let me look, i don't think have it in here, thank you, emily cohen. and the next up we have sam dodge and i think it's going to be super quick maybe not. >> yes. hello. >> you're just here to answer questions for me. or do you have anything. >> sam dodge from department of emergency management, i get the honor of working together with diverse partnership and across the department and nonprofit providers to respond street conditions which include encampment and other situations which often are called like, homelessness, but are honesty, real diversity solutions. but shelter is a key component for most people's issue. and i want to thank thank you and the folks for all of your work. some of the folks who seem to be unhoused are not always unhoused and sometimes are being repeatedly placed in shelter by your folks and then falling out of that and deciding to leave. i know, you know, i'm going to push you to have a conversation about encampment resolution. i think the thing that is, i hope the public understand is that the folks who are doing, the dem wor

i know we have deputy directors susan smith as well as deputy director emily cohen and dylan schneider from homelessness and supportive housing and it looks like director cohen will be presenting. >> good morning. thank you for having me. emily cohen deputy director department of homelessness and supportive housing joined by colleague suzy smith, human service agency. we where going to briefly walk through the relocation assistance program and happy to take questions how the proposed legislation would impact operations. as the supervisor mentioned, since 2005 san francisco helped over 11 thousand households experiencing or at risk of homelessness reunit with support network and stable homes outside the city through different types of relocation assistance. there was a program called homeward bound. we now have multiple programs that provide this service, and under the ordinance is under the umbrella of homeward bround. there are two city programs that offer relocation assistance. one is the department of homelessness and supportive housing problem solving problem and the other is the h

okay, so now i would like to ask emily cohen, deputy director with the department of homelessness and housing to the podium to present. thank you, deputy director. >> speaker: good morning, chair and community members. i'm emily and i use she her pronouns. supervisor dorsey before i jump into my presentation, i just want to thank you for that framing, i think we all probably every one in this room, wants psh to be the best it can be for our tenants for our operators and for the neighborhoods that we live next to. i want to thank you for starting us in that tone and to that end. i also want to thank the neighbors in the room and some of the residents of psh that i see and the whole community for coming out. it will take every one and i appreciate everybody's collaborative nature. i do want to start with a little ground setting through my years, there is often some misunderstanding. so i want to make sure that we're starting from the same place of understanding supportive housing. permanent house supporting housing or psh is the most affective and evidence we have. it is a robust interv

i also want to thank director trent roar and suzy smith from hsa and dylan schneider and emily cohen for work with us along with rescue sf and the coalition on homelessness for input on this program. as i said just finally to wrap up, at the height it was about a thousand people a year served with this program. it diminished to less then a couple hundred. we want to insure this is something we can do in a real positive way and allow for the program to be administered in a really-with the proper oversight and accountability as well. thank you colleagues. >> thank you supervisor safai, is that a motion to amend? >> yes. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can we get a roll call on the motion? >> would you like to take public comment? >> yes, take public comment. my apologies. >> yes, on the motion to amend, members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak. each speaker is allowed two minutes. there is a soft chime with 30 seconds left and louder chime when time expired. any members of the public who would like to speak? there does not appear to be any speakers. >> thank you mr. cle

emily cohen is with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> we will be publishing a service agency website that will combine data from both of our programs and publicly communicate the scope and depth of those programs and how they're working from a cost perspective. >> and then verses the emergency room visits, shelter, all the different cities you're talking about thousands and thousands. and so if you're talking about in a, in a budget crisis, in a deficit which we are in, there is an incentive now to help reunify people with their families, because it's also going to save the taxpayers of san francisco a lot of money in san francisco. >> lyanne melendez abc seven news. >> again, the program will be offered at shelters and supportive housing, both the unhoused and even those at risk of being homeless are eligible. lisa how's it looking outside now? >> we've got partly cloudy skies and temperatures are pretty cool in parts of the bay area. 45 in san jose, san francisco is in the upper 40s. we'll be looking at a mainly dry day, but we can't say that we won't see any

emily cohen is with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> we will be publishing ashboard on our website and on the human service agency website that will combine data from both of our programs and publicly communicate about the scope and depth of those programs and how they're working from a cost perspective. >> and then verses the emergency room visits, shelter, all the different cities. you're talking about thousands and thousands. and so if you're talking about in a, in a budget crisis, in a deficit, which we are in, there is an incentive now to help reunify people with their families, because it's also going to save the taxpayers of san francisco a lot of money. >> and when the city puts someone on a bus, they pay for their fare food. and sometimes a motel room that that ends up costing them between 200 and $300 per person. so if the program has spent around or has sent around 13,000 people home, you do the math. the city has spent between 2.6 million and $3.9 million over 19 years. and this is why they're pushing this program? because it is makes sense. it's c

emily cohen is with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> we will be publishing aan service agency website that will combine data from both of our programs and publicly communicate the scope and depth of those programs and how they're working from a cost perspective. >> and then verses the emergency room visits shelter, all the different you're talking about thousands and thousands. and so if you're talking about in a, in a budget crisis, in a deficit, which we are in, there is an incentive now to help reunify people with their families, because it's also going to save the taxpayers of san francisco a lot of money in san francisco. >> lyanne melendez abc seven news. >> again, the program will be offered at both shelters and supportive housing. both the unhoused and even those at risk of being homeless are eligible. before we head to break, let's check in with lisa. good morning . >> good morning. >> 655 sunrise. you can see beautiful view from mount tam, 46 degrees here. later on in the afternoon, we'll get into more cloud cover showers could return again for the u

emily cohen is with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> we will be publishing a our website and on the human service agency website that will combine data from both of our programs and publicly communicate the scope and depth of those programs and how they're working from a cost perspective. >> and then verses the emergency room visits, shelter, all the different cities you're talking about thousands and thousands. and so if you're talking about in a, in a budget crisis, in a deficit which we are in, there is an incentive now to help reunify people with their families, because it's also going to save the taxpayers of san francisco a lot of money. >> so when the city puts someone on a bus, they pay for their fare food, and sometimes a motel room that ends up costing between 200 and $300 each person. so if the program has sent around 13,000 people home, the city has spent between 2.6 million and $3.9 million over 19 years. this is why they are really pushing this program, because the city, as you know, spends a lot, a lot of money on services. >> yeah, tens of mill