not akmoney or monies from any local, state, or federalent. 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 throto the elements, thrown into the reets. oftentimes, seniors are picked up, taken to hospital, treated for a couple of days and then drawn back on thestreets. and more itant, noetter ren -- no veteran who has served this nation should live on the street. thank you very much.

>> good afternoon. i am the proam irecto for the family services agen for the community senior program and economic secury center we partnerto deliver job training and holistic case older. hrghthe bundledconomic saved$1.2 million annually in out-of-pocket expenses. serving opleis better. if we're going to cut services, thereby efctively forcing let's work diligently to create and support programs like ts that train or retrain our seniors, primarily and most

mportantly because they have spent eir ives taking care of us and it would be unconscionable if we did not reciproca the blessing. thank you. [applause] >> supervisors, i ink wee seniors are undercut. we are getting more andmore and stronger andstronr andliving ngernd longer. you'll have to deal with ry soon verye of you becong a senior. we need afoth -- arce of fundgfor the seniors. we cannot depend on what we get from the government or the state. i ask you supervisors stop thinking about legislation -- start thinking about

legislation. we have funds for our library. e have a dedicated fund r playgrounds foouchildren. the elementarygrade hrough community colleges, th, 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. 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 uwith you. [laughter] > good afternoon, commissioners.

i beng to the senior action neork anused to be on the executive board fothe san francisco project, another community organization. after living in san francisco said most of my life, nce 1948 -- that is all of them a lot of people here -- i might have to be joined the -- forced tojn 50 million or more people who have had to move out of the city and live with friends and relatives because they cannot afrd 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 educati and pay my utilities. i have more soup kitchens in the southeastnear 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 everyoneelse. thank you. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> @ bekker afternoon, supervisors. i am the case manager for mr. he. i represent the family services of san francisco. e suffered a stroke two years ago an is right now living in the basement of his in-laws. he is trying to find pce with lor rent, but it has been jt going to look at himare because of his disability. they find it difficult to accommodate him. hes getti 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 primaly concerne with ordae housing and seniors with disabilities and pedestrian when i moved into the herbert herte in 1995 -- herbert hotel in 1995, i would estimate 50 plus residents in the hotel, but current management is hotel as rapidly as possible, confunghe situation because students are technically lassied as residents. at the beginning of last year

there were 15 residents lt at have shrunk to 12. third e cely went to an ended care nursing home and has eviction notices plastered all over the door. appliefor a land line telephone o be stalled in my room, the at&t jack was not working they asked if they could p the hot telephone jack to an 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 cando to get across ght ontersection witha n but bicycles come ripping trough and run red lights, and one recently said to meet "you

better watch out" as he zped past. rolled into the intersection and i had to detour around it. 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 askyou to redouble your efforts tfind more efficient and more 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 lawyersan 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 cent i am a 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 tt bed.where ?

the shters have denied the entrance, and that is why i am with the hot team in the first place. if the hot te had more stle.ng, i could perhs be more i have one or two meals a day at the senior center. they serve so many meals that sometimes they have to turn and last friday they served more meals than ever before. they had to stay open 50% longer. but there are o extras, and a second, and it hurts me to see such an efficient program that feeds a lot of people forso little money strgl word they had a little bit more money they could have greater efficiency. could i just say one other thing? you have to encouragelandlords in this wn was some sort of ncenves. 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, supvisors. she has come today - she is a participant at the 30th street senior center and her conce housing about seven years go. she went to check two years o ago she was on 5000 on the list. two years ago she realized she was no. 9000 on the list an wanted to know how that could

possibly be. but there were circumstances where people were given eat concer to her.at was o she has also tried to apply for other senior housing and there wre 5 slots on the waiting li. they said that possibly within 10 years she would get a place. and there ialso t lottery -- right. >> [speaking spanish]

>> she as 30 years of living in your currentlocaon, and she did participate in a lottery for seor housing. se wanumber ur hundred 99 -- 499 in that lottery, which did entitle her to be on that she se on a fih floor >> [speaking spanish] cracks her situation is very complicated in regard to the housing requirements -- >> hur regard to e housing requirements.

david pryor her to leave the housing and and get back on a lower level, which- they have required her to leave the housing and get back on the lever level, which requires less spirit i do not know -- and get back on a lower level, which requires less. i do not know if i explained that well enough. >> i am a member of the senior center going on 10 years now. i appreciate all of your support for the senior centers. the program that i use increasingly more is the lch program. and there have been some cuts in it, but we still serve twice a daduring the week, one at 12:00 p.m. and 1 at 1:00 p.m. i want them to continue. i also depend on public

transportation, and i appreciate the senior cards for clipper. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i'mvioria from the independent living resourc nter. ank yor waiting to the end for me to talk. i will talk about the housing needs foradults wh disabilities who are not senior as mr. sloan, our first speaker, said, they cannot getio is housing. tas matured --as mr. richards said, it is very hard ucrsndt isard to get the man artso take them. adults with disabilities in this ty is public housing. this woman was not a senior when she came to san francisco and wa not a siowhen she lived

n standard housing. housing when she was a senior, but to oers is csenow. i have been working with adults with disabilities and i have material i can e-mail to you. thank you. >> congratulations, christina. >> thank you. it cracks i have a speech -- >> i have a speech impairment, so it is quite to take me more than two minutes, but i will do my best am here with my mobility service document o testify befo y how these budget cuts have altered by life. i am a person with a disability,

which ishidden and often misunderstood. one, i have a brain injury. i can feel the discord burning within the city with regard to those of us who are viewed differently. i have endured a reduction in in-home support services and ssi can no longer afford to buy food at my local grocery store, safeway. wastold i was ineligible and that i have too much money. he cu iav endured over the last five years have so increased -- cannot pronounced

the word. the legislativeodchose to ignore. to my reduction in my disability income, i cannot enjoy the full and just life that all of us want and deserve. who among you here before me would be content to have their life altered and changed and take my place? thank you very much. >> tha you. gregg's good afternoon, supervisors. -- >> good afternoon, supervisors. this has been a really important h and there has en a lot of sering data that has come

out in this, as well as soberin personal stories from seniors and people with disabilities. i have to say, hearing that mor than hf of the seniors in our city are struggling to make end meet, it makes me k of amed in certain way. and i feel like it raises, for me, fundamental questi about theectionour city oing. i know the is a re fear out tere that san francisco is becoming a younger place and people with lot of mon are able to live here, and that you' well a lot of peoe arbeing marginalized in the process. i know there are a t of people here, both in lp position and people in geral in the community who want something different n

francisco and they want us to be true to our progressive history. it will want to live in an inclusive city where everyonerkg wehave partners o arvery of people with disabilities and at home with support.elg but the proposedcuts to services appeni onverylevelreale to insist that the 1% y their fair share. anunsse are le to do that eoe th disabilities are right to continue to suffer. it is a fundamentalqution of justice and a fundamental question of the kind of city that we want to build. >> gd afternoon.

i want tdt your attention toward this document. in 005 ended in 2006, for 1 months there w a study done around health and impacts on the maybe to cocide with this profile that's theyad given as isto gettogher with the department of hea andthat th t demographics and roveride housingand health and food

coincide with one another. if a person does not housing -- does not have housing, they will f they not have food they will be a mess. we will be loing at urning co-ops into stes that will be ccessible fo people with disabilities. we have too many on spaces, pces that are not bei utilized. this is a good way tim utilize. --a good way to utilize. re i ave, i would li to ecked on one of our members. tank y. >> good afternoon.

thank you for alling me to speak today. i eel this i an portan siation going on. i would like to ask madame clerk to plee put the overhead light on so i can put something that i would like to show about my landlord. i am a senior. i have lived in my building for 20 years bore -- for 20 years. before i say that i would like to see and part of the tion network. i am also part of the health organization. i'm very much a part of the community in san francisco. i have been at my place for 20 years and i pay my rent on time. i'm being threatened with an eviction from his landlord that i have on the overhead. he is being sued by the city and county of san francisco for

numero situations, along with this one. i have another one overhead. he is swallowing gains in his buildings. there are drive-by shootings on leavenworth street, which is in the overhead here. i live at 428 post st. and its an apartment he paid $20 million cash for. very ruthless man. i nehelp. i need this city to protect my rights as a enior citiz and a disabled woman i thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for calling this eeting. it is so mu needed.

i live in an apartment nearby the civic center neighborhood. i've been there since 1978. with the decrease in my effective in crime and -- my affected in caum and with the ring cost of everything else i have to purchase i have to have a roommate. she is on ssiand i'm on social security's/disability and old age. we are food insecure. i had to step out for a few minutes to go to the aging and isabilitresource cr to have lunch. it was crowded. it was definitely not