thank you to supervisor campos and caroline for helping all those use the bathrooms, but helping all bodies and people. speaker: that was beautiful, thank you. seeing no other speakers, that concludes public comment on this item. let me say that i know we have another big item coming up that i'm proud of this, i mean, sadly i mean, the timing illustrates the times we live in as south carolina tries to take rights away from a community and a group of people. you have san francisco going the opposite way. we're on the right side of history, and they'll come a time as it is with issues that we'll be wondering, five, ten, 20, 30 years, why was this an issue. we're on

the right side of history. with that, i proudly move that we -- move this item forward to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation and again, thank my cosponsors supervisor kim, farrel, avalos and yee. >> thank you, supervisor campos. i'm happy to support a move this information with recommendation of the fulford and thank you and your office on this important legislation. it's more about bathrooms, but it's about dignity and respect. and i have long thought we should have an ordinance like this in place, and i was educated about this issue when i served on the board of education and started sharing from students harassed based on the gender they identified with in school, and the single sex bathrooms we have, and that was when i first started to understand how important it was for us to have gender neutral bathrooms in all

of our facilities. and i know that we've started that work at the school district, thanks to our humans rights advocate. it clearly extends far behind gender identity. i want to thank the members of our senior and disability community here today. but this is a very -- it's not an inconvenience to the public for us to move forward in this direction. and we can really become a much more inclusive public accommodation community by moving forward. i'm happy to cosponsor this and thank you for your work for making this happen. we have a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation and we can do that without opposition. [applause] >> thanks to all the members of the public that are here today to support this item. we have another very important item coming up next.

madam clerk, could we please call item number 2. >> item number 2 is ordinance making findings and declaring the existence of a shelter crisis in san francisco under california government code, sections 8698, et seq. >> thank you, madam clerk. the author of this ordinance is supervisor david campos who is here today. i'm proud cosponsor of this ordinance as well. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair. i know there's a number of people standing. i know there's more seats and we were afraid because of the timing of when we could have this hearing that no one would be here, and yet this is a full house today. i want to thank all of the members of the public who have taken the time out of their busy schedules to be here. it means a great deal to us. i know that this is an issue that is impacting so many san franciscans and i know it's difficult to deal with this issue of homelessness on a daily basis. and it's

also difficult to come to city hall to talk about it, but the fact that people are here shows you how important this issue is. and before i begin, i also want to acknowledge my staff. my legislative aides, my chief of staff, hillary ronan and john higg an. i don't know if care lien -- caroline is in the room. i believe the issue of homelessness in san francisco has reached a crisis level. as much as i would like to stand here, sit here and say that the problem is not that bad, the fact is that we have a crisis that have

reached the point that i believe it is time for the city and county of san francisco to call a state of emergency on homelessness. [applause] >> you know, there was an editorial today by the san francisco chronicle, and the chronicle and i don't often agree, but i'm glad that they recognized that we need a new sense of urgency on the issue of homelessness in this building. it is not about mayor lee or david campos. this is not about david campos saying we have a state of emergency. i think that ultimately it is about the residents of san francisco. and it is to those residents that i want you to know that

i have heard you, and that this declaration of a state of emergency is about responding to what we have heard directly from you. it's about you. it's about who we are as a city. in this, arguably the wealthiest city in the country, a city that has a budget of more than $9 billion. a budget that is larger budget of thousands of budgets throughout the world. a city that has more billionaires than most countries, a city that is as wealthy as it comes, we have thousands of people living on the streets of this city. i feel strongly that the mayor of san francisco who has authority

over every single city agency and that we collectively as a city government, the board of supervisors included that we have failed to deal with this issue. [applause] >> and i believe that anyway that you can try to justify where we are and talk about everything we're doing, i am sorry, but i think that the only way to deal with a problem is to recognize that it is a problem, and to acknowledge our own short comings. and i am here to acknowledge that. we, in city government, have not done enough. we're the executive branch, the mayor and his administration has failed to do

what needs to be done, i believe that we and the legislative branch have a responsibility, have an obligation to act and that's what we are doing by declaring the state of emergency. to address this crisis, to increase our city's capacity to address homelessness, we're making use of a rarely used prevision in california law. it's a prevision that i acknowledge is hugely reserved for floods, for earthquakes, for natural disasters, homelessness is not a natural disaster, it's a human made disaster, but it's a disaster nevertheless. this legislation allows the city and county of san francisco to cut through the red tape that often gets in the way, to shorten the process, to be able to quickly turn buildings that are owned by the city

and county into spaces to house the thousands of people that are living on the streets. people say it cannot be done, and yet in san francisco, the city and county of san francisco alone, depending on who you ask owns anywhere from 1800 to 2, 200 properties. of those 2,000 properties, we can find 6 suitable for navigation center. when i proposed this measure, it was a push back from the mayor who said that my office and i are grand spanning when it comes to this issue, and that we're simply engaging in political posturing. mr. mayor, let me just say this and i'll repeat this again and again, i

don't mind being the penata and being the aim at political -- what matters is that we see action by you and your administration. [applause] >> two weeks ago, there was a hearing where we heard from the mayor's director of hope who said it would take six more months to open a new navigation center. interestingly, we introduce an ordinance to declare a state of emergency and just yesterday, that same administration said that you know what, it actually will take less time. they're going to open one in june. again, i don't mind being attacked or being a political peen y'all at -- penata. what i

hear from my residents and thousands living on the streets is we're tired politicians pointing the finger at each other. we're tired of people bickering. we want, we demand results. [applause] >> just today, i did it yesterday, i got a note from the mayor's director of hope saying, you know, i guess the argument is don't declare a state of emergency and they include a letter from the federal agency that says, you know, there's no additional money attacked to a declaration of emergency. well, if there isn't, shouldn't there be. and shouldn't we, as a government in san francisco push the federal government to do the right thing. we need to make sure that we stop

thinking about justifications for why things are the way they are. let's think outside the box and ask ourselves, can't we do better, shouldn't we do better, i believe that the answer is absolutely, yes. we must do better. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank my cosponsors of this ordinance, declaring a state of emergency. my colleagues, supervisors kim, supervisor avalos, and supervisor mar, and supervisor yee, president london breed, supervisor peskin and supervisor cohen. there's 8 of us on the board of supervisors who are supporting this declaration of a state of emergency. that means that this ordinance is veto approved. but i would ask and

employer the mayor instead of fighting what other san franciscan knows to join us. this requires all of us working together. i stand in olive branch to you mr. mayor and your administration, let's figure out how we can address this issue. it was by working together that his administration and my office, we successfully opened the first navigation center that opened in the mission. let's replicate that success. and let me say this, that the fact that we are declaring a state of emergency does not mean that we, in any way, take away the roll that community will continue to play as we move forward. we want community input. we want to hear from our residents. it is precisely because of that that we're doing this to begin with. so i look forward, i look forward to

moving this ball forward, to satisfy showing that it is possible to make progress. the city of san francis must do better. i know it can. i will keep my comments to that. i know that supervisor yee will be joining us shortly, and that he will have one amendment i'll be supporting and happy to discuss when he comes supervisor kim, thank you again for -- i want to thank you and your office because made it a priority to put this on the agenda. i also want to thank president breed who wave -- who waive the 30 day rule so we can move quickly on this, and before i turn it over to you and to public comment, i want to thank the following organizations and individuals. there are thousand and thousands of

people who have been working on the issue of homelessness for so long, the coalition on homelessness, the homeless youth alliance, the laura community service, the mission as our collaborative. i see my friend brook house stewart here, amy fair wise, mission neighborhood resource center, the friend's school that is here to talk about this issue and it's great to see young people interested in what's happening on the streets, the democratic club, small businesses. i've heard from so many people and again, thank you for being here and i look forward to what you have to say, and i believe that we have been joined by supervisor yee as well. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> i apologize. there was a motion i

was supposed to make at the beginning. i'm going to excuse supervisor avalos. >> so moved. speaker: we have a motion and second and we can do that without opposition. >> supervisor yee. thank you for having this hearing. i want to thank campos for introducing this item. the reality is that we -- we're facing the emergency on homelessness for years. our residents are growing concerned about our homeless population and how it's impacting us in the city and in our neighborhoods. i've received scores and scores of e-mails for the last year or so about what are we going to do about homelessness in our city. what are we going to do? there's not only in the core of the city,

they are having to also find other places into the residential areas and people are concerned that we're not doing enough. and i agree with them. we are not doing enough. but i think for me, i'm supporting this resolution because yes, we're not doing enough and we need to do more. this is a simple statement for me. we're not doing enough and we have to do more. now, what does that all mean? does it mean that one can go in and do whatever they want regardless of what codes we have? that's not what i'm asking for. what i'm asking for is look under every nook and cranny to find out what spaces are available. talk to the community where that nook and cranny might be. and ask them, do you want to be apart of the

solution. is this appropriate or not? we have to find appropriate space to have our services. and we need to work with our community, our neighborhoods also. one of the things that i keep hearing is whether or not, do i care about this or do i care about that, and let's ask all the supervisors. does that mean, as i said before, does it mean going in there and saying, we're not going to talk to the community, we're not going to talk to the neighborhood. we're going to do whatever we want because we're in a crisis? >> no, no. time out. put in sense into your head for those who want to say that. no. we should be apart of solutions and we should ask us what's the best way to solve this. ask us what's appropriate for us to be apart of this solution, not ram it down a district or a neighborhood's

throat. that's where i'm at and i'll let you have some amendment to this -- introduce an amendment to this resolution after we hear from the public comment. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you supervisor yee. thank you again to supervisor campos for introducing this item and i want to recognize all the members of the audience that are here today that really care about this issue. it is more than just a blithe -- these are our neighbors and these are residents living on our streets in front of our doorsteps and alley ways and under our bridges and any place where they can hide or be invisible. and we know that the phenomenon is not limited to san francisco alone. in fact, this is a result of many scaled political choices made over the last 30 years.

homelessness did not begin until the mid-1980s when our city started to experience a vast cut that president reagan started making to hud in the late 70s. there was a time when we had more public housing units than those on a waiting list. if you were to become homeless, you could get housed immediately. when the government started slashing hud, homelessness emerged as a phenomenon. this is a failure at the state and state level and reflects the inequities we're seeing in society today. the fastest growing -- they're working families. they're families with jobs

anden come has en -- and income has not kept pace. this is a moral dilemma with a third of our homeless count is children between the ages of 5-17. we have children living on our streets, that's couch surfing and sleeping in cars and we need an immediate response. not just for everyone else, but we know the likely hood of becoming homeless -- if you're homeless as a child increases by 2.5%. i am glad to be working with supervisor david campos on the same day that he introduced a resolution calling the city to declare a state of emergency and i introduce a state of emergency on our government to help cities and counties throughout the state of california to address the homelessness problem. in california, we're 21% to the homeless

population. there's 600,000 americans that do not have a secure place or bed to call their home on a given night. we know that san francisco alone cannot solve this issue. san francisco must do what we we -- do what we can. this is a national and state issue and we need to fund and invest in-housing, that housing is a right, that housing is more than a home. it's about security. it is about being able to have consistent employment and it's about health. it's about building community. and it is about securing relationships that are vital for any society. so, more than anything, i think it's important for all of us whether we're members of the board of supervisors and mayor and advocates to come together to solve this problem together, and this hearing in many ways is to discuss that as a community. and to think about what it means to have an emergency of

those that are without housing here here in san francisco. and i do want to recognize many people in this room who work everyday on this issue that are apart of the solution. and that care so deeply about all of their neighbors whether they're housed or not. thank you again, supervisor campos for bringing this issue and i'm going to turn the mic back to you. >> thank you, thank you mad -- madam chair. i want to commend you supervisor kim for your measure calling for a state of emergency in the state of california. i think it is an emergency state wide, and i still don't understand why the board did not support that. i hope that happens expeditiously. this is a crisis that is not only impacting san francisco, but the entire state. so i'm going to call the names of the people who have signed up to be here to speak. if you can

please line up on the -- your right, my left. and you each will have two minutes to speak, and again, thank you to all of you for being here. i forgot to acknowledge, i know exhibition is another organization that has been pushing this information, and i want to thank them as well for the work they have done on this. here we go. jordan davis. laura thomas, roger ritter, bill, dennis, victor martin, matt drew, ethan, zouie. any name i mentioned, come up. >> are we ready? this place reminds me of philadelphia when we first started this country, we didn't have space, but we made it work. i've been

living in pier 80, i have a little time, i brought a lot of stuff to talk about, but it's just paper. i'm not going to do it. sometimes i feel like someone sent us to mars, but let me speak about the problem. i'm on ssi. i'm a navy veteran of 10 years and i can't find anything to live in at all that's close to being descent. we can do better than that. i have all kinds of things i can talk about. priorities and health and welfare of the extremely poor are in jeopardy. there are thousands more than the city could possibly know about. thousands. i walk around this city of love and i don't see it. i see people with nothing using whatever they can find to exist. the rich inside their world, they go about their days not noticing the damage to our people. the poorest

of poors displaced. we can do better than this, and the idea is necessary. i live at pier 80 and it's a beginning of an idea, but i have all these ideas. ideas are not solving the problem. we need to act now. there are people who live out there that die everyday, that the people do not know about. they live in places where you can't find them. and that's a serious problem in san francisco. i love this city. it's called the city of love. we need to get back to being the city of love. and i mean it. let's do it now. have a good day. i'm sorry. have a good day. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, jordan davis again. i wanted to tie this into the last item, and i rise to speak on the impacts of homeless towards the -- and to

support this bill which -- it includes a path line into affordable and descent housing. we trans and queer people are likely to be homeless people because of -- discrimination and jail is not a pretty place, but it's compounded when you're a trans gender and queer. for the former being placed in the wrong gender setting because we couldn't pay a find. another impact is our health suffers when these luxury condos are getting built. low income clinics gets shut down thanks to not being able to afford -- this is trans gender program. this is not getting into racism and sexism. it compound this. homelessness is a trans right

issue. support economic oppressions and criminalization of the homeless. you will never support lgbt right no matter how much you wrap yourself in the rainbow flag. you're no better than cruz, and trump and pat, the governor of north carolina when you're anti- poor and you should basically not think about going or speaking at the -- or any other lbgt event if you refuse to support homeless people. please house all of us now. not just us, but all of us. we can't enjoy our streets when we're in the streets or dead. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm lynn ross again. i like to say i've been here in san francisco since 2009. what i would noticed was a systematic dynamo -- people

giving up, because of how hard it is. good businesses closing. businesses selling things we can't afford. i try to advocate for me and my family. and i feel like i failed because i didn't help her get the housing she needed. so -- but i said that to say that there needs to be more adequate social services, more adequate people who, you know, social service people. we need to have more - i see condos getting built for who. they're not for people who have been here, but for people who can afford it. what constitute a person who can't afford a place to live and a person who could afford it. this

is a dire situation and i would like to put my two cents in on what i can do to help the situation better. i see a lot of good people out in the street that's homeless that want to take care of them self and their leaves and they want to get back on their feet. thank you. >> thank you very much. i know that -- we want to applaud and there's a lot of reason to do that, but we want to keep the meeting going, so instead of applauding, if you can just use your fingers of the way of acknowledging that you agree, so that we can move it because we want everyone to have the opportunity to speak. mr. wright, go ahead. >> i wanted to step you back on all of your comments because the truth is your policy and rules and regulation contribute to go the homeless problem. each building that the city and county of san francisco builds, you

claim low affordable -- you manipulate the income scale that was put out by hud where low income starts at those who have 14,000 a year. when you build these new buildings, you manipulate the scales and start the low income bracket at each apartment building you're building at 55%. 55% is a total of $39,252 a year. you did it on the latest building that's built two blocks away that's called the civic and you've been doing it every since. proposition d. you claim low affordable income housing, 40% of it is going to be for that class of people. when the truth of the matter is you're providing a greater housing opportunity for people making 122 thousand a year. since when

are people making $122,000 a year needs affordable housing. 2% of that 40% of the affordable housing is for those making $36,000 a year. people below your 55%, 39,250 a year are being excluded. you have an ordinance pertaining to an inclusionary rule where each building is supposed to have inclusionary housing for income people, but when you build these housing, you exclude low income people eligible with this ordinance who was put on the books to protect. it used to be that you would protect the low income housing people to make -- >> thank you, mr. wright. let me call a few more names. summer and

ben, cedric, tony. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is roger from the central council which consists of 20 neighborhood and a 100 associations in western san francisco. we support a comprehensive program that deal with the crisis including -- we oppose temporary shelter which does not provide homeless with services, but to increase the death. i would urge you to listen to the supervisor yee, my supervisor who is going to propose an amendment to at least bring the neighborhoods and the residents of the neighborhoods into the discussion and not to simply fry a one size fits all approach for the entire city. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm ethan. speaker: and i'm matt drew. >> we're students at the san francisco

friends school. when we were given the opportunity to come to this meeting, we decided on a few opinions on our own we would like to share. >> the most liberal and advanced cities cause the most innovative people on earth. we should set an an example to combat homeless. speaker: homelessness is around in a big day. i feel there's a shelter crisis. the city should declare a state of mnl. >> when i walk home from school i see home centsness on -- homelessness in the city. >> homelessness has been around our city for several years and been here before i was born, but our attempted efforts have not done what -- they haven't seem to solve the issue. as you know, the sweep swaps aren't solving the issue, but they're moving them to another street or alley. >> in a few years, i think the people of our city would appreciate

having at least half the homeless people off the streets and more into shelters. we would like the city to recognize this issue and declare the state of emergency. >> thank you to the young people who are here. this is really moving. please come forward. >> my name is cedric. >> i'm jake. speaker: we're from san francisco friend's school. >> i would like to say everyday i can walk down the street and [inaudible]. it's crushing to think about the fact that there's always has been and there's people -- homeless people on the streets all over, and i think that it's -- it's a huge issue that needs more addressing and really is an emergency. and i think one of the biggest [inaudible] is division street as you find the fact that there's people being swept off the

streets and into alley ways and it's not the issues being solved but being hidden. >> we have desensitized to the homeless problem. often times, you try as hard as you can not to notice them. one of the reasons that people seem to be rejecting the idea of shelters is that that means they have to admit there's a problem and they're not dealing with it. every time that we start to make any kind of progress, people have to acknowledge that there's a problem there. and people don't like to acknowledge problems. we have to know that there's a problem and by building shelters, we're dealing with it in a good way, and people don't want to admit that. >> and in the city of san francisco, we live in a city that's one of the most liberal and the most driven. in the majority of the city, i would find to be people who are incredibly

will be to deal with change and want change. the truth is homelessness is a large issue and a complex issue that may never truly disappear, but we live in a place in which the end of our efforts in homelessness that happens not when we're not of money, but which we have incredible budget, but it ends when we have seen a change and we have put our maximum effort into this issue. the truth is as long as there's a single homeless person on the street, it's an emergency. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm summer set, and i'm dra. >> how do we bring ourselves so much money to -- we can't spare any for our

citizens. we have spent $4.6 billion on the new berry bridge. both of these, and countless other projects are necessary for the projection and growth of san francisco. but it isn't providing temporary housing for people to get their lives back on the rails just as important. giving people a stable place to find security -- this will strengthen our city's work forth and provide citizens with the money they need to provide to the community. after spending time with this issue, i have come to the realization that having a navigation center would be -- they'll benefit the homeless community in the city of san francisco. i understand there would be additional taxes on things like a pack of gum or a new shirt, but this crisis is not going to solve itself. it's not just up to the government, but up to the citizens and i believe people would commit. it's our city and neighbors and we all deserve a home. thank you.

>> next speaker, please. >> i'm zouie. >> housing is our end goal, right now in the moment, temporary housing will lead us to a solution. i've lived in this city for my entire life and i've seen the situation getting worse. after hearing from the people who share our community, i come to realize how they're dehumanized because of their living situation. a situation any of us could be in. people experiencing homelessness is -- >> walking down market street on the way to this meeting, we passed many people experiencing homelessness. upon smiling at one man, he said smiles goes miles. we need to recognize people experiencing homelessness as a human and individuals that they are. i hope we can leave this meeting with smiles goes miles in mind. i hope in the long term, we'll see changes. thank

you for this opportunity. >> >> thank you very much. next spaekser. >> thank you to all the students. is it makes me feel good to see students standing up for their city. eye apart -- i'm apart the drug alliance. i want to thank david campos for his leadership in including alcohol housing and consumption services in this proposal. both of those are very evident based public health interventions. many of us have been talking about for a long time and whether our concern is public

drug use and syringe on the streets, if our concern is reducing overdose deaths and hiv and hep c infections, if we have any of those concerns, injection fascitis are a solution to those problems and a way to address and i encourage us to look into figuring out how to make this happen. it's entirely possible for us toss -- possible for us to do in san francisco. the drug policy alliance introduced a legislation, ab 2495 that would give health jurisdictions like san francisco the ability to offer these services and i would love to see the board of supervisors support that legislation. it's very -- supervisor injection services are problem and people supported them as an intervention. i also want to raise, i know i

won't be the first person so say we need to find a home for the homeless youth alliance. this is a program that provides fantastic and needed services and it's criminal that we don't have a location for them to provide their services. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few more names. conner murphy, mike mark, amy, gregory. next. >> i'm bill and i'm director of the aids panel and i'm with the homeless emergency service provider's association. i have spent my life working on behalf of people with disabilities, people with serious mental illness and people with hiv. and we have never seen the crisis that we are experiencing now. thank you for taking the time to look at

this issue. i'm encouraged that the mayor's office is looking at this issue. there's solutions. the reality is that poor people cannot afford housing. we know that the private market will never develop housing that is affordable to people at the lowest income levels. we need a government response. if we do not see it at the federal level, we need it at the local level. the emergency association have great idea on how we can prevent homelessness and how we can take people from homelessness into housing. please work with us. please help us find the funds in the city's budget to address this issue. we have real solutions. we can make it happen. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few more names. diane martinez and -- next speaker, please. >> greetings, my name is

jennifer. i'm a long time public health advocate, harm reductionist and i have dedicated my life to drug users. i'm here today. supervisors, thank you for opening this platform to advocate for homeless youth alliance. it's a crime we offer a community based organization that serves more than 16,000 points of contact in the past year, and we can't even house the organization. let alone the youth that they serve. they offer serine j. if we intervene at an earlier age, we're more likely to be able to house our individuals that live with challenges verses coming in later and after the fact after they have been homeless, displaced and have a

harder time engaging in services and have less trust. i would you find a location in the hate where we can provide laundry and increase services to mental health, food pantry and a safe place for these youth to find a location to be able to feel safe and engage in services and build trust with our service providers long standing advocates and want the best for our youth. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> an afternoon, supervisors. my name is dennis wagner. i'm the director of rainbow grocery. i'm here to say that my board and our business cold heartily support this legislation. it's about time that we started to move forward. we appreciate the first steps, but we displace people who are already

displaced. that's not an answer. we need a long-term solution. it really does boil down to money. i urge you to find the funds in this city, and i'm absolutely appalled that we are not putting more pressure on the state and the federal government. this is the second meeting i've been to where i've heard it dates back to ronald reagan's time. okay. it's time to reverse it. it's time to step up here. it's time to show the rest of the country who are also dealing with this city, enough is enough. it's time to put funds where they're needed so we can help people who are our neighbors who are people who help to contribute in society, to make our standard of living wonderful. we're abandoning them. so we're really proud to be here to lend our support. and if we can help, we appreciate it. we like to be in on it. thank

you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is victor. i'm not a direct -- a director, but i'm a homeless man. it's the only shelter where women, men, and children and transgender and their dogs can come and have breakfast and dinner and being treated with dignity. why would you say a state of emergency and an ton -- anthony to shut down. >> thank you very much. hopefully someone in the mayor's office is watching this so we can followup on saint anthony, but we'll make sure we do that. let me read a couple

of more names. cynthia. >> supervisors, my name is greg, and i - you've seen me up here many times with many hats. but today i stand camacho method rit. thank you supervisor campos for leading the way and declaring this state of emergency. i hope that this passing would encourage of the neighbors and some of the store business owners, all sit down at the table and try to figure out some kind of solution to these problems. the idea of having these centers are great and wonderful, but i see them not in my neighborhood syndrome starting.

keep an open mind. realize these are people's lives that we're talking about. also, this is a great start, but this is a fix for permanent housing. we need to look into that here in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is donell boyd and i'm homeless. when the homeless hit the streets, it's a state of emergency. a lot of times, we say help, help and nobody pays attention to us. you're listening to us and i read the peace in the newspaper and i said

there's hope here. i feel like there's hope for san francisco because i was thinking about san francisco -- and saint francis always took care of the poor and animals. and so in san francisco, not going to live by the spirit of saint francis, they might as well change the name. you gave us hope. >> my name is mark barnes and anyone who doesn't think there's a state of emergency -- regarding this issue and i want to address another issue related to this. and that's the way dpw is dealing with this the homeless.

i wish mayor lee would instruct dwp ryu to instruct his folks, his employees to deal with the homeless in a more respectful manner and with dignity. not just come in and [inaudible]. i witnessed an incident yesterday that, you know, very thuggish on the dpd person. very good guy. he doesn't drink. he doesn't use drugs. he just files his papers and he was going to grab his stuff and throw it in the truck. you know how they do. they just sweep up, and i had to inter seed and i told the dpd guy, this guy has

the first amendment right to sale his newspapers so you need to move along and he had this standard thing to say about kids running into his stuff and it was little. and i said, no. it's his first amendment right. so the guy, dpd guy, finally moved along, so anyway, that's my sament. there's certainly a state of emergency and thank you for introducing this. speaker: thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. >> and jenny, brother joseph. >> my name is is a -- is a bash shan. i apologize for my voice. it's the most serious crisis facing our city and effects everyone. the navigation center has been proven to work, but we need more of them and there's not enough scale. 6 is a good start. the state of emergency is justified, but it can't be a name only. it has

to have tangible results and fast track issues. it takes 7 years for our housing community -- for seven years to develop a new property. that's ridiculous. it should move ahead as quickly as possible. we also need to following to take place. we need leadership from the mayor and we need it now. we need his energy and devotion to this, and recognition it's a crisis. if he was sitting here today, maybe he would give that message. we need a true leader with power in charge of the whole program to cut the bureaucracy and get to solutions that work. it must be a housing first model. we must have tracking and software to record progress and help people and find out what they need and how we can help them further. all systems, city agencies and partnerships, charities and businesses must pull together

on the same page, on the same rope. this is a tug of war. we can't pull in different directions and win. we need safe and proven systems, outcome base that work. these ideas and solutions must revolve around homeless people's needs, not only political status quo. i hope all supervisors get behind them, not just 8. it's a great start. it doesn't go far enough, but we need to move it forward. >> thank you very much. next speaker. . >> my name is raylene and i'm speaking as an activist. how dare the marrow owe i'm speaking as an angeleno and a multi culture -- not only spanish speaking and black, but -- from

that perspective i speak. a side of compassion not grief because i don't believe we can't coexist because we need each other. we need to do the rielg thing. when city planning approves luxury buildings such as the b-sun, you're creating the divide. while this is action for extreme problem, the problem is housing. so when you think about these things please think about them when you approve city planning. just last tuesday i went to delores knowy valley. have you been. there's mansions, mansions, streets. mission street. just after the other day, i went to pier 80 and pier 80, there's two tents in a hanger. it was hard to get there. i got lost twice. we called

it our excursion of privilege because we had data, we had cell phones and we had help and we had delight and everything. pier 80 has no case managers. the case managers can hold space and listen to what is needed. i'll conclude in this as ivy and i myself, my friend, we gave out oatmeal and as i was crossing the street and a man was talking to me and saying this can't be america. things have to change. thank you. have a great day. speaker: thank you very much. i'm going to read a few more names. kelly and alene. alana. >> good afrnoon, supervisors. my name is daniel conrad. i have a business at 1550 bryant street in campos's district. i live in supervisor's kim's district.

i'm here to support this legislation and glad the board is taking action when it appears its mayor's office after cleaning out under the freeway's freeway is no longer interested in solving this problem. it seems to me that housing is the single most part of this. and i'm mindful of yee's comment about the neighborhoods being where navigation centers goes. he's right. we need to get these places established because people can have a better chance of recovering from substance abuse if they have a place to live and sleep. supervisor campos, i want to commend your aide's ms. guzman who has been professional and helpful. where my office is on florida street behind the building is about a block from the central freeway right next to the best buy parking lot. the homeless encampment on florida street

has kwau groupled. on florida street, there are no children, no families, no single moms who lost their apartment. the folks there are meth junkies and dealers, they break into cars and steal bikes and work on them on the streets. it's unsanitary to walk on the streets where i'm paying rent. i want you to call danny and ask him -- his officers have an idea this is an injection site -- i'm scared for my clients and thank you for this. >> thank you very much. thank you for being here. next speaker. >> my name is andrea, i'm a 36-year san francisco resident and for the

past 11 years, my husband and i have lived between 16th and 17th next to the mission health center. we're raising a young daughter who came from the foster care system and we love our home. over the past 11 years, we've had a very interment view of the homeless crisis in our town. particularly over the past seven or eight years, the number -- the volume of people living in tent encampments on our streets have escalated and our interactions with the homeless human beings on the street ranged from bringing a plate on christmas eve to an elderly ill man to having an encampment set on fire in front of my daughter's bedroom window causing flames and late at night to having a junky come into our

bathroom window covered with blood. you know, there was a young man who made a lot of news recently, a professional man quoted as writing in a letter saying i shouldn't have to see human miserable on my way to work. it doesn't bring out the best in people. and everyday when i step through human feces, i can understand how something might come to say that. i felt that way myself. but the homeless people shouldn't have to watch privileged people on their way to work when the homeless people don't want an alternative, when they want an alternative and it's not available. we have seen an abatement in the pressure in our neighborhood where parents walk their children to clinic, et

cetera, we've seen an abatement. >> thank you. thank you very much for being here. jennifer, david, cheryl. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is nick, and i'm a long time resident of the mission district. i congratulate campos for bringing this critical issue before supervisors and the mayor. and those who have ignored this issue and haven't doesn't much to deal with the low income housing in the city. this is the strongest measure i'm aware of that has come before the

board. i hope the full board has the guts, integrity and vision to see it to completion. and permanently solve our homeless problem, not to mention the housing needs of the lowest income residents that none of the programs that i'm aware of are dealing with. the people who make below the federal poverty level, they are not being taken care of. they are being forced out of the city. there's been -- it's apart of the spectrum of senior issues that goes -- extends to laguna handa which needs to be reopened in the senior care and the disabled. i look forward to this successfully passed by the

board and signed by the mayor. >> good afternoon, my name is tony. i'm with senior and disability action. we're attempting to try to undo what's been done, failed policies that have taken place for a very, very long time. we came across an muni driver living in a shelter who lost his home. it's effecting very low income folks and it's effecting people working. it's effecting seniors who we serve directly. i'm in support of this piece of legislation. i'm embarrassed by the response thus far, how our homeless brothers and sisters have been treated, have been criminalized and have been disrespected. i think it was james baldwin who said it's expensive to be poor, particularly in san francisco. the city i was born in is a got

damn embarrassment. i'm a shame of my city and the way they treat homeless folk. there's a lot of folks working and those houseless that are good people that get treated like crap. one metaphor was a picture of a metal walker that a senior use, right, that was tossed into the back of a dpw, one of those trucks to get crushed. if that doesn't tell you something about the priorities of the city in terms of housing and in terms of houseless people, i don't know what does. we have a serious housing crisis. a brother was here earlier said he had been talking about this for five years. it is a major, major crisis of epic proportion and i'm glad this is being proposed and we should do -- we should take it beyond the proposal and

try to do as much as we can because with the short term economy we have, there's long term effects happening right now. >> thank you, mr. robles. [applause] >> hi, my name is amy. i'm the founder of the saint francis homeless challenge and i want to thank supervisor campos and kim for declaring a state of emergency. we have a crisis for our shelters because every night there's thousands of people on our street wondering how do i go to the bathroom and i hope it's not number two. i mean, there are people that i have talked to over the last few months who have gotten a urinary track infections for being a woman who has to hold it because they're scared or a woman said the most embarrassing moment is when i got diarrhea and i'm in a tent and i don't know what to do. everyone should have access to toilets 24/7.

are you with me on that? everyone should have access to security sleep where they don't have to think, am i going to be criminalized tonight or abused or robbed. so that's really the focus rights now. we have 700 people on our wait list for our 90-day shelter. more than that. but on average, we have about as much as. we have 200 people that are at pier 80 shelter wondering, am i going to be on the street next week. hot team workers who are worried sick about those # 80 people or so that are at pier 80 thinking, where are they going to go. and so as we pass this, it's great we're thinking about building more shelter that's long term and building more affordable housing and the advocacy work we have been doing is follow the message of francis who said, first see what's possible, first do what's necessary and do what's necessary. what's necessary is

to built these navigation centers in the next year. it's necessary to figure out to support 24/7 access to toilet and sleep places for the thousands in the meantime that's going to be on the streets. >> thank you. thank you for your work and advocacy. >> hello my name is conner murphy. i'm a born and raise resident of san francisco. homelessness is a step forward to set the precedent of putting humans as a priority. i would like to share two things. one is a quote from kirk from the book slaughter house 5. america is the wealthiest nation on earth, but it's i'm letter poor. every other nation has traditions of men who are poor, but extremely wise

and vicious. no tails are told by the american poor. they mock themselves and glorify their betters. americans like human beings everywhere believe many things untrue. they're most destructive is it is easy for americans who make money. they will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by. and therefore those who have no money blame and blame themselves. this has been -- the second thing i would like to share in the spirit of our city is the prayer of saint francis. i believe the thes ages are secular. lord, make me an instrumentle your peace where there's hatred, let me love. where's their injury, pardon, where there's despair

hope and darkness hope and sadness joy, divine master, grant i may not seek to be console to be understood as to understand. to be loved as to love. for it is in giving we receive. is it in -- it is in dying we're born again for eternal life. >> thank you mr. murphy. next speaker. >> [inaudible] from the housing rights committee. i have four points today. as other speakers have mentioned, i want to just remind folks here that the lgbt and trans community have a problem with homelessness. there's a lot of queer and trans people homeless as we know from is statistics. 40% of homeless youth identify as homelessness. don't forget the lgbt community. we have to remember

that eviction equals to homelessness. we have to stop the evictions to stop creating homelessness. the city has to find a way to stop evictions. number three, we need a moratorium on luxury and market rate housing. we need to build only 100% affordable housing. luxury housing equals gent if i cajun which equals homelessness. stop the cycle. only build 100% affordable housing. we don't need to bring for rich people who don't live here full time. and finally, we need to repeal, sit lie -- and all other lives. we need to do that now. this is a state of emergency. if you're gaining powers as a board of supervisors, there's no reason you can't do these

things and they have to be done if we're serious about stopping homelessness in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. i have a few more names. katie -- next speaker. >> good afternoon, i'm diane martinez from mission collaborative, a program under delores street services. people come into our office for guidance and getting housed into a shelter. it's heart breaking to tell them every time the truth. that they could go to the mission neighborhood resource center and get a case manager so they can get their name put on a list. a housing waiting will list that will take ten years plus for them to actually get a roof over their head. it's heart breaking to tell them the truth that they can maybe get into a

shelter, but in reality, all the shelters do out the city are full and would take a lot of string pull to go get them in there. to be in a city that bragg's about generating so much wealth, but leaving their residents in the cold is embarrassing. i support the call on a state of emergency on the homeless problem in san francisco. of course it's important to champion at city hall - and we need more projects of 100% low income housing, but the shelter system in san francisco must be strengthened. the housing on mission has been strengthened. there's activist that have been quickly housed through this center and it must be duplicated as soon as possible. when you get new

shelters, consider the following. we need shelters that accommodate gender non conforming population and the shelters should be accessible to all people even those who work night shift. we need to not separate families while getting them into the shelter system. we need input from the homeless population and those who were formerly homeless. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you to the sro collaborative for the work you do. >> hi, good afternoon, supervisors of the public. i'm born and raised residents of the pl. there must be something lotting at the core of this city that i was born in. the city of san francisco. to allow so much money to come in while still allowing homelessness to exists. it's

not unnatural phenomenon. we allow it to happen. those blind to this crisis and those fighting you on this the state of emergency are allowing it to happen. poverty does not need to exist. think about that mr. mayor and everyone else who has chosen to be silent. there's no law of nature that states this. a state of emergency is necessary to address this issue. this is not debatable. it's a shame this city which has seen an increase of wealth have not seen a decrease in its miserable. the way we address homelessness in the city and the sweeps and criminalization and the super bowl fiasco and not having enough shelter beds for the storms we knew were coming. this is not the mark of a society rooted injustice. not to me. the current reality must

change. what this city needs is a political will and not just speak about the crisis, but act. we're grateful to supervisor campos and his supporting -- we need more support services and more case managers. we need deeply affordable housing especially if you fall into the 0 to 30% median income bracket. it's time for powers to follow your lead in declaring a state of emergency. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm going to read a couple more names. ralene, terry. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is jasmine and i'm a manager with the mission collaborative at the laura street. i actually gathered some data to show what it means when people say that homeless are being criminalized. from october 2006 and there was a report do

not by the coalition on homeless through march 2014, the spd issued 1,700 citations for quality of life crimes. i feel that the government, the city should be ensuring the most vulnerable population have quality of life. before coming to work as a collaborative, i was working with survivors of human trafficking and it was dreadful when they walked through our doors and they were homeless, trying to locate shelter. it wasn't like i can name the shelters that take shelters of domestic violence, safe house, asian women housing. those are like specialized shelters. there's no other options and they have very limited beds for survivors. there's other options, but they're open for the whole homeless population we

know that's in the thousands. i wanted to ask for folks as you're moving this forward and declaring the state of emergency, take into the survivors fleeing abusive situations and coming to displace. really humanized homeless individual -- if you were homeless and beaten, how would you do. you would need something to help you cope and move through the cold night and just keep surviving, and keep pushing, so let's stop criminalizing and let's stop dehumanizing homelessness. >> next speaker. >> i'm bill with the city of san francis. i want to talk to you about what i know which is people. i walked the streets of a couple of neighborhoods trying to bring dignity

to people. over the last month or so, the people i know haven't been there because new enforcement practices are chasing them into hiding. it's pulling -- only to toss him into your neighbors pool where you can't see it happen. i wish i could take you with me on my walks. that's tj and jack. they came here from some where that was no place for a young gay couple. it's okay to be gay, but now they get ticketed for sitting down. that's brad with a guitar and the funny signs that makes me laugh. he goes to the libraries and post on facebook how much he wants to die. that's elana, her mom died a short time ago. she brought us the ashes because she couldn't bare the thought of her mom being homeless on the street with her. these are

people. people with problems and health and safety concerns and their desperate circumstances do not reflect on their character. they reflect on our character. i urge the city leaders not to move the drowning man to the neighbor's pool. pass the measure by mr. campos and declare a state of emergency. help, heal, and lead with real solutions. for our real neighbors, real people just like us. >> thank you. >> thank you for what you do. next speaker. >> my name is ken, i'm an outreach council at the -- known as the homeless youth alliance. for over two years, we have drop ins. those who we work with don't have a spot. they take a drink of water and they go on the streets. people are cruel to them. it's a way to get away from the police who are harassing them and giving them tickets they can't afford. it means we

don't have a place to meet with our client one on one. sometimes that means that we meet in coffee shot shops. someone tells me -- the kind of things you wouldn't share with anyone around. there's someone on their computer or someone right there looking at a movie. we don't have a drop-in anymore. last week on the side of the street, there was a young woman who was having an incredibly hard time. i was talking to her best as i could. we didn't have anywhere to go. we don't have a drop-in. they need a home again and for the people we serve need a place to go and a place to be respected and lives given dignity. they're being disrespected by them not having a place to go.

>> thank you for saying that. next speaker, please. >> my name is adaline. i'm a counselor. i'm not sure who we're talking to, maybe the camera to watch. perhaps, it's wild to me. i think it's -- if people can't see it's an emergency -- the homeless youth alliance needs a building. it needs to be safe injection sites in the city as well. i think it's so wild to me that everyday at my job i, you know, see these people and i can't offer them much. all i can offer them is

attention to listen to them, and they're just so few actual things we can give them and we at least need to be able to offer them a place to go and talk. that's not a cafe or the street. we need to have privacy with them. and yeah. stop criminalizing the poor. it's just huge. okay. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is alana and i'm another outreach counselor. a big part of my job is provide case manage. services and since we don't have a space like michael mentioned, we do it in cafes and restaurants. we're having intimate conversations with people who are in crisis whether it's a

trauma that happened to them in the past or present. it is re-- we still don't have a [bleep] space. we're doing an impossible job. i can't understand how the city of san francisco and the officials that respect the work we do so much have let this continue. we need to obtain a space where participant can access our services, not just an office like that's what happened. we have an office where people cannot come. people will make sure that participant cannot directly access our services that way. so i just urge you to do something, please. thank you. >> thank you for what you do. i'm going to read a few more names.

stewart, and jennifer and natalie. and angela. >> let me tell you what's my next steps, slash solutions should be. one, it would be to draft devin and get david to spear head the next steps. we need to consider that the plan on ending homelessness had a housing first model. so the navigation centers are nice, but we also need to consider that shelters are not placing where people can leave there and be successful in life. the next thing i think is we need more checks and balances

of the systems. i think sometimes the leadership believes there's exempt like the sunshine ordinance, the standards of care, many things like that, and maybe state and federal law. the next step is to create a committee that would address the next steps so we can continuously monitor what is being done and what the next plans are. i think the next step should be like a houser which would have all of the housing stocks and the applications in it, and the best ways to enter into those housing places. i think in addition, we need to get -- we need to really buckling down and address the

children of these homeless -- that are homeless we can really get them housed. we should have a center for the children and the parents. >> thank you. i'm going to read a couple more names. tom, hike and andrea combat, kristin evans. next speaker, please. >> my name is jennifer cole and i'm an outreach -- i'm here to speak as a counselor and a beneficiary. i'm a native born san franciscan who found herself living in golden gate park. i was struggling to navigate. i had health issues trying to recover from an

extensive of physical trauma and a substance abuse issue. at the time i was lucky enough to find the homeless youth alliance who one of the biggest things they were able to provide me with was a floor to stand on. they offered me a foundation i did not have at the time so that i could build one of my own. now i've been lucky enough to work for them a little over five years and in that time, i was able to work with them when we had a drop in and being able to watch the difference a kid has waum walking through the doors and having a space where they can sit on the coach for an hour and being seen as a human being when the receipt -- when rest of their day is being -- as my co-workers mentioned, we have been the homeless youth alliance and while i still feel lucky to

work where i do and with the people i do, i would be lying to say we're not working at a huge disadvantage by providing all the services we do out of a van or in a cafe or on the street. and he think the services we provide is depensible where there's a huge lack of services. i appreciate the work you're trying to do and i look forward to some potential solutions. thank you. >> looks very interesting -- very interesting message that the organization that's trying to provide services for these youth, it's homeless. >> good afternoon, my name is david gonzalez and i'm the director. i was apart of the 30% lbgt youth.

there's a few things that i've learned since then. one of those has been that when a lot of these changes happened in the city, the city really left the community and community organizations deal with the challenge. the government didn't really step in. it took several -- it took for a decade for there to be an transgender shelter program at delores that just opened up recently. one thing my coworkers are speaking to had been to the structural integration of comprehensive services, comprehensive government support of the need to community. there's no doubt that this action is going to happen. it's more about those not at the table which is wiener, and the mayor. both are not fully on board. having

a mat in a temporary shelter for someone for a few months isn't a solution. it's just a quick band aid. it's about being proactive and seeing what a long-term solution would be and how to bring communities together and create a system of networks. it includes drop-in and includes mental health services and it includes injection sites and includes all these things to address homelessness issues in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm going to read a couple more names. one of the heroes of this fight, jennifer, another hero, brian, carla. >> hi, my name is sharon and i'm policy and advocacy coordinator for the homeless youth alliance. having a drop-in center and having a space is invulnerable to helping our youth out there. it's invulnerable. like

jennifer, i'm formerly homeless. if it wasn't for having this space where we weren't judged and to get yourselves together and to get help and get access to clean -- to be inside is huge. and i'm really grateful we're talking about this as a state of emergency right now. but i think something that has to be apart of this and help our homeless youth out there is being able to get passed that nim beeism. it's not that we can't find a space, but allow a space to allow us to be there. if that could be a priority and a big part of a state of emergency would go a huge way. having centers is going to be amazing. we need to get passed it. also in the meantime, criminalization is

not a solution. it has devastating effects on our youth and elders, on everybody. it's not a solution and it can't be lined on in the meantime. i think these are really important points we need to address while talking about a state of emergency. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is carla and i'm a director of case management at compass family services and i'm here with two of my colleagues. we're here to bring attention to families homeless. they're left out of the conversation, and i'm so thankful that you are all calling it an emergency because it's continue only for single adults but for families. last night, the family emergency shelters filled up. they were absolutely at capacity. we have pregnant women staying in cars,

families with small children staying in cars, in hotels, everyday struggling to find out where they're going to spend the night. there's currently 240 families just waiting to get into shelter, that's 346 children waiting to get into shelter. 69 of those families have been waiting on our priority list, so they either have a severe mental health, health issue or in their last month of pregnancy or waiting for five months to get into shelters. the shelters are at capacity. families are sleeping on mats in churches. we recently or tomorrow i'm going to move out three families from hotel rooms designated for pregnant women into another hotel because we're priced out of the hotel that we're in and we're dropping capacity. so i'm going to pass it over. >> my name is teresa. i'm a case manager at compass, and i work

directly with the families that carla spoke of who are waiting for shelter which can be anywhere from a few months to too long, anthroughout that time, parents do an amazing job of getting their children taking care of day-to-day without -- without having a stable place to stay. but we also see that wait time have effects on families who go from being employed to unemployed. from maintaining their health and getting the prenatal care they need to being shuffled around, and kind of losing that, so shelter isn't the long-term solution, but it's an immediate need to stabilize families in order to be taken care of in the way

that they need. >> hi. i work for the compass center. i'm very nervous. but we have been doing -- we're open monday through friday, 9:00 to 5:00 and we have been doing shelter in takes. four to six families a day. if you think about it, from yesterday to today, that's 8 to 12 families. tomorrow, there's another 4. tomorrow, they'll be another 4. the list when i started working about 12 years ago with families was about 15 to 30 days long. it's now up to 6 to 8 months long. that's actually a good estimate. we have families that have been waiting for a long time. families doubled up and families in cars

and families in shelters with a lot of other people, with a lot of other families and it is a crisis. it has been a crisis for many years, but i'm glad it's getting the attention that it deserves. >> i don't see anyone from the mayor's office or the hope office which i think is unfortunate. hopefully they're watching. but i'm wondering in terms of a pregnant woman, that's the city policy around that, and another question, one thing that i've heard is -- there's 3,000 children that are homeless. i'm not sure what that number is. maybe you can speak to that. >> to your first point about pregnant women, we have a priority system, so when women are in their last month of pregnancy, they're prioritized for shelter and i mentioned there's currently 69 families prioritized for varying reasons. so what

happens is each week, we are -- they let us know how many rooms are available, and we have to work from the priority list of 69 families and on average, we're looking at -- sometimes we get one room a week, sometimes we get two rooms a week, and sometimes there's none. we do our best to place families before they give birth, but we've definitely had instances where mothers are giving birth and are still homeless and not in a private room and shelter. >> in terms -- beyond the morality and the ethics from that, from a financial standpoint, isn't it more costly to treat -- having a pregnant woman remain homeless and give birth that way and the cost of that, never mind this baby being born like that. >> wouldn't it be more?

>> more cost effective to make sure that pregnant woman is housed. >> 100%. i mean, i think overall with all the families we see, it's extremely expensive to provide shelter for families, but if you did the math, it's actually more cost effective to house families than to keep them in shelter. and then to answer your other question about the member of children and the 346 children that i mentioned, those are the children currently waiting to get into shelter. that doesn't include any families who are already in our 3 to 6-month shelters or in our private shelters, so that's -- i think there's 50 rooms in our city funded city and several private shelters so including all of those families and i would say the families that are connected

to services are -- the families tend to be a hidden population. we do our best and we're getting more families engage in services, but i think the school district, they're able to count a lot of families who are doubled up or couch surfing and our homeless that haven't reached out -- pride is a huge issue. families don't want to come to services. they want to make it on their own and it's really -- we see families when they have exhausted all other resources and all of their family and friends support. our number is a slice of kind of the bigger picture. but families are struggling, evictions are an issue. when they do get housing, it's out of the city. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you for the work you do. >> mr. kelly. >> hello supervisor, tony from

patrol hill. supervisors, my father was in that first wave. san francisco homelessness that supervisor kim mentioned in the early 80s. he was over on eddie street and he died at the trans bay terminal on february 1, 1984. today's crisis is still sadly similar to that of 30 years ago. more money is getting spent and people getting services, but our city is still budget to go manage homelessness and not to solve it. it's tolerable and acceptable in our city to have a certain number of people die in our streets or get sick or have their belongs thrown in a garbage truck. it's well passed time for our city to say so. leaders in my neighborhood, we're trying to volunteer for more than one navigation center and we're december trat for funding for supportive housing because we

have seen on division street, 17th street and other places that today's policies are ignorant. the mayor claims -- so that sent me to the website to fema. i'll go ahead and suggest today if an emergency emergency declaration isn't enough, we should declare san francisco to be a disaster area. a man made housing disaster area. it's the terminology of politics. it's all it takes to free up the resources. sadly supervisors, politics and political will is all it takes for the waeltest cities in the world so we know the resources are there, so the question is here and down the hall in 200, do we really want to? thanks for listening.

>> thank you mr. kelly. next speaker. >> my name is kelly and i'm a human rights organizer with the coalition on homelessness. i took notes as people were taking so i'm going to narrow it down. our brother daniel nailed it with the analogy. going in and someone is drowning in your pool and taking them out and tossing them into your neighbor's pool. i was down there for a lot of the sweeps and that was going on. that summed it up really well. of course, the criminalization of homelessness is a major, major issue here. and one of the things that -- during these last sweeps, not only do we not have the emergency shelters for el nino, but on top of that, we're tossing people's stuff and i took the picture of the walker in the

back of the truck and i tried to stop them. please no. they were following orders. they don't want to be doing this, but they're ordered to do this. the things with the neighborhoods, can you tell me a neighborhood that we're not going to face because it seems like every neighborhood we're going to trying to develop more services, we're constantly running into nemby. i think the city needs to push back. uh-oh. i'm running out of time. the drop-in -- i keep thinking h -- where do you

expect them to go -- and so we need to do something. we need to get real about it and not just -- we need to -- you know what we need to do. >> thank you for all you do. next speaker. >> my name is ivy and i'm an employee at silva. thank you for bringing us together to talk about this. i'm disappointed that no one from the department of hope or the mayor's office is here. but none the less, i'm here to speak on my experience since we last met in this room. i asked the city how we can help as a food truck park. and so i've come to a conclusion for what that might look like. we're under division street for those who don't know silva food truck at 13th and

brian. we had a sweep and leading up to that sweep, i helped saint francis, homelessness challenge right beside the park as they had a 24-hour toilet. the next morning i decided to go to the foot truck vendor and serve oatmeal to the homeless experiencing the sweep. i didn't know much about pier 80 because i've never been there. i went there privileged with my phone and couldn't find the pier80 center. there were no signs, but we ran into someone, my friend ray and i who did help us out and find out where to go. we realized why don't we talk to these homeless people and find out how we can. like roger said, they wanted to be apart of the solution. so part of my solution

is offering space at silma food space. they want to use space and create a space for homeless to be apart of the solution if that's in their agenda. we learned that they need -- they want tb tests. they want condoms, daycares for kids and evenly cajun for adult and i want to be apart of that solution and offering space to anyone who would like to see me afterwards. thank you. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your help. >> my name is mary, i'm the founder and executive director of -- after having a drop-in service, in doors was christmas of 2013. without missing a shift, my staff put everything in storage units and our desk became a dining room table of a neighborhood family in the up -- we no longer have access to be

indoors with the people we work with. we don't have showers. we don't have bathroom. we don't have a kitchen. we don't have a room to sit down in or any sense of safety, comfort or privacy. you heard what it's like for my staff not to work with the luxuries, but everyone with a job has. we don't have that luxury. imagine what it's like to do your job in a rain storm under a canopy that the police makes you take down as a homeless organization. that's what we deal with. i can't help but wonder if it was the voices of the privileged people to finally call an action to this. it's not the constant example of struggle and pain and inhumane conditions. our residents live in on a daily basis in this city, and

have them for decades. everyday someone is without housing is a state of emergency. that's nothing new. homelessness is not a choice. it's a result of circumstances and bad policy. our government created this as we people allowed this to happen and policies made in this building creating this. whether the state of emergency passes or not, you need to do more. i need you to see me and here me and the youth i represent and have honor to work with everybody when i say we matter and we deserve better. we need the help now and we need it. >> may i ask a quick question. how do you explain to a youth that you're trying to help, the fact that the homeless youth alliance is homeless? >> i think they're easier to talk to than you guys. really, they understand it on a personal level. they

know the discrimination. they know the entire reason we're on the street -- i have applied for 845 spaces in that neighborhood. it's not because of -- it's not about money, but who we are and what we do. people want to act like the problem isn't happening. there should be no services in the park because homeless people will come there. there's hundreds of people that live in that park every single day. the city has done nothing to come to our aid at this point. nothing. someone needs to work with phil over there at park and rec and get us some trailers or whatever. i mean, if we can work at a dining room table, we can work anywhere. thank you. >> thank you for what you do. next speaker. >> hi, my name is carla add always. i work as a program manager. i left the organization in 2014. around 8

months after we lost the drop in space. i wanted to thank the supervisors for hosting this meeting and thank you for your analysis as to why we're here. i want to thank everyone that's here. but i want to emphasize about homeless youth alliance. they catch those not accessing the navigation centers. the youth do not feel safe in the shelters overwhelmly. especially survives of abuse, and just young people in general. they are not going to access the spaces. so what's more excellent and wonderful is we have a ready to go staff. we just need a building. as far as navigation centers goes, we get that going right away. what's unique about homeless -- the people that work there are experts. they come from the community which is a rare thing

in this line of work. it's important we enter into a diversity of tactics as we move forward in the state of emergency. finding a space for homeless alliance, yes. it has to be diversity of tactics. what i want to mention is that being a program manager of the drop-in and then supervising staff, it rocked the organization, so if we're talking about sustainability, cost efficiency. providers are less likely to stick around and do their jobs effectively which impact these we serve. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is natalie g and i live in the [inaudible]. i work in china town for years and i work in the

mission. everyday when i commute to work, it's heart breaking to see so many fellow human beings living under the 101 freeway by caesar chavez. the city is not doing its work to help our fellow human beings. i really want to see the navigation move forward. >> i work for the homeless youth alliance. we lost our lease in 2013. since then, we have been unable to find another one and relocated all of our services outdoors and in the after math, ashbury has the most

pathetic ratio of homeless people to indoor services. they are at risk of dying and are dying in golden gate park and in the streets. it's just uncontentiousable. one thing i want to mention, my boss mary touched on this. while we were out in the rain providing medical care, therapy is a --

our staff provided for kids drenched. they had no -- they had to go back in the park and sleep outdoors in wet clothes. this is a state of emergency. one final thing i want to mention, supervisor campos, you mentioned there's several buildings that the city owns that could be used as navigation centers. some are in golden gate park including the emergency aides station. from what i can tell, it's not being used for anything. sorry, i'm out of time but -- pushing services out of the neighborhood doesn't work. the mayor needs to come in here, use his power to turn them into building that's can be used for sustainable life

saving services which is so severe neglected. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello supervise, campos and kim and yee. those who know me know that i talk with and care about basically everybody in this city. i work in the tender loin. i stop and have conversations with people much it's important to tell you a story from monday about my friend who i'm going to call jeremy here. i met jar knee a year or two ago, always asking for change in the tenderloin. i saw him around thanksgiving and he could barely say the words help me. i walked with him. they sent us to sf general. his leg wounds were disgusting and saping

-- it took 45 minutes to get -- he knew it was going to hurt for them to go through his leg wounds. for time, i'm going to go fast. we got him in and got his legs bandaged. monday, i saw him again. we went and i spent four hours walking around the tender loin with him. he said he wanted to go. we walked towards there and couldn't get him. i wasn't going to push him. i'm a faithful fool and i cater to him. our founder say those who ro weakest are our greatest teachers. jeremy wouldn't go in. this isn't a story about jeremy. our city is jeremy. jeremy is a real person, but he's our model. not with that name. we know

this is a problem. discussion is important and we need more conversation but we need resources and we need to come together and we need to face this problem facing us. >> thank you for what you do. >> supervisor campos, kim and yee. my name is kristin evans and i'm the owner on the book street and i'm on the board of the merchant association which represents -- our board voted to support this state of emergency. we support housing first. we support wet housing, we support solutions like the nafb gags center that provides space for partners, pets and packs. we've supported to the streets which is an

nason that employees people -- we've supported homeless youth alliance in their campaign to secure a home. our board is really at an influx -- the community is focused on sweeps and criminalization of the homeless in our neighborhood. air b and b and the evictions have impacted a board member of our association, a merchant who has lost his home twice. twice. i have employees that have -- i have two employees who have been evicted and i have one employee who was homeless for several months. this is affecting our community more than ever. we're looking to you to help us

message to the community what their will needs to be in creating long-lasting solutions. unfortunately we have not seen the leadership to really solve and tackle hate ashbury homeless problem and we're looking to you to help us communicate to your people what we need to do to accomplish real change in our community. thank you. >> thank you, ms. evans and thank you to your association for what you do. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is tom and i'm a mission district resident and small business owner. i wanted to thank you for taking the very necessary time to hear all of these heart breaking and very important stories that people have been sharing today. my stories, i've lived on the corner of 26th and south san vanes. i

was doing laundry and one of my homeless neighbors, someone who i see often in that intersection was lying in the laundromat unresponsive and there was myself, there was a laundromat owner, we were trying to see if he needed help, what we can do. we had no choice but to call an ambulance to help get him to san francisco general. there is an ambulance on that corner of 26th and south bin called everyday and there has been for the past year. a year and a half. it's an ambulance called on a daily basis to help our homeless neighbors on the corner of 26th and south vanes. i own a business and i'm an owner of our merchants association and i work home from my business at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, it's a bar, we have late hours and