because one day you will have a reward. [speaker not understood] i am facing an eviction. supervisor mar knows the way i live. he knows the hotel in which i live. the situation in which i live with my two children. now i'm facing an eviction. and i'm very distressed. i am considering sleeping in a car with my children because i have no alternative. this is johnny. he has grown in the day care. since he was six months old.

he doesn't know what it is to have a living room, neither him or the other children. and i am here now requesting your help. for all the races, for all the people. thank you so much, supervisor mar. thank you so much, supervisor avalos. you are also aware of our situation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good morning, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] collins and i'm here with the homeless coalition. i wear this black because it's a black cloud over san francisco. i'm a person that [speaker not understood] homeless to my children for two years. today i look, i go to different places in the bayview, the western addition, the mission,

the tenderloin, and there's over four families that are homeless. they have suitcases, [speaker not understood], and they don't know what to do. some of them are squared to reach out to get help. so, the speak out family homelessness. [speaker not understood] goal over the last past five years are families waiting list has reached high, so high that, you know, even with the shelters, some people still sleep in cars, you know, they're slipping on the streets with their children. in the schools there are currently 2200 homeless students in the san francisco unified school district. and this is up 1600 since 2009. and 1200 -- 12 92 in 2005.

so, it has grown more. ~ i just think the urge -- there needs to be more for, like, when people getting ready to get evicted with the attorneys and stuff, so, that's why i'm asking y'all to help them, the program so they can be able to have attorneys. like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. and when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. so, that's why i'm urging that y'all support this. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. hi, good afternoon. my name is jennifer friedenbach and i'm the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, san francisco. we have a massive housing

crises and it's hitting hard. it's hitting fast, and it's hitting with brutal force. right now we have elderly women with cognitive disorders sitting up all night in chairs while their ankles swell. we have people so desperate for sleep, a safe place to sleep, away from police harassment that they are crawling into elevator shafts and getting crushed alive. they're crawling into muni tunnels and getting hit by trains. we have whole families sleeping in their cars while their mother tries to tell them they're just there for fun camping to keep them calm because they're really, really frightened. we have thousands of people in this desperate situation and thousands more on the brink that are being harassed and pushed and goaded by their landlords to get them out of their homes. we have an opportunity here. you have an $8.6 billion city budget.

you're only spending it '02% on homelessness, 2% ~. this is a rich city. this is an affluent city. you need to act. as the board of supervisors you need rip that money out. do we really need $86 million to pave our general fund? do we need [speaker not understood] to sweep homeless people six mornings a week to harass them? take it and invest it. fund the rapid rehousing subsidies and the subsidies in nonprofit housing so that over 500 thousand holds can exit homelessness. level the playing world -- playing field so tenants actually have some rights. they have access to full counsel. we can do something about this eviction epidemic. we can halt all displacements. we can keep 27 household in their homes. all this is only going to cost $11 million. [inaudible]. [cheering and applauding]

>> next speaker, please. thank you, debby. and good afternoon now, supervisors. my name is deborah eddleman. i'm the deputy director at hamilton family center and the co-chair of emergency homeless provider association. i've met many of you many times before. i want to thank all of you first for taking the time to meet with members and the community in previous years as well as this year, and to really seriously consider the proposals that we have developed to prevent and end homelessness in san francisco and serve the most vulnerable of our community. in considering the city budget this year, i encourage you to keep in mind the exponential effect on the wellness of our

community that funding a small cost of doing business increase for nonprofits to serve the most vulnerable members of our community and cost-effective strategies to prevent evictions and homelessness and rapidly, rapidly rehouse those who experience homelessness. [speaker not understood] proposal to [speaker not understood] keep san francisco's homeless housed to keep san franciscans housed, sorry, and to house homeless san franciscans could impact 30,000 households through education, outreach, legal representation, emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing subsidies and long-term housing solutions. this funding would keep and get many san franciscans housed in a cost-effective way directly impacting about 4,000 households for an average cost of about 3,000 per household. this is much more effective than sheltering homeless households temporarily at an

annual cost of up to 45,000 per family. there are solutions to the crisis of housing and homelessness we are facing in san francisco. and if we all work together [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jeff kazinski, i'm with the hamilton family center. i'm here to speak on behalf of the hespa budget request. when i started doing this work it took a family about a week to get into a temporary shelter with case management services. less than a week actually. today it takes over 7 months for families to get into a homeless shelter with case management services. back when i started doing this work there were less than 500 children in the san francisco unified school district that were classified as homeless or marginally housed. today there's over 2200 students in the san francisco unified school district that are homeless or marginally housed. we can do better than this,

supervisors. we should do better than this and the hespa proposal is definitely a road map for how we can improve the lives of homeless children in san francisco. i also want to speak briefly on behalf of the 1-1/2% cost of doing business increase. organizations like hamilton are expected and do provide us a critical social safety net services to the city of san francisco. however, we're expected to do so at a loss. you do not expect your private contractors to do business with the services at a loss, yet you expect us to take a loss every year. we don't have the funds we need in order to pay our staff the salaries that they can afford to live in the city of san francisco and i find that to be unconscionable. and as an executive director of the organization, embarrassing. so, we ask that you support this 1-1/2% increase so we can at least provide our staffs wages so they can afford to live in the city where they work so hard to support every day. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello, my name is jessica

bovar. i'm here on behalf of the california domestic workers alliance and also [speaker not understood]. and we're here to ask you to support campos' request for add-back funds. you know, we work with primarily latina women as well as the filipino and china community who do domestic housework. and recently i've been working with a lot of the women who are doing outreach to let people know about their workers rights and know about the historic goal bill of rights, workers rights. and in talking to folks out on the street, you know, we've encountered people who are making $5 an hour taking care of children and really think about how it is -- how difficult it is to live in the city so expensive at $5 an hour. you know, the domestic bill of

rights entitles people to overtime pay and we're really trying to get out there and let people know their rights. and, so, we really need your support. right now we have the opportunity of showing the rest of the state of california that we can bring worker and employers together to provide justice, a dignified workplace in the home, and that's the work that we're trying to do. so, we really need your support in supporting campos's request. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is loraine [speaker not understood]. i'm a registered nurse at san francisco general hospital on the night shift where i have worked since 1976. and i'm a member of seiu local tender 1. i have been on 17 hours of negotiating teams. this last monday the nurses ratified a new two-year contract by 91%. that is actually very

surprising because the negotiations this year were extremely difficult. we had to overcome a formidable wall of miss trust of management following years of failure to hire adequate numbers of nurses to take care of our acutely ill patients, years of short staffing, missed breaks, lunches, staying overtime to complete work without extra pay, years of violating state staffing laws and contractual staffing language. our staff and our patients have suffered years of budgeting tricks and deceptions. our negotiating team agreed to our new contract because we're assured that some 110 nurses would be hired expeditiously, but less than 48 hours after ratification, we heard that there were proposed cuts in the budget for rn positions. please, no more broken promises, no cuts in rn hires. we need these rns to care for our patients now because san francisco is our safety net hospital and we need to be

prepared to move into a new hospital. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john alex lowell. i come here as your servant and i appoint you to the pedestrian safety advisory committee which i serve as a senior member representing seniors and disabilities. also remember san francisco bicycle coalition and san francisco inter faith council, those groups have a conjoint program and principal to ensure people in this city are safe, particularly pedestrian safety. there are safe measures you have taken out before working with the state to have funding for programs on 19th avenue, sloat, and the particular grant funded program on castro street and the pending program on polk street. i encourage you to work with

state agencies and bond measures and grants to fund pedestrian safety programs and for you to critically examine how sunday meters can be brought back to fund the $10 million that nicole snyder, the executive director of walk san francisco is stated is needed for vision zero which are approved, we can use those fund to install effective pedestrian signals as a research program on pedestrian safety. another point i really encourage you to approve of is what mayor ed lee has asked for and request from our district attorney [speaker not understood] that there be a designated district attorney for prosecuting perpetraters of collisions against bicyclistses and pedestrians, as i was in a collision 15 -- 13 years ago. it took 26 months for it to go

to trial and the defendant went through five public defenders before he was found guilty by the jury after five minutes they deliberated. so, he was guilty from the get go, and [speaker not understood]. [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello, supervisors. thank you for your time. thank you very much. thank you for hearing me out. my name is moses thompson and i am a tenderloin resident on a fixed income. if i were to lose my place, i would be out on the street. so, what i'm saying is what needs to happen is -- what needs to be done is a change in the law waiting list time. so, and i'm not the only -- there are others going through the same thing as i am.

yeah, what needs to happen is our official providers need to make the necessary changes to help out. i, myself, and my co-tenants feel the wait -- the word wait is a dirty word and we need to do all we can to like eliminate it quickly. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alan manelo and i've been a citizen of san francisco almost 30-year. what i've loved about this city is the compassion we've had to embrace individuals who are often pushed away in all parts of america. and that's why i've always been proud of this city. do you see that compassion eroding now. we've given growth to the city by giving tax break to industries that are bathing in the billions now. you see that compassion eroding

and i ask you in your deliberations of the budget to make sure that this does not happen, that we continue to be a city that takes care of the people in need. i think you should consider the actions outlined in the hespa proposal. allocate funds for eviction prevention services to halt some of the unnecessary evictions by providing legal representation for those without the financial resources, those getting squeezed out onto the streets, families, we're talking about families, we're talking about individual seniors that need legal representation, allocate funds foreign v-8ing existing affordable housing units ~, housing fund for subsidized housing, low-income subdiesed -- subsidy programs enabling individuals and families to avoid homelessness, allocate funds for planned housing projects to reduce the waiting list for public housing which

currently is at a minimum of two years. and also as an artist, i ask you to do increase the funding for city arts and also to look into these allegations and these reports of inequalities in the city -- city's funding. thank you very much for listening. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. hi, my name is molly brown. i work at huckleberry youth program [speaker not understood]. 25 years ago when we were writing the children's legislation, we didn't have the term transitional youth because we didn't know enough about them at the time. we were worried about childhood support and after school programs. and we made a mistake. we left out a really important group, 18 to 24 year olds are still youth as we know now and they need a lot of support, and they struggle to get through life milestones and they need

our help. at huckleberry we see a lot of transition age youth and we get calls from parents. we don't talk about the parents a lot, but the parents are really trying to help their young, young adults and their families to get jobs, to finish high school, to get into college, and to make it successfully through these transitions. i thought i'd give you a couple of examples of calls we received recently. we had a call from a mother of an 18 year old male [speaker not understood]. we had a mother of a 19 year old female whose boyfriend had been pimping her and the daughter was successfully apart from the boyfriend but needed mental health. we had a teen parent walk into our clinic and needed child care and wanted to get back into city coverage and needed to figure out how to make that all happen. these are all young people who really want to make it work. they want to successfully

transition to adulthood but they need additional services so we're asking you to help bridge that funding from the -- what will be the new children's fund and provide some funding for these next two years to help provide these services. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tess davis, i work at the hospitality house. when i think of a city i'd like to live in, a city that i'd be proud to live n a truly functional city, i think of a city where people are housed. where no one is forced to sleep on the streets because they have no other options or because their name is lost somewhere on an eight year wait list for housing. one would hope a city is progressive and [speaker not understood] san francisco would prioritize spending for housing, especially with an extreme housing prices where rents are rising dramatically and minimum wage hasn't kept pace, creating a huge and constantly growing gap between the rich and everyone else.

it is up to san francisco leaders to make sure we stop this [speaker not understood] dynamic. i applaud mayor lee's goal of 30,000 new and rehactionv tateved homes by 2020, not 100, 10,000 of those being affordable. however, there are 3,000 homeless families and individuals now and that number is growing, especially with all the city's ellis act evictions and whatnot. we need immediate specific and more strategic strategies, more efforts. [speaker not understood] activists and community members have endorsed an excellent action for solid first step in addressing the homeless crisis. we need to fund the homeless [speaker not understood] proposal. we need to halt preventable evictions and ensure tenants have equal access to counsel. we need to rapidly rehouse people through subsidies and nonprofit housing. we need to shorten our grotesquely long wait list and rehabilitate the housing authority's 200 vacant housing

units. and we need to eliminate waiting lists for shelters. we have a lot we need to do. so, we need to continue the effort towards housing and homeless -- housing and homeless that the mayor has already pro supposed but we also need to make sure we allocate an additional $11 million toward reducing unnecessary evictions, and making housing truly affordable for low-income family. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is julia [speaker not understood]. i'm a san francisco native and i recently went to visit a high school, galileo that i went to, a teacher extremely instrumental in my life [speaker not understood] and staying in school. i found out that she is probably in her last year because her housing -- she's being displaced. there is profit to be made.

she live in the northern marina itch are modctionv hill area and she's being pushed out. it is deeply satening that obviously future generations aren't going to get the resource. i'm sure to tell you this is not the only case of this. this is happening all over san francisco by the masses. and that's why i'm here today because i'm worried that my supervisors, you wonderful people, are losing focus of your priorities. we are a city with one of the highest levels of income inequality, the least affordable housing market as well as the fastest growing gap between the rich and the poor. and we really do need to throw our support behind those who are most at risk. we need to throw our support behind the people who need affordable housing in san francisco and we need to make sure that affordable housing is truly affordable to all san franciscans. for starter, we need a strong and effective eviction defense network. i know the mayor proposed a million dollars toward preventable evictions. that is not enough. investment [speaker not

understood] about $1 million would fund the necessary resources to halt preventable evictions as you well know, i know you know about the hespa proposal. but we do need to make sure we're taking the time to think about this $58 million that we have which is more than what was projected. so, we do have it there, 11 million of that could help save thousands of people from homelessness. i do want to take the time to remind you although this new monday is exciting, if we don't spend it wisely we're selling to the largest bidder [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon, my name is joe wilson [speaker not understood] i want to add my voice to the chorus of folks demanding budget justice in this year's budget. i acknowledge the hard work and the hard choiceses that this committee is going to have to make ~. and although i'm sympathetic, i don't apologize for the fact that you have to make some hard

choices. two concrete suggestions. one, i think you're going to have to do not only the right thing but the smart thing in rehabbing vacant authority housing units. it is obscene in the extreme we have vacant units while entire homeless families are sleeping in the street. we have previous hearings about strategic investments and homeless services. on the rose report identified a less than 1% investment in education and workforce development for the homeless and low-income population. the city currently allocates one of its general fund dollars to that. ladies and gentlemen, you've got to move that number up, simple as that. and also let me acknowledge the

speakers here in the room and elsewhere. far too often homeless families, working families, low-wage workers, nonprofit workers, seniors, disabled, artists are called into submission of bullied into compliance by having to ask for thing they should not have to ask for. so, we are demanding budget justice. we are demanding housing for all now. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is collene rebecca and i work at saint anthony foundation, an organization that doesn't receive city funding but that stands in solidarity with budget justice and asks because we all are invested in making sure that san francisco is a place that works for everybody regardless of income level, regardless of

where you sleep at night. there are two thing that i want to highlight in terms of asking you for support. one is the food security task force's ask. i like to use the word hunger instead of the term food security because i think that it's really important to emphasize the fact that there are people in our city who feel the physical pains of hunger every day. and this isn't something that we can't figure out how to handle or deal with. we have done some great research and have a plan that will work if we start with the 11 -- the $10 million in funding. we can start at the first day of the fiscal year in making sure that there are lots of people in this city that are going through the physical pain of hunger. we also know that we can start

today in working to help moms like flor and tina to be able to thrive and survive in this city with safe, affordable housing. we don't have to wait ten years. we can start now with subsidies and with preventing evictions and preventing homelessness. let's do it. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm a native of san francisco. i come before you today to ask that -- to eliminate the [speaker not understood] public housing. as you know, the housing authority [speaker not understood] for decades, you know. and me myself, i've been to apply here in san francisco and they tell me the housing is closing. so, we now have to be pushed

out to go somewhere else to apply. so, i'm here today to ask that we get this going and get the housing authorities open and running for the homeless families, the mothers and children. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm [speaker not understood] of the mission neighborhood resource center. i'm here standing strong with the hespa membership and justice coalition for keeping folk housed, [speaker not understood] raising the minimum wage that should have been done this year, not 15 years from now. i'm here to ask for your support for a new initiative supported by supervisor david campos. [speaker not understood] in the city provided by homeless and for homeless individuals in the city through the 16th mission

corridor. here are the lovely ambassadors behind me. we're asking you to support this initiative because the 16th and mission corridor, which is really impacted not by the gentrification, police harassment and displacement. we are in dire need of [speaker not understood], develop a safer, more inclusive 16th street mission community. displacement and enforcement are not going to end homelessness or the trauma of our communities. access to jobs, income, leadership development, self-esteem raising and peer advocacy [speaker not understood] will. the time is now. please support the initiative of every peer. [speaker not understood]. folk need the jobs now so we can stay in the city and we actually can have better intervention than [speaker not understood]. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.