Good morning everyone. Thank you for being here today. I just want to thank all of you for coming and give a special thanks to the va who is here joining us, theyre important partners in this project. The owners of the site, there they are. Thank you for making this site available and for being partners with the city on this and other sites to help address homelessness. We want to thank the nonprofit providers running the site, everybody from dish, if you can raise your hand. Many dish staff are here and providing services on site. Everybody from the Mayors Office and their staff. Thank you very much. This is an important day for sorry and dell seymour. I forgot my other boss, the local chair of the coordinating homeless board along with ralph peyton who couldnt join us today. This is the opening of a new Supportive Housing site in San Francisco to serve chronically homeless veterans, that adds to the 70 units we have, and this is important in mayor lees desire and hope to get i shouldnt say desire and hope, his initiative and order for us to get 1,000 people off the streets during the winter and this is 70 more units of housing to help achieve that goal. We have a few people who are going to give remarks today. First i want to invite beth stokes, the director of community services, beth as many of you know has been long time activist and leader in homelessness and used to be the executive director of Hamilton Family center that i used to be the director of back in the day and has done work in Southern California and here in San Francisco. She is new to her job and were happy and blessed to have beth stokes here. Beth, thank you. applause thank you jeff. As jeff indicated, im new to my position and im here to express my gratitude for all of you who have helped us get where we are today. Welcome to the auburn, the new home for 70 u. S. Veterans. applause cheering it is truly an exciting day as jeff indicated. Were deeply grateful for mayor breed for being here, we know its been a challenging time for the city and the city family. So thank you. I want to thank all our partners in the room this morning, there are many. To those who are not with us, to get us where we are. Where we are today in addition to the 70 homes is closer to ending chronic homelessness to veterans in San Francisco. We have 11 veterans who have moved in and one moving in today. Thats great progress. I wanted to loosely quote something i heard from mayor edwin lee that i heard not long ago that was u. S. Veterans fought for our country, they shouldnt have to fight for homes. I was very moved by that and its something i wanted to share. I wanted to acs is proud to be part of the team effort to provide solutions to homelessness in the form of Supportive Housing and ecs will continue to partner in Supportive Housing in San Francisco. For this project, the Master Tenant and lead Service Provider and proud to be part of what is a collaborative effort. With the finish line in sight, in all of our collective efforts to end chronic homelessness for u. S. Veterans and moving closer to a functional zero number is a remarkable accomplishment that requires Great Partnership and the auburn has many. I would like to begin, you know, the planning actually to thank a variety of people, i wanted to start with mayor edwin lees former office of hope and acknowledge that effort and how that started. That has been carried forward with great determination by the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. I say new but i know its been over a year and a half. Ecs would like to thank the Numerous Community members that helped to make it happen, many in our city family, our city supervisors for support and great effort, veterans administration, thank you. We would like to thank the department of housing and urban development. Hudd has truly been a partner, particularly with the obamas administration, the efforts of the president s wife and call to action to end veterans homelessness. And we would like to thank our local San FranciscoHousing Authority and of course San Francisco local home for efforts collaborative. And their work to hold us accountable to get to the zero number. So thank you. And the San Francisco association of realtors. In these partnerships new people step forward and step to the table and were grateful for their efforts and they help us turn a building into a home with their welcome home project so thank you to them. Last but not least, ecs would like to thank dish and their codirectors and their team. The operations of the auburn is a Collaborative Partnership with dish. And with dish, were excited to have the opportunity to work with them. This is our first effort in working with them. Were very excited, we thank them for their continued excellence and continued effort to get us where we are today. Thank you. Our board of directors and the remarkable team at ecs. Along with dish who rolled up their sleeves and worked hard to ensure u. S. Veterans had keys in their hand before the start of the new year. This includes our director of Housing Development and Asset Management and her team. Liz is here in the front row. Anna cooper, and i would like to thank scott ecker, and others leading the Supportive Housing team and i want to invite everyone afterwards, we invite you up stairs to room 302 to look at the accommodations at the auburn. With that, i want to turn it back over. Thank you. applause thank you beth and thank you for acknowledging this is sort of a bitter sweet moment. Many of us are mourning the loss of mayor lee but were grateful and lucky to have the leadership of london breed who is currently our acting mayor and mayor breed has picken up the tradition that mayor lee had of calling me at least once a day laughter when theres a homeless person on the street and needs help. That gives me great comfort, because like mayor lee, mayor breed is leading our city and has so many things to deal with, i cant even imagine but takes the time every day not saying move this person out of here, but hey, i see someone suffering, i see someone struggling, could you please get your team out to help that person. Please join me in welcoming and thanking acting mayor london breed. applause thank you. Thank you jeff so much. Im so excited about being here today. I was with mayor lee when he made the announcement after our First Lady Michelle Obama basically challenged cities all over the country to end homelessness for our veterans. And mayor lee took that challenge very seriously and has really stepped up and pushed aggressively to make sure we as a city not only end homelessness for our veterans, but we do everything we could to provide the Wraparound Services they need to be able to live with dignity. And thats whats so amazing about this incredible place here. 70 homes with supportive services. I know theres been support for veterans for so many years and mr. Simpson, im excited to welcome you today to your home. You served our country and we are now here to serve you. Its the least we can do for people who have put their lives on the line time and time again. And im just really proud of San Francisco for stepping up to the plate and providing the services. Over 150 homes already provided for veterans in the city. We are well on our way to making sure that we end homelessness for veterans. But we cant stop there. We have to make sure that we stick to mayor lees pledge of getting 1,000 Homeless People off the street. Its cold outside. Just imagine what its like to have no place to go. Just imagine what its like to have no bathroom to use on a regular basis. The struggle that we see on our streets are struggles that so many people deal with every day. Its why we have expanded our shelter system and adding 75 new beds to our system so we can accommodate more residents. The creative ways we have to provide more creative ways to get more people off the streets and part of what im so excited about in the work that jeff is doing and the Mayors Office, yes, we have to have shelters, yes, we have to work with different organizations and Navigation Centers and all the options we have but our goal ultimately is to make sure we find people affordable, stable, permanent housing so they can live in our city in dignity. That is really the end applause of where we want to get to. So ill tell you what im really most excited about. Our emergency Navigation Centers, our Behavioral Health sites, the Interfaith Council winter shelter, our heading home campaign, which specifically i have worked closely with with park police station. They have done an amazing job in helping us work with people and connecting them with loved ones and returning them home to other places throughout the u. S. We will utilize every resource possible to work with the folks in the streets to make sure theyre cared for. Just this past week we cut the ribbon on the respite center, people who are out on our streets who are maybe dealing with Health Related issues, where they go to the hospital and then put back on the street and they cant get healthy, when you think about even our own personal lives and you think about when we get sick, we have a home to go home to to get better. Just imagine if youre living on the streets and you get sick and you cant take care of yourself and you dont have the support and you cant stay in hospital for the extended period of time you need. All of these things, all of these things are going to help make our city a better place for all residents and make the quality of life a better quality of life for all residents and as jeff said, its not just pushing people from one end of the city to another, its about trying to find out specifically what is going on with that individual person and what we need to do as a city to wrap around those services to make sure they get the help and support they need which is what people like dell seymour continue to push for every single day. Im picking up the mantal to continue the work that we know mayor lee cared so much about, and here today is a testament to all the blood, sweat and tears to get this job done, 70 peoples lives will be forever changed because of the project. I want to thank every organization and group thats been a part of it. I have a list because it does take a village. It takes a village. And i want to start with the department of veterans affairs, the department of housing and urban development, the San FranciscoHousing Authority, delivering innovation in Supportive Housing. Community services, homes for heros collaborative, brilliant corners and the patels basically working with us to allow this space to be used for this particular purpose. Its been amazing, i know its been in your family for generations and you both grew up here. This is an amazing testament to your family to allow us to use this for this particular purpose. Its going to change and save lives. Thank you so much everyone. applause thank you mayor breed. Good thing about being the emcee, i get to come back and say what i forgot to say. laughter its not out of a lack of love and gratitude i forgot to thank my own staff from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, margo, randy, emily, chris, thank you for all of the work you did to help make this project happen as well and help the 70 people who will be moving in to the site. We are blessed to have mr. Simpson here today, one of the new tenants of the site and i think mayor lee and many others have said it well, people who have fought for our country shouldnt fight for a place to live. Every individual deserves to have a roof over their heads, certainly the people who have served our country so well, he served in conflict in vietnam and were so happy to have him be part of the auburn community. Thank you for joining us today. applause im elden simpson, being around all you great people its good to meet people who put this all together. And i thank you. applause thank you very much for being here and for your service to the country and for saying a few words. We appreciate your presence here. Im going to close it out with the person who will be managing the site and doing the hard work of keeping the building going, denise works for dish and will be here her staff will be here 24 7 making sure this facility is a decent, safe quiet place for people to live. Shes going to say a few words and then take those interested on a tour. Thank you very much. applause hi everyone. I wanted to welcome everyone here. I did want to say thank you to our fiscal sponsor for being here and supporting us through the project. And i want to thank the ecs collaboration, which is extremely critical and important and that dish is fiercely committed to ending homelessness and the case managers, desk clerks, janitors, people at the ground level to welcome our veterans home. We have 11 veterans were going to wrap this up, i have a movein a little later. Well make it 12. And happy holidays to everyone and thank you for all of your work and collaboration and i am extremely, extremely grateful that the auburn is here. And were looking forward to having the building leased up by the end of february is our goal. Thank you. And whoever wants a tour, well be there. Thank you. applause welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode well show you how 0 retroactive youre home lets go inside and take a look. Hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of San Francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt well talk about plywood. Great thanks. Where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they dont lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing well nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately youll see a problem in a typical San Francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood weve got to wind block between the studs and well secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. I notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking well a xoich attach the plywood. The third thing well attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the forces. So you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode youll see you apply patrick. Welcome to another episode of stay safe i saw us prepare our crawl space on this episode well saw the sheer wall youll see the finished product hi, im patrick and welcome to another episode of stay safe . The second part were retrofitting the triple wall as you can see weve installed one of the sheer ply wall on the First Episode we provided blocking to secure the ply wed and bolted and provided the connection with the floor im joined by thor madison. Thor Structural Engineers and thor knows more about sheer walls than anybody ive met in my life. It provides the stable ability that would rock before and after during around earthquake the nails along the edge of the plywood will reduce the chance of the building falling down. What else should we consider in getting ready. One thing about plywood a natural material that absorbs moisture and the panels can swell depending on the moisture if they swell theyll bulk out it is important probation officer leave a gap between the panels so before we install the next panel well drive in a couple of nails used to as temporary spares. What are the nails. 16 penny singers a good saying that and we dont need to be concerned with the exact nail size only the gap the next panel will be held with the existing panel well pull those down. We have peter from the construction why not go outside and cut our second panel so, now weve got the plywood lets go ahead and get it put up see if we can get it in place. By looking at that a perfect fit why not get peter in here to nail it down. So peter did a great job with the nailing but important to know this work requires a permit in the department of building inspection whether youre doing the work or a left hand contractor make sure you have the proper permit and additional to the nailing anything you want to talk about thinking about the plywood. The more plywood to install the better and make sure that the nails along each edge of each panel so you cant forget and hedge and had it perform the same thing. 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