. >> susan, from the homeless young alliance and jefferson, fellows, and laura and zach murray. >> thank you, so much for hosting this hearing today, we really appreciate the opportunity to speak about youth homelessness in san francisco. and i think that a lot of the important information has been shared and i do want to clarify a couple of things and talk about the effective strategies for addressing the homelessness. and first of all just to be clear on the numbers and the point in time counts it is actually 1902 young people that are homeless that identified in the point in time count and there is the 914 that were in the youth specific point in time count, and there were additional youth identified in the over night count and then the numbers and i think that there were some on the duplicate those numbers and so 1902, is actually the accurate number for the count for the youth who are unaccompanied miners under the age of 18 and 18 to 24. we see 2300 a year and there are 5700 young people who are homeless in san francisco each year and i think that it is really important to many spe

. >> i am zach murray for the welcome youth services and i am rising to advocate that the board of supervisors in the department is here to do more and be accountible and give us public leadership to enhance the budget and the policy priorities to include the youth and the reality is that when compared to the homeless adult population you have the needs that set them apart from the homeless population and to date, the youth needs are rarely prioritized in the public policy and san francisco is first, and the ten year plan to abolish the homelessness, and the larger exiting foster care and represent 25 percent of the population, and the needs of 3 out of four homeless youth were not considered in that and so i am advocating that you do more to meet those needs to understand what is happening and market street has produced years and years worth of research and analyzing what the youth people are experiencing and what the needs are and we know what they need and it is time for the public resources to be behind this and end this crisis as we speak. if we are not going to take the abundant resource