we could house every unhoused person in the city with the budget. defund sfpd now. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i live and work in south africa san francisco, and i ek echo the xhondz to defund sfpd now. why should they get an increase while schools are facing cuts. what does that say about our values? which do you think is more important to a healthy city? educating children or harassing poor people? less than half of the sfpd budget, $320 million, we can help every unhoused person in san francisco while still having money left over to invest in health care, free public transit, education, universal child care and alternative safety programs that actually keep us all safe. black and indigenous residents make up 20% of the population but accounted for 78% of all individuals [indiscernible] in 2017. meanwhile, sales force is celebrated boosting the profits of white-owned pharmaceutical companies. we spend $6.6 million a year on a district housing unit that specifically patrols -- >> the time is concluded. >

every unhoused person in the city with the s.f.p.d. budget. defund s.f.p.d. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am naturalli nat natalia. there are so many things that the community needs other than s.f.p.d. millions of dollars for public transportation and mental health and medical help for people of color and low income and also an education. reform. we want t to defund s.f.p.d. it is terrible to see teachers providing for students because there was not enough funding for community events and programs and take into consideration the community requests. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi there. i am michael garcia district 11. i tell people that san francisco is where the future

trans community and our unhoused neighborhoods. i support this action as it sets towards abolishing the police because all u.s. police, especially sfpd is rooted in racism and misogyny and they have absolutely no place in any of our communities and when these institutions are in our neighborhoods it brings more violence to our people and especially the black community. we need funding for free housing for all our houses, neighbors and for all healthcare services in our neighborhoods and we need funding for schools and education programs like blacks and indigenous and use of color can learn their true histories as a former resistance in order to achieve both things from the police must be defunded completely and more specificall- >> next speaker, please. >> >> hell oh caller. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello. please road. >> are you there? >> am i next? >> yes. >> hello? yes, please begin your comments. >> can you hear me? >> this is dwight from district eight. >> yes, we can. >> can you hear me. here we are again dealing with

and as the center for disease control says unhoused people who are living in encampments should be allowed to remain where they are to help stop the spread of covid-19, we go to philadelphia, where the mayor has postponed the eviction of an encampment of cash planned this morning. is dignity. and we demand that philadelphia house your homeless. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, dedemocracynow.org, the quarante report. i'm amy goododman. the united s states has shatterd its own record for covid-19, confirmingng 75,600 cases of the disease on t thursday as texas d florida both reported their highest death tolls of the pandemic. speaking in an online form hosted by facebook, dr. anthony fauci said the record spike in infections, which is the worst in the world, resulted from states rushing to reopen their economies too quickly. steps,can't jump over which is very peerless when n yu think about rebound. the proof of the pudding is look what has happened. there really is no reason why we are havingg 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 other than the fact we are not doing somethin

the vast majority of the unhouse polypeptidulation are not looking for problems -- unhoused population are just looking for a place to be. positive changes could be coming. they're giving a 7,000-dollar grant to begin reimagining the park to live up to its potential. >> what's great for the residents is that they have the opportunity right now to really shape what the future of the river park looks like. >> the city will have to solve the homeless issue first. which means any real growth for the park will be years if not decades in the making. len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> rents drop more. the latest numbers, what that means for tenants, why landlords may want to renegotiate now rather than wait a couple weeks. >>> will new sanitation policies bring back travelers to san jose international? >>> as expected t fog is expected to creep back in. it's going to be the same pattern again tomorrow. changes as we head toward the new tata show as steep drop in rent prices for many parts of the bay area. but kenny choi says you may not want to sign this cheap release just yet, kenny in. >>> that drop

many more unhoused people with behavioral health needs. that number is probably a lot higher than that. if you do the math with that even if you wer were only to pre services to the 4000 you had before, that wouldn't include case management for anybody or critical care management for anybody. now an if you're going to do those things an put it all together like the case management services like the population on the street is probably about a billion dollars. it's north of five hundred million. we aren't going to be able to did that sm the stuff above the line items that are buildup off of the case management care, allocate and see where we can get the most benefit from the investment and if it makes sense even though it means we're going to leave some people with no case management at all. some really expensive and needy folks. those cosines of decisions are important. it's important to have an institutional brain try to go do that. if you had just doing the math now probably a little over $3 million for these items off of cor coordinated

many more unhoused people with behavioral health needs. that number is probably a lot higher than that. if you do the math with that even if you wer were only to pre services to the 4000 you had before, that wouldn't include case management for anybody or critical care management for anybody. now an if you're going to do those things an put it all together like the case management services like the population on the street is probably about a billion dollars. it's north of five hundred million. we aren't going to be able to did that sm the stuff above the line items that are buildup off of the case management care, allocate and see where we can get the most benefit from the investment and if it makes sense even though it means we're going to leave some people with no case management at all. some really expensive and needy folks. those cosines of decisions are important. it's important to have an institutional brain try to go do that. if you had just doing the math now probably a little over $3 million for these items off of cor coordinated

we could house every unhoused person in the city with the budget. defund sfpd now. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i live and work in south africa san francisco, and i ek echo the xhondz to defund sfpd now. why should they get an increase while schools are facing cuts. what does that say about our values? which do you think is more important to a healthy city? educating children or harassing poor people? less than half of the sfpd budget, $320 million, we can help every unhoused person in san francisco while still having money left over to invest in health care, free public transit, education, universal child care and alternative safety programs that actually keep us all safe. black and indigenous residents make up 20% of the population but accounted for 78% of all individuals [indiscernible] in 2017. meanwhile, sales force is celebrated boosting the profits of white-owned pharmaceutical companies. we spend $6.6 million a year on a district housing unit that specifically patrols -- >> the time is concluded. >

many more unhoused people with behavioral health needs. that number is probably a lot higher than that. if you do the math with that even if you wer were only to pre services to the 4000 you had before, that wouldn't include case management for anybody or critical care management for anybody. now an if you're going to do those things an put it all together like the case management services like the population on the street is probably about a billion dollars. it's north of five hundred million. we aren't going to be able to did that sm the stuff above the line items that are buildup off of the case management care, allocate and see where we can get the most benefit from the investment and if it makes sense even though it means we're going to leave some people with no case management at all. some really expensive and needy folks. those cosines of decisions are important. it's important to have an institutional brain try to go do that. if you had just doing the math now probably a little over $3 million for these items off of cor coordinated

of home first, which serves more than 5,000 unhoused individuals in santa clara county annually. >> so people are aging and as they age, they're contracting diseases, heart issues, diabetes, lung issues and they're dying. >> reporter: as we reported previously on project home, more people than ever before are aging into homelessness. back in the 90s, only 11% of people experiencing homelessness were over the age of 50. now, over 50% are. and more than half those people became homeless for the first time after turning 50. >> most people in santa clara county are living on the edge, check to check, and only $400 from becoming unhoused themselves. >> reporter: for 86-year-old jamie arias, it was having nowhere to go after being acquitted and released from prison. 54-year-old jose mendez says an expensive surgery caused him to lose housing. >> i had colon cancer. >> reporter: while 21% of homeless deaths were caused by alcohol and drug overdoses, 25% were caused by chronic illness alone. and the rest reflect the violence of the street from gunshot wounds to skull fractures or cold weather,

and our unhoused people in city. fur listening, you do take these steps we will vote you out. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. is there another speaker on the line? >> >> my name is rachel and i am calling 20 support the charter amendment to remove the sfpd staffing minimum. any language about maximizing police presence and the sf and this is call sfpd (inaudible). and and dealt with and sfpd is (inaudible). the police presence harms black people in the city and black people make up 5% of the population (inaudible). and 40% of the people. this board wouldn't be considering making racially motivated 9-1-1 calls if we didn't know the sfpd is dangerously violent towards the black community. we must defund, disarm and dismantle the police. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is breanne and i'm a resident of district two and i'm calling in support of the charter amendment. to be staffing requirements and i think we should stop wasting money on that and use it instead to invest in black communities instead of abuseing and kill

what's being done to clear the streets of >> reporter: tensions are high between the housed and unhoused. they feel threatened by the people living on their street. >> imagine what's going to happen to you when they see this on the news. are you threatening him? >> we live in fear and nobody cares. >> reporter: they live in condominiums above willow alley. >> this is the shelter in place slum. >> reporter: what is it like living here day to day? >> it's unrelenting. i can't sleep at night. i can't work during thei w work from home, and i have to have the volume on full blast. >> reporter: dee and daniel tell me they don't feel safe in their neighborhood. people have broken into the building and drug using and dealing is rampant. >> i have witnessed two overdoses right by my garage door. >> we are under siege and this is blocks away from city hall. >> reporter: but the people who live on this street say they don't feel safe either. beyond the challenges of living outside they say residents in the nearby buildings have acted out, pouring water on them from the windows above and running ove

what's being done to clear the streets of >> reporter: tensions are high between the housed and unhoused. they feel threatened by the people living on their street. >> imagine what's going to happen to you when they see this on the news. are you threatening him? >> we live in fear and nobody cares. >> reporter: they live in condominiums above willow alley. >> this is the shelter in place slum. >> reporter: what is it like living here day to day? >> it's unrelenting. i can't sleep at night. i can't work during the day. i wear noise canceling headphones when i have to work from home, and i have to have the volume on full blast. >> reporter: dee and daniel tell me they don't feel safe in their neighborhood. people have broken into the building and drug using and dealing is rampant. >> i have witnessed two overdoses right by my garage door. >> we are under siege and this is blocks away from city hall. >> reporter: but the people who live on this street say they don't feel safe either. beyond the challenges of living outside they say residents in the nearby buildings have acted out, pouring w

here inew yorknewly reased police body cam footage shows a police officer assaulting an unhoused man who refused to give up his seat on a subway train during the coronavirus lockdown in may. manhattan district attorney cyrus vance is charging the victim with felony assault of an officer, punishable by up to seven years in prison. elsewhere, the nypd arrested 37 people wednesday as counter-protesters confronted a pro-police march on the brooklyn bridge. several protesters and four police officers were injured in the skirmishes, which came as mayor bill de blasio signed new police accountability measures into law. asheville, nororth carolina, has formally apologized to black residents for the city's role in slavery. a resolution approved unanimously by asheville's city council wednesday calls for investments in black businesses and home ownerership as a form f repaparations. in b berkeley, california, city leaders are moving forward with a plan to replace traffic police with a new, unarmed civilian force. under the plan, armed police officers would no longer respond to emergencies invo

policing threatens black, brown, trans and unhoused people. the degree of antiblack sentiment through sfpd is extreme and i demand that we amend the city charter to eliminate the minimum staffing requirements and removing any language regarding maximizing police presence in the community. let me be clear that all options we imagine including someone on the other side of a 9-1-1 call, just not the police. police follow the calls from your residents for a new san francisco we imagine public safety and amend the charter to get rid of minimum policing staffing requirements. thank you. >> thank you. can i have the next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm an sf resident and calling in support of eliminating the minimum staff requirement and to demand you remove any language with police presence. history has shown that police don't keep us safe and continuously cause harm in communities based on the colour of their skin. it's long passed overdue we stop this inherent racist practise of policing and invest time in infrastructure. they will benefit us as a who

. >> and riordan is the ceo of homefirst which serves more than 5000 unhoused individuals in santa clara county. she attributes the rising death toll to the aging homeless population. >> people are aging and as they age, they are having diabetes and lung issues and they are dying. >> as we reported, more than ever before are aging into homelessness. in the 90s only 11% of people experiencing homelessness were over the age of 50. now, more than 50% are and more than half of those people became homeless for the first time after turning 50. >> most people in santa clara county are living on the edge, check to check and only $400 away from becoming homeless themselves. >> for 86-year-old jaime it was having nowhere to go after being acquitted and released for prison. >> it was difficult. >> 54-year-old jose mendez says an expensive surgery caused him to lose housing. >> i have a scar right here. >> while 21% of published deaths were caused by alcohol and drug overdoses, 25% were caused by chronic illness alone. 22% died from a combination of drug use and chronic illness and the rest was the

the city provide permanent housing to unhoused people during the pandemic. the democratic-controlled house has approved a $740 billion military spending package -- a $2 billion increase from the previous year. a group of anti-war democrats had pushed for a 10% pentagon budget cut but 139 house democrats joined with republicans to defeat the measure. over 100 house democrats also joined with republicans to reject a proposal to accelerate the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. congressmember ilhan omar, who had submitted the proposal, tweeted -- "20 years later, congress is still not willing to support withdrawing our troops from afghanistan. endless wars continue to take lives and disable so many. it is long past time to end this war." in other news from capitol hill, the senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to limit the transfer of military gear including tear gas, grenade launchers, and weaponized drones to local police departments. the united states has abruptly ordered china to close its consulate e in houston within 72 hours. within hours of

is a hearing on the impacts of covid-19 on the city's response to the behavioral health needs of unhoused san franciscans. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this hearing should call 415-655-0001, enter the meeting i.d. of 14578532772. press the pound symbol twice to connect to the meeting, and then press star-three to enter the queue to speak. mr. chair? >> supervisor mandelman: and i would note that although she has stepped temporarily away from her desk, we've been joined by supervisor ronen who is the principal author of mental health s.f. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: colleagues, i requested this hearing to give the department of public health to give the opportunity the board to update the public on how the covid-19 has impacted the behavioral health system to respond to the health needs of people a. covid-19 brought life in san francisco to a screeching halt in all sorts of ways, and in many ways, that has led to the significant success we have had in flattening the curve, those early and aggressive steps to shelter in place have

there are roughly the same number of unhoused and many of them are people like joey miller , living in rvs with no consistent safe place to park. >> why not give people like me, who live in motorhomes in a spot where we can go off and not really bother anyone? >> reporter: the three-year pilot program would do just that. currently owners of residential property can be assessed an annual $6000 vacant property tax. by allowing an rv on the property owners could avoid the payment. >> these property owners can provide housing to those who need it. provide a space for them to exist to where they no longer have to pay the vacant parcel tax. >> reporter: the program would require rv owners to pay a $150 application fee and get an annually renewable $500 permit. the opportunity could be life- changing for some. >> it would cut down on stress. that way, while i'm at work, i can know that my motorhome is good and safe. i don't have to worry about coming home to a ticket or warning. >> reporter: at least one homeowner living near several vacant lots doesn't like the idea. >> if we started having

i really want to press the point that our unhoused brothers and sisters on the street, the vast majority of whom actually had housing in the city before becoming homeless. so with the pandemic and the crisis of affordability in our city, we the voters demand a voice in this and social housing is the way to go. i urge all supervisors to move this ordinance forward to the full board so we can guarantee affordable housing for all. thank you, i yield my time. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker please? >> hi, good morning supervisors, my name is ann wily. i live in district four. i work in san francisco in a hospital. i'm calling in support of the ordinance that's before us now. i just want to highlight that this ordinance is antiracist and this ordinance is addressing our current pandemic environment. i also appreciated the mention earlier that was made of the municipal transit system. i use that everyday to get to work and i can't imagine my life in a city without it. so yes, absolutely support this social housing measure and yeah, again i just want to highlight that as other people

overpaid and overresourced and they are a danger to our citizens, particularly our black, brown, and unhoused neighbors. >> reporter: traffic enforcement would instead be in the hands of a new transportation department made up of unarmed officers. >> i think it would be a lot better because i mean they won't be able to beat people no more. >> i do think that the police do somewhat need to be armed, but again they need to have more accountants and definitely need to work on camera, having that camera on. >> reporter: the council vote not anticipated until after midnight. terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. >>> high profile political defeat tonight in alabama. jeff sessions lost in the primary election for his old senate seat. sessions had held the seat for 20 years before vacating it to serve as attorney general for president trump. tonight he lost to former auburn university football coach tommy tuberville. >> the people of alabama have spoken. they want a new leader, a new fresh face to go to washington. i think we're going to have that. >> just minutes after the election was called, preside

we already have this pandemic, and if more people end up unhoused, that will increase the deadly effects of covid-19. to all the supervisors, please keep in mind that the budget is a moral document, and it will reflect who or what you all prioritize, and it will affect the future elections. please put our black lives services and community groups at the forefront. i also stand in solidarity with everyone who's spoken so far, and please help us as they are the reason for many of our black, lgbtq, and -- just everyone in san francisco. they're the reason that they're taken care of. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next caller, please. >> hi. this is jackie white calling. i am the former head of the san francisco american red cross. i was with the american red cross for ten years. i was public affairs manager at kpix, and i've worked with a number of nonprofits over the years doing consulting work. one of the things that i've seen over the years working with various organizations is there's been limitied funding, so i stand with the san francisco black led coalition saying do not cut funding

who are frail or who are symptomatic but you know, being unhoused is it's a risk factors because you are unable to the handwashing covid is the new normal and it's 12 to 18 months at least we're dealing with this and what is being being. >> hello. >> hello. >> yes, i'm starting the timer. >> for me. >> yes. >> sorry, there's a delay. hi, my name is molly brown and i'm in district 1 and i'm calling about the board and care homes because i think they tie in with this conversation. and i want to make sure that beyond what has been done by the supervisors in terms of the increasing daily rate and putting a hold on the even if the city has to go into the real estate business and purchase them. i think in terms of the hotel rooms, we should be looking at securing those and purchasing as well and my last comment has to do with the families and edgewood i'm thrilled to hear that youth are now being referred but i'm more concerned about edgewood sustainability and how we can make sure that that resource is available to our youth going forward. i understand there's conversations about changing

who are frail or who are symptomatic but you know, being unhoused is it's a risk factors because you are unable to the handwashing covid is the new normal and it's 12 to 18 months at least we're dealing with this and what is being being. >> hello. >> hello. >> yes, i'm starting the timer. >> for me. >> yes. >> sorry, there's a delay. hi, my name is molly brown and i'm in district 1 and i'm calling about the board and care homes because i think they tie in with this conversation. and i want to make sure that beyond what has been done by the supervisors in terms of the increasing daily rate and putting a hold on the even if the city has to go into the real estate business and purchase them. i think in terms of the hotel rooms, we should be looking at securing those and purchasing as well and my last comment has to do with the families and edgewood i'm thrilled to hear that youth are now being referred but i'm more concerned about edgewood sustainability and how we can make sure that that resource is available to our youth going forward. i understand there's conversations about changing

war between the housed and the unhoused. on willow alley say they feel threatened by the people living on their streets. >> imagine what's

city where some other entity is handling those calls that are noncriminal type of calls involving unhoused persons, you know, those positions can be repurposed back to patrol if there is a need there. be repurposed back to other critical needs. >> supervisor walton: colleagues and chief, i'm almost done. just a few more questions. and this is like a four-part question, chief. what is behind the team? what do they do? where do they patrol? is this paid out of the general fund? are we the only city that uses this type of team? >> the honda, that is a squad on the honda motorcycles, the offroad motorcycles. they patrol. we use them for many functions. they have offroad capabilities, so if there is a need to go offroad, churches, that type of thing -- searches, that type of thing, situations where that might require police response in areas that are unaccessible by police car, they can do that. often times they're used as supplement to address crime spikes. for instance, in your district if we have -- we had the shootings in march -- i mean in april with 70, 80 rounds fired. we deploy the hond

in one of the richest cities in the world, 275 unhoused people died last year, and the c.d.c., which had initially primarily warned of covid-19 risk and vulnerable for those over 65 now warn that among adults, risk increases steadily as you age, and it's not just those over the age of 65 who are at increased risk of severe illness. despite our emergency ordinance requiring the city to house all persons who are homeless in hotels, the administration has limited i limit limited its efforts to move people into hotels who meet the eligibility requirement of being vulnerable. the city's definition of vulnerable, as articulated by the department of public health, are those that are 60 or older or have underlying health conditions. that means that a 53-year-old living on the streets who lacks certain specified medical conditions would not be considered a vulnerable person and would not be eligible for a shelter in place or, as it's called, s.i.p. hotel room. however, research on geriatric individuals show that homeless geriatric individuals exhibit traits of those that are 20 years older. o

there are roughly the same number of unhoused and many of them are people like joey miller living with no consistent safe place to park in an rv. >> wynot give people like me, with motorhomes, a spot where we can go off and not really bother anyone? >> reporter: the three-year pilot program would do just that. currently owners of vacant residential property can be assessed an annual $6000 vacant property tax by allowing an rv on the property. homeowners could avoid that payment. >> these property owners can provide housing to those who need it, provide a space for them to exist to where they no longer have to pay the vacant parcel tax. >> reporter: the program would require rv owners to pay a $150 application fee and get an annually renewable $500 permit. the opportunity could be life- changing for some. >> it would cut down on stress, because that way while i'm at work i can know my motorhome is good and safe and i don't have to worry about coming home to possibly a ticket or warning and having to pick up and move. >> reporter: but at least one homeowner living near several vacant lot

. >>> this is the ceo of homefirst which serves more than 5000 unhoused people annually and she attributes the rising death toll to the aging almost population. >> some are aging and as they age, they are contracting issues like lung issues and they are dying. >> 21% of homeless deaths from last year were caused by alcohol and drug overdoses, and 25% were caused by chronic illness alone. 22% died from a combination of drug use and chronic illness and the rest reflect the violence of life on the street from gunshot wounds to skull fractures or cold weather, where help arrived too late. >> i think about that all the time, would anyone hear me if i had a stroke? i want to feel safe. i want to be safe. i do not feel safe. >> remr to your stories and ida project home. you can see all of our original reporting on our website. >>> stanford is cutting 11 varsity sports teams in 2021 because of financial trouble from the pandemic. the letter director says the pandemic added to a growing deficit for the program, which has estimated to exceed $25 million in the fiscal year. cuts include men's and wom

heinously overpaid and overresourced and a danger to our citizens, particularly the black, brown and unhoused neighbors. >> reporter: the city is moving forward with a plan to take traffic enforcement out of police hands for unarmed city employees and also stop responding to homeless outreach and mental health crisis management calls. instead, the city to create an unarmed community safety coalition and pay for it by cutting the police budget in half. >> i think we can do this softly. >> reporter: the mayor approves of the plan but admits there will be disagreement. >> when a person in the hills thinks is safety may not be what someone in the flatlands thinks and we need that conversation around health and safety for the community. >> reporter: word on the street is also mixed. >> absolutely. when you are in an environment where everybody wants success it works. and this is a town where they want success. >> because it's not safe everywhere all around and may come across circumstances where we are not able to handle certain situations. >> reporter: two weeks ago berkeley partially defunded th

these are things given out to our unhoused community, as well as some of our more sensitive folks who mentoring programs, and then also other members of the community. we have a also worked with other organizations, the chamber of commerce, black cultural zone, to really also help distribute those kits in a wider manner. the second path that we have is something that we have recently started over the last month, which centers on food security. we've been partnering with other organizations and we have our own initiatives internally, where what we're doing providing food for those who are most in need. and as a little bit of context for the way that got started was in addition to the kits we were handing out to our mentees and their families, we found that the school lunch program no, sir longer existed, and we wanted to make sure that the families and neighbors were actually getting food at an acceptable level. as an extension of that work, we then reached out and started expanding to working with a larger community, and how do we help make sure that food and other supplies are gettin

in one of the richest cities in the world, 275 unhoused people died last year, and the c.d.c., whichad initially primarily warned of covid-19 risk and vulnerable for those over 65 now warn that among adults, risk increases steadily as you age, and it's not just those over the age of 65 who are at increased risk of severe illness. despite our emergency ordinance requiring the city to house all persons who are homeless in hotels, the administration has limited i limit limited its efforts to move people into hotels who meet the eligibility requirement of being vulnerable. the city's definition of vulnerable, as articulated by the department of public health, are those that are 60 or older or have underlying health conditions. that means that a 53-year-old living on the streets who lacks certain specified medical conditions would not be considered a vulnerable person and would not be eligible for a shelter in place or, as it's called, s.i.p. hotel room. however, research on geriatric individuals show that homeless geriatric individuals exhibit traits of those that are 20 years older. our

it will endanger unhoused people. the lawsuit is racist and unjust. in particular the goal of the tenderloin node. [indiscernable] the visible poverty is not a crime. i vote with the other 40 organizations in the tenderloin to reject the settlement. you can avert the disaster. well over 1600 are in the tenderloin. you can end the dangerous precedents of litigating and allow the coalition on homelessness parties granted intervention lawsuits that did not have an opportunity to participate in the initial settlement a seat at the table. thank you for your time please vote no on the hastings settlement. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. could you please connect us to the next speaker. >> i am a resident of tenderloin district 6. i am calling to urge you to vote no on the hastings settlement item 12. my reason is contrary to what my colleague before me stated. it is unfair for the settlement to occur on the tenderloin and leave others. this is not a question of poverty. there are 1600 unhoused. i think there needs to be a grand solution for such p

and the house and the unhoused population so we wanted to be responsive to that. from there as the covid situation continue to develop we continue to shift the focus a little bit to food services and making sure that people had food. we started with our mentees in our mentoring program where they were out of school and a lot of our mentees rely on school lunch and other food services and we said how do we make sure we are responsive to our mentees. from there it is a larger demand that we recognize and we have been turning our efforts into larger food services so we partner with other organizations, over the last several weeks actually, and we have our own food giveaways that we provide to make sure that we are not having large segments of the community underserved when it comes to basic needs of food.>> so these are care packages packed with a lot of love and consideration and care for people who need them for food but also things like toiletries and people who do not have a home to live in might need. >> exactly fit that is exactly why there are twin paths. we s

war between the housed and the unhoused. residents on willow alley say they feel threatened by the people living on their streets. >> imagine what's going to happen to you when they see this on the news. imagine. >> are you threatening him? >> yes, he is. this is what i tell you, we live in fear, and nobody cares. >> reporter: they live in condominiums above willow alley. >> this is the shelter in place slum. >> reporter: what is it like living here day to day? >> it's unrelenting. i can't sleep at night. i can't work during the day. i wear noise-canceling headphones when i have to work from home. and i have to have the volume on full blast. >> reporter: they don't feel safe in their neighborhood. people have broken into their building and drug dealing and drug use is rampant. >> in the last ten days, i myself have witnessed from my window two overdoses right by our garage door. >> we are under siege. and this is blocks away from city hall. >> reporter: but the people who live on this street say they don't feel safe either.

it will endanger unhoused people. the lawsuit is racist and unjust. in particular the goal of the tenderloin node. [indiscernable] the visible poverty is not a crime. i vote with the other 40 organizations in the tenderloin to reject the settlement. you can avert the disaster. well over 1600 are in the tenderloin. you can end the dangerous precedents of litigating and allow the coalition on homelessness parties granted intervention lawsuits that did not have an opportunity to participate in the initial settlement a seat at the table. thank you for your time please vote no on the hastings settlement. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. could you please connect us to the next speaker. >> i am a resident of tenderloin district 6. i am calling to urge you to vote no on the hastings settlement item 12. my reason is contrary to what my colleague before me stated. it is unfair for the settlement to occur on the tenderloin and leave others. this is not a question of poverty. there are 1600 unhoused. i think there needs to be a grand solution for such p

policing threatens black, brown, trans and unhoused people. the degree of antiblack sentiment through sfpd is extreme and i demand that we amend the city charter to eliminate the minimum staffing requirements and removing any language regarding maximizing police presence in the community. let me be clear that all options we imagine including someone on the other side of a 9-1-1 call, just not the police. police follow the calls from your residents for a new san francisco we imagine public safety and amend the charter to get rid of minimum policing staffing requirements. thank you. >> thank you. can i have the next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm an sf resident and calling in support of eliminating the minimum staff requirement and to demand you remove any language with police presence. history has shown that police don't keep us safe and continuously cause harm in communities based on the colour of their skin. it's long passed overdue we stop this inherent racist practise of policing and invest time in infrastructure. they will benefit us as a who

a goal to ensure that those who are at risk for being unhoused that go into this housing remain in housing. again, 87% of all in unstable house holds have remained housed over this performance period. client satisfaction. how do clients feel about the service and buildings they live in and 80% of all respondents were satisfied or very satisfied. these are the performances that we monitor annually. so i'm bringing the contract for you for a new term, but really with a long-term provider who has been running these buildings for many years. i wanted to make sure you saw this. next slide. these are the lists of all the buildings that make up the 1566 units throughout the city. many of those are -- or all of those are single-room occupancy hotels, residential hotels converted by the city into permanent supportive housing. the grantee to housing clinic holds the lease with the landlord. and was continued to be -- we've continued to partner with t.h.c. because of their long history with these landlords and their skills with property management and support services. that's all for my formal presen

works to support older adults who are unhoused. we also spent time talking about assisted-living facilities and residents and their eligibility to participate in d.a.s. services. essentially, as long as it's not a duplication of support that a resident is receiving those riding in assisted-living facilities are able to participate in d.a.s. services. and then there was discussion about racial equity and how d.a.s. approaches this and how d.a.s.'s efforts align with the mayor's directives. we also updated two of our narrative objectives in section 9 which is the golden objection section. we updated the existing item, 1-c, about nutrition because we wanted to acknowledge in the coming years over the time period covered by this plan, that d.a.s. will be working with the providers to ensure the continuity of existing services. and to support providers to adapt their service models to safely provide them within this covid-19 context. we also added a new objective which is our covid-19 response objective and in this, the department outli

also, supporting the black seniors, disabled and unhoused folks, there's so much that has been going on for so long and we've been neglected and left out and not had a feet at the table to make decisions on our own community future. that power needs to go back into our hand. we can do this together. we can make our own decisions and decide what's best for our community. we've been living it and we know what's best. continue to support the office of racial equity, to continue to highlight this work. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for holding this space and this meeting. i appreciate that presentation. i'[indiscernible] immigrant community is not a -- just yesterday department of homeland security that the federal government will openly override supreme court of the united states. it's critical time to sustain service. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. [speaking foreign language] >> i'm on going to summarize who the speaker said. she's a volunteer and also a participant in one of the org

we could civilianize traffic enforcement and civilianize outreach to unhouse people in san francisco who rightly do not trust cops and there's no much to do if we could cut back the overstaffing of sppd's sworn force. please recommend this for tomorrow so we can advance this towards the ballot. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: hello, supervisors. i've lived in san francisco for 35 years and i want to make a procedural comment and this is addressed to the selector clerk. we need to be able to see the supervisors during public comment. it is not ok just to have a static title card on there. i really hope that you will address this. i've been in contact with sergeant stacie youngblood about this and hopefully the police commission will be making these changes and supervisor ronen, i did try to contact your office about a month ago on this issue. but apart from that, i want to thank you for listening to the community last thursday and putting the removal of language regarding maximizing police presence into this amendment. and this change properly demonstrates san francisco's values

i work with the s.r.o.s and with housed and unhoused citizens. i want to say that we've been in a humanitarian crisis and a public health crisis for many years in the tenderloin, and that the covid crisis has just worsened the situation and has served to peel back another layer of civic denial and neglect. in contrast, i drive in other neighborhoods, like dolores park, looking at the city resources that are deployed regularly in the neighborhoods of millennials that have resources to take care of their sanitation needs. this sort of resource disparity is glaring and without the resources and the transparency that this amendment is asking for, theis situation will continue, and i urge everybody to support this amendment. it is overdue and well thought out, and i thank those of you who proposed it. that's it. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next speaker, please. >> hello. [inaudible] >> i've been in the tenderloin for 23 years. [inaudible] >> this is a big house, and we're all residents in it together. [inaudible] >> it's time to change that k