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Violence against Homeless People in the streets. The mythology has made it very difficult to develop the Popular Support that we need to create solutions to homelessness and has, you know, kind of furthered the acceptable use of Homeless People as a scapegoat in various political races. And when we talk about homelessness and we read about it in the media, if you take out the word homeless and you put any other word in there, it wouldnt be acceptable, yet the Homeless Population is over represented by members of the lgbt community, by African Americans, by women who are victims of Domestic Vio...

Of our Clinical Services under one area. Were calling that the San Francisco Health Network and we have another division called Public Health difficult have i. Mobile crisis was set up many, many years ago under the single aspect of new york. We reorganized that area to become a Behavioral Health system. We have 24hour teams. One of the directions ive given to our teams, we have a childrens crisis team, mobile crisis, a Community Response team that goes out to violent issues, and two of those teams are 24 hours. So, we were hoping to do is merge mobile crisis see, we have a 24hour team with ex...

Transiency goes. To sum it up, the magnet theory is not Something City services has to worry about as a big impact in attracting homeless. Their ability to move around and respond even within the city is limited. We specifically did a study in las vegas in 07 where there what a feeling that in the summertime the homeless would leave las vegas because of the heat and would come back in the wintertime when the weather was better. And we did a seasonal study and determined from that that theres virtually no impact on seasonality. Empirically when we did some of the surveys, we found that they had...

So, madam clerk, if well start the first one, if you could call item number 1. Item number 1 is the hearing to discuss and evaluate San Franciscos 10year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, which is due to sunset at the end of 2014. Thank you. So, colleagues, our first item today is a hearing i called for a few months ago to discuss our citys tenyear plan to abolish chronic homelessness here in San Francisco, a plan which is set to sunset this year in june. Leading up to todays hearing my staff and i spent significant amounts of time meeting with city, nonprofit and Community Leaders as well...

Remember my father and i do speak for my family in this regard. We are always and every day grateful that we live in a city that does not forget. But theres just something wrong in this notion that the day we remember our lost leaders is the most violent day of their lives, which in the case of my family was the most violent day of ours. Its almost as if were giving the senselessness of these deaths way too much respect by centering our love and passion and memory and yearning on the day the beating hearts of these two men, hearts that were so brave, so unflinching, so immensely loving so full...