we've had a thirty percent reduction in homeless veterans from 17 percent of our veteran homeless population down to 11 percent. the community has embraced this project and we've had a lot of fundraisers they all got together. and in order to be successful we need to engage everyone in our community. we can't lock people up we've pushed people around for two along. a there's definitely some different things and this is number one on my list. we're excited to move forward once we get our approval. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon president fong and commissioners and staff. ilene. i can't tell you how honored we are to be involved. this is 24 beds for lgbt homeless difficulties targeted for those who have been under targeted. i want to make sure i recognize mr. sanchez who did a aspire job. mr. sanchez was able to move this to your calendar in 3 months. i want to give a brief overview of the project. we've got 57 business of male adult shelter. we're adding within the same building 24 beds targeted for lgbt folks. the hours are from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and dole's of the street arth

i think homeless folks the risks are greater. long those lines we do our best to provide a safe alternative to the folks. we hope to increase this to 81 folks per night. i think it's worth sharing that people leave 7:00 a.m. in the morning they're either going to work or looking for work. i believe that unknowingly all the community enacts with the homeless and don't know it. this program offers a significant benefit. all people benefit. we've been at this location for over a decade approaching 15 years. we've got partnerships and those have welcomed the lgbt communities and they've been providing those services and we've partnered them. our immigrant groups have helped the lgbt community. while this project has been developed we've been recruiting within those lgbt homeless folks. our daily operations are as minimally intrusive to the neighborhood. people enter by 7 in the evening and we put up barriers not to obstruct the sidewalks. those recessed escalations are off-site so - our staff received specialized training in the lgbt

we need to get homeless folks into housing and for homeless people. i urge you to invest in homeless prevention. you must you fund affordable housing. the mayor made it online to help with the housing issues. you must help with the safe shelters. last year the board individual and we saw more staff. let's go fester and meet the shelters to have them save >> i'm with community housing partnership. when i turned 18 i could go to college or be homeless. i was lucky enough to go to college but one year later i was homeless. we're asking for $100,000 the first and $300,000 for the second year. we have to have the money we don't have families to go back to live with. a lot of folks leaving college are moving in with their families if you don't have that opposition we need to step you tell and help. 1 hundred thousand for the first year and 3 hundred thousands for the second year for housing >> thank you. next speaker, please >> i'm with the community housing partnership. we're here to ask for help for our youth. i wake up and see lots of youth on the street

homeless he shelter to document the experience. when you think about the shelter it's a congregate living experience to everything that happens outside the bigotry and other things are reflected from a spaceless people are living. those are the temporary homes but, of course, we're surround by strangers and we found for example, when we did this survey that the transgender population was experiencing physical abuse and harassment at 3 times the rate of other shelter residents. a popcorn who's also done those surveys might have i do some interviews that were really upsetting in terms of what people are experiencing simply to rest their heads. and, of course, outside the shelter the health deteriorates. everything gets worse you get a small infection or a cold and it turns into phenomena. i think that san francisco is san francisco, you know, we're a gay town. we're supposed to be craig's and we have a huge population without housing and they don't have a place to go or live. we've been working on this looked like we're really, reall

so our housing approach with homeless people many of whom are seniors is that we invite homeless people inside and strive to non judgmental and improve well being. i have a slide on the different sites that we have and look at how many of the sites are for seniors so besides the 26 of the units set aside for seniors 25% of our buildings are senior sites so that means either people over 55 or 62 -- it depends on the financing background of the buildings, and the future units that we have coming on 32% of the units are set aside for seniors and 67 of the buildings are actually for seniors. so san francisco tries to do a lot for seniors. i realize it's not enough. i know that we in the health department see everyday people on the street including seniors and that is something that we work hard against. in our housing we have very low entrance threshold. we really work on active engagement. we have behavioral and mental health services on site and accurately the access and prioritize those with the highest need. our access points are mostly acute and psychiatric hospitals and primary care c

when i was in the homeless shelter it was difficult i faced many prejudices. even when shelter say they address accident queer or the transgenders i know they don't. i notice a lot of any sisters from the age of 16 to 24 their subject to a lot of abuse and be it physical or verbal they suffer abuse in general. it's hard to exist in a closed-minded society. you're not seen as the person you are but whatever someone else knows you represent. so many of my sisters are forced out into the street to do prostitution or anyway to make a living. i feel as though we're losing some of the brightest minds to the struggles of everyday life. i'm not sure if you've been homeless but sometimes, i have to make the hardest decisions you have nothing to turn to and when you go into a homeless shelter you're at your lowest point you basically fall between the cracks if they can help you. and the only homeless she felt that really is for queer or gender variant people is the larkin and it's full and it can be closed for a year or months. and in those months we're losing people li

there have been 23 though volunteers that help the needs of the homeless in this city. 3 thousand. if you do the math that's 1 out of every san franciscan has been involved and have been involved with the homeless in our community. that is something that no other city can boost and that comes from the top down. when we think about what our city has to over one of the you biggest things we have is people who are ill maybe they're on the street from diabetes. last week, i saw a man who said i've worked for 20 years he hurt his back and now he's addicted to his painkillers and living on the street. i said let's work together by we've he got to get you healthy first. and the way we can do that is by using the health department services. what can we do for the most vulnerable person. it's not just the medical it's creating a relationship with the client and with the patient so they know they can trust their doctor and come in and he not be judged and comfortable with their medical director and that's because of the director ms. garcia. and that's the spirit we embody so today thank you

this is what project homeless is all about and hopefully with that opportunity something might occur where someone says i want to do something for myself and get out of danger and maybe a daily existence of survival and maybe a hopefully life. something i constantly say we have to create hope in this city for those who have a lot to be hopeless about. this is why the services we provided today and the food and everything from dental to open california support associate services and mental consulting and maybe a little bit of mass age can actually open up somebody's heart and mind and want to take care of themselves. this is what happens in our city when you combine the technology companies and you combine them with the hearts that have been there with the associate programs and departments and, yes i'm going to continue to expand those programs. i understand that as we create for shelter it has to have ongoing services and we're concentrating on those services. people have to be able to change their minds about things and they can't do that with too much challenge. and this level of

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we run a million dollars business that employes only people who are at risk of homelessness we liar over 1 hundred folks a year. we can't find enough people to hire that are skilled. here we are and we don't have people ready for the jobs. i'm asking for the $100,000 for the coalition to get our folks ready to work >> hello brian the executive director of the aids alliance. i'm here to support the funding request for pets pa. i'm supporting the one million dollars for every year and within that request is approximately $100,000 to continue services from the aids housing alliance. we'll put together an online application and provided that to 7 organized in the city like the lgb center and we provided a homeless prevention and this is the beginning of a homeless and housing services for the lgb community which currently does not exist. between 2006 and 2011 i recently invested through the hiv department that 20.4 percent of people with hiv have been accomplice placed in san francisco in 5 years. over the same period the aids housing alliance prevented homelessness and we have this huge dis

homeless people hang out. the question is when someone makes it, you know, more than just hanging out and it messes it up for everyone else. so, we have to make sure as a city that we deal with those things appropriately, but we also offer alternatives so that we're not just pushing the homeless issue from one place to the next. but we're actually making sure we're taking care of people and offering them alternatives. so, it's going to be a challenging issue and an ongoing issue and one that i'm committed to working with the mayor's office to help address and manage. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? do you think we're on the right track? >> i think we're on the right track, but i think that unfortunately it allows the rich to get richer and it doesn't have a place for the middle class and the poor in our city. and i think that part of what we have to do as a city when people are interested in economic development opportunities in our city, they need to be a part of our city. and it

i'm a member of the coalition of homelessness and power. >> but today, i'm representing the homeless coalition. >> our demands are for the supervisors and mayor. >> we ask that fund reserve funds be dedicated to poor folks and folks who are homeless. >> they're very long lists for folks waiting for shelters. theirs long lists. >> so we ask that funds be dedicated to folks not only are we suffering but our children and a thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. we manage the system for low income residents. we have a collaborative services. everyday our office takes on cases like this gentleman who after his landlord harassed the family to leave and threatened to call ice on them for not being legal. they have mold and lead exposure and mice in- they case bedbug bites and led exposure. they're afraid of ventilation. eviction. they have been serving latinos since 1986 i'm here to urge your support for expanding funding for the collaborative programs they connection the folks to the code enforcement process. while they've done their best to meet th

in san francisco we have thousands of people living without housing that are experiencing homelessnessand that crisis is only getting more severe. we are here today to talk about lgbt seniors and what i wanted to talk about specifically is where -- >> what is going on with the sound system? sorry. >> when they're interesting the system and what they're faced with and some of the things that we can move forward with here. we don't have a lot of exact data on this population but i can actual from different areas to talk about what we have seen and what we hear from folks when doing outreach and we conduct weekly outreachs in san francisco shelters and dialogue with folks. when we do it more formally in the sense of survey what is we find is some of the more -- >> okay. sorry. >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> oh -- let's hope that's the answer. >> so for what we found in one study that we did called shelter shock is that transgender folks faced harassment, physical abuse and verbal abuse at three times the rate of other folks. we also find in outreach on a regular basis and my partner is

my name is elsaand intern with the coalition of homelessness. we feel confident we are counter the harm and impact the policy will have on san franciscans. while the mta is not responsible for the issue of homelessness in san francisco we are all responsible to do our part to find a solution, especially those that serve in public office. the mta has no possible -- has no responsibility to pass the buck -- we will continue to reach out to you and offer solutions and organize with the communities affected by this policy and we're hopeful you're open to meet with us and as the pilot projects rolls out and displaces people and we sent a letter requesting information and would like to create solutions with you. many of us think those agreed to meet with us and we look forward to hearing from everybody else at the mta. thank you for your time and service to our community. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon. >> hello. my name is melody. within four days of june 4 of this hearing the police began knocking on

which i don't know how you can go home, if you're homeless. and how can you even tell who is homeless in hawaii? no one wears shoes. but if you're homeless, the state will pay for your plane ticket and transportation to the airport. the hard part is trying to get the shopping cart in the overhead compartment. and if homeless people don't want to fly, they will pay for them to go home on a cruise. it is just what the cruise industry needs right now, now with homeless people. i wonder -- you know, i wonder if rude barb has anything to say about this. can we get her back up? is she still connected to us? rude barb? >> what! >> it is jimmy again. >> yeah, no [ bleep ]. >> what do you think about hawaii sending homeless people back home? >> is that how you got here you hobo-looking [ bleep ]. >> no. barb, have you ever been to hawaii? >> i pick my food out of a gutter. do i look like i've been to hawaii? although i'm pretty sure, i banged don ho in the bathroom of a cracker barrel last night. >> don ho died five or six years ago, oh, what is that n