speaking against the navigation centre saddened me. this is not acceptance but denial, denial that the status quo is working, that someone else needs to step up and people are dying on the streets and saying no is giving into fear. ilyed at thiri lived at third ar three years and i saw many whom i could not help. i don't know how many people i've seen lying on the sidewalk who i've outlived. i quote, this is cruel and inhuman treatment upon our own neighbors . we may close our eyes but the blood will not cease so drip from our hands until we do something. please approve this navigation center. >> we don't need that kind of talk. be respectful or the officers will ask you to leave. i've tried to be lenient to be talk but we won't allow everybody to be disrespected. everybody has a right to be heard, no matter what side you're on. >> i whole heartedly agree. >> it's a pleasure to meet you all. i'm a volunteer and a member of the action and on the united democratic board and it doesn't matter. what matters is people's personal stories. an

i'm here to express my support for the navigation centre and say that the navigation center ought to be voted on today and built asap and that's the result of value judgments i have made. i'll clarify what my value judgments are. i think a person's right to sleep in a bed with a roof over a head is more important than a parking spot. i think that the overextended processes by which wealthy owners, could reject bike lanes and navigation centers, that is less important than the fact people are dying because of these things. i'm the child of an immigrant from al salvador and she came here in the middle of the civil war and a plausible threat of death, she came here to the united states for refuge. i came here to san francisco for refuge. there are many hundreds, thousands of lgbtq children coming here for refuge and they don't have networks. they've been alienated by their families. i have a job and there's no system in place for these lgbtq kids to go to to find support without these massive bays navin centers. i'm honestly quite tired of the talk of delay and further process and furth

this navigation centre down there that you building in embarcadero is only 130 slot. you keep flip-flopping. 130 to 200. they don't make no difference. you wasting money and time. i showed you can build a 27-story tower for $57 million which is same amount of money for navigation centre and you can build permanent houses for people you claim to help. this is not the first time this came up. this came up with the last administration where people were complain about the navigation centres and some of the interviews were complaining. you are retraumatizing the homeless people by letting them stay there for 60 or 50 days. you kick them out and put them back on the street again. another example, how homeless people don't need no homeless program. they need permanent housing just like you. i went down there to that hearing and both sides is like little kids. you raise $100,000 on a go fund me page to try to combat each other views when you should be putting that money together to provide apartment building complex. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoo

when we open up to the bryant street navigation centre earlier this month, i met a woman who had justng addiction and breast cancer. on the streets, her medication kept getting stolen, she couldn't get healthy, now she is inside, and she is working on getting housing. at bryant street, she gave me a hug, and she said she is hopeful , and so am i. if she has hope, others can too. that is the difference. she is excited about the future, and i'm excited for her. if she can have a hope, and others can too. i've already announced my plan to add 1,000 shelter beds by 2020, enough to clear the shelter bed waitlist. [applause] >> we also are declaring a shelter crisis so we can get these shelter beds builds now, and i want to thank supervisor supervisors brown, haney, mandelman, supervisor stefani and walton, for joining me in recognizing our bureaucracy shouldn't stand in the way of one single thousand beds. this is a huge step, we know, but it is not enough. we know we have around 4,000 unsheltered people in our city, sleeping in our streets, in our parks, in the doorway is, or in vehicles.

first increased outreach on health services in shelter and navigation centres. re has been an increase in shelter and navigation center beds, but the staffing for these programs has not increased accordingly. additional resources enable us to add nurses and social workers to serve shelter residents with clinical care and linkage to services. second, expanding access to respite beds. it is just the hummingbird facility at s.f. general. the program recognizes a successful model of keeping individuals off the street and engaging individuals would otherwise not seek treatment. additional resources here would enable d.p.h. to increase the number of beds at hummingbird. lastly, increase the number of mental health and dual diagnosis residential treatment beds. although we are currently conducting a process analysis internally to identify all possible sources, they do believe it is likely that increasing residential treatment resources would contribute to decreasing wait times. any sources here would increase -- allow deviation increase in number of beds. there is no po

elections, department of homelessness now, as you have read about, we got to open our second navigation centrert property. recreation and park, all of which include, by the way, payment of rent. it is not singling you out. >> we also have a work order with you for our fireboat staffing and dry docking and all that stuff, which is separate from this. anyways, i am in support of this moving forward, and thank you again for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. at this time, commissioner freeman. >> thank you very much for your presentation. i have a couple of questions. how do you establish the market rate rent? >> that is a good question. one thing that we do is every year, the port commission approves a parameter rent rate. these are rental rates for different types of port properties where if the rent charged falls within these narrow bands for these different types of property, then it doesn't need to go back specifically to the port commission, it is already approved. so that was one of the reasons why i had this slide showing the turn parcels because, you know, the submerged la

>> i think -- >> so i was struck by commissioner dwight's comments regarding the embarcadero navigation centre, and i was struck in particular because it made me consider, you know, it is interesting when he think about it, our portfolio, it is as wide as we wanted to be because everything intersex our constituents, and one thing that i have been participating on for a while is the auto burglary workshop liaison which has been trying to reduce the number of car break-ins, which by extension, has an impact on the number of tourists that come to the city, and how our city is perceived, and something that came up at our last meeting is that they are interested potentially in making a presentation of some kind about the crime strategy unit, which is been remarkably effective at reducing the number of break-ins it is down 18% versus the prior year. and so i said that i would bring that up as something that maybe we could take a look at, you know, if there was interest among my colleagues here, but. >> absolutely, because what happened in neighborhoods with that, it affects everybody. not only touri

number 3, you continue to build navigation centres, which is temporarily holding our houseless bodies, a number 3, all of you know this is wrong, but it is being billed as an answer to solve a problem that really needs to be solved by building more poor people housing, and services, mental health services -- >> thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is tony, i was become behalf of myself. i don't like the faÇade, i don't like the pretending that the city cares in doing this. we know what this is about. we know it is about not wanting to see certain people on our streets, and at the same time, we don't have supports for these people who are -- oh, we can't offend the business people, right? we can't offend them. we have a 16 billion-dollar budget in san francisco. it is more than some countries. 16 billion, and this is the best that we can do? i have been here 54 years, i have seen a lot, i am born and raised here. we know people like me, that doesn't even matter. i can come here and say i'm a sixth generation san francisco, it doesn't mean a god damn thing this is the

centre. we always wanted to find our way back. the temporary navigationcenter at south van ness and around 22 nd street allowed us to start a small pilot program over there. leadership told us that we may get an impact on the area in cleanliness and community. those who have been vehemently opposed to the center became even more angrier when it was taken down. folks at the north end of the mission saw what was going on and eric who you will hear from in a few minutes, saw our impact , he asked us what we can do closer for 16th and mission with $5,000. it wasn't much, but the funding and the excitement generated by him and the program helped us hold out until the end of the fiscal year. when the team and supervisor ronen's office give us funding to expand throughout the mission [applause] >> our team in the mission has grown from a tiny four person team, all the way to a 30 member cohort that works daily to clean the area stretching from division street, down to 24th street. and from valencia, all the way to harrison. it is incredible how much they've acco

dollars on a navigation center where you can only stay there for 5060 or 70 days, and you get kicked out and get put down on the seats again. i showed you where you can build a trade centre story tower with 144 units per every three floors and take out a the chunk of the homeless populations that came off to people being housed. it doesn't make any sense. it is counterproductive. >> are there any other members, any members of the public would like to testify on this item? seeing non, public comment is closed. mr. starr, on behalf of planning , anything you want to add that was not said? you are sitting there and i thought, you know, i just want to get out of the planning department for the afternoon. all right. >> thank you. i will -- i really appreciate the public testimony made today. what we have tried to do is strike a fine balance between the conversation about new construction and the conversation about existing dwellings and protecting existing renters and ensuring that there's notice and all those things, and i think supervisor peskin is going to propose a fixed to that so we can continue the conversation and move this legislation forward so we are really narrowl