i'm really excited be here i'm mayor london breed. welcome to this extraordinary community. and let me give a how the out to lanea miller and urban alchemy folks. we appreciate you. and sheryl, thank you from larkin street and the work do you with young folk in transitional aged wrouth who are struggling in our communities. you know we are fortunate this we have people who care. and they want to be out there doing what is necessary to help the challenges around homelessness. and urban alchemy is an extraordinary addition to san francisco than i are taking it to the next level with this heart program. i'm grateful for your work, leadership and the fact what

many of the people who are a part of urban alchemy, they understand the challenges that are people are experiencing on the streets because in some instances they have been through challenges themselves. folks had issues around homelessness and substance use disorder. behavioral health. interactions with the justice system and you know in some cases i remember talking to i young man who talked to me about how he wished that urban alchemy had been around when he was going through when he was going through so this different touch could have occurred as a result. you know what he needed. and in fact, he takes that same prop with the work he degree on the streets. we hear so many great stories from people who are serving the musn't in different capacity and oftentimes supervisor mandelman we have so many people who want to talk about san francisco and talk about san francisco is

doing and when they are not. what they don't see when what you don't experience the first time i seen it today when they talked about the heart program and showing someone in distress and showing urban alchemy, basically wrapping their arms around that individual and trying to allow him to process when he was going through as they waited patient low to ensure that he was going to get help this they were able to provide. so we know those stories are happening every day. they are not translating the same. ways but i want you to know i know what is going of i see you. folks out well on the front listen they see you. and especially the people who are a part of this program who are showing up every day and dealing with the challenges. the people that you are help happening, than i see you. they appreciate t. people like momma t this is here hen in the stele for 50 years.

who is considered an elder who should not be living in the tent on the streets in san francisco. and because of the cabin community this is one step in ensuring she has a roof over her head we are able to get her on the right path of the support this she need whether medication and doctor appointments or a community of people to be around and to learn from and grow from. a lot of that makes sense and -- having a village is important. 70 units we opened were extraordinary. and today we are here to talk about budget investments. and she will be talking in just a moment but i will say that -- san francisco has invested tremendous low in helping to address challenges around homelessness. and we know there is in the i one size fits all. we know it requires making sure we are shelter beds.

making sure that we have permanent housing. making sure we have permanent supportive housing. and making sure we prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. that's the combination we have been invest nothing and when we need to get san francisco on the right path and despite a 2 year budget deficit of 780 million dollars, we are still making sure that we are making the commitments to do what is necessary to get the work around homelessness on the right path. to continue these investments. but talk a bit about what has not been said in san francisco because people say what is happening on the streets we are not doing anything around homelessness. despite a pandemic we helped transition 10,000 people out of homelessness in various

capacities. and despite challenges around homelessness between 20 then and 2022, no other bay area county hsu saw i reduction in homelessness. san francisco saw a 15% reduction in unsheltered homelessness and 3.5% reduction in over all homelessness. and so the fact that happened, demonstrates that we are doing a lot of work. making investments work t. is not perfect but we also are providing various layers of programs so that when we see a need that is complicated we are able to meet that need. easier said than done. a let of work is being done. a lot of accomplice ams made. and that work will continue. now i know not long ago i set an ambitious goal one i know some are thinking how will you do temperature this is not enough and we need to set big goals.

we can't be afraid to put forth bold policies and go hard. and to make change. because people are counting on us to make better decisions. and so, over the next 5 years in my homeless recovery plan, my plan and my goal working with our various city agencies in the public. is to make sure this we are creating 30,000 new opportunity to ensure that people have new places and that they don't become homeless. we reduce unsheltered homelessness by 50%. part of what i wanted touch on today is to talk about that again. despite a budget deficit. our investments in homelessness will continue. but it is going to require real challenging kinds of changes to our policies.

so i appreciate supervisor mandelman who has been on my back, wanting to make sure we had a shelter first policy that we are able to give people a bed when we encounter them on the streets. no more excuses. we have to make it work and make investments occur. when are we going to do? this upcoming budget, we plan to make sure that we are protecting over 500 beds that have one time funding. these beds were not anticipated to continue because there was one time funding used for the beds and state funds and fema funding and things we enjoy are drying up. we have been able to protect 500 bed and adding 600 more shelter beds specifically. that is when the folks of urban alchemy are working with folks the homeless out reach folks

working with people they need to offer people something. and that's what this additional shelter beds will be about offering an alternative. our other plan to add 545 units. to be clear since 2018, we increased the number of housing specific low for people who are struggling with homelessness we went from having less than 10,000 units to over 15,000 units increase thanksgiving number boy over 50%. we want to continue down those lines. we have affordable housing we built but it it is not simple to get someone struggling with homelessness in the housing unit this we provide because of the state and federal requirements which are another ball game. fact is when we are creating is an opportunity to directly take people out of the shelter system and put them in permanent housing whether supportive services housing or a way they

live on their own. the other thing we are providing is 825 of slots for prevention. that is when we provide resources to help people get overnight hump whether a month or 2 or what have you and rent. we don't want those folks to be evicted. we will continue resources for our eviction protection and providing support in that regard. so -- in addition to that, and our housing element and thing this is we need to change our goal is to continue to move full speed ahead. what does this money it is howure we dwg to do this. it is money, yes, but also making adjustments. i know that people are protective of some of the set asides like prop c the homeless supportive husbanding recovery monies and than i have specific purposes. and i think the prp problem with some of the measures than i

don't give you the flexibility to meet the need. either we do nothing and make no adjust ams and will in the add slots or we make adjustments through the board of supervisors and then we are able to add additional unit and place ams for people faster tochlt have money sitting there and we have a problem now. we need to spends that money and spends it on impact being people's lives directly. our goal is to make sure that in addition to the budget i introduced a balanced budget that deals with the deficit that is still invests in homelessness, is to make policy changes so we make sure those investments go to the right places so we meet the needs of the challenges that our city is facing. this is not behavioral health. does not talk about public safety this . is just about homelessness. we are not get nothing affordable housing. we are focusing on what we need now and how we need to get going

and making stewart what our partner organization, staff and supported to get to a better accomplice that is what today's announcement is about. i appreciate supervisor mandelman for his work and advocacy and patience as he continues to harass mow to do more. i'm working hard to do more. we understand that this is hard work and people are tired of excuses and bureaucracy. i'm tired of it. i want to see results that is why we had to make very hard and controversial challenging decisions in order to get to that place. and so with that, i want to ask our director of housing and supportive services to come before us to talk a bit more in detail. >> thank you, mayor breed and thank you for having in

announcement to focus on homelessness i know when you do your full budget later this week it is so invest we don't get to go in detail. i want to congratulate urban alchemy team for the heart program launch today this is exciting. you are all great partners. love working with you. so congratulations. and so the i want to give more detail to had the mayor said. the proposed fiscal 23/24 budget of sick 92.6 million for the department of homelessness and supportive house suggest 20.sick million or 3 percent higher than the 22/23 budget this year's budget includes investments to achieve the strategic plan goals and funding for shelter and expand capacity. the new released citywide 5 year strategic plan built on the 3 pillars. calls for expanding hsh housing

shelter prevention inventory and he new strategies to achieve a 50% reduction in unsheltered homelessness in the next 5 years. mayor's budget allocates 99 million in our city our home fund sources. to implement the goal and strategies and leveraging fwrnt bunkham reprogramming 21 million dollars in the department of homelessness and supportive housing general fund budget to meet the goals. on a one time basis the proposed budget reallocated unspent funds to support critical investment in preventing and reducing homelessness in san francisco. the 2 year budget invests 46 million in housing initiatives. 18.2 million in prevention strategies and 34.4 million in shelter beds and services. the major's proposed budget

funding to operate 3, 656 shelter beds including reopening beds closed during covid-19 and continuing capacity that was previously added with one time funds. this includes the addition of 594 beds the mayor said. new beds and invest in improved services and extended hours to accommodate more people with an ultimate goal of improving out come over all. budget proposal includes investment in homelessness prevention to allow to serve 825 more households to avoid the crisis of homelessness in the first accomplice. and foiblely the budget includes investments to expand housing for people leaving homelessness. including 425 new subsidies support people leaving homelessness. i want to thank you, mayor for your leadership and for making significant investments in addressing homelessnesseen in a tight budget year. i want to thank the board in

advance for their collaboration to make this budget one this focuses on equity competence solutions for people experiencing homelessness. and finally thank our providers, advocates and staff for endless service to the people experiencing homelessness in our community. a budget is reflection of our values we stand u night in the resolve to address homelessness in our community. thank you. [applause] >> the other thing i wanted say that i done mention earlier is the thing that is in the always manage this people are excited about talking at a press event. is how we start to take down the structure of the bureaucracy. there are many lars of requirement and things we need

to do we want to make this department more efficient. so it works better and faster. and so those are per of the proposed changes we will work on because we can't talk about doing this work and then wait a year to get the housing units and placements and all of the stuff this is not going to help us get to the accomplice we want. we need to see this instant low. a part of the work this we will be doing is taking down a bit of the bureaucracy and the things that get in our way to get the services and resources deliver faster than we have. with that, thank you very much. i think we are done. okay. we are done. >> thank you. mruz mrauz [applause]

in fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first responders, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is brooke jenkins. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watchs san francisco rising, the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining our city. ourguest san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins here to talk about theopeioid crisis, criminal justice and more. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. let's start with organized restale threft. some jurisdictions across the country imposed most of the punishment against people shop lifting in groups but that may be applied disproportionately to epipooal and doesn't address the organization behind it all. how can we make sure both prosecute the ring

leaders behind the crimes and make sure justice is handed out eveningly? >> making sure we get to the higher level of organizations in the organized retail threrft area so that is something myophilus is very much focused on working the police department on. looking at organized retail threat ringzsx but we have to make sure people are being caught who have stealing and that is a big challenge in the sit a so we have worked with retailers and small business owners to insure the necessary protocols and procedures are in place to at the very laest catch people who are stealing because they have been running out of the stores and therefore facing no consequence so we have to start there and trying to do more with intervention with the youth who are some of the population doing some of the threfts. many stores have turned to not detaining employees stealing oertrying to stop them and that change in

procedure lead to making it very difficult for the police department to capture these people stealing. we have been working with them on a change in their protocol going back to the way it used to be done so we can actually have the opportunity to have people face consequences. >> right. so, let's move to the opioid crisis which had a devastating impact across the community and across the country, including san francisco. how can your office help address the issue? >> the main thing is going back to where people feel there is a consequence dealing drugs in the city. we can't treat drug steel dealing as a victimless crime. we have ooverage 2 people dying a day from overdose. there are victims of this offense so quha what is did is say no longer the case we decriminalizing drug sales in san francisco as the da office. we have to put consequence on the table and

insure the most agregiouss sellers so massive quantityties of fentanyl, some enough to kill all most half the city. sometimes with people with wep ens and guns are multiple of cases with fentanyl are treated differently then thoges with small contties so i ask those people detain in custody. we can't have them on the street hours later, but also trying to work with the police department and our city making sure our laws are enforced. it is the only people people suffering from addiction will have a opportunity at recovry. imagine if you are trying to get clean and every 10 steps doin the block you are offered the drug you have been addicted to. it is impossible. that is one way we are dealing with the supply side and we are taking a different approach on the demand side, which is to say, if people are publicly using drugs over and over again, that we believe we need to intervene in those situations and so the

police are citing them and when somebody reaches 3 of the citations, we then file a complaint, but route them into a treatment court to try to help them get help. >> they have a option take treatment or face charges? >> correct. essentially. we of course encourage treatment because that is what these folks need. >> absolutely, absolutely. san francisco is known for being forfront of criminal justice reform with initiatives such as community justice center and restoreative justice, how do you plan to build on the efforts and push for aggressive policies insuring we have a fair system that holds people accountable? >> i have been clear accountability comes in many different forms. historically, da office used one form and that is incarceration. the way i functioned as a prosecutor over the years is make sure we are finding the appropriate form of accountability for each and every person for their specific circumstance, and so

for some people it may be incarceration, others it is treatment and going through behavioral health to stabilize mental health issue. some it is say ing we toopt see you get a job so we require that you go through a trade program so you can get a skill that allows you to take care of yourself in a different way. for me it is investing in those opportunities which requires us to be partnering with community based organizations to identify what programs we can send people to, but i'm very much invested in seeing our collaborative courts, which is what community justice center, drug court, young adult court seeing those courts thrive and encouraging the lawyers to explore those opportunities. >> right. what role do you think the da office can play addressing the issue of police misconduct and promoting accountability?

>> our job is to prosecute police officers when they commit such misconduct and use excessive force in a way that is illegal so we'll continue to maintain that is our job and our position. we prosecute all crime in san francisco, it is not about what your statue is, what your position is or what office you hold. the law will always be our standard. we can't treat differently where they come from, whether they wear a uniform or not, our standard is the law. for me, as a black latino woman it is issue very personal to me. we had a death in police custody in my family that i heard about my entire life. i'm raising two black children including a black son who you know, i will have to talk about these type of issues as he grows up. i was out raged long before george floyd. the list goes on

and on, but as a prosecutor i have to maintain one standard and it is whether somebody according to the law has committed a crime and so that's what we always look at. >> absolutely. finally, what message do you have for the people of san francisco and what you hope to accomplish during your tenure? >> i want the people of san francisco to know i'm committed serving the function the da office was designed to serve which is make sure we promote public safety across san francisco. like i said, we have to have accountability in our city. what we see going on in our streets is the result of people feeling as though there was none. they didn't fear even the police walking by as they were committing a crime because there was a belief that even if you arrest me, the da office isn't going to do anything that i'm afraid of experiencing, and so we want people to have a healthy fear of what a consequence will be, but i also want san francisco to know we are a da

office that stands by the val aoos we have here in san francisco which is second chances, compassion, responsible alternative to incourseeration bought the end of the day accountability has to be what people said back on the street or community in a fashion where they can succeed. every time somebody cycles into the system we are thoughtful what the person needs to get back on their feet and not create another victim in the future. >> quite right. thank you. thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you have given us today. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll back for another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm it jut

folder. and so we cannot have an official commission meeting this morning. that said. i thought that given that we are in budget month, and we had a big mayors homelessness announcement earlier this week about the budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. so this is a community meeting. we have our commissioners present. um, one of our commissioners. was unable to be here. uh that's commissioner joaquin guerrero, who's