talk about it. i mean, really. you hear it all the time. i was walking my dog in the park, a man in the park said, i didn't know homeless people jogged. a really negative thing. homeless people are no different from impoverished people. the only difference is if you have a housing subsidy or not. i tried to cut this, you know, this idea of people coming from other places in a bunch of different ways. one of the things i looked at, it's a number of bus tickets given out of town versus the number of people based on the raw numbers from the homeless count who came here for services. and san francisco has given -- for every 22 homeless people, a bus ticket out of town, one person has come here for services. so, you know, that's one way to look at it, but there's a lot of different ways. and i think what this sort of mythology has done and certainly the hatred lead to

violence against homeless people in the streets. the mythology has made it very difficult to develop the popular support that we need to create solutions to homelessness and has, you know, kind of furthered the acceptable use of homeless people as a scapegoat in various political races. and when we talk about homelessness and we read about it in the media, if you take out the word homeless and you put any other word in there, it wouldn't be acceptable, yet the homeless population is over represented by members of the lgbt community, by african americans, by women who are victims of domestic violence, disabled people, all people who experience severe oppression in our society are over represented in the homeless population, yet we continue to feel like it's okay to talk about human beings in such a hateful and dehumanizing way. i wanted to talk about that because i feel like that is a major challenge we're facing as

we move forward that needs to be addressed. continued criminalization of homeless people, of course homeless people get between 11,000 and 18,000 citations a year for being too poor to afford a place to live. this massive competition for affordable housing, disparity between income and rent continues to get broader and broader. so, moving on to the policy ideas. i talked a little bit about prevention, but we really need to close off the entry into homelessness and i think we can do it. we've been doing it in really smart ways. when, you know, mission neighborhood resource center did it one time, just look at their clients. not so long ago, 40% of their clients were homeless for the very first time. so, we have a large number of newly homeless people also. i know this is about chronic homelessness, you know, but we kind of prefer to look at it as a holistic issue. so, one of the things we want to do and we made some leeway,

we need to go farther. we need to halt all preventable [speaker not understood] in san francisco. legislation and budget action. there is a lot of stuff that's being discussed here. we'll be coming forward with budget proposals around this, but we shouldn't have anybody else lose their rent control apartment in san francisco unnecessarily. we need to develop eviction standard in nonprofit housing and public housing. we talk a lot about eviction in the private market. we need to really kind of set the standard in our nonprofit and public housing and have a mediation before it goes to eviction. since 2009 the eviction collaborative said there's been [speaker not understood] human agency funding alone. since those folks are coming out of homelessness, presumably we can say a good proportion of those rushed to homelessness after eviction. it is so much harder to get back in housing. that is something legislatively

we can do, get creative and avoid it. we also need to look at our shallow rent subsidy program. you know, we've had a lot of success with it with like i said, about 300 families. how about using that in a creative way to keep low-income household in the rent control apartments for folks that are paying more than 07% of their income on rent that are at risk of losing that housing and having the subsidy ~ so that the housing is unaffordable for them becomes affordable. ~ 70% we can also look at having a deeper shallow subsidy program and supervisor avalos alluded to this in talking about section 8, that many -- the shallow subsidy program in san francisco is having an increasingly difficult time placing families inside san francisco. so, what we're doing is paying for a subsidy and we're placing san francisco families outside of san francisco. so, we need to look at that a little differently, have a deeper subsidy and be able to keep our folks in san francisco

which is i think what all of us, you know, you know, we have a lot of agreement on that. this also can be, you know, part of a budget proposal this year that we can do. we need to create more exits out of homelessness. i talked about creating a deep permanent subsidy. we can also fully fund the san francisco housing authority to meet their infrastructure needs without using the housing trust fund. so, we got the housing trust fund. that was amazing. san francisco housing authority was hit where we have these infrastructure needs. so, the housing ust money, you know, is being diverted over to keeping our public housing which is incredibly important, but we need to do both. so, let's get the money into public housing from general fund and let's have the housing trust fund create new units of affordable housing for folks to create those exits out of homelessness.

bevan dufty had talked about this as well and i couldn't agree more. opening up the housing authority wait list, prioritizing homeless san franciscans and fill the vacancy as quickly as possible. we've gotten better at the housing authority, but you can drive up to potrero hill and count for yourself, how many boarded units there are. makes you want to pull your hair out. why is that unit sitting there? so, keep moving on that stuff. we have some stock there as the housing authority moves are happening. eliminate unnecessary barriers to housing. you know, this was talked about a bit. you know, we talk about credit ratings as a barrier. we also have the criminalization piece. people get tickets, they can't pay them, they go to warrant, they get kicked off the housing wait list, they can't get into our other housing. when they have active warrants they can't differentiate what it is. when you get a ticket and they won't give you housing because you couldn't pay the ticket and so you're duck on the streets.

and, so, really trying to get rid of those barriers. we have tried the criminalization, it hasn't led to people getting off the streets. it actually as praythtion it. ~ exasperates it. we need to look at the master lease. 28 units were master lease units. it's often talked about as supportive housing. supportive housing from the federal definition means it's affordable, that it's permanent and that it's supportive. most of our master lease housing is not affordable. people are paying more than 80% of their income for rent. it's obviously not permanent. it's a lease that has a time limit on the end. we're mutting money into private landlords, there's equity in it. we get people off the streets quickly, we are able to improve the conditions, we're able to stop the practice of moving people from room to room every 25 days so they don't get tenant rights. there are a lot of positives,

but there are some serious draw backs. we're doing the crises, 10 years into it, okay, 14 million a year, we're not getting equity. maybe we can take a look at that and try to figure out, addressing the affordability issue, for example. the mental health treatment system, i talked a little bit about this. you know, if you talked about kind of the old coolers like the joe ruffin who worked in department of public health 30 years, mental health, some other folks who had been around a long time. they talk about san francisco, the flourishing mental health system we had in the 1970s, and then the loss of our board and care, and all this stuff happened. but we continued to seriously deconstruct our mental health treatment system. we lost a lot of really solid program. we had amazing peer run programs that were incredibly effective that we lost. we can do creative things.

we can have assertive outreach. we can do a whole bunch of stuff where it addressed the very severely mentally ill people that were not going today. we have a whole lot of untreated mental illness out there. i think we all can acknowledge that. we need to make sure we address it and we should be making sure that people have medical treatment in the same way they do and, you know, they get in a car accident or any other medical issue. it's really not the case right now in san francisco. people do not have access to mental health treatment in the way that they should. and lastly, we'd really like to see a concerted effort to end family homelessness and get really aggressive about it. even though many of our families are chronically homeless, you know, many of our families go from shelter to hotel to shelter, friend's house to shelter.

experience homelessness a long time. we've been astounded at the numbers there and we have less than 10% of our housing in the pipeline for homeless people targeting homeless families. we've got 2400 children experiencing homelessness in our public schools. all of this impacts the city and it's the most devastating for the kids and the families. but it's not insurmountable. i feel like a city like san francisco could really get aggressive about it, put some serious resources into it and end it, halt it, stop it. thank you again for having me. if you have any questions. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? and i want to thank you for working together. we had a great conversation the other night and met a few times. thanks, look forward to working together on these issues. >> thank you. >> any questions, colleagues? okay. at this time, no more speakers left, we'll open up to public comment if there is anybody in the public who wishes to

comment on this item on in hearing, please step forward. everyone has 2 minutes each. if you want to comment please line up on the side wall and we'll start taking people one at a time. thank you for being here. mr. wright. i want to comment on the treatment and demonstrations where black people, particularly african americans not getting shelter assistance and how it's centered directly in the bayview district. about 10 years ago i came before you and i pointed out violations of civil rights and differential treatment pertaining to females when you have drop-in centers for males and there was controversy where you were shutting down female drop -in female centers. females are on the receiving end of domestic violence and they're having trouble and down

in their luck. i have to come in and speak where you have a situation enjoyed by males and not enjoyed by the females, and as a result shortly thereafter there was a drop-in center created at the mission district area by that freeway on otis street. now, i'm coming to you again under the same pretense of constitutional law. you seem to be violating constitutional law, due process, equal protection under the law pertaining to blacks in the bayview district where you don't have any shelter systems out there. it's not fair to them to have a drop-in center there and be up all night without the shelter system to get themselves together. so, i wanted to point that out to you. and also would like to speak on one more reason why there is such a cycle of homelessness pertaining to people have drug addiction problem.

i recently found out that there's a proposal by an individual who happens to be a black man who wants to pass out crack pipes. subject to that on the ground that's keeping people in the recycle loop when the truth of the matter is you need educational system to let them know that smoking cocaine deteriorates your brain and your cerebellum, the main part of your brain that causes you to remember instead of encouraging them to come get crack pipes -- >> thank you, sir. i appreciate it. thank you. next speaker, please. hello, supervisors. brian basinger, director of the aids housing alliance. thank you for taking the time to hold this hearing. i'd like to encourage you to also think about reframing the angle about how we look at services in san francisco. we can look at services also as a job creator. i know that people with hiv and aids bring down more federal and state money in san

francisco than we consume in resources. and, so, economics, it's all about bringing in money from the outside and keeping it and recycling it. and also in our service category there is actually not a lot of leakages, leakages. so, those funds are recycled within the local economy. you know, people with aids, other disabled folks, homeless people, we're job creators. and i think it would be interesting if somebody commissioned a survey to look at just how many jobs people with hiv and aids and the populations that we talk about are creating here. also they were touching on it earlier, we would really appreciate giving great era tension to the needs of homeless lgbt people where 15% of the population, about 29% of the homeless population, similarly people with hiv are 2% of san francisco's general population, but we're 10% of the homeless. and, so, there's a lot of disparities and homelessness

and also there is disparate impacts about homelessness. recently i was speaking with the epidemiology department at the department of public health and 20.4% of people with hiv have been displaced from san francisco in five years. and what happens when we get displaced is we lose that package of civil rights and legal protections that we have invested decades and creating in san francisco. we lose rights, we lose access to marriage equality, we lose access to job protections, we lose access to protections against discrimination and housing sexual orientation and gender identity. there is an entire package of civil rights we lose when we leave san francisco that you people don't have that problem with. so, i really want us to focus on that, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. dan bauer sock with the homeless prenatal program. i have two points i wanted to make. first of all, i wanted to call your attention to the city of

los angeles's plan to end chronic homelessness and [speaker not understood] by 2015. i don't want to hold them up as a para gone, but it's a plan, call to action, diverse group of stakeholders. it's not just about government action, but also the private sector, faith-based groups, individuals. they call people to action to donate to the cause to help out in whatever way they can. and it's written in an accessible way. there's not a lot of policy discussion. it's more about the concrete steps that the community is taken to tackle this issue. it affects everyone, not just the government, not the specific group. there are milestones and they're checking in, measuring their goals. there is accountability, there is a regional mind-set where it's not just focused on one city or county. we know it's a regional issue

so let's tackle it with regional solutions. and second of all, i wanted to speak to supervisor avalos's point about section 8. there are some weaknesses right now with that model. fair market rates set by hud have not kept pace with [speaker not understood]. what we end up having is landlords that don't want to accept the vouchers because they can get more in the private market. we now have more people with vouchers searching for housing than landlords willing to take them. i think it's important we get creative, maybe stacking subsidies on top of each other. we can't just throw money into a program like that, we need to get creative about the rules of the program and how we can compensate for of this smoke imbalances. thanks. >> thank you. and thank you for what you do in your organization. next speaker, please. good afternoon, i'm bill hirsch with the aids legal panel.

we provide legal services for people living with hiv and aids. i want to speak to the homelessness prevention piece of the plan. i am here to say that the recent investment that the city has done in eviction prevention strategies has made a real dramatic impact on our ability to provide services. we hired a new housing attorney and it makes all the difference in both the number of folks that we can serve and the extent of the service that we can offer an idea very quickly where we can work with city and publicly funded housing to try and prevent evictions through mediation. we're going to come forward with a proposal on that. it would be great if we could see the city invest that support. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good morning, supervisors. i'm gail grumman, the executive

director of the community housing partnership, the largest builder and operator of permanent supportive housing here in san francisco. so, i want to thank you for having this hearing today and we really wanted to sort of hit on an aspect that both bevan dufty the director of hope and trent rohr the director of human services agency touched on, something that we see sort of a lack in our continuum, which is a pathway and the housing ladder for individuals. we know at the community housing partnership, now having close to a thousand units of permanent supportive housing and close to 1800 people living in that housing, that we know there are individuals who couldn't transition to either affordable housing, public housing or housing with less service intensive. but the bear ire to that is affordability. at the cusp of a city that is having an equity crisis and affordability crisis, we hope the board of supervisors and the mayor's office will look at

housing ladder, all the stock of housing in san francisco from supportive to affordable housing to public housing. we know there are thousands of public housing units that are off line that will be brought back online over the next 3 to 5 years through the revision process of what the mayor is doing with public housing and transfer to nonprofit ownership. we hope there's a pathway for supportive housing tenets to move to that independent housing [speaker not understood] and keep the affordability of only paying 30% of their income. we hope you'll consider that and we really think that pathway could really move people out. chp predicts by 2020 if there was a housing ladder, that over 10% of our portfolio could move to market rate or housing. [speaker not understood]. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public wish to comment? okay, if there is anyone else, please step forward and line up here.

howdy. well, let's start here. it disturbed me they talk a lot about the hot team but i wish you would have had somebody that actually works and is a part of the hot team actually come and say something. i think they'll say a lot of what they're saying, but they'll give you different ideas. i'll give you a better idea of what's happening. one of the things i have come to understand is you're having people who are undocumented, who are getting stuck -- i mean, one of my friends, i don't know why he got stuck, but i guess he just couldn't get an id for whatever reason. i guess he went through the foster care system. i don't even think he knew where he was born. that's probably why he got stuck. the other part of it is some people -- all of these programs and all that stuff they're not

going to be able to access them. one of the things that happened was is a lady -- an employee that was working with this lady got fired. she got put into like laguna honda. she just wasn't going to make it. so, though are some of the issues that it's being very cloaked in all of these stats and statistics that they're telling you. the other thing, too, what's being missed is families in s-r-os. to me that's a problem. so, you might have a 90-square foot room, you've got a family living in it. you change the definition. the other thing, too, is the housing authority. i think you need to be aggressive, maybe you need to fire whoever is running that because it's not good enough. i wanted to talk about put a team together where they would talk about low-cost solutions to help thing. maybe $5,000 or less to bring

solutions to the table. i've talked to several people. i can't get it off the ground. i feel part of the problem is we need -- all of these service providers are doing all of this stuff and our voice gets blocked. we get totally blocked out of the conversation and i want to talk about habitable housing. >> thank you very much, sir. thank you. are there any other members that wish to comment on item number 1? all right, seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, i don't know if you have any comments here. i want to thank everyone for being here. i want to thank my colleagues for sitting with me through this hearing. i think all the speakers, thank you for your time, your preparation. certainly having worked together with you the last few months, and also in advance for all the work we're going to be doing together moving forward. this is obviously a very complicated issue but one i think is critically important for our city and our population here in san francisco. and one that i think it is about time we started to focus on.

so, if no other questions or comments, could i have a motion to table item number 1? we can take that without opposition. [gavel] >> okay. madam clerk, can you call item number 2, please? >> item number 2, resolution retroactively authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $173,515 from centers for disease control and prevention to participate in a program entitled building resilience against climate effects: empowering san francisco communities to address climate change, for the period of september 1, 2013, through august 31, 2014. >> okay, thank you. i believe cynthia from dph is here to speak on item number 2. thank you for coming. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the manager of planning and fiscal policy in the environmental health branch in the san francisco department of public health. and i'm here today seeking a retroactive authorization for an acceptance in the amount of

$173,515 from the center of disease control climate ready states and city initiative to prepare for climate change challenges and build resilience against climate effects. this is the second round of funding we have received from the cdc which has been awarded to 16 states and two cities, san francisco being one of them. the past three years has allowed the health department to engage in several initiatives to under the potential health impacts of climate change at a local level and we have worked to improve climate change preparedness in san francisco. the department of public health priority activity focused on vulnerability assessments, outreach in education, building partnerships and community resilience, developing tools and indicators and emergency preparedness planning. one example we completed was an assessment of san francisco's vulnerability to he can stream

heat events. climate models predict extreme heat will produce severe heat in san francisco with 39 extreme heat days by the year 20 50. our city will face more deadly hot days and poorer health outcomes, especially our vulnerable population. i know we just pep the last couple hours talking about the homelessness, the homeless population is specifically vulnerable to climate specs, specifically extreme heat and cold snaps. this assessment was used to develop a heat wave disaster which is now part of the annex of san francisco's new emergency operation plan. additionally we created interactive heat run vatctionv map to under which areas of san francisco are most at risk [speaker not understood]. satellite and temperature data based on cultural, behavioral,

and other demographic characteristics and san francisco's neighborhoods have been made publicly available on data s.f. with the funding from the cdc we will continue to assess climate trends, define disease, develop specific interventions, methods, and aloe virginiavctiontion effect of change of at-risk population in san francisco. in partnership with the city administrator's office, the department of emergency services, department of environment and our many stakeholders, we will promote community resilience through education, empowerment and engagement to reduce impacts of climate change i'm happy to answer questions about our climate and health program or -- >> supervisor mar? actually, i'm very supportive, but i did have a question. i know what the elimination of [speaker not understood], his role. i'm worried that we're not going to be really focused on equity and the strategic

initiative like this was funding within dph. but i'm just wondering what's going on with the role that dr. bakia had been playing and how is dph responding to that? >> sure. i just want to ensure you that the department of public health is committed to ensuring equity. i have been the principal investigator on this project and the main contact with the city for the last three years. and, so, we have a very strong staff that works very hard and i don't think his absence will be an issue moving forward. >> so, who's been dealing with the roles that dr. batia within your department? >> right now i'm filling in helping lead the program with [speaker not understood]. we have an acting director [speaker not understood], the director of population health is working on these issues until we find a new districter. >> that's on top of what they already do. you don't have a replacement then? >> for the past several years i have been a key leader in

health equity and sustain ability and we have a pretty collaborative decentralized staff. so, i definitely want to ensure you that we're all working very hard and that we're all really committed to equity. >> okay. any further comments? okay, thank you very much. we do not have a budget analyst report so we'll open up to public comment. anybody wish to comment on item number 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, can i have a motion to move this item forward with recommendation? we can take that without opposition. [gavel] >> mr. clerk, can you please call item number 3? >> item number 3, hearing on the mayor's fiscal year 2014-2015 and fiscal year 2015-2016 budget instructions to department heads and general fund deficit projections and other related fiscal year 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 budget updates. ~ >> okay. next we've kate howard our budget director here. thanks for waiting.

>> kate howard, mayor's budget director. i have talked to several of you about the mayor's instructions previously, but let me walk you through an overview of those instructions and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. i'll plan on being as brief as possible. an overview of the general fund deficit for the next two years, i'll talk to you a little about what the specific instructions were and we can review a timeline that we'll all be experiencing over the next several months. you will remember that we balanced the city's budget just last june together for the coming two fiscal years. that was largely driven by revenue growth, smoothing our fund balance over two years to st