are residents of public housing. and in some cases they are a little above the requirement to stay in public housing. but they can't necessarily afford another place to live in san francisco. so they end up getting priced out of their unit in public housing and some many cases forced to leave the city. for example, if the requirement is that you don't make over a certain median income to qualify for public housing. and if you get a decent income but not san francisco wage, you cannot stay in public housing, but you more than likely have to leave the city. so it doesn't encourage people to work or to be gainfully employed to better their situation. the reason i bring this up, i want to know if there is a possibility that we can work on making some changes to that? >> yeah, i think there may be some confusion. there is income limit to admitted to public housing. there is not a limit to stay in public housing. your rent is based on your income. the housing authority should have flat rents, i presume they have flat rents

housing, and there is a wait list. and but the housing authority over the past two years, based upon, you know, lots of conversations with the community, have prioritized and have created ipreference for homeless and for the veterans. and is it considering creating a preference and it means a few things, supportive housing if this does go forward, i know that they are talking about it now, and but, if that preference does go forward, it means that making sure that they get on the wait list and the only process that the housing authority has is a wait list process and that is how it is with the federal regulations but that has been used successfully, on in the past by the departments to get their clients on to a wait list. and then, the other question is, the lack of services when they go to the public housing site. and will there be some way, that, as we transition a household, or our individual firms from the supportive housing to the public housing, is or will there be the appropriate level of service for that indivi

to the federally subsidized housing and the remaining 30 percent are going to private housing. and then the biggest users of our program are the beneficiary in terms of land lords is the clinic followed by the community housing partnership and the ecs and mersy housing and so a lot of our work, is i feel going through the supportive housing, and where maybe, it should be best handled within and i could give you the examples of situations where they were coming in to our office for very, very small amounts, we are talking less than $200 and facing evictions for amounts that are i could just give you example just this week, i have two cases one person is facing eviction for less than $250, and one for the second one is for $less than $150 and when you think about the grand cost, and financially and to the human, it is just a really bad system. thank you. >> okay. >>er an cavina and i am here with the bar association of san francisco. and so approximately 250 full scope eviction cases per year and i am the only attorney on staff. and half of those cases involve people who are bein

perhaps to do more housing on the site. more affordable housing. different affordable housing. you can do that. but it has to be affordable housing. and this program is intended to rehab and permanently provide affordable housing. >> mr. lee, west side courts, holly courts, those places were not meant to last this long. the plumbing issues, and the rodent issues. all the things we're trying deal with now, are things that no rehabilitation can address. i am trying to understand -- >> well, again. >> and this is -- i am very, as you can see, i am blown away by the fact that i have been aggressively working to get west side courts in particular on the priority list, because holly courts and west side courts are two of the oldest housing developments. and in desperate need of repair where we continue to have significant challenges. i am trying to understand how realistically we can make a commitment for rehabilitation. i don't see it. >> we are in the process of getting the actual information about the scope of rehab for each development. we have done physical assistance assessme a

, is housing. and i think that is for every human, resident of san francisco. and it is necessary. instead of evaluating things on a economic cost, and what about a humanistic cost and i will finish with this. the question of supervisor mar asked was important, what are the other countries doing to solve this problem? and i think that if you look at northern european countries, they solve the problem simply by saying, we are going to provide a house for everyone. regardless of the cost because it is the right thing to do. and i thank supervisor mar for that question and i hope that the city of san francisco will find a way to answer it. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, my name is carera and i work for the coalition of homelessness. today so the first thing that i want to say is i appreciate mr. avalos, farrell and mar for being in this issue about housing. so, i want to mention a couple of things that we facing over and over and over. and we are talking about it through and for example, s

housing that is the general housing ladder that exists and so that the kogs in the system exist becauseer system is at capacity and our stabilization rooms or at capacity and there is not enough affordable housing, and limited market rate options out there and there is so many things that we can do to improve this and i look for toward to exploring that today. and i do believe that to give the capacity we need to create a flow and turnover at all levels and it provides two things and we want to provide the incentives to people and policis in place where the people are encouraged to get on their own two feet and it is the best for themselves and for their family and we also want to continue to create the space available with the human resources today as we continue to add to those resources for the people on our streets and i think that having a cog shelter system and no stabilization rooms available means that we are not able to do anything with the people on the streets and house them right away and that is something that we need to address and as well as we talk about coordinated asse

that's both with the housing choice voucher program and public housing. we currently have 5,372 public housing units that we are managing. that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons households. this is after we have done a clean-up of our wait list. these are people that are actively seeking public housing at this time. and the applicants were asked to self-certify their preferences. over half of the applicants did self-certify their preferences. we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of those applicants are actually

at 9 housing sites. and we maintain a 97 percent housing retention rate. while most of our housing work is with the single adults, we operate bacus where we provide housing for 47 formally homeless families and we will join with mersy housing in provide support services to an additional 50 currently homeless families 1184th street apartments since july and we would like to point out that ecs is an active participant in the proposal this year and we fully support the proposal that includes impact and in helping low income families maintain their housing and we would like to comment on the human service agency's current plan to reduce the funding for support services at some of our supportive sites in the city and including bacus and since opening hsa has opening the services and we currently have two case managers and in the youth services specialist, and serving our 47 families, and which include, 85 children and youth and as with some of our colleagues in the community, hsa plan would drasically effect

in supporting housing. these early results from the los angeles are a hopeful find that improve the quality of care by stabilizing high cost frequent users in support of housing can reduce the costs and improve the health out comes. thank you for this opportunity, to speak with you folks today. thank you, very much. and for being here, steven. and colleagues any questions? >> supervisor avalos? >> just some comments. i really appreciate the work and the analysis and something that we you know, hear about you know, over and over again, and it is very politicalized and the people who are user or frequent users of the various systems who are homeless and it is clear that as a good body of evidence, that shows that providing the level of support helps, and now i am not sure if every homeless person is going to ned this level of support but i think that it actually gives us, you know, an indication, that either of those levels that we need to be providing, and we have to debate every year, and you know, dph, and

the housing unit. the net gain of housing unit are added through the residential structures and the legalization of the unit was for conversion from the commercial to roinlt and it is for taking away messenger of the illegal unit are conversion from residential to commercial and the main findings is how the city report is from 2007 to the 2014 housing needs or the arena target. the report also covers a variety the topical information reported by various zoning district by planning district and by district area plans and other areas of focus are including condo conservations and changes to the residential hotel. in addition the tendencies in the report talk about the pipeline issues this is the likely housing construction activity in the future and the projects in the pipeline are planning department projects that are already authorized for construction. furthermore, the report look at how's production and accounts for the requirements inclusionary affordable housing program. now i'll take you through 2

formally homeless, and marginally housed and in, supportive housing and what we use for that is the houser comorbidity. they include many, hypertension, and other examples and so the severity of the mental illness is greater than the chronically men, i have told you that earlier. and you see here, the data that they have around this are very, very involved, and so i really only put out the, and i made a differentiation between the serious medical conditions, needing primary care and serious psychiatric conditions and substance abuse conditions and also at the bottom, the people that have all three of those conditions and we have a lot more detail if you are interested and how many people are doing the diagnosis and so forth. but, as you can see, the percentage around women and certainly around transgender women are quite a bit over the general population. and i want to highlight some of our service and programs. and again, these for the homeless women, and the homeless families, and the community behavior health services and so that includes our mental health and our substance abuse progra

and versing the shelter housing. not just the money that is expended but the money throughout the city which is an important point. >> we have been working through to supplement the out reach and i think that they have been involved in and part of the dialogue was originally was, and you know, let's increase the number of stabilization beds, in addition, you know, to allow our homeless out reach team to have something to offer individual on the street if we are going to have more people. >> that is right. >> and that i think is the one topic, that the stabilization beds where the people that i think that have had the different opinions, and whether it should be for the supportive housing and i just find it fascinating that the shelter and the stabilization and the housing is probably on the money expended out of the door is almost, and it is equivalent if you will but, then, also, underneath that there is also cost v

for this type of housing, the scarcity of this housing and how this housing will really add to their ability to serve their clients in san francisco. in terms of this particular transaction and the recommendations of the, of the budget analyst, the question about the budget analyst has raised some questions about the likelihood of alternative funding for the section 81 1 project. mercy has a commitment for the section 81 1 project and one of the questions we have are what are the urgencies we have in terms of this project. just getting through this process so we can make an application for the low-income housing tax credit program. the low-income housing tax credit program, it is allocated by the state of california on a geographic basis. san francisco is the only county in this geographic region, so, we have great assurances that we understand the queue. nobody else is going to be applying ugg. and this project won't get the low-income housing tax credits which are so important to not only this type of project, but to all the projects that we fund in san francisco. so, there is real

housing and low income. and something like 40,000 dollars. and i don't see any of our community members would be able to afford that. and some of the biggest challenges that our community members face, is the barriers to housing. and in a real livable income. we need to develop programs that will link our hard working community members to permanent employment as well as housing that is decent and attain able. and i would like for the board of supervisors to consider putting out more low income housing. for our community. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please? >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is adam gebril and as you can see, i have a daluge of paperwork and tickets and citations and all things. but, it is not so much about that, but the way that i am living and the situation of the circumstances that led me to this, i have to first gave thanks to the city. numerous cities that i have lived in from minnesota or singapore where i was thrown out and called a terrorist, and i was told that do i thi

housing. and i have the pleasure of working with some great colleagues, at the department of public health and human services agency. and it really is that collaboration between the departments that has allowed san francisco to be so successful in creating the supportive housing and mo is, you know, buy itself, could not do the things that the three departments are doing together and they are the experts, and in the area of services, and they are the experts in the area of care and we have bricks and mortar to create that affordable housing and stock and so what we do in this process is through our fees and that we create the opportunity to develop more permanently supportive housing as well as affordable housing and we look at a video of models and one, the stand alone 100 percent supportive and also the whole motion that we integrate supportive housing in all of our affordable housing and at the minimum, we have and many of our elements, 20 to 25 percent, support housing units and that are i

and house rules. those are the types of things that we hope before we get rolling with rad, and we work with the city as holson said that it's worked in the agreements and codified some more than just assurances. and we need the residents involved in that and we need to go out and talk with the residents and explain how they can be involved and what exactly is proposed, etc. so they can be a part of the process. and then we need to ensure that we are looking very closely at any loss of rights between the conversion from the public housing program to what will now be the product-based voucher program [mic turned off] >> thank you, any other members of the public that would like to make public comment at this time? seeing no members at the time, public comment is now closed. [gavel] supervisor av vavaloavalos, thi very interesting hearing, you have any comments? >> i do have comments. mostly i live in a district where we don't have a great deal of public housing. a few sites on randolph street. not a ve

and in the direct access to housing population, we are glad to be able to house more women than that. and we do not athis point have women specific buildings. and what i also want to tell you about women that are in supportive housing and in general, the severity of mental illness among the chronically homeless women are greater than the homeless man and i will get more into that later. two-thirds of the women who have been housed, report to us that they have had children that very few have retained custody of the children and many both and they have lost any contact. and again, this is another indicator of mental illness and substance abuse around women that they don't have a connection and in fact, a lot of times don't know where their families are. terms in gender and these are the department of public health numbers from the coordinated case management system. the women that we serve is about 23 percent of women and these are homeless women, women at risk and former homeless women, and also, women in supportive housing and they are all included in this data base. and 23 percent of

first model, the reality is that there is no housing and there is no housing within the means of our families in san francisco and finding housing outside of the city, has become more and more difficult. and the further we house families the harder it is to help them stay stable and to keep them housed. and we definitely need the creative solutions and i know that the group has come up with a good list of ideas that can go a long way in helping to deal with this problem, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> good morning, and thank you, for calling this hearing, supervisor farrell. i would like to briefly address the obvious by the way i'm jeff beallec the director of catholic charities and i would like to address the obvious, the most cost effective and humane way to address homelessness is to prevent the families from becoming homeless, this year we will help 1200 people avoid eviction, and stay housed and including more than 300 families that is larger than the current waiting list i think that this is a very important issue. this year, we are also, we hav

to think about supportive housing and the bottom line is the subsidized housing that provides the services, for those here in san francisco, and with the lower incomes that really need our help as a government to get on their two feet and we might need the government assistance for the rest of their lives and in looking at how we provide that as a city and what are the costs involved and what types of services are we providing and the out comes that we are getting as a result. and about 50 percent of the budget towards homelessness is on supportive housing here in the city about 81 million dollars out of our budget. and one of the great things that i believe, came out of it and the number one goal out of our ten year plan. was to build 3,000 new supportive unit and believe it or not we actually achieve it or we will achieve it shortly and the final ones are in the pipeline, it is a goal and something that we have been able to meet and i want to be sure that we will continue to have a dialogue whether that is the most effective, strategy going forward and i will stay it as a preview, everyo

housing through the san francisco housing authority, and throughout our lost subsidy. a annual cost of $10,000 per household and this is definitely, a lot less than the cost of sheltering families, and individuals in san francisco. and providing emergency services. the direct impact of this proposal will be on 4,000 households to assist them in obtaining affordable housing for much less than the cost of displacement, and rehousing in what you know is a very high cost market today. >> (inaudible) we are living in the most richest country in the world. >> we need a result. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> robert weber and i am a part time counselor at the housing rights committee and a community activity on several levels. >> and this tuesday we are going to be going to sacramento to be lobbying for the factory form and, you know, as home sness prevention goes, this is going to be and this is a huge issue, people that become instantly homeless, they are scared to death and getting evicted for various reasons and the bottom line is the big breed of the housing mar

i have seen houses go for 6 to 14, i even saw a house in hawaii for $37,000. but, the plan, it speaks about that you should be putting your money into more housing, instead of more money into shelters. so, i think that i think that you should probably try to provide some more mental health services in the shelters that no more shelters just put that money into housing and i mean that i think that nobody really grew up with a dream of living in a homeless shelter. for the rest of their lives. >> i think that the other thing too, is let's here what the team and the workers have to say and i think that they are being, they are being forgotten and i guess that my other problem that i am having is, that you are talking about the domestic abuse and then, for me i feel like, the men should be some type of a program for the men where they can get help regarding those issues and how not to cause those problems. and the women, too, they are like, men are like, one or ten percent of being abused. and i am also very i am also having a problem that where is the training fo

let's look at our senior housing and seniors in housing. seniors of any anchorage housed through the protocol but there are 4 buildings with housing unit plastic for seniors the howard hotel is the only dedication in the tenderloin area we have the house in the western edition mary hell con rogers in the western edition and mary go is going to talk about park view stares but a total of did and 4 unit specifically for the seniors and it comes from the adult emergency system and the sf hot team. ellis act eviction prevention we currently have a contract with the tenderloin housing client and asian pacific islander organization they target the low and moderate disabled folks facing eviction under the ellis act. and some of the services they provide are legal representation with 4r7b9d lawyers and representatives provide the services to the non-bilingual spanish and anothers as well as english speaking clients. one particular program that we have under the homeless prevention funds is the san francisco chronicle sharing funds. all funds are rac

and in some cases or just permanent housing outside of our portfolio or supportive housing. and the services vary, you can get case management, educational and vocational planning, and job search and housing searches, a big part of the transitional housing program. so we have three transitional programs. >> supervisor mar? >> yeah, where do star community home by the catholic charities run, which of the district shelter for women and families, where does that fit into the system and what happens after private sector money runs out for programs like that? >> well, it fits into our system because they use our family wait list to move the families off of the wait list into the private sector funding and it is not under hsa umbrella, it is a direct grant from the sales force to the catholic charities but they work hand in hand with us on helping us to reduce the wait list by moving families from the wait list into the housing. >> and then besides that stark media home, they are starting to see the church on geary and 8th avenue, what are the programs that are like that and how m

of housing and urban development. what will be in his inbox when he comes to washington? that's the inside story. you you >> hello, i'm ray suarez. charles dickens began his tale of two cities with these now familiar phrases. it was the best of times. it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom. it was the age of foolishness. in the united states widespread foolishness in the housing market plunged banks, economies and millions of american families into the worst of times. some cities that never had a bubble never had to watch it burst while go-go markets like las vegas and phoenix saw crisis and catastrophic loss. every week statistics pour out of banks and governments that show a housing market that limps in some places and runs ahead in others. with cities on the mend they will now be a change at the top of the federal department assigned to help them prosper, housing and urban development. house secretary sean donovan who came in 2009 is set to head to the office of management and budget. and the mayor of

community from being able to access and go forward with pursuing housing. and, so, that is probably one of the major goal to pursue and being one i believe could be pursued. other ones are disability specific. still are important as far as trying to categorize and prioritize these such as that one, pops out as being crucial. >> others? well, i have one. i -- you know, it's a bugaboo about the whole thing, the feuding. ~ funding. and we're seeing federal sources of housing funding decline rather -- well, regularly. and, so, i would like to see some activity around creative sources of funding for affordable and accessible housing that might include -- and that exploration was also -- hit on number 11 in that i think that developers, tenants rights advocates, disability advocates, advocates for families, for the poor, as well developers, city staff, and even, even the financial community be included in a search for some -- some solutions to this ever declining pot that we have. it's hard to reach any of these goals without money and i know that's the hardest p

it's both the housing authority and the mayor's office of housing. the housing authority will continue to own the land in this process, again a 99-year lease. the mayor's office of housing will continue to be stewards because of our ongoing relationship at the bond issuer and lender, because we will have debt on these developments. we as asset managers and lenders will be always be involved in how these projects are managed in the future. at this point i will turn it over to the president of the housing authority. >> good afternoon, thank you for having me here. i am here to speak briefly about our employee engagement at this time related to the potential impacts of the rad program. and what it has on the employees who serve our public housing residents here in san francisco. we have developed what is called the care initiative. communication, action and resources for our employees. to make sure that we are providing an effective change management to those who are serving the residents. and we have establish eed dates and milestone its of communicati

the affordable housing payment will allow for two affordable housing projects to be built in the next five years rather than two in the next 10 years. and there is no impact to the housing trust fund. these two projects that we're talking about are blocks 6 east which will be 135 units of family rental housing or 27 units for formerly homeless families and block 3 east, 101 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals. in addition to the affordable housing benefits, the transaction will also generate a benefit to the city's general fund over the next few years. ucsf anticipates that development of blocks 33 and 34 will allow for the consolidation of its operations and relocation from other sites in the city. if taxable entities were to take over these spaces, then the return of these properties to the city tax rolls could generate new general fund revenues to the city and tax revenues to the other taxing agencies. the net present value of these revenues is an estimated 16.2 million which was vetted by ocii's consultant oha [speaker not understood] and reviewed by the

as a direct service provider in the house -- affordable housing housing field we have seen the enormous need for affordable housing in south of market. rents have risen exponentially in the past year, and seeing this project is very exciting. many times when we see the clients that we serve, there are other opportunities far outer san francisco and many of them are reluctant to apply, because their social safety net and their schools and medical clinics and non-profit services are in the neighborhood, right in south of market. as a neighbor right next to this site, the housing program and veterans equity center is excited to see the affordable housing opportunity for families that are foreignly homeless or in danger of being homeless and families surviving sros are able to applitor these opportunities. we are in full support of the project and enthusiastic to see this moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is gloria lawson and i work on 6th street as a community advocate for the tod-co group. all the needs of someone who might be formerly homeless

how long could this charge the house or the car? >> depends what you do in the house.it's off the battery you can run 10-15 hours. the bruins of the house is this -- brains of the house is this - a home energy management system. a prototype built by honda to balance sly and demand -- supply and demand. >> the integration is happening - 250 channels. all the temperatures, the electric loads, water flows monitored and recorded. >> what was the clicking. >> it's the way the data logger picks through the channels. >> while phil got the big picture from michael. jonathan, an engineer at uc davidson's we were cooling center showed me some of the houses cutting edge technology. >> we are heating and cooling. >> this is in lieu of having traditional central heating. >> absolutely. instead of moving thermal energy around with air, we move around with water, delivering the heating and cooling through the floors and ceiling. >> if there's cold water swimming underneath and above colder. >> also, significantly, it's impacted by the temperature of the surfaces in the room. >> one o

other permanent supportive housing. and 16 percent moved into temporary housing, and 16 percent died. and 16 percent moved into unsubsidized permanent housing. we have no information about where 28 percent of these folks went. after leaving our housing, and about 8 percent went into shelters and the streets, and jail, or in to hospitals. the 16 percent who moved into the unsubsidized permit housing is perhaps the most interesting to this group. however, the category is so broad that we really don't know if this was, in fact a step up and we don't know, the longer term housing retention out comes for the people who moved into unsubsidized housing. but, understanding where formally homeless people go after supportive housing is in particularly ref la torrey given the extremely limited affordable housing options available to this is folks and we believe that it is critical that any housing ladder plan not simply shift in the aoe equality is the lack of affordable housing in san francisco from one marginalized population to

providers to join me in a reenlighten public housing stock to maintain those there's not housing authoritypart of san francisco we need a lot of partners going forward are you up to it? all right. let's build thirty thousand more and if more is needed we'll figured out but make sure it's affordable and within reach and thank you all for providing a great example of how we are bringing people tooth. thank you very much >> bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you're -- people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you're playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as many different people in as possible. different genres, experimental noise, electronics, dissonance some drums.a tiny bit of ambient -- the first noise pancake shows, 1999, the first waffl

as affordable housing. so we have things to do but overall that's a positive report we'll talk about this next week the mayors goal and try to approve projects when we can >> commissioner sugaya. >> yeah. i'd like to on table 19 on page 22. maybe it's definesal b you - al take 2013 we have a total of seven hundred and 12 units and a total of all new units at the 2439 my question is how does 2499 compare to table 21 on page 6 if you take 2013 i don't see where 2239 orients >> this is for all units that were produced looking at the positive. >> on table 2 units completed from new construction it's not a correct number. >> that must have been a mistake so. >> it kicks up, up higher. one last question from 2009 to 2013 commissioner president wu pointed out the affordable it 22 percent is that expected to continue given the mayors initiative given the inclusionary the inclusionary percentage has dropped because of the veto so do we have any idea this can be sustained? >> it's a hard question the mayors goal is t

inez, debate on the house floor before the final vote to waste. -- next, a debate on the house floor before the final vote took place. er, my colleagues, i believe the whole house and the american people deserve to know how i came to the decision that brings us here today. on september 11, 2012, a terrorist attack on our consulate in libya left four people dead including our ambassador. since that time four committees of the house have been investigating these events and those committees have done exemplary work. chairman issa, chairman mckeon, chairman rogers and chairman royce and all the members of their respective committees deserve our gratitude. but last week, a line was crossed in two places. first it came to light that the white house did more to obscure what happened and why, than what we were led to believe. second, we now know that the administration defied a formal congressional subpoena. our committee sought the full truth and the administration tried to make sure that they wouldn't find it. which means they tried to prevent the american people from finding the truth as