affordability. block 2 is the few remaining in zone 1 and critical meeting the affordability requirement. block 2 is comprised of two projects 2 east and 2 west. hundred percent affordable housing. 2 east is operated by mercy housing and 2 west operated by chinatown community development center and serve senior households. qulou may recall that committee recommended a similar request for bond issuance to facilitate the 2 west project in february. pleased to note 2 west since closed on financing and construction is now well underway. the 2 east project awarded a bond allocation by california debt limit allocation committee in december and last month the commission approved the ocii permanent loan and long-term ground lease for 2 east. 2 east provides 184 units of

affordable family renal housing with 40 units set aside for families experiencing homelessness supported by the subsidy program. units restricted for affordsability to house holds earning 40 to 80 percent ami and unit ranging from studio to 3 bedroom. includes space for child care facility and 2 commercial spaces for public benefit or community serving uses. key permanent finance for the projethinclude long-term low interest loan from ocii, low income tax credit ecwity and state affordable housing sustainable community program. all sources are committed and the project is on track to close on financing and are strart construction late may. construction is expected to be completed spring 2026. that concludes our presentation, thank you for your time and consideration. i'm joined by several

representatives from mercy housing and happy to answer questions. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. i -like to be added as cosponsor. >> thank you. i don't have questions and excited this project has child care facility on site. you are on track and i look forward seeing them open and that is serves the population that need housing in san francisco with the 40 to 80 percent ami. with that, let's go to public comment on this item. >> we invite members who wish to address the committee number 13 now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. madam chair, no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. i would like to colleagues to move to full board with recommendation and roll call please. >> on the motion to forward the resolution to full board with

positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. melgar, aye. chan, aye. three ayes. >> thank you and the motion passes. and mr. clerk, let's go back to item 6 and it is really my sincere apologies to claudia gorem. thank you for your patience. thank you for waiting on this item and we really appreciate it and my assumption is we are ready to go and looking to deputy city attorney ann pierson guiding-good with the language changing from the initial monthly to annual base rent of $1200? >> deputy city attorney ann pierson. that's right. the amendments as relayed earlier are fine, but they are substantive so the item needs to be continued to next week. >> okay. with that, colleagues i like to make the amendment as proposed

and a roll call on that amendment please. >> on the motion to accept the amendment as offered by the real estate division, vice chair mandelman, aye. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> are thank you, the motion passes. i would like to continue this item to next week and roll call, please. >> on the motion to continue this resolution to the april 24 meeting of this committee as amended, vice chair mandelman, aye. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. >> thank you the motion passes. do we have other items before us today >> that concludes business. >> we have budget appropriation committee that is supposed to start right now at 1:30 p.m. where we will be taking a break

so we will start the budget appropriation committee at 2 p.m. and so for those in the audience or waiting for that meeting to start, we actually will return at 2 p.m. today. thank you. [meeting adjourned] .

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like coming to when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal.

i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook,

it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i

had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good

because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown.

it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to

take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these

little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my

photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they

have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best.

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and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through

using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >>

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>> good afternoon. wait, are we ready? [gavel] good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 17, 2024 meeting of the budget and appropriation committee. i'm supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. i'm joined by supervisors shamann walton and melgar and our clerk is brent. i would like to thank those for broadcasting this meeting. >> for those in attendance, meez make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

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>> i hope we can continue item 1 to get into the hearing with item number 2. mr. clerk, please call item number 1. >> a hearing to the march update for the five year financial plan. madam chair. >> c. chan: i would like to make the motion to continue and with that a roll call. >> to the call of chair. >> c. chan: do we need to do public comment? >> yes. >> and before we go to the public comments today, i would like to limit them to one minute can. and with that, let as go to public comments on item number 1. >> we do invite members of the public who wish to address the committee regarding the

continuance of this item number one. now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. and chair, we have no speakers. >> c. chan: seeing no public comment for item 1, the public comment is close. we'll move and do a roll call in the motion to continue it item to the call chair. >> clerk: may i have a second? and on that motion, let this hearing be continued to the call of the chair, moved by chair chan seconded bill walton. member melgar. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye. >> member peskin. >> >> aye. >> c. chan: thank you, the motion passes. clerk please call item 2. >> c. chan: aye and that passes. >> clerk: item 2 is the hearing

to protect and strengthen the city's homelessness and preserve healthy room occupancy and resident services to prevent substandard housing and eviction prevention and anti-displacement measures. madam chair. >> c. chan: i called this hearing today to so the committee could get a head start on the budget process. although we won't see the proposal until she submits it on in a 31st of this year, we know there a lot of conversation happening between the departments, our community stakeholders and the mayor's budget office. as we continue to hear, the city is facing $800 million budget deficit. it is in the best interest of this poly making body to be a part of that conversation and understand what we will be facing in our june budget hearing as early as we can. this hearing will be the first

of three in the series to seek -- that seeks to engage our department and community stakeholders around top issues and concerns that face us every budget cycle. this first hearing addresses the city's continuum of homeless supportive housing and tenants protective services. today we'll be hearing from the department of homelessness in support of house, mayor's office of housing and community development and department of building inspection. in addition, we'll have a presentation from our non-profit service providers that work alongside these departments to provide service to our vum necial members. i ask committee members to hold questions until after public comment so we can hear from people directly impacted from these services and any cuts or

augmentation that might be decided upon by policymakers. so with that, let's start withal dfl drr if any of me completion want to make evening remarks are welcome to do so now. seeing no names on the roster, let's start with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> good afternoon, honorable members of the budget and appropriation committee. i am sher reason mcfadden executive director with department 6 homelessness and supportive housing. i'm joined by gi gi whitley. we published home by the bay our five year plan to set our goals

for preventing and ending homelessness. this calls for growth of the system and system improvements needed to achieve the goals laid out in the plan. the fiscal year 23/24 budget made a down payment toward implementation of the plan. as we move into a difficult budget season, our goal is to continue to make strides toward our strategic plan and to prevent cuts to services for or highly vulnerable clients. in this presentation, we'll address our overall budget strategy and key investments in housing and shelter and homelessness prevention as requested by you, chair chan. our proposed budget continues the investment plan approved last year's budget while it includes a cost of living increase in line with reasonable inflation projections, addresses revenue short falls in

prevention in shelter by using prop c and using services for bed capacity and funding through year 2026. it increases the spending recommendations for young adults and family housing and maintains key initiatives and it addresses reduction instructions without cutting programs. overall the proposed budget addresses the immediate fiscal needs much our department and defers fiscal cliffs that will need to be addressed in future budget cycles. we continue to measure data from across our system of care. by helping people permanently exit homelessness because we knee it's the most impactful component of our work. this table here demonstrates the incredible success we've had in moving people out of crisis and in perm flent housing over the last several years. in the past two years alone,

we've helped over 6,700 people move out of homelessness through city housing programs. the home by the bay strategic plan is i multi-pronged strategy that focuses on five goals. including significantly reducing unsheltered homelessness over the next four years. the fiscal year 2024 budget makes significant invest ms towards these goals including 1,650 additional slots of homelessness prevention which is 34% of our goal. 600 new shelter beds, 55% of the goal, 355 new housing units or vouchers, 11% of our goal. over the past few years, the department is focused on prioritizing people with the highest barriers for supportive housing to assure that they have a pathway off the streets.

through this prioritization, we have seen an increase in acute of people living in supportive housing. to ensure that we're able to meet the service needs of the community, the department has enhanced support services across the portfolio. this includes investments in staffing, settinger toes for staff as well as standardizing and lowering the ratio of case managers to clients. we've also implemented initiatives to include services including extending money management, overdose scferses and supportive housing and making enhancements with the department of public health and department of disability and aging services. in addition to improving services at permanent supportive housing sites, we've been working to improve site quality

especially within our older buildings. in the last two years we're in the who is process of $2,600 in funding including accessibility of the older buildings within our portfolio. some of the improvements include launching quality inspects in our portfolio, enhancing accessibility. repairing he will exprairts other safety upgrades. rerepairing he will exprairts other safety upgrades. as you can see we have continued to significantly expand shelter resources even after taking the shelter in place hotels off line. in 23/24 we made critical investments to have resources by leveraging local and state funds

including maintaining 500 beds slated to end last fiscal year and adding 600 new shelter beds. the fiscal year 24-26 budget maintaining current programming and investments and identifies new state funding to help sustain current investment in future years. this include state encampment funding that will support shelter in our bayview. homeless housing and prevention that will maintain over 8900 shelter beds and funding to sustain the 35 additional hotel vouchers for families we're bringing on line this sphroing meet the needs of families in our community. like psh, we've seen the needs change for people accessing shelter. to meet the changing needs, the department and our partners made investments to include the quality of services, increase access to health resources and, pand our family homelessness responsor.

moving on to prevention, since july 2023, the department has served 918 households with a total of $67 million allocate in financial assistance. approximately 50% of the farchtion assistance we paid as part of homelessness prevention was for back rent so denyants could remain housed. i'll pass it over toe gi gi whitley for more details. >> good afternoon madam chair and members of the committee. gi gi whitley with sfsh. the slide before you is a high level view of the department es proposed budget. you can see on tt top line the proposed budget decreases a little over 7% over the two years. and there is a significant

reduction in rev newly mostly driven by the expiration of one-time state funding and weakness in our city our home prop c funds. our general fund proposed budget is increasing modestly. that reflects the addition of the cost of doing business addition that was put in the base budget alonging with -- in the second year of the budget increases if or you are work order for housing for costs for the lost supportive housing program. sfsh was tasked with identifying 10% in on going fund reduction which means $27 million in reduction or finding comparable new revenue as well as a 5% contingency reduction which equates to 13 million. on top of this budget reduction

on the general fund side, shsh has the challenge to maintain programs including the shelter expansion that director mcfadden mentioned that was budgeted last year with one-time funding. the next slide i'm going to walk you through how we balance the key initiatives with the mayor's budget instructions. so, as you see at the top of the slide, a 27 million-dollar on going general fund target plus a 5s for contingency with the instructions we were working with. the first thing we did was look at the shelters that were opened after the covid response that we kept open to deal with our crisis on the streets. this is about 395 beds and we've given ourselves a 10

million-dollar reduction target next year. these are, again, one-time funds that were put in last year's budget to support these projects and to keep those going we're trying to make it more cost efficient to operate those. we've also identified one-time funding. we are leveraging the hhhap 15 geared towards housing assistance so we're expecting to get that and have that programmed in the budget that is coming in higher than what we anticipated and then finally we identified 4 million on going and then 6 million in the second year of the budget and general fund budget reduction mostly through realignment through existing contracting and looking at our underspend and trying to right-size our community-based contract to the spending level.

for the reduction tart, if we are asked which the mayor's office to identify additional general fund cuts, we'd looked at our grants programming for further reductions. last slide shows you how this proposed budget next year divides around investment area the biggest slice of the pie is our investment in maintaining and some modest expansion in housing that includes everything we do from rapid rehousing and permanent and supportive housing. about 19% for crisis and shelter interventions can. 9% of our budget is focused on homelessness prevention and 1% on coordinated entry and 1% on department-wide costs including work orders and finally our personnel salary and budget makes up about 8% of our total

cost and that does include approximately 50 direct service workers that are providing outreach, transportation and clinical services in our system. that concludes the hsh presentation. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, we'll go to the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> good afternoon. i'm sheila director of policy and legislative affairses for the mayors' office of housing and community development. i'm going to talk about eviction prevention.

tenant protections help to stabilize our city. san francisco has a long history of fenant protection. we have tenant protection including rental assistance education services and preservation of housing stock. multiple agencies provide tenant protections because the city uses a variety of tls to meet the needs. we provide anti-displacement services including eviction, legal defense, building tenant education programs, mediation and then there are two or departments i want to note that provide important tenant protections, the rent board, eviction preventions and planning department implementing local and state law including sp-330, planning code puts limits on mergers and demolitions and protections for

unauthorized dwelling units as well. mohcd programs help prevent displacement of san franciscans from their homes. this is a cultural preservation tool. it provides more than $60 million annually to community-based organizations. we work with the department of homelessness and supportive housing on homelessness prevention. our programs are community-based and innovative. service recipients are rent bureed and have, treemly low or very low income. tenant assistance programs fall into four areas. tenant right to council which is full scope legal representation. we provide these services to approximately 22-households annually. all those who avail themselves for help get it. we work with 8 ceo provider --

cbo providers. we have the financial assistance of various types and durations. approximately 3,100 households are served annually. next tenant right to education. know your rights campaigns 1-on-1 counseling, we provide these services to more than 1,500 households annually through 7 cbo partners. lastly the forth is mediation. we have dispute help for all. 600 households annually are served and we have a strong partnership with the bar association of san francisco. i do want to highlight a few other anti-displacement strategies. there is the small sites program where we support non-profits to purchase privately own buildings

ingsand convert them to affordae units. the vaing 30 to 100 percent. cbos provide counseling services to applicants and 20% of available lottery units are set aside for applicants with displaced tenant preferences. this is the breakdown of funding in the four problematic areas. 78.8 million for eviction drens. $2 million for mediation for a total of 66.6 million. looking at our client served to date -- just to date, almost 2,000 people have received eviction legal defense. financial assistance has benefited more than 2,000 households. tenant right to education is more than 600 households and

more than 400 households receive mediation support. looking ahead to the next fiscal year, for our eviction and anti-displacement services, mohcd has not identified cuts in these service areas. mohcd provided the budget office with the goal of minimizing impacts on all cbo grants. the emergency rental assistant or erap program is funded in part with one-time sourcing. the spending is increasing. funding levels for up coming fiscal year depend on the final budget for 24/25 and unspent funds that could be carried forward as well. i have staff here to answer questions. >> c. chan: thank you, we'll go to the department of building inspection.

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director of the department of build inspection. we oversee the enforcement of city building housing, plumbing, electrical and mechanical code as well as enforcement regulations. we enforce the housing code and habitability standards. since 2010 we've managed grants in which community-based assist for tenants for code enforcement and habitability standards. the grants of around $5 million annually have been awarded to the community-based organizations and they're used for code enforcement outreach and for the second group of grants, specifically to assist

tenants living in single-room occupancy buildings. i'm going to zoom out before i talk more about thees grants, i'm going to zoom out and give an overview of dbi's budget. as an enterprise department we're budgeted by the fees. we fees are set by determining the reasonable cost of providing our services. the majority of our budget is non-discretionary with labor costs for the biggest chunk. when our revenues are down, we don't have a lot of opportunity to prim trim our costs. what it shows here is the gray line in the middle is our expenditures which have risen mostly as labor costs have risen. the orange line is our revenues which dropped significantly during and after the pandemic and the yellow line that spikes is our reserves which went up

significantly during the boom years and have been mostly used up in the past few years to fill our gaps. the projection is our reserves will fall below 10 million in the next few years. i was asked to talk specifically about our fees and fee study. our fees are established by eye fee study to analyze our costs and sets a model for charging fees. we last cuttinged a fee study from 2015 which lowered most of our fees when times were good. and last year we raised all of our fees by 15% across the board while we were working on our current fee study published a couple of months ago. in the new fee study, it's been recommended to raise most of our fees by an average of 40%. because some of the fees are going up significantly, we are phasing in the fee increases

over a three-year period to support economic recovery. so, going back to the cbo grants, looking specifically our budget submission includes is continued funding for the grafnts supported by the general fund. it called for a 10% reduction in general fund support that is about $5,000 less for the grants. we don't expect that to have any effect on the services or staffing because in the last few years those grants are underspent by the same amount. wrapping up, the controller currently auditing the programs, we expect to receive recommendations later in the year. thank you, i'm available for any questions. >> c. chan: thank you and we have last but not least a community coalition.

first name, last name and the organization. >> thank you. jennifer, the coalition on homelessness but representing the community-based organizations who came together to face down a large city deficit with the clear scen us that we'll not balance the budget on the backs of poor and working class san franciscans. we should not take sphrksz back 30 years and make the same bad decisions we're paying for today. this is tax cuts for the wealthy and. we're driving up our deficit and making a recovery impossible. we have fantastic plans. a great overdose plan, for

example, a great homeless strategic plan, but austerity measures make these crisis we see on streets worse. community programs are working. thousands of households last year were prevented from losing their homes. thousands of houses were lost but we have tremendous unmet needs. i want to start with thes vision of where the system should be. heavy investment in prevention keep san franciscans housed is incredibly important. the homeless count we last had, 5 game homeless. we feed to have shelter gassities, short dignified stays in shelters and we need to have diversity to meet the needs. we need shelters to meet those with, treemly low income to step-down housing to boarding care and a plan for every person

a by-name, by-block system for placement and care. currently we have an uncoordinate and bewildering and expensive response of all of the different teams that are dispatched and swoop in and disappear leaving people to fend for themselves and dumped on the doorsteps at placement at best. continuing on street and homeless system response presentation, the best way to expand shelter capacity is to prevent people from becoming homeless and adding housing. there are 1650 people on shelter wait for adults. 442 homeless families on wait for shelter and hotel. we're failing families with. that are about 35 shelter beds and increase due to prop-c. this has been a great job but

where is it getting us? shelter is more expensive than housing. we need housing and we're facing about $11 million in cuts to family and youth house housing through prop c that need to be resphord. one way to buildoing on the resources is 2022 pit count found 24% of unsheltered individuals were found sleeping in rvs. there needs to be sanitation for those sleeping on the streets. families and students live near sfsu and san francisco only has one vehicle triage for all the vehicular housed people. a quarter of our homeless count. increasing of parking enforcement led to ticketing and increased housing insecurity. next slide, i talked earlier by

our bee builders and street response. this is a failed response. we have 10 hhoc occurring. 15 to 20 representatives from 8 city departments swooping in with i show of force standing around for house. we get a third of the people enp in shelter. they did a quick little go around and don't find out the needs because their objective is to move the encampment that doesn't solve the issue. king street swept many times and folks returned until there was a plan to house community members with a hundred percent success rate. earlier encampment had a 70% success rate. we can remove the harm, make it mur efficient and still build

capacity without losing programs. i'll turn it it over to tabitha allen can. >> i'm tabitha allen with tenant lirveg housing and co-chair of the housing network supporting housing hoad. the city bus fund, home by the bay strategic plan which requires significant investments and supportive housing including the expanding the number of units, capital improvements in the buildings, increased safety measures, enhance services and housing mobility particularly for individuals with complex care needs. families to obtain housing opportunities. supportive house dlsh there is a full range of needs and exos for providing resident services including food security, overdose prevention chams. maintenance costs, increases in wages for our staff.

non-payment of rent and high vacancy rates is a challenge for our providers. 30% of permanent supportive housing residents are at least 90 days behind in rent and providers are facing over $8 million in losses due to rental arrears. also the high rate of vacancies adds another $5 million in losses. increase property damage and escalated insurance premiums. difficulties to retain insurance increases pressure. these challenges may lead to more staff reductions which would exacerbate permanent housing in ways to to promote housing retention. flat funding because of all of these increases puts non-profits at a disadvantage. and then there is significant differences in the quality of all of our permanent supportive

housing. there are older buildings. 12% of permanent supportive housing sites, mostly the older buildings account for 33% of the vacancies. support vieders network estimates that we need an additional $27 million in the coming year to improve habitability concerns. this is for quality of life improvements adding bathrooms until units that don't have them. remodeling bathrooms that have not been remodeled in a long time. adding kitchens for food security and making safety improvements including restructuring and adding cameras, painting walls, redoing floors, making the buildings nicer for the tenants that live there. thank you. >> before the next speaker -- sorry.

i'm not sure if the people in line are in line for public comment right now. we're in the middle of a presentation. until we open public comment, i ask that you have a seat and when public comment is called is when it's your opportunity to line up to address this committee. >> let me know when you want me -- >> waiting for movement. thank you much. okay. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm [indiscernible] director of the housing registry of san francisco. a member of the code enforcement outreach program and talking to you about our work.

the history of cop. we are a 30 year program. we were -- started through a chart ever eament a voter initiative in 1994 after a history of fires, bedbug and issues gripping our housing stock so the voters came together in 1994 and moved this program which has been in operation since then. we do code enforcement everywhere. the outreach program across the organizations who you saw in the last slide do proactive competent through the city. it's a system that works. this system as you can see, it has its own flow. we do door-to-door outreach and competent in language and our

cbos, our counselors are doing inspection and we do eviction case management leading to baitdment without having to involve the city departments. here are the numbers last year and this year. these were the cases we were able to resolve at a cost-saving measure. windowen gauge city departments when we need to but we find that we can often support tenants and landlords to abate the issues through our tenant counseling. these are pictures before and after an example of repairs our tenant counselors were not able to doll this without engaging city departments. but we didn't have to. as you heard from the departments, we're facing a 10% cut to our whole entire program

on top of a 10% cut that we received last year. our pranl is $5.2 million. it was cut last year to 4 plt 8 and now another cut at 4.2. this will will definitely jeopardize vital services contrary to what the department is saying, these 10% cuts to the programs will result in potentially staff reduction, resulting in less ability for our organizations to do the work and unfortunately one of the things the department did not say is is there is actually not a plan from the department to ensure that the work that our cbo partners would not be able to do can the cuts were enacted i don't not able to do. the results is a 5% contingency cut this we're preparing for. we are hoping that we can make a different plan because these services are necessary.

and valuable and independenceable to the city to ensure our housing stock is safe and habitable. now i'll pass it over to lora for legal assistant to the elderly. >> hi. good afternoon everybody. i'm lora kiera the executive director and managing foreign for legal assistance to the elderly. >> i'm krista and director for defense collaborative. >> eviction preveks in san francisco a collaboration between legal service organizations, trc legal service organizations that provide free legal services, provide free representation to eviction cases in san francisco. there are 9 organizations. tenant counseling organizations that provide essential services to tenants so they can find a lawyer and rental assistance who provide the critical assistance.

it's a collaboration that works. it's very successful, but it also demonstrates the tremendous need we have for the services. if you see that in this fiscal year there are over -- we project 3,000 active eviction cases in sphrks that these services can provide. there are 2800 as of today. our clients are the most vulnerable. they are overwhellingly low income. 55% have inkroms -- monthly imcomes of less than $1,200. they are overwhelmingly bipoc and a significant portion do not speak english showing this is a racial injustice issue in this eviction defense. what we learned is the very success of the crt program.

90% receive help through trc and they remain housed. the overwhelming majority remain in current housing but a small portion move but never experience homelessness because they get the support to find other housing. >> the success of tenants right to counsel system rerelies on this to achieve the success rate. we've been alerted to a 50% cut in the erap funding. this could be catastrophic to the city of disprks could result up to 5,000 individuals losing their homes. the arap serves bipoc, extremely low income, 46% are disabled. 20% are lgbtq and others need an

they werer. they would have nowhere to go and we're hoping this cut will not be made. >> apologize for interruption, but right into the microphone, please. >> the program receives 11,000 applications each year and a backlog remains. annually is that we're serving 3,000 households annually. it's critical that any unspent funds from this fiscal year that remain be allowed to carry forward as part of a measure to stabilize not only the program, but also the non-profits that are administering it. thank you very much.

>> thank you. next slide, please. yes. we cannot underemphasize the important role that tenant counseling organizations play in this system. they are the first top for tenants when they get threatened by landlords. when they don't know where to go and that's what they find out what their rights are and how to find a lawyer. it's an important first step. i want to say i've been an eviction defense attorney in san francisco for 20 years. i remember when they were 10 attorneys for the whole city and there was no meaningful rental assistance. being evicted meant losing your housing. the way it was back then, the housing crises back then is nothing like we're facing today. we have to pa maintain an increase in the rental assistance making sure every

tenant gets education and representation. it's critical to maintaining our city as we know it. >> good afternoon, i'm joel olsen executive director of hospitality house. i think you've heard a lot of good ideas, thoughtful, practical, humane, necessary. i can say that part of my story is what can happen when we care about each other in this city.

some decades ago i was sleeping on a mat on the floor in hospitality house shelter. what got me up off the floor, feeling better about myself, feeling that i still have promise and worth were other people caring about me. that's what made a difference. that happens every day in the city. in addition to the pragmatic and thoughtfulness of the proposal you've heard, there is pain here. every day people are enduring struggle. people that have devoted their lives work about caring about each other in trying to promote the best of the city of san francisco. a volcano matter, i want to acknowledge supervisor peskin whom i've known for quite a

while and respected you and admired you. supervisor walton. your story is our story. it is challenging here. what it feels like when you're not sure people are listening. that is painful. we've been doing this for a while. it's unclear if we're making any progress. it doesn't often feel that way. but pain needs to become possibilities. people need a reason to believe in us, they need a reason to believe new. they need to know that you believe in them.

it doesn't feel that way. that's what we're asking. you don't have to win, you just need to know that you'll fight for us. that's what we need to know. that's what this is about. everybody here has a stake in the outcome, everyone! and people here in this audience often feel like they're powerless. they don't feel like people are hearing or feeling them. we have 84 millionaires in this town. 84 billionaires. 1 half of 1% of that 84 people solves the problem. you tell them this is how we're going to do business in this town for the next five years. that's how we make progress.

we need to know that you'll fight for us. that's what this is about. because every day people are struggling, people are feeling other people's pain. there is it loss in our communities every hour of every day. and yet people still keep coming to work. people still keep trying. people still keep facing the danting aspect that nobody cares, that nobody is listening. let's do something about that. that's what this is about. join us in this fight. and, again, for our, you know, sympathetic members from the rescue commit and growth commit, not one housing placement among them. pick up a blanket, pick up a bucket, pick up a broom, be part of the solution rather than

explaining about shit you don't know anything about. [cheers and applause] >> thank you everyone for your presentation. i am going to offer colleagues, what we're going to do ?eks take public comment. so that we all can hear directly from the public. but i want to -- seeing no name on the roster, we'll go directly to public comments and hear from them. >> now is the opportunity for public to express their views. i do know we have some members of the public in the overflow room if you do wish it provide public comment, now is the time to enter the chamber and line up with the rest of the public. >> c. chan: reminder of one

minute each. >> thank you madam chair. out of respect to any speakers that may be speaking, can you please try to keep it down so we can hear the public commentary towards this committee. thank you very much. first speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. many of you know me. my name is rebecca jackson. as advocates we understand this budget process as shrink or shrinking more. we understand that government and city departments are constantly evolving their vision and mission of who and what they want to fund. even in a year when the budge is not as difficult as it is this year, we know that resources and housing that we offer to people is not enough. and that it's been historically

underfunded. we know that the city and residents of san francisco want and expect the risk providers like us to tackle the big social issues of access and care and housing but we can't do that if costs to vital services are made. we can't do more with less. we believe that the city's approved budget will be a direct reflection of how it values the most vulnerable populations and it's desire is to fund solutions. thank you. >> thank you much rebecca for address the committee. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm chelsea winter and i'm a chief development officer for san francisco safe house. we house unhoused survivors and those involved in sexual exploitation. we want you to know the budget cuts will have a affect on the most vulnerable. there are marginalized

populations will bear the burden. services are integral for women and spham list. we must stand as a city who does not abandon the families. it impacts the well-being of all san franciscans. every choice we pawk in the budgeting process affects our values as a city and people. while we're bombarded by national voice of governments voicing a few over the roar of many, we ask you to have san francisco stand as a beak be of hope. i urge the budget committee are in alignment with social justice. >> ?eks speaker please. >> good afternoon. i am the fiscal manager at community services. today i stand before you alongside many noars this

chamber urging you not to cut funding. among the thousands of clients there are hundreds of workers dedicated to up lift our community to direct services and advocacy for affordable city. we actively dreats issues affecting our streets. budget cuts and reduced protection will have serious consequences. our community safety will be compromised leaving vulnerable individuals at risk of slipping further into poverty. you're also going to hear from residents who wish to share their concerns regarding proposed funding cuts. i urng you you to consider this seriously. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. members of the committee. i'm a long-time resident of san francisco. i haven't worked for the last year.

in our [indiscernible] we're fond of calling california the republic of california. it is an independent state. people in government should focus on governance. the defense and protection of people. please [indiscernible] action that we enjoy as a state and country. cutting our budget does not hold water on establishing the greater republic of california. thank you. >> thank you, much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon super viers, i'm with the san francisco land use coalition. chair chan, thanks for calling this hearing. i'm talking about the prevention of substandard housing. there is no question that the

city should fund the services. this is a just cause and we should have the services renders. but there needs to to be something done about substandard housing. some of the residents are the most vulnerable people in san francisco. that is why we long with the gray panthers and faith in action are supporting melgar's proposal by holding the landlords accountable. this is the time we need to act because see the cuts to the budget are going to impact programs helping to find issues, elevators and what not. plea support that. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.

>> [indiscernible] [speaking foreign language] >> hi supervisors, my name is li

and i'm with the families united collaborative. i come before you to stress the importance of prioritizing budget allocations for sro families united collaborative. my husband and i struggled to make ends meet. we have back breaking and low paying jobs. as a result, my family of four can only afford to live in a tiny sro. we often come home from building problems to a non-functioning stove is to broken showers and broken toilets. when the budget issues arrive, we're grateful to receive assistance from sro from the collaborative. they help us effectively communicate our needs to the landlord. fill stating repairs, their assistance is invaluable to low-income families like us.

supervisors, please make budget decisions that reflect your commitment to housing justice, equity and compassion, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

thank you. >> hello supervisors i'm pam and i'm here to ask the budget committee to consider the proposed cuts for the srk ro program and know they are important for us. my family of live have lived in sro in chinatown for over po three years. we have to share a toilet, shower and kitchen with another household. we also experience troiment problems, liking faucets and sanitation which lead to issues that affect our daily needs and health.

i'm grateful to have the sr organizationer. the sro program not only help us in our environment and also offer many different tenants [indiscernible] speak a certain language and we can better under our rights. sro is important for us. i urge the committee to support the budget, thank you. >> thank you very much for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> hi, supervisors. my name is mao gan and i am here to ask you not to cut the

budget. we live where building issues occur. i found likes in the communal bathroom and a broken window. when i report the issues to the landlord and property management company, they were not addressed. but when i report the issues to my sro, she quickly contacted the landlord and property management and three days later technicians came to repair the toilets and windows. with over 22 households in our building, breakdowns often occur. fortunately with the help of our organizer, building issues get repaired in a timely manner. we need these essential services provided by the collaborative. after a long day of work, we want to come home to a place that is safe to live. i hope the board of supervisors can proper advertise the budget.

we need your help to live in a safe environment. thank you. >> thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> if you could start the translation, please. >> hello, i'm i single mom and our family of three live in a sing the ten tans which in chinatown. [indiscernible] the environment is bad and the noise from the restaurant down stairs is nonstop 24 hours a day. but i'm lucky to have the support from the organizer, the organizer will help me give the support and love especially with

my 1 years old son who has trouble hearing. i'm here to ask for the budget to keep the sro program going. it's very important for the people like me who need help and support. thank you for funding. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language] >> interpreter: i urge you not

to cut funding for the sro families united collaborative. my family of four lives in an sro in chinatown. there are 22 units on our floor with an average of three to four units to share. per unit. and only three toilets to share. previously we had clogged toilets sometimes for several days with no repair. we called but no response. with sro order nateers helped us

resolve the issue. we followed up in assistance from the building manager a addresses our concerns alleviating our worries. sro organizers speak our language. we have no language barriers. sro is essential for vulnerable groups like us. they not only improve our environment but help us with activities. please support the budget for sro families. >> next speaker please. >> [speaking foreign language]

interpreter: my name is [indiscernible] and i'm a member of the chinese association. i am here to ask for the budget to keep the sro program going. i have a 13-year-old daughter and it's an important time. as our families are important for us, organizers meet with us

regularly. they listen to our needs. once our center malfunctioned and randomly rings for half a month. the city manager and owner did nothing to fix it. we had a language barrier and we met with the organizer and communicated with the building manager and get it fixed. we are a low-income family. the organizer speaks the same language as us. without the sro services, what can we do?

the i urge you to consider those proposals for the sro program. it will help us improve our living conditions and support our needs in life. thank you. >> thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language bracket. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> cut off your conversation, please. >> good afternoon interpret interpret i'm a student coordinator living in chinatown urng you not to cut the programs for the sro program. i have learned a lots from the program such as fire prevention. how to raise issues with the

language lord and so on. previously there were issues with infestation of lice and lotuses. lotus. i do not speak english but housing counselors help us. they ensure the issues will adjust properly, there is no need to raise the landlord's response for months. this program is very important to our community. it empowers tenants to exercise our rights ensuring that the building we live in comprises housing and recreation. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> [speaking foreign language] >> interpreter: i'm here to report that please do not cut the support to organizations that support tenants in san francisco because there is a will the of infestations, cockroaches and rats. i don't want my granddaughter to grow up in an environment like that. please keep supporting the

tenants in san francisco. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> interpreter: hello, i'm in the southeast tenant association. i've been calling that the landlord has neglected the building. the sros help us to report the repairs that's why i ask you to not stop the -- my child is exposed to all this sick environment. thankvi you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> interpreter: good afternoon. i'm here to say i was not informed before. i was living on the streets and harassed by many people. i found the southeastern organization and they've been supporting me. they're still supporting me to this day. i ask you to please not cut those services. thank you. >> thank you very much for your comments. nextco speaker, please. >> hello i'm a lead organizer

and housing rights committee of san francisco. iement here with the southeast center association from district 9, 10 and 11, we ask you not only to stop the cuts to central services that support the vulnerable services in san francisco but you i be vest more in programs such as the code enforcement. the code enforcement outreach program holds landlords accountable for providing habitable and dignified housing. we need to navigate tenants through the services. wha we help them in language support 365 did is a year. where will they go with these proposed cuts? thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker, please. >> hello. good h afternoon, i'm the organizer for the southeast tenants association. i'm here to support many issues and violations of the code of enforcement in the buildings and homes of the tenens in san francisco.n as aan tenant, i'm also experiencing a lot of adverse issues thatdv my landlord neglected or ?ised. the cuts will exacerbate the resources and please allocate the resources to the needs of san francisco and code of enforcement. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is jamie diaz. i work at eviction defense collaborative as a paralegal. 10 years ago my mom was diagnosed with cancer. instead of grieving, i went to

the costa hopkins act. i'm many of the stories of people getting priced out of their neighborhoods. sorry, i'm getting nervous. people in we vick just like me experience eviction every day. we need to keep funding for vital resources and programs like eviction defense committee of sanee francisco to help keep people housed in san francisco. if we do not keep these programs funded. what will thehe city be in san francisco? what kind of -- what kind of community do you want to see here? i ask you to please do not make cuts to thee organization. thank you. >> thank you very much for addressing us. [cheers and applause] before the next speaker speaks, we have a general rule about automobile responses during commentary. so let's not interrupt between

speakers. if you like what you hear, spare your fingsers. if you don't like it thumbs down. keep the oral response to a minimum. next speaker. >> i'm a development organizer with housing rights committee of san francisco. i've been honored to work with the residents in public housing. i come before you today as an advocate for housing residents a committee that fights for housing justice and equity. our efforts are not going unnoticed previously in working with the youth, we were able to get funding from house authority by pressuring them with residents from plaza east. we were able to get $7 million in capital needs improvement. 12 ft. $2 million in services and s programs.

this wouldn't happen without funding from this budget. despite our progress, our work is far from over. these cuts will jeopardize our ability to address pressing needs such p as repairs and maintenance and resident services and diminish the impact of our efforts. >> thank you very much for addressing this committee. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is [indiscernible] and i work in the commission for homelessness. today i want to say that today the revenue for the proxy money. the city is proposing $5 million for families in housing subsidies. $5.5 million to homeless youth. this is a