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system of homelessness, and also san francisco. i have been in san francisco for 25 years, part of the bay area for 35 years. i have taught high school for 38 years. there is no reason i should be homeless. i did when i was supposed to do but it was the government -- the system here, it treats people very badly. i have seen very sick people waiting for it their bed. some people cannot walk, and some people are hungry, they are tired and depleted, and some of them do not get a bed. it is a sad thing to see their faces. i have been in the next door, and they sent me once to something c...

i have been in the new york system of homelessness, and also san francisco. i have been in san francisco for 25 years, part of the bay area for 35 years. i have taught high school for 38 years. there is no reason i should be homeless. i did when i was supposed to do but it was the government -- the system here, it treats people very badly. i have seen very sick people waiting for it their bed. some people cannot walk, and some people are hungry, they are tired and depleted, and some of them do not get a bed. it is a sad thing to see their faces. i have been in the next door, and they...

and make the united states a better place to live for everybody. >> thank you, an angel. >> thank you, and god bless you. >> hello. about six or eight months ago we were having the hearings on the money for homeless -- i sent you an e-mail that applies to this situation. basically, i am blind in one eye, with a degenerated disks. i have been given the top bonds, which i cannot access. i have $4,000 and spent most of that on motels and hotels because i cannot stand in line for three or four hours at time. we are san francisco. we're just a step above silicon valley. we have software c...

reform. thank you. [applause] >> may i have the overhead? i was first homeless in this town more than a dozen years ago, when my ssi was taken away. the shelter system was just as deplorable then as it is now. the lack of shelter access was occurring in 1998. this is the local homeless coordinator -- probably read by everyone over there. i know -- i have read that report and live to this in 1998. please, i beseech you, supervisor kim, can we do something different this year? [applause] two months ago i was wrongfully evicted from the sub -- substandard rose hotel for filing a complai...

bring the supportive services and stuff that is already being funded into the sro's in different areas so that we might not need to spend any more money regarding those things, but just to send them into the sro's. so her points about the families are very important. i am definitely concerned about those as well. almost as important of that is the have the stability issues of those sro's. i feel like to keep it positive. but we have some major issues that we need to address. and i want to start shifting some things around. and i need your support to make those things happen. i think ...