Housing Authority Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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Board of Commissioners regular meeting for July 23rd, 2026. The time is 4.01 p.m. Item two is roll call of commissioners. President Doug Shoemaker. Present. Vice President Cynthia Alvarez. Commissioner Juan Carlos Cancino. Present. Commissioner Marianne Pikes. Present. Commissioner Sharon Lai.

Present.

Commissioner Falafuta-Satili.

Present.

And Commissioner Luana Kim is absent. Item three is acknowledgement of the Ramatouche Ohlone community.

The Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.

Thank you. Item four is the president's report.

No report from me. Thank you.

Great. That would be item number five next for general public comments. Noting this portion of the agenda is not intended for debate or discussion with the commissioner staff. Please simply state your business or the matter you wish the commissioner staff to be aware of. It is not appropriate for commissioners to engage in a debate or respond on issues not properly set in a publicly noticed meeting agenda. If you have questions or would like to bring a matter to the commission's attention, Please send your communication via email to sfhapubliccomment at sfha.org. I'll start with the speaker cards we received with Margaret McNulty, and you'll have two minutes for public comment.

Hi, good afternoon. Margaret McNulty from Resident Council Advisors. And I'm here with a client today, Heather Harris, who's a live-in caretaker for her brother for over a year at 1760 Bush Street. And she tried to get on the lease to be co-leased. He was incapacitated, in bed, bedridden. It was full-term care. So she did finally get approved by San Francisco Housing Authority to be on the head of household. And yet John Stewart Company would never take any of the rent. And now they're billing her for the amount, but they won't take the rent. So she's just trying to, since her brother died, she's trying to assume her position on the lease. And she has every check that was ever written, any money order for the whole time that she was residing there. So that's my client that I would like to. introduce it. Thank you.

Thank you.

And we'll have staff follow up with that request.

William Helm, would you like to come up?

Thank you, thank you. I'm going to try to make it quick as I can. On August 19, I got in touch with my housing specialist to let them know that I haven't received any of my forms for annual certification. And they responded like, I don't know if we even sent it out to you yet. I let them know about my job, that I lost it. And they said, OK, well, send in these papers. I send in the papers, thinking everything is taken care of. And then June 8th of this year, I got an email from the management telling me that I have been dropped from the program since August and that I owe $27,000. So I'm like, huh? I'm like, how is that? I tried to get in touch with my specialist, call him. All he said was, hey, you've been dropped from the program August 15. I said, but I alerted you August 19. And it happened to me before, the year before in 2024. I didn't get my packet. They had to send it through the email. I told him, like, hey, you know, I never got it. He's like, oh, well, you've been terminated. You've been terminated, and you've been terminated. And I'm just like, so on August 19, when we talked and you tell me to send you these papers and I send it to you, where did you put the file? What happened? I mean, I was never notified of anything. You never told me nothing. Now I'm finding out in June. So now, pretty much, I'm on the verge of being evicted. I'm off the voucher program. I got an 11-year-old daughter that go to school out here. I got a son. He 22, and he goes to City College. And I just feel like it's just a big drop of the ball. And at this point, if this is what it's going to be, I just feel like... The people who's under these programs and have the managers and everything like that, they should just go ahead and be their own specialist. Why depend on somebody else who's just going to shrug their shoulders and not even give you an informal hearing, not even try to listen to what you're saying? Even if they're accepting the documents, not even updating you on where you're at with yourself, within the program. So yeah, so right now, I'm pretty much fighting for my life, fighting for my kids. And since this happened, it really sparked a whole different side of me. So I plan on y'all probably going to see me every other week, or me every other month, or whatever the case is. I'm trying to figure out how to be a specialist, because I know if this doesn't happen to me, a regular person born and raised in San Francisco, I know this is happening to plenty of people. And if I could get in a position to at least try to stop that and have people not be able to come up here. I had people that gave me their cards. I'm sorry I'm taking a little minute, but the worst part about it was when I talked to people and somebody said, yeah, I can't do nothing. But sorry you've been misled. We're talking about housing. We're talking about housing. living for the next day, and you apologize for me being misled? This is what we doing? I can't accept that. And so that's why I said it. It just sparked something different in me. Not only do I only want to fight for myself, because that's important, but I could just imagine how many other people is getting told they're being misled. But a lot of them probably don't know about this meeting. A lot of them probably don't know how to fight. And a lot of them probably just don't know how to articulate themselves and say, hey, we do have a problem here. And it needs to be addressed in the right way. So that's my spiel. And thank you for listening.

Again, we'll have staff follow up on that.

Yep. Any other general public comment?

Hi, my name is Jeronda Jones. I'm sitting here today to speak on behalf of the Alice Griffin tenants. We are a community. We're a big family. Well, but since we've been in the new places that we've been in, it seemed like we've been torn apart because of the needs immediately help. We are misled about our living situations. Things weren't always perfect where we were, but it wasn't that bad. We do our part. We pay our rent. But in return, we are being forced to live in and unlivable conditions. We are dealing with rats. We are dealing with roaches. We're dealing with our mills getting stalled. We're dealing with elevators being broke. And when things break in our building, they simply do not get fixed. Worse than that, we are facing tragedy. People have died in our buildings and have been left alone in their apartments for more than two or three days. It's heartbreaking, it's neglect, and it's wrong. On top of that, many of our residents are in Section 8, yet they still have not been given a house and vouchers. We are completely frustrated. We're tired of talking. We're tired of raising concerns. We're tired of nobody listening to us. It feels like we're completely invisible. We're done waiting. We're also being ignored in our buildings with things being fixed. Thank you. I want time to adjust. I'd like for you to know the special details about who delivered the speech. I'm letting you know that I'm a concerned person that lives in Double Rock. Not only that, the concern he has about his mail. The other day, Thursday, I say last Thursday, I woke up. And it's a lot of notices on everybody building. I'll stay at 2,600. They were in 26 and 27. These are concerns because now Alice Griffin is saying everybody in 26 and 27, some 25, some 28, owe them. And this is thousands of dollars. They got somebody... then paying their rent for the longest. And they said they owe $27,000. How the hell do you be in housing and all that type of money? And how do you guys say you don't have no money? And now, all of a sudden, one of the maintenance said, oh, we got a lot of money. We about to get everything done up in here. But yet, you've got all these. I know. I pay my rent every month. I had $700 in credit. Now it disappeared. And they said, I owe them. So I don't know what's going on with this rent. And my concern is that somebody needs to get over there and ask the office what's going on. Because right now, people have been getting dogged and getting put out.

OK, we are still on item number five for general public comments. If you have any general public comment.

Good afternoon. My name is Oronde Sterling, San Francisco resident, vice president of the Baby Hunters Point Coordinating Council. I'm also here because the residents at Alice Griffith have begun receiving notices claiming they owe thousands of dollars, like the young lady just said, in back rent. These notices have caused real fear and uncertainty for families who are already struggling to make ends meet. My question is simple. who is ensuring these rent determinations are accurate before these notices go out as the governing body of the san francisco housing authority what oversight does this commission provide over the private management companies administering subsidized housing do you routinely audit their rent calculations and if mistakes are made what protections exist for residents before they're threatened with collections or eviction If multiple families are receiving these notices, that raises concern about whether this is an isolated issue or a systemic one. I'm asking this commission to direct independent review of the recent rent determinations at Alice Griffith and to ensure residents have access to a fair appeal process before they are held responsible for alleged back rent. Affordable housing should provide stability, not fear. Families deserve transparency, accountability, and confidence that the rent they're being charged is correct. I respectfully ask this commission to investigate this matter and report back publicly on its findings. Thank you.

Hi, thank you. Margaret McNulty again. Another client just walked in that has been taking care of someone in an SRO for years and now is getting approved to go into SFHA apartment at 20 Franklin and needs to have a two bedroom because of the caretaking. So we respectfully request to file that up. Thanks.

Well, well, well, well, well. It's been a while, child, but here I am. It's amazing. But anyway, good evening, commissioners. Ace Washington, Fillmore Corridor Ambassador. So I came here specifically to talk about some issues pertaining to the Western Edition, particularly we have six sites in the Western Edition. I guess we'll get to it later. Also, I'm here to talk about the city politics. It's full of tricks, makes me turn into a lunatic. Here, I'm here in front of your acting director, Mr. Adams. What I need to talk to him about is the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, along also with OEWD. Those two departments are out of control. The mayor needs to put a commission on those particular agencies. OEWD, they might be getting mad at me, and your other agency that you are here. acting directors and so right now I'm trying to figure out what the city politics is all about but when it comes to housing authority I came here to give a somewhat of a port what's happening in the Western Edition And I'll pick the time to do it right now, but I'm just very disturbed about the developments, the six of them and seven of them. Not even talking about the ones over in Bayview and all over, but the RAD program. It needs to be re-examined and find out what the hell is going on. My name is Ace. I'm on the case, and I'll talk a little bit later.

Good afternoon, commission. I'm Evangela, a resident at Alice Griffith and also on the board of Bayview Hunters Point Coordinating Council. So there is a multitude of problems that have not been fixed, one of them being every time somebody gets let go out of a seat at AG, we don't know what's happening for months. Then on top of that, we have an infestation of not only rodents, roaches, all of the things you can think of are happening. They're just now starting to fix things, but the problem is Every other month there is something happening. So now they want to come in and look at our fire alarms, but they also sent us notices. It's been on all of our doors. My thing is, what is the city going to do to make it clear that y'all are not going to let this happen to residents and natives of San Francisco? It is... Not only gross, it's horrifying. The things that we've been through, and we've come time and time again, and nothing is happening for us. On top of the last time that y'all had one that I was here at, there was things getting fixed at the housing authority. However, things are not getting fixed at AG and all of the other places where there's big problems. We keep coming to y'all. We need y'all help. We're not just talking. We're not just here to talk. We actually need y'all help. We need y'all to do something. Even if y'all come to the residence at AG and talk to us there, because let me tell you, the mayor came and he has not come back after that. It was a pony show. We are tired of the pony show. Please help us. Thank you.

Good afternoon, Commission. I am Kenesha Roach, president of the Bayview Hunters Point Quarantine Council, San Francisco resident and native, standing here today in solidarity with the residents of Alice Griffiths. We recognize that John Stewart Company serves as the property manager and that McCormick Baron Salazar has ownership and development responsibilities. However, today we are not here to question those entities. We are here because this is the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission, the governing body responsible for the oversight of publicly subsidized housing. Residents have recently received unexpected balance due notices. And while different entities may have different operational responsibilities, residents deserve to know how the San Francisco Housing Authority exercises its oversight to ensure families are protected from administrative errors and unfair financial burdens. Our concerns today are about governance, accountability, and the protection of residents who depend on your oversight. My question is this. As stewards of public housing funds, what responsibility does San Francisco Housing Authority have to ensure that residents are not financially harmed by administrative errors made by its contractors or property management partners? Specifically, what oversight mechanisms are in place to verify the accuracy of rent calculations and balance due notices before residents are expected to pay? Residents are not here to assign blame. We are here because families deserve transparency, accountability, and confidence that the public agencies entrusted with oversight are ensuring that subsidized housing is administered fairly and accurately. Finally, I respectfully ask this commission, will the commission, Direct SFHA staff to investigate the recent balance due notices issued to AG residents and provide a public report on its findings. Additionally, will the commission place Alice Griffith on a future meeting agenda so residents can receive a full discussion of these concerns and actions SFHA is taking to address them? Thank you.

Good afternoon. My name is Tawana Newsome, and I stand in solidarity with Alex Griffith. I wanted to speak on the maintenance problem work orders are being put in and they're not being addressed until 10 to 11 months later. And our security door has been broken for as long as I've been there and packages are being stolen and nothing is being done about it. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you.

Any additional general public comment for item number five for those that have not spoken yet? We can close general public comment.

I just wanted to respond to some of the comments around Alice Griffith in particular, since there were a number of folks in the room. First of all, really appreciate folks coming out and speaking to the challenges that Alice Griffith were aware. Obviously, the mayor has been out a couple of times. Our office, both the Housing Authority and the Mayor's Office of Housing, is coordinating with other city departments, including the building department, the city attorney's office, to ensure that notices of violation are being taken care of. So that work is ongoing. On the MOCD side, the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development side, we have staff that participate in weekly meetings with property management to try and address some of the property management concerns that are out there. I want to appreciate the comments around the notices. So I've heard those, and we will look into that. I want to emphasize that we rely on the owner and property manager to do their job and keep their books up to date and only deliver notices when they have the accounting backup to justify those. But given the preponderance of comments that we've heard today, we'll be looking into that practice and ensuring that those notices were accurately calculated. And happy to report back on that next month. And again, know that we are actively engaged in trying to improve conditions at Alice Griffith and necessarily working in concert with the owner and property management entities out there. Thank you.

So Bennett, I think we've sort of segued into the director's report. So maybe we could just keep, yeah.

segue away. Very limited report out today. I've traditionally mentioned our work on the Emergency Housing Voucher Program and its transition Today, my report out is steady as she goes. So unfortunately, we still have not heard back from HUD on the tenant protection voucher allocation. Our CFO has been out of the country recently, so we'll redouble our efforts to get information out of HUD. But we're not alone in being a bit in the dark. As I've reported previously, we're fortunate to have voucher capacity to start to issue housing choice vouchers or tenant-based vouchers next month. to reduce the number of folks who will be on the emergency housing voucher. So that work is going to commence next month. And we have reserves available to extend the voucher subsidy for an extended period of time. So no one is at risk of any displacement from their voucher currently. And there's no current plans to move people out of a tenant-based voucher or the emergency housing voucher into a project-based voucher. And if we get to that point, it'll be in the future and you'll receive plenty of notice. So I just want to reinforce those comments. We've gotten some questions since over the last month about our position and policy. We've reiterated that. We've sent notices to residents. And so that work is ongoing. And that is my only update.

Thank you. Is there public comments for item number seven, specifically for item number seven?

My first time at a meeting, but thank you very much for your support, your consideration, and helping us with the things that we need help with. We really do appreciate you.

And have a good day.

Let me get situated here before you start on my time here. I could appreciate the executive director's report on what's going on over the southeast side. But I must mention what's going on.

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So so I can start my time off now. Yes, of course. Sorry start again So anyway, yeah, I'm here speaking on and you did a wonderful report there. I east side, but I'm talking about the west side. But basically, all the public houses are in the RAD program. That must be reviewed, because it'll tell you about what's going on. Most of y'all weren't even around when that took place. So anyway. I wanted to reiterate that the six projects, the Robert Pitts Plaza East, Hayes Valley North and South, Westside, the Senior Citizens, all those developments are in the Western Edition. And I'm hoping that I could work with you to get a report on what's going on with those projects, basically one by one. Because I plan on doing that. a state of the Fillmore report. And so public housing is involved with that particular. So I got a minute. So my history, it goes way back to Agnes and Gilmore, way before y'all, with the housing authority. So I won't bore you with that. Maybe you probably would have me come back on a special day to give history of my history of the San Francisco. Housing Authority. Anyway, thank you for that. I've got 38 minutes. Oh, I'm getting real good. Ooh, look like I got. So anyway, I just want to reiterate the importance of that particular part of the San Francisco Housing Authority in the Western Edition. Thank you.

Thank you.

Additional public comment for item number seven?

OK. We got one more.

Do you want to do a tenant report? We'll still do the report . OK. Yeah. OK. Yeah.

OK. OK. Like right now? Yeah. So stay?

Yes. OK, so we're closing public comment for item number seven, but we still need to do item number six for the tenant representative reports. We have Stephanie Hughes here, the president of CCSD. If I could give the report out.

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Hello, my name is Sister Stephanie Hughes. I am the president of Citywide CCSD with seniors and disabled. Since the conversion, I think the MOU, we all plan to have safety. Safety has been a big issue in our community and security for a lot of our buildings. Just recently in my building at Rosa Park, we had a person to pass away in the hallway. And he laid there deceased for quite a while, like, I don't know, over four or five hours. There's cameras in the building. However, he was not there. seen until the staff came on after 10 o'clock. But he had been deceased hours before that, laying in the hallway. And had we had security to walk the floors like we were promised, he would have been seen. He had an asthma attack. And he laid out on the floor right in front of his apartment door. We were promised security when the conversion happened. We had security for a while. And then I guess they start talking about funding or whatever. No one has any money. But we were promised things, and the promises have been broken. And not only in just where I'm at, at Rosa Park, but at other buildings as well. Being the new CCSD president, I've been going around to all the buildings and talking with people and trying to meet with the managers. Managers are managing several buildings. So they're supposed to be at this building two days a week, but they're not there. They're supposed to be at another building three days a week. And it's been very hard to contact these management. Some builders have had issues where they needed immediate maintenance or management attention, and no one's been able to reach them, not even by phone. You call those phone numbers. I guess they got those AI. Answering services, very, very difficult to get someone. It's very, very complicated. And so I don't know what the issue is that there's not management at the very least five days a week at a lot of these senior disabled buildings. But that needs to change. If it's not going to be the property manager, then it definitely needs to be an assistant manager, someone who can assist the senior and the disabled people in their housing. And security is definitely, that's number one. That's number one, because we have people who are fragile. And if there's no security at the door, you have people who are coming in, homeless people. We're trying to take care of folks, and it's very difficult to do that without staff being on site. and without security, or working cameras, cameras that actually capture and can see the whole hallways without all these blind spots. Because that's what we were told when the guy fell dead in front of his door, was that he was in a blind spot. So they couldn't see that he was laying there for hours. Just imagine how his children felt knowing that he laid outside of his apartment door for hours. That was very sad, and it's very unfortunate. And it's not just happening at my building. It's happening at a lot of buildings, just to get safety for folks. There's another person who I'm working with hell and hell with this, though. The resources for folks who have in-home care workers, but they're not 24-hour service, but you have people who need a little bit more help than others. There's this lady. She's blind. She wanders the building. Well, I don't understand why she's up on the floor really high where the stairwell is open, where she can literally probably fall over. the banister, and then it takes so long when we're talking to city employees and they're saying something has to happen. I'm like, what? She has to die? She has to fall over? I mean, I don't understand. the lack there of humanity from the individuals who are supposed to be not just housing us, because it's a contract that we sign. And in our lease, it's supposed to be a healthy, livable bright conditions. I'm not going to pay for a place where nothing's working, and nothing's right, and no management, nobody I can talk to. If I'm just going to pay rent, I'm going to get me a trailer somewhere. But I'm in housing. And the housing should be adequate, adequate housing. Folks come after us when they say we don't pay our rent. But who's going after them when they're not supplying the same things that we signed on our leases? It's not just me signing a lease. That is a contractual agreement. And the expectation is that these housing folks, these management companies, do the same that they require of us to uphold the contractual agreement. It works both ways. OK? There's so much more that needs to be gathered up with the community. with the MOU in place even for the tenant associations with the management companies, the lack there of respect from management with the tenant associations. There can be a lot of personality conflicts whatsoever. However, it is a business. And the tenant associations have the right to advocate, to stand up, to have open dialogue and communication with the management companies that are there. That's the whole purpose of the MOU. Am I not correct? OK. So what's been happening is I've gone to a couple of buildings where the residents can only use the community room during business hours when staff is there. Staff's not there on Friday, so we couldn't have a meeting on Friday because the community room is closed to the residents. I'm not understanding how in your house where you pay rent at, you're limited to even using your space to have a residential gathering of your folks for a meeting to help. to find out what the needs are in your own community, because they're supposed to be separate from the management. The tennis associations are separate from management. They're an individual entity. However, the barrier here is management's rule, because they may not get along with or may not fully understand the contract that they signed. There are several buildings who... The overturn and staffing has just been horrendous. I didn't vote for Rad. I wanted housing. I'm sorry. I wanted the San Francisco Housing Authority. I didn't vote for the rat because I don't understand what that means anyway. Rental assistance demonstration, right? What the heck does that really? It's a terrible name because I pay my rent. I pay my rent. I've demonstrated that, but I don't get the service that my money is supposed to doesn't match up i'm not going to say bye because i'm not buying it but we're contracting and we're it's a partnership but it's one-sided the majority of the time when it comes to resident and management and its owner we're not just without us you would have no tenants No money, no way to do any business if we're not here. But you took on this. Management took on these things to help improve. So they say, improve the structural environment of our communities. But I'm going to tell you that they're worse than they've ever been. They are worse than they have ever been. I haven't been in housing that long, but long enough to know that it's bad. It's really bad all over the place. And it's sad. And it's hurting. I'm disappointed. Very disappointed. but thank you for your time and once i finish up my survey with the communities that i'm working with i'll be back please do thank you very much for your service thank you

Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is Kimberly Hill Brown. I am the secretary for the Public Housing Tenant Association, and I am standing in the stead of our president, Joyce Armstrong. We will be returning back to the chambers of the Housing Authority Commission on a regular basis, as we will be participating in other city hall planning meetings and commissions more frequently And we sit on a lot of committees in San Francisco. Joyce Iniola, the treasurer and the president for PHTA, they sit on the CAC shipyard candlestick. I sit on the implementation committee for the shipyard candlestick. And we all sit on the Indian Basin leadership committee that's been doing a lot of work at the Indian Basin waterfront. So a lot of that is our housing expertise that we bring to these committees, all three of us. Neola is a former commissioner for 10 years. She sat on the Housing Authority Commission. Joyce Armstrong and I are former employees of the Housing Authority, retired. And so to these committees for our city, we bring our housing and employment and economic development expertise to these different committees. Annually, we meet with the executive director of the Housing Authority. We have one of those coming up next month. Updates. We have current elections in process at Plaza East. north beach has been informed the management has been informed of elections coming up for north beach and these are this is whole election is a process phta we do the elections for all of ccsd we oversee their election actual process so we're We don't have any stake in the game for any of the elections. We just conduct them and make sure that they are fair and according to HUD regulations. There's a lot going on. We also are partners for the newly revived Bayview-Hunters Point Coordinating Council, who stands on the shoulders of our elders in the southeast sector of San Francisco, which is Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitation Valley, and Patrell Hill. I've been at several meetings this year for Alice Griffiths. I've seen some things, and some things I refuse to see because I don't do rats. So I don't want to see the rats crawling through the walls, eating up the building. I don't want to see that. But residents have walked me through staff areas, which are totally inhabitable. So if the staff is working in these spaces, We have to imagine what our residents are living in. And they don't want to feel targeted, because really, honestly, they should be doing a rent strike. They've undergone a lot. And I think we need to take this a little bit more serious, because rats breed disease. And the buildings out there are damn near eight and up from the inside out. We need to take this very serious. Our residents' ceilings and water is falling on them in public meetings. Talk to the Bayview Hunters Point Coordinating Council. They have video documented all of these things. So when they come here, and we are encouraging residents to come back to this chamber, on a regular basis because people are undergoing things that are inhabitable, immoral, and just outright none of us would want our families or we wouldn't want ourselves to live in these situations. So I didn't vote for Rad either. And like I told our service coordinator, see, my art, listen. Joyce Neola and I are established resident leaders. We was doing leadership work before Housing Authority in this city. We've been groomed. And I worked for the Housing Authority for 15 years, HOPE VI coordinator, community and supportive services, then Fair Housing, Section 8 eligibility. These things should not be happening. So we understand. We have team meetings. We had a team meeting with our service provider today. Normally, we have it. Our property manager is also at the table, and we do our monthly planning. We do that. We build partnerships. We have partnerships with people who no longer get funding because under this RAD contract, they weren't getting paid. But guess what? Because of the partnerships that we build as a resident council, they still bring our seniors' boxes and resources to Bernal because we establish good partnership. So we have people who still provide service even though they don't get a dime, even though everybody's crying broke. They provide a service to us because of good partnership. That's what we bring. So just like we bring good partnerships to community organizations, we bring good partnerships to the housing authority. And our residents have not been accustomed to come into this chamber and not hear being heard post or pre-COVID. are pre-read. They've always been able to come to this chamber and be heard and have something done because the staff that was serving them reported to the housing authority and the commission. You understand? These developers and these management companies, when we come here and we report to the housing authority commission, that's like snitching to them. And they treat us accordingly. Not my site, because we have a working relationship. So we don't face those type of things. But residents who are not more assertive and feel comfortable and safe speaking up, they usually don't. And those who do feel targeted under these new management companies. So we have to be mindful that this is a transition. And things really don't work the way they used to. These are your contractors. We need to make sure that they are upholding the contract, that they understand the ACOP. We just hosted the five-year annual plan at our site. But a lot of these management companies, maybe they do now, but at the beginning of RAD and maybe the first three years of the conversion, they didn't know. And if you don't believe me, ask Helen Hale. We have a good working relationship with her as well. So we will be at the table doing our due diligence to report correct and accurate information to this chamber. And one thing on the executive report, And I noticed this as I was looking at the agenda electronically, and then looking at the planning commission meeting electronically. The Ramitash. What do you call it? It's not written on the agenda. So I recommend that it be written and read, because I believe when Commissioner President Torres was here, you all were reading it. So please, but it's not here for the public and for the residents to see it and read it and have it in their files so that they can use it and read it. Thank you.

We can open public comment. This is for public comment for the tenant representative reports, item number six.

Hello, my name is Victoria Vandercourt. I'm the president of the Tenants Association and Alice Griffiths. I'm just coming tonight to follow up from our monthly meeting that we had last month at our Tenants Association meeting. A lot of people are coming in voicing concerns about maintenance issues and the rat infestations, the roach infestations, a lot of the issues that are going on at Alice Griffiths. And I heard a couple of people say that they've started to come out and fix stuff. The only reason that they've started to come out and fix stuff is because at the last meeting, property management reported that our annual HUD inspections are coming up. So now all of a sudden that HUD will be coming out and inspecting all of these houses and trying to figure out if they need to put them under where they don't pay the rent and all that stuff anymore. Now they want to rush in and try to fix everyone's apartments when we've been going for years without issues being addressed. People have it to where they don't have stoves. They don't have refrigerators. They don't have washing machines. Rats have came into our houses and ate up our furniture, destroyed our kids' stuff. We've had a whole first floor in Alice Griffith that has completely been evacuated because the rats are eating through the walls from inside to outside, from inside the building into people's apartments. We've had so much violence going on in Alice Griffith. I was shot in Alice Griffith three years ago. I haven't had any services. I haven't been offered to move from Alice Griffith. I haven't been offered any services from housing, property management, victim of crime, or anything. And I've been living through all of this. In Alice Griffith, we are suffering. Yes, the news has came. Yes, we've been talked about in so many platforms out here. People come out, give the news opportunity, let people come see that they're acting like they're going to help Alice Griffith. But no one is truly sitting here helping us as family or residents in Alice Griffith. All I'm asking is that people come out and see it for themselves. Don't have, like they called it, a dog and pony show and bring the news out with you so everyone can know that you're there. Come out and see it for yourself without warning. Don't tell anyone you're coming. Just come see what we're living every day. Thank you.

Can I just provide just one quick follow-up to those comments? I will mention that yesterday I did tour Alice Griffith and the other HOPE SF sites with the Assistant Policy Chief for Public Safety. And so just in reference to the safety concerns, we are endeavoring to coordinate directly with the mayor's office, the street violence prevention teams, to address public safety issues at our HOPE SF sites. And so I really want to just call attention that this is something that we take really seriously and are following up with.

Started to explain the city attorney action earlier. Did you I?

Did not and I cannot comment on that.

Okay, I Have to say to you ladies and gentlemen I'm appalled All the testimony I hear over on the east side. I mean, I'm over on the west side, because that's what I handle it. But I used to be in the east 10, 15 years ago, sitting for rad. I rode through there with Newsom before they had the midnight basketball playing. And so I look back 10, 15 years, and I'm hearing what these residents are saying about the rats. How could y'all sit there and smile and say, yeah? And nobody's taking pen or having a phone call to somebody that could take care of it, like the mayor, HUD, State Department. What in the hell? Do y'all hear these people out here saying, Rats infected. I mean, I ain't took my cameras out there, but I could imagine how it is to live under those conditions. And how in the hell this commission in 2026 let all this shit happen over in Bayview like that? I mean, we got problems in the Western Edition. Please, I want to talk about that. But I'm appalled. And this RAD program is at the end of whatever y'all starting over. Most of y'all weren't around, so I'm not going to get on you. Maybe the lawyer was around since the girl was there. Y'all wasn't around, so you have no clue what I'm talking about. And you're looking at me like I'm Mr. Magoo. No, my name is Ace, dammit. And I've been on the case over 30 years. Shedded some tears. And I'm not going to be long. But the history going to show you guys are wrong. How can y'all sit? Unless y'all ain't got the money. And I know Trump is at the fence, but something has to be done immediately.

This about y'all. Y'all need to fix this City Hall disabled thing. Every time I come here, it's broke. I have to go all the way around the corner. I have to get on one elevator. And it's just, they talk about Alice Griffin, but y'all stuff messed up too. Y'all need to fix that disabled thing that brings you up. Because it makes no sense. If my chair die, then I'll be stuck. So just trying to tell y'all, fix it and keep it fixed, please. Because I'm tired of going around a corner and everybody be upstairs before me. Thank you.

Thank you, Ben. Will you let the... Can I say one last thing?

And I know I'm doing it.

I think one comment per person, so... You've already had your quote.

Oh, did you comment on this? My apologies. I just wanted to say I'm hearing things about roaches and things like that. However, if the property manager is somebody, they have a T-moon where you can get roach repellents very cheap and inexpensive if it doesn't have any health concerns with any other people. But we've never seen them outside, so of course they'd be inside, but that would help to get them away for some people. It's my opinion. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Sean Richard. I'm the executive director of an organization called Brothers Against Guns. July 13th, about 10 o'clock, I went through Devil Rock. I used to work in Devil Rock back in the days for a program called Cape Incorporated. We used to help ex-offenders get jobs. It was Community Alliance program for ex-offenders. That was in the old Devil Rock. They shut it down. But I went through there July 13th at about 10, 15 at night by myself because I can go anywhere I want to in the city because who I am. And I'm sitting here hearing a lot of the residents telling me early on that there's rats, raccoons. And I went to go see it for myself. And I was very, very upset. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to the residents. Please take this serious. Go back to whoever you need to report this to and report it back to them and let them know that this is serious. I've seen rats, raccoons, mouse, garbage. It's not livable. It's bad. You heard a young lady say the walls are being ate up. Water is just running out of pipes everywhere. You guys really need to go back to whoever you need to go back to and get some folks down there to double rock. They're putting a Band-Aid on there. The only reason why they're going out there cleaning up and fixing stuff, because people are speaking out. People are saying what's not being happening, so they're now making a way to get out there to try to fix stuff. Go out there and see for yourself, but go out there and report back to the people that have the authority to make this stuff right and get it fixed. Thank you.

I'm going to tell y'all a story. My first four months working for the Housing Authority in 1996, we happened to go to Plaza East in October around a quarter to 5 in that Laguna parking lot in front of the three-story high rise. Actually, it's 12 stories. I'm sorry. There were rats in the trees. by 515, rats were all over the parking lot. In the trees, if you lived on the third floor, you had to keep your windows closed. This was a Friday. When I reported to work that Monday, I told my manager, Our department reported to Plaza East that December. We did relocation from December 1996 to July 1997. I never saw a rat my whole time there because the infestation had been eradicated. From October to December, I never saw a rat once we got there in December. The residents had been living in this infestation. People walking home from work at 530 with flashlights. The rats were riding up the elevator with them. So I know. If we could clean them up for staff to come and do work, we can clean up Alice Griffith for the residents to live in safety and sanitation.

There's no additional public comment for item number six. We can, yep.

I would just like to defend the commission because you guys, I think you all knew together. Well, I just appreciate from the executive report and on about what you guys do do. So thank you. It is being seen as well.

OK. We can close with a comment on item number six.

Commissioners, any observations? Maybe I'll just start. Let me just start by saying, as commissioners, obviously, We have a different role to play than the staff in the buildings. We have a different role to play than the staff of the housing authority and of the property management companies. Now I was standing in the comments, and I appreciate the attempts to defend whatever it is that you might be worried about. I think we take these jobs on because we care about whatever happens to our neighbors and our other people living in our city. And I'm sure it pains every one of us to have heard not just tonight's testimony, But the testimony that's gone on, and I'm sorry, I don't remember the young lady's name, who's been here now for the last six months talking about Alice Griffith. And we have been talking to staff and others about it. So notwithstanding the fact that we're standing here trying to look diplomatic about things and recognizing that we may have a different role to play than you as advocates, I don't want you to take that to suggest that we don't care, that we're not listening. that we're not as horrified as you are. I also hate rats. I'm sure everybody up here has a visceral response to the things you're saying. So I don't want you to take the fact that we're not jumping up and down or screaming at the top of our lungs with you to mean that inside we are not horrified with you or that we don't care about the things that you care about or that we don't see you. I think the testimony you gave all of you is horrifying. I was at the old Double Rock. I had been to the new Alice Griffith. The things that we're hearing are cause for great concern. I do understand. The conversation we're having is about accountability and the question of where does accountability live when these buildings have private ownership and private management with an asset management responsibility from the mayor's office of housing, the old redevelopment agency, the office of community investment, and the housing authority. And I acknowledge it's complex. There's also a building inspection department and others. This is not to say that you deserve us to throw up our hands because it's complicated. That's not, I think, what any of us are saying. I think what I want you to hear is that your message has been really clearly received by all of us. We are not in a position to immediately respond from the podium here, in part because we are just commissioners, and we need to take some time to understand all the things that are being done. Even our executive director has limitations on what he's able to say, in part because of the different things that are occurring around the city and different agencies that are involved. So I'm sure my fellow commissioners may have additional things to say. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn for all of you. But I guess I just want to say, please don't take the fact that we're not immediately responding with, this is what's going to happen, and this is how everything is going to get fixed with an indication that we're indifferent. that we don't care or that we're not listening, because that's not what's happening up here. Your message has been very, very clearly received now for several months, and tonight was very, very strong. And so thank you for coming out. I appreciate it. I'm sure everybody here does. It's horrible to have to spend your time living in those conditions, and much worse to have to tromp down here and make your case at City Hall. So much appreciated, and I really am sorry for those of you that are living with these situations. It sounds abominable, and I really hope that, we can collectively do something about it sooner rather than later. So thank you. Any other commissioners want to make any additional comments? Commissioner Pikes?

Yeah, I just want to say that I've listened to your stories today, and my heart goes out to you. It really, really does. And I'm praying that you guys will get resolutions. Once the people who's over whatever areas you're concerned with, I'm sure they're going to move on your behalf. And I wanted to say to the young man with the dreadlocks who's saying, this lady here, Kendra, speak with her because she's good. Okay, and she'll get to the bottom of it. Okay, meet with her or give her your information. I've already written it down for after the meeting, if you want. But she's good, and I'm sure she'll help you. But I really believe, like they said, the Board of Commissioners, we're limited, you know. But we will see to it that your needs are met because nobody should live like that at all. Thank you.

Other commissioners? No? And just because other commissioners aren't speaking up, it's not that they don't feel the same way. It's just that we don't want to take too much of your time. But I think I looked around me, and I know that Commissioner Pike speaks for all of us. So thank you. Next item, Bennett?

That's item number eight. That is the consent items for the commission meeting minutes of last month's meeting on June 25. Would commissioners like to pull this item for further discussion? Great. Is there any public comments on the consent agenda? That is item number eight. Then we can close with a comment. Is there a motion for approval of the consent agenda?

Motion to approve.

And a second. Second. Thank you. Roll call vote. Commissioner Bikes. Aye. Commissioner Gansino. Aye. Commissioner Lai. Aye. Commissioner Satili.

Aye.

Commissioner Kim is absent. Vice President Alvarez. Aye. And President Shoemaker. Aye. So moved. Thank you. Item 9 is regular business action items. Item 9A is the resolution of the Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco approving and authorizing the Acting Executive Director to enter into a construction license agreement with Sunnydale Phase 4 Infrastructure LLC and SFHA Housing Corporation to demolish certain existing buildings located within Phases 2A and 2B. the sunnydale velasco revitalization project and to install fencing around the existing buildings located in phases 2c 3a and 3b of the sunnydale velasco revitalization project presented by kendra crawford the housing operations director

Good afternoon, commissioners. This is a request for the executive director to enter into a construction license agreement to fence off a certain area of Sunnydale and to start the abatement and abolishment of 23 buildings in the Sunnydale development. 19 of the buildings are currently vacant. Four buildings still have unauthorized occupants that we're working with property management and attorneys to vacate. This site will be scheduled for new construction and improvements in 2028. Any questions about this request? We previously came to fence up this area, and now it's time to start the abatement and demolition.

Commissioner's questions about this item?

OK. If there's no Commissioner's feedback?

For Commissioner feedback, I don't have a question, but I'm excited that this is occurring. I appreciate the challenge of addressing the off-lease residents that are out there. And I'm sure you'll take care of that, or the developer and their partners will. But it is exciting that these buildings are coming down. And I know they're coming down because new housing has been built to replace it. And so especially in light of the last half hours worth of conversation, I think it's great to see something positive happening. So thank you. Thank you.

Any other comments from commissioners? Great. Any public comment on item number 9A? Then we can close public comment. Is there a motion for approval of this item?

Motion to approve.

And a second. Second. Roll call vote. Commissioner Bikes. Aye. Commissioner Cancino. Aye. Commissioner Satili. Aye. Commissioner Kim is absent. Vice President Alvarez? Aye. And President Shoemaker? Aye. So moved. Item 9B is the resolution of the Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco, approving and authorizing the acting executive director to enter into an exclusive negotiating rights agreement with 5S1925LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and an affiliate of Fifth Space. for the proposed acquisition and development of Potrera Hope SF Block A as a workforce rental housing. And this will be presented by the acting ED, Daniel Adams. DANIEL ADAMS.

Thank you, Bennett. I'm very pleased to present this item, an exciting milestone for us to reach. A bit of context. At our HOPE SF sites, four of which we're still underway on, we've been quite successful in replacing public housing and building new low-income housing through the tax credit program. But all of the sites contemplated creating mixed-income communities and having complementary sites developed within the overall master plans. And on that task, we've been much less successful, in fact. At none of the sites have we built any housing other than the public housing replacement and low-income housing tax credit units. So this Block A here at Potrero is an opportunity to move forward a site that will complement that really important work. It's on a market rate parcel. It's immediately adjacent to Block B, now called the Eve. And what's particularly exciting about it, from my perspective, is that it will be intended to be a workforce housing demographic. So it will be rental housing, but folks making anywhere from 50% AMI all the way up to 120% AMI, which is a really great sort of, again, I'll use the word complement to the deeper affordability that we're achieving on site and attending to a real need that the city has to develop moderate income or workforce housing. So the The other piece I want to call out is what's before you today for approval is just as is described. It's a negotiating agreement. So what we're agreeing to do today is negotiate. Many of the details and specifics of the project and the proposal we will be bringing back to you for your approval through a a disposition and development agreement process or a DDA process. So this agreement before you merely structures an ability for us to negotiate exclusively with Fifth Space and their affiliate to develop more detailed plans as well as the terms of the sale of the parcel for this proposed workforce housing. So we're not going to sing from the ramparts or celebrate too strong. I mean, this is a great milestone. But what we're going to be doing is refining with them the proposal. And as I say, we'll be coming back to you for affirming approval of what is basically a purchase and sale agreement at a later date. So I'll stop there and see if there are any questions.

Commissioner, questions about this? I have a couple clarifying questions that I just was hoping you could speak to. So in the memo, it speaks to state area median income. And we don't often see that in our memos. And I'm just wondering if you could explain to folks, because state median income is actually lower than local median income, and so I think There might be some confusion about what we're actually getting or potentially getting.

Yeah. That may be a state median income is actually higher. So I think that's an error in the drafting. OK. All right. Well, we'll come back and see that. We will use our local most CD area median.

Maybe, yeah. Just for future members, it would be helpful information got presented in terms that we were more familiar with.

Yeah, I think it's just an error. And it may even reflect back to the drafting of the MDA itself. So part of what we're conforming here is to a document, the master development agreement, which was ratified many, many years ago. And that document may reference state AMI in its provisions around this workforce housing model. So I'll go back and check that. But in practice, and for the record, the way we will regulate and restrict this asset is using our local AMI levels. OK. Other questions?

Go ahead.

I just have a quick question just on the scoring on the financial capacity and financing plan. I'm just a little bit curious, maybe even perhaps on execution, but more on the financing. Why an 18 rather than a 20? Like, what were the points taken off?

The reason why I ask, right, is financial capacity. Yes, 18 out of 20 is pretty good.

It is pretty good, but I'm just curious to know why

I was not one of the scorers, so I cannot actually speak to the specifics on that. But overall, the project certainly passed the threshold for approval, for sure. But I don't have the specific information on the deduction of two points in that category.

We know Cynthia would be a tough grader. I guess 90 is not good enough, but that's all right. It's an A minus. It's an A minus. All right. Other questions?

Well, this is very exciting. Thank you for bringing this. After seeing many years of stagnated progress, this is certainly a good sign, I think. Just a quick question around the extension period. So the initial agreement period is 12 months with three extensions effectively for another nine months. And are we expecting it to, what should we expect as a Housing Authority Commission to see within that potential year and nine months?

Great question. Both we as the public bodies, the Mayor's Office of Housing and Housing Authority, and the developer are very anxious to move as quickly as possible. So we currently wouldn't expect that the developer would need to exercise those extensions given their proposed timeline. That we'll be bringing back to you a DDA well in advance of those extensions. They're there if we need them. I will say that we are not under an obligation to grant those extensions. So the ENRA posits their ability to request those, but the granting of those is at our discretion. So if we're working in good faith and we're seeing progress, And I'm happy to report that progress out to you all on a periodic basis. But as long as we're seeing good faith efforts and we're moving forward, we certainly would be very likely to grant those extensions. And that's why they're built into the agreement. But we intend to move more quickly than this document allows for.

I may have misheard you, but I believe you said that this was actually for a market rate parcel or in the overall master plan. And I think I saw in the report that the AMI levels targets are between 50% and 120%. Does that still satisfy the requirements of the overall DDA?

Great question as well. So we are in conformance with our, it's actually the master development agreement and the development agreement, and it's in the MDA that there's an exhibit, Exhibit L, which outlines the process for disposing of sites for market rate development. And in that exhibit, it allows the city to, at its option, to shift those sites to a workforce housing or a moderate income model, basically, if we At our discretion, we can recast those sites or a portion of the units on those sites for units up to 150% AMI, I believe it says in the MDA itself. So it's through that provision that we're establishing or proposing to use this first market rate parcel for a workforce model. And the reason we're doing that is because this developer has been successful implementing that model at previous sites, specifically at the Potrero Power Station nearby. And so it's a chance to replicate that financing model that, while it doesn't tap into direct city subsidy, does use property tax exemptions combined with recycled bonds that we issue locally in order to meet those affordability levels. And they have some capital partners that are really interested in replicating this model. So we have the provision and the ability to do this through our MDA, and we're taking advantage of that interest and availability of financing to do it here.

Questions? No. Well, I'll just say, I know you said we can't sing. And I can't actually sing. But I do think it's exciting. When we first as a city envisioned the Hope SF framework, I think there was always a challenge with the idea that it was going to be like a little bit of a barbell in the sense that you would have housing for people earning less than 60% of median, and then the market, which in Potrero Hill is pretty high. I don't know exactly what the marketplace is, but there's a lot of for-sale housing selling for over a million dollars. There's not a lot of new rental housing. I think just from a very basic standpoint, the opportunity to create rental housing that is sort of in between those is great for the city in general, and I think even better for this site. So I, for one, really hope that you guys are able to come back with a proposal that works, and maybe one that could be seen at other sites and other locations within Hope SF, where I think we are struggling to figure out what the right fit is. And not saying that it's this developer, but just this framework of trying to create housing that sort of sits in between luxury and the replacement housing and tax credit housing that's been built. And I also think the tax credit housing and the replacement housing, again, notwithstanding the conversations that we had just a little while ago, but the ones at Sunnydale and at Betrero, I think the design quality and the management quality seems to be excellent. And so I'm hopeful that that blend into the rest of the neighborhood will be seamless. Let's hope this development can live up to that high standard. Yes.

We're excited. Thank you so much.

Great. Thank you.

Any other comments from commissioners about this item? Any public comment on item number 9B?

Wow. I'm just going to... Take a little time for history right quick. Most of you have been around for a number of years. Ain't no mystery. All you got to do is check my history. Let me just say, I was responsible for bringing San Francisco Housing Authority commissioners meeting to City Hall. They used to be down at 440. And I lobbied for them to come here. So I'll let that be for the record. Now, also, I'm well aware of what's happening here, but y'all must pay attention to what I'm trying to say to bring the history up to where we are right now. San Francisco, Hope SF. I was back there before. Y'all weren't even around. I'm 72 years old. I just look a little young. I go back for eight administrations. And all of this, in my opinion, is melancholy because people that look like me ain't going to be able to live into none of these apartments that you call housing, that's going to be in public housing, Betrayal Hill, and all that. And let me just leave it there. But I'm here basically to tell you that I need to come back when you're commissioner to talk about the Western addition, OK? Because there ain't no mystery. You're not getting away with the issues that has to take care of the San Francisco housing development with the RAD. And so that's very important. I've got 30 seconds. No, no, I've got 30 seconds. Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, it's OK. So I don't want nobody getting misunderstood. What is this guy come up here talking about? But hopefully I could be welcome to your commissioners like I was welcome to the Human Rights Commission to give some history of what housing authority have done to our community over the years. Thank you very much.

Additional public comments for item 9B? Closing public comment. Is there a motion for approval?

Motion to approve. Second.

Thank you. Oh, my god. There's been a disruption in the force.

A roll call vote. Commissioner Pikes. Aye. Commissioner Canzino. Aye. Commissioner Lai. Aye. Commissioner Satili. Aye. Commissioner Kim is absent. Vice President Alvarez. Aye. President Shoemaker.

Aye.

So moved. Item 10 is any additional commissioner's comments or report. If there is no additional comments. Move to adjourn. Thank you. Thank you. Time is 5.23. Thank you. Thank you.