We are also in the midst of revigil our cities Public Housing and no more than do we want to be involved in poverty housing that is for isolated context. Ive been working with deputy and hud here in washington to get off the treadmill and repair bag logs including elevators and ive asked our city administrator also the director of housing to partner with hud and to rebiological and expand on the model thats the whole sf model. Ill proud of the process towards ending hopefullyness for our veterans. I want to thank you secretary johns and our local hud Office Veterans administration and for our partnership. Since 2011 weve decreased homelessness among conveniences by thirty percent by opening the permanent housing for 75 conveniences with on Site Services and our two other successful homes for heroes. With the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing. All told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shel
clapping good morning. Good morning. Thank you, don for that introduction im glad to be here at the tonight center again. Its also great to be here. I was telling me our deputy secretary marie this this was one of the first when we went through the translation of that to use the arresting are a fund it was such an enlightening positive effort in the tenderloin to use the federal program that president obama gave us. Im here to welcome you to San Francisco and thank you for being here for the home matters for health symposium. It is the right place to be because t n d c has been a powerful change and im glad their championinging the center between health. No one else can do that because youve got it it right here in the community. Todays symposium is part of a commitment that our city is making. I wanted to let you know all the things were going to continue the housing for everybody. Last week, we you wanted up the helen rogers and my good friend reverend hall was under its a Publicpriv
We talk about the master plan being a product of the department of Public Health and Planning Department so for example a lot of the data you see there did come from the department of children and youth and their families and aging Adult Services so we tried to do in this report not to ignore preexisting information that has come out of other agencies but intended to pull all those data sources together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. Supervisor mar. I was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical longterm care and the planning counsel their work
How the money is distributed but not so much, how we planned to spend it. And i think that one of the biggest things that we need to do because we already you know, for instance, we are not going to as the superintendent said that we are not going to sit down and develop a whole different structure or process for Community Input like for everybody other community in the state is doing that, we do have to monitor how the structure we have already is being effective in that regard, do they have the right materials and are they talking about what is going to go into the el cap which we dont know, how could they so far. I think that we have some beginning steps, but we should think specifically plan something about what the step is. Superintendent . Yes, i want to echo what commissioner wynns said about the process Going Forward and i have always seen the materials that California School Board Association has developed in the phenomenal and they are great resources. And so, just in terms o
7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe Neighbors Park Fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that Public Investment has transformed our neighborhood. The playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the childrens play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. The playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. We want kids to be here. We want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. We are given a real responsibility to insure that the publics money is used appropriately and that