come to the venue which is difficult in my mind. >> i am zach murray for the welcome youth services and i am rising to advocate that the board of supervisors in the department is here to do more and be accountible and give us public leadership to enhance the budget and the policy priorities to include the youth and the reality is that when compared to the homeless adult population you have the needs that set them apart from the homeless population and to date, the youth needs are rarely prioritized in the public policy and san francisco is first, and the ten year plan to abolish the homelessness, and the larger exiting foster care and represent 25 percent of the population, and the needs of 3 out of four homeless

youth were not considered in that and so i am advocating that you do more to meet those needs to understand what is happening and market street has produced years and years worth of research and analyzing what the youth people are experiencing and what the needs are and we know what they need and it is time for the public resources to be behind this and end this crisis as we speak. if we are not going to take the abundant resources of san francisco to end the crisis and i think that the board of supervisors in the city of san francisco can play a vital role in rallying that progress and this has been 115 million on the youth in the country and the reality that it is going to take a lot more than that in the federal government. and i want to talk about the education and workforce training this is the root of why the people are homeless and they are not getting the education and employment. and yes, they are only, 20

percent of the surveyed homeless youth need an education, but 72 percent of them would like the further education, and only 79 percent of the youth at market street report being unemployed but 86 percent of them want a job, they want a job that is going to allow them to live here in san francisco and not on the streets where they are forced to be criminalized and forced into exploitation and they are forced, and the reality is that you can do more. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, i am sorry. i am daysy and i am a advocate and i just wanted to tell you my story, i was once a homeless youth and i was able to get services and on the services and if i did not able to get the services i would not know where i would be today. going to the market street and i was actually able to graduate to two college degrees and i am not advocating for the same problem that i was suffering from, i need more awareness

about mental health and young homelessness, and san francisco has a lot of money and if we don't, it is going to be a bigger problem. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is franklin, and part of the community and at one point in time the used to have the native american aged projects on the market and it is no longer there. and at the moment, i am getting help from the aids housing alliance and mine is ssi is $900 a month and my rent is $800, when i was homeless in the last year, and they saved me, mind you, the housing alliance and i am going to say this because, being on the streets had deter ated my health. and being homeless to me, felt like a crime. and sit and lie down and the

policy rule, and the police department, are harassing and criminalizing homeless people and youth on the streets. and only our safe places are larger street youth center and all of these other homeless organizations. and what i wanted to say is that i am waiting for subdiced housing right now and i am afraid to die, my cousin died on the streets. and a lot of people have stigmaized aids and other diseases and when you need your youth, and the homeless out there, they are susceptible to diseases, and harassment and violence, and death on the streets. your not, we are not only advocating for housing, but we are advocating for our lives so we can live as normal human beings in society. and the native american health center has been also helping

me, the bates program they have an lgbtq pow wo w and they are trying to raise the funds and there is a lack of funds in the lgbtq community and there is a high rate of lgbtq in the native american community and i would like to see more of that and more housing for the homeless. and awareness towards the mental stages that home sness brings to the people in san francisco. let's be a better community, thank you. >> and thank you. >> a few more speaker cards, torrey, and tony, redoc, and sumor, and ryan, minvar. >> and hi. i have been working with at the cross roads and for the homeless youth in san francisco and i am here to talk about the need to focus more attention on black street youth and in a

city that is 6 percent black and 39 percent of homeless adults are black and this pairs repeating in a city that is 6 percent black and 39 percent of homeless adults are black. >> not only is the third the most logical but it is what we are seeing at the cross roads and 58 percent of our clients are black and this number has risen dramatically over the past decade. and as the black population in san francisco declined, the black youth have fewer options in the community to turn to when the immediate home is not working. and they are turning to the streets and their needs are not being met by the social service system and they do not fit the typical profile of what the homeless youth look like. and the only people targeting

them are law enforcement and they rarely identify as being homeless youth and so they do not seek out services for the homeless youth and they frequently do not meet the definition of being chronickly homeless and so they are ineligible for the homeless and they are less likely to seek help for mental health issues. and everyone in the city complaints about the homeless and frustrated by a lack of clear solutions, create a strategy that targets black youth between the ages of 18 to 29 with the housing and employment and mental health services and these youth are on for our city and adult population and they don't have to be instead they can be the pipeline for the city. and work for the leadership and genius, and this is going to start with the government deciding to focus on this specific population and dedicate, thought, planning and resources to address these unique needs and today, is a day to do that. >> thank you.

>> hi, i am tommy and i am with the housing rights committee and i have been a clear activist for the past 44 years and that has been for 17 years, working and doing the work in again for the evictions and for the affordable housing. and i also recently served as the lgbtq senior task force, and that was mentioned earlier and i have three recommendations for how to stop the homelessness in the lgbtq community and also, just in any period, and i think that there is a workforce and i think that the first is we need to stop the evictions and there is a correlation and of these other people have said that the lower income and the working class people have said evicted and homeless and a huge correlation and we need to do everything that we can to stop the predatory evictions that are happening by speculator and real estate investors in the

city. 2,000 units are lost to ellis in the move in evictions. the housing for those folks. and but, it is going to get them and the mayor is proposing 40,000 units and i say that they go to the homeless people first and then the low income folks and we need to stop criminalizing the homeless and repeal the measures and the un said it and the violations of the human rights. and the reality folks, is that we cannot end the homelessness, unless we end the evictions.

next speaker, please? >> >> and from the program director of the national youth network from 1979 to 1993. and i am also the founder and co-founder of the rocket street youth service and san francisco needs to provide more housing for those and the additional for the family and homeless youth, 18 to 25. and there needs to be the wrap around services and the wrap around services should be i also want to point out that san francisco, is a beacon for the

run aways, and you know, and we have la, and seattle and san francisco, and new york are where run aways usually go, because you can't get any further once you get to the west coast. and so, if the people are going to come here, and then we have to have the services to offer them. and if we don't have the services to offer them. then, they are just going to become like what happens what happened a couple of years and a number of years ago, is that they come here on the bus and they go over to the polk street and that is why market street was and the various neighborhoods throughout the

city and we need to meet them where they are at and get them to be productive, thank you. >> my name is john nolty, and the housing for the youth, and no new funding, on this, and we talked about it today and i was, going to point it out for the lgbtq youth. and no more doors. and the youth needs a wrap around services for the population. and we need more education because obviously, if the youth are going to stay in san francisco, they have to have a living wage once they to the education, to live and stay in san francisco once they graduate from these programs. and turned out over 25. more a case management is

needed for the population and productive, and so, to be productive and not called back to the risk behavior. and lastly, please find the funding. to secure, for the lgbtq youth. thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> i am a resident at 1049 market street and mid market and they are trying to force us out of our space and but over the last few years, we have watched as our nation become politically more divided and more youth are actually coming here to the city. but, in the same token i see more cuts happening in the organizations that serve the lgbtq communities center, or

the people here in the city. and one of them being new leaf, to the tender loin center and the medical clinic and so with this influx of people coming here i see more budget happening and banning people from sleeping in the parks and so it seems like, rather than helping people you are finding ways to criminalize them and a lack of funding. and i just want to address that you know, affordable housing and it just comes back to affordable housing and unless we have affordable housing in the city here, we are just creating a revolving door and these people are just going to end up back on the street. so, and i think that, and i think that the representatives that are here to represent the gay lgbtqs in the community need to do that and have your

priorities right and condos should fall somewhere far below that. and i don't see that. i see a lot more condos going up but i don't see any affordable housing going up. and so i think that the priorities is a big issue here. and so, i would really like to see that starting to be addressed here in the city, thank you. >> thank you. >> and as the next speaker comes up, speaker cards,vyer gill, east and isabel and karera and adele carpenter. and jw from market street and isaac langford. >> and let me know when to start >> go ahead. >> i am a long time san francisco resident, and also i am currently fighting an eviction from 1049 market street. and for the past years, many young people have to live at home with their parents, because they can't afford to get their own place to live in this country. and if a kid is kicked out of

their home, because they are lgbtq and they are suddenly homeless, and in today's job market that is practically a death sentence for them. and the homeless people sleeping there over night and a number of them are youth and to walk to the work from the district and my job at 13th and full so many there are homeless people all over the place. i have them the resources for the homeless as much as i can and i give them change and sometimes i give them food and chat them up. but the city has more resources than i do, in the much greater quantity and faster than what the mayor is currently planning and the city of san francisco

could do so much with just the right attitude and there is always resource and people that you have heard from today that we are ready to do it. kefl has been in the top ten economies of the world and the state is as rich as any country in the world in the top ten and 15.

the youth that are kicked out of their home and again i am homeless and so i like how market street is a safe haven to the lgbtq community, and also, it helps, all kinds of homeless youth like stabilize, and like the diamond youth shelter and the larkin, and the ga house. and i think that they need to

be notified of larkin street and this calls for san francisco and it is recently visited with los angeles, and over there, and that is the huge issue and i feel like it needs to be over there and the homeless youth and in los angeles and san francisco. but, since going and it costs a 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