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So we have, uh noel simmons, whos our chief Deputy Director. G whitley, whos our um, Deputy Director for finance and administration, emily colon. Who is the Deputy Director for communications and legislative affairs. Um and melanie lehman, who is not one of our Deputy Directors, but is our hr director and is in the audience today as well and missing today, but who, um people who will be here in the future r d. Rose otto chan, who is our Deputy Director of programs, cynthia an agenda who is our um, Deputy Director for planning and strategy, and anthony bush, who is our chief equity officer, cynthia maybe joining us a little bit late, and the other two are unable to join us today. Thanks. This place is you on item three announcement of prohibition of sound. Producing devices during the meeting. The ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the commission may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices. This place is you on item four directors report. Thank you. And um, i didnt expect this to come up quite so quickly. So i just want to. Im delighted, um, that this is our first meeting. And look really looking forward to working with all of you commissioners. Ive had a chance to speak with each one of you. And im think this is a really wonderful group, um, to have as an inaugural commission for the homelessness, oversight work that youll all be doing with us together, so just that want to appreciate you and, um i really look forward to a lot of great work. So today. What i was going to do is really just given overview of our Strategic Plan. Um some of you have already had the benefit of hearing the overview. And so please bear with us. I thought it was a good way to kind of, you know, set the stage and ground us all in the same place in the future. I will be reporting on kind of what weve done over the last month. Certainly where we are in terms of our metrics and goals once we get our Implementation Plan in place, and then i can report to you on anything that you would like. In addition to that, and i again part part of the reason that we have our exact staff here is to answer questions, but also to help me. Remember what kinds of questions you ask and what we would like to have in reports in the future. Um so you know, i think ill start with the Strategic Plan and then maybe just make a couple of comments afterwards. Based on some things that some conversations ive had with each of you and some things that i hear that youd like to know for me. Um and then well we can go from there. So thanks. And. Just waiting for the slide deck to come up so. Okay, so um. So i just want to really thank all of the providers and the advocates and Community Members and people who with lived expertise who contributed to this plan. Our plan is called home by the bay and equity driven plan to prevent and homelessness in San Francisco. We wanted to make sure that we were centering equity in every piece of the plan and including the title. Which is why, um, we started with that. I think you know, we really couldnt have made this plan work. One of the great things about a plan is really bringing people together and sharing a common vision. And you know, it really takes all stakeholders to make that happen. And so im just really grateful that weve had the collaboration the input from all of our stakeholders. And i also want to thank um you know everybody here even who had a part in that . So the plan has been in development for the past several months and will be effective july 2023 to june 2028. It was developed between late 2022 early 2023. We just issued it in april. And it will be effective starting july, so thats actually really Perfect Timing for you as a commission to be working with us. Next slide. So the Plan Document is organized into three parts. Part one is the executive summary, which provides an overview of key elements of the plan. Part two provides the detailed elements of the plan to be implemented and part three provides more details regarding information that informed the development of the plan or that will be important in our implementation, such as more detail on how the goals will be measured in how strategies will be tailored for different sub populations. Next slide. So what makes the plan different . So weve had plans in the past. I think that difference between those and this is one as i mentioned, um it is equity focused. It really, uh reflects Broad Community input. It includes a multi departmental scope and ill talk a bit more about that. Um, and then it utilizes a very sophisticated quantitative system model. So our vision. Is that the city and county of San Francisco is committed to achieving Racial Equity and housing justice in our community, ensuring that no one experiences homelessness and that everyone has housing. Has the housing supports community and opportunities they need to thrive. And to drive progress toward this vision. The department has led the development of the home by the bay plan and is charged with leading its implementation from july 2023 through june 2028. The home by the bay plan aligns the roles and activities of city departments and offices, enhancing coordination and collaboration and increasing impact in pursuit of the plans, vision and shared goals. So our core values are equity and justice. Quality and innovation. And well place an emphasis on these core values throughout the implementation of every element of our plan. Next slide. So through the plan, the city is embracing these guiding principles, leadership and guidance from people with lived expertise being at the top Housing First and housing focused, people centered and strengths based intentionality in crisis. Courage compassion, collaborative relationships and shared Decision Making. Respectful and inclusive. Data driven, targeted and tailored and common sense. So building on past successes, while important things are different about the plan. We didnt want to throw it everything that weve done in the past. Obviously theres also continuity in the plan that builds on our successes to date. Weve expanded prevention, shelter and housing in a way that is reduced unsheltered homelessness by 15 over three years, and we want to continue that trajectory. So in terms of development of the plan, um you know, i already i already mentioned some of this, but we have Community Liaisons with lived expertise to design and implement engagement activities. Weve used this system modeling , so we have a baseline model regarding needs, pathways and scale of Current Investments and interventions, and therefore we can project impacts on different investments or other policy and practice changes. And that really helps us inform our goals and targets setting. And then we use review of other plant relevant plans and reports and best practices and then cross departmental coordination and planning. So you know homelessness is not really one departments purview, and i mean, obviously its ours. But its so crosscutting that we really have to use our partnerships with other departments in order to make sure that were actually making an impact in the way that we would like to, in the way that weve set our goals. So the next slide um more than 300 people currently experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, provided input to in person surveys and focus groups that ask questions about the citys response to homelessness to inform the default development of home by the bay. Surveys were designed, administered and analyzed by paid Community Liaisons with personal and professional expertise in homelessness. Among the surveys questions. People were asked based upon their lived expertise with the citys Top Priorities for addressing homelessness should be over the next five years. Next slide. So among the surveys, questions, um. People there were top. The top five priorities identified were improving Housing Options, making it easier or faster to get housing, more Housing Options and more choice, improved shelter system and improved Case Management services. Other priorities that we heard from people with lived expertise included more shelter beds, improving Mental Health services, making sure access to programs and services are fair and equitable. Creating more job opportunities. Improving Outreach Services, more street outreach in case managers with better training and more relevant resources. More training to increase empathy among staff from various organizations. So. The priorities of people with lived expert people experiencing homelessness. Not surprisingly, to us 88 of survey survey respondents said they would accept permanent housing of the city offered it today, so there are a lot of myths out there about people experiencing homelessness and what they want. Its really important to ground ourselves in this understanding that people really do want housing. So the goals of the home by the bay of home by the bay are to reduce the number of people who are in sheltered by 50 and reduce the total number of people experiencing homelessness by 15. To demonstrate measurable reductions and racial inequities and other disparities in both the experience of people. Um ever homelessness in the outcomes of city programs intended to prevent an end homelessness and then three to support at least 30,000 people to move into housing. And again, thats over a five year period. Next slide four is to ensure that at least 85 of people who exit homelessness do not experience it again. And then five is to provide Prevention Services to at least 18,000 people at risk of losing their housing and becoming homeless. To achieve these goals. The city will expand a package of housing , shelter and Prevention Services and strengthen operations and outcomes across the entire system within five key action areas. And those action areas are advancing Racial Equity and housing justice, strengthening response to unsheltered homelessness. Increasing, successful and stable entries into permanent housing, preventing people from experiencing homeless snus and then enhancing system performance. To achieve the plan goals, the city must make a package investment. And that includes providing Prevention Services for 4300 additional households. Adding 1075 more shelter beds and adding 3250 units of new housing. R data modeling has demonstrated that through the Program Expansions listed on the previous slide, we will be able to achieve a 50 reduction in unsheltered homelessness. So then on the next slide, the system modeling has also made it possible to project the costs of expanding the homelessness response system with these additional housing and services. The city estimates that this expansion will require approximately 607 million in additional funding during the five year time premium. This plan and approximately approximately 217 million in additional funding annually. Thereafter increasing with inflation over time to sustain the new investments. These Financial Resources are not yet secured. Marshaling resources at this scale will require increase in ongoing funding commitments at the local level. Aggressive advocacy for and leveraging of new state and federal funding. Strategic and coordinated philanthropic investment. Accountability to ensure that all dollars are effectively deployed to achieve the desired outcomes. And then through this plan, we have identified five action areas focused on improving outcomes across our community for each of these action areas. The plan identifies goals, relevant guidance from people with lived experiences of homelessness objectives that expressed the intended improvements, changes and impacts. Prioritized strategies and activities representing specific specific actions. And efforts that are already underway or being planned and then future areas of focus. We will highlight some key activities within each action areas. Presentation. But direct you to the plan. Um, for these additional details. So in the area of advancing Racial Equity and housing justice people have lived expertise highlighted that representation matters. Staff within the homelessness response system should look like the people who are being served. It is essential to have people with lived expertise participate in meaningful leadership design. Advisory employment planning, evaluation and assessment activities across our system. There should be more emphasis on pier positions within the system. And its important to analyze qualitative data, which could show racial inequities and how people are being treated, even if they dont show up in quantitative quantitative data the city should empower and resource people with lived expertise to engage impacted communities. So focus activities within the advancing Racial Equity and housing justice action area are focused on utilizing data to enhance equity. Collaborating with people with lived expertise, Capacity Building. Um both internally and with our provider partners and then empowering the leadership of impacted communities. So in terms of system, performance and Capacity Building people with lived expertise made the following recommendations. Coordinated entry should be redesigned to be more focused on welcoming people into Services Rather than gatekeeping. Better information regarding availability and eligibility of programs needs to be provided Access Points and through outreach and drop in services. The system should provide greater continuity across systems. And across programs, it is essential to provide training to all people working with clients to ensure that people are treated better. And more equitably and with compassion. And empathy is essential to provide. Um sorry. The homelessness response system should be radically welcoming. And the system needs to provide direct access to programs and services tailored to the needs of specific populations. In this area home by the bay will have focus areas of supporting nonprofit capacity and sustainability. Enhancing performance management, redesigning coordinated entry. Improving data utilization and then better aligning citywide strategies and resources. Strengthening our response to unsheltered. Homelessness is top of mind for nearly everyone in San Francisco. People with lived expertise offered the following guidance. Two of the top prize of five priorities for the city, identified by people experiencing homelessness, who responded to surveys werent improved shelter system and improved Case Management. People are profoundly disconnected alone and terrified when they live on the street. Have experienced violence, assaults and thefts and may not have spoken to anyone in weeks. Women are especially tra