being denied services thanks. >> hi, i'm nicholas a shelter client collaborate i'd like to provide a snapshot i support the supplemental one hundred percent important the difficulty single shelter i'm going to speak will the family she recall right now one hundred and 40 families waiting for 4 temporary shelter stay in january alone 84 new families joined the waiting list in this time it should be noted since 2014here were one hundred and 79 a year ago a difference of thirty family we have 2 thousand family children they count not only the children under 5 and the father it's important to note this because in the family shelter system

about 70 spaces for long term rooms in the emergency shelter another space for like maybe i mean there's 2 hundred and 80 beds so theirs 2 hundred and 80 beds in the system what my point is the shelters are full and obviously a long list the emergency shelters first friendship an shelter that afternoons 12 families and hampton has their own emergency those are reversed by calling, however some families have to show up at 10:00 p.m. we're talking the health and hygiene it doesn't contain showers so the children

have to come at 3 and in the morning it could, at five or six clock they have to go downtown to selma to get a shower for the children so this is why i support of the supplemental there's a lot of families utilizing the shelter and there needs a way for the kids to say clean without families running arena from place to place thank you. >> hi good afternoon jennifer director on the coalition of homelessness i want to thank you for having the hearing and the time i want to appointee time of homelessness poor people are housed and homeless there's no anything's else like the health problems or other things as people are homeless their mental health derates and they develop

disorders 2/3rd's of the population identified as disabled this shot up at every counted people can have their liquify expectancy cut by 20 years it's atsz an independent health factor from hiv and tb a portion for beds they rely on settlers to survive the framework of our homeless policy in san francisco to focus on housing and not shelter we agree with one hundred percent but to insure our shelters are a launching pad out of homeless we have the shelters and decrease in the level of health and our emergency service is not set up

we've made the gains through homeless people we have not there yet we need to fight formal the solutions we've compiled a number of recommendations both short-term and long-term around the supplemental that needs to happy immediately including shoring up the first friendship shelter to make sure our children have a safe plays to sleep that has a shower and number of other items before you thank you. >> so colleagues i'll say also my hope was those would be bregsz the department heads and we give the lady another minute to continue the presentation we'll take that without objection. thank you. >> so one of the issues around

first friendship that was laid out families are trying to get there at 3 o'clock to get a bed the other night we were there and the staff were very upset and the family was upset his son manual wanted to speak but they had to leave to pick up their son he wet his bed and had no change of clothes in place to shower and his father forced him to go to school with soiled clothing there was no change of clothes and there was no shower and this is what we're doing to our families we have a situation their traveling really long distances electro try to get access to a shower those are mats on a floor so parents want to try to keep their kids clean

they make a choosing choice of getting to school or showering at the end children are not able to go to parks we've had teams talk about h how they had to quit their volley ball teams the whole family has to be under at check in time there are several stages to get emergency sheltered we have a simple change we want to have a number of families that can call at a certain time and reserve a bed put them out at the floor first friendship puts mats on the floor. >> supervisor kim. >> actually, i forgot to ask you this meeting the supplemental request i didn't

see anything in the esquire request that included first support for first friendship where you talked about the solution to the showers. >> we estimated that had been $040,000 to have a call in line probably less than that but almost $40,000 and the shower 2 hundred and 40 thourz thousands there's additional needs at first friendship to look at next year's budget but those are the emergency needs like the first stage to get it supplemented in the supplemental. >> number 4. >> uh-huh in the narrative. >> no, no in the other packet the narrative. >> so two supplemental requests. >> one supplemental where request with 4 items the additional items for first

friendship with showers and call in line and the second the shoring up the shelters at the communities at hampton and st. vincent and pilot project for restorative practices in our shelter and the fourth is subsidies question quickly move people into housing out of homelessness with nonprofit housing units they volunteered to turnover to the homeless. >> i only have this one. >> okay. >> i might have misplaced it. >> we'll get you another one so there's a packet that has the slide shows that lisa maria showed and other than the packet is a simple narrative those are the short term solutions and long-term some of the stuff we need to expand our respite

medical respite in our shelters and, secondly supervisor kim thank you for working so hard on the issue and done stairwell work the idea around the affordable health care act as leverage to get private hospitals to fund our inside shelters which i think is a really amazing idea that the department of public housing brought forward and the ongoing low was this and low funding that needs to be addressed and the last two items we need to, of course boost up our investment in housing i want to briefing say 40 percent of our housing if you combine development and the mayor's office of housing has begun towards homeless people and the pipeline for the next 5 years only 20 percent towards homeless

people we need to put subsidies and the housing has paid for it and homeless households will be able to move in and invest in prevention to prevent 0 people from being homeless thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you thank you just a quick question for you going back to the issue of the kids missing school so how - if you're requesting a space your family everyone has to be present. >> yeah. so the process for the families is that 11:00 a.m. they call into hampton emergency center and they have a small number of beds that fill quickly for larger families it's enforceable to get in you know it's a small 21 beds at least so those are unusual full so at 3 o'clock first friendship opens

up in the western edition and first friendship fills up to a handful of families are turned away from shelters that opens up at 3 first come, first serve once they fill up at first friendship later on in the evening that families wait and get transportations to the prominent shelter that has women and other families get to stay. >> if. >> a family shows up like my kids at school that won't be sufficient. >> not whole family needs to be present in order to check in and yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> i have to say i'm permitted with that situation donate not you know a component of our grant system they could change

that rule today there's nothing we have to change that they shouldn't require the family to come there at 3 o'clock and stay there all day that's inhumane i hope that changes without us having to take an action at this level. >> who decides whether or not that changes i mean ms. crumb if you can. >> you sure i'm speak to that. >> so there's history to that rule because our emergency shelters fill up really fast when we expand we were initially at vessel and a m e church and moved to first friendship because there was a rise in the number of homes families sooeblg shuttles the history that province is the organization

that manages first friendship and the providence the history families will come in they would leave and then not come back which means that proupdz was holding a shelter bed for 2, 3, 4, 5 individuals in the house and wouldn't come back and they'd turn someone away so the discussion they had with us was making that a rule that all family members must come at the same time in order to secure a room - a space so this conversation once again came up because we got a letter from the coalition and since december we've had meetings are the other shelters providers to talk about a call in for

providence so that's not something we're not addressing it takes time you know to implement a rule bring it to the community so they know what at changes are going to be. >> i appreciate that but having as a form general counselor of the skfbt the law requires the kids below a certain age has to be in school 80 so i think that it didn't make sense for us to have a situation that essentially is forcing the family to break the law. >> okay. he hear what you're saying (clapping.) so i appreciate the concerns i think if there's a way that we can address that so that we the address the concern that families so people not showing

up but i think that i don't know i mean it appears the cool department of education and know that the san francisco human services agency is requiring families to take their kids out of system they could be krieftd. >> we're not requiring the families take the kids out of school adversity not written or a shelter provider has told a family you have to take the kids out. >> but if the agency is giving a family the choose of being on the street or taking the kids out of school it's the same i think in terms of liability i think this is something we need to do not only because hitting that's the right thing to do telling you but there are legal

concerns. >> point well-taken i'll address that with the provider. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i think we have members of the public to pick up their kids and members of the public that are disabled if we can let them come up and after kathy i'll call up more speakers. >> hi my name is julia formally homeless i work at the coalition of homeless everyday i have families come in i have individuals coming in asking for housing and asking for the housing list that barrel changes when i was homeless every month things were coming online to apply for hoping you could be housed we don't have it we need to fix that the last proposal we're turning over properties i know we have the money the city

definite has the money for 89 units to getting up get them you houses and living in a shelter without a shower for my kids for people working 15 hours days and not showering a lot of germs and sickness thank you. >> hello my name is katherine walter i'm a resident currently resident of a newly elected community residence association in the south of market 20 years ago i worked full-time 5 years ago i was homeless but 20 years i was considered homeless i'm a single parent we had kids under the age of 18 by

school standards we were homeless we were injured a lot 5 years ago i become homeless on the streets my child was placed in childcare our family health deteriorated then i went through and got to the point i was with the hot team and through the hot team at the clinic i was able to have case management, money management therapy, whatever my needs were a whole person approach today is one part let's focus on one health topic or housing nobody works together we need to work together at a team organizations need to work together as a team in order to address the whole issue because if i didn't have the support of my team and not the support of the planning and all of those i wouldn't be here today

within 2 1/2 years i've got my own place and heads of the community organization that is out there trying to make a difference we need to work together as a keep e team i suffer impression and chronic sleep devase and chronic asthma without having this a lot of the shelters are not an ideal place to move forward too many people go through the cycle you've got to have the team effort with the agencies and the departments thank you. >> thank you i'm going to call. >> couple of other speaker cards 5 more names.

>> good afternoon. i'm cynthia parker with the shelter program manager at hospitality house hospitality house wants to say that we support the emergency shelters supplemental and we also need to have the restorative practices program funded last week, we used the restorative practices circle during one of our hearing with will daily and i can tell you that was a way of giving or calling it dignity because he had been d o s and not only throwing him out of the shelter but providing a way for the residents to talk about how they've been effected by even though harm that they felt as a result of the incidents this circle provided a way for the

residents to understand not only the clients narrative but their own narrative and move towards reconciliation and healing i mean, i'll tell you about currently we have athletic discussions about feelings authentic feelings that are deep-rooted there was a sense of resilientcy we asked them they were effected and it was a non-hierarchal way of relating it themselves the beginning of a dialog an intermittentlytion of respect and contraction and a way of being with others i'm asking you to fund the program we really need this

program to foster reconciliation and healing thank you. >> thank you hi, i'm jen even though johnson with the t gi that's transgender project i wanted to talk about working with the transgender community that has been assessing it and for some reason a large number of transgender people that are being disregard if the next door shelters we've received a lot of reports of just mistreatment of turned around people that are currently housed i'm part of the tax california coalition i wanted to bring your attention you know based on the murders had that are happening through california in the transgender community i'm concerned about the transgender people out on the street that's a vulnerable population of people that and i

went to a hearing with a person that was next door shelter and it concerned me pause the fact their energy and personality everything about them i don't see how that client felt they were outnumbered and no other transgender person there no transgender there to not will mention the trauma that transferred - they face mostly people in the shelter it is a you get permission to has the transgender people if they see the staff is mistreating us that's the way we are treat based on the murders of transgender people how do we come up with equal assess and

transportation for transgender keep in mind a lot of the people are transitioning as well and their he transitioning needs skoip for women that are transitioning not being met i want to encourage you guys to you come up with a coalition to oversee that in san francisco as turned around people we need to feel safe and we want the people to be cared for and nurtured. >> well, i want i to see this book call manger it's about march 65 they're to go on the bridge a that's when we got the voters right in 65 voter rights was approved in alabama but also

in 68 housing rights was also approved by johnson when the president be on the bridge march third we want is to stand up with marching of 50 years anniversary of the voting right bus i do not like the word homeless and our climb will be steep we may not get there in one year or one term but america i've never been more hopeful that i am together we'll get there i promise you, we as a people will get there. >> so president obama we want you to encourage him he said at the meeting he will work with the board of supervisors and the mayors to do better for our country that was reagan in 66

that closed napa valley he cut housing 80 percent we're suffering from what a reagan did and we in san francisco don't stand up and firefighting fight for the housing rights there's no such word as homeless the constitution of the united states when you come to america it's not a word it has become a word since 19987 in san francisco that's sro's when we have fires 50s were considered homeless we're told that everyday your homeless if you're sro we have a definition we want to be in the program and reform this restoration and shelter and sro's because san francisco will take care of families and single people we'll build our way if

you don't do that we'll have these problems thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors will dale u dial i'm a shelter advocate we represent the shelters and outside arc traditions we work with shelters to resolve the client matters i want to talk about restorative justice i'm a crusty old guy i am believeer i've facilitated a couple of circles that works people are cooperative and more likely to make positive change when those in authority do things with them as opposed to for them the ministry in ending

they believe believe in the long term is reduced their cost and recidivism is down 85 to 90 percent of victims feel this is a good process it reduces the pst for victims and a witness to incidents i assert restorative justice will decrease the costs for emergency justice if you hold people account recalling and offenders or where their acts they learn from their action how directly they've effected not only the victims bull the entire community i urge you to support that i got to tell you larkin was doing this and i looked for 36 months the last 3 months their denial of service overall

and their immediate services are cut in half this 2015 the city of san francisco one the wealthiest cities on the face of the planet it is your legacy and our colleagues legacy what you do thank you very much. >> sir you mentioned about restorative practices on larkin street what other besides larkin street are there other models over and over gastric. >> sfusd has restorative practices and larkin those are the two i'm familiar with in the city. >> thank you. >> actually, i'm from larkin street and another one is oakland unified school district and those are locally we're for

or against the way we should make go san francisco a restorative city. >> thank you right on. >> so without the known years - i have a couple of things to share first thing i hear over and over human services talking about they want to create a new rules what it means to create more rules we want to make more rules more rules to a single homelessness woman and lgbtq in the shelters no, we have to change those behaviors we need to do something different we have a have creativity with the voices of the people in the shelters to come together to tell us how