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Clerk september 9, 2020 meeting of the Treasure Island board of directors must be adjourned due to lack of quorum. Director tsen, do you have any comments . Can you hear me now . We have two vacancies on our commission, which makes meeting a quorum difficult. With the difficult air that were having, keep well, mark, and i hope that we kn that y all will keep safe and well. Are there any callers on the line that would like to make any comments . Clerk director tsen, i dont see any callers on the line. And then, are there any commissioners that would like to make any comments . Yes, this is linda fadeke richardson. I apologize to anyone watching right now, and with everything going on out there, we all need to take extra precautions. So we will reconvene, and we will get the ball rolling another time. All right. So hearing no public comment, we can now adjourn. Director tsen, i did just want to mention for people that will be on th ....
It is what is known as the belowmaet s Affordable Housing, each tenant pays 30 of their income toward rent. They are extremely difficult to get, they are rare, and every day, they are disappearing. Someone came to the door, new years eve, and handed us an envelope, and it was just a shock. I mean, it was, you just cannot believe you. Reporter the status at fosters landing was established 30 years ago, and expires on december 31 of this year. Of fact that most tenants did not know when they moved in here. Now to be able to qualify for a bmr come you have to prove every single year that you cannot pay for a market rate apartment. So vanessa, and tenants in 74 of the units here, have no choice but to leave. A lot of us are seniors. We have people that are over 80 years old, and they really dont know what they are going to do. This is the tip of the iceberg. Reporter he is the ceo of the california housing partnership. He says the ....
Lets go to joy next. Good morning everyone, my name is joy jackson morgan. Im the executive director. Im a unicorn in the city, a San Francisco native. During this time third street has really focused on our young people in addressing the needs that youth have been coming up with, primarily with housing. That has been a huge issue for our young people and food has also been an issue. Weve gone from having our food pantry to having food delivery for our youth and their families. Were currently serving about 50 youth and families per week. Were also trying to keep our young people engaged. This has been a hard time for them adjusting to Distance Learning and not having the certain outlets that theyre accustomed to. So we continued our Youth Development program. We have been keeping our young people engaged, and active ....
Hi everyone, thank you for joining us today for the Panel Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our of ....
Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue to do our work, primarily because we know that the revenue impact of our work has been very, very large and disperse impact to the city, from the types of programs were able to support people with us specially during covid19. Were continuing to do that. I think o ....