tammy, joshua jones, maria avalos. and ken dra flesh man and jane shisle. >> good morning, my name is todd roberts i was called and asked to wish to speak on item 6. >> got it well stick around, thanks. >> hi, jennifer coalition on homelessness and thank you for having this hearing, and i want to talk a little bit about the scope of the issue that we are talking about here today and i appreciate ta we are having this hearing. it was mentioned in the previous speaker about how we have 2200 children in our public schools that are experiencing homelessness and of course that is just the people in k-12 and most of the homeless families are actually young families and they have children that are not school age yet and you could you know very conservatively double that number if we wanted to get at how many kids we have that are homeless and a piece of that pie is the families who are waiting for shelter in shelter and there are a whole bunch more families. when we recently had a meeting with the director of the housing auth

. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] good morning, my name is maria avalos. i am here with you to request what i always request from you. better living conditions for the families living in the mission district. >> out reach worker in the mission district, i have seen a lot of programs come and go. and our families continues to live in those small hotel rooms really reduced space. >> crisis continues and the rents increase and we just cannot afford paying this rent. >> we are hear all of these numbers, nevertheless, we are not creating any solutions. it is my hope that we stop talking about these numbers and we create solutions, because families keep leaving in the same conditions as they were ten years ago. thank you have very much. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> good morning and thank you so much for your time and attention, my name is jane siscow and i am the director of compass claire house which is the transitional housing program for families and this is a 20th year this year and we were developed at a time where there were more resources availab