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, more than 500 families living in sro hotels. this is a big number we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of children homelessness. it's time for the city and mayor and officials to put in more effort. put in more money for better housing for all the homeless families. we do outreach in the shelters and pretty much two or three hours a week talking to families. to be a part of the plan and to be a part of the meetings to decide 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.

. >> it seems like everyone in san francisco is talking about housing san francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone million dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the

$207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher it's more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in san francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an all-time 0 hive of

6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, it's grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the city's history and it's not only san francisco it is greek the bay area has $2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403.9 million people unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing that's been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that

i 9 percent if we don't pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents san francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout san francisco those plans developed by years of community planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and non-built affordability housing that majority of housing in san francisco as well as throughout the country market rate houses

built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1/3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is $70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than $7,150 to be affordable san francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the inclusive program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain

blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you can't afford a million will home you're not alone in response san francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now e-mails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the san francisco ethics commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels we're working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. chair protect the

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