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The beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read ab...

San diego. Thats good for you and we can talk about Health Care Cost have been reduced by 73,000 a month on health care for people picked up by paramedics and drunk in public and hospitals. I think thats good. I know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the Program Complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. We think thats good. And there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. We have a call from ireland and ...

Francisco chief of police. Gary is a psychiatrist and lauras law advocate and eduardo vega the Mental Health association of San Francisco. Let me start by opposing a question to karen chen from the public defenders office. Karen, can you how about if you start by giving us an overview of how the city handles this conflict between treatment and Civil Liberties. An involuntary hold starts in San Francisco when a peace officer or a clinician makes the determination that the person is due to a menta...

Because im talking about lives. I dont think, im just, you know, its very hard and we knew nothing about Mental Illness about this, but i will not stop fighting for my son, i wont stop fighting for others and i am going to scream and shout and share until somebody hears. Thats all. [ applause ] thank you. Lets get another perspective on this from eduardo very big vega. You have been forthright to discussions about treatment and in your chronicle about lauras law that you think the need to help t...

Of hud. And it was declared trouble for a variety of reasons. And at that point mayor lee called for a reenvisioning process to say, what are the problems with the Housing Authority . What are the problems with the Housing Stock . And what can the city do to ensure that we have Affordable Housing for extremely lowincome people. So the mayor convened the big10 process, and we sought out ideas on how we can solve some of the problems of the Housing Authority. So over a period of four months, and t...

Dont get me wrong. Ive seen it work firsthand. Ive been a strong advocate for this program. However, we have had results of a gao study that are less than favorable. Gao recommends that tsa limit future funding for the program so an accurate study is completed using behavioral indicators to identify based on tsas own plans it will be at least three years before they can begin measuring the effectiveness of spot. Im that tsa disagrees with the gaos findings and i look forward to hearing that. And...

And in San Francisco after the 20year cycle, the lenders and the investors are very familiar with this tool. They can underwrite with this and buy credits based on it, they couldnt do that with that section 9 financing. This is part of reason this is part of the solution. In terms why we are looking at rental assistance demonstration program. And the other part, the rental Assistance Program comes with an obligation. We will talk a little about the rehab obligations and the tenant obligations. A...

Any new Public Housing forever. And it has not funded any new modernization for forever. So really what the secretary was doing was saying, here guys, i will give you this tool, and this tool unlocks the access to loan Income Housing tax credits and debt financing. And why does it do that . We are creating these sort of rental assistance vouchers. The lenders a s ans and investo used to projectbased rental vouchers. In the 80s there was lots of projects with projectbased rental assistance vouche...

Program includes suburban jurisdictions and developers, and tenant advocates and a variety of other people that have more sway at the federal government level. So those resources are more likely to be there in the long term than the resources based upon the section 9. And that is another huge, huge difference. In terms of taking advantage of the situation and the realities of the situation. Its not necessarily fair. Its not necessarily just. But for us to be able to move forward we need to take ...

A cyberport from Security Company said hackers are using social networks to make friends with u. S. Lawmakers. , defense contractors and therefore struck a fourstar general and extracting data from them. Its not clear if the iranian government is behind this. Google says its not where it needs to be when it comes to Workplace Diversity as it takes a first look into the makeup of its workforce. Google says that only 30 of its employees are women, 91 of workers are either white or asian, two perce...