Breaking News: SF Labor Council Supports Prop. G, Opposes Prop. F

	The City, Labor, ACORN, and other community groups come together to publicly announce historic agreement.

The San Francisco Labor Council, representing 150 unions and 100,000 men and women who work under union contracts in the City, announced its support for Proposition G and opposition to Proposition F this week at a press conference.

Tim Paulson, Executive Director of the SFLC, declared, "After a couple months of very intense negotiations, we have reached a core community benefit agreement with the Lennar Corporation."

A Groundbreaking Agreement

The unprecedented Core Community Benefits Agreement, the principle terms of which have been agreed to by affiliates of Lennar Corp. and the San Francisco Labor Council, the San Francisco Organizing Project and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, will include a legally binding obligation to work together and with the Hunters Point Shipyard Citizen's Advisory Committee, the Bayview Hunters Point Project Area Committee and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to include the following requirements in the final project agreements:

• Approximately 1,600 new affordable rental units, including those at the Alice Griffith public housing development, for people earning up to 60 percent of the area median income, which is currently $64,267 for a family of four.


• Approximately 1,600 affordable new for-purchase units for people making earning between 80 and 160 percent of the area median income.


• Family housing, by requiring an average size across those 3,200 units of 2.5 bedrooms.


• A $27 million Community Housing Fund, set aside by Lennar over the next nine years to be managed by an approved foundation and used to help residents of Bayview-Hunters Point purchase hundreds more affordable homes in District 10.


• An $8.5 million Job Training Fund, set aside by Lennar over the next seven years to be managed by an approved foundation and used to fund job training programs for neighborhood residents.


• Union-friendly Policy under which certain employers in the hotel, restaurant, grocery and service industries will be required to comply with the Cityís card check policies.


• Rebuilding of Alice Griffith Housing Project in the first phase of construction and a promise from Lennar, also contained in Proposition G, to keep residents on-site throughout the project and help cover the moving costs to the new Alice Griffith units.

"We are extremely excited about this," continued Mr. Paulson. "This is just the beginning of this project - this is not the end. And this is a legally binding agreement. This is going to be the first time that this type of guarantee has been put down on the Bayview."

Yes on G, No on F Must Prevail

	Community members march in support for No on F and Yes on G.

However, the agreement can only go forward if Proposition G passes (and Prop F fails) on June 3rd's ballot. The SFLC, along with along with its community and interfaith partners ACORN (Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now) and SFOP (San Francisco Organizing Project), have endorsed Proposition G and are recommending a no vote on a rival measure, Proposition F.

Asked why the SFLC was supporting Prop G, Paulson explained, "We believe that we have negotiated the most historic housing and workforce development deal possibly in the country. I think that the only way that's going to get done if is Proposition G passes and Prop. F fails."

The Community Benefits

Mayor Gavin Newsom, in attendance at the press conference, spoke of the benefit to the community.

"Because of this historic deal, (Prop. G) provides upwards of 3,500 affordable housing units. For workforce housing. For nurses and doctors, for Muni bus drivers, for contractors, for people who are working in our parks and playgrounds, for people sweeping our streets. For the folks that live out in the Southeast sector that could otherwise not afford this housing...that's what this is about. Rebuilding public housing. Rebuilding lives. Rebuilding a community. A billion-plus dollars of infrastructure investment, on the one hand. And on the other hand, literally nothing."

Paulson and Mayor Newsom were united in their opposition to Proposition F. "We've done the homework," confirmed Paulson. "We've looked at the costing, and 50% (affordable) housing, though it's a wonderful idea, is not attainable for this project."

Said Mayor Newsom, "Prop. F offers nothing. It's a pipe dream. It's a false promise...it's unconscionable that decades of community work and outreach and consensusóthat it could be taken away by a political agenda. And we've got to stand strong on this. This is serious business. Because it is about real people's lives."

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