. >>> good afternoon, bill hirsch with the [speaker not understood] floor panel. good afternoon to supervisors chiu and kim for your leadership on this issue. i want to speak in support of the proposal. i think it's a modest amount of money. i am feeling the pressure of rent increases immediately. our rent is about to double on march 1st. so, anything that you can do to get this money out there to the nonprofits sooner rather than later would be much appreciated. i'm feeling a little old today hearing all of these ten-year plans and realizing how many of them i've been around for. i was around in 2000 and got one of those grants from then mocd. so, some of that $500,000 did get out on the street to help nonprofits with short-term rent subsidies. thank you for your consideration. we hope we can work with you to make this happen as soon as possible. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, nancy [speaker not understood] from social services. first of all, thank you so much for the appropriation and the suggestion to make the work of the task

. >>> good afternoon, i'm bill hirsch with the aids legal panel. we provide legal services for people living with hiv and aids. i want to speak to the homelessness prevention piece of the plan. i am here to say that the recent investment that the city has done in eviction prevention strategies has made a real dramatic impact on our ability to provide services. we hired a new housing attorney and it makes all the difference in both the number of folks that we can serve and the extent of the service that we can offer an idea very quickly where we can work with city and publicly funded housing to try and prevent evictions through mediation. we're going to come forward with a proposal on that. it would be great if we could see the city invest that support. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, supervisors. i'm gail grumman, the executive director of the community housing partnership, the largest builder and operator of permanent supportive housing here in san francisco. so, i want to thank you for having this hearin

host: michael hirsch is with us to talk about the stimulus bill five years later.ouse released a lookingver the weekend at the impact of it. what did they say? surprisingly, they were extremely positive both in terms of how many jobs it either created or saved. they cited about 1.6 million jobs per year from the start thr ough mid-2011 and they also said it added 2-3% growth to gdp. they claim it did not add very much long-term debt because it added growth to the economy. it was quite a rosy picture for what has been, from the start and what the came particularly in the 2012 campaign, real lightning rod of controversy. host: what did they promise when the stimulus will was signed into law? are these claims that the white house is making, are they true? line withy are in most estimates. economists,ority of there was a survey by the university of chicago booth school of business in 2012, i believe it was -- that 80% ofshowing economists surveyed said there were clearly growth benefits and job benefits to the stimulus package. for several years now, since the stimulus