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Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers a...

Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers a...

And really to say that, and i think henry you talked about the mayors leadership here and really about the vision of transforming our housing, improving schools and supporting Economic Development that these are the most effective when the public and the private institutions Work Together and break down barriers and cut through the red tape and thank you very much for your leadership. [applause] so choice neighborhoods is just one powerful example of the Obama Administration investing better and we do what works and stop what doesnt work and form the partnerships that we need to solve the chal...

Work with the residents, the neighbors. We went to work with our supervisor and i know ms. Cohen is out of breath and knows how important this is for her constituents and this district, but most importantly we knew if we didnt just talk the talk, that if we actually took the residents with us, and took all of the talent that we had in the city from the Housing Authority to our Mayors Office of housing, to the redevelopment people, to the private developers, to the staff that has been so diligent, to the private nonprofit sector. The in Incredible Community based organizations and the bay view ...

Okay. Mr. Mayor good morning everyone. I am mr. Alva residence and the director of the Housing Authority and today mayor lee will be announcing one of the most extraordinary funding announcements in the history of my 26 years in this business to ever occur. Today were going to get twins. Were going to get the mayor is going to talk about two Choice Initiative Planning Grants, this i believe culminates the mayors leadership, cements the idea for hope sf and restores hope to hope sf and we have resident leaders here, the commissioners. I want to be clear this is a priority for the Housing Author...