>> thanks. >> high name is kelley cut ler and i am a volunteer at the coalition on homelessness and this weekend i met a young mother on the street with her four young children. i am a social worker and so i know the services in the city and so i did a quick assessment of her situation and what was going on, and what i found is that she is doing everything right, and taking all of the right steps to get into housing. but the reality is that there is a 6 month wait list, before she and hr four children can get into shelter, we have 200 plus homeless families going through a similar situation. and in our city that has such wealth. shameful. and how is our city responding?

we have made over night parking illegal for the larger vehicles which has resulted in the massive displacement of families and the individuals living in their vehicles it is a huge waste of resources and creating more barriers moving out of homelessness and the criminalization of homelessness and poverty needs to be a part of this discussion, especially if we are talking about the best use of resources thank you. >> next speaker. >> peter cohen and the housing organization and thank you for having this hearing with the swirl of conversation it is nice to have an opportunity to discuss it more deeply and have this series of hearings is excellent as you know, as we go by is a coalition of many housing providers and so much of what you heard today, are things that our organizations

do on a day-to-day basis, and thinking about the housing ladder and the housing ladder and continuum and the housing system and provides a broad set of steps for folks in various kinds of housing needs and provides the opportunity for movement up laterally and down as-needed if there is more support that is necessary. and it is important to think about all of the populations that we are serving. and trevor mentioned positive exits out of supportive housing and this is perhaps the focus here and we also think about the system that has a capacity and at some point, the system needs to be able to have room to take on more folks who are moving through the latter, without running into a capacity constraint and so it is really about supply which you have heard earlier about the over all affordable housing system and we have probably about 350 on average, units of net new housing production a year. to get there we need to

increase the supply and the acceleration that have supply and we also need to increase the supply of bmr for the first time home ownership opportunity, and we need to strengthen the existing housing to be sure that we are not putting more people in the system that can already be in the housing and all parts of the system need strength and increasing the supply and, that is a resource feed and we want to emphasize the need to do it well. thank you. >> thanks very much. >> next speaker please? >> final speaker cards. if you still around. lor are random, jeff kainsky, melody corlo, and bon suno and jennifer fredenback. >> and yes, good day to you guys, and i am true that i am not sure if you are allowed to

ask questions burning this thing, but i am also speaking as a person who lives in his vehicle. i live in an rv. in the bay view area. and neighbors of mine, i have not yet received this, but the neighbors of mine have received notices you know like this pretty much, you know, very threatening notices pretty much saying that there are new parking restrictions in effect saying that you can't park here and you will be ticketed and towed. and i am curious as to what the rationale is to this, there are plenty of room for people to park in the bay view plus other places i am wondering can anybody answer to me why this is going into effect and why i mean for me, it is a very temporary situation. and you know, when i saw this notice, i got really upset and i got really scared, because i didn't know what was going on. and as i said also this is a temporary thing to me and i am

also at the finish and what if all of a sudden i got my rv impounded at the moment that i would have no hope of recovering it because of the enormous cost of getting it out which i have no income at the moment. i am just wondering can you guys answer to me what the rationale is behind these new parking restrictions? >> i don't know, because i don't, i don't understand, and it feels like, it feels to me that there is no, there is no good rationale behind it and i would be interested in hearing that and having a conversation on how to address the issue because there is plenty of parking space in the industrial areas of this town. thank you. >> okay, thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> hi, my name is sam bivons and good morning with you i am with the mission neighborhood resource center and if you have

been around, 16th street corridor, you will notice that there is tons of construction going up. and san francisco seems to have met its quota for the luxury housing and condos and yet it seems to spent less than one percent of the budget on housing for the homeless. and i keep hearing a lot of talk about affordable housing, but there is a big difference between affordable housing and low income. and something like 40,000 dollars. and i don't see any of our community members would be able to afford that. and some of the biggest challenges that our community members face, is the barriers to housing. and in a real livable income. we need to develop programs that will link our hard working community members to permanent employment as well as housing that is decent and attain able. and i would like for the board of supervisors to consider putting out more low income housing.

for our community. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please? >> good afternoon, supervisors my na is adam gebril and as you can see, i have a daluge of paperwork and tickets and citations and all things. but, it is not so much about that, but the way that i am living and the situation of the circumstances that led me to this, i have to first gave thanks to the city. numerous cities that i have lived in from minnesota or singapore where i was thrown out and called a terrorist, and i was told that do i think that i am free? because president obama is now president? that is what i was told by the officials and i want to thank the coalition of the homelessness for a ignorant person to know about this venue and officials like dufty and trent who was one of the few people that answered my letter for the fast track program.

that i sent to the advocate before he game mayor and so many of my things that the sky based internet, and so many things were taken from me on the counter terrorism investigations in spinning singapore and i got a escort to the u.s. and no answer why, the coalition of the homeless, i would be remiss not to thank them, we need a vehicle residence registration and so when the officers see us, or see the plates they will run the plates and know what category we in and even if you have to charge a fee to do so, or be so we will be glad to do it. but the transition out is possibly shoe box units, 500 square feet and not market rate. we are poor, we cannot afford market rate. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is lori ransom.

and i just wanted to tell you a little bit about my story. i had lost my apartment, and cheated death, due to an intruder in my apartment, and i lived in my car, and i had lost my car, because of a ticket and ended up on the street, eventually. chp i applied for chp housing and i was accepted. and i would like to say, and thank them, because of my circumstances, they didn't it was not a cookie cutter, they did not treat me like, you know, they treated me like an individual, and they gave me hope, and they gave me and they showed me choices, and there is more needed, and you know, because it took me 16 years, to finally move out from an sro,

with my beautiful 9-year-old son that i have now into a better or more suitable living but it just took a long time and you know, but, without the case managers, that they had there, and you know, helping me get my record clean, and helping me move up, the ladder, but, you know, it is just it was a long time coming. and i just wanted to thank them and i hope that there will be more people that can get in to affordable housing. >> thank you have youer mfp. >> high name is don seno and i just want to say and i want to thank everybody for the services that are in place i was homeless for ten or eleven years i did not want even want a place and i finally ended up through the chp. and with the lori there that

was just speaking and her son but they were great and the services and you know as soon as weed a kid and then they moved us into a better place and they always had a supportive services and stuff for my son. and for guests and you know, if you can't afford them. and i just would like to say that after that, we were very lucky that we actually got a section 8. okay? but then at that point, i want to comment because of the fact that i have seen the people with the section 8 vouchers in san francisco that lost them because they were housed. and they got stuck, right? and now luckily that did not happen to us. but, using our section 8 was another nightmare that took like 8 or 9 months and we did get a nice place and we are out of the project based house and into section 8, but without that with not do any good and i am going to make this quick. but during my time at there, and they got me looking interested in school and i went

school, and i got 96 and successful units and i got one b and i did pretty well in school and if i could find someone that needs the stuff thatvy learned and i am going move forward in life and if it was not for the services and the system involved, we never would have happened and one more quick thing and the wait list can he center is a serious wait list that i have seen and took about nine months. >> thank you. >> thank you, i am phillip mastercola and i am a member of the khunt community and i am concerned about this housing issue and i want to thank you supervisor farrell for bringing this up in such a disruptive way. and try to find creative solutions to this and i think that the only way to do this process and i would really like

the med foreof the ladder. and i really appreciate the people that are here today and the people out there building the ladder. and especially those that are here that are on the ladder that we have heard from. and it is such a sad thing to think that the legacy of san francisco, and is that the exit that the only, and the only exit that we have heard about today are the is the exit based upon getting jailed, locked up, towed away, or had to get, you know, a bus ticket out of town. the exit should be based upon what is good for people, not in an economic way. but in a human, caring way. and the lady from the department of health made a good point. the part of their care, that they provide, and the mentally ill is housing, the way to get them cured, is housing. and i think that is for every human, resident of san francisco. and it is necessary.

instead of evaluating things on a economic cost, and what about a humanistic cost and i will finish with this. the question of supervisor mar asked was important, what are the other countries doing to solve this problem? and i think that if you look at northern european countries, they solve the problem simply by saying, we are going to provide a house for everyone. regardless of the cost because it is the right thing to do. and i thank supervisor mar for that question and i hope that the city of san francisco will find a way to answer it. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, my name is carera and i work for the coalition of homelessness. today so the first thing that i want to say is i appreciate mr. avalos, farrell and mar for being in this issue about

housing. so, i want to mention a couple of things that we facing over and over and over. and we are talking about it through and for example, so we have a 500 homeless families in the shelters, 260 in with the bed and 250 without bed, because nobody on the list for 6 months and we have 500 homeless 23578lies who are living in sro hotels since 2001, when we do the first out reach and the defenses, we continue to have the same number of the families in the hotels. and 2011, and 2011. december 12, and report to these board, 2200 homeless children in the san francisco school district and today we continue to have the children, and the school district and what are we doing? what is doing on with these issues? we continue with the same problems and the city. and so, we want to end in it in

san francisco and we have to work together and we have to put all of the tools together and make sure that we have a man i don't to create housing. we need family and we need family to review and take this housing and we can move, 170 homeless families to permanent housing and so, please, put it together and working together, and we will want to find and we are going to resolve this issue and end the homelessness. >> thank you for holding this hearing and i wanted to step back, and just kind of paint a broader picture around this issue it you look at a video of sources the only fundamental difference between poor people

who are housed and homeless is access to subsidized housing as we have made this series of really bad policy decision and have forced people to become homeless and stay homeless for longer periods of time, and the very trauma and the very lack of shelter and the living nightmare of homelessness is debilitating and it addictive disorders are deepened and sometimes even developed and meanwhile, we have significantly reduced our health capacity driving up our aquuty and also driving up the need for supportive housing. and at the same time, we are spending a lot of money criminalizing folks, we are spending over 1 million dollars, spraying down every morning, people's sleeping areas and giving people tickets, and they are doing jail time for being too poor to afford a place to live. we are spending twice as much forcing them to remain homeless. and we have made significant

progress, and in getting homeless people into housing in san francisco. and however, that progress, that we have made is really going to be coming to a stretching halt as we have the housing in the pipeline but no funding attached to it. and that is where i wanted to step back is one of the reasons that we are looking at the housing ladder is that the exits are drying up and it is, it is really important to insure that people are in the appropriate housing, yeah that the people are in the appropriate housing that placements and it is usually important that we fund the proposal and realize our dream and halt all preventable displacements and rehab the vacant housing units and also invest in affordable housing, and so that our pipeline, does not end up being a pipe dream, thank you. >> hello, my name is melody, i have an early childhood

traumatic brain injury. i entered the system in 2000, 7 years before i lost my apartment. i have never once been assessed for what i need. i have only been assessed for what i qualify for. even if i can get them to understand what i need, i am told that what i need does not fall under their scope of practice. and the agencies that i go to, have thrown me at bevon dufty's door so many times i feel like a rubber ball. and the biggest thing that you could do, to help some of the homeless people would be to change the law that makes it illegal to sleep in any vehicle under any circumstances. if this law were applied fairly, and equally, that means

that infant and young children would also be cited. not just homeless people. whose vehicles are being towed. i am not a criminal. i do not want to be breaking the law and i am doing the best that i can with what god gave me to work with. >> thank you >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon, supervisors, thanks for having this hearing, and i am jackie jenks. and in the housing ladder in the house is focused on getting the folks out of the streets and into the housing and so i wanted to talk a minute about you ever ufrp talking about the bottle neck in shelters and the long term shelter stayers, and so just to talk about that, certainly, the cost and availability of housing is the number one issue for this group. and there is not enough housing available for us to get folks

out of shelters right now, and so, is there a lot of folks stability and their need for support to be able to transition and retain housing i wanted to identify four solutions for you. one is craoe storing the 18 million dollars in cuts to behavior health services. these services currently fund services in shelters in other community programs for homeless and housed folks. and this is low hanging fruit and the 18 millen dollars needs to be restored in the budget, and we need to maintain the support and supportive housing and there is a reason that we have the supportive housing and if we are cutting the support in supportive housing such as chp, the ability to move, the folks who are long term shelter stayers are going to be

eliminated and the hospitality house consistently places the folks who have a lot of barriers to the housing in the chp and i want to talk about the funding, and the proposal, which is a well developed set of strategies to prevent eviction and to help the people move into them immediately, and into the modest investment for some real solution to what we are talking about in the last thing is to invest in the pipeline of us, and in the...

>> and give us an opportunity to move forward, thank you. >> and thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that would wish to comment on this item? >> >> well, you are talking about the evictions, and so what about constructive addictions where is the housing units are so bad, that the people lives. and i need that too, and so i am dealing with the drug dealers on the front door and harassing me and then i am dealing with a tenant who continuously is physically and verbally abusing their child, and community housing partnership is not doing

anything about this and it is all whimsical, i keep complaining about my issues and problems, and i feel like it is away. and let's go to the homeless coordinating board and i just feel like you all should have a partnership with them and deal with these things, and but, when i look at their agenda and stuff, it is primarily, tokenism that they are dealing with the problems and issues of helping homeless people move up this ladder and i just feel like this have turned their back on the homeless and in their pursuit, to get money for their programs. and all right, the other part, exemptions. they got the exempts from the

web board and the explain to me how this works, iment working 40 to 103 hours, and then i move to san francisco. and now, all of these people are telling me is that all that i am really good for is to be in an sro and suck up resources and i have the scars from when i have worked and i am still employable and that is all. that is the only dream that they have for me is to be stuck in some room. >> thank you. >> is there any other member of the public that wishes to comment on these items? >> public comment is closed. colleagues i want to thank you for for this longer hearing and thank all of the members of the public and the city department staff that presented today. and thank you for all of the time and preparation, and i think you know, we obviously know that there is not enough housing at all levels across

the city right now and the steps that were taken and optimistic about what was to happen going down the road, and we need to continue to invest in the housing if it going to make a difference on this issue and creating a housing ladder that is robust and the flow through is going to be a meaningful step in the right direction and we look ward to continuing this conversation. and so thank you everyone and supervisor avalos? >> thank you. jeff allen and i want to thank you. >> for bringing out the series of. >> sorry, we have closed public comment. >> actually, we had closed public comment >> just we want to thank you for bringing this hearing forward, and for the hearings

around homelessness in san francisco and i really feel that it makes so much sense that we explore this issue and your leadership has really been key and you know over all, and i can see that we can actually make td strong investments in the affordable housing that will meet the needs be it family or sro or family housing or units, and all that have needs to get done and we have the prime presources for it in order for this, you know, the hearing to be successful i feel that we have to look at sources of funding to help to make that happen and i would love to work with you on that. >> prop c has been great for san francisco but it has not been enough especially with the disillusion of the development and the funds going to public housing which is a key priority and we have find the ways to bolster the affordable housing over all and i am also looking at, and looking at the

development and the financial corporation, the way that we could actually with the public dollars, fund, affordable housing and be an alternative to the financing that happens to the banks and all too often or never supports the real investment of affordable housing that we need to make and i have had the conversations with the members of the retiring board about how some retirement funds that are large amounts of money that are not invested in getting a good return can get a stronger return and it is exciting to talk to the mayor's office about that. and it seems like it is a possibility but i think that we really have to look outside of the box of how we can do the work of investing in affordable housing and construction, is there a way that we can actually enable, greater financing in the market rate units to actually have a higher level, of developers to have a

higher level of affordable houseinging a cost for housing that will enable, many of the working class and very low income house holds to stay in the city and i love to work with you on that and i appreciate the work that you are doing around these hearings on homelessness, and let's continue the effort, thanks. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> yeah, i wanted to say that the past three hours have been really, enlightning, and eye opening i thank the community members and the organizations for bringing the personal and human stories and thanks to dufty and the mayor's office of housing and trent war and hsa and the staff and i think that the presentations were hefful.

and i think that laura what we have done right and what we can do better and i hope that we are looking at and as the controller's report comes out and i think that it says in september, some ideas, for more strongly supporting.