>> this committee will convene remotely until authorized to meet in person. public comment is available. comments to speak during are available by calling 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 when your

item of interest comes up dial star 3. (inaudible) turn down the television or radio. you may submit public comment to ocoh.con@sfgov.org and forwarded to the committee and a part of the flile. this meeting is recorded and available at sfgovtv.org. >> at this time we do not have quorum but we'll proceed with informational items. i believe jesse we'll go straight to the presentations. i won't do any of our typical stuff. great. we'll start with >> (inaudible) >> we'll start with the needs assessment. you are up. >> great. i'm going to set a timer, so i have (inaudible) okay.

so, i'm really happy to be here and telling-communicate with you guys the needs assessment is progressing, and looking forward to hearing some of it with you. i am hoping today to accomplish two things. one is to draw your attention to some of the new information and adjustments that have been incorporated into the needs assessment and many of these are in direct response to suggestions from the committee. thank you for that. and then i'm hoping to also create space for the committee to engage with each other around the meaning of this information. because of this we might not make it through the entire deck. i anticipate we won't make it through the entire deck, but i will post the whole thing and would be very happy to talk

with any or all of you about other things that are in there. before i get started, the other thing i wanted to thank and recognize the partnership of the (inaudible) working group which includes officer (inaudible) chair williams as well as staff from the department of homelessness and supportive housing, department of public health and the mayor's office including mayor office of community development and focused strategies. >> we can't hear you, if you are speaking. >> thank you. i was speaking. >> the last slide we didn't hear your comments. >> you didn't hear me.

okay. alright. let's see. go back to this one. alright. try again. -no. sorry you all. not my day. let's see-current slide. i added information and introduction to the home fund and the history, and orientation to the needs assessment requirements laid out in the ordinance as well as the formal structure agreed upon by the committee earlier this year. i i changed the way the needs assessment approaches the definition of homelessness. lifting up the local definition of homelessness as a person or household who lacks the fixed residents and recognizing this matches the most expansive four part federal definition of homelessness where

that breaks into four categories. one is literal homelessness, two is imminent risk of homelessness. three is people who are living doubled up, hotels or otherwise inadequate night time residents and category four is fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence. again, there is no single data source at the local, federal, state level that incapsulates the full definition of homelessness, all four categories. this slide maps out some of the data sources. and move into the population question. i added more slides to orient the audience what we are doing here and where we are trying to get and each section offers had descriptive side about

the key questions that will be driving the conversation. and then review the data sources that are available. another one of those structuring slides. now we'll get into actual like new data. we are talking about the point in time count, estimating the number of people experiencing homelessness each year, the different sources for understanding the number of families and youth living doubled up in crowded conditions or sro's with children and thinking about the number of people fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence each year. the 2022 point in time count shows the decrease in the number of people experiencing homelessness in san francisco at a point in time and it is worth noting just that the pick count includes people residing in domestic violence shelters and

those displaced by domestic violence can access resources so head is clear category one and four need to be addressed by the homeless response system. in any case wanted to note that. we will return specifically to the segment of the population fleeing domestic violence a little bit later on. how many people are experiencing homelessness each year? as was published in the report, the current best estimate is as many as 20thousand individuals may experience homelessness in san francisco over the course of a year. and that estimate synthesizes several data sources. i think you remember last year we used those two tested methods of annualizing the pit count and pit survey, but we adjusted the methodology to draw

upon a broader evidence based, so bringing administrative data from the one system as well as public health database systems into the estimate. just want to note the estimate of 20thousand people is quite a bit higher then the estimate we used in the last cycle, the original working on this, which was around more like 15 thousand, 16 thousand, so quite a bit higher. and then the graph at the bottom of the chart, i used $16 thousand, so quite a bit higher. and then the graph at the bottom of the chart, i used that 20thousand number, subtracted the pit count to get you back of a number 12 thousand to 12.250 people, inflow into homelessness each year. as many as i guess. sorry, the

presentation just skipped ahead. >> jesse, i see we now have quorum so let me quickly can we call the meeting to order and get back to the presentation? >> would you like me to call roll at this point? >> yes, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. [roll call] >> great, we do have

quorum and jesse you can proceed. >> great. thanks so much. oica, so we just talked about the sort of method for annualizing the point in time count, the estimate of the number of people experiencing homelessness each year. it is really important we talked about this before to take the point in time count or the estimate of people and translate that into how many households because homelessness is solved at the level of housing units and it is a important adjustment to be made. the current best thinking as many as 16.700 households experience literal homelessness each year in san francisco and this is a increase in the number of households estimated to experience homelessness in a year. so, in the last cycle we estimated 13.800 households so

additional 3,000. adults make up around 79 percent of that with as many as 13.100 households experiencing homelessness in a year. unaccompanied youth under age 25 make up around 11 percent of households i. to draw your attention to the family households, which i know is a particular concern to this committee. both proportion and estimate in number have increased, so now the best thinking is 10 percent of literally homeless households are families with miner children, as many as 1700 families experiencing literal homelessness each year. the last estimate put families of 5 percent of the literally homeless households with roughly 650 families

experiencing literal homelessness in a year. i will pause here for a second and can dont know chair williams if you are able to see the list, but just pause and give -allow for people to offer thoughts. >> yes. member friedenbach, i see you have your hand raised. >> i would prefer that-i understand why doing it by households but i think it ends up making the proportions really bias and so because you have like all most all households single so each of the families seems like all of the individuals contained in the family should be counted. i just wanted to point that out because it makes the percentages look like there is a much smaller number of people experiencing

homelessness if in intact families if we do by household. >> did you want to respond jesse? >> we can go to member catalano. >> jesse, would you mind going back one slide? [multiple speakers] >> sorry, jesse. >> it's okay, not your fault. >> it seems like we could-i think we could do the same analysis, the same graph on the next page by individuals possibly it sounds like to member friedenbach's point which is helpful to see. i'm not following the graph on the bottom of the next slide that you had. if we think there is 20 thousand people individuals experiencing homelessness over the course of the year why is the 12,000 inflow and point in time count is just point in time? (inaudible) showing we are missing the opponent in time

count isn't accounting because the point in time count is the 12,000 people. >> right. the point in time count can't account for every person who experiences homelessness over the course of the year, right? so, yes if we think that--the point in time count is the best acknowledging all the weaknesses of the point in time count. it is the only real way we have of measuring unsheltered homelessness at this point. if we say somewhere around 7754, 8,000 people are homeless at a point in time, then inflow must be pretty significant if we are saying as many as. so somewhere in the ball park there is a pretty significant number of people. and yeah, i think we probably could either on this slide or the previous

slide or add a slide to break out how people are divided to make that point about the number of people to the number of households. >> ya, that would be super appreciated because i think it ends up making it look like family homelessness is a smaller problem then it is and it is 3,000 large in terms of number of human beings impacted. >> i do just want to-1700 families is a lot. lot of families and that is a horrifying number of people for sure, but-yeah. >> yeah, i guess to have a visual. i'm really really appreciative that we are looking at the

comprehensive impact on families and i think that is something a lot of the members of this committee have been frustrated with for a long time and the way that-the lack of addressing family homelessness and it is put to the side in public policy debates and there is this impact that is multi-generational that feeds homelessness and just you know, destroys lives so significantly and so i know myself i'm prickley about this one but this was something we were intentional about with prop c because we wanted to mike -make sure we can go upstream and stop that-give people the opportunity to be able to thrive early on and not have those long-term negative

impacts we see from kids experiencing homelessness in terms of drop-out rate and experiencing drama, et cetera, et cetera. anyway, thank you so much. >> yeah. i can't see, are there others or should i move on? >> you can continue. >> super. so, moving then to talking about families and youth moving doubled up in crowded conditions or sro's, this is a really challenging group to count and to find information about. there is just so few opportunities to observe this type of homelessness, like the city wide scale and obviously there's reasons that people dont want to disclose the living situation to avoid unwanted detention included from unwanted systems. i did follow the suggestion of looking into calworks data, but i didn't find a

way to identify to kind of separate how folks that are in the at-risk or doubled-up living situation. for now i incorporated the san francisco unified school district numbers. i can only find through 2018, 1661 student doubled with friends or relatives and 291 in hotels or motels. there isn't a good way of getting to households from those numbers, but they are still significant number of students living in challenging crowded temporary situations. i also anticipate being able to add to this slide after we hear from the planning department. they will be joining us next month and providing their analysis of over-crowding, which i think using census data and think that might be another innovative way of getting at people who are living in these

really challenging over-crowded situations. and then fleeing domester violence, even more challenges to counting. acknowledging violence is under-reported and victim safety may depend on confidentialty. some leave san francisco to become safe. victims (inaudible) don't use common data systems, again for safety, security confidential reasons. i was able to find in the san francisco continue of care from 2021 a estimate of about 4109 survivors that includes all household members annually displaced by domestic violence in san francisco. and i was

also able to find in the point in time count domestic violence was the result of homeless (inaudible) 4 percent of homeness non families. this is from the survey. okay. let's see. moving into the next section, this next section provides greater descriptive detail about the population of people experiencing homelessness. i brought into the greatest extent possible some sort of comparative figure to help identify where we are seeing disparities. high my goal is to describe the population of people experiencing homelessness through the framework of need at a systemic and structural level. so thinking what do the characteristics of the population show us about the kinds of solutions that may

work and a pretty straight forward example would be households, older adults, maybe on fixed incomes will likely need deeper ongoing subsidies rather then limited time support, for example. but i also i guess want to suggest we can look at the population and think about how are the population characteristics reflecting pressures pushing people to homelessness. getting to inflow question. the structural dynamic questions, the root causes. what ways does the population reflect barriers to safe and successful exment from homeless? are we seeing some populations seem to be a little more stuck then others? and if we do see that then what might people need to obtain and sustain

housing and avoid homelessness under those conditions? let's see, the first example of this is the demo graphics of literally homeless population looking at racial and ethnic distribution. people of color, in particular black or african american, indigenous or native, including the alaska native, american indian, hawaiian native and pacific islanders and hispanic communities are all (inaudible) this slide shows the 2022 point in time count data in orange and alongside the race and ethnicity data from san francisco general population at the 2020 census shown in blue. the dotted line between the racial categories on the left and hispanic latin x on the right is meant to separate those.

these are two different data points in both the census and point in time count, which means a person who identifies as hispanic or latin x can also describe as black, asian, native, white, multi-racial, pacific islander. so, that's just sort of a orientation to the slide. i would like to turn to the structural questions that i was just talking about and see if we can open it up for some questions. why are we seeing such over-representation from american indian, black, native hawaiian and latin x communities? why are we seeing such dramatic over-representation? what happens if we approach racial and ethnic disparities of

structural pressures? there are structural pressures communities are experiencing pushing them into homelessness or creating barriers to long-lastic homelessness and how might or solution change if we take the structural barriers and inequalities into account as we are developing programs and ideas and a system really? i will pause here again and give people a chance to offer reflection. or questions. >> don't see any hands at this time. proceed, if there are questions at the end- >> absolutely. this is a point where i think the qualitative data will be really important and i anticipate having that here. (inaudible) and patterns show up in

people's lives. what solutions emerge when we start to center those experiences, the experiences of over-represented groups, what solutions do they say will work in response to those pressures? here we are looking at sexual orientation and gender identity. one more thing, i only have one slide with those questions, but the plan is to sort of infuse the section with that kind of rich qualitative analysis and point of view. okay, sexual orientation and gender identity. we know lgbtq plus are over represented. the chart shows 28 percent of respondents identified as lgbtq plus at the survey. compared with 12

percent of the san francisco population according to the bay area reporter, and 9 percent of california population reported by public policy institute of california. we are also seeing that the homeless population is disproportionately male, 52 percent identified as male at the 2020pit compared with 51 percent of san francisco's population. the census has really binary thinking around-they ask about sex, they don't ask about gender so it is different to get a comparison. we know that transgender people and jnder non conforming people, 4 percent of the population identified as the point in time count and this is something significant, and needs more

attention. the pit count survey also indicated transgender and gender non conforming persons experienced higher rates of those experiencing domestic violence then those identifying as female or male, which was interesting. new stuff. youth make up 14 percent of the literally homeless population. we said about 1700 youth experience homelessness each year. i went-i got coordinated entry data, fiscal year 2022 and was able to pull together thinking about how many households are youth under age 25 and then pretty significant shy of 1 in 5 are youth so think that goes back also to what jennifer was saying earlier about making sure we are representing families. we have a

young population here. youth were disproportionately black, native and latinx. more likely to identify as lgbtq plus and transgender or gender other then female or male from the 2022 youth count. maybe i'll pause again. i don't know if anyone-- >> i don't see. >> okay. again, there is a lot of places where i added information in here bringing in some coordinated entry data to show that families tend to be younger and to show the growing population of older adults, which would be about a third of literally homeless adults which i think is consistent with what we are seeing nationally. the

population that will have special needs. income, comparing people's income which is extremely go against the united way, bringing in the yoonted way real cost measure to show what outsiders are saying is a livable real cost of living in san francisco. a counterpoint. we are starting to get information and data from mental health sf which is really exciting, so this beautiful chart is lifted out of the materials because i liked it so much. about 46 percent of the-people experiencing homelessness who touched the homeless response or health care system are diagnosed with a serious mental illness or substance use disorder. this is the mental health assessed population. higher rates of disability reported at the pit count compared to the general population of

san francisco in the census. 39 percent of pit count respondents identified as having at least one health conditions compared to 5.7 percent at the census. there is a lit of definitional stuff happening there, but i think even if you subtracted the 7 percent of literally homeless adults from the response, you still have a very high rate of disability among people experiencing homelessness disproportionately high. these slides remained largely the same, again looking forward to adding information from the planning department when they visit next month. dividing it up. focus on housing insecurity. we see the true line of racial disparities in terms of who's housing is insecure. family with children libing in sro's. another

place i'm hoping we can add some data from the planning department. and victims of domestic violence bringing in some data from other sources. the family violence council report has a lot. it is not entirely clear to me-a lot of the information that people have about domestic violence is through law enforcement or emergency response, and so that may or may not sort of be our-people who are displaced by domestic violence, but still important and again disproportionally black and latin x and fenail. that is the end of this section. thank you for hanging with me. lost track

of where we are time-wise but look forward to comments and really happy to meet with anybody who wants to look at this in more detail or share thoughts and concerns. >> thank you so much-jesse for all your hard work and thank you to the data work group. i think we need to go back to the land acknowledgment and beginning of the agenda to complete that portion. >> great. jesse, would you mind sharing the slides? >> sorry, it isn't showing, is it? >> not right now. >> there we go. >> it is showing now. great. we'll go to land acknowledgment.

we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. at this time we'll go to item 2, which is public comment on matters not on the agenda. >> members of the public who wish to provide comment should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 a simple prompt will

indicate you raised your hand cht please wait till the system indicates quou are unmuted and begin your comments. please note you have two minutes. i do see a caller. i will take the first caller. hello caller, you have 2 minutes. >> great. thank you. good morning chair and members. wesley (inaudible) senior policy manager for glide, a cosponsor of prop c and deeply invested insuring the public has accessible and transapparent way to understand how the dollars are utilized and apologize if this is better suited for item 8 but i have a meeting. again propose holding discussion on the necessary changes to the data dashboard and request it be added to next meeting's agenda. i hope this is still can be considered even though it is not me-not calling for item 8, but i know committee members feel the same way about this. with this week's coverage by the chronicle, likely discussing the short-comings of homeless intervention plans it is all the more important that we

insure prop c efficacy remains in question and prop c is effective, this committee is tremendously effecive. you know and lead with the firm understanding above all else it is housing that fixes homelessness and you facilitated increase and easier access to housing and kept people housed, so prop c funds and this committee stewardship are integral addressing the homelessness in san francisco. we can't afford to let that be under mined because we did not manage to demonstrate the difference you made. prop c dollars have already done so much and that is building acquisitions to subsidies to so much more beyond that and the dashboard should clearly reflect every last accomplishment so to better appreciate the progress this committee strive today achieve we need accessible and clear documentation of implementation and look forward to

further discussion hopefully as an agenda item. thank you. >> thank you so much. checking for additional callers. i do not see any. >> thank you. we'll now move to item 3, approval of the meeting minutes from august 25, 2022. is there a motion to approve? >> i can move to approve member friedenbach. >> thank you. is there a second? >> second. >> thank you. it is muchbed by member friedenbach and seconded by member catalano. at this time we'll do roll call. [roll call]

>> the minutes are approved and move to resolution for teleconference meetings. sorry, one second. >> do we need to do public comment? >> let me check. i believe so. members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 if you haven't done so please dial star to line up to speak. a system will indicate you have raised your hand cht please wait until the system states you are unmuted and you have 2 minutes. checking the attendee list now and do not see public comment for this agenda item. >> great, thank you. next item which is the

resolution to allow teleconference meetings. the resolution has been provided and reviewed by the members in preparation for the meeting and you can review the full text at the link displayed on the screen. given we are in a continued state of emergency due to covid-19 and there benefit of physical distancing and control the spread and have the opportunity for the public to provide comment in the virtual city the committee resolved to meet by teleconference technology for at least the next 30 days and revisit the topic at the committee next regular meeting. thank you everyone and do we need to take public comment on this as well? >> yes, we do. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your

hand cht please wait until you are unmuted and begin your comments. you have two minutes. checking the list now for hand raised for public comment and do not see any. >> alright. we'll go to roll call. [roll call] >> the resolution is approved. we'll now go to item 6, which is our homeless response system. and hsh strategic planning and i will invite i believe it is director (inaudible) is with us to present on this. >> who shall i give

presenter role to? >> i believe (inaudible) >> yes, i will give her presenter role. >> i'm here. just trying to get my video on. sorry about that. i also believe we have the slides ready to go. >> are you showing the slides or is matthew? >> i haven't ready to go so if i can have permission to share that would be great. >> passing on to you. >> welcome matthew as well. >> good to be back with the committee. appreciate the time. >> thank you, i'm sorry unable to turn my camera on. it is nice to be in front of the committee again. good morning. my name is senthia (inaudible) i am deputy director

at hsh and overseeing our strategic planning process and specifically overseeing a development new division at hsh we are calling planning performance and strategy so there is a lot of the work of the needs assessment and the strategic plan that come together in the work we are doing at the department and the division. we are here to both continue the collaboration with the committee. we really excited to be working with the committee members and really being able to learn from the work you are doing on the needs assessment and the other engagement work you are doing as well as really hoping that we are able to shape each other's work as much as possible. we are trying to figure the best way to align our strategies across the whole city on our response to homelessness and the committee is a big part of that. today we will be very briefly-we dont have ton of time, but we can dig into this more

in future conversations, but we wanted to give a overview of the strategic planning process where we are. the phases. this is work you heard about in the past. and spend a lot of time in the system modeling. we have implemented a community wide planning process planning for it and now we are into the stages to engage community, collecting data, and input into the plan and starting to really make sure we are being inclusive and intentional as possible including the groups working on homelessness. we are building upon the 5 year strateging plan that guided the department work but moving into a city wide comprehensive plan with a much more collective approach around setting goals, aligning strategy and impact of investment to move the needle across the city. it is guiding our work but we want the involvement of city agencies and departments and bodies such as the

(inaudible) who are integral to the shaping of the system. the planning process is meant to be completed by early 2023 timeframe. we (inaudible) in coming meetings. you come to any meeting at the (inaudible) updateing folks. we want to mention that we are digging into the community engagement strategy. that is the community sort of interest in-sorry, the committee interest in engagement, similar and lot of alignment there. next slide, please. (inaudible) we finished this first phase at the end of june. we were focused on the state plan we had to submit for homeless housing prevention program funding that required us to look at the data, the goals, the strategy and gives a little framework for the strategic planning process in san francisco. we did

coordinated entry evaluation, launching redesign process. (inaudible) also has awarded a grant to do crim inal justice planning work and taking hold of our ability to work with that system and also working with many other systems. this is way to resource the work and build on the (inaudible) that the criminal justice system is working on for years. (inaudible) focused on the development of the city wide strategic plan. next slide, please. the timeline really between now and december implementation of the planning process. (inaudible) doing drafting and coming out with our sort of external education and support process to adopt it in early 2023. just to give a sense where we are approaching the planning process and the plan itself. really really focused on having the goal to

advance exwuty driving the entire plan. this requires a lot of culture change internally across many different parts of the system but we know the social racism and economic inequality are the drives of homelessness and that needs to be a central foundation and orientation of the plans and goals and strategies in all the work we do, not just as a department but as a homeless response (inaudible) impacting many groups in san francisco discriminated against and marginalized have to be centered in the plan, the redesign process and in our community engagement and specifically people with experience being part of the entire planning process, especially from groups who are over-represented in homelessness and under-served. the key (inaudible) we have a active community engagement and stakeholder process. we engaged with wonderful partners and hoping we will speak

to-if the committee would like to speak to the committee call talent pool. their model is to use a participatory model where the actual contractors through them are people with expertise. community liaisons to the work. they will be doing the survey, focus groups, helping interpret the data that comes from them and driving ourconversations and hopefully starting to build towards sustainable infrastructure where we have people lived expertise as a stable part of the system that are resourced for time, we are paying them an hourly rate and we want to make sure that is something that continues to be sustainable and not just part of the planning process. that is a key goal as we try this model. this is reflective what you all presented and key things you want to do in community engagement. want to invite the experts on the committee to work together with us to

form this planning process around community engagement and moving forward the strategic infrastructure we will be building across our whole community. it is (inaudible) i will allow tracey to talk about strategies in just a minute and of course the cross departmental coordination and planning. there is much more i can say but i want to give time the system modeling which is area of work so i would like to say thank you and i will-think i can hand it over to tracey now. thank you. >> thank you. my name is tracey bennett with focused strategies and support hsh on a number initiatives. we are leading the quantitative portion of system modeling and as noted and it is piece of the framework

planning. modeling is an approach for using data to look into the future and to get about what might happen it is used to inform but not tell what will happen in the future, so what we will be doing is estimating how the number of people experiencing homelessness in san francisco might be impacted by changes that are made to the homelessness system. so what will the ultimate impact be of adding resources and money or capacity to the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. is is going to support the strategic framework decision making and strategic planning efforts and we won't come up with like the right answer in terms

of what san francisco -what future changes in the homelessness system in san francisco will create, but it will help to inform like the implications of the choices that are offered and decided upon. next slide, please. this is a really simplified representation of our thinking. we will look at the people who households who experience unsheltered homeless in the community. look at how they flow through system resources, and you can see by the direct arrow from the red unsheltered box to the dark blue system resources box. system resources being capacity and shelter transitional housing,

rapid rehousing, other homeless system resources. you also see that unsheltered households can go essentially self--resolve, but never go through the homeless system and go to the community or to other places outside the system. and people also flow from the homeless system resources and come back to unsheltered homelessness. in a simplified way, this is what happens in the system. the next slide shows a little more complexity in terms of what we will will be doing but still doesn't reflect the complex math behind the model. here you see that for example, you can move from unsheltered homelessness following the path to emergency shelter. you might move from shelter to

transitional housing. you might move from shelter to rapid rehousing and move to other permanent housing in the system or other housing and might move from shelter to the community so this shows all the different pathways-probably not all the different pathways, but most of the different pathways possible for someone who is experiencing homelessness to resolve or remain and resolve it or to remain in the system. what we are going-the model actually takes data and the assumptions that are being made and will be made to look at the impact of changes. so, if we increase capacity for example of permanent supportive housing. so, more people can flow through those arrows, what happens ultimately to the

unsheltered homelessness number? if we say, well, we are going to change rapid rehousing length of stay to make it shorter then most can flow that mechanism. if we are interested in saying, well, we think more people will be flowing through emergency shelter because we will increase capacity and enhance services, so the length of stay might be a little bit longer, but we will have more room for people and more people are going to end up in permanent housing, we can model things like that. so, that's just kind of the summary of what we are doing and the approach we are taking. what's been really critical from our point of view is the work with our city our home and

specifically jesse in aligning how we are approaching the data, because the data that she started to talk about and what she showed and the data that we are using to develop the baseline model is-it will benefit the whole community because it is aligned. this slide shows the aligned inputs that ocoh and hsh are using as well as the aligned goals. the modeling also is going to use the 2022 pit to indicate the current population. we will be looking at the household level, again, underscoring homelessness is resolved at the household or unit level. i heard the

comment about reflecting the number of people and families and that is a important point and the model will be looking at the number of units, but the strategic framework will look at-we'll talk about the number of people in each population. we are using the current inventory, the 2022 homeless housing inventory count to talk about the baseline number of resources and we are looking at current system performance to talk about flow through systems, through the system, and then the estimated inflow and total number of households experiencing homelessness annually. this also was something that jesse talked about and it is

related to the first bullet under aligned goal. estimate number of households experiencing homelessness. the data that is the input and the aligned goals, we have been working on that actually substantially over the last couple of months, and the data that jesse presented looking at the households experiencing homelessness were or people experiencing homelessness of 20,000 is what we have all come up with together, so that was a goal that we've largely accomplished. both assessments will be looking at system resource gaps in terms of what kinds of resources may be needed to impact decrease the unsheltered population. we are

both ocoh and hsh are looking at the flow of households as the system model diagram indicated moving into and out of homelessness and pathways they move through the system. the community engagement process that cynthia described for the strategic framework, as well as the people who lived experience community engagement process ocoh will be undertaking will inform some of the information about what may be relevant to lower barriers to resolving homelessness for different populations. the next slide shows some places where ocoh and hsh goals, they differ but they are not in

conflict in any way. so, ocoh will be looking at and jesse started talking about this, the number of households living in crowded conditions. also, identifying the needs of homeless people in sub-populations, identify the barriers to safe successful exit from homelessness and illicit priorities and needs of people current and past homelessness. those are things not explicitly assessed in the quantitative model will inform the final modeling that happens. and will be part of the strategic planning process. hsh, the two things the quantitative modeling can add that are

important for long-term planning is estimating the year over year impact on the number of households experiencing homelessness, so, we can look at-we will be looking at a 5 year timeline and looking if you add resources in the first year what happens. adding maybe different resources in the second year. changeing performance in the third year. we can do different things every year of the model and the end of it all we'll be able to provide actually different alternatives for a balance between resources, different approaches to balancing the resources to reduce homelessness in the short-term and to sustain that in the longer term. did we want to do questions at this point?

>> actually, we do have a hand from member friedenbach and also member catalano so if it's okay we'll go to member friedenbach. >> yeah, thank you so much chair williams and are thanks for this presentation and it is really exactly what we need to do. yeah. really appreciate all the work on this. my first question is about the dph piece of this specifically around behavioral health, and thinking about-some of the housing options have been moved from dph to the homeless department, there is still a housing that primarily serves unhoused people in coops and some of the boarding cares and housing that is more geared towards folks

with higher aquity and there is also the transitional housing-we also got this behavioral health treatment system and guess wondering if that will be factored in because it feels like a very important piece of the puzzle. >> thank you for offering that. one of the things that we certainly will talk about doing that-one of the things that we are hoping to do is after we have the baseline model to present it to a variety of groups, including you all i would suspect, and get input on the things that we would need to include and this is absolutely the kind of feedback we look for so we can start talking about that

right now. >> okay, great. and then my second question is around the population stuff. so, on the slide before on the line i was like really excited because i was like okay, so, we are looking at the wholeness of the situation and following the official definition that san francisco has for homelessness that was based on a lot of health data and really carefully thought through. but on the next slide it looks like we are not including in hsh piece of it, it isn't including families in sro and families doubled up or--? >> so, right. so, that is correct. in the model we are

including data from the system resources that we are directly modeling the system resources that are in the one system. anything that is outside the one system including some assumptions around self-resolution and any other things which would include sro's and doubled up would need to be outside the model and be included in the assumptions about what is happening in the system. the model is-jesse talked about the difficulty of getting some of that data and having it be up to date in the model is based on the data that is available and relatively high quality. >> okay. because it

seems like we could at the very least includes the kids reported to san francisco unified. extrapolate 30 percent of kids in the system homeless and in families around 30 percent, get pretty close number there. and then in terms of figuring household size using the average household size of homeless families in the system now. i think those kind of things we can pull in and for the sro numbers we know the complete numbers there. i do think there are solid numbers there, and i think you know, the numbers around db, so, we could get probably some reporting from that system that is not like inaccessible but they could report

back. anyway, i just really want to really strongly recommend that it is a cohesive approach. what we know with our situation with families is that often times unhoused families are moving around from place to place and don't--and are excluded by policy within our homeless family system, and many of the families are in much worse families then families in shelter and much more unstable then families in shelter and impact on kids meaning twemental milestones is very negative. i are want to once again push for that approach, because i think 2 it would be helpful. there was a goal stated to end

family homelessness and after that we shrunk down who we considered homeless and left out a large number of families primarily african american and when they were asking for shelter could no longer get shelter so there is a back-story to this that is very frustrating and for us (inaudible) when we see a family asking for shelter we take that seriously, so yeah, but anyway-yeah. >> thank you for that input and we'll (inaudible) >> if i can respond to (inaudible) i think another part of the-largely the planning process and understanding the system, this (inaudible) part of it [unable to understand speaker due to audio quality] things that may be

sort of talking about the general safetynet for people who are having housing crisis. has a part when we talk about qualitative interaction with community engagement, there is data that we really can work off if it is quantitative, but engagement with families (inaudible) understanding the inputs that will also help to fill up the picture you are talking about is very much what we want to (inaudible) needs assessment and planning and engagement. there is (inaudible) have to figure-looking at the data input for the model versus the things we want to say about supporting people who are having housing crisis. and also because we are bringing in other departments and other stakeholders. part of

this is also who's role is taking on pieces of the safetynet and how we can respond as a city. >> thank you. we'll go to member catalano. >> thraunk thank you so much. i have a question about the broader (inaudible) on the modeling two questions. one is, the information you showed really started with unsheltered so can we talk about if that's the population we are zooming in on as a starting point, and if that is limited to folks experiencing unsheltered homelessness then why. the other question is about how dynamic the modeling will be related to racial and ethnic disparities and what happens within

each of the interventions? i'm thinking what jesse shared earlier with the (inaudible) we have in the system and how the increasing capacity does not guarantee a change in those disparities, so is there within the modeling the opportunity to see based on what we know about how different intervention serve or do not serve different communities what we are likely to see moving forward based on our choices and funding and policy. the second question is about sort of the interventions themselves so like within the shelter-expanding shelter might lead to certain outams but we want to know the resource they have access to and success rate on getting people permnently housed and timeline and what extent are the factors in terms of related to quality and services able to be identified in the model. thanks.

>> those are all really excellent questions. some of this we may need to take off-line or come back to give you the best responses to. the model does start with unsheltered homelessness and it focuses on unsheltered homelessness because those are the folks the homeless system and cynthia you may want to add to this, but the homelessness system is responsible from the perspective of [no audio] i was going to say of what hud expects but i know hud is not necessarily the driver in san francisco, so i'm stopping myself and-but it is the folks that are most vulnerable, the folks

that are-that we know the most about, and i would like cynthia to jump in on that one actually. >> i think on the-i think-make sure i understand your question. it sounds like you want to look at is disparities-are the choices we are making go-what do they do for disparities or advancing equity, is that the nature of the question? i think the model doesn't break down things by demo graphics. that is work we have it do additionally or along with what the model tells us by population, demo graphics, by different kinds of equity data we want to look at to see (inaudible) and are there is also the performance question. we have to make certain assumptions on certain type of performance to say if we wanted to make sure

everyone has a housing resource within 6 months of being in shelter or housing exit (inaudible) we have to-the model (inaudible) we know that from best practice and what has been working, but the model can tell us every 6 month when we turn over a shelter bed that means we need this many shelter beds and have to put housing resources in that and that has to come outside the model. i hope i describe that correctly? >> yes. that is absolutely right. disproportionality and the intervention specific questions we use what the model generates and then do extra work outside the model to look at some of those things. i was more focused on the unsheltered because my assumption of the question is why are we not including the doubled up

populations and it was-did i interpret the question correctly? >> i think it was actually a slight distinction and you answered the other question (inaudible) we can take the conversation at another time. to the extent we have information about how each of these like interventions or each of the parts of the system are currently operating, and building into the model and say what if this improved by 10 percent and this serves black households with 10 or 20percent increased success, that is an amazing thing to come out of the model and unsheltered question is about-i see unsheltered throughout the model but the first slide was just focusing on people unsheltered and following that path so that is what i wanted to clarify. >> yes, it is really about who is

unsheltered, because the shelter in transitional housing while people are still considered homeless is part of the homeless response system and that will be--may vary the amount of shelter capacity available for example in some of the scenarios and so, and the goal would be to understand what impact that has on the unsheltered situation in order to reduce the number of people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. >> thank you. i see cynthia, did you have your hand raised? that is from last time? >> sorry, my mistake. >> okay, no worries. alright. cynthia do you want to continue or if we- >> i think i am handing it back to cynthia for the last couple slides. thank you. >> thank you and i appreciate the time we are taking a little more time then

planned. again, we talked about a little at the front the active community stakeholder engagement. i want to live up the workee are doing with community engagement partners and (inaudible) as a way to say at the next conversation at the committee this is reflective hopefully and other principals the committee also identified as being important in the work you are doing which is lead with feedback with people from lived experience in planning and engage ment work. the data modeling is really important but we know a lot of the information about our system and how it works (inaudible) people experiencing homelessness and we want to focus people (inaudible) or who are not currently (inaudible) and build energy and empower communities to be able to really focus the energy we have on

really reducing disparities and generate (inaudible) equity work is long and deep and complex but from that engagement make sure we have clear actions we the homeless response system and city can take to advance equity and create (inaudible) just quickly, (inaudible) happens in service and focus groups. provide the organization will happen-currently happening and [difficulty understanding speaker due to audio quality]

other entities we think that want to engage and provide input. the planning process is important but the implementation plan that comes afterwards is where the work is formulated and happen so much engagement to be done and work to do even after the planning process is complete. thank you. >> great. thank you so much to the entire team, to cynthia, matthew, to tracey for this phenomenal work and thank you to all my colleagues for your awesome questions. at this time let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 a system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. wait till the system

indicates you have been unmuted and begin comments. i do not see public comments on the item. >> thank you. i see officer leadbetter has her hand raised. >> can you hear me? is this better? okay. great. thank you. thank you for all of your work. great to see everybody, matthew, tracey, cynthia, thank you for coming. i'm wondering where this leads us to mr. friedenbach's comments in terms of how does the modeling effort help understand our work forward of homeless prevention and behavioral health. >> yes. thanks member leadbetter. i was-our engagement with the other departments around this plan is

essentially one on one engagement because the department public health a lot of work happening so we are doing planning work that started a month before this larger planning process began, partially because we already have (inaudible) trying to bring the homeless system and health partners together-the san francisco health plan and other health plan so there is a lot of planning work on data integration and really using (inaudible) medi-cal waver program that is bringing new resources into our community to use towards our system and specifically towards homelessness. that work is doing some of the more detailed planning but we are working with leadership of department of public health and health plan specifically at those tables as well as working with hsh on the homeless response system and shared

priorities, unsheltered people, people with behavioral health needs and housing and try ing to figure the high level strategy because we have investments from ocoh and other shared investment strategies so we can come up with shared priorities and goals that we can move forward. some of that will be in the plan, more detailed planning work we are trying to do to have a more integrated system. did that respond to your question mr. leadbetter? >> i think so. i get you are still building the boat of collaboration here and where we are getting the data from. look forward to understanding what we are actually learning and applying to our investment plan moving forward, but we'll get there. and i think-go ahead. >> sorry, i did want to say there is work going on with the data work group around the aligned outcomes and

metric the work group is doing. i don't (inaudible) there is a lot of detailed work and a lot of actionable activity happening (inaudible) >> great. yes. i have been attending those before (inaudible) with the lived expertise work i'm thankful this is music to my ears really the idea we will build infrastructure moving forward. i think we struggled as a committee with this idea of like, we are starting a needs assessment, how much engaged work can we have over time and so thank you for sort of bringing that thought process to the mix. and also where hsh is building itself and the strategies and i think i just are want

to encourage in some of this work, like you say we are try ing to get city wide strategy and momentum. we heard from the caller today we need city wide data and dashboard and when we talk lived expertise we need to talk about that in the same way. i dont want to pick at the slides but there was a slide building infrastructure for hsh and we are building for the city of san francisco and to the extent to which we can make it feel that way that people will have impact beyond the administrative decisions of hsh or the important decisions we are all doing, but i think it is really about a zeitgeist of movement building we always tried to connect each other and because we had to hand this off in the handoff between the departments and

ocoh, we really are looking to you guys to take that zeitgeist and run with it and i know talent pool does that and very excited to work with them, but i just want to keep pushing that a little bit. thank you so much. >> thank you member leadbetter and appreciate the spirit of the engagement being across the whole community, and i really appreciate that. >> thank you so much officer leadbetter and just again thank you so much cynthia, matthew and tracey. we do need to move forward, but we'll be in partnership and communication about this really really important work and just really appreciate your collaboration and willingness to work directly with our body. thank you so much and with that colleagues we will move to-i don't know if we need to take public comment? we already did. >> you already did .

>> (inaudible) >> go ahead? >> can i get share my screen? >> yes. >> one second. >> i will call the item. we'll move to item 7 the work plan and liaison structure and i'll turn it over to jesse to walk us through. >> i think i have them in slightly different order, so i'm just going to start with the liaison structure. isent out to the committee members kind of a description of the liaison structure trying to get a little more simplified--like, one-pager together about the liaison structure and what liaisons are meant to

do and who fits into these. i copied substance of the memo on to some slides and i don't know if people had a chance to look at it ahead, but this describes that the committee appoints members to take on specific tasks, community stakeholders communicate with city departments and offices and coordinate the development of the spending recommendation. designated by the committee and serve at the direction of the committee to make more liaison roles or desolve them. and that liaison activities do not need to be publicly noticed but no more then committee members can participate in a activity or consult within a conversation at a time. it is liaison plus 3. and the liaison

responsibility trying to get a clear list together so that as new members come on we can orient them to this in a straight forward way. very interested in people's-if this reflects your understanding of what the liaison roles are, what revisions or suggestions or additions we might-you might want to make at this point as we move into the fall. primary function of the liaison is to draft the spending plan recommendation for their designated areas, including meeting with departments, solicit if stakeholder impact, (inaudible) and then drafting the spending recommendations for community review and vote. the core function of the liaison is insure transparency and accessibility related to their areas. consult with departments dreping

the spotlight presentations we are starting this year. we have already done prevention, mental health fallowed by permanent housing and then shelter and hygiene. and then research activities as needed. and then here are the current liaisons roles and designated members filling those roles at this point. again, very interested in your thinking on this. this is still reflects where we are and if there are adjustments that need to be made as we move forward. >> sounds like we want to pause and take comments from the committee. we'll go to officer leadbetter and then vice chair d'antonio. >> thank you. i think this is a area where it would be really helpful and we tried to pull straight from

the legislative text, it is very clear directive about the roles of the committee, which is always a nice frame for when we get more specifically into the roleoffs the liaisons which obviously we are creating ourselves as a building upon that but it is helpful to see the actual legislative text. thanks. >> vice chair d'antonio. >> yeah, i honesty don't have that much to capacity to be in the role i'm in right now and i'm wondering-i'm happy to continue doing it while we think of other creative solutions or if there is somebody else that wants to do it, but thinking that being a part of the data role, or if people have ort

other thoughts and ideas around-- >> this doesn't have to be-this is the beginning of the conversation, so thanks for sharing that and just-i guess don't want to limit people from offering thoughts if we don't have to come to conclusion today necessarily. >> thank you. i see member friedenbach. >> yeah. i really like the idea of combining-i would want to hear from member leadbetter because this might be too much but i do like the idea combining community impact and data, because i feel like they are two arms of the same body because like you get collect information directly from impacted communities and service providers along with data you get from machines and what not, so i just

like that proposal as a cohesive position, but i would want to know capacity. and also, yeah--i feel like bringing them together could more directly tie the information we are gathering into the strategic planning and those things that are happening so it doesn't feel it is like off to the side and so i really like that proposal. >> great. i think we can gather these thoughts and suggestions jesse and workshop it and bring back structures to the board. i see-i believe these are hands from last time. any other thoughts before we move into the work plan? alright. jesse. >> (inaudible)

>> there you go. >> in response to member friedenbach, i think it is a good idea if the rest of the committee is amenable to that. i think we would have to sort of relook at the lived expertise representation in that sense. we have to have family lived expertise (inaudible) we can start those details out, but from a perspective of really elevaluating also the work of the lived expertise into a officer level position i think that is also very valuable and totally agree on the cycle with the data work. thanks. >> we can do a straw person for what that would look like and come back to the committee. jesse, i know you were sharing your screen, but it disappeared, the work plan. >> can you see it?

>> yep, we can see it now. >> great. i sent out-everybody should have received a couple different documents, implementation updates going out bimonthly in odd numbered months and then committee work plan updates that will be going out bimonthly and even number of months. we got your august installment a little bit late. just wanted to share some of the updates from where we are at with the work plan. so, formal spending-formal reporting on spending capacity added service utilization and demo graphics as well as outcomes is being prepared. the fiscal the books just closed the beginning of

september. data has been collected. we are sort of truing upright now and are trying to see what we have and what we are missing and in terms of financial spending data as well as outcomes performance, utilization kinds of data. so, you can expect a process update on the project at the october meeting that will be more substanative. the controller's office and to do that the controllers office added analyst capacity so we have a couple different analyst in addition to me working on making that report a realty and making it graphically beautiful and all those things. it includes a lot of that information i just talked about there. the needs assessment, you got sort of peak how it is developing again today. i'm aiming for

the november retreat as a opportunity to share how things have come together. happy to meet and brief any member on the analysis and where we are with the analysis. stakeholder engagement, i would really proposing just i think the conversation about liaison roles reinforcement. agendizing conversation to the committee on stakeholder engagement including what are the committee's needs, whautare your questions and pritorties in terms of engaging with people and soliciting meaningful substanative input from people with lived expertise, that is the language in the ordinance. obviously we want to-there have a been a few different

threads in addition to that making ocoh more understandable. the dashboard and data more understandable. increasing engagement currently or past experience with homelessness. connecting with those with limited english (inaudible) something we talked about mostly in connection to meeting together, like meeting in person, but as long as we are in this teleconferencing moment, it would be good probably for us to think about how we can bring in additional participation. and then in the controller office we explore option for outside support and how we can quickly bring in added capacity to help with stakeholder engagement. and then i think the last thing, upcoming at the october meeting i mentioned a up couple

times the planning department will join us to present data. they have census data around over-crowding in san francisco, both over-crowding and severe over-crowding and talks about the housing element report which is exciting and being developed. has interesting policy recommendations coming out of that. and then the update on the ocoh year end report. i think we can probably expect another update on system modeling and strategic planning, how that is going in alignment with the needs assessment. so, that is my update of how we are doing and i will do another written one for you ahead of the october meeting. >> thank you so much jesse. and also leadbetter you have your hand raised? >> that was one a mistake. >> okay, no worries. well, thank you jesse for the great update

and again we'll sort of go back and workshop potentialalty from the comments we heard today and with that, if you could secretary hall go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 the system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. wail -wait until you are unmuted and begin your comments. you have 2 minutes. checking the list for hand raised and do not see any so no public comment. >> thank you. we have time available to talk about item 8 which is our future agenda items. are there any future agenda items we want to add to the list? i see vice

chair d'antonio. >> um, i guess just based on what we heard today and last meeting during public comment, around like creating more digestible content for you know, the community basically to be able to see the impact of prop c and not having to do too much (inaudible) >> thank you. any other suggestions for future agenda items? if not, we'll go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001 code: 2481 141 0092 # #/ to request to speak, press *3 the system will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until quou are unmuted and may

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meeting. we are adjourned at 11:17 a.m. have a great day. >> thanks everyone. we spoke with people regardless of what they are. that is when you see change.

that is a lead advantage. so law enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. >> we are seeing reduction in drug-related crimes in the pilot area. >> they have done the program for quite a while. they are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. >> this was a state grant that we applied for. the department is the main administrator. it requires we work with

multiple agencies. we have a community that includes the da, rapid transit police and san francisco sheriff's department and law enforcement agencies, public defender's office and adult probation to work together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. >> having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. we are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. >> agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. >> collaboration is good for the department. it gets us all working in the same direction. these are complex issues we are

dealing with. >> when you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to work together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. we have done it very, very well. >> the model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are community-based organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. nobody wants to see drug users in jail. they want them to get the correct treatment they need. >> we are piloting lead in san francisco. close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. >> our goal in san francisco and

in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the racial disparity we see. we want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. >> it goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. >> i have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flat-out on my own. i witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat.

transgenders getting beat up. i saw people shot, stabbed. >> these are people that have had many visits to the county jail in san francisco or other institutions. we are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. >> all of the referrals are coming from the law enforcement agency. >> officers observe an offense. say you are using. it is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. >> the officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. >> are you ever heard of the leads program. >> yes. >> are you part of the leads program? do you have a case worker? >> yes, i have a case manager. >> when they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they

give us a call. ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. >> primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. if they were violent they wouldn't qualify for lead. >> you think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the substance abuse issues i am dealing with. >> they would contact with the outreach worker. >> then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. we can take you. let's meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. >> bring them to the community assessment and services center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department

of public health staff to assess the treatment needs. it provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. they go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. >> someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasn't shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. they can offer services based on their needs as individuals. >> one of the key things is our approach is client centered. hall reduction is based around

helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take? >> we are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. it is a program based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. we are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. >> it opens doors and they get access they wouldn't have had otherwise. >> supports them on their goals. we are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. >> because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. >> it is all on you. we are here to guide you. we are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. it is you telling us how you want us to help you.

>> it means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. >> they pick up the phone. it was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. no matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody else's phone by calling them they always answered. >> in office-based setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. this has been helpful to see the outcome. >> we will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. >> first to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. >> can we get you to use less

and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. it is all part of the home reduction model. you are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. this is an important question where lead will go from here. looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. >> if it is for five months. >> hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. >> i want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. >> it can be somebody scaled out. that is the hope anyway. >> is a huge need in the city.

depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. >> we all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide. i think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. more importantly, it will save lives.

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francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you

know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and

down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the

city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter]

>> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff

in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes.

murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories.

i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at

home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons.

we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown.

a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography,

that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my

daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal.

you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything.

i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance.

i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the

locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town.

that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains

and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way.

>> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone.

i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the

government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with

five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco. [ music ] .

>> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm

honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north

beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music

was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco

chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea. today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that

makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we

source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

[applause] >> all right again give it up! [speaking spanish]. so i would love to begin by welcoming our guests and residence dens and thanking you mayor breed for your vision and commitment in leading historic expansion of support of permanent supportive housing. [speaking spanish]

>> i'm excited about the building. casa esperanza provide per minute nan supportive housing for youth exiting homelessness. [speaking spanish]. >> the building will have on sight staff, professional property management from delores community service and on site social services provided by larkin street youth service. [speaking spanish]. part of the mayor's historic homelessness recovery plan and dem registration the d. homelessness and supportive

housing held mission to make homelessness rare being brief and one time. i want to thank the mayor for leadership. [speaking spanish].i want to th leadership. [speaking spanish].and one time. i want to thank the mayor for leadership. [speaking spanish]. new investments and housing work. according to the 2022 point in time count homelessness on youth under 24 decreased by 6% from 2019 to 2022. [speaking spanish].

providing housing like casa esperanza is our shared work to enhance equity and he address the lbgtq and black, indigenous, people of color experiencing homeless knowledge. [speaking spanish]. 38% of homeless youth are lbgtq

+ and increase in homelessness in the latin x community. [speaking spanish]. >> through programs like casa esperanza we are working to address the disparities. [speaking spanish]. permanent supportive housing such as sprnza provides a stain home and path out of homelessness and in community for transitional aged use to end homelessness.

[speaking spanish]. now i will turn it over to mayor breed. thank you. [applause] goovend, everyone it irrelevant is a pleasure to be here, thank you to stanza for blessing mow and this moment where we can celebrate and uplift our young people who were formerly homeless and now have a safe, affordable place to call home. [speaking spanish]. i'm glad to be here with the

supervisor robin and thank you delores and larkin street for -- [applause] for all the work that you do to work with young people. we have a lot of organizations that work with young people in this city. i gotta tell you the w that these 2 organizations do have such a tremendous impact on helping to turn people's lives around in ways that have been absolutely extraordinary. [speaking spanish] a couple

years ago we set out on a mission to focus on ending youth homelessness in san francisco. buzz we know when we are paying close attention to supporting and uplifting youth, then we are doing what we should be doing to ensure that the next generation has the support and the resources, have had they need to succeed. and in fact, we started the rising up campaign larkin street spearheading this effort. and we invested millions of dollars from the city but the private sector has been available and the public/private partnership in providing resources to support the actual, physical structure but to help those basic things that young people need in order to just live life and to go to school and to work their jobs and other

things that some people take for granted. [speaking spanish]. >> as a result, arising up larkin street of delores, we have seen in this city, a

reduction in youth homelessness by 16%. [speaking spanish]. >> almost 600 young people between the ages of 12 and 24, have been housed, provided support and this new accomplice that we are opening well, it has been open for arc while; casa esperanza this is adding another 25 units to the w this we are continuing to do. [applause]. [speaking spanish].

rothis is our part of our city's promise to support young people. we have been able to provide access points so that young people can get help because of the work of the delores street and larkin street and able to open up a transitional navigation center that helps young people get in shell and off the streets where we have a 75 bed shelter in lower polk. it is irrelevant a game changer. [speaking spanish].

we continue is in the just a roof over your head i thank the staff and the caseworkers and the people who are really committed to being here after all of us leave committed to being here to ensure that these 25 young folks staying here never, ever return to the streets. mruz mrauz yes, we can. and i want to say we can't do it without working together. right? and having know wonderful

partners in the mayor's office and on the board of supervisors. and machine who has been an amazing partner and work to help address youth homelessness in san francisco is your supervisor, supervisor ronnin. >> [speaking spanish]. >> good afternoon, everyone! these are by far my absolute favorite days in san francisco. i have a feeling that mayor breed feels the same way as does director mcfadden.

[speaking spanish]. >> because -- looking at beautiful homes sometimes for the first time especially for youth since they have been homeless. to call their own, well is nothing like it. there is nothing more inspiring, more hopeful, more heart warming than seeing people in their own space and their own homes. [speaking spanish].

i want to say that sometimes it is very frustrating to read about san francisco in the papers. [speaking spanish]. because those of us who do this work mayor breed, mcfadden, myself. the community service, larkin street. you know -- lauda. we know that we are changing lives every single day we are saving lives every day. and the press talks about that. they'd talk about you know trashing the streets or homeless encampments but not talking about the lives that are being transformed and the beauty that

happens inside buildings like this every day in san francisco. and i think we node to talk more about that. because that is what san francisco is all about. that is what we believe in. that is when we care about and the w we are doing every day. [applause]. and -- [speaking spanish].

congratulations i am go about my day glowing with a smile ear to ear. [speak spanish]. [applause]. with a ton of happiness and excitement. i'm going to invite up lauda valdez the director of the delores street community service. >> good afternoon will i will read my robber in english and

read in spanish. >> i would like to start by acknowledging the contributions of the casa esperanza staff, team that is here. we can get applause for them. they have been working hard to get us here. i want to thank all of our additional staff that have been working to get us to this point and thank you to the mayor's office and the staff of the department of homelessness and supportive housing for commitment to equity competence serving populations who face increased barriers to housing. i want to give a warm welcome to all the new tenants of casa esperanza. [applause]. i am so pleased that our city has forged a partnership with the locality us community services and larkin street services to establish a home for transitional homes for youth. black and brown community are represented among people

experiencing homelessness. as a result of social, political and economic inequity that he credit pregnant ways to homelessness and systems that cope our xhounlts in the emergencience the latin x community experiencing zebo phobia and discrimination on youth experiencing homelessness. creating this community will be trans forming for the 25 youth who will reside at casa esperanza our organization is prud to have the opportunity to provide the young people dignified housing andave safe and nurturing environment. to have community and a place of belonging. the casa esperanza staff team will deliver trauma services that are culturally appropriate.

our joint approach based on a positive youth development principles. our youth bring assets and believe that with the right support our young people can move forward with their live and reach full potential. living in the mission will afford young people afternoon opportunity for social and community integration. the mission district is a culturally affirming and thriving neighborhood for our latin x community. culture surrounds us. our music, art, our food, our language and our history. casa esperanza will have a small retail business in the store front portion of this building. this will be pritted by tenants and part of the mission district's small business community. the delores street will establish a tenant council to

empower youth to assume responsibility and agency in developing and upholding casa esperanza's culture and community agreements. the tenant council will provide youth with the leadership development and community engage am opportunity. we hope that casa esperanza becomes a bridge for our youth to reach self determination, heeling and liberation. everyone wants a sense of pride and dignity. we than youth will experience this at casa esperanza. [speaking spanish].

[speak spanish]. now i have the pleasure to introduce adams, and executive director of larkin street youth service.

cheryl adams of larkin street community service. [applause]. >> hi. everybody. i am so excited to be here. it has been a really long journey. to get to this place where we have casa esperanza. we happened not have got here without mayor breechld supervisor ronnin. the department of homelessness and supportive housing and all of the incredible staff of delores street and larkin street. a round of applause for everybody.

will 15 years ago we did not have a strategy amongst young people in the city and many were falling through the cracks. 10 years ago we did not have supportive housing outside of the tenderloin and polk area. >> a few months ago issue san francisco monolingual and immigrant youth the least likely young people to get in housing they nodeed stablingize their

live and achieve their dreams. >> we are here today because casa esperanza is what young people told us they needed. small are size outside of the tenderloin. located in their communities where they feel safe, connected and tailored and the tailored to the programs are tailored to their unique needs. >> so many of us fought for the home key it have a set arc side

for young people so there could be housing we fought for young people to have housing outside the tenderloin and everybody here that i see played a role in making that happen. thank you, thank you, thank you for making casa esperanza a reality. >> and last low i want to say to laura and the team at delores street that we are so thrilled partner with you. we could not be more excited. i learn from you every day and i

hope that just keeps continuing and thank you for make thanksgiving happen for young people. now -- it is my pleasure to introduce the person woman who made this happen today. my honor to introduce a residents for casa esperanza, jose