L gordon and buck and others this was a labor of love sometimes a very peaceful a lot but you guys made that happen we appreciate that and our architect an amazing joint effort between solt solomon. Prescott sanchez and societies they worked together well bruce we want to thank naomi and peter noon and i think thats our crew from the architects they did an amazing job not an easy project to coordinated but one of the things that the city and county takes an amount of prides and he certainly merry 1 00 when we opposite side one of the buildings in a neighborhood the goal no idea which one is the favorable i can tell you from the fact every time we open your building with the ocii we have lots of people want to know how to rent our Affordable Housing units and people are shocked they cant sdwisht difference our partnering not only with the agencies decide this is the hallmark of work in california to make sure we make sure were building the heist quality building for everyone involved so that leads me to a key if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them for block 7 umgs the ins and outs of cap trade with the climatic change within of the features of the climate plan is trying to invest in various different teaches initiative a key program the Affordable HousingSustainability Community an hidden gem as jan explains to tie in detail that will not be hidden by block 7 we are lucky enough to have 6 nature Million Dollars the first insulate of director rubke but not the last theyll have an award announcement and im sure San Francisco will make more wonderful things happen correct me if i am wrong we believe this is the most at the time of trial rich project in all the projects in the stating base 6 commitment to the transit and caltrain and muni and with all the great bus services to thats why the state is investing in will the system and why 9 pocketbook is open and everyone project will continue to get more money so from the mooechlz. I cant get more excited than that. Happen happy birthday to all and everyone loves a birthday so heads up to everyone as we celebrate birthdays together you know this goes without assessing this was an Election Year how many of you really realize that today is an election day yes it is because in my world he hope it will be in yours everyday is an election day not the noise we hear an tv and social media by god but everyday is an elect day of making decisions its a an election between self or others every day we make a decision about our lives are we thinking of ourselves or others and amy doing something that is good for society or am i being passive or creating walls you know id like to introduce go preserves as we celebrate this day the perspective of a planner a funder act and then a resident unfortunately, he wouldnt have the privilege of being a resident like to do my best and talk about that you know because what were experiencing today is a wonderful example of how transit development; right . Is smart planning and best smart and theyre not inclusive we realize we wrooks that planning and design must be sustainable for a future we roles that Affordable Housing for families and seniors is smart housing and having san martin transportation refresh infrastructure is important because infrastructure binds us together doesnt it we walk the same paths we drink the same water and were there few Diverse Communities last week San Francisco and people are riding at the time of trial; right . And living in transit developing together tied into density housing and active translation and getting at the time of trial passes you know murphy housing was one of 28 westerns in the first launch of this Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community program it was the pilot year were now in the thrills of funding our second round in october youll hear the news about that in a few weeks im here to talk about planning and clefks i you know have a deft opinion he recognize that has we know the governor is forceful that climatic change is a big issue you can choose to ignore it just if i choose to ignore people in the so forth but and a change the existence you see a little description of the program the Agency Program its not a program about projects we use projects a lot but actually a program about project areas translated communities because we believe in building homes and not walls amen and lightwells talk about community from the perspective of a resident at the core of words community is unity; right . We realize today that all people deserve Affordable Housing are regardless of where they are in the economic scale so on this election daywear taking responsibility artists we to care and invest in our community in the residents of San Francisco we vote for the associate quality to pull together they can Work Together as were seeing it in front of us and will see it in just a few years. Nearly 50 years ago a approximately candidate it was 1968 and he was on the commissioner antonini trail and that candidate was Robert F Kennedy junior and he had to give the hardest campaign speaking speech of his career on that day in pretty well of 1968 he had to announce to the crowd that Martin Luther king was assassinated there was no twitter and it was talking in front of a substantially black audience and know it was sparked into a firestorm that would further send the nation into certain racial populartion and those are his words that resounds like today what we need to the itself not division what we need in the United States is not hatred what we need to the United States is not violence or lawlessness but wisdom and compassionate to one another and a feeling of justice towards those who suffer when theyre in your country he knew the temptation of base violence was going to occur and i knew he was thinking whatever was in the minds of peep what is quality one the same law in the nation im sure thats where we are today you feel the recess alsoness the vast majority of whites blakz want to live together and insure the quality of life and want justice for all human beings we declared and call on that day he would let us decade ourselves to what the greeks wrote to some years ago to tame the sageness of man and make gentle of the life of the world if we can only live that and make gentle the life of this world i think you all participating today you get that message you see the savageness and see the injustice and want to make gentle the lives of this world unfortunately about 60 days later that have speech he helping was taken down and it was o he was in la and there was an iconic picture of him lying on the ground in the kitchen and the busboy cradling his head and told her monk his last words were is everybody okay . 3 simple words on election day is everybody okay. On any given day im not okay. He need smoking someone to say eugene are you okay please, please ask the question and do something about it last week doug and his team and this at the and your elected officials are doing something everyday thank you. clapping. i feel very fortunate to work with someone like eugene people dont recognize the department of passion not feeling it agency a recovering Public Agency official myself i just want to acknowledge the great work that people in government do and not get enough crediting credit u dispense e general we appreciate that a lot of people at about adc i want to thank and objective the director calling names ellis and kim thank you for you guys making the trip appreciate our support were also blessed to have private partners one standing relationship with Silicon Valley valley bank and want to bring up fiona if i would. clapping. good afternoon, everyone on behalf of the Silicon Valley thanks an honor to be here and celebrate the grand opening our San Francisco office is just a few blocks away this is a gleaming ray of light in our backyard we are proud to play a small roll in bringing this project to life and 69 new homes very worthy families that are welldesigned and high quality and hopefully brings a wonderful opportunity let me share a quick joke so as a new mom he live by the words it takes a village some days my moerpgz are helped by the many helping hands this particular morning he was navigating around the world i was trying to Practice Gratitude and my drive took me past our building and the engine kicked in, yes it takes a village to raise a child additional a takes a village to build an urban village and this village comprised of a qualified Visionary Team that led by the murphy housing and all the partners that are here today you know from the outset we knew the project will be inform testify as a first Affordable Housing project in is this transbay district and knew that had some unique features that at times to moments as doug mentions the shared space with the marketrate project and underwrite a project like weve never done and moments we called kwirm to ask his impression but keep our eye on the price pricing whether in the empire Life Sciences are Community Development we want to help our clients have you ever seen into uncharged territories and designer approaches that led to leave sxans results and today is complex problems we need mercy housing like the city of San Francisco lied by the mayor and the supervisors and ocii and for your dedication to help the and make the impossible possible my team tuchd that project over the last few years and got the successful results calling names and thanks also to dbi banks. In the presence of such commitment im truly grateful thank you so much everyone. clapping. thank you, fiona the widens is kicking up well get through 24 reach out and hug anybody to that will keep you warm and none will sue in this setting so we do want to thank a couple of other people katherine and the jshths theyve been critically generous donors i want you thank you for your support and Federal Home Loan Bank a grant from the Affordable Housing program and Silicon Valley bank is an Important Program and a peas to make the developments work and hopefully for transbay 7 as well if this is your fit on the grand opening not heard the work tax credit an ovsh secure part of irs tax code that is responsible to make those knowledge areas roobl if you dont know where their tax dollars go but this is the building plain clothes for all the Affordable Housing in the city and what comes with the tax credit the opportunity to work with an investor we have a long another Long Term Fund that worked about mercy to make this work the more complicated we turn to tattooed theyll make sure it works i wanted to bring up todd and thank him. Thank you doug it is a obscure the tax credit a my family didnt know what i do everyone were principles to actually be the tax Credit Investor mercy housing is one the long even though partners in our history 25 years doug i counted on the database and thirty odd projects across the country and is tax credits the National Primary resemble to raise capital and invest into community thats right what we do on a daily basis for thirty years and 12 billion later id like to see is we cant do it without partners we have Silicon Valley bank not only provided the financing they were trusted us with 28 million of equity thank you, fiona and thank the mercy team william i dont know where sheila with that ill ill leave it at that. So in my effort inform work it in while were going there are projects recycle this mercy and your consultants do a lot of Work Together we are lucky enough to have a long term partner calling names all right. I cant find page 3 but someone on page 3 okay. He found it thank you very much for all that work. clapping. i also want to thank this was a project that required a fair amount of trust our biggest partner the company out of chicago we took a chance we didnt know how big a chance but had we known who knows what we would have done we and the rest of the folks are fantastic people to work with and driven people it was a hard project we worked on that together and no moment did we separate from each other thank you to the company and obviously theyre doing more work in San Francisco and obviously b be a great Interest Rate to the San Francisco skyline he wanted to take a moment sense it was raised earlier by the todd to thank the mercy staff this was a really recreate it started with julia and handed to william weve had people touch this project at mercy tells us how hard it was we want to thank all the mercy staff calling names if you have not met the guys hes wonderful in youre from mercy if you wouldnt mind raising your hand to be acknowledged. Also want to thank our chair the Reality Committee i dont see oh, and kres from the Board Members advisors and chris and obviously a nonprofit are driven by the volunteers that give me your time and expertise were deeply appreciative of they are help there are two projects we mixed up some stuff quarry crazy like this so we heard from todd that led the Development Investment on block 6 and block 7 were happy to have a partner in Wells Fargo Bank this is a tough couple of weeks this is truly a fantastic project and for us in the Affordable Housing there is wells fargo is a tremendous partner their construction lending and the investment that is similar to the projects and again, it takes someone with an understanding of our world and to me is excellent partner ill bring up tim and i throughout the groundbreaking was simple lucky i dont dress last week this but confused i think we Close Construction in june and here it is built already thats a joke im from wells fargo the equity manager and i think a number of people from wells fargo here terrance on my team and laura is here and maybe john he want to thank them and everybody and also to echo doug shoemaker i didnt have time to write everyones name down calling names everybody at the mercy i appreciate your help thank you very much and thank our partners olsen lee and everyone at ocii and in the city and county of San Francisco thank you so much for partnering with us along with h cd and Silicon Valley bank i appreciate all the financial parnsz and thank you to you all the members of the audience as fiona said it takes a village and everyone worked hard in Affordable Housing and i know i think this project and to project across the street is the good work of all of us i didnt prepare a speech but thank you very much. clapping. and especially doug all right. Were in the homestretch i think as a said to a person none wanted to hear from us but other residents were lucky we have two residents that have offered to share their story i dont think i bunched your last name shes with an of the newest resident and her boyfriend; right . And baby. Hi, everyone and good afternoon. Im a current resident all the way up to the 8 floor he heard about mercy housing through the friends when we wereplegic for long term and couldnt get in i decided to give a shot and i applied i remember you were somewhere sorry. It was my application that i turned in for housing i remember that was someplace in march he turned in any application in one today, i received a letter assessing he won and my lottery number was 54 i never won the lottery in any life i was pregnant at that time, and turned in any that application and life was hard before moving into this amazing place within living with a parent in a oneroom apartment and really couldnt afford for 2,000 to rent for every month he moved into this home right before giving birth and my baby was barron in my home we want to appreciate it and say thank you to mercy housing and they have a program that gives me opportunities to a young formally person and helps us thank you very much clapping. all right. I forgot a couple of shout outs i have two more shout outs mercy one of the things to enable us to have success in San Francisco this may be different we take a lot of pride in the work we do around making sure the ground zero of uh our building contribute to the neighborhoods we have someone nancy who is in the back one of a kind person from mercy housing that does our leading thing if i like filled scoff nancy was on early adopter thank you for being on the ground floor and providing coffee and the south of market childcare that is moving in and thank you so much were looking forward to having you in that space without further ado, a stylish guy i met him yesterday. clapping. it is windy. Good afternoon welcome everyone to my neighborhood and my name is leonard i won the lottery which is a program and he was displaced in the san jose from the western edition and me and my family had an opportunity to live here based on the cop and i reilly enjoy 24 place and people here i mean, the amenities the bus services and stuff like that but some things im disappointed with but this is a great place to live and he looks forward to living here many, many years and my wife and daughter l