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Its south of market, im throwing the idea out there. I know you may think its kind of silly for me to say this. But since its going to be south of market, why dont you utilize that building on the corner of sixth and howard with all those Little Things on that side . You know, especially since this is going to be experimental, right . So, you know, you have a lot of Old Buildings anyway. Just renovate that since they say its going to cost a lot of money to do anything with that building anyway. So, sixth and howard that is an up and coming area because theyre putting a police station. They hav...

As well. The two are not mutually exclusive. So, colleagues, this is a good compromise piece of legislation. Although i agree with mr. Cohen and with the Planning Commission that ideally obviously i introduced this with no cap on it and that would be my preference. But politics and legislation being the process that it is, we Work Together and we came up with what i think is a good compromise and i stand by that compromise. So, yeah, that came in too late. I dont think we can reopen public comment. Okay. So, colleagues, first, mr. Chairman, id like to move the amendments and then i would move ...

Of model of housing and see what the market demand is and kind of who inhabits this type of housing. I know its a small amount, but i think its a good start. So, i want to appreciate the work that went behind it. It was months and months of work. I want to just add also thanking supervisor wiener for working with the nine communitybased organizations and Affordable Housing groups, also from planning and others that put a lot of work into this. I think there is a strong and firm safeguard thats really built into this compromise that allows flexibility in building more housing, but also is reall...

And for various kind of housing, market rate or not market rate. As many as 40 of San Francisco households are single people. This could be a great and much more affordable option for them. We know that rents are through the roof now. A onebedroom apartment in many places of the city is running for 2,500 or even 3,000 a month. Large studios are often running for 2,000 or more a month. And many people simply cannot afford these rents. We have a lot of people who are living in roommate situations and sometimes cramming in more people than they probably should into some of these roommate situatio...