we have contracted with the salvation army and sorts to plowshares and the unit services of homeless people can stay in those beds up to 24 months. our exciting program is secretary was very smart in order to not have homeless you have to prevent it we give money to nonprofit so something to prevent people from being homeless and in san francisco we awarded 1.3 million last year and this year we have a priority one category in which we tied for $3.02 agencies that have applied for that. that's the highlights i'm not going to take up much more time you is have a sheet of the services. there's a call center so we're going to leave cards for you to put in our office it's a 1877 number it is manned everyday and if a vet needs help they'll call the number to the local va and one thing i think is mentioned talking about the vouchers and others coming down the pipeline i think it's exciting for san francisco >> yes. >> until there's no one on the streets that is homeless this is a positive step in the future. >> it was on the audits so i missed it but basically, we've been doing permanent h

and this is an important part in addition to hud and the va and the human services agency and the plowshares the housing authority gets a lot of criticism but nicole tour lead point of contact with barbara smith they've been incredibly focused focused in helping us to audio identify on the case by case basis and i'm excited to hear from our partners >> thank you, mr. duffey. i want to invite joyce up from ah a >> good morning, supervisors. i want to point out on the slide when scott gets it up are the two housing buildings under the umbrella of the human agencies. we have veterans common to our left and in so moved, commissioners, that item passes district and mary helen rogers to your right in supervisor london breed's district veterans common is dedicated to 73 unit in the building and mary helen rogers how many units. a hundred units 20 set aside for homeless citizens. so as what is referenced earlier in the 2015 count approximately one hundred and 70 veterans were identified which is a reduction from the 2011 homeless count. 17 percent of the homeless count and survey responded said they

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