this is the reality of the situation, this is not a game. for any of us. this is real. but the kids are being literally eaten up, by cockroaches and rats and sleeping on the floor with rats sometimes five in a room, beds bugs and this is the reality of the situation and the family deserve to live with dignity and the families are fighting to live with dignity and respect and please take the time and come to visit these hotels so you can experience it and see it yourselves and at that point we will not need to come here to ask this, you yourselves will be moving forward on this for the families. thank you, thank you so much for taking your time to listen to us and to the solutions that

we are bringing forth to you. but please open up your hartz and don't just listen to our stories but do something, you can, do something and fight alongside with us for housing for families, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please? >> hello, my name is collins and i was homeless for two years. and i stayed at hampton transitional housing. and i have two daughters and i had a daughter in college. and and i chose to take care of my children to make sure that they stayed in school and my daughter stayed in college. and i did not choose to take care of myself. so the baby who they do have supportive housing in there

with a case manager and i am very glad to have had that when i arrived there that it took time before i got to know my case manager and stuff like that. but when people are homeless and stuff, we go through a lot of stuff. and my children have to go through all of that trauma stuff, and being to choose to take care of my children well and a lot of you know me from the western edition and being involved with the children and stuff and i chose to take care of my children and i dependant take care of myself. so, i am just saying that mothers need to support in these programs when they leave from being in homeless and coming from the transitional housing because it is very hard and it is hard to come back. and especially where like for my instance and i am on

medication and sometimes my medication does effect the way and then during that time it will be going through that i had a lot of what is that called? anxiety. and so my anxiety kicked in a lot for me and when i got to bay view hill i was able to address that and able to address that with my medicine and my doctors and stuff and by them and taking the road and contacting my doctors and letting them know and so i am just saying that it is important and i am a single mother, it is very important that the women and the single parent women are tooken care of because you know we are trying to take care of our consider and we are not taking care of ourselves and so we get lost. so. >> appreciate it. >> next speaker please.

>> good afternoon, i live at the grand southern hotel and i am asking you to open up your hearts and take a tour of where we live in the mission district and it is very bad conditions. open up your hearts to please open up the housing for all of the women and children and that have the situation. and see it first hand, how we all live under a lot of stress and anxiety, and the managers, and the staff members, and at this place, are very abusive towards the women and children. and i have been harassed personally, so, i invite you to come by, and see about delivering the arrangements that we all live under, a room, hot, and the streets on 60th street and the drug activity. and it would be very nice if you could help us, to have

living arrangements and have something healthy for us, the women and children, and on the mission district. and if you would like to say something? >> good afternoon. and my name is morano, and i am a 6th grader. and i think that people should open your hearts to the children who, are dreaming for their own space. every night, i... >> thank you for hearing us out, as you can see. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> i work at the (inaudible) services with families that live in the hotels. and you guys were asking earlier about how many hotels there are, and no dem graphics

on that and in the mission there are at least 52, but when we walk between 16th and 24th, we see that there is at least, 5 or 6 different hotels and different single room apartments. and on every corner with a lot of families living there and a lot of the families that live there are hard working families. and there is sometimes three or four families that can barely make the ends meet and the people that put the food on your plate that are living there and the people who are cleaning this place, and cleaning the whole city, are living there and they can can't even afford to eat, and they can't afford to have their children. and have a safe place to live and even when the departments get involved, to put pressure on these land lords there is no changes and families are working hard to have a living, you have people that are willing to work and organizers and that are willing to help this crisis of homeless families and you have, you have you can help us with that.

you have our responsibility and you can also do something about it. so we are asking you to put the funding where it belongs and help the family whose should not be living in this undignifieed situation. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] my name is livia flores and i am a single mother and i have two children. and i 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. i am domestic violence survivor. i have been homeless for the last five years. i have slept in cars, and in

the streets. with friends, and it was very difficult for us mothers to be away from our children. if we are not, we are demanding... to obtain more funding to rehab like some of the housing units. in public housing and section eight here in san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for the next speaker i will call these speaker cards, margarita adena, flo be, and perez, and cazera, and lumingdan and maria chuheo. >> good afternoon, my name is

floor. you are a smaller and you guys are mothers and fathers. i would like you to put yourself in my shoes and for all of the mothers, that have children. because we are giving birth as mothers. you don't imagine the conditions that we have to live after giving birth. and you guys that are mothers and fathers, should be supporting us. i have two children my son is four years old and does not know what a christmas

tree is all about. where the presents will be available for him. and i have not been able to have a place where i enjoyed the first... and because we have to leave them in a daycare. we are not able, and they are not able to enjoy the bath in the bathtub in the way of the children. and we are not able to do our necessities in the toilet room. even that we have to do our own needs like deviate and urinate in a bucket in the rooms.

i am asking for mothers and fathers to support. and he could enjoy his christmas presents. please, put yourself in our shoes and please come and do with all of the parents that are living in these conditions. >> and replacing this on behalf of everyone. and when your children are taking a bath please think of the children living in the shelters and living in the streets. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good afternoon, my name is margereta and this is not the first time that i am here to request your help opening the waiting list or the public housing units. i am also to support to request your support to get mour

funding for those who live in the streets that do not have housing. i am the mother of four children. mine is a 12-year-old that requires some privacy because the lits sisters are like looking into his things. >> the girls are curious, and i think that you understand. i have been living in the streets and living in shelters

i have received some help from a subsidy but it is running out in two weeks and in a couple of weeks i am going to be homeless again i am asking you a favor, please think of the children that are the ones that are suffering. we are asking you please, to think about us all of the time while your present and requesting your help opening those waiting lists. i am thank you you for your help. so here we are requesting for more support here for the

public housing. please open the waiting list and don't wait for the next hurricane in san francisco. that is all that i am asking you for, thank you very much for your help. and to explain the situation that a lot of us are going through. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is per es and i am with the... (inaudible) and i am also with (inaudible) and i am here to let you guys know to open all of the units that are empty and so you guys to use them for the families, and so we have four, and we work with five... and soma and san can and tender loin and the

mission and we work with all of the familis that live in the sro, and so please, pay attention, and look at all of these families that came to speak. and so i am asking you guys to please open the waiting list, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please? >> hi, supervisors, >>

[ speaking in a foreign language ] hi, i am a mom with two kids, and our sro unit is less than ten square feet. and the three of us did not have any place to walk to the room, and it is really crowded, and we have to share the bathroom, kitchen, and facilities and tenants in the building.

for myself, i have to do a (inaudible) pretty soon and i just have to worry about how am i going to use the toilet? it is just something that we have to worry about. i am a single mom and i only make $500 a month, and i pay $500 for rent. and i don't have money for shampoo or other things.

it is really difficult for me because my mom is in the 80 and my son is in the 10th grade for me to have a life for my family. >> next speaker, please? >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> hi supervisors i live in the china town, and sro with my 18-year-old son, and my

16-year-old daughter, and the four of us are in a room that is really tiny, and it is like less than five meter square feet. my kids tell me that they don't seem to have enough room, there is no housing that could provide for them or they can live in peace and when i hear that, i am really sorry about what we have for now.

i always worry that my kids will not come home one day. i wish you have more housing there for our kids to grow up in. so they won't stay on the street or do something that i don't want them to do. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? and let me call the last speaker cards. anybody else who wants to speak, who has not spoken, line up. scott eker. >> and brenda brown. and lora maria, beverly up ton and madena and angelina and

nancy cross. sorry please go ahead. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] hi everybody, i am in chan and my family of four lives in the tiny room ten square feet. my grandson comes home from school he will have to do everything on the bed, he will do his homework eat and play and everything is in this tiny

room. i hope that you will be able to help all of our families and help us in this difficult situation. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, and my name is (inaudible) and i worked in the business, and whereas, i have a couple of things to say today, and so first i want to say thank you, and bay for what you bring to this hearing and all of the family hearing and all of the members and so to listen to us all day and all of the stories of what is going on

with our families and i want to take this for you guys and so, i want to have to really tell you guys to pay more attention to the homeless families and we are talking about homeless families we are talking about the homeless familis that live in sro hotels and we have 50 families living in the hotels and we have 500 homeless families living in shelter and we don't know how many homeless families living doubled up and the other conditions and it is a bunch of families and there are thousands, so please supervisors, pay more attention and put in more money to create and more housing for all of the homeless families we need to enthe homelessness and the only way to end it is to put together all of it and working together and unify altogether, the people from the city hall and people from the community to come together, with great idea and say you know, enough

is enough. and we have to have the housing and seems to be one when we create and all of the families united and we found them and 500, and families in sro hotels and today, we have this same number and that does not matter how many families we put in the permanent housing, and we have received half for the 500 families and we need to create the housing for these families and the other issue that i am talking about is that we had to put in money and in the san francisco housing and the housing in general. and we need to review and the 73 housing units. and we need the money and why. because we need to open the waiting list for permanent housing and section 8. and this time. >> thank you. >> the last time that we opened the waiting list was 2008 and so now it is time to open the waiting list. >> thank you have a good day. >> next speaker please.

>> and thank you, supervisors and farrell for calling this hearing and for those that are attending and i am working with the families in the mission for over 40 years and one of the projects that we are working on is the mission promise neighborhood as many of you are aware and in march we can in the town hall where we had over 100 parents from mission public schools attend and talk about their needs and relation to housing before that, town hall, we received some data, that you know expressed that of the four schools that we service, eleven percent of them were homeless. and so, this is a huge problem effecting our public school students and the families and their learning capabilities and so some of the symptoms and the repercussions that happen from this epidemic that we have within our schools is the

anxiety and depression and we have seen this and the insecurety and the fear in children about where they are going to live and the teachers have you know told us that they have seen it in their students and that they are not able to concentrate and that they are, you know they are not able to pick up the information to the other things that are going on that are making it more difficult, and the entire mission of the mission promise neighborhood is to raise academic achievement with family economic success. and it is very difficult to achieve that if we cannot have the housing which, enables the parents to have, you know, a stable job, which enables the students to feel safe at home, and which enables some of our mission families to be able to start a business. and so, we really definitely support, what a lot of the sro tenants have said here today that we do need to prioritize more housing especially for the homeless families, not just in the mission but throughout stephenson, thank you very much. >> thanks, next speaker, please?

>> good afternoon, supervisors, beverly upton, and as you can see from today, many of our survivors of domestic violence are still struggling even when they get a few weeks in an emergency shelter, even when the transitional housing is available and that is one of the things that i want to talk is the only transitional housing right now for confidential for domestic violence and families is on the chopping block at another table and so i want to raise awareness around that. as you heard today, domestic violence is the number one reason for female homelessness and family homelessness in san francisco and we have been talking about this for years. and domestic violence survivors although we are seeing more today because they have been survivors for so long, but emergency housing and domestic violence shelters are really filled with the invisible homeless. and homeless women, mostly and their children who are running

for their lives, and their children's lives and future and so they too are not counted in this homeless population and we only have 77 beds in san francisco. and for domestic violence survivors that are confidential and where their abusers cannot find them, and so, we need more services, so that they can have more after care and longer stays and you see what happens, when they are exited from the shelter with not enough care after. but they are still struggling and they are still in jeopardy and their children are still anxious and we just have to do better. and so, even with the domestic violence, community joining with sexual assault and all of the violence against women programs to make a modest from the mayor's office this year and we really are standing with the brothers and sisters in the housing advocacy community to say that we can do better and we must do better and it is the future of san francisco. and please, help. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.

>> my name is maria vasquez i come from the coalition of homelessness in the tender loin. and i am a homeless mother with two children living in a shelter. i am tired of living in shelters.. my 8-year-old daughter has asthma. chronic asthma. because we are living in the emergency shelter, they wake us up at 6:00 in the morning and we ask s to go to the streets. and one time she had a