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Preserve existing rental stock and public housing. A year ago the mayor convened a Housing Working Group consisting of a broad swath of stake holders Market Rate Developers, nonprofit developers, advocates, funders. There were over 100 participants in the working group. And the working group set out to provide recommendations and to suggest solutions to help us attack the housing crisis from a number of different angles. So key recommendations are summarized on this slide and ill try to just touch on each of them. Existing neighborhoods need to be stabilized. Funding sources need to be expande...

Robust as the market rated sector. I wanted to reiterate the point earlier, through this analytical process, our work determines that a site is not a good fit for housing and the exampling that was brought up to us in a per pdr district, i think we see beneficial reuse opportunities as benefiting the city atlarge and the city could coordinate with the owner agency to make that happen obviously through community en[tkpwaeuplts ] and engagement with the policymakers. So were not leaving aside everything that isnt housing, but at same time we want to be clear that sour focus and our driving energ...

And meet the affordability mandate set out bit general plan as well acid prop k and really create a service for the public in san francisco. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. Whitney jones the director of the Housing Development form chinatown ucu. First i want to thank the city staff who are moving this process forward. Thank you, guys. Many city sites have been held by agencies for years without a process for moving them forward to meet overall city needs. So this process of starting to move these sites are consider uses for these site...

Not only in the lowincome area, but in the moderate income area. I think that plays out from a number of different issues. Part of which is that there arent as many or as sort of effective subsidy sources to actually provide the low market rate between 80120 of area median income. We think that is a critical part of moving forward and getting through this Housing Affordability challenge, that the city is now in. So we are trying to set up an approach to these sites that is not only transparent to the public, but allows to us analyze and bring forward new opportunities to demonstrate strategies...

Enterprise and minority Business Enterprise and finding space for them. The way i think you do that is to have a Development Agreement. I think the best thing to do was to have a Standard Development agreement that has elements that Everyone Wants to see, and then tailor it to specific sites and they arer not only starting from scratch with Different Development partners. That is something to consider and get it out in one fail whoop, local hire, mix of units, any sort of benefits that you want to provide for special open space or programming, for Economic Development . Put it all in there, do...