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Today, successfully used in other cities specifically for young beginning workers, please remove any reference to seniors because, in fact, seniors will not be in this housing. And to prehe tend or pimp the housing of seniors and the disabled in saying that these 220 square feet is appropriate for a person in a wheelchair with a walker, or with a cane and helpful person is actually adequate needs to be removed in any reference from this ordinance or from this proposal from the Planning Department. Seniors will be living there, not only people that are beginning workers and lowincome. Please don pimp the seniors and disabled and say this housing is appropriate for them because in fact its not. A very small population that is not that is in Decent Health at present would be able to be here, but not longterm. And before we get to mr. Whitaker, ill call a few more cards. Jim ....
So, there is a need for Affordable Housing for families, students, seniors and everyone. Therefore, thats why we worked diligently with our allies and you supervisors to ensure that we have a cap to really see and analyze that this is a need. And we really appreciate you hearing our concerns and we look forward to working with the planning staff to actually look over those analysis. Thank you again and we hope to that you support this legislation. Thank you. I dont have any other cards. So, if anyone after mr. Cohen is interested in speaking, you can just go ahead and line up. Good afternoon, supervisors. Tim cohen on behalf of the Housing Action coalition. Id like to support the proposed legislation for new housing product efficiency dwelling units with one important exception. We have said repeatedly that edus are a logical necessary response for badly needed new housin ....
Thank sarah short and also gail gilman from Community Housing partnership who wasnt here today who were very, very deeply involved in the negotiations and were really good negotiating partners in trying to work out this compromise. I also want to again thank president chiu who was also very supportive and helpful in helping all of us move to this process. I just had a couple final points. First of all, you know, i think we all a lot of people have it in our heads we would love for everyone to live in a singlefamily home or some really big spacious flat. And unfortunately thats not the reality of 2012 San Francisco. Very few people who are not fortunate enough to have bought or rented a large place a long time ago can afford to do that. Its just not an economic reality in San Francisco and we need to be housing everyone, ....