Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

One organization. I want to thank our mayor of San Francisco, our leader for being a leader in the issue of gun violence. Give her a hand and welcome. Mattie scott, the mothers, Brady Campaign, all of the mothers who are part of this endeavor to end gun violence. Give it up for the mothers. [applause] i would be wrong if i didnt acknowledge jason and all of the gentlemen who came home after doing a life sentence in prison behind violence who are here to end senseless violence. Give them brothers a hand. [applause] i definitely have got to give a shout out to the sfpd who are partners of ours to end this gun violence. It is controversy with the community and cops. We are standing here in solidarity. Thank you guys for showing up, sfpd. [applause] all our Community Partners based in this together and or sponsors. Dispensary stores, barberry coast, green door, elevated, the shrine who helps us out. There are so many dispensary that help make this happen. My man, adam. He is a business onener, thank you, adam for providing the resource and support to the community and developers. We are all in this together. I want to say thank you. I want to bring up our amazing mayor who is a great leader, not just in our city but in the region. Give i you will for mayor give it up for mayor london breed. Mayor breed it is always good to come to united players and see so many amazing people. A lot of my friends and folks i have known for so many years. It is great to see everyone here. I wish we didnt have to be here for this reason. So many of us impacted by gun violence for so many years. The reason why i got involved in Public Service had everything to do with the people that i lost over the years to gun violence. You know, i lie look around ande posters, there are a lot more than what you see here, they are of people that i know. Young men who were gone way before their time. I think about over 1,000 guns united players collected and got off the streets and how in my mind that is thousands of people that are still alive because those guns arent on the streets. I think about the mothers that are here today and knowing your son was shot and the amazing work he did, and george, who i grew up with, a little older than me but a good dude who looked out for people in the community. I think about so many people, mostly a lot of africanamerican men who had lives taken away much too soon. I know that we are better than this. I know that when we come together we can help create change. I know that steam it seems hard. It seems hard because two days ago we had a shooting in the bayviewhunters point community. It seems hard because, you know, really sometimes it feels like the only time we in our communities get together is for the funerals of some of our young people who get taken because of gun violence. I want us to be reminded of this because it is so important to understand why we are here. We are here because we have lost so much over the years, and we dont want to lose anyone any more. That is why we are here. We are here to make a plea to people all over the bay area who have guns in their possession. Here is an opportunity on saturday, december 14th, no questions asked, to turnin your guns, to get those guns out of your possession, to make sure that a child doesnt get ahold of that gun and accidentally shoot themselves or another child, to make sure that those guns arent used to harm anyone else. You know, when i come to this press conference every single year, and i have been coming for years. When i participate in these activities, you know, for some reason my heart always feels heavy. It always feels heavy because, you know, i keep thinking about the people that arent here because of gun violence, senseless gun violence, that have taken the lives of so many people. Here is an opportunity for us working together to make sure that it is not one more, to make sure that we change the future of our city so that kids who grew up in th the middle of the violence and they dont know why. We want to make sure that is not normal. We create a new normal of people that are coming together to Work Together to create safe communities. We deserve safe communities. These mothers dont deserve to have lost their children before their time. The folks here are united players and rudy working every day to change the conditions of our communities, they do this because they understand the hurt and the devastating impacts of what violence does to communities. I want to thank our elected officials who are here today that i have worked with over the years in city government. I truly appreciate Assembly Member david chew and senator scott weiner for being here and supporting the effort we continue to push for to address gun violence, not only in our city but in our state. I appreciate supervisor haney who this district encompasses, someone who will carry on the legacy what we need to do to support not only this district but citywide to end gun violence. That shooting may have happened in bayviewhunters point community, but it still has a Significant Impact o on everyone in the city. Every time someone is struck down because of a gun it has an impact on everyone in this city. I want to thank deputy chief greg who i worked hand in hand within the Western Addition community for years when he was our captain. We were at the height of some of the violence occurring in the Western Addition. The way we dealt with that, partnership with the Police Department, working together to provide opportunities and programming and to deal with the need to make sure that we are addressing this issue head on. We got a lot of work to do, folks. With all of these incredible people today and our sponsors. I see jessie in the back hiding with bar bury coast, someone who grew up in the community and has given back and invested in the community. With all of us supporting one another, prayer together and really doing what is necessary, i know that we will get to a better place where no other mother or father or brother or sister has to stand here and be concerned about the impacts of gun violence on their family members and communities. We have an Incredible Opportunity to change San Francisco. We have an Incredible Opportunity because we have an incredible leader in rudy committed to the work and consistent in his advocacy to make sure we confront this issue head on. Not one more today or ever. Come out and bring your guns. Know questions asked. No questions asked. We are going to be here from 8 00 a. M. To 12 00 noon what is the address . 1038 howard street. I want the media, the tweeters and the people who do social media, get the word out because this is a real opportunity. Whoever has a gun in your possession, this is your opportunity to get rid of it and to do something to help make sure that the gun you possess doesnt create a devastating situation in anybodys life. That is why we are all here. Come out on saturday. Thank you all so much for your work and advocacy and all that you do to help support our communities and families. We aint going nowhere. Every single time we need to be there, we are going to be there. We are going to focus on making sure we are supporting and addressing the disparities that exist so our kids never get to a point where this is their reality in the first place. That is why we are all here together. That is why we are standing in solidarity to address an issue that is so impactful to so many people and we can help turn this thing around. Lets get out there. I hope to see you all on saturday. Rudy, thank you so much, and all of the work you continue to do means a lot. That is why everyone here is not just here to support you. We will continue to support you and do what is necessary to change the tide on gun violence in our country. Thank you. applause those guns will never hurt, harm or kill anybody again. We have 244 guns in the last gun buyback. 25 were assault rifles. You see what we are doing with the guns. The sfpd is our partner. We are making artout of the guns. The flyers with the Big Butterfly that is made out of guns. We are the not just holding them, we are destroying them. I want to go ahead and bring up our next speaker. Our senator, please give it up. Senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you. It is really easy to get down with all of the gun violence we see every single day in the news. There is more and more gun violence. It is easy to curl up in a ball and say there is nothing to do to solve this. We know that is not true. This organization gives me hope that working at a neighborhood level, at a local level we can move the conversation up and, finally, do Something Real about gun violence in this country. You know, some of the people who make excuses for guns, nra, they like to talk it is not about the guns, it is Mental Health or criminality or video games. We have heard all of the excuses. Of course, we know that people around the world have Mental Health issues and Mental Health issues from the beginning of time. People commit crimes around the world and they have since the beginning of time. People play video games. What is different about this country is not more Mental Health issues or video games or crimes. It is because we have more guns. This country is drowning in a tidal wave of guns. Until we reduce the number of guns in this society we will continue to have these problems. Young people whose lives are lost and the fact our children in Elementary Schools have to learn what to do if someone starts shooting people up in the school. Can you imagine having to be a child growing up in this kind of atmosphere . Of course, we Want Congress to act. Congress must act. We will make that happen. Until then we have to act locally. We know in california we have some of the strongest gun laws in country and we have a lower rate of gun violence in the state. It is not low enough. It needs to be zero. In the bay area we just put an end to the gun shows after decades we finally saw an end to it. [applause] and here in San Francisco what united plays is doing with the gun buyback is so important. It is step by step, gun by gun reducing the number of guns in the community in peoples hands. Every gun out of circulation is a gun not used to hurt someone. Thank you foreverring you do forever thing you do. You are the best. Get the guns off the street. To brother richards who led the read for shutting down at the cal palace. Thank you. December 14th before the next speaker. Behind full it is the sandy hook anniversary. That is why we are getting this nationwide gun buyback jumping off not in just the bay area but all over. Our next speaker Assembly Member david chew. [applause] good morning. Any united players in the house today . Thank you so much to rudy and your colleagues for knowing that it takes the hood to save the hood. I want to thank all of you who represent this village of San Francisco. Thank you to the mayor and the San Francisco Police Department and the faith leaders who provide comfort, the Brady Campaign and those sponsoring the event. We want toal absolut to salute r mothers demanding action. I stand as a father also demanding action. My son goes to Nursery School four blocks from here. Every day i am worried when i drop him off about his safety. My wife and i dont use the word shooting in our house, but somehow my 3yearold knows that word. He has not gone through his first active shooter training, but it is going to happen. This should not be the kind of country that we live in. I also stand as a frustrated policymaker. Years ago i helped to draft new york citys first strict Liability Law to hold manufacturers libel for their violence. The nra went to washington, d. C. And passed the federal law to preempt that local law. I went to washington, d. C. And drafted . Of the countrys gun safety laws. They never got through because of nra. We came to california because we believe differently. We believe that while folks may have a right to a gun, they dont have a right to kill people with that gun. Today 100 americans are going to die because of guns. This hour four people are going to die because of guns. Mothers, fathers are going to grieve. We are all saying there is a different way in San Francisco, in california. I am honored to be part of the community that says, hey, we can do it differently. No questions asked, give us something you dont need to be using. We are living for a day, a World Without gun violence, and i think if we pray and come together. Prayers are not gun with prayers and hard work we will do it. Someday we will not have to continue to grieve for what is happening. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. I want to also acknowledge a couple other parties. Alexander from kilroy. Thank you. These brothers and sisters will be on the streets of San Francisco, svip, make it safer for us. Give it up for them guys. Project cannabis, my man johnny. Uncle dam damian. I want to bring up our leader in this community, district 6, my brother, matt mains. Thank you, thank you. We will give it up for rudy and united players one more time. He had a day named after him this year. For all of the people that you have helped, for all of the lives you have saved, thank you. I know we are talking about the gun buyback, but you all save lives by working with our kids. The work you do to make this place such a safe home for our young people i think does more than anything else could to save lives. We see positive signs in terms every deduction of violence in the community. It is because of what you are doing and what united players are doing and our mothers are doing to make the difference. I want to be very clear that gun buy backs save lives. They save lives, no doubt about it. Over 1,000 guns that were taken off the gun by united players and this coalition here save lives. We know it. If there is a gun in a home it is so much more likely that there is an accident where somebody gets shot or killed. That it is used in a crime or violence or that somebody uses it to take their own life. Many of us have also lost people to suicide. I lost my best friend growing up to suicide, and it was because there was a gun that was available that made it possible for him to take his own life. Every gun you can bring here on saturday. You think it is old, doesnt have a reason to be in your home any more. It doesnt. Bring it here. Get rid of it. No questions asked, and get some money. This is a gun buyback. Dont forget the part where people it is christmas. Holidays are coming up. I want to recognize the extraordinary coalition of folks in this room. The mothers, mattie scott, who brought me to support the gun buybacks when i was a School Board Member seven years ago. We became the First School District in the country to send home information to every student and family about the gun buy back. That was a policy of the School District to do that. I want to thank all of the folks in the room, especially the men who came home, who may have themselves been involved or exposed to victims of violence and have come here and have been leaders in our community to keep everyone safe. The power of that statement is extraordinary. The sfpd. You are making this possible and safe every time it is done, to the funders. This example of a gun buyback has inspired the country. The entire country is joining on the same die to follow the lead of our mothers of our Community Members and rudy an and the younated players. Thank you so much everyone for your leadership. Thank you so much for your leadership. Two more speakers. One of our partners on the sfpd. Mccrack ken. Good afternoon. It is mc crekren. I want to thank everybody here today for the invitation for the San Francisco Police Department to participate in this gun buy back program. We have participated in this for the tenth year. This is a collaborative effort between Law Enforcement and the community, united players who handles this. We are so thrilled to be part of it like we have been every year. What we realize is that we become part of the trust and the process that the Community Wants to see between Law Enforcement and those that we are sworn to protect. Rudy earlier today brought out those guns that are on the floor that many of you have taken a picture of. I am extremely confident had one of those guns on the floor not been taken in a gun buyback it might very well be an instrument that might have taken someones life this year. I am confident we are a participant in saving lives. This opportunity that we have here in San Francisco to reduce the gun violence, especially at the Holiday Season may save a childs life, the life of a loved one that you have because there will be one less gun on the street or in a home that may do harm. When we at lawence foment work with the community in the manner like this, it shows the cooperation between the community and Law Enforcement. Often times we can get viewed as the other side of the equation and that becomes difficult in Law Enforcement. We realize we all have the same goal to save lives. We are down 18 in homicides this year. We are proud of that and we have continued to trend downwards over a number of years. Just one homicide in this city is one too many. Our goal so to reach it to be down 100 , 200 , 0. We want to get there. When i was at captain at northern station, like mayor breed said, i worked with rudy. He came out to the Western Addition and i was out there and maddi was there and we took 220 guns off the street to reduce the violence in the Western Addition at that time. I am confident the one this saturday will do the same thing. Thank you, rudy for leading this. What you do for this program cannot be said enough. It is amazing what you do in a partnership for the community and with Law Enforcement. The things that you do with the teenagers and kids in this city is nothing short of miraculous, and i dont think you always get enough credit. I want to thank you for your friendship. The cooperation with the community and Law Enforcement brings us today. Maddi, you are a champion for this every year, whether it is gun buy back or the death of someone that is close to you or someone that you heard about. That means a lot to me and to this department for you to be here as well. This saturday you have an opportunity to turnin firearms, no questions asked. We will be from and our only goal is to take these firearms with no questions asked to render them safe and to destroy them and to take them off the street or out of the home and save some lives. Lets do that together. Thank you. [applause] i saved the best for last. I want to give a shout out to many different organizations that are in the community. From the leadership west bay right there, it is always humble to hide in the back. You need to be here with us. You did more outreach than all of us put together. Charlie right here. This guy right here. I dont see him. He worked with the kids. My brother paul who is always showing love to the community. The next person i am going to bring up is from reentry. This is my brother, this gentleman right here. He walked barefooted. He is on this side saving lives instead of taking lives. I save the best for last. Get a dose of this, mr. Cameraman, give it up for my brother everett, aka bogie, you all. Good afternoon. I want to thank each and every one of you for coming here today. Lets have a moment of silence for the lost souls. I stand before you a return efrom incarceration. Where i came from made me who i am today. That is what i am proud to be. I was once a gang member from los angeles. I did 26 years of incarceration for murder. In the midst of my incarceration i rebooted my train of thought and receive things differently. I stand before you a united player. My boots are on the ground for the lost souls on the walls, mothers fighting for sons, my prayers go out to them. I ask you to stand firm like you are doing today in union fiction of doing the right thing, giving back and fighting back for the right to have a life, not take alive. I apologize to you for the life that i took, which is why i am doing what i am doing. I wear boots because i know the job is real in the field. I came from la. I am present here in the bay and i do the job. It is real. It is really real, and we must continue to do the right thing, and that is get out in the streets and show what is done. My prayer for mr. Dadda. He was a devoted united players and he lost his life at a young age and it helped me step back and say, man, was it worth it . I could do better. So i get out in the streets and i do better. I pass these out. I work on stephen son with the addicts. Because i deal with the addicts, i understand the people. I am dealing with the persons addiction mentality, physically or the addiction of heroin or the drug they use. I deal with them respectful oppose to aggressively. That is the right way to do it. One bad, one found. Our boots got to stay on the ground. Thank you. [applause] thank you for coming out today. Thank you to the media, mothers. This saturday. 1399 mcallister street. I want to thank Community Partners, developers, alexander. Sometimes they dont Say Developers believe in the community. You are here. Feel me, girl, you are there in living color. The dispensary stores, my brother jesrewho just did a Bowling Tournament and donated proceeds to united players. All proceeds to a worthy cause, to the people. Thank you for coming out and showing love and support. We got your back like a backpack, baby and your chest like a bulletproof vest, teflon, baby. Thank you. That is trump, he gets no love. How about that . All partners here i want to finish by saying this. The art piece that you see that is the monarch. It was made out of all guns. It was made by that sister behind be you, jason. The spirit and her husband. I dont know how they made it. You have got to ask them. It is made out of guns. Thank you for everybody who is helping end senseless gun violence. One gun that kills one person could destroy a whole planet, you all. One gun that saves and is destroyed off the street can save that one life. But the other side is maddi. One gun not off the streets will kill somebody and can destroy everybody. Lets save as many lives as we can. One bad, one sound. Thank you, brother. [applause] mayor breed thank you for being here. I am london breed, mayor of San Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of 1,000 shelter beds by 2020. This brings us to 566, and we have an additional 224 beds in the pipeline and the Bayview Hunters Point Community with ththe safe center. I want to take this opportunity because, you know, it is easy to say we want to do something, but sometimes it is harder to do it. In this case it was challenges, but it did take a village. That consists of partner the state to the local to the community levels. I want to start with senator scott weiner for passing the legislation to streamline the construction of Navigation Centers across the state so people experiencing homelessness throughout california have reasonable access to shelter. People ask how did you get this built so fast despite a number of obstacles . It had everything to do with the legislation scott weiner helped to pass in sacramento. Thank you to assembly man phil king because time and time again as someone who has been the chair of the Budget Committee in sacramento he prioritized not only San Francisco for a lot of resources but especially focusing on homelessness and Navigation Center. Because of his work, San Francisco has seen additional revenue to help support and move these projects forward faster. In fact, with his leadership, the state has invested 500 million to address homelessness in 2018 and 650 million in 2019. To be clear that is said wide. San francisco got a decent chung of that support. Thank you to supervisor haney for helping engage the community. I especially want to thank the neighbors of south beach. I know thi this this hasn hasn. We are committed to making sure that we fulfill the promises around safety and other challenges that people were so concerned about. We appreciate the work of the Advisory Group and the folks who have dedicated a lot of personal time to seeing this place succeed. Thank you to the port of San Francisco and the commissioners, president brandon is joining us today. Thank you for your work in allowing the opportunity for the Navigation Center to be from this location. We are grateful, we are excited. We know that this wont solve all of the challenges we have with homelessness in San Francisco, but it will help a significant number of people who we know need support and services. I also want to thank five keys. They will manage the Navigation Center. They have a lot of great experiences with helping people who are involved with the criminal Justice System Reenter Society and be successful, and we are grateful for their leadership, work in the programs and opportunities that they will provide to the people that we want to serve. Ultimately this is about helping people not only off the streets but helping them into housing, helping them with opportunities to succeed in life. So we are grateful for their work. Now, i want to take this opportunity to introduce our state senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you, mayor. I want to thank and commend mayor breed and supervisor haney for standing their ground to make sure that this Navigation Center could open. As a former local elected official in San Francisco, i understand first hand what it is like when you have neighbors who have significant concern and fear about changes that are happening in their neighborhood. That is very intense, her hard. It is very hard. I want to thank them for looking at the big picture and the reality this will make the neighborhood safer and more livable in addition to helping many homeless in San Francisco transition to a better and healthier future. Thank you. When you look at the situation at homelessness in california, it is pretty stark. We have well over 100,000 Homeless People in the state. I think it is 130,000. A large majority of homeless residents in the bay area and los angeles are not sheltered, and this is not normal. What is happening in california and in San Francisco and the bay area around homelessness is not normal. This is not how it plays out in the rest of the country where far, far fewer people are homeless to begin with because they have enough housing for people, unlike in california where we have systematically made it impossible through rezoning and other means made it impossible to build enough housing for the people that need it. Our housing has collapsed by 75 as the population has tripled. We made a decision as a state that housing was not important, and what has that led to . Many problems with people pushed out of the state and evictions happening. It has pushed over 100,000 people to homelessness in the state of california. That is because of choices that we made here in california. It is not normal for it to be so difficult to build a Navigation Center. It should not take years to provide shelter and housing and services for people in dire straits living on the streets. That should be something we can do immediately because we are in a crisis. We have been working at the state level to support San Francisco and other local communities to make it faster and more streamlined, to create Navigation Centers in support of housing. I know we have all been working on that to pass legislation to streamline the process. Wwe are working to reform the california approach to housing because Navigation Centers are an incredible way to help people transition off the streets. If you dont have housing for people to end up in, they will cycle back to the streets. We are working at the state level to solve these problems, and it is hard and controversial. It violates how we are supposed to do things in california. That way hasnt worked and driven the car into the ditch. We have to fix things. Thank you, mayor, and everyone e else who made this happen today. [applause] mayor breed thank you senator wiener. Now we have remarks from senator phil clean wh king who helped gs Navigation Center built. Thank you, madam mayor. As the mayor and senator weiner have said. We know the solution to homelessness. We need more affordable housing, more supportive services, but, ultimately, it takes courage at all levels of government to make it happen. We are trying to do our part at the state level. We have colleagues that dont feel completely on the same page with myself and senator wiener with making sure we are building more housing. We have challenges at the state level. Mayor breed and supervisor haney have challenges. Iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing Navigation Centers to a neighborhood that has not had them. It takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. If we dont get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. This is the third Navigation Center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. They are the first step. The next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. Everybody is for housing, but in someone elses neighborhood, in someone elses city. I cant tell you how often i hear lets build a Homeless Center in stockton. Lets make it someone elses problem. Lets not solve the San Francisco problem here. Ship them somewhere else. That is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. Leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. We are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. You wouldnt know it by many of the issues we have. This is not a financial issue. This is not an issue of money or resources. The state is doing their part to help cities and counties. This is about our residents saying we are each going to sacrifice. We are each going to take a piece of this problem and solve it here. We are not going to wait for someone to save us or hope that someone else will take this burden. This is about having the courage to say this is a San Francisco problem and San Francisco needs to solve it. I am so proud to be here with all of the other city officials who had the guts to get this built, to work with the community and to say this community is safer, not by having people on the streets sleeping, not by having people in tents sleeping here, wandering around here. This community is safer when they have services, when we can get them the resources they need to go improve their life. As the mayor said we are proud at the state level 4 million from the state helped this get built. 70 million from the state to San Franciscos general fund to help with homelessness over the last two years, and this is something we can only dubai workinonly do while we work t. I applaud you for having the guts to get this done. Thank you. Thank you, phil king. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the supervisor matt haney for district 6. Thank you, mayor breed. Congratulations for your leadership, for your staff who we got to work with so closely in making this happen. I especially want be to recognize jeff and emily from the department of homelessness. You all did such a wonderful job listening to the community, working with us. We went to dozens of meetings together. I am looking at emily and hearing the feedback and using that to adapt the proposal and make commitments to the neighborhood. Thank you all for that and for listening. I want to thank our elected officials in sacramento, senator wiener and Assembly Member king. We are lucky to have advocating for us, bringing Home Resource goes to help us address what is definitely the biggest crisis not just in San Francisco but facing our state. One of the things that i think that we can agree on is that it is a really cold day right now. Being out here on a cold day, i think, it is a reminder, a sharp reminder of the fact there are thousands of people on the streets who dont have a home to go to, dont have a warm bed or a place when it is pouring rain or below 40 that they can go inside to be warm and safe. One of the things you will notice when you go inside here is the difference between how it feels out here and how it feels in there. Even just having a place where you can be warm, where you can be safe, where you can be away from the madness and the dangers that people face who live on our streets is such a huge and critical and essential thing. When people get to be inside and not have to worry where they are going to sleep tonight or tomorrow night and be able to Access Services and have Case Management and have one work with them to figure out how to get off the street permanently is a huge and wonderful thing for us to celebrate today. One of th the things about Navigation Centers. They make a commitment to the neighborhood. Navigation centers make the neighborhood safer, they improve conditions on the streets here. As we make this commitment to people to live inside this Navigation Center we make a commitment to the People Living in the surrounding community on the water front and south beach this will reduce the number of People Living on the streets. We have a lot of work to do for the people who come in here, the people in the neighborhood and more work to solve homelessness in the city. Housing is the answer. We know we need a lot more Navigation Center and shelter beds in the city. This is the third Navigation Center in district six. We are excited and happy to do our part. As a city we need every neighborhood to take responsibility for addressing and solving homelessness. I thank five keys, the port and everyone who is a part of getting us this far. We have a long way to go in the city. I am committed to working with you, mayor breed, to make that happen and to everyone in the neighborhood to make sure this Navigation Center is a success. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i appreciate your remarks. I would like to make it clear that as mayor i am responsible for the entire city. The fact is getting opportunities like this, finding land in San Francisco to do say Navigation Center, to do housing is a huge challenge. Wherever we have an opportunity to get a property like this whether it is here or anyplace else in San Francisco, we will take full advantage of excuse me. We will take advantage of the opportunity to do so. With that, i would like to ask for Community Member matt amy. Excuse me. We will listen to you when we are finished with the press conference, if you dont mind. Thank you. Matt carson, who is a member of this community will provide a few remarks. Thank you. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. I dont think i have done anything special to deserve to be here. I just own my home a couple blocks away and work in the neighborhood as well. I walk by this spot with my 2 yearold every day. I am incredibly fortunate to have those things. When i walk unand down the embarcadero i see those less fortunate. It is appalling in the city, region and country with so much that we refuse to guarantee the most basic standard of living. Those sleeping here are living here and they are our neighbors. When the mayor proposed the Navigation Center to help them, i raised my hand to says i support her. I want to raise my kid in a city that helps its people. My neighbors have legitimate concerns. I have seen shattered glass and half stolen bikes. I dont want it to get worse. The mayor and the supervisor and the city promised they will make it better in the neighborhood, not worse. I trust them. If crime does go up they wont build any more Navigation Centers. She does need to build more. This is what a housing crisis looks like. This is 200 beds, but there are thousands of people on the streets in San Francisco. We need more shelters and related services. We need more protection for renters. We need a million homes throughout the region. Our region also needs a single seamless competitive Transit System to have a chance of addressing the housing crisis and climate change. I thank the mayor and everyone involved forgetting this Navigation Center built so quickly. I want to say to all representatives it is time to be way more ambitious. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i want to take this opportunity to thank muhammad for his leadership in getting this built so quickly. Thank you to deputy chief from the San Francisco Police Department. We know Public Safety is important to the community. We know that the department has added Additional Resources to help ensure safety in this particular neighborhood. You know, it really did take a village to get this done. So many folks standing behind me and folks from the community. I want to express my sincere appreciation to everyone that has had a hand in helping to get this done. The love and care that you put into even as i just saw the landscaping and the flowers and just making it look like a home and welcoming people in with dignity. That is what our goal is, and to get clearly people to help in the support that they need. This along with other Navigation Centers in the future and eventually more housing faster is going to get us to a better place not just in San Francisco but in this entire state. Thank you all for being here. Now jeff and steve will lead a tour of the Navigation Center for those interested. Thank you. [applause] good morning and welcome to lacasa. We are so honored to have so many Community Members here today. I am the Deputy Director here. This has been a very long journey to this moment today. I thank you all. We would not be here with each and every one of you. I have a lot of wonderful people speaking today and the amazing work that the organization does in the community. I would like to start by introducing