we're grateful for everyone san francisco of you take the day off work to do something for the neighbors experience homelessness that is much more than people sleeping on the street but people don't live the life they want i'm excited to introduce mayor ed lee if a coffee shop walking down a street and him standing there for minutes shaking that person's hands and that's the type of leadership san francisco needs so welcome as we always do our wonderful mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you. >> good morning, everyone. >> morning. >> all right. how do you like being in san

francisco >> yeah. >> this is a great place love it a lot of people love this place and come to the city things happen to them and we find them many of them on our streets we need to help them our project homeless connect is a huge examination thank you to kera but most important we know that our city can't help our homeless by government we can do a lot before i fulfill i'll say this we can never do better job without the volunteers like all of you thank you for coming out today and helping out our homeless (clapping.) get all the services they need i understand the hotel council is in the room thank you hotel

council i understand the grassroots gay foundation is here thank you . >> (clapping.) >> so many other companies and corporations and employees and residents and folks that time to help out you've got the big heart you're city is famous for the big heart tony bennett says you're reflective of that today is providing another touch another welcome hair cut, some services, maybe some teeth get fixed and counseling maybe direct help and benefits keeping people occupy the streets maybe a conversation as was designed by the original people that kicked off when i was working for gavin newsom he they told me about his project homeless connection now get to work with

sam dodge couldn't get beven off his bed he's rest the dream we'll have an opportunity to just tough people to maybe talk about where they came from and how we can help them going forward now we've got project homeless every day outreach going on this is incredible and 24 services but we have more than that toughest people for a moment who want to do and i know you on the ultimate answer is we should house people on a sustainable basis and supply the support ms. sonata isn't that the way to treat our homeless population. >> yeah. (clapping.) not from corner to corner or encampment to encampment no objection we constructed this

navigation center at mission that gave us a view for 200 and 55 people who have come from the navigation center in the last 9 months all either permanently housed with support services 200 and 55 or 16 percent of them said i want to go home can you help me we connected up with families and that's the home what in the world bound program the human tough (clapping.) and it is still not enough too many of offering our brothers and sisters on the streets we can do more that's why i mound with the support of people working on this issue including project homeless and connect inform so many years we have to do more for more people we're

xhoementd into a department to end homeless how about that name, huh? (clapping.) and i'm not such a politician that i'm going to announce we're ending homelessness that is not true but i'll tell you this was real eejs to end homelessness for 8 thousand people forever before my term is out with you're help that's doable that can be done with that department i get to two we organize with project homelessness correct i'll have 20 to thirty people in the department who's number one focus every single day is going to be who can i help come off the street into permanent homes

we get do did that every single day with the department who's mission and function and budget is to end homelessness for some individual some woman with children or families a veteran that help out everyday to help the reason you're here we'll continue this romantic volunteerism to help people to make sure they know we have compassion but it will take deeper compassion to make sure we have the housing and the support of services to have in permanently off the streets be forever this is a commitment i'm proud to have a second term and a strong city economy to make sure we have the resources we need that and little volunteers most importantly we will always welcome our compassion to help people who are less fortunate

they're like us you know sometimes, we might be one or two rent payments away from having a cat introduce event everybody about feel that we know that homeless is not about people on the streets for years some people have things happen to them with we've got to help them this is what san francisco is thank you for being here and project connect and consult to be part of the homelessness connect and we'll make sure you're part of the city that does it right thank you for being here today (clapping.) how do i top that i love that 8 thousand you know for a long time we're on 25 van ness 1 to

hundred people we talk about what we can do but one thing we can't do our office is small we can't serve as many 0 people but other partners that are helping we would like to do is really create a hub where anyone who is experiencing homelessness can council at risk of being homeless talk to one of our lawyers we have a robust program come into the office any day and talk to a lawyer we can get those things for you, you doesn't have to wait i hope next year in the door front and we'll do more volunteers to come here he everyday you volunteers every single day at on this project

homeless connect it is amazing people give you give up their time we're a community with connections and say you matter by showing you we want you to have every every opportunity we want to give you in san francisco san francisco are winners and make sure that everyone has that opportunity so thank you (clapping.) we wouldn't be able to do those events without having sponsors each the events cost a good amount of 340e7b we have a new sponsor this december it is a really exciting sponsor we were able to have a wonderful party i can tell you they party hard so today, i want to welcome richard from the grassroots day rights

foundation they are are doing amazing work in pointing out lgbt issues 20 percent of the people experiencing homeless are lgbt they walk down the street and see the youth kicked out of their homes they're excited to partner on each section we understand that homelessness is a not one-size-fits-all problem more one-size-fits-all solution so it takes looking at each individual for a solution we thank you for helping us to have the funding to help with the lgbt this year thank you. >> (clapping). >> good morning, everyone i can't think of a finer way to start the day then in the company of people that have decided to take time out of they're precious life to help to heal the dick between people

living on the street and the rest of society it's no surprise the logo is to help nothing bridges that divide more effectively than the human tough you're here to provide that the grassroots gay rights foundation is committed to changing lives by supporting organizations through project connect that help happy and healthy community when necessary approached us for a grant we were struck by the community based service model with only 13 staff members they reach 5 thousand 4 hundred people and the only way they're able to do that is because people like yourselves are willing to take the time they trusted the miss

and are here to do you're part to start to end homelessness in san francisco and, secondly, they presented us with a compelling model when we learned for the first time that nearly thirty percent of the homeless in san francisco are in the lgbtq community we are very proud to be sponsoring a two year project with them to help reach that community i know that some of you in the audience have been homeless and others more fortunate but all of us know the jest it is your of reaching out particular at that time of the year can begin to change the dynamic of hopelessness thank you for taking that step some of us wish to be remembered

for our witness, some of us for our accomplishments but how much more fulfilling to be remembered inform you're kindness we at project homeless connect and the grassroots gay foundation applaud you for yours thank you >> (clapping.) >> one of our other great sponsors is the hotel council i don't know if you've seen the newspapers we want people 0 because we understand that when you walk by someone suffering it hurt and want an answer who to call and make that better we've come up with is an 8 hundred number and come up with ease ways to fund instead of giving cash you give someone cash they

can get that cup of coffee we give them that beautiful cup of coffee we can also give tooth brushes and life-changing services like housing this is important that connection one of the great partners is kevin with the hotel console i want to shout out 200, 200 and 50 they're not here all but a shout out to all of you who everyday is talking to people explaining what this issue is so kevin (clapping.) thanks so much terra thank you project hope and others you've been incredible as we organize ourselves and mayor ed lee it is exciting to see the news and

everything you've pulled together at a lifetime recipe we appreciate the partners that the city has sam and the whole group with the city we precious it be many of our hotels are involved with homeless project and volunteering and working on different projects this year we announced a long term project we'd like hotels and the travel that partnered with you raise you're hand if you're in the room that's incredible (clapping.) on behalf of the people i want to thank you all and looking forward to how we can help and make the connections and increase our commitment thank you very much (clapping.) so i spoke about some of the

changes that are happening this year one of the great thing is outreach and education we bimonthly invite all people in social services to be able to come with an expert with an lgbt health or on medicare anything that people experiencing enemies might need when we as social workers know each other we get more work done so we're excited and another thing outreach i hope you guys come and join us we during that have continued to expand when we first start everyday connect that was merely opening we thought a few phone calls now sometimes, we have a hundred people standing in our office and that's so there are a lot of people that trust and trust us because we met one of

you or one of us but still needs to get done we are excited as we move into the new year to change the strategy i want to introduce and make it and tell you about a couple of changes first my deputy director emily cohen can you come up for a second (clapping.) i have been out from this city for a few months and emily dpount mind when i call her every 5 minutes i'm proud to see here going to the mayor's office of housing we understand there is not about an agency but a mission to end homelessness i think we can get it down to where's the word i'm looking

effective zero to an effective zero with the right people wanting to do that and with sam and emily i'm excited to partner with emily with the mayor's office and mr. daily who might be getting texts from me so connie will get the call i mean, i'll introduce connie who the reasoning as the deputy director program. (clapping.) >> she's going to be directing the program to outreach for all the fundraiser if you have any questions with everyday connect or any fundraiser go through connie 10 years managing homeless services and then kate i have you will know one of the events leader an amazing kate (clapping.) we have added additional duties

she's the deputy director for marketing and fors of you who have seen the market changing our website has made it easier for people to do better but also changing it for we've participant that don't need to leave the library it is online we're doing a lot of great work and thank you to the staff and say good by to emily and excited cit can you come up he's our new events manager so i'm going to have her end with the closing and want to thank you to kate she put on a wonderful event as always and we're excited to seeo

the of the san francisco transportation authority i'm scott wiener the chair of the authority and we want to thank sfgovtv leo and phil for broadcasting today's hearing i want to also welcome our newest