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collaborations we created. finding out what is going on in those other hotels. one thing i want to say today is about the seniors. seniors living in s.r.o. hotels, there is no real housing. you have a room -- and a bathroom, like a studio. one housing for one single man or woman, to have a place. there is the real housing. if you live in the s.r.o. hotel without a bathroom or kitchen -- and this is broken and you dont have the seniors, who is handicapped, they cant get up, this is a pr...

>> i am the tent organizer -- and i also go to the mission collaborative. i live in the mission hotel. hoi could give you some horror stories about this. i think that we should basically have movie nights for them, and we have our meeting, this weeks them up. we have these pet shelters and an animal shelter so they can bring this in and the seniors can play with them, so we can -- they can learn how to raise them. and this is something they can care for and nurture, and said just letti...

instructors and to the hotels. they should give the inspectors the authority to write citations upon sight. they are denied access into the hotel. these are citations that should be issued on site. a lot of private hotel operators to not allow the inspectors to come in. he should increase the fee as well. it makes no sense that we have so many people living in inhumane conditions. i am fighting with the collaborative, and every other city departments. making certain that these tenants ...

and they sent me once to something called sanctuary, and i gave them the bed and said i would not sleep in this place, where the garbage and the beds are in the same place. and it smells like a pigsty. i was upset. next door is a little bit cleaner. some people who are there are a very mean to other people. they have been mean to the other people. [applause] i just want to say that i do not know how many educated people are homeless, i know i should not be. but i know that there are so...

i have been in the next door, and they sent me once to something called sanctuary, and i gave them the bed and said i would not sleep in this place, where the garbage and the beds are in the same place. and it smells like a pigsty. i was upset. next door is a little bit cleaner. some people who are there are a very mean to other people. they have been mean to the other people. [applause] i just want to say that i do not know how many educated people are homeless, i know i should not be...

system of homelessness, and also san francisco. i have been in san francisco for 25 years, part of the bay area for 35 years. i have taught high school for 38 years. there is no reason i should be homeless. i did when i was supposed to do but it was the government -- the system here, it treats people very badly. i have seen very sick people waiting for it their bed. some people cannot walk, and some people are hungry, they are tired and depleted, and some of them do not get a bed. it i...

i have been in the new york system of homelessness, and also san francisco. i have been in san francisco for 25 years, part of the bay area for 35 years. i have taught high school for 38 years. there is no reason i should be homeless. i did when i was supposed to do but it was the government -- the system here, it treats people very badly. i have seen very sick people waiting for it their bed. some people cannot walk, and some people are hungry, they are tired and depleted, and some of...

and make the united states a better place to live for everybody. >> thank you, an angel. >> thank you, and god bless you. >> hello. about six or eight months ago we were having the hearings on the money for homeless -- i sent you an e-mail that applies to this situation. basically, i am blind in one eye, with a degenerated disks. i have been given the top bonds, which i cannot access. i have $4,000 and spent most of that on motels and hotels because i cannot stand in line for three or ...

reform. thank you. [applause] >> may i have the overhead? i was first homeless in this town more than a dozen years ago, when my ssi was taken away. the shelter system was just as deplorable then as it is now. the lack of shelter access was occurring in 1998. this is the local homeless coordinator -- probably read by everyone over there. i know -- i have read that report and live to this in 1998. please, i beseech you, supervisor kim, can we do something different this year? [applause]...