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Toleron, i work for the veterans equity but i also come here, a San Francisco resident who has applied for Affordable Housing and i have applied to the Mayors Office of Housing Community development below market rate rental program and i have stood in line in some of those developments trying to drop off an application and ive seen folks who have been turned away because their primary language is not english. And ive seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to Affordable Housing. T...

Well, why dont they sign up . And they said, well, i have no idea. I guess they dont need it. Well, how could they sign up if they dont know about the program and even when they sign up, everything is in english and they dont know how to fill out these forms. Thats when i went ahead with my organization and say, well, were going to do it ourselves. Within two years they went up with the percentage that was a lot more what it looked like in the city in terms of going for the Chinese Community in terms of being enrolled in these programs, going from less than 10 percent to near 30 percent. So a ...

Programs . Oh, not too many. They dont feel like they need it. What do you mean they dont need it . Certainly income eligible they are. Well they never sign up. Well, why dont they sign up . And they said, well, i have no idea. I guess they dont need it. Well, how could they sign up if they dont know about the program and even when they sign up, everything is in english and they dont know how to fill out these forms. Thats when i went ahead with my organization and say, well, were going to do it ourselves. Within two years they went up with the percentage that was a lot more what it looked lik...

Services really look like to the people who are trying to access them. Thank you. Hi my name is teresa imperial, im for the bill for housing program. We are very appreciative of these Language Access ordinance amendments. Kind of want to give an idea of what we do what we do is help in filling out applications having people have greater access to housing. And when the article said no more tiers, with this amend about no more tier departments and all departments would require Language Access as of now, there will be applications themselves are not in different languages which is such a barrier ...

Of Housing Community development below market rate rental program and i have stood in line in some of those developments trying to drop off an application and ive seen folks who have been turned away because their primary language is not english. And ive seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. Thank you very much. Are there any other member s of the public who would like to comment . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Supervisor tang thank you again ...