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Their income, and how that relates as a percentage of area income and so right now, we are limited to 35 or 30 percent of the Median Income and a lot of the families who need our help are in the 40, 50 and 60 percent range and the resources are not sufficient to be able to handle that. And so, and at the end, in conclusion, i would like to say our goal is for families to be securely and safely housed with a stable source of income and a rent payment that is appropriate to the income and i think that if we are working together and can come together on those out comes we have a good list of opti...

Topic one point two Million School aged children are homeless in the united states, about quarter of a million of those live in california and 2200 live right here in San Francisco and i know that the homeless count, said that there is 679 members of families that are homeless in the city but there is discrepancy in the numbers that our School District did a report saying that the number is actually 2200. You all have seen many of the problems and one thing that i wanted to point out is right now it is taking a family, almost a year or more to move beyond homelessness and 7 months on the waiti...

In and out of Long Term Care for facilities and of the Emergency Rooms and of the homelessness, again. And from the parents house and where they can crash, and then, back into Long Term Care facility and treatment. And for dph, we really would need to have a system, where the kind of assessment that we find that we need to make which is largely and clinickly based and looking into the different data bases that we have and where that is possible and we have been part of discussing the coordinated assessment of course, and we have made our referral, paperwork, available. And for review, and ther...

General population. And i want to highlight some of our service and programs. And again, these for the homeless women, and the homeless families, and the Community Behavior Health Services and so that includes our Mental Health and our Substance Abuse programs, they fund quite a few programs specifically designed for homeless women and their homeless families and this is about 600 slots and i am giving a few examples here and some that you might have heard of, the womans place and a Homeless Prenatal Program and they have testified here before. And in your program, is the hs360 that is a forme...

Country. The Sheriffs Department or the chief patrol agents of any county. We gotta put them out of baby sitting the city buildings. Put them to work patrolling, hoir new officers dont defunds the Police Department f. Up want to dem fund the Police Department reimagining that the Police Department should look like. Reimagining what a 21st criminal Justice System should electric like. We need more patrol officers in the street. More walking the beat and living in this city like i did. I patrolled the area where my mother lived. It mattered to me. Thats when we need in San Francisco. We just don...