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Thursday. Its a great opportunity for us to expands what we have done previously with the down Payment Assistance Program and this is indeed an expansion of what the city has done to serve its residence, its cities and its employees. At the same time we are doing this First Responders program through the budget process led by supervisor the goal of any of our programs in the Mayors Office is that the program is effective and so where the Program Needs to be tweaked, we will tweak it. We will report back to the board and to the mayor about the effectiveness of this and we really look forward to...

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 and approve Affordable Housing citywide and to provide loans to assist with the down payment towards the purchase of homes here in San Francisco. The passage of the Housing Tr...

This is the vote of confidence that our voters had in us, with the Housing Trust fund, and also working with us to make sure that we had a firsttime Home Buyer Program and the First Responders Home Buying Program so we can locate everybody here who needed to be here to help us with a quick recovery if there is anything that should happen. This is the context in which we launched this program. We will adjust it along the way to make sure it continues to work effectively. And im gratified to be working with olson and his team of people that are Community Developers and Housing Developers to make...

The latest on what we have on the fire. I dont know to more than 250 square miles. Firefighters are gaining some ground. They increase containment today by 5 percent now up to 20 percent. Fire burning in rough basically inaccessible terrain. Difficult to deal w. Crew rely on heavy air tank tore dropped water and fire retardant on the flames. Strong wind push the flames closer to the city and nearbyzv counties. This is already the largest ever fire in the sierra. 7 news followed the fire fight for us all day today. He reports from near the fire line in the city. All day it looked like trouble ...

City where the first lace up a pair of boxing gloves and more than 30,000 people are expected to fill an arena at this afternoons celebration of life. Every time heavyweightchamp 156 bytes , an olympic gold medal and transcended sports in the civil rights era. Muhammad ali died a week ago at 74 after fighting a great battle with parkinsons disease for most of his life afterboxing. While remaining one of the most famous people in the whole world. Jon among the people who will speak at todays service, clinton, Billy Crystal and brian gumbel, reflecting on alis extraordinary life and career. My t...