Transcripts For SFGTV Our 20240704

Member preston, absent. Member walton. Here chair williams, absent. Acknowledging that we do not have quorum but we have an extremely Important Information that is presented to the committee today we will proceed with the meeting, and we would like to start with the Ramaytush Ohlone land acknowledgment. We acknowledge that were are the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards and in accordance with their traditions the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as as peoples that that reside in their traditional territory. Working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. I would like to move on to agenda item 2 which is an opportunity for Public Comment on matters that are not on the agenda. At this time we will take in person Public Comments followed by phone Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment in person please line up at the podium now. Each person will have two minutes to speak. For the record there are no in person Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment over the phone please call 4156550001 and enter access code 26647160145 and then press pound and then pound again. If you have already done so please dial star three to line up to speak. The system prompt will inticate you have raised your hand. Please indicate when you system notes youre unmute and you can start your comments and you have two minutes to speak. Moderator do we have any Public Comments . For the record there are no phone Public Comments. Thank you. So we will move on to what is the core of todays meeting which is a number of presentations related to the ocoh funding and spending and can we begin with the Controllers Office report. Okay. Good morning Committee Members. Todays agenda focuses on providing a budget and programmatic updates on all of thektivity in the ocoh fund so far in the fiscal year. I will be providing a Financial Update on the budget side which will demonstrate all of the funding that was budgeted across the various Service Areas and their programs, how that spending has progressed so far and what do departments expect to spend over the next half of the fiscal year. Departments are here today to then provide complementary information which is an update on where programs are this in terms of implementation and those presentations will follow next. Together these two vital pieces of information are intended to offer a starting point for your budget recommendations for the next two budget years, so you will have a sense what funds are available as well as the status of programs. As a reminder about context before we sort of dive into the details the ocoh fund has a built in multiyear spending plan and the information today only offers a one year window into that plan, so as you look at some of the really big numbers thats really important context here, and relatedly the fiscal year runs from july 1 to june 30, so all of the information today only focuses on that timeframe. I obviously want to maximize the time for questions with departments and the program epidemic implementation epidemic len Program Implementation updates but its available on the website and i know we have several members unable to make it today so it will be there for them to review. Okay. So i wanted to offer a bit of glossary up front so as we look through the details you have an understanding of what is the information that youre actually looking at, and the starting point of this analysis is whats call the revised budget. This amount compipes any remaining funds from the Previous Year william annual allocation that goes into each service area and of course the three population categories within permanent housing so both its the annual sort of like percentage allocation that each of the Service Areas gets as part of ocoh as well as any unspent funds from the Previous Year. The actuals are basically the year to date spending, and so thats all of the spending that has happened between july 1, 2023 and january 24, 2024. You also see a category of spending thats projected additional year end expenditure, and thats the amount that departments project to spend then between january 24 and june 30, 2024 which will mark the end of the fiscal year. You will see a category called obligated funds and this will primary sort of correspond with programs and Service Areas that are run by hsh and these are funds that have been earmarked for planned use in future years and we can sort of talk more about that as you see that come up in the presentation, but just wanted to sort of state that up front. The last category is projected year end total balance, and so then this is the funding thats projected to remain and then roll over into the next fiscal year. Just a reminder ocoh is a continuing fund which means that anything that is not spent sort of rolls into the fund in the next fiscal year. Just additional context here that projected year end total balance is really crucial in tack willing short falls both in the current fiscal year as well as the next two budget years, and so just as a reminder from a couple of weeks ago were looking at and likely the best Case Scenario here about 140 million of short fall over the three years so thats this current year and then the next two budget years ahead of us, but we will get sort of a better revenue update at our next meeting when the Controllers Office is going to present on that and the last note about presentation there are both charts and Tables Available throughout the presentation so really depending on your individual preference i am mostly going to stay on the charts but please feel free to reference the accompanying tables if thats easier for to you follow along. Im going to take a quick water break. Im am recovering from a cold. Just one second. Okay. Great. So like i mentioned the starting point here is really the revised budget for fiscal year 2324. Now again this is the sum of the annual allocation for each of the Service Areas, and then any remaining funds from the Previous Year. Just for some context again the percentage allocations are not going to line up exactly with what is on this chart, so the annual allocations are 50 of the fund goes to housing, 25 to Mental Health, 15 to prevention and 10 to shelter and hygiene but this is the total fund these are the total amounts so both from Previous Years and then from this annual allocation, but really the Important Information is that the starting point for fiscal year 2324 is that the revised budget amount across all of the Service Areas including the funded administration to seven 94. 3 million so thats the break out that you see here in front of you. So this first chart and im starting at the fund level but we will sort of going into the details of each of the service area. This chart provides a break down of the 794 point 3 million separated into operations versus acquisition costs. Permanent housing and Mental Health funds can be used towards acquisition costs or Program Operations cost and these function really differently, so Acquisition Funding can be used to purchase rehabilitate or construct buildings, and you know just the way that works is that thats not sort of like an ongoing you know its like one time big costs. Operating costs however they include personnel expenses, contracts to District Service providers and other Service Delivery expenses so they behave really differently from acquisition costs. That differentiation is not pertinent to Homelessness Prevention or the shelter and hygiene Service Areas since all the funding in those areas is entirely operational. Another note about operational funding here is that particularly for housing it does include all of the populations so youre kind of seeing it rolled up across populations, but it also includes all of the reserves in housing, all of the receives amounts in shelter as well as prevention. Operational funding here also includes the unallocated funding that the committee voted on last meeting just a couple of weeks ago, so all of that is being rolled up into that operations funding that were showing here. And then as a reminder because i talked about reserves and housing shelter and prevention dph is a little bit unique that the Acquisition Fund has been used as a mechanism to protect Mental Health programs spending against revenue volatility, so just something to remember as we sort of dive into those details. So well get into each of the Service Areas. This is a view of permanent housing expenditures to date as well as projections by population, so this view allows all to see the various spending categories which is what departments have spent year to date, the projected amount they expect to spend over the next half of the fiscal year, the obligated funds that i mentioned at the top of the presentation, and then the projected remaining funds by each of the populations within the service area. As a reminder within permanent housing adults have the largest budget so 55 of the housing funding must go to serve this population followed by families at 25 and youth at 20 so thats sort of what you see come through on this chart. And i will give you all a second to sort of digest. Moving on to all households. This view of permanent housing shows this spending by all of the programs that fit within the service area but across all populations, so these are are all the category was operational costs again no Acquisition Funding is reflected here. And as a reminder this umbrella of operational costs does include reserves and unallocated costs, and of course this funding works differently than Program Operations, but is also really vital to making sure that operations can continue even when there is revenue volatility, and thats particularly important in the housing bucket because of the nature of housing programming is such that once the city makes a commitment it has to be more or less ongoing so just an Important Note here in processing this information. Similarly for adults heres a view of the programming that focuses specifically on adults and so here you see the various programs across scattered site, across site pdh. There is rapid rehousing, of course the reserve category, allocated cost which are costs that are not sort of tied to any one program but sort of help run programs across the service area and then [inaudible] subsidies. Again is i similar view of programming that focuses specifically on families. Just a note here since i am moving between charts the obligated funds are really only pertinent to programming for adults which is why you wont see that up here within families and you also wont see that amongst the youth, so you all can see it appears for the adults but not for the families and youth. And then lastly for permanent housing heres the categories of expenditures and of course the projections for the youth category. Coming to Mental Health again this is Mental Health operations. This doesnt include the Acquisition Funding that is part of the Mental Health service area, and so this again really shows us the operational spend thats related to the running of the various programs in Mental Health. Moving on to prevention reminder there are only operational costs within this area, and so heres a spending break down that you see, and i just wanted to note and again something for us to come back to given that departments are here today is a big chunk of the reserve has been categorized as obligated funds and this really speaks to that multiyear spending plan they was mentioning up top which is that these funding have been primarily earmarked for 2425 and 2526 problem solving and prevention Spending Plans, so if youre all interested into digging that we can do that after the presentation but wanted to note it looks really different than the other charts, and then again as a reminder prevention programs does include a partnership between both the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Mayors Office of housing and community development. The last category is shelter and hygiene which is of course is the smallest category within the ocoh fund so again you see the sort of operational view of the programs that are part of this service area. As a reminder departments are all here to provide Program Implementation updates that really speak to you know the budget side of a lot of what youre seeing here so any sort of Program Specific questions that you have would be good questions to bring up as part of those presentations, and then i wanted to mention to you all that the next set of liaison meetings which will happen over the next couple of weeks are happening in the next couple of weeks in march will focus exclusively on the budget, so another opportunity for you all i know this is a lot of information for you all to really have some time to review, process and then use those meetings to sort of really dig into your specific questions with departments at this point yeah, the intention today is not for us all to have [off mic]. Take a breath. Total grasp of the amount of funding but a good important look today, and then for those meetings i will circulate an email and ask you all to tell me what questions you have since we wont have a chance to meet before them so stay tuned for that, but yeah thats sort of concludes my presentation and we can move to questions. May i have ask a question [off mic]. Hi. Thank you so much for all the work on this. So i just have some clarifying questions, and then some other stuff, but basically i wanted to i wanted to basically ask about the reserves that were not i mean that were not delineated in permanent housing prevention and shelter. Do you have the amount of the reserves in those categories . Oh its on the prevention okay. So okay so its delineateed in the further slides. Yeah. Okay. And then in terms of the year end balance we still dont have we still dont have a differentiation between one time funds and ongoing . We dont at this time member friedenback. Correct. Theres not a delineation of that in the year end balance. Okay. So we will have that at the further update from the controller at the next meeting . I will have to work with departments to see how easy it is to yank out of the big numbers and let me try to figure out if that is feasible. Okay. Because thats kind of a huge deal, yeah, and then i had some questions around the obligated versus the projected year end balance, and so i think probably the best way to ask my questions is to do it to do it in categories, so for example going to slide 17 we have the unallocated youth permanent housing, and so is that including our recommendations from the last meeting . Where those put in the unral indicated category or were they considered i mean can you talk about unallocated and kind of similar questions around its a little bit confusing for me around the obligated funds because in some categories like for example if we have a family in a subsidy that is ongoing and i know so this only goes for this year. I guess trying to figure out what is our actual obligation on an ongoing basis for future subsidy, operating cost for housing, et cetera that kind of getting back to the balance between the one time and the ongoing and just kind of doing a check around with this decrease in revenue we still have enough to cover subsidies for people next year . We still have enough for the operating . I mean you know like that and i guess going back to the unallocated more and talk about what is included and what is not included in that category . Yeah, we will definitely need Agency Support in the second question but i guess i can kick us off. Given this information was pulled on january 24 and because you all voted on the unallocated spending plan just a couple of weeks ago thats where, so the amount you all voted on part of it shows up in the unallocated bucket, correct, and i will let hsh kind of speak to how to further understand the unallocated amount and i think they would be best to talk about the obligated. Okay. Good morning kristin rolin budget rec for hsh, so for for obligated we were accounted for things put out in sois that we know are going to be committed to projects but we might not be able to get out the door by the end of this year, so currently that doesnt include the Spending Plans approved by the committee for both family and youth. Those Spending Plans are currently showing as of the january 24 numbers in unallocated and the reserve because when we calculated those dollar amounts for you on kind of what we expected arizona ongoing fund balance and unallocated from the fy 2324 budget process those dollar amounts were include rolled into these categories so moving forward we go through the budget process and commit those funds to specific projects those categories would then shift in future reporting. So is that the same for the family recommendations as well that were many months ago . For family and youth both. Are you planning not putting those out anytime soon . Is that what i am hearing . Because i we well you know the whole strategy here was to try to get this stuff moving because of the overall we need that were seeing, yeah. Yeah. I understand. So right now because of the emergency ordinance work that we have been doing with the board of supervisors we have to take most of our contracts back for approval and thats just to continue the base level of services so i know right now just administratively as a department were having a hard time reupping all of our current agreements and getting them through the Homeless Oversight Commission for approval so we can continue the services that were going to lapse in Contractual Authority in june and i know as a department the priority has been sustaining current programming and getting that authority out the door before we look towards new sois and new programming. I cant speak to the details of exactly when that would happen at this point and time but i know that has been the focus so far. Soandso youre speaking to legislation that went to the board of supervisors recently around the contract stuff so i mean it was delayed by a week i guess. I cant speak to the exhibit date its was delayed. I think it has been delayed for longer and i think really even once we get that authority from the board of supervisors then we actually can move forward with amending all of the agreements so we cant actually enter into new contracts for all those providers that had expiring agreements until that is passed. Can i ask a follow up . Yeah. Related to that just for clarity it sounds like unallocated refers to things that havent been put out for proposal but is there some way for us to look at what is unallocated but pending proposals versus what is unallocated and this committee can consider for other purposes . Because thats going to be critical as we do our budgeting. So the unallocated category and this this present is for family and allocated at end of the budget process last year. It doesnt refer to Additional Fund balance from the fy 2324 or prior years and called out specifically to identify funds not budgeted towards a specific Program Towards last years budget. Thank you. Thank you. So i got one lets see. I guess a question on the Mental Health piece. Lets see. So we did do i wanted just kind to ask about because we did an expansion of beds paid for by prop c in Behavioral Health and just wanted to kind of get an update on the staffing issues, and also kind of note this you know we continue to have a large amount of money around acquisitions, and so wanted just to maybe hear from department of Public Health about that. Any plans . Yeah. Member friedenback i am happy to answer those questions during the programmatic overview with you guys. We plan to cover some of the topics if that is okay. Okay. Thank you. And i guess lets see. I think thats all my questions for now. I just wanted just comment that you know the fund is going down so i understand like a lot of concern. We also have real serious emergencies out on the streets so i just want to be you know once again program that you know some of the recommendations and some of the categories we have pretty large amounts of year end balance and unallocated funds and that its especially around certain category seeming to be slower than other categories especially around families and youth, and you know had ongoing concerns around more beds on the Behavioral Health side, and kind of moving really quickly on the outreach in the street stuff in front of getting the beds in place and just wanted to make that from a policy recommendation that we really need to make sure that were fully utilizing this fund and given the situation thats folks are facing, so just wanted to make that over riding comment. Thank you. A couple of quick questions. First thank you. As a fairly new member to this i appreciate this presentation so much. Under prevention you mentioned that the obligated funds related to earmarked 2425 and 2526 funds is that also the case for the shelter and hygiene obligated funds . I think christine and folks can correct me but i think thats related to one specific site. Sorry. Hi. Hi. Yes, so the prevention obligated funding is for our problem solving budget over the next two, three years so thats really accounting for sustaining one Time Investment and problem solving thats about to kind of fall out of the budget. We were able to take funding to continue those investments over the next two years and thats why its showing as obligated because if we put it out in a different way it wouldnt be available for that programming. For the shelter obligated funding that is actually set aside for the d10 cabin program. Right now we have applied for a state grant that would help us sustain or i guess start up operations at that site, but were setting aside some of the funds and showing it as obligated in case that state grant doesnt come in so we would be able to launch operations. So thats funding that might become available for other it could be. [inaudible]. Right. It could be available but were not showing it available until we know we have state funding. Thank you. The other question or comment i have is going back to the permanent housing expenditures by population. Weve heard at previous meetings the concern about allocation among the different target pop poperations but its clear from relates from hsh staff there maybe families in the Family Program and so i just wanted to acknowledge that we still need to do some work on separating those things out so we can truly identify them served in the Family Program rather than the other programs and possibly served also in adults so i just wanted to acknowledge that in light of this clear presentation. Yeah, member walton i circulated that query with hsh so theyre aware of that question. It requires some work so as part of the budget liaison meetings hopefully we will be able to help at least answer that question to some extent. Thank you. Yeah. Great. I guess we can open up for Public Comment. [inaudible]. All of them . Okay. Who is up next . Department of Public Health i believe. No. Hsh. Sorry. [off mic]. Yeah. Im not exactly sure who is okay. Thats what i thought. [off mic]. All right. Forgive me im also overcoming a cold so i have my water here. Good morning members of the committee. Thank you so much for having us. I am Kelly Kilpatrick and support elements of [inaudible] and the implementation for the department of Public Health. Were here to give an overview of our implementation of prop c funded programs to date and how they relate to our projected spending. Our prop c operating budget is approximately 100 million a year at least thats what our spending plan is. We have made significant progress towards implementing our ocoh funded Mental Health and Substance Use service. We contracted for 80 of our funds and 80 of our Civil Service staff are hired so we made significant progress over the past three years which were pleased b we have not paused implementation of the ocoh funded programs at this time but ongoing revenue short false require the consideration of balancing options over the coming month and we will bring those back to you. Just as a reminder as i said our spending plan is 100 middle and projecting to spend 80 million and ongoing revenue portion for us is about 65 million give or take controller so theres a significant structural short fall in the longterm. But we do want to highlight some of the achievements that we have had over the past year in particular we launched our best Neighborhoods Team which is an Outreach Team to connect on house residents to Behavioral Health care which focuses on srt follow up between march and december 2023 the teams had over 900,000 engagements on unhoused individuals. We implemented the systematic office of coordinated care or the occ follow up with people with encounters and 5150 involuntary holds at sfg. We coordinated care for [inaudible] clients in 2023. Our permanent housing advanced Clinical Services program often known as hacks and provides physical and Behavioral Health services and permanent Supportive Housing and con97 buildings that are home to more than more than 6200 residents and they served unique clients in 2023. A coordinated effort between the office of coordinated care and Behavioral Health and our whole person integrated care teams which provide mobile nursing clinicians and medical staff at the sites. We began services for new intensive Case Management program that will provide 100 slots for 100 older adults with complex health and receiving of experiencing homelessness. This Program Began accepting clients in december and ramping up with staffing that is contracted. Additional accomplishments over the past year including the Behavioral Health Access Center to include weekend times and building on the prop c funds and weekday that launched in 22. And our Behavioral Health center and pharmacy are now open on day, weekends and evenings to expand reach for services. We hired through new clinicians for the clinic to serve transgender and nonbinary south experiencing homelessness and we expanded and in the Residential Care and treatment over the past year we expanded 70 step down beds on Treasure Island and we expanded 75 beds at the mina project and toroids transitional housing and adults with dual diagnoses. On our Behavioral Health Residential Care expansion so about 30 million of the 100 million spending plan is dedicated to the expansion of Residential Care and treatment. We have a 400 bed expansion goal which is largely funded by prop c funds. We have opened nearly 360 new beds with 44 remaining and this represents a 20 increase over our baseline 2200 Behavioral Health bed capacity. I will say to member friedenbacks question earlier the vast majority of Behavioral Health Residential Care and Treatment Services are contracted. The only one that is Civil Service staffed is our managed Alcohol Program i believe. Am i doing good with like rubbing my head and patting my belly . Am i on the right slide . As far as the Acquisition Fund we expended did 10 million on acquisition and funding to date with approximately 120 million remaining. Much of the remaining funds are earmarked for projects which were active negotiations on or in construction so our crisis stabilization unit which is located on geary street is under construction and expected to be completed end of 2024. We are in design phase for new building on Treasure Island for our residential step down unit to have a permanent home, and then we are also still pursuing sites for Mental Health Service Center as well as facilities to house remaining residential programs and to relocate beds in county and the dual diagnoses program and thetate program as well. I do want to assure the committee were leveraging a variety of sources not just relying on prop c for these acquisition projects. We have received almost 30 million in state Behavioral Health infrastructure grants. Were also utilizing some of the dph general Obligation Bond funds towards some of the projects but given the short fall and as mentioned earlier we may have to utilize the one time funds as part of our balancing plan and well let you all know. We will come in with more precise number and a balancing plan for you all. In terms of some of the challenges we face we definitely have a Behavioral Health staffing challenge where we have where i said only 80 of civil staff hired. Its really because Work Force Recruitment and retention barriers are persistent in the Behavioral Health field. This is regional, state, national especially for Behavioral Health license clinicians and health workers. I was going to mention all right. Maybe my thought it will come back to me. It made it especially challenges for the office of coordinated care and the staffing for the case manager and clinicians for the coordinated care work is really where its impacting us. Like i said Community Based providers are facing similar obstacles as part of the statewide challenge. We have been working with the Controllers Office who are working to publish a Behavioral Health staffing and wage analysis to be published early this year to outline some of the challenges, quantify the magnitude and propose kind of ideas to overcome these barriers so we will take that information to help us move forward. Additionally it just takes a long time to contract for services in order to overcome some of the barriers we have been facing with contracts for residential and Treatment Services the beginning of this year we introduced legislation to the board of supervisors to waive the competitive solicitation requirement particularly for residential and services and passed with unanimous vote and hoping for a final passage on the 27th and we hope it will expedite our procurement of beds especially specialty beds with people with high needs and then we have difficulty locating and acquiring suitable and county residential treatment facilities. We have a diverse set of programs with differing real estate needs and state licensure requirements. I joke its a little like goldilocks and the right building with the right requirements and licensure and cant stack programs against each other in the knowledge and Given Program needs and project attic priorities but we have been working hard to overcome some of the issues. As far as goals for year ahead of course pending budget availability our plan is increase the cock occ capacity and hospitals and other hospitals in the city and. Additional engagement with shared priority clients and including enhanced services for residents. Further expanding our facts program to cover all 140 sites and complete construction of the crisis stabilization unit and have short care term beds as alternative to hospitalization. Working with probation we plan to complete the expansion of her house and [inaudible] and i believe they accepted some clients and ramping up and of course leveraging new data and the analytics staff to expand our evaluation of dph programs funded by prop c. I think with that i will turn it to questions. Member friedenback or other questions. I think we would love to hear back when the controllers report comes out and support in anyway and i know its an ongoing challenge and i have friends in the field and takes forever to be a licensed clinician. I know its really competitive too and building building up private practices in the city is more challenging and hiring culturally comp tenderloin initialses as well to work with the subpopulations i know that is also a challenge but sounds like you guys are doing great work. Its very exciting to hear all that is happening and the acquisitions and the bed and yeah its very exciting to hear this work. Thank you. We will move on to our next speaker, Marianne Sanders, hsh. Thank you. Thank you kelly. Thank you so much, really helpful. [off mic]. Sorry about that. Hello committee. My name is Marianne Sanders and the chief deputy at hsh and here to provide you all with our ocoh implementation update. Most of you guys i have met and i am coming up on six months at the department, so congratulations. Congrats. Yes. Its still alive. [laughter]. I started back in september so i have my team to help me with some of the questions that come up some of the nuisances but its my pleasure to be here today to provide you with this update. Lets go to the next slide so i want to walk you through this overview quickly just to level set before i deep dive into the programmatic components of the funding and just how its implemented spot homelessness response system, so hsh adopted budget for fiscal year 2324 is 713 million and roughly 33 of that is ocoh revenue, and the components are broken down as such housing at 149 million, shelter at 32. 7 and prevention at 52. 52. 7 million and despite this uncertainty we havent paused on prop c implementation im sorry, on prop c funded programs. However, were running up against challenges as christine alluded to related to the emergency ordinance. So as we walk through the Program Components we want to provide an understanding of the programs and funding that has not launched or is partially launched or fully implemented and currently operating. Next slide please. So starting with permanent housing just as a refresher in fiscal year 2122 we acquired four and really i want note on this slide theres one change. At the top where its the city acquired six new sites its actually seven and 667 units and leveraging over 130 million in state home key funds so thats a correction i want to add here before i jump into the details. So a refresher fiscal year 2122 we acquired four sites totaling 351 million just so for adults, families and youth. Obviously various break outs per site so that i am referencing the margo esperanza, mission inn and gossip hotel. All of the sites are fully leased up except for the mission inn and Casa Esperanza and the other are off line because of rehab and we have some rehab agreements that are expected to go before hock in march 2024. In fiscal year 2223 city gardens was fully leased up im sorry, it is i think thats a mistake. It recently was leased up in october 2023. 665 ellis is operating as interim housing and converted into psh after being rehab and that procurement process is in collaboration with mohcd so more information is to come and also in this fiscal year 1174 folsom were currently in negotiations with the Property Management company, and weve identified a Service Provider but obviously it has to go through the ho c process et cetera and lastly 42 otis the acquisition date is end of may 2024. Next slide please. So housing and other investments so the granada is 214 units of adult psh. The building is occupied while being rehabbed. Approximately 40 is occupied, and fully subis expected in winter of 2024. We decided to go through with some piping repairs which is delaying the full lease up, and the diva was rehabbed in fall 2023 and 125 units of psh with adults and fully leased up so development of new family psh mohcd is working with mercy to identify financing strategy to move the project forward and we can provide an update in a future meeting related to that site. Really quick lastly as it relates to psh Supportive Services enhancements and were stillesting the impact of the service impacts. Given the role out of the funds took place at the end of fiscal year 2223 we dont have the data just yet to be able to kind of expand on the impacts so were hoping to make sure that we have that as we collect the inform from Service Providers at the end of this fiscal year. And annual reports. And sorry lastly on this slide Cambridge Housing were prioritizing to roll that money out next fiscal year. Moving on to scattered site adult flexible housing subsidy pool. We have 700 slots. 500 were allocated through the sip rehousing effort. 200 continue services for adult hssp and originally funded by Tipping Point and hsh continued funding in january 2022. Providers for those services are brilliant corner, Abode Services and ecs and Case Management services are through abode [inaudible]. Bvhp foundation and a couple other Service Providers. Household serve we served a total of 641 households which is 92 , and sorry. Move it around here. We served 92 that have been housed through this Program Since 2018. When subsidies slot turn over theyre filled with another referral and destinations weve had 131 folks that have exited. Just a couple of Key Highlights here. We noted that 33 of the folks that have exited from this particular intervention have passed away. Keep in mind that the population targeted here was older adults and we noted also that 38 of the folks that have exited were transferred to a different ongoing subsidy program. Okay. Next slide please. Okay. Sorry. I am trying to look at both at the same time and my notes so adult scattered site. Rapid rehousing, a couple of Key Highlights. Funding for one time adult rapid rehousing for 350 slots is in is being deployed through four providers. Those grantees include abode, Episcopal Community services and five keys. New funding for additional for an additional 235 adult rapid rehousing slots were funded fiscal year 2324 and this funding is anticipated to be deployed by fiscal year 2425 in the first quarter. 200 slots have been im sorry, 200 households have been housed and 37 are currently in the housing search process, and referrals are continuing to be expected so that we can reach 350 by the end of the year. So smart money coaching is in partnership with the office of financial empowerment. It expanded to all of the scattered housing sites in 2023. Next slide. So scattered site housing for faq so flexible housing subsidy pool and [inaudible] and enrolled 48 faq of the 50 that are targeted for this intervention into the program and 76 or 38 have been permanently housed well. Faq rapid rehousing and the rising up program say Publicprivate Partnership funds. Hsh funds the location and Subsidy Administration and Supportive Services and Case Management is funded privately due to under spending of private dollars the program has been extended beyond the initial term to end in fiscal year 2425 so the goal to serve 400 youth through this program has been achieved. The program is now maintaining 165 ongoing slots and as time progresses hsh and the cbos participating in this program will continue to collaborate. Once the private funding is spent sorry. Im sorry. 5 Million Investment will likely fund approximately 115 to 125 rapid rehousing slots for this program ongoing. Next slide. So family flexible housing subsidy pool. This category encompass services is administering the slots. Referrals begin in spring 23. Compass has a learning curve as the inaugural program for families and the beginning of the program and fine tuned policy and procedures resulting in improved placements and the average placement was four per month in the first five months and soon over this rate increased to an impressive around nine placements per month. The scattered site housing Programs Team recently introduced an engagement policy that potentially improves the rates and decreases the timeline for folks to get placed. Compass Family Services has expanded their team of housing hotellors and identify landlords and Property Owners willing to accommodate subsidy holders. And housing ladder to reference on this slide compass also administering this service and referrals began will begin in april 2024. The full process is slower due to creating the application and open wait list process. Next slide. Sorry. I had to modify the way that i see my notes. All right. So moving on to housing and the et h initiative so ending Transgender Initiative so the ho c recommended the provider last week so Community Forward sf for 62 slots. Transgender i have to say this correctly transgender and intersex Justice Program has 50 slots and their contracts are executing next march and projected to start may 2024. Next slide. So memory housing voucher, the voucher issuance exceeds 1906. Because voucher holders were variable to port the vouchers immediately so theres a number of folks that ported, and we absorbed kind of and referred new households as a result, so theres kind of a we cant count those ported vouchers towards the number of lease ups, so 830 have been housed so far, and that number again excludes the folks that were ported and that have exited for multiple reasons including you know vouchers expiring. Supporting service hsh estimates 66 of households would accept and want housing Case Management services. The current percentage receiving services is lower its 51 however its likely this number is im sorry, is higher due to the multiple households missing data in the one system. Next slide. So moving on to shelter and hygiene. So just a couple of updates here. The sites were set up quickly as part of the Covid Response and intended to be temporary sites and the programs and hsh always planned to sunset these models cost for bed for safe sleep was 860,000 per year not considering shelter per hud regulations. It didnt permanent well during happy rains and wind. Neighborhoods have not responded well to the Safe Sleep Program because its attracting camp encampments and we have cabins and the more preferred alternative to the Safe Sleep Program and pier 94 exit data on 114 guests keep in mind it was paused in april 2023 and all guests were offered housing or shelter and 77 moved into permanent housing. 4 reunited with family and 12 into shelter and others were denied service because of rules violence. Next slide. Violations. Okay. So golf cabins is funded at 3. 8 million this fiscal year, and the current lease runs through march 2025. The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center is funded at 3. 2 million this fiscal year. Phase two was intended to have 162 slots, but now we will have fewer due to a large size of vehicles and also the fire marshal requirements. Go to the next slide. Navigation center theyre operating as usual and we have the four Navigation Center sites that you can see on the slide. So the oasis shelter is funded at 1. 8 million with prop c dollars. This fiscal year and the transition to st. Anthonys allowed three Additional Units to be added to the sight so we went from 51 units to 54 and as youre aware we had the grand opening for the oasis shelter a few months ago. Next slide. So urgent accommodation vouchers. This fiscal year weve served 129 families and pregnant persons at im sorry, 1. 25 million. Domestic violence victims weve served two households and the funding for that category is at 300,000 and and tayand was at 600,000. Gerard commons its a new site being opened up in the Bay View District 10. The lease has been executed. Expected maybe thats a typo. [off mic] january [off mic]. January 2025 is when its expected to open and budget operations is for 4 million ongoing next to prevention. [off mic]. Okay. Sorry my notes are different and as you can see on the slide buena vista horace mann services and 24 hour services, on School Breaks and that budget modification is in process. We added an additional 600,000 to expand those services to 24 7. On to prevention. Okay. So we have the sf pretrial access point since its launch in 2023hsh and the diversion has been collaborating how to best operationalize the Program Specifically around justice involved clients to services prior to be released, so that they dont end up on the street. Hsh is partnering closely with other stakeholders in the criminal Justice System to increase the collaboration and alignment around the homelessness response system and the direct Cash Transfer program. This pilot is for 50 youth. Were hovering around 30 to 40 enrolled and lifing direct Cash Transfer of about 1500 a month. Next slide please. Continuing with prevention the housing stability focus services are folded into provider prevention budgets and some of the examples of the services that they can receive is housing stability plans, connections to legal services, benefits advocacy soak and Work Force Development. And i am almost done. All right. Continuing with prevention we have the two year Work Force Services pilot. This pilot sets upscale to all providers in spring 2024 and the Services Provided is training, resume development, basic skill, basic interview skills and so on. So for she rap the average amount of assistance provided in the program is 6,200 per household and some of the primary categories of assistance requested is rental arrears and rent for three months and security and first and last month rents and deposits and question time. Okay. Thank you so much for that presentation. Any questions from Committee Members . Member friedenback. Scott do you want to go first . [off mic]. Okay. Thank you so much. This is a lot. Yes. Yes. Awesome. So i just want to know just for like members of the audience and its really exciting and people listening in made prop c a reality but on the acquisitions with this amazing number of 670 doesnt count the accumulated and to date were close to a thousand units which is really, really fantastic, so i know vice chair dantonio is super into the acquisitions for good reason so am i because its a longterm investment, so i have a couple of questions. I meant to ask this at the other meeting at the granada if the rehab includes a ramp for the couple of steps in the front or not because it does have an elevator and theres a lot of elder people in that building . I am just wondering . [off mic]. The granada. It has the elevator but the steps at the front door and does the rehab including a ramp there. [inaudible] making sure that the entrance is accessible. Great. But i can actually check on that and get back to you. Okay. Okay. But i mean its a full renovation. Okay. Its a cool building. Its an amazing building. I have been in there. Yeah. I was in there before it was for this use canvassing voters there. I think it was a student buildingar and coming in and i do love that building but im a sucker for old architecture in San Francisco so the other thing i wanted to note on the equity stuff just some congrats on the high proportions of africanamericans in particular being served and i feel like thats been a huge focus of director mcfadden and i wanted to give a shout out on that and its really nice to see and at least from my perspective from a correction perspective over serving africanamericans in comparison to the proportion that are currently unhoused given the amount of just disproportionate impact on homelessness and poverty in the community is the right thing to do and i love sighing that and that is exciting and i want to note we have a lot of work to do with the lgbtq and a disparity there and 10 being served there and 30 of the population and would like to note that and would love to do future work to figure out how to correct that diss parity. Weve done work in the community and correcting on the race and equity piece of things and maybe we could do more on the lgbtq front just thinking about future agenda items. The other piece i just wanted to take issue with no surprise here. I dont think the safe sleep sites attracted encampments. Have been been intemmatly present there at the sites and familiar with a lot of the residents a lot were camping in the area before the sites opened up, were there after, and during. I know there was one person there was a lot of attention on that was kicked out of the safe sleeping site and camped near by, but that person having known her for a long time has been in that immediate area and i dont think its fair. I know the neighbors make that claim. I dont think its true. I am a neighbor of the mission site and knowing a lot of the folks by name i take strong objection to that thought. I do think that a lot of the people in the area were actually housed in the safe sleep site in terms in both of the especially the mission and the bayview once. They served unhoused people from the immediate area and then my last this isnt a question, more of a comment. Oh this is a question so the remaining subsidy slots i want to make sure i am correct and rolling out for the rest of the year so wanted to make that clear from the publics perspective please correct me director sanders if i am wrong about this but i dont want the public mislead thinking theyre not being used but were only halfway through the year so we will have even more folks in housing by the end of the year which is exciting. Last comment. Just we continue to have these disparities around funding and i know some of it is operational and theres differences in rent prices and all these different things, but i just wanted to note on the operating that the gerard cabins 4 million ongoing cost to serve 60 people versus the oasis shelter 1. 8 serving basically 150 people. Theres a big difference there and i am just from a cost consciousness perspective and just thinking about it theres ways to draw down the operating costs or free up because thats pretty significant, and i know we brought them down in the negotiations at the Mayors Office last year, but just wanted to kind of yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to say the 1. Eight for oasis is want the fully loaded operating cost. Okay. Its the amount currently in proxy. Oh okay. But its not the full operating cost so i dont think the disparity there is still some disparity. I also wanted to add that gerald is cabin and rvs theres a higher cost there as well and its not just 60 cabins and i believe its 60 cabins and 20rvs. So serving 80 people. Okay. In bringing in the water and bathrooms and sanitation drives up the cost opposed to using an exist building and i know were having a different approach. No. I think youre right. To flag it. Its something we need to take a deeper dive in and level setting the per night cost for shelter in general and you know it various per population and services, but i think thats the right flag. Thank you. Thank you so much for all the work on this and i do want to answer the question in terms of the remaining subsidies that are rolling out. Yeah, thank you. Well, i will just add building on member friedenback clearly with when we look at how the ocoh funds are used theyre not proportionally used the same way in every program so its helpful when presenting that that we get a sense of the total cost of a program that were apart of so we can better look at how we allocate our funds. Yes, thats a fair assessment. Thank you so much for the presentation. I did have a couple of comments or questions as well. I am curious to know like in the future around like implementation and how things are going around like rapid rehousing for adults what that looks like and what the Model Looks Like and how successful it is . We have seen it with families and youth and i am interested in the adult perspective and how that looks . The other question is from the capital of the selling of the trailers and what that was reinvested into if anything . And if you guys have the answer to that because i asked that at the last meeting and hoping to have the answer today. I will start with that question. Okay. Were still trying to figure out what well do with the trailers. Theres a couple of alternatives that were researching and figure out so i dont have an update on exactly what were doing here. Like theyre still being theyre not sold or anything, no. Okay cool. And then i had heard and im not sure but did jazzys place shut down. [off mic]. No. Its still active. I wanted to make sure we had that specific shelter. They added another classroom and doubled in size. Thats great and the Navigation Center as well. Thats great and there is quite a bit of capacity in that area but not prop c specifically. Thats great. And my next thing is around the 2dv households served at 300,000. Did i hear that correctly. Its the allocated amount of proxy dollars for intervention. But for two households . Two were served how many can we serve total . Yeah, we recently launched that program this fall so theres been a slow ramp up obviously. Two households is a small number but expected to serve quite a few more in the upcoming fiscal year. What providers and st. Vincent de paul society is providing the program for the tayand Domestic Violence and voucher program. Okay. So how many months has two been served and one roll out and why has only two been serveed . Apologies. It was on the slide of the roll out. I dont want to say the wrong date. Just give me one second. [off mic]. Yeah, so the program launched on october 16 of 2023. Okay. As far as because i know the need is huge. We had dv providers present. Most of us worked in this forever and know 6,000 people are turned away from the system each year and i would just think by this point more people would have been serve and i had am curious why yeah, i can take that question and get more details i that would be great. Thank you. And my last question is just around the Work Force Development pilot. And i am just curious because i dont think at least that i remember having been presented at all what that looks like here at this committee and i am curious what does it look like . What is the pay . Because we know that wage reserve is higher for certain members of the community and theyre not willing to participate in those unless they are receiving some pay and it is at a certain amount so i just want to make sure its actually like serving the people were trying to serve. So the original Work Force Development funding allocated through our city, our Home Oversight Committee was originally in the housing budget but sits in the problem solving and prevention budget but hsh work orders that funding to the office of am work force and Economic Development and theres a Strong Partnership between us and the outlines and the Career Opportunities and Career Opportunities look like as long as with the equitable wage needed to live in San Francisco and the bay area so i would recommend if we do continue that conversation we invite oewd to this conversation and discuss what the outcomes look like. Hsh does require and request them to provide outcomes to us on all of the outcomes associated with that funding great. I know they have come before and that would be great and have them do an update once the pilot has been rolled out for a while but that is my last question. Thank you director sanders. This is great work and were excited every time you come. Theres always more. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now i would like to invite the representative from mohcd. Good morning. This kind of thing and finding my thing is not my skill. [off mic] sorry. I wish this is my i am multitasking dont even worry about it. Let the youngsters get up. I wouldnt know what to do either. I should have come earlier and i should have acknowledged it. Should i have brought a laptop. I dont think so it was the plan. These guys are on top of it. Or i do move if forward or [off mic]. That would be great. Helen hale. Theres a couple of things to let you know because of changes in the department and i know some of you have been in the cohort meetings and all and i thought it would be good to make that presentation here so our whole eviction prevention and tenants right council hab shifted and doing transition in the department and coming under me. Usually my voice doesnt require all of that but okay. Okay. I promise not to crowd you so staff has been poached to oakland and very good for oakland and hope they do fabulous things and hes is moving on and the last day in the office today and financing next week so we will replace that manager position within the department. Of course its been alluded to that hires in the city is fairly challenging so you will see a great deal of me but his team is moving under me and as the director and this work is i have been collaborating with him for a very long time. First slide so i wanted just give brief updates about erap. I tend to not necessarily leave slides if folks and i know folks are able to do those things but in general we work collaboratively with hsh, a tremendous successful program. We do have 10 cbo providers. Some are with hsr and theyre listed here. Its been very intentional about making sure we have a vast number of providers that can serve across the city and that all populations are comfortable being able to receive services at different organizations. The application has been transitioned to online and we do accept paper applications which is important for folks that arent able to do that but no account is needed on line and important for folks to know and they dont necessarily have to have email and things like that. Case managers work closely with folks as they submit applications and we are able to cover nine areas and when we had all the different state and the different thing and less of an assessment process associated with it but we have a process now so some of the risk factors include past homelessness or evictions, household members or seniors and pregnant or Young Children and immigration status and physical and Mental Health risket all. Next slide. For a one year impact i wanted to provide a dashboard and some data were quite proud about. In general we have been able to serve this is one year from now so just so that folks everyone the timeframe. So in total Financial Assistance 15. 7 million. Combination background future rent et cetera. Almost 2500 households of course served. Average is 6300 and in term was characteristics i want to call out those that are identifying as bipoc are 78 . We have between extremely low income and low income a very almost entirely that percentage and 57 experienced some past homelessness and additionally i wanted to clarify the highly vulnerable zip codes in case dont know how we designated them. Tenderloin, chinatown, hunters point, south of majority, mission, knob hill, next to tenderloin, Treasure Island and excelsior. Next slide please. Thank you and inerm it says of expenditure and im going to reference one of the questions that was referenced earlier on which you will get inform on. Its our intention that weve had a number of one time sources we utilized in erap. We intend that all of the one time are exhausted at the end of this fiscal year. While weve had ocoh money attached to the contracts that have been tracking it very well we returned it for use again in the next year because we wanted to expend the one time sources. To not spend them when they come to the city just because we have a fund that could is isnt good use of money. We have been tracking carefully what the cost of the program are Going Forward and the type of amount of money that would be needed to fund that, and have been careful to make sure were ramping up to an infrastructure within organizations that would support the ongoing cost that we have, the money that is available to us, so we dont get into a situation again hopefully and we donten what the economic downturn is and not to defund the program and not reach the folks that actually need the funds. But generally just to give you an idea the state Covid Relief Program back in 2122 but it did one 25. 7 million and of that approximately 1600 house holds were from San Francisco, so but we have been leveraging those sources. Next slide please. Then for the rest of our work which is quite strategic and i do want to reference because one of the questions you were talking with hsh about we have multiple Funding Sources in Different Program and the tenant right to counsel which is the Legal Defense system which is nationally recognized. In general we have 7 million allocated to ocoh and there are eight cbo partner and 1100 households are served per year. However the total amount of money that we expend in that area is 17 million. The antidisplacement Shallow Rental Subsidy Program and really low income and geared towards folks who are in rent controlled units and make sure they dont become destabilized. There is one cbo providers and basically have 2. 5 million from ocoh in that and the provider is defense collaborative. 135 house holds per year and the full enrollment is 2024 and anticipation with the sort of shallow subsidy or permanent subsidies that we have money available to make sure we can serve folks that you reserved in the upcoming years so we anticipate and look at how much is spent each month per household, and what will be needed and we then calculate within my hiv portfolio i of course doing this for years and anticipate a rent increase from landlords and looking at what increased costs are on an annual basis so we can absorb things Going Forward. Part of that is if youre at a fix rate of subsidies and in fact when someone moves on, passes away or no longer with the program youre then calculating if you can refill the subsidy or whether you need to state flat. Its important to understand that the interworking is going on with the city as well as the cbo partner. We have a tenant right to Counseling Program and important to educate all constituents about what their rights are and very important theyre deployed out to the different housing in San Francisco. Know your rights trainings are done on a regular basis. There are seven provider and we have 2 million in ocoh funds but the actual amount is 3. 4 million so were leveraging some of the our own money for that as well and in terms of Housing Mediation Program we work with San Francisco bar association. That program has been successful in being able to navigate conflict mediation and preserve housing and work with landlords and as well as their providers, property managers. Sometimes you have a property manager that is different from an owner, that things and were working to encourage owner operators and perhaps working somewhat differently with residents and to being more accepting of folks what their needs are. I think its really important for us to engage in those conversation and not have it so of black and white or theres a power dynamic in housing that is important to acknowledge and we want to encourage our residents to have the conversation and creating a safe space for folks to have conversations is important. We do allocate about 400,000 for that program and its Important Program that we use 148 households were served and under housing and to circle back and i told you about the permanent subsidies in general but the sro housing. That is through ccdc and we have 4. 1 million annually from ocoh but 4. 6 million is how much is in the program on an annual basis and we serve about 105 households annually and full enrollment at the end of 2024. Are there any questions . Any questions from the committee . Member friedenback . Member walton . No, but thank you. Thank you for all of this detail. Thank you. I look forward to working with you. One question on the e rap. Is that all the c prop funds youre reporting or combined . In terms of the data . The 15. Seven total you reported. Thats all funds. Thats all funds . Thats what i thought. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Now, open it up for Public Comment. I building that was our last speaker. Great. We will take in person Public Comments followed by phone Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment in person please line up at the podium now. Each person will have two minutes to speak. Good morning. My name is [inaudible] rivero. I work in the homelessness for a bunch of years. [inaudible] in the budget and the Budget Proposal for last year and the implementation of these monies. First i want to say thanks to the proposition c that contain [inaudible] in this whole process [inaudible] and we want this campaign. Thanks to 360 Homeless Individuals working on the campaign in 2018 i believe. Yeah. When we create this campaign we passed this proposition and when we won this proposition we are not you know. The people in the community won. [inaudible] Homeless People working on the campaign. This is a win for Homeless People so i want to take a little one moment, so [inaudible] i want to say i want to appreciate all the work were doing together so now we see the ruts. Now, we can start make stable family, the which weres, the people that can live in call a home. Another thing i want to mention is like yeah. So i think all these monies how they won. Thank you. One thing give me one second. I want to mention one thing. So a couple of weeks ago and the housing [inaudible] so report the proposal money from the budget from the proposition c is 900 the proposal was 967 million and the city was spending about 500 millions and still we have four 62. 7 million. My question is we have a less four months to the budget and season for 2024. Its possible that we want to spending all this money that we have and moving a bunch of families and providing services to our community, so we have enough time thank you. Your two minutes are up. Thank you. I would like to hear the answer. Thank you. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment over the phone please call 4156550001. Enter access code 26647160145. And then press pound and pound again. If you have already done so please dial star three to speak. A system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. Please indicate when the system says youre unmuted and you can begin your comments. Please note you will have two minutes. Moderator are there any Public Comments on the phone . For the records there are no additional Public Comments over the phone. This concludes the Public Comment section for this agenda item. Thank you. So now we will open up to future agenda items. Are there any proposals from Committee Members of things they would like to see on the agenda in the future . Member friedenback . Member walton . Speak now. Well, i know we already have plans for the Public Housing so that is exciting. Yes. But i did mention earlier around the lgbtq equity issue so i just want to restate that. Okay. Great. We can discuss that with chair williams as well. Its not so much an agenda item but i think we can continue to improve our ability to be as transparent as possible. Considering questions how the funding is being allocated, whats being allocated for future years versus what what we still have to consider . I think theyre all things that not get lost but confused in these very detailed presentations. Agreed and in addition when those presenters, public speakers, ourselves when we bring forward on statistics i am hoping people can bring the detail and helps with the transparency but thats a general comment but this was an amazing lump of inform today that will take time to go through after the meeting. Yes, agreed. I think making everything granular and easy for anybody to digest who is also not on this committee and i think we have been advocating for that for a while and making sure everything is digestible to all of the Community Members because every industry has its language and we all speak it but not everybody else does and just one other comment they think we as a committee to make part of our meetings the encouragement that the various sources for getting additional members to this committee be as proactive as possible as well as Community Members who are interested and have the requirements for the different seats come forward because todays information we didnt have a vote so not having quorum is not a critical issue, but Going Forward thats going to be a real challenge. Agreed. So maybe that is an agenda item at the end where we can sort of detail what the process for the application is because you know for those of us again who work in this and do this we can rely on our network to assist us but maybe there are people that want to join and dont know how to get on the committee and i would love to see those people join and maybe we can add that to an agenda item and say it out loud and those listening as well know how to apply, know what the open seats are and might put pressure on other folks to appoint other members, so agreed. Thank you. Yes thank you. This was great. So now we will open that up for Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment in person please line up at the podium now. Each person will have two minutes to speak. For the records there are no in person Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment over the phone please call 4156550001. Enter access code 26647160145. And then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so please dial star three to speak. A system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. Please inicate when the system says youre unmuted and can begin your comments. Please note you have two minutes. For the record do we have any Public Comments on the phone moderator . For the records there are no Public Comments over the phone. Thank you. Do we have a motion to adjourn . I am so move although we dont have quorum. Thats right. Okay. Okay. Were out. I dont know. No, we have to stay here. Youre wat francisco rising with chris manner todays special guests im chris youre watching San Francisco rising the rebuilding and reimaging and our guests the executive director of the Homeland Security and today to talk about the city and solutions and welcome to the show. Thank you an honor to be here. Lets a start by talking about people traeld dont consider that much the business programs what does the city need to have that. Most people think of homeless they think of people they see on the street in the tenderloin and many people experiencing homeless have not visible to the average person and a lot of those people are children or older adults and families that is what we see at the department of homeless on top of homeless among the black community we dont realize there. 40 percent of our homeless populationist with the africanamericans and only 5 percent of the population today the with the africanamerican and the same thing about the communities that over represent and we we try to make sure there is equity in the system and reaching the goals not seeing by the public as much we know that housing is essentially what Everyone Needs to thrive in the community. Quite correct some of the solutions often vulnerable or smaller scale how do we expand those solutions as we go about. A attended in the homeless he roman numerals seeing none, three interventions need presentation for the people experiencing homes in the first place and pouting are ways for people to get to permanent housing on their own and need shelter so really need all three of the intefrjz for people to assess one the things we often dont understand meet people where they are and sometimes did have the documents or other things to move into housing. They maybe waiting on Disability Income or themes so we have to be prepared to have things ready to use the sheltered are reality important. We know that ultimately preservation ask one of the most important toltz we can put into our systems if people dont have that mri better off for many reasons but way cheaper to have someone out of homeless in the first place and the permanent housing is a wonderful tool for many people cant get housing on their own and needed Case Management or other services to be able to assess the other part of their life employment and things. So the home by the bay plan can you explain the basics and how to address the needs . Sure the home by the bay the Strategic Plan the 5year plan to prevent homelessness i want to do what at mayors said homeless is not just owned by the department of 40e789s but the responded didnt has to include a number of stakeholders what that requires is really a collaborative approach were really continuing to work very close with the 0 department of Public Health and Law Enforcement or the department of aye. By linking to the voices of people exercising homelessness need to create programs without listening to the people experiencing and finding what is like for them to go through the system were not going to make that better and ultimately will not be successful. Your first goal really to produce inexacerbated in our system remarkably equity and also want to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 5 years and over all address homelessness by 15 percent your offer arching goals for us and some people said that didnt seem like enough or didnt seem bold enough to given where we are not just a a city but country wiring proud of that goal and look forward to implementing the work that it takes to get there and hoping will be can he have in 5 years. We are here the property interrupt trip to the lovely agreement can you talk about that and then maybe talk about how Public Housing will be a solution . One of the very exciting things about that building it accommodates names families in a neighborhood with Grocery Stores and transportation a little bit out of the tenderloin when we think of families with children finding places in the area that are enacted by homeless. So very again Community Space and actually have a partnership with the Housing Authority the Housing Authority has different kinds of vouches they have available and in case with the vouches we use those vouchers with the unit and help to cut the cost we have homekey dollars that provide money to the counties our acquisitions and able to leverage that. Can you you, you talk about the voucher programs how they help Public Housing and help landowners into the whole thing. Sure we have a few voucher emergency vouchers from the federal government during covid and dispersing those with the Housing Authority and the programs one they can help prevent people from 0 becoming homeless and people are in danger of becoming homeless with a necessity they can stay in the place they have and people are experienced homeless and in a shelter and kwobtd with the system the best way for them to find it themselves with the help of a case manager or a housing locate our that makes sense in San Francisco we will have a number of buildings in certain neighborhoods in San Francisco and a number of places in San Francisco we find people experiencing homeless across the decide but dont have an easy option with a number of neighborhoods so Emergency Housing Voucher Program we partnered in bay view and been successful in making sure that people from that neighborhood and that neighborhood kind of a proximity for people who have experienced homelessness with born and raised in bay view and, you know. Instead of putting them in a place across town a unit available able to work with them to find their units in the neighborhood eventually and we hope when lvrndz will see the value got a number of landowners buildings with a lot of vacancies we think that it is really um, helpful for them and hopeful for us we can Work Together and see the number of units in partnerships we can get people housed with a steady income from the rent. Thank you i appreciate you coming into here today. You know. This is great. Thank you chris appreciate that. Thats it for in episode and for sfgovtv im chris thanks fo bell tolling . Wow. clapping welcome, everyone. Here we are high on a hill. Little morning fog, no rain are we lurking or not were san franciscans. Were here to celebrate a beautiful man in our beautiful cable car cars what better day to do it in valentines day can you bring our hearts all right. My name is rick