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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...

Crisis residential. Last year in the budget we did a good job of repurposing our Behavioral Health center because what we found was that the federal government is now changing what is acute in psych for psych beds. And, so, those who were so, we have a large group of people who were not acute in the hospital at the very expensive level of care. So, we wanted to build some layers of care that were more appropriate for them and, so, we are going to be opening up 23 psych respite bed so those who are not acute in january San Francisco general in the psych area, theyll be transferred over to the p...

We want every homeless individual to a primary care home. Ave done some work a crisis residential. Last year in the budget we did a good job of repurposing our Behavioral Health center because what we found was that the federal government is now changing what is acute in psych for psych beds. And, so, those who were so, we have a large group of people who were not acute in the hospital at the very expensive level of care. So, we wanted to build some layers of care that were more appropriate for them and, so, we are going to be opening up 23 psych respite bed so those who are not acute in janua...

Through mhsa dollars there has been a problem of Behavioral Health and traditional housing. And then [speaker not understood]. Supervisor mar . I know that bevan dufty mentioned in his costs and the mayor has said lords law hes looking into that. And i know mr. Dufty said there is the possible proposal for a Pilot Project you could talk about the schizophrenic illness supports. If you could talk about what that process is going to be like. There have been pro and con, different concerns especially from Community Based Mental Health providers. Could you give us a little built of what to expect ...

Stuff where it addressed the very severely mentally ill people that were not going today. We have a whole lot of untreated Mental Illness out there. I think we all can acknowledge that. We need to make sure we address it and we should be making sure that people have medical treatment in the same way they do and, you know, they get in a car accident or any other medical issue. Its really not the case right now in San Francisco. People do not have access to Mental Health treatment in the way that they should. And lastly, wed really like to see a concerted effort to end family homelessness and ge...