i am vehemently opposed to this navigation center. this would be the largest center with the longest lease in a neighborhood with thousands of residents. there was not the -- this was not the intent of the navigation centers that i learned about. they were supposed to be small and focused. if anything, the center should go through additional scrutiny based on these factors alone. i ask that you use this time to try to find a more appropriate place for the center. thank you. [applause] >> clerk: before the next speaker begins his comment, just for the members in the public gallery, we have a board rule that you are not to make any noises of support or against. if you're in support, you can use your supportive hands like that. board rules prohibit any audible sounds of any kind. next speaker, please. >> can i put this over to the -- >> clerk: no, if you just place the document underneath it, it should -- sfgtv. >> i live 300 feet away apparently from where the construction will happen. i wasn't notified about that, either, but in researc

essentially, the navigation centers were piloted in or around 2015, it might have been our first navigation center. since then, especially with the last three we have opened, we have learned a lot, we've also been more innovative about how we want to deliver services. so the sacrifice is not going to be on the service in richmond, but it may be how we deliver the services. for example, we may not have the same ratio of dedicated case managers on site, but a more mobile team, especially around some of the health intensive or case management intensive work, so some of our navigation centers, now, for example, or up to 128 beds. the department, through conversation with community providers really wants to limit these safe centers to about 250 beds, so we're not talking about a massive shelter. we are trying to scale it appropriately, and then the more innovative -- be more innovative about how we deliver benefits navigation, services navigation, case service management and other health services. >> can you say if this ordinance were to pass, how it would impact the seawall project, the one tha

what will be the cost to locate a navigation center in such a densely populated family neighborhood? e have more child care centers in district six than any other districts in the city. this is not, by the way, in the five radius of the proposed center, not a hub of homelessness. we must know the answers to these questions before proceeding further. we do not want to look back and wish that we did know those answers. on the process, i agree, this first proposal was known to the community on march 4. that's just a little over two weeks ago. to say we were blindsided is an understatement. there's been no data on why this center should be located at the -- lot 330 and why the other 99 sites have been eliminated. our community deserves to see the criteria used. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is william glasgow. i'm a resident at a condo at brannan and delancey, and i echo the comments of the prior two speakers in opposition to the proposed navigation center on the embarcadero. i won't repeat the points they made, but i would focus on unwith. i believe our

navigation center. not one tent was moved until there was a safe, dignified place, where people could sleep, take showers, get services, hang out, bring their pets, partners, and belongings in the mission. and we were able to solve the problem. that was the only thing that solved the problem. so i -- we had a method that worked. what we don't have is enough of these beds. it is not rocket science. we have more people who are poor, who are normally people of color, and who have been victims of poverty and racism and inequality, who are living on the streets than we have places that are dignified for them to live, in the richest city in the richest country in the world. this is not rocket science. we need more capacity. but despite the fact we have money in the budget, despite the fact we declared two states of emergency, we have yet to grow the system at the level that we need to. now, i have taken pro-active steps in my district to open navigation center after navigation center after navigation center.

even with budget, as supervisor ronen has said, the navigation center has been hard. i want to thank you for working with me on looking at whether there might be options for nav centers or other options for folks with

we're supportive of navigation centers but unfortunately, a 200-bed navigation center at seawall 330 we don't think is the right idea. the port here owns the property. the port is taking what they valued at last month's meeting as a $35 million property that generates over $800,000 in revenue and london breed has decided to take that away. you have the ability to say no and spend the time andest discussed at last meeting go through and rfp process and to decide how that money -- whether those properties should be split or not split and what revenue can be generated by putting an rfp out for that site. you've had that choice now taken away from you or you are getting that choice taken away. right now the navigation center wapwants to lock you up for four years, and you have the ability to say no to london breed and to side how your own property should generate revenue and make the community and the neighborhood a much better place. thank you. >> if you. thank you. >> commissioners, i appreciate the time and i would like to scold the administration for pitting the districts against eac

even with budget, as supervisor ronen has said, the navigation center has been hard. i want to thank you for working with me on looking at whether there might be options for nav centers or other options for folks with navigation centers in d.h., but there is a question if we are going to be able to reach a point in the immediate foreseeable future or soon future of having the shelter bed capacity that we need. meanwhile, ther

i strongly oppose the navigation center at seawall lot 330.is racing to put up the navigation center without any due process or evaluation on the impact of the neighborhood. there's a rush to judgment here. there are many other viable sites in the city of san francisco that have been arbitrarily turned down. we have simply been told that all of these other sites don't simply work. no explanation, no third party independent assessment. the city is trying to circumvent or ignore a number of existing laws. many homeless are sex offenders, yet we have not heard anything if any of these homeless will be required to register under the california sex offender statutes. the port commissioners have a fiduciary duty to guard the port property. there needs to be public input and adequate time to address the health and safety consequences on south beach of putting up this navigation center. as you know, south beach is densely populated. 10,000 residents, over 25 preschools, daycare centers. small children are uniquely vulnerable to the homeless, many of w

i also am in support of the navigation center. i'm a mom and think of the children. my baby deserves to grow up in a place with a social safetynet. i live within two blocks of two homeless shelters. it's completely fine. there are a lot of people here who say if you build the navigation center, the neighborhood will become terrible. that is not my experience. it took me a long time to figure out even that the homeless shelters i live nearby were homeless shelters. sheer very good neighbors. so homelessness is a huge problem in san francisco. our mayor ran on solving it. the own path to solving it is through building a lot more shelter beds and permanent housing. so i know a lot of people talk about being blind-sueded. blind. if anyone lived next to a large parking lot, you should adjust your expectations now because we will have a huge expansion in shelter beds and affordable howing. every single neighborhood will experience that and it's a good thing. it's something we need. that's very rude, actually. please don't talk while i'm talking. so finally, i just really w

last and final scenario, same person says i'm not interested in going to shelter or a navigation center, we'll do our best to convince everyone. i'll call back to the nav center and say yes, we do have a person, and here's this person's bed. we will try to convince them, and we will site them and take the -- cite them and take their tent in the case of illegal lodgin lodging. those are the three circumstances. i'm hearing a lot about moving people. we don't have a right to move anyone anywhere who's not in violation of the law. again, we're not citing individuals unless there is navigation or shelter available. to your point, supervisor, we have 15 seven-day beds set aside for the police department and e.m.s. 6, and we always have embassy south and other shelters that we can bring people. that's our policy. >> supervisor ronen: i would say that is part of the problem. it is a rational decision not to take a seven-day bed because you're back out on the streets in seven days. that's a gap, a major one we have in our system that we as policy makesers have to fill. the only way to do that i

other navigation centers have not yet proved to be successful. this is not yet a proven model. why repeat it at such a large scale? >> reporter: the city says the facility would have 200 beds making it the largest navigation center so far. it would provide health and housing services for homeless people and around the clock shelter that would allow pets and partners. >> they're here. so why not provide them a place of safety and of shelter and of compassion and love and services and all the things they can get indoors in a place where they already are? >> reporter: jeff kozitski is director of san francisco's department of homelessness. >> i get pretty much nonstop concerns from neighbors who live along the waterfront about people experiencing homelessness. >> reporter: they want you to do something about it. >> yes. >> but not everybody wants the navigation center near where they live. >> i'm hopeful that's because they don't necessarilied up how they work. necessarily understand how they work. when people see how they operate, we will change some hearts and minds. >> reporter

different navigation centers have different policies around that.e do our best to allow people to bring in pets and possessions and come in with their partners. as far as the mats that are available or the one-night beds available at the shelters during the rain, i don't have the same capacity as always navigation centers around allowing people to bring in large amounts of materials or necessarily their pets or to come in with their partners. did i answer your question? >> partly. so as far as the tents, if someone is given offer of shelter they say yes. do you then confiscate their tents? >> if they're going to navigation center, they can bring it with them and we work to get the buildingings they can take with them to the nav center there and we work to bag and tag their property through public works. >> is this for d.p.w., would there be some situations where your employees are more of the first responders, first interaction that people have in the sense that do they follow similar and would it only be sfpd who is doing this determination of offe

all of these services and connections are in the shelters and navigation centers. we also through whole person center are intending to expand our coordinated assessment. housing and housing ladder. so we have rapid rehousing. typically not for folks with serious treatments and substance abuse, but somebody who doesn't need these additional resources get put into permanent supportive housing and receiving services that they don't need. we have about 200 in our current system, more than 400 through the heading home for families. we have 500 new planned for rising up for youth and about 40 more for adults that are launching this month. currently supportsive housing, we have 6,700 units for adulting. some of those are the housing first units that were established by the home services agency and you now are h.s.h. and some are the former direct access to housing. we're bringing on over the next several years, no place like home funded capital unit for additional permanent then supportive housing for people with serious mental abuse problems. the housing ladder, we have t

if you're priority status, we can place you in a navigation center? we have other centers for other uses and then, we have our temporary shelter system. we -- another collaboration point about coordinated entry and assessments is we are also working with d.p.h. about how to respond when we assess someone as needing a higher level of care than permanent supportive housing. we have -- so they can -- they will show up in priority status, and we will also know that they have not been able to maintain indepentadent housing thus far, and we're working so that that's kind of a seamless handoff so we're not losing those folks back to the streets. problem solving, one of the core components of the system. collaboration point on problem solving is that this is often our first encounter, so we're trying to setup our first encounter at a point where we do an immediate triage, engagement, and connection to the needed services. temporary shelter, this is an inventory of the temporary shelter system. we have the traditional emergency shelters. also within that catego

, but once in the navigation center, we find out they're not there for the help that we taxpayers are funding. that taxpayers that i spend three months out of my life every single year to pay my property tax bill, the homeless person comes to the navigation center and said i just wanted a seven-day bed. i didn't want help. mr. kozinski, he showed reams of data. i don't know if i believe all the data. i share the same questions as all of you. that data was a bit shifty to me, but the one thing that struck out at me is sf is bearing more than its fair share of the load. 40% of the regional homeless are here in san francisco. another 40% in contra costa and the other counties. why is it only our problem through our generosity to allow the seven-day beds for people that don't want help, and then, we spin our wheels, and we try to figure out why is it that we can't get more navigation centers built? why is that? i'll tell you why. it's 'cause the constituents, your constituents, supervisors, all of us in the city, we're sick of it. you see this list? you know where this comes from? i h

i like out in the outter richmond, i'd love if there would be a navigation center here in the golden.">fizgerald's site got generous donations from mark benioff, ceo of salesforce to twitter ceo jack dorsey..it doesn't matter to chris and alice, who just like to walk their daughter along the embarcadero every weekend..they just hope the mayor will come up with a different plan.. (justine) take a look at this damage in colorado. strong storms hit the region yesterday afternoon -- sending r-vs into the air. this was at a storage center w

to hire a lawyer to prevent the city from turning the lot into a navigation center. a 200 bed shelter with expanded health, and social services for the homeless. >> we have the highest concentration of children, day cares and schools within a three or four block radius. and i do not think it is safe and fair for these children to be put through what they could be thought through. >> reporter: in response, supporters of the navigation center proposed by the mayor earlier this month started their own gofundme campaign raising more than $70,000 for the coalition on homelessness. >> to me what it shows is, there are a small number of people who have hateful attitudes towards homeless folks. but we have far more people who are supporting folks who want to see solutions. >> reporter: coalition on homelessness says that money, which came mostly in small donations, would be used to support efforts toward helping the homeless. and making the navigation center a reality. >> we make every penny stretch. really far. it will be used for going out and educating folks about homeles

i like out in the outter richmond, i'd love if there would be a navigation center here in the goldenate park.">fizgerald's site got generous donations from mark benioff, ceo of salesforce to twitter ceo jack dorsey..it doesn't matter to chris and alice, who just like to walk their daughter along the embarcadero every weekend..they just hope the mayor will come up with a different plan.. the port the port commission will consider action next month, if approved, san francisco public works will construct the facility which is expected to open by the end of summer.meantime, there will be a community meeting on the safe navigation center on april 6th.live in san francisco gayle ong kron 4 news. overnight lows the lights are back on downtown san francisc

a shelter or navigation center. so that may suggest that using shelter or navigation centers could be protective, or there's some association there in terms of risk, people who may use the shelter system versus people who are unsheltered. in terms of service utilization, although we talk a lot about high users of multiple systems, most of the people here had very little use in an emergency and urgent systems and even less in our primary care, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment systems. most of these people touched our system in some way over the years, but were not well engaged with our system, and i think that's an opportunity for us. just a little bit of the geography of this, i think you can see that these deaths occurred all over the city. if people have a long memory and have seen these maps before, there used to be these giant dots in the locations of the various hospitals, especially san francisco general. we actually did a lot of work to get the location of the incident if somebody survived

so hummingbird is -- it's a navigation center. and granted, it's a navigation center that's focused on people with behavioral health conditions, but it's a temporary place for homeless individuals to be. it's not a treatment plan. it's not -- it's not the stablize -- it's not going to stablize the individual or get them to a place. so what's next for the person? what are the exits for humming bird? where are those people who fill those 29 beds every single night go? >> so i would say it is a stablizing force, because number one, it gets people off the streets. >> supervisor ronen: no, no, i understand that. i'm looking for a path that -- you know, i believe that everyone can get well, and that everyone with the right set of circumstance can be somewhat reintegrated into society, maybe hold down a certain job, maybe living in a housing situation that isn't as restrictive as a residential treatment program. so i guess if that's where i'm starting from, that is my firm belief, what is our past in san francisco to get that person ther

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to operate navigation centers for longer than two years. i am joined today by emily cowen from the mayor's office, who would like to say a few words abouted proposed ordinances and declared shelter crisis. >> thank you, commissioners. emily cohen from mayor breed's office. i just want to walk you through a little bit of context related to the ordinance before you, for consideration today. as everyone probably in this room and in this city knows, san francisco is struggling with a significant crisis of homelessness in our community. we estimate from our point in time count, on any given night we have 7500 people living homeless in our community, 4300 of those folks are unsheltered. so living our -- the slides in front of you discuss the level of need we see within the community. the vulnerability of folks living outside. we consistently have over 1,100 people waiting on the shelter waiting list, people sleeping outdoors and who want to come inside. i think that there's -- i just came from downstairs, at the board of supervisors, where there'