sorry about that. supervisor kim: thank you. i have to move to our next speaker, though, but i appreciate the presentation that is up there. >> i do have a visual aid for every one of you. supervisor kim: great. thank you. >> all right. supervisor kim: next speaker, please. that i am is a woman of transgendered history, 66 years old. this is my worst fear, here, the distances that people have to walk around, the elderly with physical disabilities, makes no difference. and no transportation being provided. a good friend of mine lived next door to glide for a while, and every time i went to visit her, sure enough, there will always be a line all the way down the block waiting and waiting and

waiting for services, and this is just a tremendous waste of human resources. transgendered women, gender variant, gender non-conforming people artist -- especially discriminated against in the shelter system, and these will lines -- i've heard a lot of cases of people's in patients being expressed through transphobia, like one man's complaint about men dressing as women in order to get preferential treatment, and that is because there are just flat out not enough beds available and that working conditions for the staff. so i would really like some energy to be put into this. this is serious. supervisor kim: thank you.

[applause] my apologies again -- if we could refrain from the applause. i want to make sure that everyone gets to speak. >> good afternoon, super beat -- supervisors. i bring you greetings from super action network. the 6.5% of homeless groups living with hiv/aids -- there is a great chance sitting in the cold, in the rain, that this person will develop walking pneumonia. i have lived with the virus and had walking pneumonia this year. without proper treatment and proper housing and proper attrition, it could lead to multi organ failure. it is said to see that we live in a rich city, but when it comes down to taking care of our homeless population, we lack in that area. the supplemental income of social security is not enough. the fed's kick in $600 a month. you kick in $296 from the state.

that is only $896. including the non-proper hotels, they charge more than 50% of the income. weber our city departments leader is that said that, let's change places. you give me your income and take my income. we will see who will survive the longest. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello. when i first came here, i was almost dead. i needed 6 liters of blood. i was treated like i should be dead. i went to a shelter, and the shelter looked at my bags and said, "we can handle you, but we cannot handle your personal belongings." the man at the door told me, " witt, go in and sit down, and i will get your bags later on. i go in and sit down. the woman at the desk said she

would inform me about the rules. the rule was i had to have a thing around my wrist so i could get in and stay in. that night, i wind up sleeping in a chair. the next morning, i took my bags out, and i went to get a band, and i did get one, when i came back in, demand will be to sit down again, so i sat down. at 10:00, the man cam told me that they had a bit for me. i got in the bid. when i got in the bed, and let my bed behind the door. what was that? the doorman told me to go in and sit down, and they would give me a bed, but the bag could not come in. i wait for about four hours. my bags were not checked, so i went back, and he said not to worry about the backs, they would handle it. just sit down and do what i was asked. i did that, and i got the bed, but my bag stayed behind the

door. that morning, the man came and told me they were talking about throwing my personal belongings away. i said i would check and see what was happening. my bags were by the door. they were moved from one door to the next. so when i got there, i said they were buybacks. they told me to sit down. i went and sat down, here comes a lady about two hours later. "who left those bags there. you have no business leaving these there." i said that the job was to go and ask dorman about the bags. she said i could not talk to her like that -- supervisor kim: you are at time. if you could wrap up your last sentence. >> i just want to let you know, the system needs to be changed. the system needs some order to it. supervisor kim: thank you. [applause] >> my name is mark call again. this is my dog, kramer. we are currently seeking a bed

at next door. next door was our home for three and a half weeks. we had a dispute with the management. we got involved in the hearing process, and then the arbitration process, which be one, and now, we are still without a bed. my dog and i -- i am wheelchair- bound due to a broken leg, but we have been sleeping on the streets, both of us, for 10 nights. we have graciously been accommodated two nights in the next door shelter, but we've made the rounds today to the mission resource center, to ga

and to glide a couple of days ago. there was no room there. i do not know whether we have been blocked in the computer system or whatever, but we have gone through the entire process, have been found not in -- we have been found in compliance with a reservation, and there is none to be had for us. supervisor kim: thank you. can i ask a quick question? i was wondering how you transport yourself between all the centers and shelters. >> in the downhill, i am in my wheelchair, and i use the largess of some bus drivers for

free access in my wheelchair with my dog. that is how we get around. when we are not in -- sleeping in a shelter, i have it that that basically renders me a competent to do any moving around. supervisor kim: thank you. >> ok, kramer. [applause] >> my name is john ellis. i like to say that i stayed at several shelters before i was house. back injury. the talk about budgeting, they do not have a budget for more

beds, more this, but and not of the exact figure, but to give some shelter costs about $30 a night, something like that. someone and up in hospital, you're touching $1,000 to buy thousand dollars per incident. -- you are charging $1,000 to $5,000 per incident. i have been in hospital, and it is getting better, but for the people the state in the shelter system, those numbers are only getting higher, and they do not seem to factor that into the planning, that it is an expensive exercise to deal with. before i was house, i was sent to a unit because of problems i had at msc. if you would like details, i

could e-mail them to you. supervisor kim: you are more than welcome to e-mail us more information. [applause] and sorry, i do have to go to our next speaker. we have close to 50 individuals still waiting to speak, but i will speak with you afterward. >> [inaudible] supervisor kim: thank you. i have not called your card yet. i really do want to get through these names that signed up first. you can speak at the end. i'm sorry, i have to go in the order that i have called. because some people came early early to sign up for speaker cards. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is arnold. my experience dealing with the shelter was when i first moved out here, the way it was set up what they had a lottery system where you would go to the shelter. when you leave out in the

morning, you sign the lottery, your name by the corresponding number, and that afternoon, they would draw all the winners. literally, pretty much everybody got a bid. -- a bed. years later, they come up with this idea about the changes, i say just complicating the issue is more than resolving them, that it got to the point where i just gave up trying to get into the shelter. i have a friend who had about four or five cars. i would sleep in his car. that way, his cars were being looked out for, and i had somewhere to sleet, but i have something to read for a friend of mine that could not make it up here. "my first experience with the shelter was somewhat exhausting for the first week. i had to except the one-day daily bread and whatever shelter in the city was available. after g i would line aslide every day after dinner with 40 or 50 people, and to

decide whether i got a bed or not. i quickly became tired of it, having to pack a bag daily and nightly all over the city -- that is what i learn if i go in the morning, i could get a 90- day event. i decided to try it. i did not think of all the other people who had the same thought, but i learned quickly enough, both times, there would be no more than two, three, or four beds available. some days, you end up having to leave or come back or go to another resource center that evening and try for another bid. after getting tired" -- anyway, he got rid of most of the stock, decided to go in the line at the dinner, sat on a milk crate from 4:00 p.m. until the next morning, and he got a 90-day bed, and he is now doing pretty much ok, i assume. thank you guys. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you. i am going to call 10 more

speaker cards. [reading names] and i apologize that i'm being so orderly about public comment. i know many people want to speak and i know two minutes is not enough to share your stories, but i appreciate your respect for all the people that are here to speak today. thank you. >> i think to all the presentations and denies boasted that was presented, i think we can pretty much agree that trying to get into the shelter system is pretty much humiliating and degrading, what people have to go through to get into the shelter system. waiting outside at 3:00 at 4:00 in the morning.

then, not being sure at all that you will even get a bed. i think that is the most degrading thing after going through what you have to go through, but people are not really speaking about what happens after you get into the shelter system, what you have to go through the end. that is sometimes even more humiliating and more degrading. i have been in just about every major shelter in this city, and i have only found two to be to my liking, and that is the hospitality house on leavenworth, and the delores street shelter in the mission. those would probably be in my mind, the two best shelters in the city. most are really crack. what makes them crack is the people that runs the shelter. you know, they treat people just because you are homeless, they want to treat you like animals, and that is the one thing that really needs to stop. the people's attitudes that work there. most of them get the job because

they are somebody's cousin or something, and they come in with these kind of attitudes and treat you just because you come off the streets -- they want to treat you like you are some kind of animal. that is the one thing that really needs to stock, and the one thing i can say about it, the one word i can use to label schulz's is they stock. -- -- they suck. you could say it 10 times. shelters scuk. -- suck. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you. next speaker. >> [speaking spanish] >> i feel a little sorry that

today i cannot come up here and speak the language, but i will try to express my story. in the most humble and honorable way that i can, i am here to speak in front of you today. to present to you today my biggest banks -- thanks. i would like to give thanks for you guys giving us -- for creating shelters.

for giving people in san francisco a chance -- or people in san francisco a place to stay who have found themselves in certain circumstances that have made them homeless. he would like to say that the shelter services for delores street are really efficient. especially when you are trying to get a bed for one day or 90 days.

and i like to just leave you guys with saying one thing, and that is thank you for the help and a lot of thanks to all of you. he said he wants to try to make the time to tell you something that is missing from the shelter system. accessibility for the seniors and disabled. accessibility for people who do not speak english.

to make the shelter system more easy, accessible, and to preserve more programs culturally. a system that does not include lines. a system that does not have you traveling for long distances just to find shelter. something that is simple and easy to understand, accessible 24 hours in a system where we can find ourselves a place to sleep for more than one day. supervisor kim: thank you. [applause]

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>> he says that right now, his problem really is not with being turned away for shelter. it is what happens after being turned away from shelter, which is he is a senior now, and it is really hard for him to get over even a common cold. he says he is ashamed of it, but he says that unfortunately, sometimes he has to steal his medicines just to get over a cold. he is grateful for the shelter

system but not critical for the facts that it is basically a struggle to get back into good health, good standing so that he can find again shelter and work, and he would like to thank you guys for your time. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you. >> i spent three days weaiting for a bed. we called the electric chair -- you sit down right there, and you can wait, but the other people fall down and he hit his head on the floor. there is no other way you want to do it. it was raining. i had to spend today out of the rain, on the streets. fortunately, i have my be dnow. -- bed now. i appreciate this but other

people with disabilities can do nothing. i think that there will be a reform. thank you. [applause] >> may i have the overhead? i was first homeless in this town more than a dozen years ago, when my ssi was taken away. the shelter system was just as deplorable then as it is now. the lack of shelter access was occurring in 1998. this is the local homeless

coordinator -- probably read by everyone over there. i know -- i have read that report and live to this in 1998. please, i beseech you, supervisor kim, can we do something different this year? [applause] two months ago i was wrongfully evicted from the sub -- substandard rose hotel for filing a complaint with hud. i am no longer able to care for myself or my possessions. i have a tumor in my spine. i am burdened down by three separate breathing machines, and mr. powell -- this is one of them. i cannot take care of them or

move them. i received my first of seven denials of service. at the first resource center, when they realized i had multiple disabilities and cannot care for myself -- since i was inside the building, having been as -- having been escorted there, they allowed me to stay within the resource center as if i was unable-bodied person. when i exited they would not let me return because of my disability. and while i was there they would not assigned -- may i have another three minutes. >> i can let you finish that sentence. >> can you show the overhead light? this woman fell out of her chair at the second resource center and she was badly injured. these are the paramedics that came and got her, the paramedics that came and got her.

you can see that this is the chair that she had to sit in. this is empty because the body and the qaeda are removed. >> can we take that copy? >> yes. i have written my remarks here. >> i do have to call the next speaker. thank you. [applause] i will call up the next 10 speakers. gonzalo moran. betty tillman. joshua vining. miguel carrera. tony -- homeless. mark leach. ivy -- and catherine.

you may begin. >> i am a senior. i have been homeless for seven years. and for the seven years that i have been homeless, i have stayed most of the time -- this is a government place. i don't have very much experience in lying or dead, because i don't have the patience, and i know that the shelters are not very much safe for me. i have experiences as a four

months ago. and so -- i prefer this -- i feel more safe. and so, i cannot offer very much about this because i did not experience that very much. and also, i sell flowers at night, in the north beach area so i can pay for my expenses. today i bring my flowers hoping that he will buy all of them so i did not have to go to work tonight, because i often finish work at 3:00 in the morning. i expect you to have a house --

so that my life will be better in the future. thank you. [applause] >> i am with the coalition of homelessness. i am angel, and i just want to speak in regards of dr. martin luther king and his memory. mr. lee said -- he became the mayor because of the memory of dr. martin luther king. i think dr. martin luther king with think that many of these things are deplorable. in 2012 -- he would look down upon us and try to fight for people -- and human rights. i know many of you would agree with me that the things people see