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and amanda from the mayor's office of hope for all of the hard work on this topic. and we are also going to touch on evictions from the publicly funded units. the letter was raised and it has been a topic of discussion for a long time, and we raised it in the previous hearing, a few months ago. i think that we are starting to see the action on the concept and i do believe that this is critical, and if we are going to really take a stab at reducing our homeless population here in san francisco. and you know, and do you know that it runs in the housing letter have been working well and that, some have not been working well. and you know, as you paint the picture of someone who is, usually on our streets and

obviously not wanting to be in that situation, you think about the first step off of the streets and into some kind of stabilization, and whether that be the shelter bed or stabilization room and from there, into some type of supportive housing. and then from there into permanent subsidized housing on their own two feet and not having any public housing that is the general housing ladder that exists and so that the kogs in the system exist because our shelter system is at capacity and our stabilization rooms or at capacity and there is not enough affordable housing, and limited market rate options out there and there is so many things that we can do to improve this and i look for toward to exploring that today. and i do believe that to give the capacity we need to create a flow and turnover at all levels and it provides two things and we want to provide the incentives to people and

policis in place where the people are encouraged to get on their own two feet and it is the best for themselves and for their family and we also want to continue to create the space available with the human resources today as we continue to add to those resources for the people on our streets and i think that having a cog shelter system and no stabilization rooms available means that we are not able to do anything with the people on the streets and house them right away and that is something that we need to address and as well as we talk about coordinated assessment in that concept, hopefully taking the people right into supportive housing or eviction prevention, services, and so that they don't have to go into the shelter or stabilization beds right away. and again, as i mentioned we are going to talk about, the public housing as well, and obviously, i think that a lot of us share the sentiment that as we sent the public dollars on supportive housing in san francisco, evictions from those housing units that are there, and large part at times to address our homeless

population, evictions and putting people back out on the street should be the last resort, we need to have a mechanism in place for the people who are running those units to control those units, and to make sure that they are operated efficiently and operated respectfully for the other tenants but we want to be sure that the evictions are kept to a minimum. and you know, we met with dph and the mayor's office of housing and hope and our housing authority and i want to thank barbara for her discussion on this item. you know, all of these providers have tenants that can move on to better opportunities but they need to be provided those opportunities, but i believe that it is our responsibility to provide that where possible and policy and programs in place that encourage that transition up the housing ladder, we are going to hear from a number of people today and we are going to start with devon the director of hope and trent war

and margo antonite. and dufty, and director. and thank you for all of your hard work on this topic. and good morning, supervisors and thank you so much and like the chair, i am particularly excited about the hearing on the housing ladder because it reflects on what our big picture goals are that we want a system that is coordinated so there are different rungs on the ladder and we want the people to have movement and not feel like they are stuck and to become more independent or to have movement to get housing either that is sized or served more in tune with what their needs are last week we talked about the importance housing.

our departments and non-profit housing agencies do a job with the vulnerable. and i can't say enough that the people will be here today, trent war, and barbara garcia who is represented today, and these are outstanding leaders and i think that the housing latter and because all of these individuals have the big portfolios that they are managing and when we look at how are we connecting the different systems we become more effective as a city and i think that we really bring the talent of our of our individual leaders into working together. when we talked about a housing ladder here is what we like to see from hope. we need to provide the housing support to people who after a period of time in housing stabilize can can live independently, we need to provide support to people who want to move from one building to another and not feel stuck in a neighborhood or unit that is not serving their needs, as we encounter people who refused the housing offers they have

been afraid if they go into a unit on 6th street that is where they will live the rest of their lives, it is something that they would rather stay in the shelter that some other housing choice will open up and the extent that the system is open, and trying to work together to give the opportunities but to go after a housing building that opens up and i think that creates confidence and support on the part of people who are participating in our housing services and we feel as though we have got their best interest at heart and not simply just housing people as part of our job. and we need to engage the residents of supportive housing, where we had the people who lived in supportive housing and all of them on ssi and gave them the opportunity to contribute back by fostering a pad and to earn 50 or 75 dhars a week was trons

formative on their health and we had one in seven weeks she lost 16 pounds, just from walking a dog and having a reason to get up and go outside. every day, and when the people felt like they were contributing something and we have had meetings where we brought the five keys, program and it has been operating for eleven years now in our jails and why can't we bring five keys to tele cullin community and we brought five to sunny dale and public housing development which is 18 percent high school graduation rate and there is no wonder that people are stuck when 18 percent of the people in development have a high school graduation rate and i think that focusing on employment and putting more local resources into employment to have mobility and things like five keys are extremely important and we need to get better of preventing residents of housing and there was a reason when we started hope that we looked at housing

opportunities and the truth of the matter is when why we are talking about the housing ladder is to the extent that individuals and families are doing bet ner any form of city, funded housing then we as a city are doing bet and her people do have mobility and i think that we really have to prevent evictions that are tied to people's mental health convictions whether it is hording or cluttering and we have seen according to what has been provided by the eviction defense collaborativive, in 2012, we had 650 evictions from public and city funded housing and 520 evictions in 2013 and i am interacting with barbara smith of the housing authority and we appreciate the efforts and we had allergy 84-year-old woman who was evicted and it was a concern because of roach

and mice and, she designated her daughter and she was not doing but here was an individual who was paying rent and there was a lot of back and forth and adult protective services was involved with it, when she was evicted it was clear that we needed to bring in the adult protective services and the daughter needed to be separated and pursued and the mother needed to be supportive and helped, and the adult protective services does do the deep cleans now we have an 84-year-old woman living in a stabilization unit. that is not the way that the humanistic coordinator system should be working. we need to be sure that wither targeting to the most vulnerable. and reducing the bureaucracy of the housing and providers and there is movement this year from a lot of department to work together to not make it so

complicated for people to aflee for housing, we need to expand the services and counseling so that we insure that people pay rent and can built and save for a better future. i can't say enough that the city treasurer has done. housing ladder is not going to be successful unless people are preparing and getting their credit to a point where they can qualify for other forms of housing, when they are ready to move up and i think that is just a major issue. i believe that in doing this work in public housing you create more trust, with individuals and we know that in public housing one of the major challenges we face is that we have family units that are not previously sized. we have elderly grown ups who raised their kids in a three or

four bedroom and one adult child living with them and there is such a lack of connectivity and trust no one is disclosing and so we are not using the inventory that we have and i think that this is a major change that we can bring about, through financial empowerment and we recognize, when people go into a stipulate ed agreement and you are brought into court, once you enter that and whether it is private or city housing unless you change someone's financial circumstances in 60 days you are going to be right back where they are if someone is not going through and connectsing with their credit ors and bringing down and not having people pay these rates for high interest rates and back due financing costs we know that these are people that are on a fast track to eviction and i think that it is essential that we have very strong commitment to financial powerment and at every housing step, whether it is shelter, whether it is public housing and we need to provide more

resource and focus on the long term stayers in the emergency shelter and stabilization and i believe that is happening and something that the board and the mayor need to continue to press us to do over the past two years, there 316 people who spent, 400 nights total, and 19 percent of our shelter bed have been static, it is designed to be emergency system and the efforts to focus on the long term stayers will yield positive results and we need to identify and close the gaps in the current portfolio and some of those are adult families, it is difficult to place them together into emergency and other housing, medical shelter, where i think that this is going to be a major topic that we will be discussing in the budget process how important it is to recognize that many individuals that are in shelter are not at the level of respite but are way beyond the medical needs that can be addressed in

the shelter, housing for people who is refused housing offers because they are afraid of being isolated and either have health conditions, where they could be at risk of someone not seeing them have a seizure or an episode or just isolated and depressed, rapid rehousing for single adults and which is part of the hefpa act and individuals on ssi and you know, because i, consistently see them not on a path for housing and are eligible but by future of the fact that they are on ssi, it is demonstrated that they are not able to care for themselves and they have a major disability in navigating the housing system is not something that is likely to be successful without the insensitive case management some of the things that we are working on could be coordinated assessment. in july, the human services agency will be using the units and single adults will be prioritized and that is huge, and we have a moving on with

the vets and the veterans administration, and moving on, is partnered also with sorts to the plow shares and the city and the housing authority will be working on initiative for vets who no longer need supportive housing, and these vets will be given a portable hud rental voucher to secure the housing in the community, this model can be used for non-vets using the vouchers and again, take an example like 150 odus which is a precious example and after a year or two years, a veteran might be able to be successful in the private housing market and open that opportunity up for a veteran that does need insensitive on sight services, public health and sf housing authorities and senior buildings and they are providing support for seniors and disabled and risk of housing authority buildings and model where the housing provider seeks service from the city is essential and the tiered supportive model and i am sure that trent will speak to and the work that the board did and thanks to the committee

work and expanding and enhancing the program and i think that as we move in to providing more housing for transitional aged youth i think that there are some people that are afraid that these young people will come in at 24, 25 and never advance from that housing and i think that is the providers and i know that gale is here leading the way with 570, 374, and harrison and i know that gale is committed to identifying those young people in the building that can take insensitive employment support and then to come independent and i think that is an important concept, because we want to do, good up front. so that these young people can be productive and independent in their lives, i am excited about this focus and i look forward to testimony from my colleagues here. >> thank you. >> just a few things, topics just up front, i think that we talked about and people talked with you, and just kind of definition of, we talked about coordinated assessment and

could you maybe describe, i think a lot of other people or maybe manner. >> yeah, i want to describe the view of that and kind of, you know, what it is and what you think the impact could be? >> well i really wanted to acknowledge amanda's work and it is great that she can come and talk about it. >> hi, supervisors amanda free from the mayor's office of hope, it is a national best practice and thes a requirement now for hud funded units in the city. and so that the way that the san francisco continue of care has decided to address coordinated assessment in the pilot stages is to focus on single adults and that is where we have the least amount of coordination at this point and so starting in july, the city is going to be looking at existing data that we have and identifying the people and the single adults in our system who have been homeless the longest and either through the health department and data and through our shelter information, really honing in on the folks who have fallen through the cracks and we anticipate that in the

beginning we are going to be looking at people who have been on the streets more than 15 years, and you know, this is pretty severe at this point. and having a rank list so that we have a team of social workers whose job it is to go out and connect with those individuals who are really not connected at this point and making sure that they have the first stab of housing that becomes available and in the beginning we are looking at a small portfolio of housing, they are federally funded and come with significant service and we expect to see about 7 to 8 placements become available per month. and i think that we are going to learn a lot about why people don't succeed in our housing playment system through this because for the first time we are really targeting people who are very difficult to serve and we are not quite sure why. and they may not have the medical aquuty for daw and may be undocumented we are not sure at this point and i think that we are going to learn a lot through the system and we hope after the first year to be able

to expand to the other populations and the housing assets. >> as we have talked about, i think, also, learning the assessment and if you are able to address someone before they enter into whether or not the shelter or the stabilization rooms, some people that is not what is right for them and so we can bypass that part of the housing ladder if you will and put them directly to supportive housing if there is the right opportunity of availability and even maybe it is a deeper rent subsidy for someone that could be on their own two feet quickly. but by making sure that frees up the inventory and that is something that is powerful about this as well. the division was about dosage and right now making sure that we have the intervention that meets the need and so we know that we have supportive housing, and could we apply a subsidy and see the same results? we do for families. we are not sure for that service and but really getting the data to show what

intervention do we need and can we provide the lowest threshold of service to make sure that person is successful and stablely housed? >> i think that to me one of the things as well, was even talking about barbara from the housing authority, there are people in our housing authority that actually need supportive service and people that don't actually need them any more and could use a section eight voucher on their own and how we make sure that it is the right sized dosage is one way to phrase it for sure and how to be sure that the right care is going to the right and for the people who have the ability beyond their own that we are allowing that and we are promoting that. i think it is critical. supervisor mar? >> i just wanted to ask supervisor dufty a few questions. i know that you mentioned transitional aged youth and i think that for employment and wrap around services it makes a lot of sense to, and the

services but for the 84-year-old woman in the... you gave the example. it is the seniors and the people with disabilities that i am wondering about. did you have age dem graphics for the homeless population that would help me understand the specific and unique housing needs for senior and people with disabilities? >> well, you can look at our shelters and anyone that has been involved in homeless services in san francisco, and can tell you that people in shelter, are much older and the aquuty has gotten much much stronger and i think that the homeless population has aged on par with how the city has aged and how we have advanced and the population of people over the age of 80. but i do think that the people who are homeless, obviously they have a lot more health challenge and problems that they experience, but i think that it patterns. and you mentioned the shelter beds, 19 percent where there is

a population of people that are coming back and is that largely seniors as well? there ar quite a number that we see that are senior and is a combination of reasons, and on one hand, there are seniors that are receiving social security and the benefits are me gar and because of the requirement between 30 and 50 percent of your income going towards housing they prefer to stay in shelter, so that they can control what limited money that they have. and then i think that for others, it is that, as much as they may dislike the shelter, they are afraid of being isolated in an sro room and having an episode and so i do think that we really are learning a lot from our intensive engagement and i think that it has been one of the benefits of the 311 system is because that of the fact if you get a 90 day stay, you

cannot enter the lottery, until you exhaust that stay, it is really forced people to stay, what are the barriers that they felt about becoming housed? and it is also really shown us how many demand there is for shelter, before we had the stats i cans on that he were 97 and 98 percent full and now we are seeing the numbers of people seeking the shelter and it gives a much more full picture. >> and i know that the budget analyst did a great study of this housing, needs for seniors and people with disabilities a few years ago. and my hope as we talk about housing ladder, for the homeless, and other populations that we are thinking about, creating buildings and supportive housing that is aging friendly as well, but thank you for the great presentation. >> sure. >> i just wanted to add supervisor, that 15 percent of the total shelter stayers are seniors but when you look at the long term, it is 25 and so they are over represented in that group. >> okay. >> thanks, to you both.

and the next one, i want to ask trent war to come up director of hsa. it is obviously integrally involved in this from the city perspective and trent i want to thank you for all of your leadership. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, supervisors. >> trent, director of human services agency. and mice to see you all again. we are loading up the presentation, now. >> so what i am going to attempt to do today, is give you an overview of the housing that is in hsa's portfolio and how the homeless are access that housing and how they are referred and attempt to layout the funding structure, which is a new one, and that began, on

july of this year, 2014. and this was a new funding structure around how we fund and the amount of funding for the houses and this was done at the request of the human services commission in an attempt to bring a little bit more rationality to how we fund the establishment of units in terms of services. so, the first slide, there we go. and i believe that you saw this last week when joyce presented to you all, but i thought it was a good intro slide. so the total number of units that are funded under hsa, are a little over 3751 to be exact. and 3359 single adult and 392 family units. over on the left is an attempt to break down the funding source or type of unit. you can see the single

occupantcy program we have the care not cash funded units and care funds and proposition. and then on to the cash units, and then we have a pilot program that has dollars and this is the program at fifth and harrison that devon referenced and it is good that we broke this out because this is really an attempt of the topic of the housing ladder and this is a pilot project that is attempting to look at the type, range, and amount of services that might be necessary in order to sort of get positive exits out of the housing and this one is particularly targeted to the youth but the idea is a stronger workforce component and a stronger sort of participation, in case planning, and to see if these folks can actually succeed and increase their income and access either a different sort of affordable unit and perhaps even a market rate unit in the city or bay area. and the next group of units,

and these are federally funded, by hud and the units targeted to the chronically homeless and then the newer or the newest which is the partnership of the mayor's office of housing and the community development is the local operating subsidy program where we have the general funds supporting the services that are operating in the units. that gives you a sense of sort of the universe that we are talking about when we talk about the housing ladder and the strategies and potentially challenges to implementing the housing ladder in the hsa and it is close to 4,000 units that we are talking about. and so it is important to note, i talk a lit about how homeless folks access these units and it gives you a sense on the population that we are drawing from and sort of help the discussion on what types of services and again, the amount of services it should be in these supportive housing buildings. and so for the adult single occupancy and local operating subsidy or lost units, the access points are listed below and there are five of them

adult emergency shelters and resource center and drop in centers, and the hot team and the homeless out reach team and, the cash funded units come through the public assistance program for single adults which is cap. and then, the other identified, non-profits that serve the population and so the folks who are referred in and access these units are generally right from the street and the system and so, generally, we are talking about although, not necessarily, chronically homeless, and we know that certainly income challenged, and everything that sort of comes along with that in terms of low job skills typically and treatment and addiction, or substance abuse issues that we deal with. >> and so, quick question for you, i think that one of the ideas out there that we don't have in san francisco is the central center, we have