These are ballpark. Im sorry, well have an opportunity for members of the public to speak and i know there is incredible frustration on the issue and i appreciate that, but i want the director to answer. Thank you. Thank you very much. The part of that 247 million on homelessness, the shelter system, the hot team, the resource centers, so shelter system about 14 million. And supervisor, i will provide these accurate numbers. I think its really important. 14 million on shelter. The hot team 8 million. Resource centers are about 3 million. Eviction prevention is prevention homeless, but not focused on the streets. Its preventing that. Supportive housing is not homeless on the street. And then the rest is in the Behavioral Department dph and i dont have those numbers, but its woefully inaccurate to say to the public and to report in the press that we spend 247 million on the 3500 people on street, or the 6,000, 7,000 people identified in the Homeless Count is simply not true. Thank you. I want to thank the members. Public for being here today and for sitting through a very long hearing. Im going to call up the speaker cards that i have. I am steve laplanteand Debby Lehrman [speaker not understood] [ reading speakers names ] let him finish. I come out the hospital, i got a hernia operation okay . I come to the hospital and tell the social worker, come can i get a shelter . Can i get a bed . The day before christmas, look me up in the record, hector torrez. I couldnt get a shelter. For me, im a homeless man and what i think about the shelters . I wish i could take over and shut them down. They have been discriminating for 20 years. Pier 80 . What . They said you have to have a tb shot . Me . 250 million . Save it. Save the 250 million. Shut them all down. That is how i feel. I cant even take a shower. Eight shelters, i cant even take a shower to come over here. Domino operation they threw me out on the street like a dog. Why the hospital doesnt have connection . What a billion dollar donation . The discrimmation is encouraged by all walks of life. Everybody is discriminating and subconscious mind dont even realize that they are doing it. Thank you mr. Torrez. Hello supervisors. Thank you so much for holding this hearing today to focus on this important issue. And thank you to the departments for your presentations. I am Debby Lehrman with the San FranciscoHuman Services network. We have a few speakers, who represent the communitybased nonprofit sector. We represent the frontline for serving homelessness on a daily basis and as partners with the cities, as providers and advocates we see firsthand the barriers that Homeless People face and the gaps in the system of care. In response to the proposed new department of homelessness, we have come together to share our expertise and our insights through a policy paper, policy recommendations for the Mayors Department of homelessness, insights from communitybased nonprofits, and we have circulated this via email to the Mayors Office and to the departments and the board. I have some copis with me today for policymakers. Its post on our website at sfhfn. Org. The authors and signatories are homeless providers association, the homeless employment collaborative, the hivaids and San Francisco network and supportive providers network. Were going to present a few key points from the paper and we embrace this opportunity to Work Together. We submit this paper in the spirit of working together as a community, to develop a shared vision for a better system to serve Homeless Populations that can serve as a National Model for collaboration, resource allocation and results. And we ask all of our policymakers to please review the paper, and give full consideration to our recommendations. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you, ms. Lehrman. Good afternoon, im karen from Episcopal Community services. So the first recommendation from the coalition of coalitions is about the departmental structure. And what it should do . And its our recommendation that it focus squarely and exclusively on homelessness, with 3 primary tasks. The first is to coordinate the alignment of local and state and federal resources and entities. The second is to abolish or change any policy that exists that creates a barrier to reaching the goal of ending homelessness, and to improve outcomes for people who are homeless. With those charges, we say that the departments parameter should be those programs that exclusively house and serve Homeless People. But with very close coordination with the department of Public Health, the Human Service agency and mohcd to align access and services that homeless folks need, and that level of coordination requires weekly meetings between very highlevel staff between those departments. Success in ending homelessness also requires strategic action that is informed by the community. Especially folks who are homeless, and folks who serve and house people who are homeless. And so to ensure transparency in Community Input a commission should offsee the department and we recommend the local coordinating board and we called for visionary staff. We did use the word fresh blood, in our document. And joyces explanation, the words that she used, i wish we had more explicitly said. What we called it was hiring from the community. And our vision is the same as hers fresh blood didnt mean getting rid of old blood, but means bring mg more community perspective. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for once again. I am Deborah Edelman the director of programs for Hamilton Family center, as well as cochair of the homeless emergency providers association. So we encourage this new department to look really comprehensively at systematic solutions. Success of the department is dependent on investment in order to house 8,000 more Homeless People in the next five years it will rely on a sustainable Revenue Source. There should also be a coordinated entry with a unified data system, that assesses and targets services, when needed, and focuses on coordinated placement into permanent and viable housing. We hope that the department will end criminalization of those who are experiencing homelessness, sending out reach workers to offer housing instead of policing homelessness. Focus on prevention, prioritizing evictionprevention, coordinate closely with dph, to identify barriers to Mental Health and asubstanceabuse treatment and move to treatment ondemand and expand transitional Employment Opportunities and jobtraining, and of course, support the dignity of those who are forced to remain on the streets with sufficient access to restroom, showers, health care, all that will ensure a safe place to live. For these solutions to stick, we encourage the department to transition seamlessly and focus on meaningful outcomes, looking at contract outcomes, multitiered aproach and to easily modify contracts asneeded and supporting organizations and contractors with capacity and adequate staffing. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Edleman. Good afternoon supervisors im the executive director of the Providence Foundation in the bayviewhunters point community, and i also, my organization is a part of the hespagroup and we have outcomes involving the new department and were requesting that the new changes to improve access would include shelter access. That the department should ensure that access to shelters is seamless. Families signing up for shelter waitlists should not be required to transfer their benefits to San Francisco. That singleadults should not be held to the onenight bed process. Where people are turned away while beds are sitting empty and Homeless People must go from place to place during multiple times during the day to wait in line for a bed. We also hope that the new department is equitable; that they should ensure equitableness with geographic. Miss lamar, did you say empty beds . Yes, while beds sit empty we should not have them waiting in line to get a bed. Could you tell us where you have seen empty beds in our shelter system, that are not utilized and why that happens . That is completely unacceptable. We do, too. We operate a shelter that they call in daily for a bed and its not always to capacity. At providence . At providence, the Family Center is at first friendship. We dont know where the breakdown is, because and the change system will say that we are at capacity, and we are not always at capacity its not clear to you why this is happening . No. Even though you place people in these beds . Yes. We have been trying to straighten that system out for years . What is difficult in finding out what is going wrong . What is not happening . Its a computer problem . Its a computer problem . Could you explain that further . Well, we say that the people call in and placed in the system, but it will say this place is full, when it really isnt full. How does that happen . Im not sure. We can look into it and get to the bottom of it for you, definitely. Is this from the city or is this happening the change system is through the city. Okay. I would like to understand that better, because we should never have any empty beds. First friendship, are these actually beds or mats . These are mats. We serve Emergency Shelter only and our beds are mats. Right. Thank you so much, ms. Lamar. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thanks for holding this hearing. My name is doug, cochair of the Supportive Housing network and delivering innovation known as dish. A lot of talk around town about this issue and i know that you know that the solution to homelessness is simple, its housing. Im here today in support of what my colleagues have said and will say and to urge special attention to five key points. First to increase funding with the widening income gap and aging population in Supportive Housing with more acute needs. There is a Strong Demand for maintaining and increasing funding for Supportive Housing. Supportive housing works and needs to be funded at appropriatelevels. Second, creating pathways. We wanted to see the new department of increase the diversity of the housing spectrum to create a tenantcentered approach. Which a tenant is ready to move out, this option must be available with rental subsidy supplements that are usually less expensive andplore appropriate for some. With that said we need realistic with scarcity of housing. Third, hold rent at 30 of income and Supportive Housing. Some of the citys programs currently charge well above this level, and it is crushing for people who live with such little income. Fourth prioritize nonprofit owned Supportive Housing including acquisition, rehabilitation and new construction. And fifth, increase supply of the Supportive Housing. The department should [tpwaoeupbd ] creative ways to exped yeat the development of new units and to do so the new department we know what works, end homelessness with government oversight together we can end homelessness. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Gary. Hi, my name is jennifer freidbach executive director on the coalition of homelessness and thanking supervisor cohen and supervisors kim for holding this hearing and in addition really thankful about how many people show up on this issue and how many people are really spending a lot of time out of their day to be here to make sure that this issue is addressed. I have to admit, when i walked in the room and saw a packed room, i got really nauseous and nervous because im scared; scared there is going to be more hatred against an entire class of people that i know how vulnerable that population is on the streets. No matter when its merchant or homeless person themselves seeing their health deteriorate or a neighbor concerned about someone in their neighborhood without housing . No matter what we can agree that solving this crisis is in all of our best interests. So i want to kind of get real about this, and make the statement the 150 beds at pier 80 are not going to be enough beds to house the over 5,000 people who are on streets. We have some suggestions how the city can handle this crisis. First of all, we would really like to see a moratorium on sweeps. The federal government has really good guidelines that suggest a plan to figure out where peoples can be relocated to before they are further disenfranchised to have an exit strategy for people when that facility closes down would you finish your sentence . Yes, we want to see the real Health Concerns of people on the streets be addressed, and expand the Navigation Centers citywide and have a sustainable Revenue Source to really source this problem. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Friedenbach. Good afternoon supervisors, sheryl adams executive director larkin youth services. Cochair and member of hes paand strongly encourage as we form the department and moving forward to forming the department in the interim were mindful what is happening currently. To followup on jennifers comments pier 80 and popup shelters are great and to focus on exit strategies and continue to ensure those folks left out of housing have access to housing options, creating additional lowbarrier housing. We need to focus only populationspecific interventions that work and we need to expand that and deepen that. We know what works with familis and veterans and chronically homeless and to continue to work on those and the new department to work on those. In interim we all need to continue to Work Together to solve those and to echo what everybody said and you know Everybody Knows it, the solution to homelessness is housing. Unless we are thinking about exits from the time people enter, and reducing barriers well continue to see so many folks on our streets who dont want to be there, who want to have other options and well continue to see hatred towards them and stigmatization. So we plan now and plan when the department is operational. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Adams and before ms. Thomas speaks i will call 15 more cards. [ reading speakers names ] thank you ms. Thomas. Thank you, Laura Thomas Deputy state director for policy alliance and thank the member of this committee for holding this hearing. In december, the board of supervisors, with leadership from president breed and supervisor kim among others made the very wise decision to not invest money in building a new jail and that has given us an opportunity to really look at how we invest our resources. And i think its very clear both in the conversations that many of us leading up to that decision and ongoing work with many departments involved, that we need to look at how we address homelessness in the context of what we need to do instead of building a new jail . I think one of the obvious answers is housing and Services IncludingSubstance Use treatment ondemand. Supervisors Injection Services and standing our harmreduction programs. However, i also want to caution us as we think about creating a department of Homeless Services that we not silo our response to homelessness into services only and into a department. I think if we disconnect homelessness from our larger city policies, and decisions, we will be doing ourselves a disservice. We need to look at how Law Enforcement and criminalization happens in the city . We need to look at economic inequality and for closure of homes and we need to look at jobs and who is getting hired . And unless we decriminalize homelessness, unless we undo the ordinance and enforcement. Of the sitlie ordinance, we will be continuing to drive people into homelessness that will then need to spend money to get them out of. So we need to look at policy solutions on the frontend, as well as continuing to provide services. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Thomas. Hi. My name is kelly keith im a homeowner on protero hills. I am a little disappointed supervisor cohen couldnt be here since her district is im pounded by this. Sometimes she should make a exception. She has another Committee Hearing. This is a big one here today, maam. I have never been in a room and felt so much frustrate issue in my entire life, from all sides sides on this and mayor lee said when the super bowl was coming that they have to go, not one person on this board of supervisors i remember stood up and said no mayor lee, its not going to happen. January 1st why wont pier 80 opened up . Ask the board of supervisors . Again silence from you people. Its unbelievable. Its what you are paid to do, you know . What is wrong with you people . You dont listen to what is going on. Mayor lee is not doing his job;, you not doing your job. I was accosted by one of these homeless camps. I dont like to walk through dog shit and personal pee and needles all over the place and why . Because you guys are not doing your jobs and you are spending 200 million total and now you just figured out we need to consolidate the department . Its not fair to the people who are homeless, because you people cant think forward. This is 2016. This has been going on since mayor agnus, you know . And the only one who ever did anything was newsom. So i think priorities need to be set she wasnt afraid to ask 8 million budget. She should have a 30 million bu