal Resources that we have reached out to have already told us that protected in the current environment means next to nothing. For many years i a[tefrpbts ]ed attempted to enter the Homeownership Program through the below market rate program with the lottery ticket. We received a modest salary increase. That increase placed me outside of the program. What happens when i am ousted from my apartment . Where does someone like me go when they thought we already arrived . In all likelihood, i probably wont be able to remain here. When i look at apartments outside of the city, the time and expense raises the feasibility of remaining in the city. Thank you. We need to accelerate the rate of educator Housing Assistance and we need to do that today. Thank you, ms. Kitchell. Thank you so much [ applause ]. My name is hello . My name is sandra mack, currently a member of union educators retiredpt when we say teachers, we use that as a generic term. We mean nurses and psychologists, frontline people with frontline relationships with students. That is why teacher affordability, the affordability of living in San Francisco for teachers is everybodys issue. If you remember one of the examples that was given in the last presentation about child homelessness, one of the speakers said everybody is a source of information about referring people for help, the cafeteria worker is a source and everybody can be a source, but the no. 1 source of information for referring familis to hamilton and others was the parent liaison and the parent liaison ladies and gentlemen is a paraprofessional. These people who work in the city, who work in the School District, who commute some of them an hourandahalf to get to work, and have the option if they are teachers, of getting 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 somewhere else and buying a house somewhere else and have the luxury wherever they go, they are needed. You may love teaching in San Francisco and teaching San Francisco school, but if you go to sequoia, you will also teach students who need you. We need to prioritize educator housing and its notice a matter of teachers against anyone else. Like the previous speakers the first thingte they will su put on your on oxygen mask because if you dont have it you cant help a kid. Thank you. Im from brightline defense project. Were a Public Policy advocacy nonprofit in San Francisco, devoted to ensuring Economic Diversity in the city. Ill keep my comments very brief. We have heard a lot of proposals talking about ways to enjoy affordable teacher housing from brickandmortar to rental assistance to down payment assistance and think they are concrete and realizable goals in the process of making housing affordable to teachers in San Francisco. And we support all of these goals and would like to thank supervisor kim for spearheading this task force. Thanks. Thank you. I should clarify, i didnt spearhead the task force. That was done with the Mayors Office of housing, but i called for this hearing to learn results of that. But thank you for that credit. Im matt bela, teacher and union rep. We have had teachers sleeping in cars that have been homeless. I think all of the other teachers have already eloquently talked about the housing crisis and i want to talk about the affordability of San Francisco for educators and i hope its not too much of a distraction, but its constantly on my mind and haunts me the cost of health care for teachers in San Francisco. The buck really stops with the district here. In my opinion, maybe you could find a creative way to help fund this. I know multiple teachers, the basis plan in the city costs 2 plus plan and anybody can go on the website and cost teachers 700 a month. Now god forbid your Family Member has a particular medical condition you need a ppo where its going cost 1100 a month. Paraprofessionals, its half of their paycheck. When we want to talk about an affordable city, housing im really, really happy of the movement that we see developing aroundhousing. Though i have to say i agree with mr. David campos quite a bit. Lets make Health Care Affordable as well. If you subsidize 700 per person, it would be 4 million for the district a year; right . And the relief that would have on the members that i know how much they suffer every month paying that ridiculous payment for health care, and the ability to maybe keep families in the city, educators with families in the city . It would be an incredible benefit for educators. So i hope that is not too much of a distraction, but i really its really close to my heart. Im sure everyone who has Family Members about Health Conditions understands where im coming from where that. Thank you, mr. Bela. Thank you. [ applause ] good evening, commissioners. My name is gail peters and im a School Counselor at balboa in the excelsior district. I attended middle school in the richmond district. Unfortunately my family left San Francisco in the 1980s, but i returned to the city i so deeply love. I have worked for sfusd as substitute teacher and now School Counselor. Im incredibly proud to work for the bright and beautiful students and pavls families of San Francisco. I know within the next two years i will be forcinged to leave the bay area because of the outrageous housing costs that were now experiencing. I believe that students deserve to see their teachers, et cetera walking the streets they walk and living in the communities that they live. This is becoming increasingly less possible. How shameful that our leadership, the young people that we want to educate with authenticity and equity. We were alerted to the fact for vacancies and asking for our assistance for recruiting teachers to San Francisco . Can you imagine the numbers to see in july of 2017 or 2018 or 2019 . The creative spirit of San Francisco not seen in its leadership. The city and the School District hold parcels of land that could be and should be converted into affordable educator housing. Its my housing opportunity, using opportunity, partnerships, and engagement that the progressiv spirit will be revised in new and revolutionly and needed ways to address this affordability crisis. Thank you at this time see nothing further comments were going to close Public Comment on this item. Commissioner haney . Well, i want to thank everybody who came out. After a long day at school to come here and just to speak to powerfully on this, i appreciate you and your leadership. I would echo which were made by supervisor campos and supervisor wynn thats been for some time a total and complete crisis. We have a situation that we know from the numbers that our educators cannot afford to live in the city in which they work. What i would like to see are solutions that are as big as the challenge that we face . We should have solutions that are as big and as urgent as the situation that we just heard from our educators tonight. You know, i think one of the things that has been challenging and i think commissioner wynns alluded to this there are general solutions that address the affordability crisis and move us forward in some way in providing more access to housing. But what does that mean for educators . How do we develop solutions that actually get us to a point that we dont have as many folks as we do now being pushed out of the city . Spending 50 of their income on housing . What i would like to see and i think supervisor campos spoke to this, is we know the problem. We know the scale of it. What would it look like to put together a real plan to address that . So that we could say that none of our newhires in San Francisco, none of our teachers who have been here 20 years are in a situation where we know from the numbers we just know straightoff they are going to be in a situation that is basically impossible for them to afford housing in the city . So could we get to a point we could say, we know that based on the numbers, none of our employees are going to be spending more than 30 of their income on housing . And we know that from looking at what is in front of us. If we dont if we know that how far we are from that now, then we should consider this a crisis and we should act as though its a crisis. I think the sustainability of the entire Public Education enterprise and the idea of great Public Schools for all our students is at stake in whether or not we are able to actually address this issue . So a couple of things that i would love to see the educator Housing Task Force consider, and hopefully moving forward when we continue this conversation and thank you, supervisor kim, for bringing this forward. We can hear about some of these different ideas. We know that other cities and other School Districts are building housing. We have a tremendous amount of land that principal sanchez brought up. Where are those sites . What are other School Districts and cities doing . How can we replicate some of those approaches here in San Francisco . We also know that there are different sorts of rent subsidy support programs that the city can consider. And other types of direct support that we can maybe find creative funding mechanisms for to, actually address the fact that no educator should be spending a more than a certain percentage on housing . How do we create a formula that were able to get much closer to what is a livable situation for our educators and to be creative how we think about that . The other thing we heard that many educators are facing eviction and need Emergency Support. We talked about a very innovative a[prorb ] that we have around this when it come those homeless families. Why cant our teachers have similar types of support if they are facing eviction . They shouldnt feel alone and not supported by their district or city . [ applause ] what type of Emergency Support should they have in evictionprevention, in defense n funding to get them, so they are not just able to stay in their housing, but if they need to find other houses and what role is the district going to play in that in coordination with the city . I think the School District needs to view ourselves in an entirely new way when it comes to supporting educator housing and the counseling and support that we provide. What is exciting maybe about this opportunity that is different than in past years when this has been part of the conversation is that were all at the table now, and were actually trying to come up with constructive solutions. We have uesf, and we have the city and we have the School District and we have built this task force. Lets use this task force to consider all of these different options. And many more as a way to actually develop the solutions that are big enough to the challenge that we face and that we heard about tonight. I think that we do have mored at our disposal now in terms of resources. Resources should not be a barrier as this city we know is exploding with resources. If we cannot meet this foundational expectation that our educators should make enough and be supported enough though live and live in the city that they work. I think its just a basic foundational thing that we should be able to put together a plan that we should meet. I look forward to further work from the task force and think there is a lot of potential to meet these needs and solve this problem. Thank you, commissioner haney. Well take a motion to continue this item. I do want to say that im glad that the district and the Mayors Office of housing is working together. Because the only way we can solve this crisis is for the city to partner with the School District. And i want to acknowledge that while some work has been done, its really hard to hear when you know that the fruition of that work wont happen for years. Even with the 1950s mission and with the giant negotiations and getting an unprecedented number of middleincome 90150 ami and close to 30 will be for middleclass housing. We have never seen a Development Like that before, but we know that project will not be will not have teachers walking through that door for many years and they still have to go through the approval process and there is a real need today. I look forward to the conversation and many of the options mentioned and im familiar with the School Districts Surplus Property and worked on the Surplus Property resolution when i was on the board. So if its the principle center or other large sites to examine building teachers housing where there is no cost to the land of the district. Its difficult when you accept federal and state dollars you cant discriminate based on profession and to get private dollars for teacher housing. One the barriers we need federal and state to change their laws to allow us to prioritize or just build housing for educators which we cant do with those dollars. I also think we should look at the flexibility of rental subsidis in the meantime, because it doesnt require brickandmortar and that can happen immediately with funding that exists. So i want to thank commissioner fewer asked us to hear this item today. Thank you for bringing this item. Im glad to hear that were making some headway, but i think there is urgency in this work and we want to get some actual outcomes in next year for this. I want to thank the members. I am going to take a motion to continue this to the call of chair. We have that motion and well do that without any opposition. [ gavel ] we will hear this item again. Madame clerk, are there any other items . We have item no. 3. Oh, thank you. We do have item no. 3. I did ask sfmta to come back to the october meeting to present first, because we have run out of time. But medal clerk can you call item 3. Well take Public Comment on that item. Item 3 is update from the free muni Youth Program and requesting the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency to report. Sfmta i did release them so they didnt have to sit for two hours. That being said well take public on comment on this item. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I want to acknowledge supervisor campos without whom this program would not exist. So thank you. But well be discussing this in october and certainly have the opportunity at that item. Well continue to oct meeting. Madame clerk, any other item . S no further business. Meeting is adjourned [ gavel ] just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of San Franciscos our community to the meridian gallery has a 20year history of supporting visual arts. Experimental music concert, and also readings. Give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. And lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] meridians stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. It gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. It is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. You want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. I felt like at meridian, it could do some good. We did not even talk about price until the day before the show.