thank you, bevan. >> good morning, everyone. it is great to be here. let me first start off and acknowledge my colleagues in the hope office. so, amanda freed is here who is our policy director, and then dee sheck snyder who works with people who come in the office and also christine keener. i also want to acknowledge the individuals responsible for draft thing plan 10 years ago. so, first off would be angela alioto and mayor newsom at the time. angela brought a tremendous amount of passion. if you look at the group of individuals that came together, it was a very difficult verse group of people that were involved in developing the first ten-year plan and i think it really is instructive to look at it and see where have we been successful, where maybe have some of our needs and objectives changed, and what can we do to rededicate ourselves as a city to achieve these goals. i think it's great that we brought here with us today the consultants that work on the homeless count because initially when the numbers came out in 2013, it was, you know, it was ha

we need to refocus and bevan said this. on getting back to that model that was very successful for a number of years -- >> mr. rohr, so, we talk about thing -- >> we haven't followed that bath the last number of years. mr. dufty talked about the education of the workforce. you were talking about the training and education of the peaedv l going to do the outreach. he talked about the people having the coordination, the immediacy of having something to offer someone which make imminent common sense because you want to be able to get -- [speaker not understood]. is there something we could focus on more? >> the hot team is still under dper. our hot folks are engaging [speaker not understood], they're doing some good case management. i don't know to the extent we have set aside resources now. i think we have very few shelter beds set aside, housing slots. again, i kind of raise this for dialogue because there are multiple departments with this issue. it's not impugning any nonprofit. it's kind of over time we kind of evolved fr

bevan dufty had talked about this as well and i couldn't agree more. opening up the housing authority wait list, prioritizing homeless san franciscans and fill the vacancy as quickly as possible. we've gotten better at the housing authority, but you can drive up to potrero hill and count for yourself, how many boarded units there are. makes you want to pull your hair out. why is that unit sitting there? so, keep moving on that stuff. we have some stock there as the housing authority moves are happening. eliminate unnecessary barriers to housing. you know, this was talked about a bit. you know, we talk about credit ratings as a barrier. we also have the criminalization piece. people get tickets, they can't pay them, they go to warrant, they get kicked off the housing wait list, they can't get into our other housing. when they have active warrants they can't differentiate what it is. when you get a ticket and they won't give you housing because you couldn't pay the ticket and so you're duck on the streets. and, so, really trying to get rid of those barri

>> i know that bevan dufty mentioned in his costs and the mayor has said lord's law -- he's looking into that. and i know mr. dufty said there is the possible proposal for a pilot project -- you could talk about the schizophrenic illness supports. if you could talk about what that process is going to be like. there have been pro and con, different concerns especially from community based mental health providers. could you give us a little built of what to expect as that goes forward. >> in working with the mayor's office, in his model of looking at community stakeholders, he's very much supportive of bringing people together. i've been directed to bring a stakeholder group together. everything's on the table. we have over 7 years ago, we did this before. where laura had come up with we developed a stakeholder group and a community placement program. i can go into details with you at a later date. lori's law will be on the table. lori's law will serve a population and what we want to look at is the large of this, and if lori law can serve a need, what i like about [speaker not understood]

i also want to thank trent rohr from hsa and bevan dufty from hope and my partner through this process. we work very honestly together in looking at how to improve our services. so, we talked a little about project homeless connect and daily connect is a new service added to that, knowing that project homeless connect and, supervisor mar, you talked about how to get involved from a policy perspective, i see project homeless connect [speaker not understood]. i go to as many homeless [speaker not understood] as i can. there are 10,000 volunteers in the community, 1,000 come in [speaker not understood] in seeking services. having spoken to many of them, some who come to ever connect, they've made a real big change in their attitude and perspective of homelessness in san francisco and they also contribute to that. that was [speaker not understood] project connect. we developed daily connect as a way to look at what happens when homeless connect is not around with all these rich services we try to bring on a quarterly basis. daily connect is over every day. they use a lot of social media, t

but it's a long way to november. >> so how do you think mcconnell and bevan will respond to this. >>clinton appearance? well, i don't know about bevan, but the republicans in general in kentucky and here in washington have sort of pointed out, yes, bill clinton is popular and appeals to centrist democrats but that the national party has moved under obama a little more the left. and that they are really trying to tie grimes more to obama than to clinton. the republicans also point out while clinton won the presidency and carried kentucky in '92 and '96, the last democrat to do so, he has campaigned for democrats since then in kentucky but has been unable to bring those democrats across the finish line with him. so there's -- they think iz impact in kentucky will be limited. at least that's what they are hoping. >> we're listening closely the moment we have news -- he's thanking people right now. we'll go and listen. in the meantime, eastern kentucky is actually coal country and heavily republican. one of the surprising things i wanted to ask you about, how they are leading the state i

matt bevan, a first time candidate, there was some thought he could put his own money in the race. he's not done that. as important, some of the big outside groups like the club for growth have shied away from the race. the combination of him not being able to sell at the large number and absence of the club for growth has given mcconnell an advantage. there's a reason he has won every race since 1984. he's a political survivor. when you're matt bevan and going against that machine for first time, it's pretty tough. >> if mcconnell is the candidate, we presume does grimes have a shot against him? >> well, sure, because mcconnell's numbers are so poor here. the mcconnell has survived here. i use the word survive but he hasn't necessarily flourished, not like lamar alexander next door in tennessee who is widely loved figure. he's more of a polarize gs figure who wins by frankly scorched earth tactics. he's vulnerable to fell. >> it's a replay of harry reid nevada. it really is. harry reid won with upsidedown numbers and mitch mcconnell knows that's their path. they believe the number

we think that it's important, as was mentioned by both trent and bevan, to be data driven and having good consistent and quality data is really important to be able to see the trends and see the impacts of various intervention strategies. so, as we evaluated the san francisco strategies, there's a lot of good things, good best practices that are in place. one of which is 100% canvassing of the entire city. in the early stages of your pet counts, there was more of a sample or hot spot strategy and that's been replaced by 100% canvassing which is real positive. there's been increased collaboration with national, state, and county agencies to participate in the count and represent and do targeted outreach to many of the specialty groups and subpopulations within the [speaker not understood] community. there's been a greater alliance on hmis data in the count rather than calling up shelters as was done in the early days when hmis compliance was not to the level it is today. >> can you clarify hmia? >> that's the homeless management information system, which is the electronic database whi

bevan mentioned the woman from ohio who had a felony and axon get into housing here. it begs the discussion, consideration of prioritization around our resource he. we do have limited resources. we can't serve all 64% in our system either in our street or house iftion, transitional housing much like the strategy we had under the homeless plan we folk on resources for those who are most acutely in need. those who go to the emergency room, the thickest. long-term stelter stayers. we've gotten away from that a little bit. folks who are very, very sick and folks who have been here awhile. that was what the chronic plan attempted to do from just focusing on the chronically homeless and look at the 6300 who are in our system, or more, we don't necessarily have that much of a targeted approach. we do -- barbara might talk about the acutity index we like to use at time. hsa got away from [speaker not understood]. i think it's worth a discussion sort of around prioritization around resource he. should a woman -- she has needs, we want to help everyone who has needs. someone wh

thank you for having this hearing today and we really wanted to sort of hit on an aspect that both bevan dufty the director of hope and trent rohr the director of human services agency touched on, something that we see sort of a lack in our continuum, which is a pathway and the housing ladder for individuals. we know at the community housing partnership, now having close to a thousand units of permanent supportive housing and close to 1800 people living in that housing, that we know there are individuals who couldn't transition to either affordable housing, public housing or housing with less service intensive. but the bear ire to that is affordability. at the cusp of a city that is having an equity crisis and affordability crisis, we hope the board of supervisors and the mayor's office will look at housing ladder, all the stock of housing in san francisco from supportive to affordable housing to public housing. we know there are thousands of public housing units that are off line that will be brought back online over the next 3 to 5 years through the revision process of what the mayor i

here to keep personal information in separate add-on that call today there were probably a couple bevan who were very upset. >> i thought the same thing right away privately have been very upset. i did not hear the details of it was an end to have babies because theoretically they are involved and covered because of the mail but it i possible people do who they were. theoretically that would be hipaa violation. >> bb tim armstrong is not the best benefits manager brett fight is any company in a position to be so critical of health care? going back to world war ii price regulations this is the fundamental cause some courage words but government involvement under health care. ups, a target, a university of virginia, companies have said health costs are going up specifically because of obamacare. >> then why not say health care costs are going up? we have to offset with 401k. we have to make a business case decisions. >> i am not certain he can tie all these to obamacare. for the last few years while health care premiums have been going down for aiddle businesses they are going up or stay

tom bevan is executive editor of realtor policy. hi, tom. how are you doing? >> i'm doing fine. did they meet a lot, not meet a lot. hhs says, oh, yes, she goes there all the time. she has lots of meetings with white house officials but she kept claiming that the president had not been aware of these issues. how could this be the case? she met with valerie jarrett. what's going on? >> look, it seems unlikely, unless she didn't want to tell the president and kept it from him that things were going badly. she claims to have been surprised by how badly it was going. she testified she thought things were on track and things were going well. it's hard to speculate on that, martha, but it certainly seems somewhat implausible. >> we have that sound from kathleen sebelius talking about the new numbers that have just rolled out, too. i think the answer as to whether or not they met just is not relevant anymore because they feel like the website issues have been sorted out. and here's what kathleen sebelius had to say about that. >> this afternoon, with the benefit of a full month of janu

we've seen problems for milton wolf and matt bevan, we'll see how it weathers, just because it's a small number of people in the general electorate doesn't mean the tea party cannot still have influence in the republican primaries and if they have influence there, they are someone that the republican party has to be aware of and acknowledge. >> and too strong leaders within the party, rand paul, has been the person who has brought up the clinton presidency. let's look at what one democrat democratic pac is running. i want your reaction on the other side, susan. >> rand paul is out there. he's banging on the clintons every day. what's his strategy? >> well, i'm not certain he has a strategy. >> there's a lot of things going on right now that we need to be concerned about other than what happened 15 years ago. >> record is what will be judged upon. >> it's not a long-term winning strategy for republicans. let's dance the macarena and talk 1998. ♪ >> susan, rand paul is saying tea party needs to invite more people into its umbrella and yet getting criticized for bringing up the clinton pres

and he has been struggling, and this week is a defining moment for matt bevan and he is reeling. >> and the homosexual and gay marriage leading to parent-child marriage, and i know the pushback there, but can you put out both perspectives? >> well, matt bevin is calling himself a ckon seconservative as reaching out to news media and radio stations to try to right the ship from those messages in politico. and now what people see is that he is moving into the todd akin zone if you remember the missouri senate candidate, and they believe that it is the wheels coming off of the c campaign. >> and so, does the mcconnell campaign have a legitimate worry about him? about matt bevin as a tea party challenger? >> not so far. not at least as far as i can see. and you will see the anecdotal things that he has pockets of support throughout the state, but he has yet to capture a statewide, statewide mojo, i guess you could say. he is really struggling to gain traction in the poll, and unable to raise money. he has released two television a ads which are 15-second ads which will not belie a strong ca

. >> reporter: andrea bevan watching her 6-year-old and, by the way, his dad is in law enforcment. >> he was drawn to it, picked it up. pointed it at himself, clicked the trigger a few times. yeah, that's the toughest part to these guys, guns are about the same seriousness as crickets, frogs and cookies. >> reporter: another mom who thought her 4-year-old hadn't even seen violent media. >> that's scary. i have never shown him a gun and i didn't think he knew what they looked like. >> what were you pulling out? >> a gun. >> and what do guns do to you, when you pick them up and touch them? >> it can kill you. >> it can kill you. we walk away from them. and we don't be around people that have guns, okay? >> yes, mommy. >> okay. >> yes, mommy. >> wow. >> reporter: and this mom who says she not only taught her son jayme about guns, but told him stories from her job. she works in a hospital operating room, where doctors try to save children from death by bullets. >> he knows what i do. where i work. >> reporter: jayme doesn't want to face his mom. >> oh, god, i'm not looking. i'm not lookin