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Pursuant to Charter, Sections 2.103 and 3.100(7), and Administrative Code, Section 2.11, the Mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from Supervisors representing Districts 1 and 3. The Mayor may address the Board initially for up to five minutes. Discussion shall not exceed five minutes per Supervisor.
1. Mayor Lee, According to the recent Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report on San Francisco’s eviction crisis, between 2009 and 2013 the Richmond District, as a whole, has had 79 Ellis Act evictions and 202 no-fault evictions, placing my District among the leaders in both of these categories. We also have among the highest number of seniors, many with mobility issues. Unfortunately, the Richmond District and the entire west side of the City lacks the tenant focused services that are concentrated on the east side of town. Given the tremendous need for tenant services and the geographic inequity in their distribution within San Francisco, I would like to begin exploring, with your assistance, the possibility of establishing a multi-service center in the Richmond District, that would include tenant focused services.
Can you commit to assisting my office in doing so? (Supervisor Mar, District 1)
2. Every day, we see rental and homeownership prices in San Francisco rise further beyond the reach of everyday San Franciscans. To address the affordability crisis, your office is working closely with me, my colleagues and community members on efforts to prioritize housing for Ellis Act evictees, assist nonprofits in danger of displacement, and stabilize housing for people who live in non-permitted in-law units, among other initiatives. While building subsidized affordable housing won't alone solve the crisis, we also know that last year's voter approved Housing Trust Fund will provide $1.3 billion of affordable housing for low and middle income San Franciscans in the coming decades. Can you provide us with an update on affordable housing units under construction and planned for the near future, as well as an update on other housing programs supported by the Trust Fund? What creative approaches can we take now to build these affordable units as quickly as possible? What else can we do to encourage developers to build affordable units on site as they construct market rate housing? (Supervisor Chiu, District 3)
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