>> good afternoon, supervisors my name is james tracy and i work at the community housing partnership and my boss covered most of my points and i will just hit on a few and i am proud to work at a place that has a 98.5 retention rate and we are not the fredy crugarof evictions and in subsidized housing. and for many years before, i worked for affordable housing volunteering and doing eviction defense and working with edc and you know, we have seen, and we have seen what could happen. but why does chp has a 98.5 percent retention rate? it is not because we just failed to evict. right? it is not because we just looked the other way, when around the behaviors because there are services and in our buildings, and that can, that can support the people, when they are, when they are experiencing things in their lives that would get them evicted from other housing providers, and it is a very,

very important, as over the 23 years that i have been in the community and i have seen the people go from homelessness to many, many different housing providers and it is, and it is a very, very important that we, that the type of services are as robust and in whether they go to the master lease or whether they go to one of our buildings or whether they are the ecs and everybody deserves these type of resources that will help them move up the housing ladder. thank you. >> thanks very much, next speaker please? >> hi, i just want to mention just real quick that we all are actually i personally want to express my solidary with chp and we love you guys and support that he havinger was said and i want to say quickly my name is manwel and i am a support services coordinator and i am pleased to be here and listening to this conversation

and i am surprised that the topic of specifically undocumented immigrants has not been brought up because representing a significant portion of i believe 26 percent of san francisco's current homeless population are in some stage of under documentation, and these are the folks that are least likely to climb up the ladder, and these are the folks that don't have access to permanent benefits that are going to enable them to move out to more appropriate levels of care when that time is necessary in both directions to higher levels or lower levels of care. i want to applaud the department of public health for the success that they have had that has proven that the supportive housing model can effectively address the needs of the undocumented immigrant and the formally undocumented of san francisco, and i believe that casata creates a model in which san francisco can be a leader for the rest of the nation in terms of addressing this population and i do also, think that it is important to know that it is also

demonstrated a significant challenge in working with this population which is lack of benefits and idealy, the opportunity for stabilization will include, medical stabilization, and psychiatric and also legal, and in terms of accessing benefits and also getting changes to immigration status, this is essentially impossible if you are living in supportive housing without access to benefits and so what i want to do is to encourage, an extension of benefits regardless of immigration status to everyone participating in supportive housing, our program needs it, and the tenants themselves need it and staoet needs it and manage this population. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> okay. just real quick, we appreciate the enthusiasm but we have a policy of no clapping, you can wiggle your hands, but we want to move a long hearing along. >> good afternoon supervisors

my name is big hersch and i am the director of the aids legal panel and we provide legal services for people living with hiv and aids and housing is the single biggest issue that our clients face, the eviction crisis is very real and it is great that we are talking about eviction prevention today. sometimes what you really need is a good attorney. last week, our office small office saved four people's housing. i can't tell you how many thousand sands of dollars we saved the city, but i can tell you that we were also facing an eviction of one of our clients last week who was just served a formerly homeless african american grandmother living with hiv, at a non-profit and this is unconcunale, the resources of the bar and we have engaged them to assist us and we will fight to keep this

woman in her home. this is why, we need an infuse of fusion of cash for homelessness services and it keeps it from last year and so our additional capacity to provide representation needs to continue in the next physical year and we need 20 more attorneys providing directly vicious defense and we need out reach, and in all areas of the city, and we need a mandatory medation program for all city funded housing thank you. >> thanks. >> next speaker? >> my name is anaxo rama. >> my homelessness ended when i was in supportive housing but it was a long process, i am a community organizer and i live in an sro with another housing provider i would not have been able to get to this point of stability in my life if it were not for the supportive services

that i have received to assist in healing the damage that homelessness scars upon you i want to be able to give my space for someone off of the street but i am at a loss of what to do, i need easy access to housing lists and ability to apply in the parameters of a full time job, and income restrictions for low income earners and a bar on no fault evictions for coming up on backgrounds checks and supportive stepping stones and reduce the going it alone risk factor for transitioning out of supportive services and a peaceful and clean environment should not be a battle and we need bold and ambition solution and need to be implemented immediately to start to free the trap. >> thank you. >> i have a number of speaker cards, susan marsh, mark johnson, and john, bone, and

laura gusman and please go ahead. >> my name is ralyi, nix son and i have been living at the exxex for six years and i was down and out on my luck but i moved there and i started getting involved in all of the programs and i finished the programs and they helped me come out of my shell and a dopted a dog and lose 16 pounds, and the partnership helped me to get my life back in order and now i think that i am ready to move up the ladder and i have been living there 7 years and i am doing great. and what i first moved there i didn't think that i could doing with my life but these people really helped me to get on the feet and they are a blessing, and i just love them and it is moving up the ladder and i am going to miss them but it is a really beautiful opportunity to live in the building. >> next speaker. >> hello, my name is susan

marsh and honestly i have very little to add to what has been said already and what is about to be said. but i do want to emphasize one thing. it is absolutely necessary, for people to be able to move on for the many tenants who with moderate services are able to function within the supportive housing or not accessing services at all and i know them personally and i am currently working at community housing partnership not for the first time and i know these people personally. and they exist. and it is absolutely, essential to provide the subsidies, and the units so that people can move on and the rental protections for the people to move on and this means more section eight and the construction more and affordable housing units with an emphasis on affordable for individuals who are transitioning out of affordable housing and serving the rent

controlled stock in the city, in order to prevent a tickle down effect that will create political pressures to construct the more affordable housing units who are quite cap able of supporting themselves and currently priced out of the market and i would like to under score that is essential to have the subsidies and the units available. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is daline ranken and i am the manager of the tender loin management corporation, we appreciate the board of supervisor's creative thinking about issues of housing and homelessness, we firmly believe that the best strategies to address these issues are to create more subsidies and increase the supply of

affordable housing. we believe that tenant $s deserve choice and access to affordable housing with voluntary support service and our data tell us a little about the experience of tenants after exiting permanent supportive housing and it is antedotal at best. a housing ladder without the availability of subsidy and option is a solution, we strongly encourage the city to embark on an independent coordinated city wide assessment that includes a comprehensive analysis of tenants, types of exits and exit destinations from the permanent supportive house and further this analysis must include an examination of the rates of reentry to shelter and streets and jails and treatment programs and long term board and care facilities. and permanent supportive housing is designed to be permanent and not just one rung

on a ladder of housing that does not include an adequate supply of affordable housing options for low and extremely low income populations. next speaker? >> good afternoon, good morning, my name is mark anthony and i am a proud tenant of the community housing partnership and i have been for 12 years now. as you heard the young lady gale spoke, the tools in the tool box that she has available for the tenants are awesome and if you don't know it, they are top shelf. and i am working part time, and i am giving back to the community, and i am not having a bathroom of my own or a shower of my own, i like to sing that song george jefferson because i am moving on up because it is about that time but, actually i have prayed that you have an opportunity to

have that pma and a mossive mental attitude to help us move forward. >> thank you. >> hi, i am jessica and i am the assurance manager at tndc and since 1981, they have worked to create opportunity for the low and extremely low income people in the tender loin and throughout san francisco and we are very interested in joining conversations about how we might expand the opportunities available to formerly homeless people. and over the past ten years, 16 percent of the formerly homeless folks who left the housing, moved into other permanent supportive housing. and 16 percent moved into temporary housing, and 16 percent died. and 16 percent moved into unsubsidized permanent housing. we have no information about where 28 percent of these folks went. after leaving our housing, and about 8 percent went into shelters and the streets, and jail, or in to hospitals.

the 16 percent who moved into the unsubsidized permit housing is perhaps the most interesting to this group. however, the category is so broad that we really don't know if this was, in fact a step up and we don't know, the longer term housing retention out comes for the people who moved into unsubsidized housing. but, understanding where formally homeless people go after supportive housing is in particularly ref la torrey given the extremely limited affordable housing options available to this is folks and we believe that it is critical that any housing ladder plan not simply shift in the aoe equality is the lack of affordable housing in san francisco from one marginalized population to another. and the only true solution, is increasing the supply of permanently affordable housing, available in the city and county. thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you. >> and i am going to call a few more names. >> peter co-hen, and carlos,

gone and ruben alver and lisa matone and kelley cut ler, and adam gabreil and christopher harris and ellen kragy, and sank and keith chem p and there are still several more cards that i will read in a moment. >> the director of the missionary resource center and the local homeless coordinating board and we want to applaud mark farrell's taken the leadership from the board on this issue because from a local homeless coordinating board perspective, we really are missing is to have, every department that is involveding homeless and working together. and although there ised guideness and the stake holder gathering that the local homeless board has been doing and i have been on the board for now eight years and we see primarily, one department and human service agency and collaborating with us on a

regular basis and also we see it now, and mayor's office of hope. and so from the perspective of the community we are building our five-year plan and i know that supervisor farrell has been privy of our plans and we want to make sure that when we are going our plan that we actually can get everybody in the city to commit to at least three goals, and so that the people and organizations are no working in siloand we are not changing policy or we are not learning from the ten year plan, which at the end something is done well and some things were never accomplished. so part of my recommendations from my 20 years working with the homeless individuals and the local homeless participation is number one when we look at the housing ladder we look at those without access to housing still. and the people who are still on the streets who are conically homeless and have not been housed and under the ten year plan because we don't have the type of housing that might be required.

and looking at what housing, and looking at undocumented immigrants and who are involving there to the shelters and cannot access the housing. and seniors which i think that there were some great conversations and to the answers, and supervisor farrell's question about where do we have in the pipeline, we have nothing until the year 2018 in terms of housing for homeless people and that has to change to really clear the ladder thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> hi, my orlan rayo, and i want to thank you guys for taking this issue on. and i spent 2009 homeless in san francisco, and i was finally housed through the community housing partnerships, and supportive housing, and the first year or two of housing is crucial and you must live in doors and be a member of society that ignored us while we were homeless and, it is vital to overcoming that and moving through the ptsd and the

problem comes when we discover that we are stuck, living in the small sro with no private bathroom and kitchen is as far as i can go, i have been living there for four and a half years now and at this moment, it truly feels like i will live in the supporting housing for the rest of my life which is a tragedy because i don't need the supportive housing and i can pay the rent on my own and maintain a clean and healthy living environment and access the mental health services that i need without the aid of staff and as a man with a disabilities i need my own bathroom and kitchen because i am on disability i can only afford housing that allows me to pay 30 percent of my income to rent and i am not alone, there are many of us who are stable and ready to move on from the supporting housing and we have nowhere to go, help us to create a housing ladder so we can move out of our rooms and we can help other homeless people get off of the vaoets so they can receive the benefits of supportive housing.

>> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is lisa melrartory and i am with the coalition of homelessness and i appreciate the opportunity to be part of the dialogue, and this morning, the coalition supported an action with the vehicular housed community, folks that are often invisible and shut out of the conversations around what does it mean to transition people out of homelessness and instead this community, alongside of many others, experiences an increase of criminalization and displacement as a result of their situation. and many folks who live in the vehicles, are highly capable folks, and many of them have part time jobs and many of them are educate and many of them are one step away from being on the streets, and being in our shelter and being in our sro system and instead of looking at the prk cal ways and solutions that this could be supported such as a safer parking program and enforcement on the commercial vehicles only and identifying the places where the people could stay and

having a permit program for people who are homeless and forced to live in their vehicles and all sorts of ways that we could be addressing it and instead, we have an over reliance and a waste of resources and ticketing and towing and incars rating folks we feel that this is the place that we could be talking more about what it means to be investing in the real solutions to transition people out of home sness. there is nowhere on any of the budget hearing agenda to talk about the criminalization resources that are put into homelessness and we feel that this is a community in particular that really emphasizes how if we invest in solutions we will have 200 people fewer on our streets as opposed to continuing to criminalize them and abuse them and torture them and deprive them of sleep and rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of tickets and towing charges and so this is one example of many of the communities that are shut out of these conversation and we hope that there will be a place

to look at it. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is ruben and i am a volunteer with the coalition on homelessness and regarding the oversized vehicular ban i have been to mum rues out reaches in san francisco on this very issue and i have interacted with the people in the vehicles who work full time and achieve a steady source of income and their stated reasons for not living in a studio or an apartment, is because of the high rental rates, and so essentially, the vehicles serve as their life line, it is their source of oxygen. and going forward, i hope that the city can humanely explore the demographic instead of

over, complicating it with legislation that restricts and bans. >> 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 name 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