i'm curtis bradford and a community organizer at t.n.c c. we wholeheartedly support this resolution. and i'm a board member of the -- excuse me. i'm now a board member of the tenderloin community benefit district, and i've been authorized by them to officially state they wholeheartedly support this evidence-based solution. and as side from all of these things, i'm also a former i.v. drug user myself. i spent 10 years shooting up crystal meth in san francisco. sometimes indoors, sometimes outdoors. it was not a pleasant journey or experience, and i feel really blessed and fortunate that i'm even able to be here today with you guys. and why am i here? one of the reasons i credit with me sur vieferg thasurvivingand finding my way d creating a new life is that -- excuse me -- the safe access to syringes as part of the harm reduction program that san francisco has instituted actually helped keep me safe. gave me access to clean syringes. it gave me health care treatment access when i needed it. it gave me information, and prevented me from gettin

curtis bradford, mary mcnamar mcnamara, jonny oliver, bruce wolf, alexander goldman, joseph smook, cynthia fong and keith cooley. >> good morning. almost afternoon. i came in support of copa. i believe this is a great act. thank you for bringing this to us and all the work that everybody done on it. we need to access every tool possible to try and stabilize the housing and ensure affordable housing in san francisco going forward. we've seen some real destabilization. we lost units in tenderloins. this isn't a fix all and it's not going to change the whole big picture, it's one tool in whole list of tools we need to implement to address this crisis. i also want to say thank you for the amendment. i appreciate the additional tenant protection. i'm glad to hear that everybody is supporting it. >> chair fewer: next speaker please. >> my name is mary mcnamara i'm here on behalf of the outer sunset working group which is actually a coalition of homeowners and renters. i want to thank supervisor mar for co-sponsoring this legislation. speculators and evicttors have invaded our neighborhood. there

my name is curtis bradford, and i'm district six resident. been here over 20 years. as a resident of this district, i believe i have just as much say how we used resources of this community as any other resident. i am fully in support of the navigation center for lot 330. you know, it strikes me -- i've heard the conversation about wanting to protect our children and our seniors. i'm willing to go with that argument. you might be surprised to find out i support that statement. but using that logic, this is exactly the right place to build it because it is a fairly low density neighborhood when it comes to children and seniored compared to other neighborhoods in the city. >> excuse me. let him talk. >> the tenderloin, which is the highest density children in the city, highest density of seniors in the city is also the highest density of homeless in the city. so if we're really concerned with what's best for children, seniors, and the homeless, then we should be building a navigation center in this neighborhood so we can disburse some of the burden on the rest of the c

amber sheldon, mina young, lara sinani, curtis bradford, fernando pugels, and anoxal rama. >> i'm lydia branston and i'm here as a community member and someone who has worked in the tenderloin for 13 years. when i first came to this work, i was one of those people who believes that tough love and zero tolerance for drug use was probably the best way to come to solving this problem. it came from a lack of understanding. 13 years later, i can say that i'm a huge proponent of harm reduction, safe injection sites, and the reason i say that is because tough love often means death. and i'm going to tell you the story of three gentleman today, who came through our treatment program. all three gentleman o.d.'d in the past 30 days, two of them on monday. one of them survived. the one who survived was not alone, and that's what this is about. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is cherry. [indiscernable] >> the drug injection site means like a brand name. it means that we allow, encourage everybody to go to a drug addiction center. so finally we legalize. we have drug inje