counting the deaths of homeless people across the u.k. what's noticeable is what you do is not only keep counts and you'll help by ngos and journalists and local reporters around the united kingdom but you also tell the stories as much as possible. how people died who they were what happened i can literally scroll through four hundred eighty four deaths so far which one standout year. makes for some really grim reading and we were really keen that we told their stories because these people aren't numbers you know every every person has loved ones have friends family that they've left behind and you know along the way on this project i went to funerals i met with family members of some of these people and so there's lots of them that really kind of stick out in my mind a woman called jane who died in stafford i met her family talked to the daughters to mom and some cases there were people that that lay in tents hidden from people we saw and they were they were only identified through d.n.a. testing or dental records because their bodies ha

became homeless. i only met one person in that category -- >> you're 100% right, because when we did this project, looking at all these profit, they're out of town. that was dead wrong. as far as the people that i have met, talked to personally, actually been on the street, you know, and we have it documented. and i think that, you know, these people, in some cases, they came to san francisco, and one person told me, you know, san francisco's the four seasons of homelessness. this is the best place to be, san francisco. we take care of our homeless better than any city in this country. we have the best services, best quality, the most compassion. we're the most tolerant. we're willing to have them and listen and engage, and so we're attracting them because we have a huge heart in our city. it's a huge level of responsibility and now it's turned into a huge challenge where we're going to have to be able to execute. so what can we do to help you? look, every citizen in san francisco is behind you. we al

nd >>> san francisco's homeless epidemic. a local ceosupports a measure aimed at reducing homelessnes> e begin with an emboldened gop and a surge in women candidates. at a gathering in iowa this week president trump made it clear he will use the recent supreme court confirmation fight as a rallying cry. the president cited opposition to justice brett kavanaugh sayi todemocrats have become too dangerous and extreme. most polls show democrats will likely pick up seats in the an unprecedented number of women are running for office nationwide and that trend holds true for california, as well. here now to discuss all of this are political senior writer, gop political consultant timamiller government reporter katie orr. nice to have you back. ti how much of it did the confirmation of brett kavanaugh give republicans? >> i think it was real. the intensity level on the left going into the hearings was already an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10. on the right, it was mid. i think that thete ity of the dispute, the perceived i think grievance,

these are the people that are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. and nain order for us to build enough housing so that everybody can call san francisco home, we have to be able to build apartment housing all over the city. i hope that you will support me this fall. i live in western soma with my house, who's an electrician, and a small business owner, and i have a ten month old son, and we live in a one bedroom. and i would like one day to have a two bedroom for my family. i've been fighting for families like mine and like yours already for the past few years in san francisco. i would like the chance to bring my record of success and energy to the next level. i haven't given up on san francisco being an affordable place to live, and i hope you haven't, either. if you haven't, vote for me, number one, starting october 9, and vote for christine johnson, number two. she's also very good. thank you.

a part of the conversation about homelessness. we have worked with daniel on this as a partner, and many of you in this room have made this happen. so this day, this campaign, about bringing together the city, city departments, a number of departments, and philan tloepy to significantly reduce the numbers of young people sleeping on our streets is huge. we are excited to be the ang core or hub of this project, but we will not do this alone -- anchor or hub of this project, but it's going to take all of us -- new door ventures, so many of us that have been working so hard to make sure that as the mayor said, that t.a.y., that we know that t.a.y. are, that's a group of young people who if we do not intervene, young people that are experiencing homelessness, will be on the streets for a long, long time in our adult population, that they need housing, and education, and they need case managers to care about them, and they need everybody in the community to see them, and so by launching this today, we say we see you, we're going to hel

very first time when i met him has been his very first night on the streets and he'd never been homeless before have a listen. to describe. it. but i. have to. look at my. i don't know what to do. and when you can fill with just incredible empathy for barry that i'm just wondering when people are in that situation who is there to help them. well i think it's important to remember you know when your face faces those heartbreaking stories like barry's these are casualties of a system that has totally failed people and we do need to look at the kind of root causes of what is this going wrong here. so we do need to look at the kind of decades of failure we've seen to build enough homes and that really is rooted s. and even more importantly we need affordable homes people can actually can afford rent you need social harms in terms of who's there for them right that when they're on the streets as lots of charity is not a nice ations let's among those like shelter who can pick them up and can give them advice and support but unfortunately we are in a position as are lots of local authorities as

we all agree homelessness is probably the top city. n the it is time to look at the companies as a place to find a solution. you mentioned mark coming out in support of this. he put its a binary choice. if you are with the homelessness you are with proposition c. >> despite the fact that it would ut a lot money into the city's coffers, youe h mayor opposing it and some state lawmakers opposing it. why are they not backing this iasure? >> they argue is not binary and before we invest in double the amount of money t city is spending on homelessness we should look at how th current money is being spent. they want to figure out an audie process to fiut where the money is going. there is also the politics of it. i think if proposition c passes voters will judge the results mayor and how her administration is ab to spend the money. t fre perspective, she wasn't crafting the measure. she will be accountable for whether this -- >> therefore she is not invested in it. what is your take on prop c? would this money make a big difference? >> it wo

mayor's senior project manaater of homeless sies agrees that addressing homelessness is a multi-tieredoc ss but disagrees that the homeless are being criminalized. >> instead of leading with police, leading with enforcement, ware doing everything we can to lead with services because we know that police officers are not social workers and that is not necessarily in their purview and having an enforcement heavy response is not ultimately going to get people off the streets. >> reporter: activists say they know what will get people off thstreets. >> the solution is simple. this is what the solution is. this isat only thing nds homelessness. it's this right here, house keys. until everybody got them, hey you gotta be good neighbors because they going to be people sleeping on the streets. on there are a lot of solu that we are focusing on currently in terms of trying to expand our interim shelters by capacity. but we also know whathe only solution is to homelessness, which is permanent housing. >> reporter: miller told newshour weekend the city of l.a. had embarked on an unprecedented drive t

we know that children who are homeless are more likely -- five times to be more likely to be homeless as adults. we've seen what it means for children to be able to complete their homework, having a place to call home, calling in sick regularly, having a place to shower. i have to tell you one of the most heartbreaking stories that i heard from some of our young mothers is actually having to bathe their children in a sink at their local church because they have nowhere else to take their children before they get ready for school. and compass family services has been at the forefront of ensuring that we are providing these critical services to families to so many of our clients that need it the most. in order to provide those services, it's critical to have a home and a space to walk into. so i'm so excited that compass family services will be opening here in this district, and i really want to recognize the leadership of the board chair, chris wagner, and of course to our wonderful executive director, erica kisch, who's been running this century old organization so critically in san f

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. >> there are a lot of homeless people in our city. the reason why he supports the tax to try to solve the homeless crisis >>> eight days until election day and supporters of the gas tax are using creative ways to get their message to voters. they rode bikes wearing wigs and high heels and san francisco over the weekend. they are against proposition six which would repeal the gas tax. their ideal -- idea was to poke fun at a recent comment with the orange county republican. they rollback the gas price hike that reaches $5 million a year for road and bridge repair. playing more forces people to ride their bikes or take trains to get a lot -- get around and that is not something she can do in her hair and heels and those two rallied in may see it differently. >> i am a san francisco resident and cyclist. i c every day and my hair and heels. this is my normal clothing. i show up at work using transit using my bicycle and i think we need a major cultural shift if we are people insisting that you can't do it and heels. >> site -- state sena

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host: you brought homeless into this. how often does the lack of affordable housing lead to homelessness, and help -- and how big of a problem of that -- of a problem is that in hawaii? caller: we had a serious homeless problem. they were camping out in the gypsys, sort of like homelessness. when the police came in, they just moved to another public site. we have put emphasis on transitional shelters. , alsoty club of honolulu looking for lowrise apartments purchasing them and making them into transitional shelters and apartments for the homeless. of work ine a lot the philanthropy world. philanthropists in hawaii took it upon themselves. he saw vacant land on the outskirts of an industrial area that had the components, public transit. get a little village community. to do the next phase. the first phase, my understanding, is he did it with sweat equity and volunteers. the total cost was about $20 million to do the village. there are different efforts. through those different types of efforts, we have to be able to -- lik

host: you brought up homeless. often does the lack of affordable housing lead to homelessness, and how much of a problem is that in hawaii? guest: i think that maybe i think myself back four years ago ige administration first came in, we had a serious homeless problem. they were camping out in the streets, sort of like gypsy homelessness. when the police came in, and we wanted to clean up an area, they just moved to another public site and things like that. since then, we have put emphasis on transitional shelters. the city club of honolulu, also foring for buildings or low-rent apartments, purchasing them and making them into transitional shelters and apartments for the homeless. we also have a lot of work in the philanthropy world. one of our philanthropists here in hawaii, he took it upon himself, he saw vacant land on the outskirts of an industrial area that had all the components, public transit. he could get a little village community. today it is thriving. he wants to do the next phase of it. the first phase

to the mentally ill with the homeless that really has it that you . are going to come to the city on twenty billion dollars surplus housing. as a couple from the. only thing i see the girls near is more will tell. you you know i live over st joe obviously will have more history she said you know all of the drama all so much so citizens would step forward into many government officials police and cities it's very much in the right choices to get people off the street because at some point you have to help people there jane help themselves. a lot of it is just the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness so that means you don't have a job for four weeks and then all of a sudden you're going to be homeless because you are literally living from paycheck to paycheck you need that next job in order to continue paying rent and if you don't pay rent then you will be evicted. from my perspective i really believe that the route to homelessness in philadelphia is the fact that. there is a very high pop

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of the 13 members, half of them are homeless or formerly homeless individuals. the rest of the seats are filled by service providers. the committee has two purposes. the first is to provide city agencies and the public with information about shelter conditions and operations, and the second purpose is to monitor city funded shelter programs for compliance with minimum operating standards, known as the standards of care. the committee accomplishes these goals by conducting site visits at different shelter programs and taking client complaints. their several different sites that are monitored by the committee. resource centers, reservation stations and drop in centers which provide shelter reservations laundry, showers and more. in addition there's single adult shelters that provide shelter for homeless adults over the age of 18 and family shelters for homeless parents and children. moving onto the 2016-2017 site visits, one of the new features of this report is attempt to try to highlight programs that do exceptionally well either on item visits or client complai

to be clear, we are not talking about most homeless people. large majority of homeless people are not what this bill is about. this is about a small percentage of chronic homeless people, who are incapable of making decisions for themselves due to severe mental health and drug addiction issues. who are incapable of accepting services. we need to help these people and we need to stop just letting people unravel and die on our streets. the city of san francisco and other cities have told us, is that the current conservativeship laws in california, are not meeting the meets, particularly of people with severe drug addiction. people who are cycling in and out of the psyche of emergency room and they're backout on the streets unraveling more and more. we need to help get these people into housing, into services, get people stable and healthy and do everything we can to get their lives on track and that is what senate bill 1045 is about. this is not about mass institutionalization. this is about really focusing on relatively limited number of people

homeless or at risk of chronic homelessness. the $20 million in noncompetitive funding will be available to each county proportionately's housing count. they will award funds based on the approval of documents submitted to the county with the county's application. san francisco expects to receive an allocation of about $100 million. as part of the application, h.c.d. requires that the county submits a resolution from the local governing body that authorizes the county to apply for funds. as such, that resolution allows mohcd to apply, and it will allow us to receive and an center our allocation of funds with h.c.d.'s approval. we are requesting some amendment language today because h.c.d. issued new instructions yesterday that require resolutions to include very specific language that references state code. this language does not make any substantive changes. it basically references this code section and requirements under the no place like home program, and we're asking the committee to accept the amendments and to forward the

our homelessness. already raised more than $37 million for our homeless families. now we're continuing the fight into homeless individuals, and we know that we need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to directly address the homeless individuals' problems. it's our number one issue in our city. we're working on making san francisco a stronger city, a stronger city with strong public schools. a strong city by working with our homelessness, a strong he city by cleaning up our city, and we're doing all this together. san francisco is the number one employer in san francisco, so salesforce combined with san francisco can do more together, and that's what we're here. and let's not forget, there is no strong san francisco without a strong oakland. the metaphor of the bay bridge, that we are connected, that we are all connected, and we are deeply connected to oakland. we will never forget oakland, which is why we're giving this money to the oakland schools, and why our programs extend to oakland, as well

i'm a formerly homeless vet, homeless for 12 years. during that time i was asked to review a medical clinic in the mission district which had 85% hispanic clients. first thing i noticed was the state advocacy groups that had put signs wiup all over about t patient's individual rights, they were in english. i asked the director why they didn't have them in chinese and english and spanish, and i don't -- can't even remember what he said, but it was whatever. then i asked him about how many complaints -- they didn't have any complaints. i said, well, you have a silent majority here that doesn't understand what their rights and the rules are. therefore, you don't have any complaints. and i asked them, who was the point person, who would you talk to if you have a complaint? they didn't seem to know that, either. i wanted to fail them, but politics say no, no, give them another chance in a progress liberal city. we like to give everybody a second chance in progressive cities, but i'll bet if you go to shelters, if they have signs up, they're

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many people are not homeless because they want to be homeless. you can provide an address of where you lived at the moment of the election. that is your address, your residence. we do make an effort to do outreach to the homeless shelters to get people registered to vote and to make sure they feel included because many times in the last few months i have been at a lot of food share programs in connecticut where there are people coming for food because they are homeless or without food. we are registering them to vote. i think it is working because they feel in this society isn't terribly important that everybody understands that everyone is a art of this. -- everyone is a part of this. host: beverly in amarillo, texas. caller: thank you for allowing me to call. i used to be a republican. i'm still a republican but am not voting in a not going to vote for a democrat or a republican because the ugliest word in the language for 2000 years was abortion. then the democrats made it legal and other college choice -- and now they call it choice. that is

it's a crisis of homelessness. it's a crisis of cleanliness. you've seen the national stories. >> sure. >> about our city. it's embarrassing. is this turning into a crisis of inaction or indifference? in our city that's unprecedented. we're a city of compassion built on st. francis said in giving that we receive, that's why we're prop c. >> let me play devil's advocate with you on this, marc. as you've acknowledged the homeless problem is worse than it's ever been. different than you've seen it. you've been here a long time. i've been here a quarter century. yet, we're spending more money than we ever had. what is to say is throwing more money at this problem will do anything to solve it? >> we've seen a couple of great pieces of evidence and the case for optimism. number one, i told you about heading home where we're getting every homeless child off the streets. you know about home ward bound. did you know the city has gone to 10,000 homeless individuals over a decade and said, do you want to go home? be reconnected with your family? did you k

is for the protection and homeless of the -- protection for homeless to get out of the streets. this is patricia. she requires housing and she got placed out of the city. now her kids are still here but she does not live in san francisco. >> my name is patricia -- spee m.u.n. are you done with your two minutes -- >> supervisor tang: are you done with your two minutes? because i would have to start the two minutes for you. if you are done, i could reset the clock for the next person. >> ok, -- >> supervisor tang: you have one minute and ten seconds left. >> i think they want to restart the clock for the next speaker. >> my name is patricia alonso. i work with the coalition. i got placed out of san francisco and my children go to school each year. i work here and i don't think it is right that they had to displace me somewhere else because they had no housing for me. i had a voucher for subsidy and i still got replaced somewhere else. i mean, i vote for proposition c. >> hello, my name is sophia. i work with the coalition and i also work at a dolores street shelter. i have a vouch

a homeless initiative that would impose a new tax on companies. >> what homeless people really need is a home. >> reporter: this new tax could generate $300 million a year and could cost sales force $10 million a year in additional taxes. >> it is not just one company or one individual who is passionate about homelessness, everybody is going to participate -- who is going to participate is going to have the ability to contribute. >> reporter: they had a public spat on twitter over the tax proposal. he tweeted last friday about the unfairness of prop c. claiming the tax could harm square. we are happy to pay our taxes he said, we just want to be treated fairly with respect to our peer companies many woo are larger than -- who are larger than us. that is heart breaking for us as we love san francisco and want to continue to help build it. >> these are immaterial amounts. doesn't mean anything to our financials or their market capitalization but it means a lot to the homeless people in the city and who are suffering right now. >> reporter: marc benioff, dubbed an activist ceo, doesn't shy

he wants to open a homeless facility for homeless dogs and their owners. for now, cindy says she is grateful he is here. >> he understands. >> reporter: for helping homeless dogs and their owners, this week's award goes to paul. >>> a lost letter from albert einstein was found in the home of a novelist. it discussed the theory of relative. we will have that story and more tonight at 5 pm. >> that should be interesting. >> we are going to explain that very right now. >> go ahead. >> >> det. sanchez: you were present at mr. spencer's home at the time of the incident? >> thorne: yes. >> ridge: we both were, yeah. >> brooke: detective, can i ask you why you're here? bill fell from his balcony, which was clearly a horrible accident. >> det. sanchez: mr. spencer is a high-profile member of the community. when i got the call that he'd been brought to the hospital in critical condition, i thought i'd come down here and check it out myself. make sure everything's on the up-and-up. especially when i heard you were involved. [ monitors beeping steadily ] >> liam: hey