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>> thank you and congratulations on being supervisor. i am 67. i am a lesbian. i had an experience, i lived in this place and they sold the house and i had to look for another place. i did some applications but most of them, you have to wait five years. the rents are too high. i could not afford it. i'm kind of homeless. my niece was kind enough to tell me to move over. i went to antioch and it gets me -- takes me three hours to get from san francisco and i miss my open house. i miss my meetings. and also for others and i wish they could do something about it. thank you. >> good afte...

explored. their unemployment rates, high unemployment rates even in san francisco in the transgendered community. also at on issues around discrimination around age. i would be interested in looking at what the unemployment rates are for people between 50 and 654 transgendered people and i suspect they're pretty high. there is also the unique needs around health care. obviously there is a very high rate of not being insured in the transgendered community for health care. most people now many are living in sro's. the challenges they face in those environments. i'm not saying anything ...

us, "you are heaven sent, you have kept me out of trouble and understood my frustrations. i am living in new life again." thank you so much. >> good afternoon, supervisors and congratulations, supervisor olague:. . i don't think i can add anything to the comments that have been brought forth here. one group of lgbt people are still suffering an inordinate amount of discrimination and harassment. they are persons of the transgendered community. at times it is very subtle discrimination such as i have suffered during my 30 years as a civil servant in san francisco. this form of bias is...

penetrate this problem when i went to him because of the subtlety of it. that fear that i suffered for 30 years has carried over, preventing me from contributing more to the community here in san francisco. it brings to mind that sank, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. and so when you discriminate against people, you prevent them from flourishing and helping out the community as it would like to. thank you. -- helping out the community as they would like to. thank you. >> good afternoon. i would like to start by saying congratulations, christina. all right. i am with planning for ...

time in our next meeting. if we have time, maybe staff can run it by the city attorney. i certainly do not want to lose your ability to develop something in that area, where the city needs improvement, especially in that neighborhood. i would not want to do anything that would prevent that from occurring in the long haul. but we do have a process that would be personally -- i would be afraid of going forward with it until we got some directive from the the city attorney -- from the city attorney. with the applicants be amenable to continuing this to the meeting of october 25? >> i wo...