and impart of the hespa group and i am really committed to the proposal even though that i think that the two or three supervisors are already on board with the needs of our community. and so it is really like preaching to the choir, thank you for all of the support that you have given us, as service providers, and i know that you support what our work, and i thank you for that. >> thank you, very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm kim and i am the member of the local homeless coordinating board appointed by the board of supervisors, and i would like to reinforce what others have said with the request for information regarding the capitol costs, that as much as possible, when we are discussing the capitol costs to break down where the money came from to be invested from that capitol improvement or that new project, for example, how many came locally from business and how many came from private individuals, and how many came from outside of the city, and that i think this will be useful for the discussion, and i think that it would be very informative for the publi

and hespa has submitted a proposal to all of you, and we are discussing this proposal with the mayor's office and throughout the city to look at different solutions. these solutions include turning over san francisco housing authority units that are currently vacant and providing additional local operating subsidies to families. and providing housing subsidies that will make market rate housing affordable to families in san francisco. as well as throughout the bay area. and we need to be creative to look at solutions. there are many solutions out there such as shared housing, looking at longer term subsidies, and looking at different flexible policies that will support families in moving into their own permanent long-term housing. so, i am encouraging you to look at our proposal and consider these solutions and if we do this, we can house 687 house holds at an average cost of $10,000 per household. we can bring the wait list for shelter, we believe to zero. but we need to come together and work together and look for solutions. thank you very much for listening to all of these concerns

displacements in san francisco and we could rapidly rehouse, as many house holds as we could through the hespa proposal and this is a great opportunity to eliminate the waitless for families. >> thank you. >> my name is joshua jones and i would like to take this opportunity and i would want to share my experience with being homeless in san francisco. i am currently a resident at the hampton program, with my wife, and my daughter who is 17 months old. and we were homeless in 2011. struggled with substance abuse, 2012, we found out that my wife was 6 months pregnant and we went to ward 93 and able to get on methadone and substance abuse treatment and the hampton program has been a support for us and going from the street life into mental health or substance abuse treatment is a huge transition, and into the stable housing from there is a bigger transition, and the hampton program has been able to be a good support system and a buffer zone to help us get stability and increase our income and really help us focus on finding stable housing. and the 6 months that we have been married, we have filled