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Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is ward [speaker not understood]. At 8 30 in the morning, 1959, i was born at San Francisco General Hospital here. Im a native of the city. I grew up in San Francisco western addition. I grew up in Public Housing. At the age of 21 i graduated from city college and i moved into my first place of my own buying a house in the Bayview District in San Francisco. [speaker not understood] i got another job. That company went under. Eventually i became disabled like i am right now with posttraumatic stress disorder and im living on disability...

Like, when people getting ready to get evicted with the attorneys and stuff, so, thats why im asking yall to help them, the program so they can be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Friedenbach and im the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, San Fra...

Be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Friedenbach and im the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, San Francisco. We have a massive housing crises and its hitting hard. Its hitting fast, and its hitting with brutal force. Right now we have elderly wo...

Makes this job so full and so dynamic and extremely rewarding, thank you. Thank you very much, supervisor, i echo all of those comments and i especially want to thank my co so, good morning, everyone. My name is mark farrell. Im the supervisor from district 2 here in San Francisco. Last year, thanks to the great leadership of our mayor ed lee, his office of housing in particular, olson lee and brian chu who are here with us today and my colleagues on the board of supervisors, together and with the voters of San Francisco, we passed proposition c, the Housing Trust fund initiative, to create an...

Fact, this year the city of San Francisco will help with over 100 million of resources to our San Francisco school district. Were not going to let them be isolated anyone. This is the future markets and Public Education is at the heart of it. We will help them succeed. Were also making sure that this very expensive city is more affordable to more people. I know theres a lot of concern about that and we need to work on it. [applause] thats why i push hard on the Housing Trust fund that was passed last year creating one and half billion dollars, not million, one and half billion dollars to build...