homeless. this -- [inaudible] >> all services being ignored are desperately needed for homeless prevention, please, i urge you to remember how many men, women, and children will go to sleep tonight outside, in the cold, in the elements, when they don't have to. [inaudible] >> chair fewer: excuse me, if you wouldn't mind, there was a lady at the end of the line. she was waiting for the end of her line, but the sheriff has asked me not to call cards, and she has to leave. do you mind? two minutes. at the end -- yeah, and she has to go. she's been here since 10:00. my apologies, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. thank you very much for your patience. i really appreciate it. thank you. two minutes, please. >> thank you. my name is patricia smith, and i live in district five midtown park apartments. i'm sure you've heard of us before. i'm here on behalf of midtown so much, although that is an issue that should be brought up constantly until it's solved. i'm here as a parent, a grandparent, a foster parent, for

and also just to reiterate, the two pieces, one is that homeless -- people experiencing homelessness generally age about 20 years faster than people that are not homeless, so the kr chronological age is not respective, and again, i think we really see the disparities, particularly in the african-american, black population, while that number is not higher than proportionally with the homeless overall, it's much higher than it should be in terms of an equity perspective, in terms of the portion of african-americans in the city, so bringing that equity lens to the presentation, as well. but thank you. >> thank you very much. i will say next steps, in addition to what i already spoke about, is looking at in another methodology deaths that will -- see how that will broaden our perspective on what that will do for prevention and we do need to look, and that we need to look at the deaths of formerly homeless people who are now housed in supportive housing or other s.r.o. housing, because we know from the medical examiner there are a large number of deaths in those settings and there may nee

homelessness and h.i.v. are tightly linked. people who are homeless experience higher rates of h.i.v. transmission, have a more difficult time staying in h.i.v. care and adhering to their medications and experience worse healtworseoutcomes. with 7500 homeless people in san francisco and 3800 people who are unsheltered, the impact of h.i.v. on our city's homeless population is evident a year after year. new h.i.v. trance commissions in the city are among people who are homeless. in 2017, over 14% of new h.i.v. diagnosises in the city were among people experiencing homelessness. similarly, we know that the health outcomes for people living with h.i.v. are tied to housing status. increasing viral suppression rates improves the health of the people living with h.i.v. and prevents onward transmission. 32 people are suppressed with 85 people and virally suppressed. homelessness is a contributing factor leading to death with people living with h.i.v. rental subsidiaries to prevent displacement for long-term survivors are substance use

homeless. i've been waiting here to get my point across to you guys. we need the equity in between the teachers because i deal with homeless families every single day. i'm in a family shelter, and i look at these other kids, and i know that they're struggling. fortunately, my daughter's not struggling that much because i'm trying to seem as normal, seem as comfortable for her. there's not enough being done to keep people housed, and then, once we do get subsidies and everything, we get pushed out of san francisco. i'm a san francisco native. i'm born and raised. i'm trying to raise my child in the same district that i grew up in, district five. unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. what needs to happen is there needs to be equity because all these teachers and the homeless families that are on the street. it's hard to be able to tell my daughter, i don't know where we're going to go in 30 days because we're going to be out of a shelter. thank you for your time, and i'm gla

a hot spot crew goes out together with the homeless officers and homeless outreach teams to go to areasthat are heavily impacted. >>> the successes from this, we realized we needed a navigation center, and import practices that are prevalent for low-barrier shelters to resolve en campments in philadelphia and new york. and we started coordinating together, and we formed an encampment group. we started to notice more and more different departments were touching this problem. like muni and p.u.c., and enforcement departments, like c.h.p., and the sheriffs and s.f.p.d., and they're all interacting with the homeless, and we had an answer to go at these problems, to work with people slowly, with intention, and bring them into a low-barrier setting, to work with them towards their permanent housing. we then worked together, and i should have put this in here, to form the encampment resolution team, to sort of bring it to another level, and then weigwe started some pilot project, like the mission district, where we worked to get the temporary navigation center opened at 1515 south van ness, an

and homelessness. >> hello, supervisors, i am jessica campos. i work the as a preschool teacher and i stand here in support of our 0-5 teachers, but as well all teachers. our education system is really hurting right now. we're losing teachers and me myself going back to school i see the interest in becoming a teacher diminishing. we need to put funding into education. there will always be children. that's our next generation. but if we're not focusing in educating our children our future generations will fall into systemic issues that we really need to address now. the importance of building relationships and the children being engaged in education is very, very important. so, please, we ask you to give a portion to -- $30 million to our e.c.e. and a big chunk for our education system in san francisco. thank you. >> hi, good morning. and it's still morning -- just. my name -- well, my name is carey gray and it's good to see you all. i am a public school parent and i'm president of the second district o

francis homelessness challenge. it is not humane to sweep people off the streets and take their location and take their belongings. sweeping people and saying get out of here is just going to move them from one place to the next. that's a quote from then board president london breed from last year in 2018. across the political spectrum, we agree we have a public health crisis because people are living on our streets. the good news is through the work of the city and advocates, s.f. has grown our shelter capacity to 2300 and our supportive housing units to 7700 with more in the pipeline. looking at the city's pipeline and shelter beds for 2020, we know that our bet case scenario is we -- best case scenario is we cut the waiting list in half and still have people waiting on the streets. in december 2018 california permanently adopted building standards for emergency standard response that approved emergency guidelines for emergency tiny home shelter cabins, insulated tents, allowing s.f. to lease public or private lan

jeff cozin see, department of homelessness. i believe there were life safety at that site at the church. there are other issued at # 8 broadway -- one of the things with navigation center, and i think rolling these things out responsibly and effectively is when you have a project that you're going to spend millions of dollars to make it come alive, and then, it's only on a temporary basis, it takes a tremendous amount of time, money and work. so we are looking for sites that are available longer term. and the other issue that we're trying to sensitive to is the cost of operating navigation centers. currently, some of smaller sites are costing us more than it does to operate permanent supportive housing sites. so we are looking at sites that are going to be cost effective, and the site that we are talking about on kearny street did not meet those requirements. and also, supervisor, while i appreciate everything, we still would like to find a site that's appropriate and works in district three. but we are looking at opening up --

to end veteran homelessness. in the last six years, we've opened housing sites from the veteran commons in the mission district area. the 250 kearny in the financial district area which serves over 130 veterans and also have opened the fairfax which is a permit supportive housing site and safe haven site, but we still have lots of work to do. we still have a plan to actually get to that functional zero number. and with that, my chief operating officer mentioned earlier that we do have a shovel ready project in treasure island ready to go. it's just short about $10 million of funding, and we're asking that some of this windfall money be dedicated to this project to get dozens more veterans off the streets into permanent, supportive units with the services they need to stay off the streets and maintained in housing. so thank you for your time and i hope you guys consider our proposal. >> prop g is about dignity. prop g means i can save money for the first time in my life. i still pay half my take-home pay for rent.

as you know, i am transgender, formerly homeless and disabled. and when i was out on the streets, i didn't care much about these austerity lies. we could end transgender homelessness with only 13.5 million, according to a little birdie that came in my ear over five years. furthermore, aside from the lost hospital that is st. mary's being inhumane and not reimbursement by prop c, any hospital receiving government funding raises the bells for me as a transgender. it's time we get together and advocate for teachers and housing together and stop being miserly. when people can't afford to live here, and people are homeless, it's time to cut the bullshit and grow the pie. >> i just have to echo what the previous speaker said. grow the pie. our senior and disability action, you know, one of our priorities -- and it's a very big priority is deeply affordable housing and mental health services. i know that the conservatorship issue is going to be coming to rules committee sometime very, very soon. before you consider that, first consider voluntary mental

we also want to fund the homeless proposals in full. we can do this. we have to do this because every lost opportunity equals a human life. a life destroyed. a life lost, another person out there dying in their last moments. thank you. >> any other public speakers? ok. really? seeing none. public comment is closed. just going to put that gavel down so that makes it official. i see on the roster president yee. >> thank you chair fewer. first of all, i want to thank the public for coming out and i've heard so many of you understanding all the different needs we have and expressing support all the way across. maybe there are a few people who advocate more for one thing than the other. no one i heard today saying there's no need for addressing the homelessness. there's no need to address the salaries, the salaries of our teachers whether they're in public schools or early education. i thank you for that. i think we heard it. certainly it's something that all of us in this chamber as supervisors want to address. i want to thank the budget committee for work

people from homeless prenatal program were talking and talking about how kids are homeless in sheltersit's devastating to hear that. we all care about that. we want to fix that. also, that our teachers do not get paid enough. i voted for prop g. our teachers do not get paid inform. we want them to stay in san francisco. we care about that. and dealing with addiction and which is a beast of disease. we all agree on all of these issues. i'm trying to get something positive about this. we don't always agree how to get there. some of us want to go up the middle, some of want to do inside path. we have different ways to get there. at the very foundation of who we are san franciscans, every person on this board care about what you brought to us today. it's not an easy task. we want it make all you happy. with that said, i also held a community meeting in district two to talk about this. the same issues came up. some people they have to go to homelessness. some people said, just put it in reserves. i want to guarantee you that we are trying to come up with way we think is best. voters are cle

focused on the epidemic of homelessness and homeless individuals on the street. proposed funding in this legislation addressed two key areas of need. the first will be to purchase additional 14 beds at the st. mary's healing centre. this program has been -- facility was open in 2017. at that time we purchased 40 of the 54 beds available. it will allow us to purchase the remaining 14 beds that's needed. the second component, which is also very optimistic it would allow us to add 72 residential step-down beds. this is a newer model of program. after people go through residential treatment program for substance use, often, that's a productive program. as they're coming out, there's a need for additional period of time for them to stabilize anybody who knows people struggled through addiction and recovery from addiction. this would allow for level of care to live in environment with other people recovering from addiction. >> good afternoon supervisors. the budget as proposed would do several things. it would provide $40 million for our small site acquisition and loan

shelters and housing for the homeless. not just us. it can't just b.s. it has to be san mateo, it has to be -- you can't just be us. it has to be all the different counties that haven't been part of that solution. we know it is part of the stuff we need to do with the other counties who aren't as onboard. we'll be taking on those challenges just like we are taking on challenges from housing. but again, thank you so much for the huge amount of team effort, all of the city, state, amazing who are here today, and really to give 84 people this new on-ramp to a different life. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. as the mayor pointed out, it takes a village to open a navigation center, and you can't have a village without the land its built on. this is where caltrain comes in. i would like to invite the district four director to the podium. he will describe in more detail their role in making this navigation center a reality. tony? [applause] >> good morning. thank you assembly member, mayor london breed, and thank you

he's bound and determined to run homeless people off. once you sign the mandate, he can do anything he wants. i don't hear repercussions about what previous sides about will because once you side that he's got carte blanche. i'd like to also point out to you, by giving jeff the four weeks he needs, it's not a lot of time. right now in oakland we are talking about creating the same type of program you're creating here in san francisco, same parking program, 150 vehicles are going to be staged. it took about $3.5 flon -- $3.5 million and $5 million and they're talking about constructing it and talking about making it $300. you don't have to look to santa barbara. look across the east bay. those are the innovative solutions we need. we don't need a stick. let's be reasonable and rationale. give jeff the time he asked for as a bridge to go ahead and post the reservoir. last thing i'd like to say is homeless people do not eat children, okay. we don't eat children. i'm a former homeless individual and i never ate or threatened a child and a ta

said no homeless person ever! i am formerly homeless. while yes, tents are inhumane, i agree, taking away those tents and people's medication and other possessions is even more fucking inhumane. i have never forget the story of a usautistic women, it's just sh fucking bullshit. we need safe camping sights and safe parking sites. we need to lead with services and not with the fucking police and d.p.w. we drove the homeless people out of parks at night in 2013, now they're in the neighborhoods. we sweep non residential areas. now they're in our neighborhoods. maybe the reason why we take up rest in parks and non residential areas is because we don't want to be fuckig detected and people are trying to make the best out of a bad situation. i will conclude by saying that i think the ward for most use less department has based on what i seen today, goes to jeff kaczynski. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kevin carole and i'm the president of the hotel council for san francisco. thank you for calling this h

i'd like to thank the departments of housing service and homeless -- actually, it's homeless service and housing, controller's office, department of public health, and mayor's office of community development. in our city, our home, jennifer frebachen and others that have been working hard in this. my office has worked directly with our city, our home coalition and i thank them for this legislation. i also have heard from our community advocates to keep our promise and give this initiative what it needs, property community led oversight in a timely manner that is organized and ready to go when that 300 million is available. i am fully aware that its prop c and relates funding is tied up in our courts. this doesn't mean that our work should be stalled. we need to work hard now to build real solutions and tackling our homeless crisis. establishing this committee is a crucial first step in the work. and i want to have a small amendment to the current ordinance, and yes, my aide, shakir is giving that now. under section 51.4, part b, i propose it to be amended so it now reads, the committ

help the homeless. then you want to put a shelter in their neighborhood and it's like, i don't want this in my neighborhood. we have to do better. everyone has to share in on the responsibility. the legislation i propose will give us the ability to not have to go through the same public process that make it difficult forever us to make it happen. it will cut back on the time by at least -- around six months to do that. i would say shelter beds. >> i agree with the mayor. however, i think it's all of it. it's not just shelter beds. it's transitional house, housing trust fund. we did 6,000 housing repairs on roofs and heating systems and things that keep people in their homes so they don't wind up homeless in the first place. we have a pretty robust tax abatement that's been in place in philadelphia for the last 20, 25 years. what we decided to do is to dedicate the new real estate tax revenue of those houses going -- those businesses and homes going back on the tax rolls after ten years of the tax abasem

overall homeless efforts. [applause] i strongly believe that our response to homelessness must address both immediate concerns and its underlying cause. the last adequate affordable housing. that's why this year's budget includes $315 million for housing over the next two years. in the past four years, we've produced a total of 6600 units, with over 7100 in the pipeline, 90% of which will be rentals. we have also struggled with the reality that the lack of affordable housing affects more than just families at risk. it's impacts all of us. for many in hawaii, home ownership has always seemed like a far-fetched dream. the high-cost of land will always be a significant barrier to making homes affordable. on an island with little capacity to expand, demand will always outpace our limited supply. it seems like a no-within situation. perhaps until now. how do you make homes in hawaii affordable? i believe you do it by thinking outside of the box. by looking at what you do have, and not focusing on what you don't hav

it is not a homeless problem. is an affordable housing problem, and as someone who grow up here, i walked down the street and see people i grew up with who live on the street. i see people i went to high school with who don't have a home, and i totally would ask you guys not to support a c.b.d. that blocks access off to a city for people, pushing people further out, in limiting the areas people can go. it is sad because they there are actually people who grew up here who were raised here and born here, that deserve to be here, that don't get to be here because people with money just want to come and take it from everyone, and that's unfair

i wanted to ask a question about unset erred homelessness. we recently had a pretty significant homeless encampment that we were able to transition to a navigation center but there is a good chance that they will pop up again. what are you doing about homeless encampments, how do you work through the process? obviously it's a difficult one. >> we emptied out a train track area which was below grade where people were living for 20, 30 years, injecting drugs and dying on the tracks. we had 12 to 14 people a year die of overdoses. so the community there wanted us to remove those folks from there. once we did which we knew was going to happen they went and camped in other places. so we had four major encampments in one particular neighborhood, this he went underneath the train trestles. and people are really helpful and they want to be nice, but when you bring people tents and heaters and furniture and -- it's just you're en trenching them even more in there. we moved three encampments so far, we're moving the last one january 30th and 31st but t

the biennial one day homeless count provides a point-in-time snapshot of people experiencing homelessness. data is compared with historical counts to show trends over time and the count is required by the u.s. department of housing and urban development.volunteers traveled by foot and car to conduct an observational count and surveys of people experiencing homelessness board of supervisors president carole groom says addressing homelessness remains a key priority."the county and its partners are committed to helping people connect with services and moving then into housing as quickly as possible, knowing who is at risk or currently experiencing homelessness helps us better strategize solutions." preliminary results are processed and analyzed then submitted to hud, with a final report published in june. (ken) coming up... a warning coming up... (ken) warning for parents of small kids-- there is a good chance they are using too much toothpaste. how it could affect their dental health later in life. (vicki) plus after the break... it could be the most expensive home ever sold in san francisc

and some of these others are in homelessness, and they are staying in homelessness. for example, my luggage is in storage at this time. i lost the key of the storage, meaning that i can't change clothes. if i can't change clothes, i look like someone who doesn't have the full possession of their senses, and if you don't have the full position of your senses, it is hard for you to get a job. if it is hard for you to get a job, you stay in a cycle of homelessness. i would like to call your attention that addressing homelessness means addressing the issue of diversity and inequality and how our society singled out people and punishes them, thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members from the public who would wish to comment? okay, public comment is closed. >> i just want to thank everyone who came out today. we didn't realize that we wouldn't have the people from departments that needed to be here until late yesterday, or we would have definitely reached out to make sure that you knew, but i definitely hear you. i thank you all are right on point, and we will m

so, if we ask, for example, the homeless department, the department of homelessness to pay for the $50 million in homeless ambulance rides, we can get every little thing that is on that list on page 17 and 18 and 19 and have $10 million to spare. i think these are the types of conversations we should be having since we're in a homeless crisis in san francisco. these are the situations we should be having with the other departments in this city since we're the ones that are picking up the slack on an issue that is technically not just our issue. our mission is to respond to 9-1-1 calls and make sure that people are getting emergency care. it seems like we're giving a large part of our budget to homeless people rides to the hospital -- given they need those rides in a lot of those cases and some cases they don't need the rides. it's cold outside and they know as the ms6 will tell you and some of the other people out in the engines other tell you, they know the right buzz words. they say the right buzz words and wore going to show up and give you a ride to the hospital. that's probably a

to think about homelessness or the experiences of homeless people and so by shutting out their minds you have a very useful way of not feeling morally emotions that might stem from realizing people in your society are suffering or are in need of help and you're in a sort of actively doing anything to help them so in a lot of the experiments we do we simply do things as basic as show people pictures of homeless individuals or tell them they are about to have an interaction with a homeless person and in both cases die of sufficient to sort of trigger brain processing where if it were an average person there would be particular brain mechanisms i would get going would you say is empathy the judges would allow you to feel empathy later on so i'm talking about processes that simply allow you to figure out what somebody's thinking which is the first step you need if you're supposed to feel empathy so if i feel empathy towards you i've not only figured out what you're thinking but i've begun resonating with that emotional experience where i feel a little bit of what you're feeling so it's a

homeless hearing, and there aren't that many homeless people in the room, but we hit -- we seem to be real target of the security apparatus, which in the case of the soma bid between clean and beautiful and safe, is 70 9% of their budget. you guys, the board of supervisors, not you individually, with the city and county, when this enabling legislation passed at the state level, it was commercial property owners and government. state and local government. the board of supervisors amended it to make it a 30% threshold instead of a 50 1% threshold, if it was a 50 1% threshold, we wouldn't be having this meeting here today, because it is only 30-point to eight% threshold that actually passed on the first round of the petition that we were able to see if you also included the nonprofit and the residential homeowners. and nonprofit property owners. you all have made tweaks to make it easier to continue to see our city under the purview of private security, and that never works well for people who are seen as a urine, feces, hypodermic needles, and the homeless. it hasn't worked in the past,

it is not a homeless problem. it is an affordable housing problem, and as someone who grow up here, i walked down the street and see people i grew up with who live on the street. i see people i went to high school with who don't have a home, and i totally would ask you guys not to support a c.b.d. that blocks access off to a city for people, pushing people further out, in limiting the areas people can go. it is sad because they there are actually people who grew up here who were raised here and born here, that deserve to be here, that don't get to be here because people with money just want to come and take it from everyone, and that's unfair, i would ask you guys not to support this. this further pushes people out, and it is wrong. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am a resident of western soma and i have been for five years. i help cofound western soma voice, and though i am not active in the c.b.d. currently, i did support the initiation. and i want to say, people that live in western soma are

encampment, on the other side she a visible example of that homelessness issue, we are experiencing across the bay area. when you think santa cruz, this is not the colorful scenery that most it is reality praapproximately people have made their home here. >> it will not be one entity that will solve this challenge. >> reporter: one challenge is a new federal law that prevent the city from enforcing asleeping or camping ban without having enough sleeping space. >>> the assistance is taylored to those leaving among the sea of tents. >> they are a microcasm of on the homeless population. there's no theme that emerged, they have the same demographics of the overall homeless ppulation. >> reporter: the number of unsheltered homeless people across the county is among the highest in the country. with 80% having to access to shelter. but even with the potential of placement, some of santa cruz's homeless say it's not the way they want to live. >> there's rules and i police myself. i'm the one baby-sitting me. >> the pro posed action plan calls for the entire camp to be removed. >> if they s

the committee consists of 13 appointed volunteers, half of whom must be homeless or formerly homeless. there are also four seats on the committee who are filled with individuals who have experienced providing services to homeless individuals as well as two representatives from city departments. the department of homelessness and supportive housing and the department of public health. there are two purposes for the committee, the first is to provide this body, the board of supervisors as well as the mayor's office and other agencies with information about shelter conditions, operations, any other city shelter policies that can impact shelter clients, as well as monitoring the city funded shelter programs for compliance with the 32 standards of care. the standards of care are city requirements for city shelters and cover broad categories: staff, health, facility and compliance with the americans with disabilities act. to meet those responsibilities, the committee conducts shelter site visits and investigates client complaints. so the committee is required by legislation to conduct site