advisory committee report aging and the lgbt community. definitely one of the areas that we are talking about today is housing for safe affordable and stable housing for lgbt seniors. the price of the one bedroom apartment now is $2,700 and the average ssi payment is $1,200 if that, so just numbers alone most seniors are not going to afford a market rate apartment in san francisco or anyone that is disabled and receiving a government subsidy. for us in terms of housing discrimination complaints and about 65% of the complaints are discrimination complaints are regarding housing and about 40% are alleged discrimination on disability or alleged sexual orientation and disability is the one that we get the most complaints about. a big issue for us definitely is reasonable accommodations which is reasonable change in policy and procedure for disabled people to stay in housing such as having a care giving, physical and emotional support animals and food delivery and the third party subsidies. definitely if somebody is living alone and away from t

looking at our senior and older adult lgbt folks 19% are lgbt seniors -- >> i'm sorry. can you repeat that number. >> 19% of the people that we serve are lgbt and senior and older adults and 26% of those are literally homeless and that compares to 21% of the title client population so the senior and older adult lgbt folks that we serve are more disproportionately homeless than the general population of the people that we serve. we also been seeing a tremendous up tick in the increase displacement activity among older adults that we serve and people that know me i have been doing this for 10 years i have a pretty thick skin and let's get -- i have to move on to the next one. let's do it. let's do it. but i have been effected when i see -- i'm a little heart broken and these people are old and fragile and it looks like all of this ellis act displacement activity -- in the last round we're were hitting the 40 year olds but now i'm seeing 60 and 70 year olds evict friday their apartments. >> >> and it started during the last election cycle certain candidates started promoti

a case management program which i am hopeful that can leap frog the housing infrastructure for the lgbt community. we are behind the curve when it comes to investing in affordable housing for the community and we have eight agencies that are access some of the emergency hotel voucher programs so open house can provide vouchers to seniors that they serve and bay area young positives can provide vouchers to those and it's brilliant if i may say so myself and increased investment can do wonderful things. i have 100 affordable housing applications in my office and i have the ability to put those online and even though my data internal base screens people and makes recommendations for housing they qualify for. it's part of the intake process. can i put it on line and make it accessible to all lgbt serving organizations and we can dramatically improve the number of people who get into these lotteries for affordable housing which dramatically improves our access rates. it's a numbers game; right. there is a methodology. there is a metric to it that we can really help achieve. i'm also acquisit

we don't know because it's not classified and someone is affiliated and recognized as lgbt. know do with t on transgander and why we're working with the law center, the human rights commission, national center for lesbian rights so we can reform policy within the local criminal justice system in the jails so we're more sensitive and accommodating and effective with the transgender population that we are seeing up tick that is in the county jail system and as sheriff i vow to make sure that we are leading and continue to lead here in the state and beyond in what those policies look like as a result of evictions and this is a whole another story and one that i had many conversations with tommi mecca and others in the audience about by the time they come to the sheriff's department there is a court order process and we have to remain agnostic in this process and execute the order itself. the elected sheriff me and we colleagues across the country have discretion to delay an eviction if there is insufficient information about those potentially being evicted or if they're from a

folks can be safe with non lgbt folks and we have allyship and we want to have this lgbt shelters andhelters that support lgbt that aren't specifically lgbt and how can we educate other folks in the shelters to be is supportive of these issues. we have a lot of folks that are younger with the lgbt and we have this need now and we need to think long-term if we don't leas it now we will have a growing crisis happen just in a matter of a couple of years. i want to thank you again for listening to us and hearing all these things and appreciate your time. >> i have a question. how many shelter beds are there in the city? >> over 1200. 1300. >> okay. secondly, is there any sensitivity or cultural competency training for staff people? >> feasibility they have training and we have huge questions about what that looks like. >> okay. thank you very much. >> absolutely. >> jazzie. >> i have a person and being trandz gender myself. how many complaints do you hear about violation -- gender identity expression such as staff saying off the wall names and denying them of the facilities that they use

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agencies and ard vocating for these and we haven't done for this lgbt adult seniors and there are strukts url barriers to accessing -- to providing fair and equitable assistance to help lgbt seniors stay in their homes and i think we need to look how effectively other entities are and emulate their model and especially around the public dialogue where is the crisis in housing and who does it affect? and what is the fair and appropriate way of responding to those needs? so i'm not someone who just likes to complain. i like to complain a lot. it's my nature. but only because it's a prelude to presenting solutions, so one of the things that is absolutely critical as we have to have permanent rental subsidies that allow lgbt seniors to age in place and i would say that's among the highest priorities because we need to protect the housing that people already have. there's lots of models for it and i think this requires advocacy. also i am seeing a lot of need for grants to cover common space accessibility modifications. i have several households right now of people who are aging, and they can'

what is the ami level for instance of your average senior, lgbt client? >> 80% of our clients have incomes of $30,000 or less. about 70% have incomes of $20,000 or less. the vast majority are on ssi or s.d sdi for me affordability is the definition of section eight where somebody pays 1/3 of their income. it's hard enough for people to live even if won the lottery and got a section eight and as we have seen in the city if they win the lottery and literally got a section eight it's difficult to find a landlord that will take that section eight. that was highlighted when bevan dufty was working on it and got hundred vouchers for vets and able to find housing for like four of them, so that is a struggle because the affordability crisis in san francisco is so out of control right now. >> right. and finally do you know -- do you have any idea how many clients ultimately end up homeless? i know it's a difficult question. i think it's an important thing for us to look at. how many clients are ending up homeless in all of our agencies? >> i don't have statistics

folks can be safe with non lgbt folks and we have allyship and we want to have this lgbt shelters andelters that support lgbt that aren't specifically lgbt and how can we educate other folks in the shelters to be is supportive of these issues. we have a lot of folks that are younger with the lgbt and we have this need now and we need to think long-term if we don't leas it now we will have a growing crisis happen just in a matter of a couple of years. i want to thank you again for listening to us and hearing all

folks can be safe with non lgbt folks and we have allyship and we want to have this lgbt shelters andelters that support lgbt that aren't specifically lgbt and how can we educate other folks in the shelters to be is supportive of these issues. we have

to the city to help seniors for lgbt and we appreciate your comments. if you have ideas what you think we should recommend feel free to state them and we appreciate any hearing and i i'm going to keep the hearing going and i know we have people that want to testify. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is john edmond abraham and i feel incredibly blessed to be here with the kind of support. i have been with aids since 1984 and i am still here which is at the get go is a great blessing until you find yourself in a position where for one reason or another you could be easily forced out of your housing, and it turns out these wonderful section eight vouchers, the hoppa voucher that i got, and i was the first section eight person in my building. now, there are many. they're elderly but it's no longer economically a good deal. it's a good deal to get them to pay the rent because the rent is always paid but now they can get a thousand dollars more for a one bedroom apartment by simply making minimal or just improvements. some improvements need to be made be

insensitivity of property managers and owners to lgbt older adults. many of our older adults are living in housing that is somewhat affordable, but that has not had a major renovation or repair in so many years that the units are actually dangerous to live in. i also want to say it's unusual in the business world that property managers and tenants have such an adversarial relationship. i know of no other business that customers and consumers relate to the same way with owners as they do in the city with property owners and managers. we also helped an older adult try to get into mary helen rogers. once again it was a very quick turn around time. they wanted him to produce a check, a security deposit and first month's rent within just a few days of meeting with him. unfortunately he was not i believe to take the unit because it was all coming way too fast. what i would like to urge you to think about today is moving quickly. the longer we wait the longer many of our community members, people who have lived here 30, 40, and 50 years will be dispersed fro

of lgbt seniors.this is part of the investigation of the housing needs of lgbt seniors. all lgbt seniors are welcome to testify about their housing concerns no matter the type they live in, rent control, or other subsidized units, a sro, a shelter, a home that they own, et cetera. seniors are welcome to talk about the shelters and difficulties finding a place to live and also threats of evictions, actual evictions or other evictions and not safeo secure or has a infestation, foreclosure, any other concern to lgbt seniors, so to testify i don't see any cards around so i will ask people just to line up if they want to testify. you can line up on either side. it's probably better to line up on that side so we don't block the door, and basically we're going to give you two minutes but we're going to be flexible if you should happen to need more time, but we're going to ask you if you could to keep it to two minutes and finally if you know someone that couldn't be here for some reason they can submit writt