of homeless people in san francisco became homeless under the age of 25. that is why it is especially important we invest in our young leaders. if we want real solutions, it is critical to get their input from their lived experience to inform our policy and practice. this is why leadership bodies like the youth advisory board to work. they get marginalized and disconnected youth into productive work with their peers and community wide problem-solving. engaged youth are connected youth. leadership skills like life skills in organizing and collaborating end goal setting, we need this to happen for our young people to become the great civic leaders of our future. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: where your youth programs cut by d. thank you f.? >> we did -- none of us received it. >> we have not in the past. >> supervir cohen: thank yo you. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i'm a member of api council. as you heard before, 40 pick -- 42% live in poverty. a third are seniors. they serve over 45,000 seniors a year. we are req

have been homeless pregnant women. we must fully fund a replacement emergency family shelter. currently, families can wait up to 321 days for stable shelter placements. and while they wait, the only option is a church that is open only in the evenings. families, pregnant women and children must sleep on mats on the floor and they only have access to showers once a week. we must fund a fully serviced family shelter for homeless families. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i am a psychotherapist. i'm here today to speak on behalf of sherry and her two children, a just two and five. sherry lives in her car with her children for one month. she often feels very scared and worried that something terrible was going to happen to her and the children. the children are very confused, sad, they can feel the mother's fear. this is very connected to mental health. they not only did not have a roof or a bed, or no food, but they also internalize and feel helplessness and disability. being alone and lack

aids and abets the homeless sweeps, further traumatizing the already chaotic lives of homeless folks. and we ask you to fund additional 300 housing subsidies for homeless families, youth, elder, people with disabilities. secure housing is the only solution to homelessness. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. first of all, i want to commend you for all the decisions that you made on monday. very right on target, and i'm glad that i'm living in a city where there are people with conscience. i want you to accept all the economic reductions to help the homeless. 7,500 homeless individuals in san francisco on any one night, 1,000 people on the wait list for single adult shelter and 321 for a family shelter. most were homeless here while they are here living in san francisco, meaning they had apartments. homelessness is a risk factor for a number of illnesses and susceptible to increased health problems due to high stress, sleep depravation, unsanitary surroundings, lack of hygiene facilities and other symptoms inherent with living without stable housing. it is

there will always be individual who are experiencing homelessness or near homelessness. so we're going to get better at trying to see those individuals before they actually become homeless. that's what we want to be. what are the indicators? and then we had programs, in the future, we are going there. we're going to be much better at predictive analysis, but it's going to be organizations like yours that will have to keep us as a department focused on moving in that direction, making sure the right amount of resources are dedicated to it. the extensions of programs that we have, the veterans justice outreach programs in va, the federal courts, the treatment courts. those are extensions, and i think they were motivated at the beginning, i think the first court was in buffalo, and then since then with over 500 around the country. there are going to be more. there are more judges who want to have either calendars on the docket or actual courts that they can get the resources to help address the veterans who come in, many of whom are from the world of homelessness or will fi

veteran, a homeless veteran was homeless living in tents. i spent a number of years living in florida, in and hernando co, and there were tent villages for homeless and integrated in those homeless tent villages were veterans. and they were not well taken care of the healthcare system that we had. in va in tampa and saint pete. i was part of that and we didn't do as good a job as we should. we are doing much, much better now than we were then. why? because of organizations like yours. you all are the adequate chambers to make sure that we in washington see, hear, and feel the needs, the unique needs that need to be addressed by the homeless veteran and their families. 15, 18 years ago that small phrase, and their families, was never part of the dialogue but now it is. that's progress. it's real progress because on the hill, now legislators when they say, and to think of homeless veterans, it is now homeless veterans and their families. because there is an echoing out of come if you're going to dress a homeless veteran you are also going to b

said years ago when people "homeless veteran." a homeless veteran was homeless, living in tents. i spent a number of years living in florida and there were tent villages for the homeless integrated into those buildings. ofy were not well taken care by the health care system we had in the v.a. in tampa and st. pete. i was part of that. we didot do as good of a job as we should have. we are doing much better now. why? because of organizations like yos. echo chambers to make sure we in washington see, that and feel the need need to be addressed by the homeless veteran and their families. 15-18 years ago, that small families" waseir not heard. that's real progress. now,se on the hill legislators, when they think of homeless veterans, it is now homeless veterans and their families. echoing out. is an if you are going to address a homelesseter you are also going to address what might be a dysfunctional family, what might be a druil just by the act of hping that homeless veteran. the other point i would like to say the v.a.people is broken because of all of this had press. the v.a. is n

please help the homeless. i am actually begging for you all to help support us. 14.8 or 15 million-dollar budget. thank you very much. [applause] >> supervisor cohen: just as a reminder, folks, we have a long day at a lot of speakers ahead of us. let's streamline the up because -- applause. use your fingers or put your thumbs down. >> my name is kelly. i'm the human rights organizer with a coalition on homelessness. i'm here to urge you to fully fund the budget of 14.8 million. we have been seeing a huge increase in enforcement on our streets. we are seeing the sweeps with dpw and sfp be, at even if you ask the front line workers. they know the very next day they will be doing the same thing on the next block, because people are not put into resources and there is nowhere to go. in fact,, there is a resolution going on, there is a sweep that they were hitting with the sweep and undermining the homeless department. the homeless department is working to get people into actual placements. we need to be putting th

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

in 2017, they found 7,409 homeless individuals in san francisco. 31% were chronically homeless and 71% lacked shelter, however it costs more not to address this. each chronically homeless person who isn't in supportive housing costs taxpayers $81,000 each year. if these individuals were in supportive housing it would only cost 20,000 perperson peryear. this proves it is more ethically and financially responsible to commit them to housing. there's a strong causal relationship between homelessness, drug use and traumatic childhood experiences. i would also like to advocate for more prechbstive measures, such as family and child services, foster and family support services. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is francis colins, and i want to reiterate what the last speaker says. it costs more not to address the homelessness issue. it costs taxpayers 80,000 a year for every chronically homeless person in jail expenses and other band-aid solutions. it's ethically and physically more responsible to go towards supportive housing, which would only cost 20,00

i'm with the coalition of homelessness. i'm asking the board of supervisors to cut back on the seven% budget increase for the police department, especially the 100 new police officers that they have earmarked right now. i would rather see that money used to fund our ask. we are in a state that is already heavily policed and ready to cut it and shift resources to proactive measures and social safety measures that will reduce crime more effectively. thank you. tou. >> high arm with the coalition on homelessness. when we fund police, it does not match up with the funding of the mental health program and it only hurts poor folk add marginalizeandmarginalized folk. if we have problems with tourists acting erratic or have mental health problems, the way to fixtha is not to criminalize them, but to get the mental health services. i just hope that instead of sending marked osha funding more police, we fund mental health services. that will help us more. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors. i work in the coalition o

we must also address the core roots of the issue of homelessness. we must offer help to those on our streets struggling with addiction, mental illness and other behavioral health challenges. last month, i announced the creation of a new street medicine street which will deliver opioid treatments directly to people living on our streets. this dedicated unit under the direction of dr. barry zevin will offer medication to people living on our streets. it is a first in the nation program, and it will produce results here in san francisco. every day we are hearing more and more stories of people who have really inspired the rest of us by treating their addiction and making onto a better life. and for those -- for those that are on our streets that cannot help themselves with buprenorphrine, we have an obligation to step in and offer assistance. we are investing in conserveatorship beds to those suffering from mental illnesses and living on our streets. earlier this year, i announced the opening of san francisco conserveatorship beds. and we will continue

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homeless in the future? >> mr. speaker, i would like to thank my colleague from saint and for her support to veterans and their families. homelessness among veterans is unacceptable. homeless,ns who are one is too many. many. for the organization to work to produce the numbers this will improve our ability >> last earthquake, i met organizations that worked to numbers of homeless vets. and this will improve our services to ovide homeless vets, and help provide programming for them. hong speaker, yesterday kong democracy acted as someone was sentenced to six years in prison. dictatorship in action, in defiance of the one country two systems framework that china agreed to. liberal government claims to care about human rights around the world, so will they condemn the imprisonment hong kong's -- >> m spe, for our overnment, the promoonnd protection of human rights are core priorities in our ngagement with china very much including hong kong which has such close human kegses with our country. rights the human si

i haven't seen homeless people hanging around. homeless people doesn't agree.odel for the rest of us. they would rather go down with n admit their fill yours. i discussed this with the team. great to see all of you here. thank you for the response. more next revolution after the break. . the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. visit alz.org to join the fight. my secret visitors. hallucinations and delusions. the unknown parts of living with parkinson's. what plots they unfold, but only in my mind. over 50% of people with parkinson's will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. if your loved one is experiencing these symptoms, talk to your parkinson's specialist. there are treatment options that can help. my visitors should be the ones i want to see. . steve: all right. the big week next week, the eve of president trump's historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. i'll be in new york with lisa boothe and to

i was homeless for a year. luckily the q.ndation helped me get into the lottery certificate holder. i was denied my housing. my families lived on a farm and they went to a concentration camp and lost everything. my grandparents lived in a stable. and then we lost our apartment. we got red cross. we are certificate holders. they evicted us. so that market rent people can get into our apartment. they did not have anywhere for me to go. twenty what foundations found me and found several places. a number 1 was right next door at thomas kane. i got my teeth and i was the first person and they denied me -- >> supervisor cohen: do you have a budget ask? >> i'm asking you to fund two foundations with long-term subsidies. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. got it. my pleasure. thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good morning. i think it still morning. my name is kristi and i am with senior disability action. san francisco is in a full blown housing crisis was skyrocketing the rent and evictions making it impossible for people to find, or han

it's need-based subsidies for housing and the homeless. >> supervisor fewer: i think this homeless workforce development is really important, and i think it's an answer to homelessness. and then i have to say i'd like to see 1.2 million into a.p.i. citywide services. i think the largest population of children that we have in san francisco that are in poverty are asian. and although -- i mean, i feel like many of these services were cut during this dcyf budget cycle, so i'm just looking to enhance that pot a little bit. and then, domestic violence folks, and i think that we made a very good case about how they are the first -- first people, quite frankly, over the police that the community calls because there's such deep trust, and i think there's need for more money for that. and of course, we did -- >> supervisor cohen: supervisor, before you go on, there's -- there's one thing that i had some questions about -- about some subsidies. how -- how is it taken care of in the rebalancing act? this is specifically for the homeless? >> supervisor fewer: so yeah. the rebalancing act, i think, focus

these resource heavy centers cycle of homelessness, poverty and addiction on our streets. we will fund programs that support families, we will fund program that's support the youth that are homeless on our streets, and i will continue to support funding for operations that clear our streets of unsafe and unhealthy tent encampments. again, no one's life is getting better by sleeping in tents on our re we must also address the cor roots of the issue of homelessness. we must offer help to those on our streets struggling with addiction, mental illness and other behavioral health challenges. last month, i announced the creation of a new street medicine street which will deliver opioid treatments directly to people living on our streets. this dedicated unit under the direction of dr. barry zevin will offer medication to people living on our streets. it is a first in the nation program, and it will produce results here in san francisco. every day we are hearing more and more stories of people who have really inspired the rest of us by treating their addiction and making onto a be

about the homeless.ne of the things though is that the kind of the communities that form, one of the only things they have in common sometimes are that they are homeless. and these were, the people that you're profiling are filipinos. d qte a bit in terms of maybe doing things or being able to cope with really known for the bayanihana spirit, or, you know that if you're a fellow filipino, you get help. and so, i think for these filipinos, they found comfort in turning to a fellow filipino for help, but, you know, it really wasn't easy for them to even speak about their experiences. when we went there, initially, they were put off. you know, they didn't wanna share their stories, but us being from the filipino channel, i think it helped because, you know, we speak the same language. and, you know, we really came in there with no judgments. i think that's important, when they feel like they can tell their story without being judged, different reasons why they're in that position. some are in abusive relati

i was homeless. i've been homeless since '95. and they're helping me find a place. i think you should keep that. no don't put no other buildings up because you need buildings like that so they can house people. if you don't have buildings like that, how they going to get housing? you put it in places you trying to build, you know what i mean? keep the place. they doing a good job. and them people that hang out front, they've been hanging out there since that was a school. police didn't get them away from there then. they're not trying now. they're trying to make us look bad. thank you. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is george agler, i'm a resident over there at navigation center. now they help people that want the help. and they have helped me so much. i wish there was more of them. it's great. and -- excuse me. you don't know how much they've helped me. and i wish there was more of the you know, to help everybody that wants it, you know? an extension would be great to help everybody else like they helped me. they helped me tremendously get off the

a lot of times i understand how they became homeless because, you know, i was homeless. >> reporter: when others' trash becomes someone's prized possession, she has to step in and help them decide what to keep and what to throw out. >> downsize their immediate things, their clothing, food, documents and bedding. we allow them to take those things because they need them regardless of where they're going to go. >> reporter: some of the individuals tessa and guillermo meet take them up on their offer. most do not. they pick up their camp and move to another block where the street cleaning cycle will continue another day. natasha, abc7 news. >> dirty water appears to be the cause of a row r romaine lettuce outbreak that killed five people. the food and drug administration said it was possibly caused by contaminated canal water in yuma, arizona. samples taken from the water show the same genetic fingerprint as the outbreak strain. no nearby farms were implicated, but so many people stopped eating lettuce after that and hopefully people feel safe to go back. >> all right. on to the weather

let's talk about homelessness.at san 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 lengei haverked with encampment residents, impacted neighbours, buness 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 healing, ho

homeless necessary among veterans is unacceptable. our veterans who are homeless, one is too many. last week i met organizations that worked to reduce the numbers of homeless vets, and this will improve our ability to provide veterans services and services to homeless vets and help provide programming for them. >> mr. speaker, yesterday hong kong democracy ac toe advice was sentenced to six years dm prison. this is basic dictator ship in action. this liberal government claims to care about human rights around the world. so will they clearly condemn the imprisonment of hong kong leading pro democracy voices and join our allies in calling for hong kong legal status to be respected? >> honorable mr. foreign affairs. >> mr. speaker, for our government the protection of human rights are core priorities in our engagement with china very much including hong kong which has such close human connections with our country. we raise the human rights situation in china with every opportunity and continue to encourage china to live up to its international commitments. thank you. >> member for jul

or at risk of becoming homeless. i furthered this work over the last year and a half as a member of the house committee on veterans' affairs. these vets took an oath to protect our country and now america must keep its promise to should notf them and be struggling and most certainly should not be living on the streets. san diego has achieved some progress in getting vets off the streets and into housing in recent years. other should not be cities like stimulate city, new orleans, and houston have reached functional zero, which means that homelessness among veterans is rare, brief, and nonrecurring. across the country the problem is still far too prevalent. i ask my colleagues to support this amendment that will help provide valuable resources and protect valuable resource that is our veterans desperately need and i look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to fund veterans' homeless programs and make sure federal dollars committed to that purpose are used for that important need. thank you

>> it's predominantly not the homeless people that are littering.f the illegal dumping is coming from a variety of illegal sources having nothing to do with the homeless. so the illegal dumping -- >> tucker: i know where some of its coming out from. illegal is the word. i'mm glad you are doing that. so you're getting to the cause. >> we need to provide better places for the homeless to be, in other words, it's not enough to say where we don't want people to go, we need to provide thet places, and i am fighting for us to use public land, churches that have offered to volunteer their sites, to allow the homeless to have places they can become aware they can get assistance, where they can get matched with the social services, and turn their lives around, while living in places better than the sidewalk. in the meantime, robbing them is unacceptable. the last time i came on, we try to talk about scripture and you didn't want to, but i'd be happy to remind us all -- >> tucker: a lecture from a lefty. i agree with that, let's ask the deeper questions, i kn

[please stand by] >> particularly the foot patrol and the homeless outreach. the staffing that we're requesting. the department of justice was very spifp about their assessment that foot patrols, community relationship building was better suited to those type of deployments and in addition to that on the homeless effort, i can't emphasize enough the collaborative piece of this that in order to work in this collaborative partnership, there really a heavy pull on the police department. we work with the other agencies. it's about safety, number one. but the other thing is we've seen that it takes the building of relationships to really move in the direction that we move to get of the problems solved on the street. the street behaviours and getting people to the services they need. it's not just about going and forcing any laws because, in my opinion, that is not the most effective way to deal with this problem. it's about building relationships necessary to get them to a place where they're ready to receive those services and that takes a lot of time and investme