i think more needs to be done. i hope that delores street can improve that situation. i think homeless folks the risks are greater. long those lines we do our best to provide a safe alternative to the folks. we hope to increase this to 81 folks per night. i think it's worth sharing that people leave 7:00 a.m. in the morning they're either going to work or looking for work. i believe that unknowingly all the community enacts with the

homeless and don't know it. this program offers a significant benefit. all people benefit. we've been at this location for over a decade approaching 15 years. we've got partnerships and those have welcomed the lgbt communities and they've been providing those services and we've partnered them. our immigrant groups have helped the lgbt community. while this project has been developed we've been recruiting within those lgbt homeless folks. our daily operations are as

minimally intrusive to the neighborhood. people enter by 7 in the evening and we put up barriers not to obstruct the sidewalks. those recessed escalations are off-site so - our staff received specialized training in the lgbt community. we have two case managers that take care of housing. they invite the shelter on various evening and they also go during the day. because we try to provide eeflt places for people to go throughout the day and restrooms

and a place to rest. over the last couple of years we've met with the lgbt community center and varies advocates as well. we're learning from the community in order to serve the community we need to have a great effort. we welcome advise and suggestions. i want to acknowledge the work of the staff. with the remanding time i want to hand the microphone over the my colleague. thank you for your time and a thank you >> good afternoon. i'm scott i'm the manager of adult programs in the housing and homeless program within the facility. delores agency has been a long

time partner in our sthefrlt system and we've been proud to have them as a provider to the homeless community. this project which we request our support provides us with the ability to get more homeless shelter beds. what i'm here to increase score the shelter is a part of a larger system in the city to serve the homeless community so beyond the shelter off-site reservations there's resources centers for people who need services we have food stamps. we're excited to look forward to the expansion of the medi-cal access.

i want to increase score the funding for the ongoing operations of the site are in the budget so we're using this opportunity to grow our system within the footprint of the system since it's hard to find places to expand. this program offers us a unique opportunity. our shelter are open to everybody but the same challenges of people who don't accept people as themselves and therefore providing a unique space where we can explore specialized programs specialized to the lgbt community. we see this as not only an opportunity for the 24 beds but to expand how we operate to be

more increasing more welcome to all who are homeless in san francisco. we urge your support >> thank you. >> opening it up for public comment. matthew green. (calling names) if you want to line up on your right side of the room would be good (calling names) >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm matthew. i'm here today speaking in support of this application. at 1050 in the mission. while working with the work group that was facilitated by

the mayor's office of hope the parental need yet arose and that's expanding our 11 hundred and 35 adult beds. i'm on the committee and help to inspect our homeless shelter by anything that i say today doesn't reflect my companies opinion. we have 25 percent identified as lgbt and this is a significant under count since that's a sensitive issue to reveal. our general population and our

tranender residents are sprinkled insprinkled variesly within our shelter. arising from the circumstances of an apparent node for the homeless population to access the she felt. and non-threatening based on non-gender or sexual orientation. and a anymore general point of view their recommendations were record there's been already so much said about the merit of the application for conditional use so i'll cut short my comments and simply state this is a

modesty application. there's been very few objections from neighborhood residents. we've had long go well advertised forums and they've been restated and being resolved. the effort by dlols really helped me to its far more than a gesture. this is a beacon and a magnet and other areas to seek safety and way - >> thank you your time is up. >> thank you very much commissioners. >> thank you. next speaker, please . i'm tommy i'm with the housing

rights community. i've been a advocate for the lgbt community for years now. i got involved in the late 90s first year in the castro where i was working we say a rise in homeless and many of us came together and set up winter shelter and one lasted for 2 1/2 years. there's been no negative impact but the negative impact in the 2 1/2 shelter we've helped people going get into ged programs and a lot of people have turned their lives around. i got involved with this current effort because i work with the housing programs we suddenly

were seeing a lot of lgbt folks coming into our office and talking about their experiences in the shelter and talking about sleeping in golden gate park and other places because they preferred that to risking sleeping in a shelter. i think the moment i realized i needed to do something when a young latino male and the whole side of his face was bruised and he was telling me in spanish how he had been beaten in a shelter because he, he he was gay and he begged me to get him a place to stay. it was the moment when i realized i had to do something that was a my responsibility as a gay man to do something about this situation and it was

shortly that we came together. i ask you please past this proposal and you'll be helping to save and change a lot of people's lives for the better. thank you >> thank you. >> hi good afternoon jennifer executive director on the coalition for the homeless. we're really, really excited about this project moving forward. the coalition on homelessness years ago started to get involved when we did some primary research in homeless he shelter to document the experience. when you think about the shelter it's a congregate living experience to everything that

happens outside the bigotry and other things are reflected from a spaceless people are living. those are the temporary homes but, of course, we're surround by strangers and we found for example, when we did this survey that the transgender population was experiencing physical abuse and harassment at 3 times the rate of other shelter residents. a popcorn who's also done those surveys might have i do some interviews that were really upsetting in terms of what people are experiencing simply to rest their heads. and, of course, outside the shelter the health deteriorates.

everything gets worse you get a small infection or a cold and it turns into phenomena. i think that san francisco is san francisco, you know, we're a gay town. we're supposed to be craig's and we have a huge population without housing and they don't have a place to go or live. we've been working on this looked like we're really, really excited about this. our experience with delores street is great. we create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel it's atkins a sanctuary. and we're completely confident

this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. hoping you're going to support it and confident you're going to support it, it's really historic. thank you >> thank you. >> hello the executive director of the aids foundation. i want to take a moment's the memory even if erick. when tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a two prong strategy. one was to procedure beds but i went to erick and if we could find space in one of his

existing buildings we didn't have time to wait for a huge long process. others mentioned that 29 percent of the homeless count identified as let the record show and others have said it's higher than that. we experience it differently and we're about 15 percent of san francisco population but 29 percent of the homeless. there's a reasons for it and i think that all of us are recognizing it's time for the city of san francisco to take a close look at how we deliver services and have rates of disparity. the two most concentrated neighborhood the castro have the highest rate of speculative

evictions. we don't have american people lgbt focused housing infrastructure at all really. we do not - we've not invested in believe out the resources for the community. also, we don't have the same opportunity for fliethsd to affordability as the non let the record show community. unless you're not that lgbt you don't know what it's like to grow up in illinois whoets who's too gay to hide and get attacked and what it feels like. so people would rather like that. >> in the park in san francisco then to go back to mississippi

or texas or whether we have escaped from. this is the only place on earth that we have so we have a special bloogs to maintain a sanctuary for lgbt people. i think this is the moment where the city is recognizing there's a problem and not all gay people are rich and thank you for your support >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm at lyric. i feel it's important for the commissioners to approve this as a former queer trans youth it's difficult four us i mean the

queer and queer variant. when i was in the homeless shelter it was difficult i faced many prejudices. even when shelter say they address accident queer or the transgenders i know they don't. i notice a lot of any sisters from the age of 16 to 24 their subject to a lot of abuse and be it physical or verbal they suffer abuse in general. it's hard to exist in a closed-minded society. you're not seen as the person you are but whatever someone else knows you represent. so many of my sisters are forced out into the street to do prostitution or anyway to make a living. i feel as though we're losing

some of the brightest minds to the struggles of everyday life. i'm not sure if you've been homeless but sometimes, i have to make the hardest decisions you have nothing to turn to and when you go into a homeless shelter you're at your lowest point you basically fall between the cracks if they can help you. and the only homeless she felt that really is for queer or gender variant people is the larkin and it's full and it can be closed for a year or months. and in those months we're losing people like clock work. girls symcome here thinking they have a chance to live a no more

life but you don't get that they're out doing prostitution or because you don't want to go into a place where they call you a faggot. so to have a proper growth and development for them and so i think it would only be right for the commissioners to approve such a thing. okay. thank you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm charles stevens i'm a case manager at the lyric be floektd the castro. i had to prepare a speech but i'll provide a prospective

that's unique to me being on the ground level and seeing the day to day kind of need such as a the delores promise. at our organization we assist folks connecting them to resources, assisting them with name and gender change and providing them that food stamps. you name it we do that. the birth challenge we face and that's the population is accesss our services is housing. the need for a spectrum of let the record show housing is a real necessity. there are so many resources out there for people who don't identify as lgbt q. there are people dealing with substance you abuse and

african-american and people dealing with domestic violence. there's only one place of access for lgbt adults and we need more than that because there's a lot of challenges that arises with this population. i have people coming to me who are being hoorsz from shelter staff and made to use restrooms that they don't want to. a lot of times the staff is unable to or unwilling to assist with the lgbt resources. and there's a lack of inclusive.

and many of the shelter - it's my sincere hope that the delores shelter program is supported not just fiscally but as a community as a whole. this is a huge need for the lgbt population especially for our young folks >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello like charles i'm a case manager at the lyric. i appreciate you taking the time to discuss the lgbt homeless shelter is so critical. many of the people have addressed this issue so i'm going to keep it brief. one of the main things i think we'll see the lgbt community

benefit through this shelter is supporting a staff that's familiar to ronald to issues that the lgbt community face. when we have a staff that's trained to respond to issues of violence and harm reduction as well as deescalation we'll see many of the young people and adults that will be seeing people transition to long term hoosiers connections. like was said the shelter takes one to four most to get into. when new lgbt q folks are coming

into the city which is happening regularly in order for them to engage in the shelter they can show up at 9:00 p.m. and only a few folks will get in so those folks are showing up at the shelter as sort of a last option to air-conditioned another 25 beds to house folks is going to be huge for us as case managers when we're struggling to refer our participants to save housing. so again, we appreciate you're taking the time to consider this issue and we at lyric ask you to support this. thank you >> thank you i'm going to call

more names (calling names). >> good afternoon president fong and commissioners. i'm the shelter manager for the program. on top of that i'm a native san franciscan born and raised here and would here my whole life. i'm here to express to you guys this is long overdue in the city. obviously there's a need here and the lgbt q folks are living on the streets and barely accessing other shelters and feeling uncomfortable and it's not only our duty to do this by the correct thing to do. i'm confident as both the manager of the program and as a san franciscan they will continue to do quality work.

please take into consideration and thank you for your afternoon >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm francis and i'm here to lend my support to the delores facilities extending the amen amount of beds. i do know what it's like to be transgender male and it's quite dangerous for members of my community. simply going to the shower or bathroom could mean bad thing. i want to encourage you to approve extending 24 more beds for delores street. thank you >> thank you.

>> (speaking foreign language). >> i'm going to translate for her. >> and as a member of a transgender community i wanted to ask you to support this project. for us it's very dangerous out there and because there's a project for this we wanted to come out and support it. and a (speaking foreign

language) >> and our community we have - we suffer a lot and so we really want to thank you for considering supporting this proposal. >> (speaking foreign language). >> i want to thank you for your support for all the transgender folks. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jose. i'm a volunteer at the delores street services. i'm going on my third year. i volunteer at the office and been at the shefrments, too, and i wanted to reinforce way you've heard.