lot of money and i have to say that san francisco should donate their money to eliminate the homeless views in the next five years. and so hopefully california can improve on that. thank you. >> thanks very much. >> next speaker, please? >>

>> i have been homeless. and here is my house. >> and this is... and he saw the conditions in which i live with my children. and i hope that he is able to share what he witnessed. >>

[ speaking in a foreign language ] and especially for all of the homeless children, and the gay community. >> and to offer them housing. >> thank you. >> >> thank you, very much. >> and next speaker, please? >> and thank you much for all of the work that is provided for in this issue and about the and about the lgbtq people. and all of the homeless children in san francisco, and so, when i give you one more. and the last, and the recommendation that i want to give you to everybody and all

of the people in san francisco is first, we will have to put in all of the full attention and all of the homeless, and all of the children. and so, why, because? all communities in need and there is a lot of education and all communities, and they need a lot of consciousness, and to understand. we have to work and rather we have to, put in all of the people and in the money and the mayor, to put in more money so that we will have the housing for all of the youth. and so, when i am sharing with you, one experience, and so i would like my wife, and my wife, and she is a teacher and

in the valley and the high school, and she is teaching the high school students, and when she is doing this and they are doing it in the school, and to the youth, and that they need to be able and to have a group of youth and that they will have with the school and they will know what i am talking about and they are going to be 200, and they are in the school and they know what i am talking about and there is only, there is one, who is taking the lid and creating the group was my wife. and they, and in this school. and so... >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> and good afternoon, and i am a licensed street youth and i would like to begin my time by

speaking about the age of 17 and in 2007, and that the economy was on the decline and it was to receive, the high school and proceed to a college education and i would like to make it clear that there are barriers to the dem graphics that i represent, and and the youth that have never had a mother or a father. i grew up with my grandmother and passed away, and i tried from 17 to 21 to go to college and get an education and there were barriers and she passed away and i became homeless.

if you have the services that are available to you and, there is a cut off and there are also the transitional services that help to do it to move forward. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> >> good afternoon, and my name is pw and i am with the youth experience on homelessness and i stated to walk in and it is just a lot of recollections of the government and the example will be the line change from 940 to 730 and quiet hour, created and complications and made it very and more difficult for the people to get it on the smaller space.

they should be the ones to regulate and make the rules and not the government entity. and a while ago, mr. com, spoke about kind of the paperwork that we need for the housing and let's cut this paperwork down and there is no need for this and the housing is a right not a privilege, and let's create more housing. and let's also create an open home program and the homeless to gain on it. and renovating them and turning them into homes for themselves. and let's a policy and for the tax incentives to keep the buildings vacant and where does all of the money come from? look for further than federal government. there is always money for foreign aid and to the other country. and until then there is just a

approve and over a billion dollars, for next year. the war to be won is the war on poverty and homelessness. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> and still, good afternoon, supervisors my name is adele and i am a staff member, at the san francisco youth commissioners and i know that they are looking forward to joining you on the special order this afternoon to speak about the priorities and answer more questions but i did want to write a few things and during the item that you are working on that are particularly relevant to addressing the housing needs among transitional aged youth and they are working with supervisor avalos's office to implement chapter 12 n of the city's administrative code which is the ordinance that requires, youth serving city

staff as well as contractors to be trained in the lgbtq competency and in addition to that the youth commissioners will like to see the development of the trainings resourced and as well as the city departments to begin including sexual orientation and gender identity in the intake to track the out comes for lgbtq youth and the youth commissioners for the last few years have been advocating of course, for to meet the full time, unit goal for the housing plan, and that was meant to be completed by 2015 and we have the youth town hall and affordability this month and 60 people attended and we have that, and they are working on the full report that a few of the recommendations that came out about that, which actually increased the less resource and reports for the young people who are encountering a possible eviction and the rental subsidies as well as just, undertaking efforts to educate the young people and the transitional aged youth on the housing and tenant rates and it will be happy to see the level of planning and coordination

that the city has taken on in bringing the leadership. and they would like to see the industry increase in the investment by including the pay in the upcoming children's legislation as well as that creating our bridge and to take effect and on may 5th, with the motion of support for the proposal for the transitional youth and the executive director in accordance with the tay sf priorities. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, i am the lgbtq conference, of the harvey milk democratic conference theme. and for the june 14th, conference at the lgbtq center is housing and healthcare for

all. and you hear that the housing is first. and because it is primary issue but many of us know that the many lgbtq folks healthcare is tied to housing. we can't just relocate without consequences and this is especially true for hiv, and aids survivors. the great fear for those of us who used here in the 60s and 70s to san francisco is our current displacement. we are living now in the affordable housing, and we fear losing that sense of security and well-being due to eviction. and the high rate of eviction

is in district eight and puts us as a district in crisis, it sometimes results in such despair that suicides result and we really need the stronger eviction protection and prevention. and lgbtq seniors are vulnerable and scared, we heard harvey milk say in 1978, hope, you can do this. thank you. >> >> thank you, next speaker, please? >> hello, my name is isaac, and i would like to share some or a story out of my life.

and i have been living in san francisco for about a year and a half now. and so, i have been helping numerous amount of people get help for different types of services. but i feel like there is no services for me because i am on social security and i tried to look for apartments, and i got a job recently, but due to being homeless, was like, i have to get up at 6:00 in the morning every day from sleeping on the concrete to going to living with different friends and it makes it different to work and the job was firing the people and so on social security is easier and so i decided to stay on social security and so i tried to look for housing because the first and coming up and so i have been looking for housing and i

just gave up because i can in the find any type of houseinging >> line up on the side and we will be wrapping up the public comment soon. >> i don't know much about the politics or statistics. i do know that what i have been experiencing in homelessness has been and getting help from the drop in centers and i feel like you guys have been a big

help and there are things that you can work on and i feel like it is that, and you know, it was next speaker, please? >> >> and four weeks and i am on the larkin street youth services. >> pull it up if you speak into the mic. >> hi, i am victoria weeks and i am in the larkin street youth services and when i first got into san francisco i came for school, and when i became homeless i did not know any services that i could use, and i have heard about it and i was in a group home in sacramento. and that is how i found out about this service and i believe that to help the kids get off of the streets and for the adults we need to pass around the message and let there be known that there is hope. and there is housing, food and

shelter, and thank you, that is it. >> thank you, next speaker, please? >> yes, my name is kevin, williams and how are you doing, today? >> and yeah, i would like to, you know, and i am, not from san francisco, and from california, and you know, and i would like to just, you know, and..., (inaudible) and you know from being homelessness. and yeah, it is a... and it is a... it is a, you know, it is a struggle being homeless but you know that it is something that we have to go through because it is part of living. and you know, it is like, you know, you know, i want to focus on the people that you know, bothered like other people and like, or the log instead, and because you know that some

people they come in the city and they start terrorizing the city and that is what happened, and that is why, you know, some people get all of mixed and something like that but you know, i see that it happens very much but the people that lives in the out skirts of san francisco and they come in the city and start to terrorize the city and start the burglaries and and the hate crimes and that is where you will get all of your rapes and murderers and all of that, and the shooters and killers. but i would like to see a bill, and the done and get the housing and let them come back in the city and you know tha, is a problem there, because they come and terrorize the city and you know, i would like to see that and because you know, you are in the homeless person and you know, there is not an average right person to start with and so you know, and i am disco and you know, i want

to see that happen. and you know, thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please? >> thank you, supervisors and everyone, assembled and all that i can say is that this would be a... and it is just basically the crux of it is dollars and cents and the city is growing, and tolerance and it is acceptance of all types, and there is, or definitely is dollars but now we need to match it with cents. and a good lady about the paperwork, and if you will increase, and know that, and the employee the supervisors to increase your digital presence and see how something like this in a tablet, and $256 e-bay with a pen, and if you have application forms that you can fill out on the party and have the keep the records of it and you will have to take it as

well as scaring people away, and secondly, and the shoe box unit paradigm and it is critical and it is very, very very important the novelty that it takes to build it up here. 500 or less, and in the temporary, and so the people will be housed and given them, and if not and something vocational that can give them for four or six months. and it will be allowed to earn much more than the 500 or 800 for a studio and that can be done and so i will ask the supervisors to talk to the people and the ellison or page and all of those people that want to comment, and the city, to offer them even an incentive.

and to fund this type of housing because the people are in pain. and the people are in pain, and thank you. >> >> thank you. and are there any other members of the... >> i am here to say that the homeless, and they have come in the age our youth and this is just a shout out to everyone here today to say what i am feeling about you too. and my concerned, is larry was my psycho therapy clinic for the past years. (inaudible) and i worked for many months as well as group therapy, and it became evident to me that he was suffering from the trauma of living in that hotel and it was harassment of them, and the other resident and even some hotel front desk staff on the

occasion, and to be... and (inaudible) and cannot be finding with the sro and he needs to live the building and stay out for most of the day and night, and this is (inaudible) to the services for the communities and the lgbtq when the people of color and we hope that you may be able to assist in this and stabilize the emotional trauma, that doing the best in the hotel and... (inaudible) our strong belief that emotionally cured and support it to achieve this long time goal of returning to work. social justice with all of us in san francisco and what we have said today is that it is time as we salute, harvey milk

giving us hope to come here tonight that this city is falling on the hope of giving people the chance to hope to bring themselves gay, black and white and yellow brown and it is time for our president to bring the habitat for humanity back to this country, thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment? >> hi, i guess, that we have something that bothers me is that the homeless community is not this mono community that everyone speaks of. i just feel like i have a homeless friend and he probably has an iq of 150. he is just highly intelligent. all that he really needed was

an opportunity the recommendation to this body is to call in your unions and your labor unions and your medical unions. and call in your tech, you know, everybody, is beefs up on twitter, but call those people and call the video game manufacturers, and see how they can change some of the homeless and train them and also see what type of jobs that they can actually provide for these people. and not only, and it is not a mono community and some of them and the homeless has those skills and they just need the opportunities and it is just accessively difficult and hard if you are homeless or just

stigmaized. and so, that is my thing and is that the other thing, and some of the homeless, and suffer like posttraumatic stress disorder from abusive family and sexual trauma that they might have from things like that and i think that is part of the plan. and the plan on ending homelessness, and it feels and it implies that you are supposed to close some of the shelters and put that money into housing and i am hoping that we can really fix ate on putting the money more into these. and these housing units. thank you. >> thank you. >> and are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on items one or two? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, in members of the public i want to say thank you. and for those who have been here today, and yes, ma'am?

>> okay. >> mj isabel and i am 68 years of age and i have been openly gay all of my life and i have lived through being homeless when i was a youth and now i am teter tottering on the edge of being homeless again, when i first had my housing i had a job and i got a better job and i got my better job because i was living in the housing situations where it was supposed to be affordable housing. okay? and then, i became ill. and i lost that job. and my rent did not go down and my rent continued to go up. and now, over half of my income goes to my rent. and i cannot live like that. most that i talk to each month they have a pulse between are they going to use it for medication or being able to pay for their lights or they able

to eat? and i don't, and the reason that i don't know what is going on because i have to run out of here and go to a senior center and eat lunch and come back, okay? because, do i pay my bills or do i eat? it is no joke. i lived through all kinds of changes to get an education and i am back in school trying to get another education because i need a job. it is not a joke it is easy and you feel secure and each month i have the nightmare of trying to figure out can i keep a roof over my head? >> are there any other members of the public that wish to comment. >> i will close public comment. and again, i want to thank all of the presenters, and especially those who came in the public comment, and you know, as we continue to go

through these issues, you know, and particularly today, with tay and the lgbtq population, and especially as much as they continue to and as we see the make-up a large percentage of the homeless population and it is critical to go through the issues and i want to thank the people to diving into it and look forward to continue to discuss this and the other policy ideas moving forward, and a lot of the comments were focused around the budget season today and the committee and getting to the heart of the budget season is appropriate and i want to thank those, and my colleagues as well for being part of this hearing and for today's hearing and for i will close it off but supervisor avalos and anybody else if you have comments? >> thank you, chair for all. and i would want to thank you for being here, and for, your struggles this in it is streets and being able to talk about those here and you need to come to city hall where there is a lot of power and talk about your own personal issues but i really appreciate your doing that. and i also want to thank the

director, and dufty and your staff, and your staff and the hsa and multiple times for your hearings and it is critical that we are looking at the whole, range of diversity of youth that we have in the homeless services and i appreciate chair farrell's, you know, approach here in these past few months. and we are in budget season and i really hope that in 200, mayor's office is listening about how we can do much more to provide the adequate range of services that are going to help to meet this crisis that we have in san francisco. and i know that, what the mayor does not do, there will be some work that we will and we can do as supervisors with a little bit of money that we have to move around and we have to enter in the budget price. and the process and we are looking forward to being involved with that and working with chair farrell in that

effort. and today's discussion was about homelessness and around the lgbtq youth. and i cannot, and i cannot speak more clearly, that we have a real crisis when it comes to how criminalize young people in san francisco. and especially when the people come from places where there is oppression.