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Has. Thank you very much. [cheering and applauding] alice, you and the family know better than i do that the bunkers that were built in the 50s that represented hunters view for many, many years were actually built for the military housing back in those years. They werent really meant for longterm dignified respectful housing that this community deserves. And, so, you are part of the first of 25 families that are in this initial phase of a whole 107 units that will be completed in may. And thanks to all of our partners as olson continues to repay. I just want to emphasize this is the first pha...

And welfare of the existing families and invites new families and creates complete neighborhoods. And only in San Francisco are we willing to take on this task to really change the lives of the current residents and preserve Affordable Housing for all future residents so that we in San Francisco have a diverse community. So, we have a very Short Program today to acknowledge many of the people who have participated in this development. It has been a partnership, as we have talked about. It is a partnership of many city departments. Its been a partnership of many nonprofits and a partnership of ...

Because, yes, its still the redevelopment promise that we had, but its much more than that. And we want to get away from the old negative legacies that redevelopment had with many members of our community in San Francisco, on to investment and infrastructure, investing in people, investing in their lives. As we rebuild physically here. Youre also going to see a lot more parks, open space. Youre going to see a Community Center here. Youre going to see people that will see Employment Training as their way forward, not their way out. And people are going to want to live here. There are people tha...

Annual basis, the hud and the federal government were only able to come up with 16 million, and decreasing every year based upon their inability to get together on hud priorities, that we created hope sf. And out of that came a 95 million commitment. Im going to see to it that not only every penny of that comes in, but there will be more coming from the private sector because hope sf is about the Publicprivate Partnership that we have, that we should never allow our Public Housing residents to live in isolation from whole communities that i enjoy, that all of you enjoy so much. Because when we...

Okay, were just about ready to get started here. If everybody could gather round a little bit. My name is olson lee. Im the director of the Mayors Office of housing. And this is a great day, isnt it . Yes, it is. Its a great day. And one of the things about anything that we do in San Francisco is that it does take a whole village, and we have a whole village here. And its about a sense of partnership that we are able to celebrate. And i really want to emphasize celebration, because this is the first phase of the first phase of many projects like this in San Francisco. applause and this is some...