Saying. Reporter larry and ama, the mayor was not shocked by the numbers. She tells us that their goal is to have a total of 700 beds by the end of this year. There are more than 4,000 homeless in the city. A waiting list to be on a waiting list. Item number 115. Reporter frankie lee ban ser one of more than 4,000 homeless living in oakland and says shes been waiting for housing for months. Oakland is answering this crisis with a sense of urgency innovation. Data collected by oakland and Alameda County officials confirmed the Homeless Population per capita surpasses anywhere in the bay area. Oaklands Homeless Population rose 47 between 2017 and 2019. We have the triple whammy of income inequality, an inadequate supply of housing, insufficient protections against displacement and a Mental Health system that is not working. Reporte lmoaknd opened its first safe rv parking site and announced two more under development. It has four sites they call cabin communities offering sheds in backya
So many great parts working so fabulously together whether its public works, fire chief, police stations working together. We do it locally and do it the right way. This is so exemplary of these kinds of projects that have gone all the way on every front to be so inclusive for everybody. And, just in a very short few weeks, well see the sailing races that begin. I know americas cup will be taking over this spot for the months for the races beginning this weekend, but in a very short time after that in march, well begin phase 2 of this project which is the public works and recollect recreation and park. Phil is here to make sure this happens. You are standing on twoandahalf acres that will be the most beautiful space you will see in your lifetime as we landscape this and there will be people that will appreciate this area that compliments this beautiful terminal and 20 thousand people will embark from this terminal and spends lots of money here. And now that is to fast forward these pro
Come. I would like to introduce the honorable mayor ed lee, the board of supervisors david chew, and many commissioners of many of those agencies and of course the president of our Port Commissions, dorene, the honorable mayor willie brown in the back and the of course the amazing and brilliant port staff. Thank you all for being here today. I want to take a moment of where we are in cruising. The cruise lines are building new ships and doubling their fleet. Their carrying double or triple times the amount of passengers as before. But shockingly in the united states, cruise terminal are shrinking. And the industry is expanding, cruise cities and cruise ports are trying to figure out how to address that demand. In many cases those ports are putting up tents to process passengers as the port of San Francisco does when we have too many ships or they are rehabilitating warehouse sheds at pierre 35 and dog doing what we have done here today in building a new terminal. This terminal, unlike
I want to thank all of you for being here today. It is my honor on behalf of the port of San Francisco to say thanks to each one of you. As you look around, that would take hours to thank all of you. Please give yourselves a round of applause in this new cruise ship for San Francisco. I would like to say a special thank you to the press for being here chronicling the metamorphosis. It has gone worldwide that we have built a new terminal here in San Francisco and i have been the beneficiary on behalf of the port of numerous well wishes and statements of gratitude. And one of the long friends said i thought this day would never an n arrive. I said how could it not . The first vessel was in 1812, a merchant vessel searching the world for prosperity and new horizons. It took a hundred years before a Steam Powered vessel capable of carrying passengers around the world. It arrived in San Francisco in 1912. That ship was the s s cleveland known as the majestic cruise liner carrying people fro