many of the best and brightests from the city's department were transferred to the city's department of homelessness and housing. we are proposing to shift one seat, eliminate one other seat, for a total of 12 seats. this was a consensus decision by the members of the task force. we feel it's necessary to preserve san francisco's last bastion of affordable housing and serve its residents. thank you. >> supervisor safai: great. unless there's any comments from my colleagues, we'll take public comment. any member of the public that wish to comment on this item, please come forward. >> good afternoon. my name is jordan davis, and i currently sit at one of two tenant reps on the s.r.o. task force. you know, yesterday i got a reminder of why this body is necessary and why you must renew it. h.s.h. may affect its tenants in unprofited hotel which have some unintended consequences and i've had to loop in a lot of people and have this matter agendaized. we are right now having many discussions of issues that have often been left on the back burner and go unnoticed, including nonprofit tenant

the city of my salute meal read between the city once again next year. but it's really it's way to achieving so much more than it's enabled to it's building a sustainable future. now it's only a matter of the imagination how we used to give the recycling to the g. used our next story highlights just that a small team of. mental enthusiastic benevolence has found a way to prevent plastic beast from flowing into the open sea by installing traps in the hobby since it's rotterdam but what's even better is these created a floating park with the wind speed collected in these traps. this is a manmade floating island beside a disused wharf in the dutch city of rest a dam and it's not just humans that find it appealing. it really works like a magnet for all these animals which have been already in the port but didn't ever really space to go to go see around it's all brick steel and concrete seed out of this is their first actual green structure within this area and all the fish and birds and all the different government animals they come here. what makes this flo

across the city. the reality is some projects are at different phases in their life in terms of development process and if you have done tremendous scrutiny, you have pushed the numbers to the point where you can push them and you have asked everyone to show their books. i know you have. at the end of the day, the question becomes do you fundamentally want to see development? do you want to see more affordable housing? or do you want to zero? i think that, it is not always that clear. at some point, projects can't move forward if you ask them to do too much. this body has, in the past, worked on and extracted community benefits and/or higher levels of inclusionary housing from developments that we know will never get built this is just increased dramatically over the last five years. they are continuing to go up. at some point, we will not see any development and i know that some people would prefer that i know that this housing crisis in this city is real and the choice between a significant amount o

of a rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking to me that you would different that's. i think that comes to you it comes to your mind in describing moscow because. urban improvements i said do not live it is not limited to the city center in fact over the last year or so they have moved to the suburbs i mean i live in the suburbs and all of the four parks around my house have been renovated to be very active participation of local residents the major improvement in terms of the playgrounds and other public spaces what makes you believe that it's all about the reach muscovites well i mean

rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking to me that you would that's the first thing that comes to you it comes to your mind in describing moscow because. urban improvements i said do not live it not limited to the city center in fact over the last year or so they have moved to the suburbs i mean i live in the suburbs and all the four parks around my house have been renovated to be very active participation of local residents the major improvement in terms of the playgrounds and other public spaces what makes you believe that it's all about the reach muscovites well i mean the i was tal

in many places in the soviet cities and in certain the cities which were very green which were which were full of life which were full of a kind of egalitarian publicness that actually is missing from those cities today well if you haven't been to moscow off of the soviet period but you worked a lot in moscow all fired today how what terms would you use to describe this city well i mean i suppose the main trend in moscow in the last two decades. certainly has been has been the increasing of inequalities in the city has been has been the sort of rapid rise in income inequality in the city and this sort of turning of the city center gradually into this into this space for for rich muscovites in the pushing of the of muscovites further and further out of the center of the city so moscow is becoming a much more stratified place than it was before and if anything that process is going to be is going to be is definitely going to be exacerbated by the by the by the so-called renovation project by the by the project of the destruction of the host ophira mass housing well it's really striking

the city was i would say poisoned through the urban policies of the past 50 years that set the city up to fail. i'm interested in what makes the city vulnerable in the first place. >> peter: you mentioned this was years in the making, what were some of those urban policies you critique in the poison city? >> to start with segregation. segregation was the law, for a very long time. and flint was limb the most segregated city in the north and the most segregated city nationwide. the boundaries were rigidly kept, and as people were coming to the city for well-paying general mothers job, it became an increasingly tense situation. what i try to do in the book is show how our legacy of infrastructure and equality dates back to the days when we literally decided that some neighborhoods were going to be worth less, not worth investment, not worth the same level of public services or lending or any of that because of people's race and ethnicity. even when we have gotten the fair housing laws and a number of other civil rights laws the pattern is still with us plainly, and is -- with when we don

across the city. the families that i work with and represent have cars because they have to have cars. not because they want to cars. but to be able to get from the presidio at 11:00 am and then turn right around and get to the sunset at 1:00 pm, given soccer game schedules, whatever activities you are doing with your children, that is on a saturday. there is absolutely no way i could get to my children's soccer game without a car. that is just the truth. because of the proximity of the way the schedules work. that is the absolute truth. i wish there were a way i could do that. that doesn't mean that minimum parking requirements have anything to do with that. i understand you would say that having less cars would provide for less traffic and then you could -- but the point is, the people i represented my part of town have cars. you're having a parking summit this thursday because we are going to forward the conversation about limiting the number of -- we want to have residential permits and have a rea

so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts al-jazeera tamed supply images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium routed coalition announced it not suspended its military operations in the city but images shoulder the coalition forces failed to entire data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images show the whole thing dug must have trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these red lines this pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then off the shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses that also booby trap compounds on houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters entering a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all. almost four years after the sodium. of the war in yemen and insight it's not even sutton whether it can be warm but what is sure is that

they might have sampled some of the nicer parts of the city. bigad: city auditors helped design those surveys, but now even they have concerns the findings are not accurate. they're now partnering with public works to overhaul the way san francisco measures cleanliness. ♪ when i, i wonder, can i talk to you. ♪ bigad: ricky wilson knows this city. he's walked the streets and says trying to pass them off as pristine is tone deaf. ricky: 'cause there is--here in this city, man 'cause this is the city, man. don't just keep steppin' over it. don't keep talkin' about what it is and it ain't. because it's a beautiful place, man, and it's a beautiful people. bigad: iou ricky: and it can be, and it will be. bigad: so, what are you seeing on the streets of san francisco? we wanna hear from you.ed or just use the #weinvestigate. announcer: next, we investigate how much money the oil and gas industry is giving to politicians in green california. four years ago, we rejected marshall tuck and his billionaire backers for superintendent of public instructi

that we have throughout the city. i originally started with this legislation only in district four but since then, a couple of different districts have joined in that includes district one, five, ten and 11. basically what we are doing is creating a new use under the planning code called flexible retail. it involves six different uses. arts activities, limited restaurants, general retail sales and services, personal service, retail professional service and trade shops. the concept behind this new use under the planning code is that you can, at any time switch between any of those six uses without having to obtain additional change of use permits to the planning department, as long as, at any given time, you have two of those six uses. we have made many amendments since the introduction of the legislation which are included as part of the packet today. i had introduced substitute legislation on october 30th. that includes adding in districts one, five, ten, and 11 we are also requiring those six uses within the flexibl

for the city. at this time we were tasked with coming forward with a number that was reasonable for planning purposes. our three organizations worked together, we talked to a will the of different counties about their implementations. we were transparent this was a number that was the best estimate, but we would true that up. so they did give us the funding to go through the planning process. we did that and went through the process to look at the market scan. we went through a competitive bid process so nail down what the best guesstimates were. so i think that is what we have before you. something that severin said that i want to point out because it is significant and important, the contracts before you is not simply for implementation. the 12-year contract term throughout the three contracts is not only for the implementation, but ongoing maintenance and operations once they go live. so the total contract dollars is not just project and implementation, but includes maintenance. >> supervisor fe

the city and picking up litter and making our city, loving our city. and importantly when delegates got off the plane they were welcomed to s.f.o. with messaging and welcomed and there were light poles across the city. but we as a department wanted to take more of a personal touch. so we spent time in advance of the summit creating partnerships with the hotels. and these are really important because we wanted to help them to share their sustainability and successes and highlights with these delegates when they came to each hotel. but beyond that we wanted to create partnerships because we wanted to do things that we were really proud of, like remove single-use water bottles from the rooms of delegates. and for the hotels that had the majority of delegates attending them we removed them and replaced them with reusable water bottles that are all in front of you. not just a welcome though, but a welcomer and a celebration and a recognition and appreciation. but this wasn't just about the delegates. this wasn't just about the summit. this was about bringin

program, the city itself. you can kind of see, we went through wihat the origin of the program was, what made the businesses unique, why the program mattered, who the program could affect, how the program would impact the city of san francisco, its culture, the history of the city, and kind of some of the design aesthetics from the city. and we used all of that to present the initial design concept. and what we did was in addition to kind of doing that initial research is we did send out 156 surveys to all of the legacy business programs that were currently accepted into the program. that was back in february 2018, and we asked, you know, a series of 11 questions. i'm not going to go through all of them, but the main goal was to really understand the uniqueness that these businesses provided to the city and how they kind of affected what we were trying to develop and how to help represent these businesses because they're so diverse and so unique. i mean, even the three businesses that were shared today are, yo

city works, who knows the city, who has respective folks in the city but is outside the city to come in and get a sense of what's going on inside the agency and particularly deal with complaints. >> is that under way? >> it is under way. she started a month or so. >> who is this personal? >> delores blanning. she was with the city for a few decades. spent time at the airport and a number of different agencies. she's come back as a retiree employment -- employee to help fix things. she's in charge of process improvement, but she's serving an ombudsman process role. employees are going to her to say, here is what my issue is, and here is how the system is not working for me. she's looking at our process, at the eeo investigation complaint process, and really coming up with a number of recommendations, which i think will be very helpful. her options have been very helpful, anticipating what will be coming out with that, what i recognize is that our own -- we have not given our own managers and supervisors the training that they need to be effective in dealing with some of these issues b

i went to the city h.r. and met with them. the city h.r. sent me a letter saying that she wasn't going to investigate either. i had a press conference with channel talks what with my attorney january 2016, and after my press conference, they spoke with the city of human resources department, mickey callahan's office, and this is what they said. while we acknowledge the extreme offensiveness of the n. word. nonnote one comment is not sufficiently severe to create an abusive working environment. how can you tell me it wasn't abusive to me? being called a nigger. had i called someone in that office a racial slur, it would have been a different outcome. the one that called me this scary nigger, she is still working. and i have no job. >> chair peskin: thank you for sharing. thank you. thank you for sharing. thank you. we hear you. >> good evening. thank you, board of supervisors for giving us this opportunity. my name is brandon. i am an employee. i have been with the city and county for ten years in department such as the fine arts museum, m.t

so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts algis it all tamed such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium erotic coalition announced it had suspended its military operations in the city. the images show that the coalition forces failed to entire data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images showed the dog must have trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then after shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses. also booby trap compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and showing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all. the very latest now from mohammed here is in djibouti a mahmoud what exactly that is massing griffiths expecting to do in this vital city for the peo

second in the city they are hunters. on the other side of berlin and the tear proxy to leon battle is looking for a hedgehog now it's he's a biologist at the life institute for a zoo and wildlife research and going to home. when he. jokes made use of this tree trunk but he's not here at least. not in the third nest. hedgehogs go out at night and sleep all day but as we've just seen not always in the same place. this could mean more hedgehogs in cities than in the country. because our gardens and parks offer great natural habitats. the project he's working on is about how hedgehogs bats wars record moons and other wild animals live in cities. not the ones in zuma enclosures but those living free. like it's in front of our aims is to inform the public about the animals that might be living in their gardens and to encourage them to leave the creatures a little space and leave gaps in their fences so animals can come and go. that we can that's important if certain species are to survive what many people don't realize is that

so the city will have a platfofm where it will be able to see all the movementnt in the city ande even able e to control it, contl parking spots, control licences, who is driving in the cityty ad who is not, which hours, which not, logistic services. >> critics might worry about privacy issues, but the mayor of vilnius has no such qualms. he has a radical open data policy and has already incorporated trafi's data pool into the city's urban planning. >> starting with this data, we may draw conclusions to invest in, for example, pedestrian lanes, or to adapt some public transport routes or find some other solutions. i think this is still just an initial stage, we are going to the future, i think this kind of big data analysis is very important for any city, without it i think the planning of infrastructure is simply blind. >> although there is undeniable concern that it can be hijacked for ulterior motives, big data can help fine tune public transport to people's needs. >> and that's all from "global 3000" this week. but do drop us a line -- global3000@dw.com or check us out on facebook:

over the next two or three years , we are in the southeast of the city in the western part of the city, richmond and parts of richmond have low canopy. will be concentrating primarily on those areas. that is an important thing to do and like the plan that we have for the maintenance, within four years we can start moving out and planting all throughout. one of the great sadness is that i have in proper e. is we did not put enough money for planting trees and care for trees around schools. we were actually thinking of a parcel tax at that point. we were hyper aware of the cost. and when it turned into -- we had taken a pause and put some more money in for school trees. i want to move into the last part of that great conversation when you are asking how much money do we need to continue to grow the urban forest. it is about $12 million. i am working very closely with the bureau of urban forestry and talking to major corporations. there is also not only carbon credits but a new urban forest credit that we want to give to major corporations because if we look at a street tree, he does not

second in the city they are hunters. on the other side of berlin and the tear pocket zuzu leone battle is looking for a hedgehog nests he's a biologist at the life institute for a zoo and wildlife research. and one of the home. jokes made use of this tree trunk but he's not here at least. not in the third nest. hedgehogs go out at night and sleep all day but as we've just seen not always in the same place. and there are more hedgehogs in cities than in the country that's because i'm gardens and parks offer great natural habitats. the project he's working on has about how hedgehogs bats bores raccoons and other wild animals live in cities. not the ones in zuma enclosures but those living free. i mean is this large it's in front of our aims is to inform the public about the animals that might be living in their gardens and to encourage them to leave the creatures a little space and leave gaps in their fences so animals can come and go. that we can that's important if certain species are to survive what many people don't re

river to the city and vice versa it is a powerful look at how the city operated. it's one thing to say a transportation hub that how did that happen? also in this photograph which was taken in 1849, the universal life insurance company headquarters. you see a group of african-american secretaries and this is one of the favorite photographs because it shows about the african-american middle class that was ignored when we talk about history sharecroppers or that sort of thing or laborers and that it is true but there were professional african-americans as well restricted because of segregation but yet these women very strong and powerful standing there very proudly tells us about the african-american community and beyond that in the united states. next to this we have got a letter from another powerful strong african-american woman and mrs. brown was the president of the city federation of colors and that important aspect is african-americans vote in large numbers the state of tennessee granted african-americans the right to vote even before they take effect and tha

i'm here with the sfmta. i am the city traffic engineer. you had asked us to provide you an update on what it would take or how long it would take for us to the time the entire traffic signal system based on our previous discussion that we had developed a new crossing time for pedestrians. a slower walking speed of 3 feet per section -- per second. and your inquiry led to some productive work that we tried to see what projects we had pending and what projects were likely in the next few years and we have concluded that we can retiming all of the high injury network in five years and to be completed with the entire traffic signal system by the year 2024. the high injury network is about two thirds of our traffic signal so we think that based on existing projects and staff capacity we can do the work in five years and i will be part of our strategy that they discussed prior. and the locations that are not on the high injury network, we would finish them in the year after that five-year period. six years total. >> and in regards to the timing

in the city to work with. i want to hear your perspective on this because it is a major problem. >> yeah. a big conversation, absolutely. a number of elements to do with this and this is something we do talk about regularly and i talked to jeff kaczynski constantly on similar items. so there is a split between the responsibility for the clinical care systems that are under d.p.h. and the homeless department services in the organization chart. we are constantly looking for ways that we can smooth out and interconnect the systems across the department. a couple of things that we are working on, another piece of this is the human services agency. which is getting people connected to a lot of the benefits that are also key support for what this population needs to be successful. a couple of big things that we are working on collectively at the city level, one of them is the whole person care program. that is a grant program that funds the city to do what you have described. is to create the systems, processes and

means to the city as a whole. i want today give an opportunity to any of my colleagues, if anyone wants to make opening remarks. i'm not seeing any. >> supervisor ronen, i just want to say i'm very thankful that you called for this hearing. this issue is very important to many of us here. if not all of us. and certainly what is happening in the city is not what i like to see of san francisco. we need to help this situation be resolved. thank you, very much. >> thank you so much. with that, is it ok if we call up the president of unite here local 2. >> colleagues, would you -- is there any objection to have him speak as a speaker, presenter? >> thank you, supervisors. thank you for taking this very rare move to call for this urgent special hearing about a crisis with the marriott corporation in this city that's in fact turned this city, turned san francisco and its tourism industry upside down. i, along with striking workers, a short time ago, met with mayor breed, who continues to be very supportive of our campaig

it is subject to the winds of developers of the residents in the city. each time something changes their minds is how little control we have over the space beyond our lot line. our homes are reflective of ourselves and our identity. her research focuses on how people think about changes in their environments. the physical changes that take place surrounding our home are signalling a lack of identity -- a lack of respect for our identity. that is summed up what seemed to be little changes when we have discretionary review changes. there is a psychological aspect to it. >> thank you. >> seeing nothing further, director's announcements. >> i am here on behalf of director ram who is travelling on a much deserved vacation. nothing to report to you commissioners. i'm happy to respond to any questions or comments you may have. >> thank you. >> mr. cider, if you would be so kind as the acting zoning ministration and continue item 14 b 416th street until november 29th. >> as acting zoning administrator, i will continue item 14 b to the date proposed, november 29t

the city has control. you feel comfortable leaving the city in the hands and continuing with your current policies. what do we need? we need cabstands, cabstands. with popularity of smartphones and ads, street hails dried up. they are not there any more in the numbers they were. people will take cabs when they them and are confident to get them. stands at marriott and pier 39. people take cabs. they do move. the city needs to put more stands for cabs now at city hall right out here we need a cabstands. there is none. north beach. powell and market. all on the main thoroughfare. hayes valley. cabs can be seen and people aren't going to look and click an app. given the conditions for a variety of reasons cab apps are unable to compete with apps of uber and lift. there is an advantage in preserve anything industry if you want control over the situation. central dispatch. if cab companies can't get central dispatch. maybe there is a sum mentioned years ago where it was an open model platform? the cabs and any

it is a signal of the company getting ready to expand into the city. host: if you are a politician, a mayor or governor, and the state next eu is offering all of these incentives that you know you should, how do you explain it to your constituents? what is the excavation they can give? they are politicians. they need to get votes. how would you say they should explain it to their voters that this is why we are not trying to drop his company hereby offering them incentives? -- draw this company here by offering them incentives? they find thatk, is the reason why politicians offer these subsidies. if they don't work, why would you do them? politicians can't claim credit for the jobs created without offering subsidies because they would be created anyway. there are a lot of politicians and economic development officials around the country that are not happy of what they were doing. one official in kansas city said i know it sounds like i'm talking myself out of a job, but there ought to be a law against what i'm doing. how can we do this? one idea we prop

i am talking about the situation of the population of the city by the bay. we will not be nowhere around. we as black individuals are not african-american. i'm black american. i didn't try to emigrate into this country. we were brought here on slave ships and broke up with families all over this country. my last name is washington. i do believe george washington is my great grandfather and shall not tell a lie. from here on out, the city by the bay, we are in a state of emergency. my children, my grandchildren, and my great-grandchildren are in a state of emergency. all these plans always billions of dollars that you are planning for the city by the bay, we will not be involved. commissioner, i expect -- i respect what you are doing, what you know as well as i know, and the mayor knows, she was on that committee of migration. i am so happy now because i elected governor -- i elected governor newsome. i am the only one in the city, the media that has every meeting they had. by the way, i don't have time to talk right now, me you go ahead and do what you want

our 20-acres back to the city. intensive and interesting form in a way that really makes it a san francisco neighborhood with the intensity there whit was alive in -- that was there when it was alive in the history. this is the diagram with the color buildings at the power station. the small blocks used are one of the great benefits on the site. these are about a third to half the size of the mission bay blocks to allow us to open up the site and invite people there to use public spaces and reach the bay edge. variety and form means stepping to the waterfront. we have 65 feet at the water. most are up to 180. one building further back goes to 300 feet, the height of the stack on the site. these buildings frame the public faces and provide a mix at the water's edge that you can see. an exclamation point on the site where we combine reuse of existing buildings and new hotel to bring people to the water, something that is very much needed along the bay front as a true destination. the next image speaks to land use ove

city level as well as beyond the city level. we heard loud and clear that people are looking for us to talk to our partners about safety and what they can do as people who are using the streets to improve safety. so just briefly, the key highlights i wanted to bring up to you about what is new, what are we bringing forward to this action strategy that wasn't there prior, so, loud and clear we heard we wanted to see a link between the transit infrastructure we're putting in the streets. the safety outcomes that we think they have. and so, as our number one goal, in addition to protected bicycle facilities and widened sidewalks we will include transit only lanes which concentrate a road and our most impactful street infrastructure tool we can use. that makes the next us between projects like van ness and gary to our vision zero program. on the safe people side, we've definitely heard that we need to be reaching deeper into our communities so we'll do a chinese focused vision zero campaign. and expanding our bay area for families f

i think that, given the resources the city has, city resources and a closer relationship between the housing authority and the city is what is needed to increase the capacity in that area and to provide the necessary oversight for those operations. >> this is going back to the oversight issue. so the website, because i looked on the website, it does not have any record of a meeting for the last year and a half. what you are saying that the website has not been updated? >> i go to the website regularly it does have, actually it does have every commission meeting. that has all the reports that are presented to the commission. the commission gets -- has standing committees for very detailed reporting and there are full commission meetings regularly. they are all on the website. it might be a little challenging to move her but it has commission -- it has commission as one of the headings on the website. there has been strong oversight by the commission, but again, if the data is incorrect, that can distort what is going on. so i maybe want to briefly -- i briefly mentions the fact that t

city officials have too push the companies and the people have to push the city officials. that's how it works. [applause] thank you. >> we are going to conclude there. i hope you will -- [applause] we will be signing books just down congress. thank you. [applause] >> randy, you are a rabble-rouser. i love it. >> i am. >> i know, i know. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to indiebound, group of independent bookstores who are members of the american booksellers association. >> host: so what you do for living? >> guest: i'm a a psychoanalys, an old-fashioned psychoanalyst. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: people want on the couch if i can get into and i liked him to come more than once a week so you can really get things done. i've been in practice over, i guess 40 years now. something like that. a midlife in

the city of my salute me or. clean the city once again next year. but it's really it's really to achieving so much more than it's enabled to it's building a sustainable future. now it's only a matter of imagination how we can be recycled at the v. used next story highlights of just that a small team often by. mentally enthusiastic the netherlands has found a way to prevent plastic mist from flowing into the open sea by installing traps in the hobby since exhausted them but what's even better is these created a floating box with a resteal collected in these traps. this is a manmade floating island beside a disused wharf in the dutch city of rest a dam and it's not just humans that find it appealing. it really works like a magnet for all these animals which have been already in the board never really space to grow to goes here around it's all brick steel and concrete seed out of this is their first actual green structure within this area and all the fish and birds and all the different government animals they come here. what makes this floating island

it is not the city i once loved. i have been a city worker since 2013 and i have witnessed firsthand how my black colleagues are bypassed for promotions. i have served clients who are clearly not getting the effective and meaningful service they deserve from the staff promoted and giving those vital jobs. not only is this an employee probe of problem, this is impacting the vulnerable san franciscans we are supposed to serve. my agency acts more like it is a career ladder a stepping stone for employees rather than an agency to provide vital services my union is clearly demonstrating the facts to demonstrate the systemic racism that is occurring. this is a city that constantly is condoning the use of the n-word. there is no way this is acceptable. not only do the racist get away with it, their victims are retaliated against. are a city is paying out lawsuits rather than doing what is right in the first place. finally, there is the g. a. r. e. inequity initiative which my agency treats like a joke. they handpicked peopl

cities across the u.s. and even canada are learning that developers are not placing housing units to be used for housing people. many cities are fully realizing the negative impacts of the push to build, build, build an ideology fully embraced by the central soma plan. they show it later -- it is later developed as a commodity and it is corporatized. often new condos are not being occupied by local residents are any people at all. without adequate patrols and -- controls and things in place, they will continue to not be used as open and accessible affordable housing options. new condos will be affordable only as high-end luxury housing or city -- are staying vacant because they are owned by investors who have no intention of living in these units. new condos will be used as commercial short-term rentals instead of as residential use. condos will be used as corporate rentals instead of as residential use and other buildings will be used as student housing instead of residential use. we strongly support the a

far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts. of taint such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium routed coalition announced it out suspended its military operations in the city the images shoulder the coalition forces failed to untie the data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images showed the old dog must've trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then off the shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels' defenses the whole face of also booby trapped compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and tearing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all right we'll go live now to our correspondent mohammed atta who is in nearby mohammed samos in griffith has now arrived in his day that we under