>> reporter: julie, the mayor tells me a high number of drug- related overdoses take place at sro hotels. she says this plan is about not giving up on those struggling with drug addiction. option is user friendly. it is really ease is city. >> reporter: by the end of this year, narcan, the drug used to reverse an sro's, single room occupancy single hotels, which will often house the city's most vulnerable. >> sadly we know that over 30% of the overdose deaths that have occurred in san francisco have occurred in some of our sro's. >> reporter: the mayor is launching a plan to train staff and tenants at sro's on how to use narcan fay sal sprays to save lives. this resident at an sro in the tenderloin says she wants to be trained. >> it is really sad to step outside your door every day and see all the, you know, the despair. >> reporter: jay hawkins also lives at the cambridge hotel on ellis street. he said he and his wife were saved by narcan after overdosing. >> i'm so thankful. if it wasn't for narcan, i don't know if my wife would be here or not. >> reporter: this man tells me he worked

. >> reporter: the mayor is launching a plan to train staff and tenants and sros to use narcan to save lives. this resident in the tenderloin said she wants to be trained. >> it's really bad and sad to step outside your door every day and see all of this. >> reporter: at the cambridge hotel r overdosing. >> i'm so thankful. if it wasn't for narcan, ibe he >> reporter: this man tells me he works the front desk at six different sro hotels and having narcan readily available is long overdue. >> it's a chance to buy time for them to get clean and sober. >> reporter: deaths from fentanyl have been on the rise and in 2017, there were 36 deaths and in 2018, there were 89 deaths, more rst quarter of year, there have already been 39 fentanyl overdose deaths. >> it's injectable in this form. >> reporter: the manager at the harm reduction program offers access to syringes and narcan and she said the mayor's plan is an important step to help people into treatment. >> if we don't save that life, that person will never have the opportunity to change. >> reporter: the mayor said the program will work

an 18% sro rates translates into how many sro spac rooms? any ideas? if there was a proposed project to turn sro rooms and union square into hotel rooms, and i don't know if you remember this where we would swap them out and it got complicated and commissioner fung walked into pow and gary and it was appalling that there were only -- the place was absolutely empty and falling down and the few remaining original tenants who were there before 1979 were slowly, you know, going to be dying off and this building sitting there empty. we know where the empty places are and how do we get them rehabilitated and get people in them? it was shocking. >> thank you for that comment and yes. question. digging into the sro data was one of the more fascinating parts of the date. on page 36, there's more detail around the vacancy number. >> sorry. >> no, it's a dense document, that's ok. but out of approximately 390 spaw390 srohotels, 50% of the gt residences were vacant. this is one day, october 15, 2017. >> i saw it firsthand. a couple of other comments. we have, over

and market rate sro. paying the square footage what the market will bear. i think the project design is great rather than having the rear yard facing lankton street. i think you did a great job with staff on this project and these are the uniting units we need it neighborhood. and i move to approve it with the condition that the ao5 panel, the materials are what you actually use. >> second. >> on page a05. >> did you have additional comment. >> i would support the rec and park decision. >> thank you. >> very good, then, there's a motion seconded to approve this with conditions. it requires the material palet on that motion. (role call). >> so moved, commissioners and passes unanimously 5-0 and for clarity, you did adopt shadow findings. item 18 is continued to novembee 2019-14433 49dubose avenue, conditional use authorization. good afternoon. >> this is to permit the establishment of 21, 800 square feet zoning district, includes industrial agriculture, light manufacturing with specifically without the vol

. >> yeah, well something i know of many other families who also live in sro with kids under the age of 18 and it's extremely difficult to find housing for families with children like myself. >> reporter: her husband and two children and she have lived in a chinatown sro, single resident occupancy unit for a decade. she speaks little english and chose not to leave because she feels secure. but in order to stay she works try jobs. t the housing production is out of synch with job growth. >> between 2010 and 2018, san francisco's population has grown 10% while jobs have increased 38%. >> reporter: the fastest-growing segment, those making more than $103,000 a year, almost growing as fast, those making annual salaries under $69,000. for poor to moderate income workers in the city, the housing statistics are grim. although s although san francisco has approved some units, they're short 15,600 affordable housing units fo units for lower income households. >> we're becoming one of those third world countries here your the rich are comfortable and the poor that serve them have to commute th

we know that over 30% of the overdoses that occurred in san francisco has occurred in some of the srosnching a plane plan to train staff on how to use narcan nasal spray to save lives. this resident in the tenderloin said she wants to be trained. >>.the sad to come outside the door every day and you know to see the despair. >> she lives at the cambridge hotel. he said he and his wife were saved by narcan ever owes a doping overdosing. >> i don't know if my wife would be here. >> this man tells me he worked the front desk at six different sro hotels and he said having narcan available is long overdue. >> it will buy time for them to get clean and sober. >> the mayor's office said fentanyl has been on the rise. in 2017, there were 36 deaths, in 2018 there were 89 deaths. more than double the year before. in the first quarter of this year, there have already been 39 antonova overdose deaths >> they offer access to syringes and narcan. the mayor's plan is an important step in helping people all get into treatment. >> if we don't say that life, they will never have the opportunity to get cl

bob who lives on the corner of my block and he has sought services from the city and he got into an sro and he said it was such a hell hole of fear and just an out-of-control atmosphere he prefers living in the street. this is a guy who sits around and reads dashel hamet and he needs help and allows bob to be living on our sidewalks. >> hello and good evening. i'm michael blake-moore and i'm here with tara. you haven't heard her yet. i'm here on behalf of road dogs. we tried very much to try to help the homeless artists, but i would like to put forth putting up housing for the workers here, stop having them come from far away just to come here to work. the homeless, they need housing. we're piling up everywhere, as far as -- i don't know if i should, but i had a situation with st. anthonys not too long ago and rather than look at the camera and pay attention to what was on the camera, were they cake and piled up on me. and there still hasn't been anything about that, because they made sure to state that they -- i mean as far as workers helping the homeless, that made sure to state that

the mayor said 30% of all drug overdose deaths occurred at sros and one man who lives at the hotel said his wife is alive today because of narcan. >> i'm so thankful. if it weren't for narcan, i don't know if my wife would be here. >> you have to prepare to meet people where they are. we need to get them into treatment when they ask for help. >> a state grant will pay for the narcan and the training on how to use it. the program will work in cooperation with a plan to make more beds available in treatment facilities. >>> san francisco mayor london breed is due to sign legislation to create a new office on racial equity. it will become official with her signature at city hall at noon today and the department will release a report every two years on racial disparities, jobs, education, criminal justice and housing. >>> new york city is trying to prevent immigrants from being threatened or bullied. they announced a new set of guidelines and anyone using the term illegal alien with intent to demean or humiliate or harass a person could be fined up to $200 and threatening to call ice as a me

the mayor said 30% of all drug overdose deaths are at sros and one man at the cambridge hotel said his alive today because of narcan. >> i'm so thankful. if it weren't for narcan, i don't think she would be here. >> you have to meet people where they are and when they need help, we need to get them into treatment right away. >> the mayor said a state grant will pay for the narcan and the training and it would work in cooperation with her plans to make more beds available in treatment facilities. >>> it's 6:26 and a move could change college sports as we know it. college players can now hire agents and make money from endorsements. up next, the first of its kind legislation. >>> a wild ride for a delivery vehicle at o'hare airport in chicago. quick action prevented that card from hitting an airplane. >>> first, out to discovery bay where it looks like there is a tropical destination as the sun rises and you are watching mornings on 2. >>> from ktvu fox2 news, this is mornings on 2. >>> that is the opening bell live on the new york stock exchange. the gm auto workers strike in its third

>> reporter: julie, the mayor tells me a high number of drug- related overdoses take place at sro hotels she says this plis about not giving up on those struggling with drug addiction. >> the nasal option is really user friendly. it is really ease is city. >> reporter: by the end of this year, narcan, the drug used to reverse an overdose should be available at sro's, single room occupancy single hotels, which will often house the city's most vulnerable. >> sadly we know that over 30% of the

color and communities of people in the city and, of course, like from not only apartments but even sro's that are on the private market. and speaking up for identification purposes only, i sit on the city's sro tax force tenant representative and tried to get this voted on and no quorum due to frequent absences and the makeup of the body makes it [bleep] to do right by the tenants. please pass this out as soon as possible. >> superviser ronen: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, we worked with the community tenants association and the tenants union to address this. let's say it's a gap in our existing rent law that needs to be corrected, which is to create a hardship waiver for tenants who are facing a pass-through that would often times -- in our tenant counseling, we have tenants with 10 and 15 a month increases because of not debt service but because of bond pass-throughs, and that may not seem like all that much for folk, but for folks living on the margins, that is a few meals that people have to scale back on. so i think it's important reform. thank you very much. >> supervise

>> reporter: her husband and two children have lived in a chinatown single resident occupancy unit, sro, for more than a decade. she speaks little language and chose not to leave because she feels secure here. in order to stay, she works three jobs. >> i know of many other families who also live in sro with kids under th age of 18. and it's extremely difficulty difficult -- difficult to find housing for families with children like myself. >> reporter: although jobs have increased almost 40% in the last eight years, this report suggests that for every eight jobs created, only one unit of housing was produced. some would call that a critical shortage. abc7 news. >> now that we have this information, what happens next, how will it be used? you can't expect everybody to have three jobs. it's just -- that's not realistic. >> reporter: right. well, you know, here in city hll, first of all, supervisor marr is planning to introduce legislation that would require this kind of reporting to be released every year to the supervisors. and as you know, mayor breed has made it one of her priorities to

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. >> reporter: jacob said he currently lives in an sro he found that her previous project homeless connect day of sl.er anything medical. and if they don't have it there, they can always recommend you some places. it's a place to gather information for the city and better understand the demographics of homelessness. >> reporter: cameras were only allowed at the inside of the beginning of the day as governor newsom toward the 75th day of service. the project homeless connect started when he was mayor of san francisco. the governor saying the homelessness crisis has intensified in the last few years. he was inspired by what he saw but says programs like project homeless connect need to be an ongoing effort. >> you don't start with a static population of 1000 people think it will thousand people off the streets and then everybody goes home and calls it a day. constantly are addressing issues and needs as they arise. >> reporter: weather team is connecting homeless san franciscans with important services, in some cases it's about connecting them with human essentials. good to go was on him pro

the mayor says 38% of all overdose deaths are at these sros.of narcan. >> i'm so thankful. if it wasn't for narcan, i don't know if my wife would be here. >> you have to be prepared to meet people where they are. once they say they need help, we need to get them into treatment right away. >> the state will pay for the narcan and training on how to use it. >>> national park officials are considering whether to add more security to the grand canyon skywalk after a man jumped to his death over the weekend. the 28-year-old man's body was recovered yesterday after officials say he climbed a barrier and jumped saturday afternoon between 500 and 800 feet. the service is working to determine if new policies are needed. >>> a visitor to yellowstone national park tripped and fell into the thermal water near old faithful. it is illegal to leave boardwalks near the hot springs and he could face criminal charges. >>> the new trend of dressing up trees, and the consumer crazy for halloween trees, and where you can get one here in the bay area. >>> and a run

still building my life and skip gave me an opportunity to get off tenderloin where i was living in an sro where half of the people would either steal something or take a scooter. ed jusit's just a bad area for d being with skip, i started out with getting two scooters at a time and now, i'm up to -- we're renting a salon in ter ternen ln and i said maybe i can have your salon at nighttime so i can help you out didn't you can help me out. so serving the communities of concern, skip has done that for me and for a lot of people and i know a lot of rangers are in that same community and, unfortunately, most of them, don't finish or don't continue because of some other issues. i hope you give skip a chance and it's better to have not limited -- skip has experience here already. they're not paying me to be here. >> last card, sanje dastore. >> i'm the cofounder and ceo of skip and skip, as you know, the sole operator not selected and i'm here to offer feedback in hopes of improving the program going forward. we started this knowing we could set a better example and we were the first to pa to pa

. >> a lot of the trojans living in an sro in china town are considered homeless.ving in campers, cars. >> reporter: terry is the coordinator of programs for homeless students in the san francisco unified school district. it's across san francisco. i believe every school has at least one child considered homeless. >> reporter: because homelessness is largely self reported. san francisco unified, the largest school district in the bay area says the closest they could get to a good number was 1800 to 2300 n.seattle a district of about the same size, 2663 students identified as homeless at the end of the last school year n.los angeles, the largest school district in the state, 19526 children experienced homelessness during last school year. rudy learned english and got all a's in high school while hideing the fact he was homeless. everyday he'd wake up at 4:30 to take the bus, go to school, come back and do homework and work. >> i would sleep during tests in high school. my teacher would have to wake me up in the middle of the test. i was like oh, i'm so sorry. >> a p

. >> reporter: he lives in an sro that he found at a previous homeless connect service.e is now on the path to permanent housing. >> this is one-stop for anything you need. housing, dental work, medical, anything medical. if they don't have it there they can recommend you to places. >> we got information for the city. >> reporter: cameras were ing o day as the governor toward the milestone 75th day of service. project homeless connect started when he was mayor of san francisco. the governor saying the homelessness crisis has intensified in the last few years. he was inspired by what he saw but said programs like project homeless connect need to be an ongoing effort. >> you don't start with the static population of 1000 people and get 1000 people off the streets and everyone goes home because of the day. we are constantly addressing issues as needs arise. >> reporter: the aim is connecting homeless san franciscans with services. >> the app helps you find and access the location. >> reporter: many homeless still have their mobile devices and that having more than a dozen g

the sro has been charged with child neglect. it was my unarmed football coach that took action and lost his life in the process. school safety cannot be addressed fully without addressing our gun violence epidemic. instead of promoting punitive safety measures i describe as putting a band aid on a student's bullet wounds, i ask you to think what is beneficial to us students. i hope with all my being that gun violence prevention legislation is passed that perhaps we won't have to have 16-year-olds speaking on school safety. i hope when it comes to school safety i won't have to hear students half my age claim they were born after marjorie stoneman douglas and grew up in the environment they were force fed school security until they went through a mass shooting of their own. our students are tired of being tired. the future of the country is at stake. the future of this country's safety is now in your hands. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. i now recognize mr. maples to summarize his statement for five minutes. >> chairm

here's a live l fm sro tower. notice the lack of clouds out there. you know what is still lurking? weed pollen, elm, juniper, pine and sage. if you've been suffering, you will suffer again today. >>> salutations. calm. stress relief. a lot of people use yoga to get all of those good benefits. there's a new type of yoga that is a bit different and turning things up. this is called rage yoga. see that drink? that's some alcohol, a beer. the e teacher is describing it yoga with an attitude. there's louder music. there's screaming and yelling. you can swear. >> no. >> i just want to be at peace. >> let's hear this woman. >> the technique is different. instead of calming your mind, you're bringing everything out. >> i think it is good to get some of those trapped emotions out. >> yeah, but can you do it at your therapist's office or in your basement? >> yeah. >> i don't want anyone to yell or scream at me and give me the finger. look at her. >> it doesn't seem like it goes. >> no. it does not go. i don't think you should be drinking alcohol while doing yoga. >> and is everybody screamin

also, i have been on the sro task force for six years.mething that we have desperately needed. inches i have been on the board for the past two years. every meeting is about the remodel work. we are glad to see it finally coming together. thank you. >> we have to have the raffle. marty made all of this come together. her mother is a talented artist who put together the pieces for us. ms. charlene hill, who is maxine's daughter. [applause.] >> this is rosalyn frazier. [applause.] we grew up together. >> matthew rothschild. (applause). >> one question for people. what is 1181 golden gate. who can tell me what that is? >> the new location for the clinic. >> that is where we will be for the next 14 months. visit us there as well. we are counting on our patients to be with us. we will have you back in 14 months and two days for the celebration. he is bringing champagne so don't miss it. here we go. five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause.] >> once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the cour

i know with the pending ordinance on the transfer of sros -- or residential hotels. i know that the report needs to be disclosed to the buyer. is the report from dbi disclosed publicly to -- is there -- i just -- i'm not familiar with it. i was just wondering. >> actually i'm not aware of that one myself. i'd be happy to look into it. >> i think it's probably more important for the public to know it, than the buyer. >> i'd be happy to look into it and find out. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. strachan. thank you, sir. >> clerk: next item is 7 c, update on major projects. >> all right. good morning. tom hui, department of the building inspection for the major project. the period is roughly increased by 4.9%. due to the filing of the permit, because the co-change. >> co-change. >> clerk: okay. our next item is 7 d, update on code enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners. ed swinney, deputy director inspection service. i'm here to report on code enforcement activities and with dbi's update of september 2019. for complaints received, 571. complaint response within 24

you heard from one of the residents of the sros. we have 400 sr os occupied by families. it's really, really difficult. and they need to get as much park space and sunloo sunlight,s possible. so we oppose this project and we hope that you will force the propospropertoproposepropepropod resign. >> i'm amanda rupp representing brightline defense. this establishes the willie woo-woo playgroun playground asa cornerstone of san francisco chinatown. the playground itself symbolizes the high environmental needs of chinatown residents who enjoy less open space per capita than any other san francisco neighborhood. over $10 million is dedicated to build a new playground. after a participatory design process, park users wanted a course for senior access, bad badminton, pickleball and tai chi. this is all essential aspects of environmentalism and without understanding local environment needs, we will struggle to overcome larger environmental challenges. we subsequently urge your support for a quality chinatown environment. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good aftern

the sro has been fast charged for child neglect. it was our unarmed football coach who provoked our my classmates and lost his life in the process. furthermore, school safety cannot be addressed fully without addressing this epidemic. given this i encourage you to look into march for our lives a peace plan for a safer america. instead of promoting certain punitive safety measures that i would describe as putting a band aid on a student's bullet wounds, i ask of you to think what is actually beneficial to us students. i hope with all of my being that gun violence prevention legislation passed so we won't have to be having 16-year-olds speaking at hearings on school safety. altogether when it comes to school security, i won't have to hear students claim they were born after marjorie douglas and grew up where they were force fed school security until they went through a mass shooting of their own. us students are tired of being tired. our future, the future of this country is at stake. the future of this country's safety is now in your

. >> reporter: jacob said he currently lives in an sro he found at a previous project homeless connect day of service and he says he's now on the path to permanent housing. >> this is one-stop for anything you need. housing. dental work. medical. anything medical. and if they don't have it there, they can always recommend you some places. >> it's a place to gather information for the city and better understand the demographics of homelessness. >> reporter: cameras were only allowed at the inside of the beginning of the day as governor newsom toured the 75th day of service. the project homeless connect started when he was mayor of san francisco. the governor saying the homelessness crisis has intensified in the last few years. he was inspired by what he saw but says programs like project homeless connect need to be an ongoing effort. >> you don't start with a static population of 1000 people think it will get a thousand people off the streets and then everybody goes home and calls it a day. we constantly are addressing issues and needs as they arise. >> reporter: whether team is connect

these are folks in the district that i represent who are in sros, who are waiting for years and years for permanent housing. these are seniors who are at risk of being homeless. or the over 8,000 people living on our streets who we are failing as we saw in that report not building adequate housing particularly at the lower level. we do have with this legislation, an opportunity to take an important step towards addressing this failure and beginning to

these are folks in the district that i represent who are in sros, who are waiting for years and years for permanent housing. these are seniors who are at risk of being homeless. or the over 8,000 people living on our streets who we are failing as we saw in that report not building adequate housing particularly at the lower level. we do have with this legislation, an opportunity to take an important step towards addressing this failure and beginning to write this mismatch between the number of jobs that are being created and the housing particularly affordable housing that's needed to meet that demand. we are also helping here to meet a need that i've heard again and again from the mayor's office of housing one of the meetings i had early on was to go through the pipeline of housing project affordable housing projects in my district. one of the most frustrating things was there were a number of projects where we already have the land the city owns the land, and i was told that we can't even begin to build on these sites for in some cases six seven eight years from now because we don't

support the sro's proposal of eliminating at least that information? >> backing up, i agree with you that you have to ask yourself in this society, do we need the information to do our job? and fast forward, i support it because i think we need that information, name -- not date of birth, but year of birth, to do our job. i don't think we need much more than that. i'm supportive of that outcome. i think that there was a lot more personally identifiable information that was in there that as we drilled down we realized that eliminating those fields, we were not eliminating our ability to surveil the markets. >> okay. so the question is, do you need it. but the follow up question from a cybersecurity perspective, is is it data that you need to store, or is it data you can obtain when you need it without having the risk of actually storing the data? >> that's a question that we asked ourselves, do we have some kind of retrieve function to get the data. you do need enough data to retrieve something. at that point you're going from just account number, name

i think we've coalesced around the schedule with the sros. >> what are the key milestones there? >> they're a series of milestones. i can't remember them off the top of my head, but it starts with basic data and goes to a more complex thing. it's essential a series of let's just say three to four milestones that we now have clarity and agreement on whether -- on when we expect them to be completed. we recently posed -- i want to thank everybody supporting this. recently proposed a rule that would align financial incentives with keeping to those milestones. i think one of the issues here is that the financial incentives and the obligations may not have been as aligned as you would have wanted them to be. >> thank you. one of the key issues here has to do with the beneficial entity behind the trades. and it's my understanding from your testimony that there's been some motion -- in terms of the personal identification of individuals there. and there's two issues. do you have have plans on having a unique identifier for every market participants? >> we would -- what we want to have i