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estimates, we're down to about 76,000. we hope to be under 60,000 by early next year and by 2015 we will end homelessness. the va has also been able to provide tremendous support to the community. there's about 40,000 community- based transition house in beds available, including the wraparound social services zymogen. we have nearly $60 million in grants to community groups across the country to provide stable housing. we're partnering, this is very important, with 78 local veterans' treatment courses, and that number is changing. to support the veterans that get in trouble because ...

it increases exponentially. of course, with three-quarters of our veterans dealing with issues of alcohol abuse, substance abuse, and mental health issues, keeping a job and stabilizing in one's life is merely becomes impossible. it is only by working together that we are going to get this done. and i have -- a little love from the california state senate. yes, we're busted, but we put this together to be able to bring you this recognition today and in thanking the san francisco's veteran administration medical center, and of course our great friends of the salvation army here at the...

begin in it. today we begin the task. if i may present this to you. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> our next speaker is edwin lee, mayor of san francisco. he first began working for the city and county of san francisco in 1989 as the investigator for the city's first whistleblowing ordinance and has since served as executive director of the human rights commission, director of the city purchasing, and director of the department of public works before he was first appointed as the city administrator in 2005. please join me in welcoming mayor lee. [applause] >> that is good. she...

community effort. the va is not going to end homelessness by ourselves. we will end it with your help, with your partnership. it takes a community to do this. so just in keeping with what we're trying to do here, make the call. get that word out. make the call. together, we can prevent and eliminate homelessness for veterans and their families. so thank you very much. [applause] >> hopefully all of you have the pressure with the phone number, and there are posters in the back. so please take those pedometer read one from this that really struck me. the words homelessness and veterans...

as the secretary reminds us on multiple occasions, one veteran slipping on the street on one night is one too many. we will end homelessness for madrid -- for veterans. i do emergency cardiac care peter i am a more comfortable wearing scrubs than standing up here in a suit and tie. but another terrible problem working in emergency rooms of the homeless folks go through. on the east coast, we have harsh winters and the summers. we do not have the problem so much here. but life on the streets is dangerous. it has problems with health care as well. one of the major problems for homeless...