this bill would also clarify that homeless veterans who are eligible for other federally funded homeless veteran programs are also eligible to receive training and employment services provided by grantees through hvrp and hvrpw. i believe that expanding eligibility for hvrp and hvrpw will provide participants in these programs better access to job training programs that can help homeless veterans on their path to sustainable employment and positive outcomes. this expansion would also occur without impacting current authorization levels for this program. i want to thank congressman wenstrup and congresswoman brownley for introducing this must-pass bill, which has my full support. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 4451, as amended, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. walz: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. i rise in support of h.r. 4451. thank the gentleman and everyone involved in this piece of legislation. veterans' homelessness

helping defend our country and ended up homelessness -- homeless but we are very pleased it is now he is living in the operant residence which is by this property which is housing that we put together for people who are veterans and to have also served the country and military and are experiencing homelessness and needed a hand up to get off the streets. mr williams moved in recently and joined me i join me in welco the podium. [applause] >> hello. i am a san francisco native. i am a u.s. navy vet and i live in the bay area predominantly most of my life. i stay at supportive housing for the past few months and i am just happy, you know, to have a place to stay. i am benefiting from trying to get being put in a situation where i can get my life back together. it's looking good. i wish it was more programs like this to help people, you know, change their lives. thank you. >> thank you mr williams and fortunately, with this budget we will have more housing like the auburn, it is very close to the auburn and what it we are excited it will be opening up very shortly. also we talked about t

let's talk about homelessness.an francisco's next mayor must achieve a significant reduction in the thousands of people living in crisis conditions on our sidewalks. san francisco currently spends $30 million a year on a move along strategy for d.p.w. and sfpdm to shuffle homeless residents from block to block with terrible outcomes. is founder and director of saint francis challenge i have worked with encampment residents, impacted neighbours, business owners, nonprofit and city workers and officials over the last two and a half years to pilot and developed a model that can transition thousands of san francisco's unsheltered residents into safe and organized spaces. news sos transitional villages are administered by nonprofit organizations with a license agreement agreement, health and safety protocols and community benefits on underutilized public or private land in impacted neighbourhoods. safe organized spaces provide triage, stabilization on the necessary amount of on-site services to support pathways to heali

coalition on homelessness. i'm appalled at the sweeps that are going on. i'm calling for a moratorium on sweeps without somewhere for them to go. with over 1,000 single adults on the waitlist, we need to find a safe place for them to sleep while working on long-term solutions including permanent housing. with community members on our street, we need to create real solutions and not exacerbate the problem. don't get me started how wasteful it is throwing away tents and their belongings. i know a young man that cannot afford rent because he's uninsured and his medicine is so expensive that he has to stay on the street. will he throw his medication away. are you going to throw the paperwork away? those are just two people, two people, in a large city of people with needs. that's what is inside those tents. these are people's lives. give them a little bit of dignity. let's stop vilifying our most vulnerable community members. we're here to represent everyone and all need to work together. we want to do it together

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last year one in four homeless people cite job loss as cause of their homelessness. that means that on any given night, we have 300 people who have a prior attachment to the work force, but are not being served by work force development system. i think the board of supervisors should call for regular updates in terms of what are the policy priorities, how are we doing with our services, are we invest being in coalition and co collaborative efforts and lift up the best of what works in the city. we should be doing that. i'm going to skip down to intended outcomes. assessing median wage job and looking at reduction in poverty and long-term employment. looking at employment barriers removed. those are pillars to look at in terms of measures of success and we would like to point to the homeless employment collaborative on the right side of slide number four, page four. page five, i'm sorry, of success. homeless collaborative served job-seekers. average monthly earnings at the exit from the program was in the order of $1,500 a month. those employment placements had a high

tools necessary to exit homelessness. including pathways to housing, workforce development, and permanent supportive housing. of the formerly homeless residents who access our services, 98 % remain permanently housed. ninety-eight %. so we are very proud of that. here we are you currently are, we have the highest risk and most vulnerable san franciscans. this five-story property was completed in 2,009 with development funds from the city and county of san francisco. it is one of the best examples of solutions to ending homelessness in our community. we are proud to partner with the city of san francisco to end homelessness and i'm very, very pleased this morning to introduce you to the honourable mayor, mark farrell. thank you. [applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you best. i think the house for hosting us this morning here in san francisco. you know, we do not have to remind anyone why we are here this morning. why we are here today for this announcement. homelessness is a crisis in the city of san francisco. our city gove

if you give notice within 56 days of being homeless your council should being homeless your council shouldg after you. also there is heather wheeler, the minister for homelessness and several months ago she promised she would resign if the problem got worse and it seems as if they are not coping with it and they are merely turning it into a crime. it's interesting that these laws exist that it is possible to do this, whether it is overreaching or the correct interpretation? these orders are about specific areas and they are about cancels clearing a particular areas and it can have very egregious results and one is judges feeling unhappy about sentencing people and punishing people are actions that came out of polity. it speaks of the wider problem of homelessness which is a bigger and bigger issue, problem of homelessness which is a biggerand bigger issue, not problem of homelessness which is a bigger and bigger issue, notjust people sleeping rough which is the most visible sign, but those who are sofa surfing and families in temporary accommodation for years. and there have been commitmen

and homelessness. thank you. >> this is for item two. youth commission that we are taking public comment for. i am not sure if those comments are for that. >> i thought it was a hearing on special projects. >> this is a special hearing that started at 4:30 p.m. for the youth commission. i suspended the public comment for item one. this is public comment for item two the youth commission budget priorities. if you would like to talk on the youth commission budget priorities, i invite you to come up. youth commission budget priorities. >> i am going to close public comment. >> budget priorities. >> i appreciate you spending time on the youth priorities. i came for the jail commission because the youth commission consulted with us for priority one about the alternative to incarceration. i appreciate the excellent recommendations. there are three we are excited about to highlight. first the idea that the board of supervisor in the city and county of superintendent should not build any new incarceration faci

homelessness is not a new phenomenon. it i homeless in ohio or was 18 years old, 17 years old.ld not find a job anywhere. i was out of high school. i would look at the want ads, wanted, were driver labor wanted, colored need not apply -- it did not help that i was black. that was actually in the newspapers, in the ads. here i am, 17 years old. i look back now, i am 83 this month, and i wonder how the hell i made it, but i did it. i have actually made it into the family, but have a just a member, "colored need not apply." i worked hard of all my life. i cannot drive those words out. i remember going on a job interview, calling on the phone, took my last $.50 as the bus fare, and when i got it, the guy told me we just sold the job, and i had to walk about eight miles where i was sleeping under a tree. thank you. host: all right, joe. guest: that is obviously something we all have to remember, and i am glad that you called, and i am glad that the situation changed for you and for the country. att: ethan epstein looked springs, just the housing part of it, to joe's point come on jo

i'd like to introduce someone from the homeless outreach program or the homeless program, jeff >> thank you, chris. [applause] >> my name is jeff with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to thank you all for being here today. i want to thank the department of public-health. homelessness is a complex problem and it requires the partnership amongst many city departments and individuals and people experiencing homelessness to resolve this issue and this is just one of many steps that we need to take. we're very excited about expanding this pilot that we started with d.p.h. many, many months ago. i believe it was in late 2016. i want to thank mayor farrell for his leadership in expanding this important program. so thank you again for being here today and we'll take questions over at the side. thank you. [applause] francisco. >> my name is fwlend hope i would say on at large-scale what all passionate about is peace in the world. >> it never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. >> one man said i'll upsetting the order of un

deal with the city's homeless crisis... 30-million tacked on.. in the upcoming budget... nough? >>> san francisco's interim mayor announces plans to direct even more money to deal with the city's homeless crisis. $30million tacked on in the upcoming budget, but will it be enough? good afternoon, i'm kenny choi. >> and i'm michelle griego. kpix 5's anne makovec shows us where that money will go. anne. >> reporter: san francisco's mayor made the announcement here at this 10th street homeless shelter in san francisco. they are trying to call attention to some of the city's successes. >> i'm just happy, you know, to have a place to stay. >> reporter: navy veteran williams is living at one of san francisco's supportive housing facilities. >> wish it was more programs like this, um, to help people, you know, change their lives. >> reporter: there soon may be. mayor farrell wants to direct an additional $29 million in next year's city budget to the department of homelessness and supportive housing. more than half of it would go toward opening four navigation centers which are one stop

they both have done things that they said are trying to -- they've got a homeless crisis. 169 homeless folks died in seattle last year. >> well, i'm a liberal, but i'm not insane -- [laughter] so don't paint me into a corner here. we've got a mayor here named bill de blasio. i don't know if he knows we've got a homeless problem because i don't know if he's ventured out of his limousine -- charles: the windows are tinted. >> we have real issues in new york. there is also -- charles: so what do you say to your liberal friends then? our heart is in the right place, but these policies -- by the way, it's not just that we've studented all over the country, something -- instituted all over the country. they seem to be backfiring. >> this is the biggest call for bipartisanship. bill de blasio has raised the budget by $1.6 billion for the homeless, and it's worse than ever. i'd like to watch rudy giuliani, the homeless just disappeared. maybe we don't want to find out, but whatever he did worked. [laughter] >> ironically, the more you spend to fix the homeless problem -- the subsidies, governm

could homelessness in san homelessness could at eight.. coming up coming up at eight..uld homelessness in san francisco be fixed for 200- million dollars? one entreprenuer says it could... his plan ahead. plus. lava bombs are the latest threat spewing from hawaii's kilauea volcano. and next. what is being credited for a drop in crime on bart this year. and the crime trends the transit system is seeing. of sviolence, we need hope. i'm jeff bleich. preventing violence has long been my cause. after columbine, i led president clinton's youth violence commission. i joined joe biden to reduce domestic violence, helping boys become men. i beat the nra in court, defending gun laws that save lives. today, a new generation is rising, and this is our moment. in the streets and in the capitol, i'll stand with them. jeff bleich, democrat for lieutenant governor. (pam) the early indicators show ... crime going down on bart through the first quarter of 2018. that is the good news. (ken) but there are some trends that are heading in a different direction. bart police chief carlos rojas

you could take that money and house 1,000 homeless people when we only have 8,000 that are homeless on the street and have a balance of 216,999,000. you got poor supervision and management of tax payer money. that accountant over there for the health department [buzzer] >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i just want to say thank you to supervisor sheehy. i called for an audit of behavioral health mental services department of public health. it's taken a year to finalize that. we will be presenting that in government audit and oversight in a couple weeks but this is right in line with exactly the kind of thinking in the sense that people with behavioral health services in a residential treatment facility if they don't have follow-up care they will continue the cycle of homelessness, so i think this is a great piece of legislation. thank you for the support, thank you supervisor sheehy for your leadership on this, and please add me as a co-sponsor. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stef

. >>> cal tran crews say they are tired of cleaning up homeless camps from along the freeways, ramps and overpasses across the state, now they are taking action. >> the union has fired a grievance with caltrans the complaints says the crews get safety training on what could be hazardous work. >> cleaning up homeless camps is dangerous for the crews task doing the job. often the ground is muddy, slippery debris written still of things that are sharp, or dangerous to touch such as toxic or biologically unsafe materials. >> feces and urine and feminine buttocks are on the ground. needles and syringes that they use. also buckets. >> that's to say nothing of the open hostility that comes from them being evicted. >> sometimes they have pit bulls and there. >> that is why cal tran maintenance union, the engineers filed an official grievance. caltrans issued this statement caught safety is a top priority for caltrans and we will carefully review the grievance. >> their job is to maintain the highways and freeways. that's doing the striking, doing the guardrails along the edges, trimming the

twice as likely to be homeless adults., style, to please others? i have more than enough understanding of what the mothers of homeless little girls are going through, because i too was homeless for 3.5 years. when you're going through those kinds of things, you don't think about dressing up, or the little girl dreams that you had. you think they don't apply to you. but what we do, and what we've been able to do, is let them know that they can dream. i would start my own business, like, it would be a clothing business. what are some things that you think you need to have? how would you be successful? i want to be a criminaljustice lawyer, to help people with crime and all that stuff, and i would hopefully want to win all the cases. the girl scouts are helping me become a lawyer by dealing with problems, and just being considering and caring about how people feel. often you think of shelters as places where dreams don't exist. but the girl scout troops create another place where dreams are fostered, and those will come to a

i did big that was intended to clamp down on homelessness. to life, this kind of reality. that we all know in oui’ kind of reality. that we all know in our towns and cities, we see a great many more homeless people and what is being done to them at the minute is being done to them at the minute is that they are receiving jail sentences which is going to compound the problem, because they are never going to be able to return to normal life. where is the impetus coming from with this keys because councils have the power to do it, but it

two in five reported being homeless in the past year. more than half of the san francisco veterans are at risk of ptsd. 46% of those in san francisco were considered at risk of suicide. reallocation of the funds for heck has had a direct impact on my program. i haven't had to make playoffs, i haven't been age to actually hire for two positions because of the funding. with my community partners in the san francisco area who had to make layoffs, those individuals were individuals who were doing outreach for us and individuals who were locating and identifying veteran on the streets for us. without their partnership we can't identify those at risk for homelessness or those who are at risk of ptsd and those other things. thank you very much for your time. >> next speaker. >> i am becky. i work at the san francisco food bank and member of the food security task force. i want to commend the board of supervisors for commitment to end hunger by 2020. i also want to remind you one in four people in this county are still at risk of hunger. it is a

i know there are a lot of them in hud. >> homelessness is a big one. >> senator brown mentioned homelessness a few minutes ago. >> right. >> isn't there some connection to our challenge in our communities of mental health of all of our people and homelessness -- i know in my hometown of tuscaloosa, alabama, a lot of the homeless, maybe not everywhere, are deeply challenged with mental health. >> absolutely. that is a huge problem throughout our country. you know, we made a mistake about 30 years ago with some of our rulings to take these people out of a setting where they could be easily taken care of. and we have an obligation, i think, to take care of those people. >> what are some of the other challenges that you -- you're trying to get your arms around? >> well, we have the superfund problem going on in various places around the country. dilapidated housing in many places. we have -- >> expand on dilapidated housing because i see it everywhere. i see it in birmingham, atlanta, i see it in chicago. i see it everywhere. >> for instance, in cairo, there was just horrible oversight there by

first increase in homelessness nationwide for over ten years.now, then in california, we saw a 14% increase in homelessness in a short period of time. we really need to step it up at the state level and the federal level. >> but the job is local. while he is not thinking about politics and who the next boss might be, he says the city's current approach launched by the late mayor who appointed him is working. >> and maybe it might be battled scared. we'll continue to decrease homelessness in san francisco, able to help out this year. >> thank you so much for watching at 6:00. 60 minutes is up next. >> for news throughout the evening, the latest is on cbssf.com. we'll see you back here at 11:00. in the face of senseless violence, we need hope. i'm jeff bleich. preventing violence has long been my cause. after columbine, i led president clinton's youth violence commission. i joined joe biden to reduce domestic violence, helping boys become men. i beat the nra in court, defending gun laws that save lives. today, a new generation is capitol, i'll sta

because i too was homeless for 3.5 years.gs, you don't think about dressing up, or the little girl dreams that you had. you think they don't apply to you. but what we do, and what we've been able to do, is let them know that they can dream. i would start my own business, like, it would be a clothing business. what are some things that you think you need to have? how would you be successful? i want to be a criminaljustice lawyer, to help people with crime and all that stuff, and i would hopefully want to win all the cases. the girl scouts are helping me become a lawyer by dealing with problems, and just being considering and caring about how people feel. often you think of shelters as places where dreams don't exist. but the girl scout troops create another place where dreams are fostered, and those will come to a reality someday for these homeless kids. a town in canada's western province of british columbia has an unlikely menace stalking its streets. it's being overrun by wild peacocks. the large birds have invaded backyard

the restaurant is offering free meals and more to homeless mothers. kron 4's sara stinson is there live... and tell us about the mother's day celebration. (áásaraáá)marty there are several events in san francisco today honoring moms who are homeless and working to get back on their feet and into their own homes.one being a luncheon here at le colonial. the families who are attending this event are residents of compass family services tranisitonal program at the compass clara house. it's a two year intensive program providing childcare, mental health support and educational and employment services. 13 families are in this program at a time.the luncheon will be from noon to two this afternoon. there is also another event for homeless moms in the tenderloin at the hamilton family center.an organization, dad's that cook, will be making the mothers a nice meal.plus, each mom will be able to get a complete makeover. this event starts at nine this morning.(áásaraáá)so at least two amazing events going on in san francisco giving moms who are going through a h