the hearing and the time i want to appointee time of homelessness poor people are housed and homeless there's no anything's else like the health problems or other things as people are homeless their mental health derates and they develop disorders 2/3rd's of the population identified as disabled this shot up at every counted people can have their liquify expectancy cut by 20 years it's atsz an independent health factor from hiv and tb a portion for beds they rely on settlers to survive the framework of our homeless policy in san francisco to focus on housing and not shelter we agree with one hundred percent but to insure our shelters are a launching pad out of homeless we have the shelters and decrease in the level of health and our emergency service is not set up we've made the gains through homeless people we have not there yet we need to fight formal the solutions we've compiled a number of recommendations both short-term and long-term around the supplemental that needs to happy immediately including shoring up the first friendship shelter to make sure our children have a safe play

. >> hi my name is julia formally homeless i work at the coalition of homeless everyday i have families come in i have individuals coming in asking for housing and asking for the housing list that barrel changes when i was homeless every month things were coming online to apply for hoping you could be housed we don't have it we need to fix that the last proposal we're turning over properties i know we have the money the city definite has the money for 89 units to getting up get them you houses and living in a shelter without a shower for my kids for people working 15 hours days and not showering a lot of germs and sickness thank you. >> hello my name is katherine walter i'm a resident currently resident of a newly elected community residence association in the south of market 20 years ago i worked full-time 5 years ago i was homeless but 20 years i was considered homeless i'm a single parent we had kids under the age of 18 by school standards we were homeless we were injured a lot 5 years ago i become homeless on the streets my child was placed in childcare our family health deteriorate

emergency request we ask i work with our organizations and the broader community to fund shelter for homeless families and individuals adequately and in the future i want to xrets may strong support for other areas a supplemental request on the coalition for homelessness and in particular to improve the services and shelters for families and the reservation for shelters for family there are too many children i serve. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. that are being pulled out of school to get in line at first friendship to get a bed we shouldn't have to take children out of the school and - sorry i'm very emotional i see many children everyday that are being taken out of the school in order to get a shelter bed we can work together to get it improved. >> i have all of this in writing to all of you. >> the clerk will take that a distribute that to the community members at this time i'm going to call 10 more people (calling names). >> hi good afternoon my name is paulette gomez i live at a woman place an 13th and mission this is the only 24/7 shelter very few residents ev

out is 5 slides from a presentation on sort of justice i'm the human rights coordinator on the homelessness we have been working along with the shelters and shelter providers and itself city to speak about pro-active solutions that are real problems happening in the sheltered we understand the shelters are dealing with difficult to address situations that happen everyday so we really want to introduce and propose the concept of restored practices in our shelters as an alternative to the current system we see as not effective to responding to the violence incident of wrongdoing so just to really quickly an overview of what the resorted practices come from restored justice an alternative to the criminal and legal system we have that instead of prioritizing punishment wheelbarrow a law is broken we looked at addressing not only the situation that happened to the person involved in the incident but the people that are impacted by it the community and bystander or people that are directly harm's harmed we move toward accountability to allow people to remain in the community and when people are k

children's it is ineffective for me peppering i believe for that my workers' compensation who are homeless people and second thing i building my two coworkers jennifer and nick were talking about the friendship so there's no reason for mothers and children have to wake up at 6 o'clock it is cold in the morning we have to be a little bit human and understand this so i hear mr. joys to hear oh we working to implement the rules i don't want the rules i don't want rules i want to have agreement and work together and like working together with you guys to put in disagreement and working forbidding the people that are homeless and the solution is housing thank you very much. >> hi, i'm dwayne aim i'm a community housing partnership formally was homeless and i urge you guys to follow through with that because i know people that are sick and in those places are getting shifted out and need the help and without those shelters i don't think i would have made so, please i urge you to support this. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is do is james trashing from the community housing partnership i

new rules what it means to create more rules we want to make more rules more rules to a single homelessness woman and lgbtq in the shelters no, we have to change those behaviors we need to do something different we have a have creativity with the voices of the people in the shelters to come together to tell us how we can put in a resolve any issues inside the shelters we can't create rules anymore we needing need to stop and using those words again poor families and children's it is ineffective for me peppering i believe for that my workers' compensation who are homeless people and second thing i building my two coworkers jennifer and nick were talking about the friendship so there's no reason for mothers and children have to wake up at 6 o'clock it is cold in the morning we have to be a little bit human and understand this so i hear mr. joys to hear oh we working to implement the rules i don't want the rules i don't want rules i want to have agreement and work together and like working together with you guys to put in disagreement and working forbidding the people that are homeless and the

shelter controls to allow the emergency of homeless shelter as a right meaning without required public hearing in a place one zoning district this legislation is a part of the housing element that will be up in a few weeks currently the planning code didn't exclude a defines for the homeless shelter it is interpretations of the cod to define the use cargo of the proposals that are monthly group housing or hotel uses human resources hotel uses are a variety of zoning in front a few cases are interpreted as hotel use san francisco out of compliance with the state law the proposed ordinance will bring the planning code into compliance with the homeless shelter and create a definition for the planning code this new depiction is enhanced the more currently trend of shelter partition and allows rights in zoning jikt with continental approval there that rebuttals the zoning controls existing in the codes that will exempt the homeless shelter from open space car and bike parking and fee requirements and feinstein apply got policies federal or state to the homeless shelter in the magnificent co

and homelessness. she's bringing home staff members to link homeless families with available housing. it's a lofty goal. >> tomorrow you'll continue with the investigation. you have delved deep here, talking to folks even the press have not engaged. >> there's a lot in the community supportive of the search four rudd. some are citizen detectives. >> doing their own work. >> their own interviews, research, searches, make bringing in police dogs. we'll delve into the investigation, and sit with her mother and answer important questions about what happened the day she went missing. >> "america tonight"s lori jane gliha. thanks >>> "america tonight" exposes new details in the search for relisha rudd in a special report on friday. lori jane gliha with a lead even the police haven't followed. and tough questions for the girl's family. >> reporter: when you found out relisha went missing, did you call the police? >> didn't i say when i found she went missing, i couldn't thing? >> reporter: why didn't you call

.) >> hi yesterday at the shelter a person a wheel from the coalition from homeless shelters came and said there maybe a problem about the e.c. s shelters being twenty-four hour they're not maybe twenty-four hours anymore we need the shelter to stay twourts because it is very exhausting to be homeless and difficulty finding a restroom when the shelters close also it is common to get sick when you stay in the shelter there's a lot of germs and when you have brooklyn bronchitis you need a twenty-four hour shelter to lie down and a lot of older he seniors shelter folks that need a place to rest during the day thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon supervisors i'm kathy an e.c. s director and i manage 5 hundred and 34 single beds essential a next door shelter and additional more during the winter season we appreciate the focus on the shelter residents and welcome the dialog and especially the problem solving i hope that will come out of this process we know that our fellow san franciscans find themselves coming with acute health conditions as kate when is wonderful and very, very support

. >> i have to read this right quick i'm very nervous i'm almost 70 years old i'm homeless and disabled and living in a shelter i work every day i work another a index ssi take care of disabled seniors i can't get my help anywhere i've put in so many applications and tried for lottery and i'm tired i don't care about 50 or thirty percent i work everyday i can pay my own way i am an older woman because i'm sdarld my legs hurting hurt i can't get up to go to work i continue to do this for over thirty years this is not only for me but other disabled help us we want someone to stay with a kitchen and bathroom so we can live like human beings the way wisp raised so to so thank you and god bless you (clapping.) >> hi yesterday at the shelter a person a wheel from the coalition from homeless shelters came and said there maybe a problem about the e.c. s shelters being twenty-four hour they're not maybe twenty-four hours anymore we need the shelter to stay twourts because it is very exhausting to be homeless and difficulty finding a restroom when the shelters close also it is common to get sick

how do you react to the homeless?you give money to panhandlers? >> i do. i do. and i start a conversation. i give them my business card. and i try and see i try and connect to the humanity of people that are on the street. it may not work for everyone. and not everyone who panhandles is homeless. >> you're not concerned the money will be used for drugs or alcohol? that is a concern by a lot of people. they want to have compassion but they don't know where that money's going. zblifn't sat in a room where i've talked about homelessness in this job where people don't generate income for drugs or alcohol. let's just be honest. people are people. i don't judge people. i think the issue is that we've made it hard, there's not enough affordable housing in san francisco. sometimes the rules of our programs, as i described not being able to have possessions with you, not being -- a male and a female can't stay together in our shelter system. what couple is going to allow that, to be separated like that? i think we've really fi

count we've found that 61 percent of our chronological homeless individuals have a form of disabled condition and 1/5th are seniors they're not built to serve the demographic and ocher our shelter people needs the services the gap between the services we're providing and the clinic tell in particular, the rule that was most talked about was the rule number 18 that allows shelter to refuse beds an example go some place who couldn't get out of bed on their own or required assistance there's a lot of rationale behind the rule given the fact the shuttles don't have the training to treat the individual that is disabled further we know there are discrepancies that release the patient sooner then they need to, however, if they had a home but not a stable place to get well and better even something simple like a broken leg if i were fraelsz the hospital i could go home and network of supporters could bring food that's not available for our folks who are unhoused this is an issue that has lead to who is responsibility for the care of the individuals that is lead to our shuttles calling 911 t

going solve homelessness.he city council passed a goal of ending homelessness by 2020. is that even possible? honestly? >> we won't make any progress unless we set a clear goal and start to marshal the forces. >> you mean 30 years into homelessness there's been no goal sh >> i don't think we've been very well aligned. we have a lot of folks trying to solve different pieces of this puzzle and only after a last couple of years where we formed a nonprofit collaborative to ensure the city and the county will be swimming in their lanes, not tripping over each other to get grant funds and focusing on a housing first approach. we identified the 1,000 people who are most chronically homeless, who have the greatest needs and we've housed 840 of them in two years. we've got a lot of work to do at least 5,000, 6,000 in san jose alone. but by identifying those folks who are most vulnerable, they're costing us the most public resources. >> one of the largest encampments in the entire country you broke up recently. what i'm

also technical to the definition of homeless shelter so that it reads homeless shelter, a residential use defined as living and accommodations. just a technical clean up to match with the code. >> so, if i may madam president i will move both of the amendments that we distributed in addition to the oral amendments stated by mr. gibner. >>supervisor london breed: supervisor wiener has moved the amendment. can i have a second. seconded by supervisor mar. can we take that without objection? >> that passes. >> >>supervisor jane kim: i was excited that this worked it's way through the planning commission department that we are specifically defining homeless shelter and establishing it's zoning. i also want to recognize former supervisor duffy for bringing this to the attention of the planning department in working to clean up this language so that we can have it before the board and also for his work on the navigation center on 1950 mission as well. i think it is a great interim use of the site as we are in preconstruction design phase for the affordable family housing that will be built o

i'm mark ann anthony i was once homeless 14 years ago i can tell you horror stores in the shelters the staff was not formally trained - oh it's this one excuse me. i'm so sorry the staff was not trained a lot of horrendous things going on and basically staff worked enabling a lot of the clients to do negative things i want to frame the word solutions i wish they were happening when i was once homeless i like to see some place do some creative financing to make something positive happen with this health care we have going on with mental health going on in the shelters i'd like to see more beds than 60 mercy a lot of my colleagues have said a lot of words but i want you to think about the right thing to do for the community we're part of the human race and deserve a fair chance for housing. >> i'm manual jenkins i'm trying to touch basis with the board of supervisors type of thing thank you for assisting the homeless coalition and everything you you know thinking back when i was younger my grandmother was overly influential throughout the community a pillar to the america he name was mar

to fourth how this works if you have someone who has chronic serious illness who happens to be homelessness and staying in a shelter but certain treatment that is needed where you know their presents in that shelter and lack of access to the facilities or whatever it is is a problem and what point do you decide to hospital lists the person what point do you decide to do more than having them in the shelter system not only in terms of the what's the right thing to do for that patient but also i would minimal the cost of care if the person gets worse is also an issue i don't know how that worked but in our local we have something to say about that. >> so that's a really good question supervisor it is a situation is an individual situation; right? we have plenty of clients right now with hiv living in the shelter system i'm not an expert but i'll say either inconsistent and medication schedule or being in an environment that is not easy to clean or keep safe or consistent can have negative impacts on their health so some point again it really needs some medical individualized assessment for a

marries having being promised to end homelessness. former d.c. mayor vincent holmes promised to find homes for 5,000 but they moved fewer than 200 families. >> mayor can you tell me why 9/11 in the community should have faith that this plan will work when is a many previous administration he have tried ofix problem of homelessness in d.c. and been unsuccessful? >> we know we're dealing with a very important issue. incumbent upon all of us, me who is not quite 40 days in office to look at the programs that have worked and make them better. >> and are you confident that kids there today are safer than they were a year ago when relisha rudd went missing? >> i don't think that any of us can be happy when we have such a large facility where families are living. d.c. general was built as a hospital and as such it is not the optimal environment to raise families. >> but are they safer? >> i've answered your question. >> it's not much safer this year than last year because we have not -- what it would take to really make d.c. general function is a wrap a

we're studying in the ground floor we won in the church since then i've been doing work with the homeless population i see myself being you know a treat to be homeless again, the issue here is that we the workers, you know who do our job you know everyday it has been increased all the expenses in the city the rent is going higher every year the landlords send us a letter and the rent is increased every year we're paying for 90 for public transportation and 0 sour basis in the food and binging food it more expensive every year we ask you to increase 4.5 percent in the budget so our lives and people serving so we can be proud of the community services not only to homeless population but to the workers you know they recognize you know where we coming from what we do and thank you so much. >> i'm going to call a few more names. >> i'm - >> thank you (calling names) >> next speaker. >> thank you. good morning supervisors thank you supervisor mar and supervisor avalos for the supportive message you began with there's not a lot i can add to that i think you hit the needs for funding i work with

a sudden rise in homelessness among lgbt youth. on the streets and shelter that offers hope. >>> and surprising findings from a massive study on twins with autism. the up expected role of genes, only adding to the mystery. >>> speaking out. >> we're all coming together to encourage a better understanding of children with autism. >> we'll talk to the cofounders of autism speaks. bob and suzanne wright. on a decade of giving a voice to millions. >>> and plus, he's american life. ira glass on his show and his favorite stories. >> we begin this half hour with homelessness and the lgbt community. the white house gave guidelines not to ask about sexual assault. and how individuals identify their own gender. along with lgbt, homelessness is increasing. 7 million teens find themselves without a place to say. half a million without their families and many of them are lgbt. for many, it brings risks. how a one-of-a-kind shelter here in new york works offering temporary homes and hope. >> randall just to add to those staggering statistics, we

we have had a 94% increase in homelessness since 2007. >> reporter: jeff is a homeless advocate in sanncisco. >> compared to their peers, less than half of homeless students are at grade level for reading or math. more than half are likely to be held back a grade. >> reporter: his nonprofit helped unique's family find a home and it now has set up rapid response teams with the san francisco school district to help other families. having a home has change her life. >> i feel like i'm protected and, like, i can do what i need do now. >> reporter: unique's mother says her daughter is more driven now because she can see a path to a brighter future. danielle nottingham, cbs news, san francisco. >> homeless advocates say the recession and a lack of affordable housing is contributing to the skyrocketing number of homeless students in public schools. >>> west coast governors urge negotiators to quickly settle the dispute between dock workers and port operators. this as work at the port of oakland is suspended again today. businesses say the slowdown is costing millions of dollars. governor brow

but homeless advocates say the resent changes at dc general just scratch the surface.with al jazeera, washington. >>> you can see more of lori's report on america tonight at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. there is snow across much of the southern united states tonight in greensboro north carolina snow pulled down trees and tore down electric lines leaving thousands of people without power. the weather also affected transportation, more than 100 flights in and out of raleigh durham airport cancelled and nicole mitchell has more. >> a lot of this was last night so the snow you are dealing with today was as you can see dried out was on the ground. however, temperatures got above freezing today what is going to happen overnight tonight, birmingham 25, charlotte 22 that is back below freezing. so any of that moisture from the snow that melted today is going to refreeze overnight and make those roads slick once again and looking at a widespread area of potential of black ice and i would say outside of this be careful on those roads in the morning. so temperatures, still well b

homelessness people face everyday and how this may be made more challenge by constricting stricter rules not only rule 18 appreciate the practices that will be brought up in the hearing as well and in many ways as supervisor kim said no point looking at trying to push square pegs through holes but looking at supportive practices that can help lift people out of poverty and address the causes of homelessness in our city it to you supervisor kim and i'm looking forward to this hearing as well. >> so thank you, colleagues. i forget to give the members of the committee a chance to make opening remarks we've started with ms. crumbing u crumb from the human services agency. >> thank you for being here. >> any member of the public wish to speak on any item. >> at the thank you for having this hearing i am joyce crumb the director of the houses and homelessness division for the human agency i appreciate this hearing and appreciate the preempt we had with the supervisor kim and then our group meeting that we had with coalition on homelessness and e.c. s proifrdz just let me give you a little bit

homelessness across america. also serves ton board of project home a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness in philadelphia. thanks so much for all three of you joining me here today. professor simcox tell us what your advocacy clinic does and what are the challenges that you're hearing from veterans that you're working with? >> well pat, first, thanks for having me on. a decade ago, when my husband and i got off active duties we filed for his benefits and we messed it up entirely. and he hates us when we tell that story, because he says it makes it sounds like we're really bad lawyers, but in fact we're not. so the reason i tell that story is to let people know how difficult it is to do this. if two jag attorneys can't figure oit out, how is a veteran with posttraumatic stress or brain injury going to do that? so we decided to figure oit out. and today i run the clinic at stetson university's clinic of law, where law students represent veterans in the process. and they do that with the help of medical studen

ss to count the homeless.nd one in ten is a veteran. >> they gave sacrifices that none of the rest of us will ever understand. >> los angeles has the largest population of homeless veterans in the country. many get a cool reception. it wasn't all that way. in 1888, land was given to be maintained for soldiers. it was leased to outsiders who had nothing to do with the veterans. and neighborhoods such as brentwood westwood closed in. james carr saw a raw deal. >> they don't care about any of this. they want to turn it into what they want. >> a class action lawsuit was fired force the government to watch the original deed. >> you have politicians going around the country saying it is not right for these young men and women to go abroad and fight for their country have to right for a roof over their head and the politicians don't motorcycle something happen. that's hypocrisy. >> the department of justice argued the agency was within its rights to rent land off the rat ran s rans. >> many powerful neighbors turned

it's one of the top ten for battling homelessness.julia is a freelance writer in alaska and she has written about homelessness for aljazeera.com, and thank you for being with us. >> you followed the police as they broke up several homeless camps in the wilderness, and describe the camps. >> they were all over the place, from really really disorganized and littered with alcohol bottles to super sophisticated. we came across one that was like a teepee with a fire burning inside of it, and they had a last night rein, and there was like a cluster of them. and they were pretty deep into partly of the green belt that runs through the center of the city. >> you know in many cases people choose to live in those camps, and did you have the chance to talk to someone who had actively made a choice to live in a camp as opposed to a shelter? >> well, the issue frequently is the ability to freely drink. a lot of the people who are chronically homeless, are deep in addiction and the shelter requires that they just don't drink at the shelter but some

homeless response manager -- create unstable situations.ata to the environment as around the neighborhood and people living inside them. -- proposing danger. >> reporter:evicted only last month from a camp along the nearby union pacific railroad tracks and the jungle before that, many of these folks could be seen scouting the area for a new place to camp, some taking up residence near bellevue park, where they are already attracting the attention of police and will likely face eviction once again. >>robert aguirre/homeless advocate -- it leads to activities that are undesirable. >> reporter:aguirre believes the solution would be the creation of a temporary city or county sponsored campsite. but while such an idea is being dismissed as unworkable and far too costly, a new community wide plan is in the works says the city's homeless response manager. >> response manager -- working together today with a city plan that works on ending the homeless situation for it this good at finding a solution to the problem. >> reporter:at the same time, a n

we need to veteran homelessness since the end of 2015.g full speed ahead. >> i understand that. it is already an extension of the year of the original goal. the issue of the homeless call center, 40,500 missed opportunities where the call center didn't refer them to met cal facilities or take care of their problems. you give out your private cell phone number. >> i have. >> i'm glad you're doing it. is it trickling down? what about this call center? >> it is not just trickling down. we're making fundamental changes in the department. in terms of leadership. we have held accountable 900 employees no locker with us, that were with us before. >> 900 people have been fired since i have been second. 60 people were fired for manipulating wait times. we've got about 100 senior leaders under investigation now whose performance reviews have been deferred until we get feedback from the i.g. and department of justice. so we're holding people accountable. we're nine months since the scandal erupted. the gao, general accounting office, named parts of

or sunshine, but i think homelessness, over 6000 people in san francisco, crowd homeless shelters and other places, the streets because they have nowhere else to go. i understand that sunshine is very important to people who surround the area, but you have to take into consideration, deep consideration, that homelessness is a little bit more to me important than a shadow on a park. if i can sleep in a place, in a bed, in a warm house, i would take that under consideration more than sunshine. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good almost afternoon now. i'm going try to be quick and respect everyone's time. i know that the amount of shadow may seem small, but it's so important tom soma for a variety of reasons and i will explain what those are. in our neighborhood after dark safety become and issue. so most people try to do what they have to do before the sun goes down because it's not always safe in our neighborhood. there are many challenges that i don't need to detail. so people cram what they can in the daylight hours and just again the lacking access to open spac