there are an estimated 8000 unhoused residents in san francisco, many are actively on shelter waiting lists that number was 1222 as of yesterday. the city can spend millions on beefing up sfpd departments. the money being used to target unhoused neighbors could be used to prevent homelessness and bring real housing opportunities to these individuals. supervisors please move forward on the eraf budget proposals. $14 million in funding and $84 million in eraf funding. homelessness kills. homelessness hurts our youth, our future. s.f. can afford it fund these initiatives. i pray that you do the right thing. thank you. >> good afternoon. today, i want to ask you supervisors to support the budget $14 million for homeless people and families. the mayor weeks ago, she's released in the media she wants more millions to clean the city streets. when already city spending $21.7 million to criminalizing homeless people. the fire department and police department and they get $11 billion of the city budget, about $3 billion. what are they doing with this money? it's so much money to spending for po

as you know with the current new count of the unhoused population in san francisco, we have an increased amount of people living in their vehicles and even more so in district 10. i know you dedicated $1 million towards locating a place for people to live in vehicles and receive services. what more can we do together to address this growing number of people, live flag their vehicles, as we share the number one goal of providing housing for people who do not have it? >> so san francisco, like so many cities around the bay area not only saw an increase in the number, sadly, of people who are living -- who are homeless in san francisco, but saw an uptick in the number of people living in their vehicling last year. as we watch communities up and down the west coast struggle to address these challenges, we have few successes and some dramatic failures. in october, h.s.h. conducted a survey of this population to learn more about their needs and experiences. and based on that survey, and what we learned from other communities, we have deployed -- we developed two pilot programs to reduce the nu

all of the people that live, work and visit the tern lointenderloin including peoplen the streets, unhoused. our primary focus is at the top in the clean, safe and trying to make inviting public spaces for people but we work on neighborhood pride, economic opportunity and improvements around those areas. our clean programme, just to hit the statistics, we picked up over 350,000 pounds of trash this year, removed 22,000 needles, addressed 6,000 graffiti and stickers and pressure-washed over 3,000 blocks in addition to addressing over 3600 individual instances of human and animal waste. with the new assessment, we are proposing to bring a microneighborhood approach to the cleaning of the tenderloin. we're breaking it up into seven smaller areas and there will be a member assigned to each of the areas with multiple passes a day on the frontages there and getting to know the unique circumstances, the residents, businesses, the building managers, the people on street to do a better job of cleaning the street. tout we also run a safe programme which is primarily tender loin safe passage which sta

we support the tlcbd and renew it and without that, we are now able to restore and frida bringr unhoused individuals in. when i was talking to a team lead, i said why do you like being part of the tenderloin district. he say it gives me and sense of purpose and me and my crew a sense of purpose and we support the renewal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm a corner captain with safe passage for three years now. i'm one of the many corner captains who help cross our residents of the neighborhoods in the morning and afternoon. we are giving back and making it safer for everyone and we love our job. i would not be here without their help and being a part of this community. and i strongly urge you guys to please renew the agreement with the tlcbd for another 15 years. we did mistake work as previously mentioned and will be mentioned after me. so please let us keep doing the job we're doing of making the quality of life in our neighborhood safer and better for residents and business owners. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i work for safe passage and i am the tenderlo

they have been developed by unhoused and formerly unhoused organizers in deep connection with community. we know what we need, and it's not more funding for criminalizations for quality of life citation or four temporary housing fixes to keep families in unconscionable living conditions and turn people out -- back out on the streets in a matter of months. these conditions affect so many different communities across backgrounds and identities. all that's left for you to do is show up for us, your neighbors, as only you can. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. brian basinger with q foundation. i'm here to support on behalf of hspa, the budget justice and the q community network. i'm deeply touched by mayor breed's and your support for first step to organizing lgbt budget asks. as the recent soji hearing showed, the city still has a way to go in achieving equity for lgbt people. you know, we'd like to all believe that lgbt folks are being served by the broader system of care, but i think that that's still a little bit of wishful thinking, so

meetings down at the waterfront, talking to hundreds of neighbors, including people who were housed and unhoused, people who were in navigation. i visited all the navigation centers that currently exist in our city, and i think i came out of that process believing very strongly that we need navigation centers. they are not the entire' solutientire' -- entire solution, they are not going to solve the crisis by themselves, but without navigation centers, people are forced to create their own we have seen a positive impact on the broader community, so i hope we can move forward and see this work. i understand there are people that may have been concerned about the process, and i respect that. but i hope that moving forward, we can come together and make this work for this community. i will do all that i can to make sure that we fulfill our commitments, that the departments fulfill their commitments, that we work together, that we listen, that we hold ourselves accountable. this may not have been a perfect process, but we should learn as we move forward because this will not be the last navigation c

became, well, how many more nathaniels are out here, in a community of over 58,000 people, who are unhousedsk of homelessness in downto los geles? >> brown: gupta began to learn more about skid row's residents ckth the help of people like christopher ma, who once lived on these streetsfond now works a community improvement >>oup. elping people out of love, you know, not out of despair, is the key. because you don't make something of tir condition. >> brown: gupta gave his first skid row concert, with a group of professional friends, at this shelter in 2010. ♪ ♪ >> the thing that blews away was the fact that these audiences were some of the most engaged, empathic, wise people we had ever met, and we had ever played for >> brown: at that point, were you thinking you're coming in to do something, and then leaving? >> we thought it was one-off. totally. and we were functioning from a place of outreach. we just thought, well, okay, we're not here to change, we're here to give you something... >> brown: but what happened? >> well, what haened is that aen people in the audience started , "who are

we all lose a piece of our humanity when we leave our unhoused neighbors behind. i hope we can do better with this amendment. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the woman from -- the gentlewoman from washington reserves her time. does anyone claim time in opposition? seeing none, the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. ms. jayapal: thank you. i yield to our distinguished committee chairman, mr. price. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: i wish to express support for her amendment. i commend her for offering it. our underlying bill provides $2.8 billion for h.u.d.'s homeless assistance grants program. that's the highest funding level in that program's history. it includes more resources for emergency solutions grants to rapidly rehouse and prevent homelessness, and the bill includes targeted investments for survivors of domestic violence and for youth experiencing homelessness. in addition, section 231 of the bill creates a mechanism that allows h.u.d. to more readily use recaptured funds from the small number of programs that might