family can stay in san francisco is if we get into a place like mersy housing, and that is stable subsidy. and so there is a lot of challenges that are faced in it and i wish that there were more programs that were transitional like hampton. >> thanks. >> okay. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi. i am cami and this is charlie. say hi, charlie. the family is all good and we are all concerned. but you know there are very little talk of the women up here. so what are women supposed to do? are they supposed to stay on the street? supposed to stay in abusive relationships to have the roof over their heads. or are they supposed to excuse

me for being crass, you know, go and live with a guy until a guy kicks them out. just to have a roof over their head. that is it. >> okay, thank you. >> next speaker please? >> good morning, my name is east ton and i am the program director of the woman's place cats and the women place's drop in center, and this is some very good questions, and i appreciate that. and i didn't expect to hear about a winter shelter. i am so happy that in november i won't be sitting there getting a list and going what about the women? and so i really appreciate that, thank you so much to the powers that be. but let's see. i have got 54 women every night on howard street, multy use and emergency shelter and i have about 60 to 80 women sitting in

chairs on 13th street every day and so when the shelter opens in november, maybe 30 of those will go over there. and 30 will fill those seats. and by virtue of the lack of services gender specific and there is a need for women, but i want to say gender specific. and so phases like gender disparity and equity and all of that stuff. and running through my head this morning, but any way, the services have to be gender specific. you have to expand the shelter services, and the behavior health services, the permanent supportive housing services and gender specific way. and a lot of the women that we encounter 27 percent of the population is homeless. 90 percent of that 20 percent goes to the woman's place. and i am confident to say that. and it has to be done. make a list. and you have to have more drop in services for women and a

gender specific. and you have to have more emergency shelter and transitional housing and permanent housing and these women need come munal living and the woman's place is a safe haven and i am going to ask you to make stephenson a safe haven for the homeless women. and i want you to know at the drop in center we have daytime services we need drop in services for the families. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] good morning, my name is maria avalos. i am here with you to request what i always request from you. better living conditions for the families living in the

mission district. >> out reach worker in the mission district, i have seen a lot of programs come and go. and our families continues to live in those small hotel rooms really reduced space. >> crisis continues and the rents increase and we just cannot afford paying this rent. >> we are hear all of these numbers, nevertheless, we are not creating any solutions.

it is my hope that we stop talking about these numbers and we create solutions, because families keep leaving in the same conditions as they were ten years ago. thank you have very much. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> good morning and thank you so much for your time and attention, my name is jane siscow and i am the director of compass claire house which is the transitional housing program for families and this is a 20th year this year and we were developed at a time where there were more resources available, but we are grateful to still be around. and we serve families that really were not a paycheck away from being homeless and these are chronically homeless families and unfortunately there are a lot of these in the

city and the need has only increased whereas the resources have decreased. and i have seen, this city really come together and create a continuum of care for our homeless population and so, i think that the more that we can come together, and the more that the board of supervisors can talk with the local homeless coordinating board, who has done amazing work over the past ten years to really try to coordinate the services for the population would be really helpful, and i think that the mayor's office has done so much recently, and with devon dufty, leadership, i think that the coordination that is going on has really made a big difference and now that we have is a little bit of leverage going i just appreciate the momentum and the need is really intense, and even though, we agree that more housing is needed, it is really the services that the families need as well. and so, i think that you know, and with we need all of those

things to support the families. >> next speaker. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> my name is maria. i live in 1260 golden gate in hampton shelter. i have a five-year-old daughter and a 2-month-old baby. i would like to ask for you guys to open the waiting list for public housing because i have a maximum stay of 6 months in that place and to be quite honest i am not sure where i am

going after it. i feel depressed because i am not sure where i am going to be moving with my kids after six months stay is over. >> my daughter is experiencing a lot of anxiety because we don't have a stable housing where we are moving from one place to another from one shelter to another resulting in a lot of anxiety to her.

>> and that is the reason why i am asking for you guys to open the waiting list, to provide us with and give us an opportunity for housing. >> that is all, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good morning, everybody. god bless you. and i am here to request more housing opportunities.

i am a victim of violence and crime. and even cps has been involved in my housing situation. and now that we are out of the situation. i almost lost the custody of my children and nevertheless i regain them. because i didn't have housing. one of my kids living outside of home. i am taking care of three of my children.

i am living in hampton family center where in two months my stay will be over. i am requesting housing for families because we are losing our children. due to these situations. and to increase... and i am always pray to god. or you guys to open up your heart and provide us with housing opportunities. thank you god bless you. >> thank you very much. >> i will call a few more

speaker calls. colins, larva, maggie, sanchez, and elizabeth, and marisa bell tran and lidia flores. >> please come up. >> thanks. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is angelina chan sanchez, and i am the specialist at a non-profit organization that offers training, to homeless, previously homeless, and people that are on cal works and whatnot. and i have experienced domestic violence, and i have been on cal works, and i have suffered depression myself. from struggling. and i went to... and i went into the certificated nurse's assistance program which i graduated from and was hired by a case manager and it was the

opportunity that i had through section eight, and to get housing, and for me and my four children, that i was able to have hope again. and with the funding that you can provide can give hope to single mothers. and to show that there is a chance to rise above the turmoil that they can experience. whether it can domestic violence, and substance abuse, but there is opportunities, if given. and i asked that you open up the funding, and provide more housing so that there is hope, so if there is nowhere for you to lay your head or to make your sanctionary, and you kind of lose hope. and so, i am a successful story and it does work if there is given an opportunity and i just like to say thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please?

>> [ speaking in a foreign language ] good afternoon, supervisors, my name is laura mario. i live in the hotel in the mission called the grand southern.

so she says that she is here to ask you to please open up affordable housing, in the hotel that she lives in, there is a lot of harassment and abuse from the managers will be drunk, and abusing of the children and abusing of the women and harassing them and horrible conditions, and bed bugs, rats and cock roaches everywhere and hot days like today, the rooms get really hot and there are needles thrown all over the floor, she feels like the families who live in the hotel are an invisible community because there they have not been considered home sxls there are a lot of families living in the hotel and supervisor campos and dufty have been working with the grand southern hotel and have

come to see what the conditions are like and they are horrible and she is asking to please to support all families that are homeless and the families in the hotels and open up the living situation for them. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good afternoon, supervisors i have been working for many years, in the district of the mission doing out reach to families that live in the hotels.

so i am here to talk with you guys about the job that we have been doing for the last couple of years and months working with families in the hotels. that leave my heart broken every time that we go inside. luckily, we have had one of the supervisors campos, who has come with us to see the reality of the situation. and these hotels in the mission, and i want to invite all of you, to take a half hour, out of your day, to come and visit the hotels and in the mission and also, as part of our collaborativive and the other neighborhoods, here in the city.

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