compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about we're leap year if each other and that's also a blessing i have with the other mayors we've had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus you're all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing san francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well you've got great people that helped us to think through and cautioned us and said he's how every time i've been on the phone that's okay. that's a problem think

about this about that that and how you can do that that's the attitude that brought more success, more open attitudes and positive thinking if this great pinching so thank you. i you mentioned and i know that we deemed our naefthd all the mayor's should know that the fact challenges we want to be able to produce model after model what we can do to be more sought after to the navigation center has been our best model thank you to interfaith counsel that provide an exceptional documents now we have the model we're breaking down a kind of old shelters we had where people they were put in and kicked out and put in and kicked out it is kind of no different than american people encampment in

many ways but for the fact health and public health challenges we want to demonstrate there is a better model and that no less committed are those models that we have to have the end result that is permanent excellence exits out the fact homeless we've helped. >> veterans and responsibilities and chronic homeless for veterans and families you've backed up with appropriate funding where we demonstrated we can get something done that is appreciative the rad program as i mentioned earlier our stellar

- that's much more successful and independent in hair lives we did this and the voters get it as well recently last november to supplies for you will have us we passed (11) 000-0000 homeless bond we've not done that for two decades the people respond and say that's a good investment that's what we want to do due to the creativity of working with the fact papering that $310 million bond will be a great benefit when we do infrastructure bonds this affordable housing bond will be

a great contribution is secretary in collaboration with i i want to make sure you know amongst all of us there's a great preparation people want to get it right there will be requests that hud be as flexible as can be with the fact rules and regulations given the fact urban density champions we we have we also will be talking about issues like stableizing neighborhood with that credible economic upturn many parts of the neighborhoods are totally upset so long term ahbp africa be about stabilizing certain be neighborhood we create and build and finally, the homelessness population you deemed our seriousness by joining us with all the fact west coast mayors came up to portland and prepared notes we agreed homelessness is

a challenge to all of us we needed months a partnerships with hud to end homelessness and number of us stood up and as i said of would we'll end hematomas we know of the cause of homelessness but have frjsz of what does so gathering that together having the best models and hud backing up us as a models model of ending homelessness is a great game so i want to give an opportunity to marry libby schaaf she's been thinking again and demonstrating the new coverage of what is happening in oakland kind of similar challenges and also hoping refresher ways to do that. >> mayor libby schaaf. >> thank you, thank you let m

ready. i'm stef curry. welcome to the civic center hotel that is owned by plumbers uniyrn local 38 and the pension fund. i want to mention that off the bat because this hotel had its own story in past years where a lault of folks have lived because of low income status and when privately run there is a lot of issues and our officers have told me in the past that this has been a all most a call center because of a lot

of ecativities. the plumbers were smart irk withing the administratea group of future developers of the entire site which isn't the building but the parking lot and plumbers union and joined with community housing partner which gael gillman represents and gael is a stair in the affordable housing movement in the city. aentsty we are proud to work with because there are a number of sites she manages with her staff that are permanently affordable housing, veterans housing, housing for transitional age youth and low income and formally homeless persons. we are standsing here today because we reached an agreement qu strauta development group with the community housing

partnerships, with plumbers union to use the civic center beginning in the month of june this year as a navigation center. we are celebrating the one year anniversary of the first navigation center that is not too far away at 16th and mission, where with the help of the team and local supervisors, it has been in the past year able to help over 450 people get into permitted housing just in the past year. the navigation centers as many of you might be learning is a much more relaxed shelter where we allow pets, allow partnerships and allow praurbt property and all the other things that have been accum utilityed by people on the streets rfx we invite them to come in and get the help and services they

need but most importantly there is a goal for everybody that comes to the nav center and that is permanent supportive housing. that nav center is so successful we decided to open a second and are in the [inaudible] for a third. the civic center hotel is going to change. by the month of june, a month and a half from now, chf, communefy housing partnerships work in collaboration with the homeless project coordinators and city serves they are engaged in homelessness to have 93 dedicated units for the navigation center. pets will be welcome, pet friendly at fs mississippi fear and homeless people on the streets and [inaudible] for the blocks around here that help get off the streets and into

these units and these units will be serviced by the professionals and case managers and health services and human serves with all the benefits people deserve and public health department will be engaged as well. this will be an addition to the navigation center at 16th mission and also comp lmentary of 200 permanent units of housing that will be announcing where those locations are. i think we have one of them that may be on the announcements tomorrow as part the permanent housing. i want to just again say thank you to the plumbers union. not just being such a great organization that is helping us build market rate and affordable housing throughout the city, but helping rebuild all the public housing and now they have taken up the additional task of using their

oun property to be a nav sent frr those who are homeless so they can help and support their navigation to permanent housing t. is a incredible story, the type of partnerships coming together to assist our city in one of the most-important and most hardest and complesh problems the city has. for many years i know other mayors have struggled with this. i think it is a honest thing to say i struggle with it every single day and that is why i am creating a brand new department that will house everyone within city government as well as community based agencies to be sure that we have a very focus attention on those quhoo are homeless and make sure we can get them off our streets. the encampments town to be dangerous, unsanity and not the preference of those living there. when they see opportunities like

this being transitioned from a broken down hotel and n to a livable place that is monitored and housed and will have a brand new kitchen facility for meals they never had before, 24 hour security, and will be a welcome place for people to navigate out of homelessness, with the partnerships we have like community housing partnership like the strauta development group and others, it gives i think a lot of hope to those like sam dodge and his staff in the trenches getting people off the street and have a end goal. yesterday i visited the north beach citizens and talked individually with them as i have been talking with those that were house at the pier 80 shelter, every one of them just wished they could have this housing so that they can then

have a more organized life where they deget their lives together. some will start get thg training we offer from jobs, others will take care of themselves psychiatricly and health wise so they can get to normalcy and reacquaint with families and frnds but it begins with places like this where it is underutilized with a run down hotel that is half occupied and a problem for the community that now we transform that. when you talk about doing this in a couple month, literally in homeless years we have dealing with the problem pfeels overnight this is transformed and it wouldn't be able to be done without the very strong partnerships we are developing on the community side ends and social uvs end and affordable housing end where

agencies like chp and staff, case management of every from public health to human services to homeless outreach teams and making sure this will serve yet another real example that isn't just talk we are giving. we want to end homelessness for individuals in the sit eand we want to do the right way and when people visit this place they will feel we are not talking nonsense and not into the era of just saying we want to end homelessness, we actually want to do it on a unit by unit, person by person, family member by family member basis. this will be another broit shining star for everyone and as soon as this is accomplished we are already into the next nav center and next permanent housing exist we can have. it is all being done the right way and very proud of all the staff that is working together to make this happen. i'm also proud of the private sector whether it is the

plumbers union or whether it is the property owners or whether it is the developer who thought about affordable and homeless housing before they even began talking about making a profit on this land here. they said why not take care the people already here first, that will demonstrate that a business mind also has the humanity behind it and this is why i'm so proud of the developer community because they are also stepping tupe the plate. this will meet any standard, any reasonable standard the board want. it will exceed that because we want more to be done to have a answer-a long term answer to the homeless challenge and i think that this will serve as yet a national model not only for the temporary nav center but for permanent long term housing. in about 3 or 4 years this building will be

torn down, but observe before it is torn down the developers will build brand new housing just behind it that will serve as the permanent housing supportive housing that chp will run. that kind of story you don't find very often and we'll use this because i would like other developers to adopt this type of model. withthality i want to introduce director of the community housing partnerships within our partner in the city for a long long time and will continue to be so, gale hillman >> just briefly, on behalf of community housing partnership we want to thank strauta investment and want to thong the plumbers union and pechckz fund for allows us to take a invasion the city started-i know. take a

invasion the city started at a school site and show it can be successful. the chunthy housing partnership is help homeless security housing and become self sufficient and by testing the model inside a housing setting we truly will help the nin 3 program participants who will come through the doors and use as a run way to launch to a permanent xust from homelessness. we are very excited about the partnership and development and could have never happen without the city and without our partner shb with strauta investment, the plumbers and pension fund of local 38. we are so oxe sited and invite you back in june where we can show the space squz the participants being housed. thank you so much for coming together. [applause]

>> thank you. what i'm looking forward to is hopefully in about a year we will be at the board of supervisors with final approvals for the project that we are talking here and it is much bigger as the mayor mentioned than just this building. there is a bunch of surface parking lots you see behind here t is a perfect location for new housing for a mix of market rate middle income affordable housing and then transitional homeless housing. gale and i ask the mayor were talking earlier about the possibility you can have residents come out of the civic center hotel into the brands new building where they step up, their lives are stabilized a little more and with good employment service and all the other support they need, they move into our 50, 60 percent ami

inclusionary on site affordal housing. it will be a fantastic success if we can do that. the building here and want to cu-mind pete mocky from the pension trust fund from local 3 aithd and all the leadership of local 38, it is a old build{the partnership will keep it going so we can take advantage of this opportunity to solve a need, but it isn't a long term solution and the building we'll bing in ch h p will be state the art for stabilization and formally homeless individual housing so we are really excited about that. again, the plumbers have been great. when i talked to pete and larry mu zola junior who runs the plumbers union and started talking about this, their reaction was of course. there was a

big fire in lake countsy two years ago and they owned land up there and had some housing available and the plumbers union is housing 5 oor 60 homeless families on their own because it is being a good citizen and these type of public private partnership give me great hope so thank you all. [applause] >> so, any questions? otherwise i will invite everybody back here in june. wealver a old fashion bbq to celebrate the open of the nav scepter. i want the whole pension board to be here because i think aerfbd needs to celebrate how we transform peoples lives by just working together and making sure everybody understand the end goal which is quality housing for everybody that needs