i'm susie smith. i'm director of policy and planning for the human services agency, and i just want to mention ageing and adult services is also here if there's daas specific questions. just by way of context, you probably already know this, but h.s.a. is three departments supported by the same structure. it's the department of human services, daas, and the office of early education. together, we serve about 1 in four san franciscans, low-income, older adults, from birth to graves. so what i'm going to do is provide a little bit of overview with the homeless populations. our county assistance program or c.a.p., we have about 750 homeless i imagines in that program. and everyone -- homeless individuals in that program. and we have 1300 current or formerly c.a.p. clients that are housed through the care, not cash, initiative, and we have over 5,000 that were housed whose cap has passed. everyone who applies for cap is screened for s.s.i. disability benefits. and -- so that we have an in-house set aside

and we have susie smith from h.s.a. agency to present. thank you so much for being here. >> yeah. i'm deputy director for policy and planning. trent unfortunately had to be in sacramento today, so i'm stepping in and recognize this is a hard act to follow, but want to explain a little bit. this legislation is a technical fix to the county adult assistance program, capp, so it's a little bit complicated, so i want you to bear with me about the background of capp and the interplay of state law. as i'm sure you're aware. capp is an assistance program for adult without dependent individuals. the goal of the program is to -- for people who are able to work, to help them with barriers to employment, vocational assessment, and get them jobs. and for people who are unable to work because of disability, get them on s.s.i. disability benefits. those are the two goals, and to do that, there are four subprograms that get at that end. three of the four are governed by local ordinance, and one is governed by state law. and so what -- the four different program -- the four different subprograms.

and we have susie smith from h.s.a. agency to present. thank you so much for being here. >> yeah. i'm deputy director for policy and planning. trent unfortunately had to be in sacramento today, so i'm stepping in and recognize this is a hard act to follow, but want to explain a little bit. this legislation is a technical fix to the county adult assistance program, capp, so it's a little bit complicated, so i want you to bear with me about the background of capp and the interplay of state law. as i'm sure you're aware. capp is an assistance program for adult without dependent individuals. the goal of the program is to -- for people who are able to work, to help

susie green runs mermaid's a u.k. the charity for transgender children her own childhood gender reassignment surgery at the age of sixteen she reported smith's pharo a devout catholic to police for a series of tweets which use words like mutilate castrate green ses the post went far beyond the transgender debate. you will see the tweets are a lot more serious than obama's gendron there were allegations of serious misconduct and violence spiteful personal attacks she's now withdrawn the complaint but the debate rages on and we put the issue up for discussion with human rights campaigner peter tatchell talk show host jungle. kara it is a devout catholic i met him many times interfere she's a devout catholic she has an absolute right to hold a view of saying i don't accept this just like a muslim person and they couldn't except either so let's have respect both sides is absolute nonsense that the police of got caroline should have be respectful of the design of that trans woman to be referred to as she. even if she doesn't approve of it you know reflecting someone's chosen gender that is not a big deal it doesn't imply support or endorsement it