. i live in chinatown sro building and there are three people in my family. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my son and husband live in this unit. (change of captioners).

>> so it's pretty bad for a kid to grow up. [translator] >> we are very supportive of the five-year plan that is proposed. [translator] >> we hope the city would pass this proposal.

translator: we need more housing for low-income people. translator: so that our families will have decent housing, our kids will have a good place for them to live and study. so that homeless families homeless people would have housing. translator: for a long time our hope is to have a good housing for our children.

[beep] translator: i urge everyone to help us fulfill our dream to have kids better housing for our families. thank you. >> thank you very much for coming to speak and thank you mrs. chu for translating. >> i have a speaker card too. >> i hope to tell people there is hope for the homelessness in our city. recently as our families moved into an apartment, that is a concerted effort -- of hsa, housing developers and also the mayor's office of housing. we think things can happen. and make such a difference for

families that can move into decent housing. it's really a big deal. however, those opportunities are very few. i hope that there is a way for us to do it and san francisco does know how to make that happen. right before us the five-year plan is things that are possible they are things that the city all of us can work on to make it happen. so thank you for the hearing, thank you for making this topic for us to look at discuss, make real thank you. >> thank you mrs. chu, i know you have been in this position for 24 years now at ccdc, and great to hear you say that we can end this issue, there is hope. call the number of speaker cards, please feel free to come

up. if not, i will call other speaker calls i haven't called yet. i have elizabeth arker, and jenny frigenbot. >> a couple from the previous batch. >> i did and no one came up. if you stand, so i have a sense. [speaking spanish] translator: good afternoon, i am bess vanquez i have two

children one is 14 years old. [speaking spanish] translator: i really appreciate that my children are really good. i like to work i am a hard-working person, nevertheless i do not have a house and i need a house. [speaking spanish] translator: i am originally from honduras however the situation in honduras is difficult because of the crime, i am here to work and hope for a better future for my children and i. [speaking spanish]

translator: thanks in advance for your help i encourage you to keep supporting the initiatives for housing, the future of our city is the children, and that's the way we will stand up. gracias. >> gracias. >> good afternoon, i am raul fernandez, i am here with bay family united collaborative. i promise to be brief, i thank you for your time. as we know san francisco is facing an unprecedented housing crisis, some believe that between 7,000 and 10,000 homeless individual probably 3,000 homeless children enrolled

in san francisco unified school district. as we know that the average range of $3,000 and the average income is 1500. and [inaudible] for homeless families, i don't need to elaborate because probably of you know rooms 6 x 6, and rooms 10 x 10 and if you stretch your arms you touch each wall and they have lead and asbestos and you name it, and they go for as high as 1100 or 1200. it's difficult for homeless families to live under these circumstances. in the collaborative starting in 2001, and since we been able to

transition 40 families into supportive housing. 18 of them came in the broadway sampson apartments that my supervisor, mrs. chiu was talking about recently. and these families with the subsidies and the solution that we propose, and homeless and chinatown cdc to transition these familys to housing, i think is realistic. san francisco is [inaudible] in united states, and only 2% of the budget is dedicated to homelessness. so i appreciate your support of this initiative. >> thank you. >> hi i am elizabeth anchor the program director at compass point, we holder of wait list i have been there eight years and we have seen the numbers going

up they went from 77 in 2008 all the way to 287. and during that time there is two times that we have seen the wait-list numbers go down in 2011 and the homeless authority came through. and the next time was in the last year and a half and we have had 125 chronically homeless families and taken them out of the system as a result the number has gone down significantly, and 137 families are waiting for shelter. those permits for housing units are now full. and we don't have any supportive housing units in the pipeline, and we are looking at that resource to slow down and looking to those wait list

numbers to go back to eight or nine or 10 months to wait for shelter. if we don't aggressively look for concrete solutions for homeless we will see those numbers go back up we are a community and knows what works. and we as a community have been working on this road map to end family homelessness it's a concrete solution and i urge you to support it. >> thank you, mrs. acre. >> hi jennifer fredomboch manager of the agency of homelessness, and i am a mother of two. and we have a place where they share during the day and talk about the night, and it's a place where they relax and play

and act silly and let it all out. or break down and lose it and able to pull it back together. without that home it's no framework and it's a disaster for the kids. at the end of the school year last year 200 children without homes. where are the alarm bells, every time we have a family that has lost their housing, the alarm bell should go off. we are doing permanent damage to these kids. and we are sitting by idly and 7% for families with kids i have been doing this job for 20 years and nothing pisses me off more, our sheer neglect and we are creating the situation and forcing children to go through this. we will put out a road map in the next couple of week, and we are sounding. all of us here i want you to

stand by my side and sound those alarm bells with us sound them loud. we are looking forward over the next years and looking down the pipeline, we have housing, and not one unit not one unit for homeless households. that's what we are talking about. that's what elizabeth was referring to. this is a disaster. we have sky rocketing rents, and eviction crisis and low wages that are stagnant. we have a crisis here but we can solve it and know how to do it. stand by my side and ring those alarm bells, thank you. >> thank you. >> hi supervisors, i am miguel carla, you pretty much know me. with my co-worker jennifer

talking about. and it's really kind of interesting, and serious problem we have in the city. we are talking about from 2005 to 2015 and in 2005 we have 834 children homelessness, and only then we keep saying homelessness because it's busy words. we are not talking about homelessness [inaudible]. because the city doesn't see, mo how we want to tell the city to create and end the homelessness in san francisco, please supervisors, put in more effort and attention to this issue, because we need more housing for homeless families and children. thank you very much and have a great evening. >> thank you, any other members of the public would like to speak. >> hi i am christen, i am

apologize for not submitting a card. >> you don't need to submit a card. >> i have provided services to a homeless family and i want to point out impact on kids in particular. i worked with families who were homeless on the streets or ended up with a nine-month wait to get in shelter. got in shelter. and four of those families ended up in permanent housing at mercy housing at 84th street. since i have work with the families for over a year, and i have been in discussion with the teachers and how this has affected their behavior. and able to do well in school. to focus. they show up on time. they come to school ready, prepared, fed, awake. so the impact is really, really

significant of housing. even in comparison to the shelter, that is oftentimes stressful and temporary environment. i want to add that the impact on kids is significant and it shows and a lot of providers see that. thank you. >> thank you. >> buenos dis on -- dios, and good morning and grits, yesterday was earth day and we know that a million people were killed in rumania, and that's what you call homeless. it was ronald reagan in 1986

that let out the napa valley people and went to the government and started this word what we call homeless. you know what? no one was born homeless. homeless is a state that our government and people want to incarnate as something as terror. today i heard you talk about sexual assault. i heard you talk about people been frightened. you know the young kids and violence and assaults and sexual things that happen in school that happen in sro's, and no one really cares about. you don't want them to go from a child, but you let people stay in sro's in this city. our police department it has its 1% what it does to you. the sheriff department and the fire department. our city this leadership is under question. in the last 10 years i have called the police over 100

times, you can go online. 415-sfw @ gmail.com, and the password is 1961 2015 it will show you since 2005 i have police come to sro, and you all don't care nothing about people in this city. and read this article about feelin he said this is a white california. so get it. i think -- >> thank you, mr. edmon. >> it's houseless, thank you. >> thank you for being here. okay. if you would like to speak with public comment and please stand up so i know how many more speakers before you gavel down. >> i am bernis and a manager at the resource center and i work mostly with the latino population. and i want to put it out there

it's really hard to find resources. and especially housing, because most don't qualify because they don't have a social security or they cannot find work and not able to pay rent. and the kids are suffering as well they are born here and their parents are not. i want to put it out there that also take into consideration the undocumented ones, and thanks. >> thank you very much. seeing no further comment i will close public comment at this time. [gavel] i want to thank all the members of the public that came and stayed. i know that we had nine cards that probably had to leave that we did not hear from. i want to apologize that we were not able to hear from you. and the testimony was powerful. i give committee members the time to speak or ask questions. i heard one question a lot of folks had talked about the

five-year plan and i don't think that everyone is familiar with that five-year plan. i was going to bring up two for those questions, any members of the committee that want to speak. there was a question about what is the five-year plan that members of the public eluded to support for. >> we are in the process of working on and a lot of community members and families are working on this. it's a five-year road map of how to end homelessness in san francisco, it would cost $11 million for five years. and it would build on successes we have and put several hundred operating subsidies into affordable housing projects already being built. and expand the access to private market subsidies.

and taken altogether we have been able to identify about 2300 exits out of homelessness altogether, including the efforts that the city is currently funding that you have been hearing about today. >> thank you, that is very helpful. >> i would add to that it's building on, when we spoke about the wait list dropping and the numbers in school dropping it's building on the successes we already have. and the past year is proof that the five-year plan actually will work. as liz said if we pull back the numbers will go back up again. >> right; right. you know i want to -- i want to thank, because i hear a lot from our providers, a lot in the district that i represent, which is awesome. i hear so much from hospitality and u-f, and compass point, and seeing an unprecedented number of families in the drop-in centers and on the shelter list.

i am curious and for a lot of folks in san francisco, what are the primary drivers you are seeing behind this? >> why the increase happened? >> uh-huh. >> if you look at homeless single adults for example, and the single adult homeless population in the city we had good results and significantly decreasing that population by 25%. and other cities are seeing increase, san francisco has done an amazing job to hold the numbers steady or continuing to decline. however the same level of investment has not been made in permanent housing in the city. 40% or more of the affordable housing built, in the past 10 years it was for homeless single adults. whereas the number of units for homeless families is 7% of that

amount. so that's a huge driver is just the lack of investment in affordable housing during that period of time. as well as the recession had a huge impact on family's earning capacity i believe i heard in the past few years the lowest income levels of people were 60% and below have lost in the past two years, $1100 of their buying power. and folks at the upper end had tremendous increases in their buying power. and all of these things have caused this dramatic increase. >> all right, and the other piece is eviction there is a large chunk of homeless families that become homeless because of eviction. depending on the data source 35-40%, and many families are evicted and stay with families

and friends and not able to last. and because of the sky rocketing rents and the living arrangements and to find housing. for example when a domestic violence incident occurs, they are disappearing. families are stuck in a way they haven't been in the past. >> that is helpful, what is disheartening to me one of our most successful programs is rental subsidy program. that many of you advocated at the board of supervisors and funded here in the city. and we find that rental subsidy that prevents families from being homeless, and keep them in place, isn't enough anymore to keep up with the market rent. and it's getting more expensive for the city to continue to house our families that are threat of becoming homeless or vulnerable to that. i just want to thank everyone

for coming today to speak. this is a really really important issue. it's an issue that really brings together both the city and the school district. and having served on both bodies, i just know that sometimes we work in silos, even though we are working with the same kids or families. and it's great to see that we finally have funding to bring our service providers directly into our schools. and to provide additional support for our teachers and principals, and jeff your story is touching that the social worker that cried, because they wanted to support the children in the schools and didn't have the resources. and the fact that that connection is happening, really matters. but having a supply of housing units and being able to fund that is a key piece of ending homelessness. i appreciate the effort. not just to bring the stories up but to bring concrete solutions

we can fund to make this a reality. none of us want to see more youth and families on the street. and they are often the invisible face of homelessness. why single adults get so much attention, that's who is seen on the streets and viewed as homeless. and we often forget to take care of the folks more invisible that are couch surfing and not making that connection. i don't know if anyone wants to make closing comments before closing this item. wow -- so yes, i realize we have gone long. i am going to make a motion to file or motion to continue? okay. we will make a motion to continue this we can do that without opposition. seeing no further items, mr. clerk.

>> no more items. >> meeting is now adjourned.

sf. >> good evening, everybody tutor coming i'm patrick the

chief director of earthquake for the city of san francisco this is an information been the private school ownerships we'll be talking about what is required and walk you through some of the steps we'll have time to do q and a there's a microphone we'll be happy to talk about any issuance restrooms with right around the corner we have coffee and cookies not back feel free to help yours which of you sought report that was the product of almost 3 years of work that was put into looking at our cities private schools we've known nor a long-term the state has treated public and private schools different this is a no one at acquisition they've been regulated differently in the past private schools are

essential inform san francisco one in 3 or 24 thousand kids are educated in san francisco's private schools we know that not only is this an important part of the children's safety but we kno