other hearings and we are going a little over. fortunately we need to do at this time, although this is not the end, not the end of the silver surged, not the end of the senior movementthe senior m. what this means is that we're willing to start wrapping it up so that our hon. supervisors can get their lunch and our hon. seniors can get their lunch, and we can move on to continue planning this. everybody is involved with a case, the coalition of those serving the elderly. i want to say to everyone, thank you all for coming. and this is not the end. this is not the last hearing that we're going to hide here. this is only the beginning.

>> thank you. those who do want to speak, we are not going to prevent you from speaking. certainly, if you do not have a lunch time or have to leave, we will not be cutting off public comment. and thank you. i know there are people who wanted to leave who did need to eat. >> money is charles -- my name is charles. i am a member in richmond. i am a regular product -- army veteran, honorably discharged. i served as a merchant sailor and a retired early because the body did not hold out any more.

i think there are a lot of people like me in the service to need some work. not just to supplement the income, but to give us a reason for living. and we have applied services to the people of these -- this city i do not expect much in this situation because i am not a member of the oracle board of directors or yelp or twitter or at&t. they could come in here with their corporate lawyers and get carte blanche. i have worked for 42 years, three years for the city the changes needed in this society are revolutionary.

and the power -- we need the money and the power of the people in this country to help the seniors, and the youth, who do not have much of a future. i trust the u.s. and the working people of this society to change things, not this board of supervisors. >> i am really fed up with the city of san francisco because i got evicted from my mother's house, and her mother got evicted also. i will let you know who these people are. they have city hall records of the city and county. they took advantage of my mother. the real-estate your -- the real-estater who took advantage, my mother paid her own home. it got me in trouble because i tell the truth. the house was not sold.

it was a scam. people are squatters and -- i have documents that he is not the owner of the house. and i cannot see my mother in the hospital. byrd said chong says she is a conservatorship and she is a fraud and a con. i need to get my mother back home, and myself. the share of kicked me out of the house. -- the sheriff kicked me out of my house. i want them under arrest and jailed. since march 30th i've been staying at the westin house. and i also pay my social security.

i want to go back to 156 albus. i know these people are con artists. thank you. cracks -- >> [unintelligible] some of the graffiti on the bus number is because i wash the

bus. i wanted to report the problems. thank you. >> i have been here for about three months. i was a visitor and i was dying when i came here. however, it is not about me. it is about the programs that you are supposed to be having. so far, i have not seen any program for the senior citizens. i have not seen a program for the handicapped. i have not seen anything that would give evidence that you are sincerely wanting to help people who have disabilities, who have needs for programs that would help them to become stabilized citizens, as you call it. there are a lot of things that have happened here in san francisco that is fraud. i know that there should be

housing for the homeless citizens, for the senior citizens, for that quadriplegics, for those who are handicapped. there is no housing for them. there is nothing for them. there's something they call a day center, where they go and sing and dance and have apartments. these people need help, too. but what about homeless? what about those who are really down and out? those who really need someone to take notice. i think san francisco is going to find out if they do not hurry up and do something about these people that there is going to be a condition that they will not be able to handle. thank you.

>> good morning, supervisors. my name is jose morales. i am a member of the senior action network. i have -- i came as an advocate to save seniors and disability services. i am very disabled. i live with our steel prices the -- osteoporosis. that my medicine has been cut out. and i am appealing, and they do not listen to me. and also, the senior moment is now. no cuts. i hope you get that message from all the seniors in the city.

and supervisor christina olague dknows me very well. she came to the senior action network. we had a great meeting honoring our great citizen, miguel, who died after 20 years of service completely devoted to make sure that he saved those with addictions. and all the supervisors, everybody, i have some copies for you. i hope you will read them.

the majority of you are trying to say it is ok for washington to demolish. this is a great injustice. we have to save those units, those people, because it is the great story of our lives. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. gregg's i was at miguel's that also. -- >> i was at miguel's the event also. he did a lot for tenants. >> thank you. >> my name is francisco decosta. and i'm looking at some of your presenters, what i believe is empirical data. i have been looking at some of

the presentations, including the one that you presented, sir. and i think that some of the facts in the presentation do not reflect their real data. and the best way for me to address it is for me to send you an e-mail to that fact. i also want to point out to the four of y'all sitting down there that each one of you are compensated by the city. hopefully, when you present, don't present things in generalities. we need solutions. thank you very much. having said that, i am a senior, too. but i'm not part of the data. and there are thousands of files. we worked very hard.

we have disabilities, but we do not take money or monies from any local, state, or federal entities. we do not. we work hard and we do our best. i am here to tell you, supervisors, that is tragic what our seniors are thrown to face the elements, thrown into the streets. oftentimes, seniors are picked up, taken to hospital, treated for a couple of days and then drawn back on the streets. and more important, no better ren -- no veteran who has served this nation should live on the street. thank you very much.

>> good afternoon. i am the program director for the family services agency for the community senior program and economic security center. we partner to deliver job training and holistic case management services to the senior population 55 years and older. through the bundled economic security initiative referral services, our clients have saved $1.2 million annually in out-of-pocket expenses. serving people is better. if we're going to cut services, thereby effectively forcing seniors into the work force, let's work diligently to create and support programs like this that train or retrain our

seniors, primarily and most importantly because they have spent their lives taking care of us and it would be unconscionable if we did not reciprocate the blessing. thank you. [applause] >> supervisors, i think we, the seniors are undercut. we are getting more and more and stronger and stronger and living longer and longer. you'll have to deal with very soon everyone of you becoming a senior. we need a fourth -- a source of funding for the seniors. we cannot depend on what we get from the government or the state. i ask you supervisors to stop thinking about legislation. -- start thinking about

legislation. we have funds for our library. we have a dedicated fund for playgrounds for our children. the elementary grades through community colleges, they, too, received a dedicated funds. i think it is time for you supervisors to look at this direction. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. my name is bruce allison. there is a 50-foot, 20-ton gorilla in this city known as vacant units by renters renting

buildings. in the u.s. it is 32,000 vacant units in this city and only 10,000 homeless people. that is a 3 to one ratio. i am getting tired of opening up an official shelters. please come and open up some facilities for seniors kamal are you will have to put up with me for the rest of your life. thank you. [laughter] >> we want to put up with you, rompers. mr. allison, we do not mind putting up with you. [laughter] >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is joyce.

i belong to the senior action network and i used to be on the executive board for the san francisco project, another community organization. after living in san francisco said most of my life, since 1948 -- that is all of them a lot of people here -- i might have to be joined the -- forced to join 50 million or more people who have had to move out of the city and live with friends and relatives because they cannot afford to live in this city anymore.

i cannot get a job anymore because of the downturn. based on my social security i cannot fix my roof. i need to pay my education and pay my utilities. i have more soup kitchens in the southeast near the calpers area. and if people do not want to pay taxes, begged. and we need to repair the 30,000 units for people to have enough

senior housing as well as housing for everyone else. thank you. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> @ bekker afternoon, supervisors. i am the case manager for mr. he. i represent the family services of san francisco. he suffered a stroke two years ago and is right now living in the basement of his in-laws. he is trying to find places with lower rent, but it has been difficult because people are just going to look at him because of his disability. they find it difficult to accommodate him. he is getting the support for the case manager and this is something ongoing until he

finds stabilization in his life. please consider supporting the senior citizens. >> i am with the senior action network and i'm primarily concerned with affordable housing and seniors with disabilities and pedestrian safety for these people. when i moved into the herbert her tell in 1995 -- herbert hotel in 1995, i would estimate 50 plus residents in the hotel, but current management is converting it into a student hotel as rapidly as possible, confusing the situation because students are technically

classified as residents. at the beginning of last year there were 15 residents left that have shrunk to 12. a third one recently went to an extended care nursing home and has eviction notices plastered all over the door. what i applied for a land line telephone to be installed in my room, the at&t jack was not working they asked if they could put the hotel telephone jack to an at&t jack and the management said no because when i left the room it would be converted to a tourist room. living there, i frequently have a need to cross market street. third -- at third and market, it is all i can do to get across the intersection with a walk in light on. but bicycles come ripping through and run red lights, and

one recently said to meet "you better watch out" as he zipped past. and last week, an automobile rolled into the intersection and i had to detour around it. i think it's time for education is passing and the time for enforcement is now. thank you. >> hello? thank you. i'm here to say you do not provide enough money in the current budget now for seniors and disabled. and that has destroyed my life and the lives of others. mainly, here to ask you to redouble your efforts to find more efficient and more economical programs. had you given more money to the

legal assistance to the elderly i would not have had a problem, but i was outmaneuvered and lied to by my landlord. he has hundreds of lawyers and legal assistance and does not have time to discuss most cases. i have currently eight two- bedroom section 8 vouchers for almost a year now be -- but i'm still homeless because i cannot find section 8 housing. and there is one housing person with hundreds of disabled clients that she is trying to serve. because i am a client i am a member of the hot team, but i do not use drugs or i call and that is where their funding -- or alcohol and that is where their funding is. i am costing them in their program.

i could soon lose that bed. where will i go then? the shelters have denied the entrance, and that is why i am with the hot team in the first place. if the hot team had more funding, i could perhaps be more stable. i have one or two meals a day at the senior center. they serve so many meals that sometimes they have to turn people away. and last friday they served more meals than ever before. they had to stay open 50% longer. but there are no extras, and a second, and it hurts me to see such an efficient program that feeds a lot of people for so little money struggle word they had a little bit more money they could have greater efficiency. could i just say one other thing? you have to encourage landlords in this town was some sort of incentives. tax breaks, i don't care what

try to rent to the elderly and disabled and to accept section 8. >> thank you. [applause] >> [speaking spanish]

>> good afternoon, supervisors. she has come today -- she is a participant at the 30th street senior center and her concern today is that she applied for housing about seven years ago. she went to check two years ago and noticed -- well, seven years ago she was on 5000 on the list. two years ago she realized she

was no. 9000 on the list and wanted to know how that could possibly be. but there were circumstances where people were given preference, and that was of great concern to her. she has also tried to apply for other senior housing and there were 500 slots on the waiting list. she was at four hundred 99. they said that possibly within 10 years she would get a place. and there is also the lottery -- right. >> [speaking spanish]

>> she has 30 years of living in your current location, and she did participate in a lottery for senior housing. she was number four hundred 99 -- 499 in that lottery, which did entitle her to be on that list. she rose on a fifth floor apartment -- >> [speaking spanish] cracks her situation is very complicated in regard to the housing requirements -- >> hur situation is very