barry zevin is the simple way -- wee hav we have this mucs and this much housing. and so we are definitely in a crisis. >> by the look at the slide and you look at the behavioral health spectrum of care and i listened to the mission of the department of public health and i see the difference between h.s.h.s budget and the department of public health's budget. i know that there are a variety of services that you provide and a plethora of uses for the resources of the budget. why does d.p.h. not provide any housing as a department under this spectrum of care? >> d.p.h. -- so d.p.h. previously provided housing? >> correct. >> and we transferred all of those services to h.h.s. when it was formed. >> when you transferred all of the services did you also transfer all of the resources? >> i believe so, yes. >> all of them? >> yes. >> okay. so what you're saying is that as we focus on addressing the housing crisis and the homeless crisis, that the department of public health doesn't have any resources to provide for actual housing? >> i believe that's correct. >> yeah and

i'm barry zevin, medical director of street medicine at shelter health, and it is an honor to stand before you again and to present this information. so we're going to talk about our homeless deaths today, and just to preface, what this report tells us is about homeless deaths that we've been able to examine after looking very closely at medical examiner reports. it can tell us who the people are, what kind of demographics are represented in homeless deaths, what kind of services people received in our systems before they died. it can tell us about causes of death, locations of death among people experiencing homelessness in san francisco. what the work we've done doesn't tell us is causes of death that are directly related to homelessness. it also doesn't tell us about death rates, comparing people who are experiencing homelessness with other poor people or with other citizens in san francisco. and it doesn't tell us about deaths of cases that were not a medical examiner report. we've got opportunities from this information that we haven't had in the past. certainly, it helps us with our