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Of justice. The optimism but i sense not just from our students but everyone who feels now is the time to do things differently is palpable. On that very optimistic note i think all of us should thank this marvelous panel. [applause] and i also want to say i no all of you are extraordinarily busy. They are so appreciative. Let me then turned to my cochair and to all of the panelists or Task Force Members for their final comments. A few final thoughts. This is the 7th and last listening session. It it has been an interesting experience. We have gotten a lot of feedback from oral testimony, writ...

Store policies to make them fair for neighborhood character and Small Businesses with a mixture of businesses we dont end up like a city with industrial strip malls with a lack of character i want to ask a quick question on the consideration of the Housing Element which we passed at the board 5060 percent of the housing u housing united 60 percent affordable i know as we passed prop k the goal set in the housing Balance Initiative were measure was set at 33 percent as a goal i think some view it as pa strong mandate im wondering how were inadequately meeting the Housing Element i know our regi...

Important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a report on the first reporting period of that requirement i think that the other issue is related to how were achieve a higher percentage of affordable and middleIncome Housing obviously requires more the Planning Department and process it requires major funding and major resources this is what youll hear from the Mayors Office of housing b...

Regulated and create housing that woo and clearly were looking at ways to create financing instruments to assist in some of the expansive work were trying to do in addition to the Affordable Housing were not looking to ignore or loaf behind whats the bread and butter of the Mayors Office of housing our traditional Affordable Housing but we want to do add to this work and to address a broader range of individuals and families who also given the Housing Market are hardpressed to stay in the city in a nut shell thats what we are doing in terms of creating new programs and trying to line up projec...

Our workshop Public Housing within the next 18 months we will the Mayors Office of housing will help fund along with the Housing Authority over 35 hundred units forrehabilitation and by the end of that period we will have unit that will be having at least a useful life of another 20 years and manage and fund in are a way that the federal government did not provide for the Housing Authority and so in that effort clearly the office has made substantial process in terms of developing the financial plans and in terms of the implementations the other work with or that the office has done in terms o...