Where you can take the time to listen to people and be able to understand. Which is they need to understand the help in their lives. We lost two people this year at st. Anthonys from our staff from overdose. We had someone overdose in our staff bathroom and we were able to reverse them. We do overdoses overdose reversals every week, two, three , four, five, 10. Our staff, our onboarding, they are onboarding enormous amounts of trauma around these issues. Mostly because they dont know how to help other than to keep forcing overdoses. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is giant jane and i have spoken to you many times. First of all, i want to echo every single thing that has been said before me because everyone is saying the right thing, but what i am here to say is to let you know what it is like to live at seventh and mission and let you know that this is beyond a crisis. If this was an earthquake, we would have an Immediate Response every single City Department would pull out everything they have. This is as bad as an earthquake and we are not doing that. So i have talked all of my good friends of that department of Public Health of all the right ideas and we are all working on it. I read it will take two years to open the 24 7 a clinic clinic that we need. I watch reversals every single day out of my window. My brother died from a Drug Overdose. I know what this is all about. I know how hard it is and how long it takes to treat. But just reversing a Drug Overdose without offering followup treatment is sending that person right back down that hole. So we need to absolutely escalate everything you have heard here. We need to put every single city resource behind it. We cant wait two years. I watch it every single night. I watched people revived, i watch people die right outside my window. It is not safe for us who are housed and live in the neighborhood. One of my friends testified yesterday. He is disabled and walks with a walker. He cant walk out our door and he cant pass down the sidewalk. All i am saying is this is urgent and this is a crisis. Please act as quickly as you can thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I want to thank the supervisors were getting this hearing on today and thank matt haney for calling it what it is, it is an emergency and a crisis. I work at late Harm Reduction programs. The Harm Reduction theres a Harm Reduction tshirt that says support, not punished. It is a simple message but it is one that has not been inherent in the manner it needs to be. People who have Substance Use disorders should never be punished or having a disorder. They should be supported and programs should be saving people with dignity and respect and any time that the choice is, should i support or punish and you are choosing punished, then there is a problem with the paragraph that you are using and it will be ineffective. Everything everywhere where we have had successful interventions have always had a nonjudgmental and a compassionate way of engaging those folks. Normally people who use drugs are heavily abusing drugs in our front and center of those organizations. So we have to rethink how we are doing this and we have to expand on Program Models that are successful. The expertise in this room, in this community, we know how to do this. The department of Public Health knows how to keep overdose numbers down. Those projects have done incredible work with minimum resources and thats when one of the reasons why we have such low numbers here and we have benefited from not been contaminated in the drug supply. It is only going to get worse until we take more action and we have more resources. Please direct your resources at the agencies that know what they are doing, that can engage the population and we can take this number down dramatically and any time you think a war on drug solution, Law Enforcement will never work when it comes to preventing overdose deaths. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thanks for having me today. My name is william on the Outreach Coordinator for hep pepsi prevention services. Thank you for pulling bringing this up. At the end of the day, it has been said in so many different ways where it is needed, but i will say a little bit from my perspective as someone who is out there in the trenches on a daily basis. And who has been doing this work for almost 20 years in the city. I care deeply about the people that we serve. And as someone who, by necessity subscribes to the philosophy of Harm Reduction, because i do i believe in evidencebased and Public Behavioral Health interventions, and that is what we do in Harm Reduction. We dont do opinion based treatment. Unfortunately Substance Use treatment was for so long in this country. Things are changing. [please stand by] water and bathrooms. Many people experience homeless use drugs to survive on the street. And when they lack access of basic needs, they can use unsafe ways that increase the risk and preventable overdose. We must ensure we respect the community of San Francisco by guaranteeing access to basic human needs and universal Mental Health access to everyone. Safe injection sites are a great way to reduce disease like hepatitis c and hiv. We need to act right now. We need Overdose Prevention sites now. Lets end the epidemic now. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are there next speaker. A lot of the drug people are alluding to are highly toxic substances, these individuals are making bad choices and their vices are killing them, half of all iv users in the city have acquired hepatitis, it would probably require another quarter of a billion dollars a year to credit them with medication. Drug use is sensationseeking behavior. People may look like terrible wrecks laying on the street or staring at a crack on the sidewalk but rest assuring they are enjoying their high if they are not having a psychotic reaction in public. I drove across mexico years ago, a drug gang dumped 35 bodies on to the highway. A couple months before i arrived and the drug gang disappeared, 40 University Students a couple months after i left. We have been reading about communities in mexico being turned into war zones as gangs fight to feet american demand. I would like to know if there is an estimation of the amount of money being spent on elicit substances, how that money is obtained and if local police are working close with the f. B. I. Over the remainder of the bureaus enhanced efforts. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor haney. Well, first of all, thank you to everybody who came out and spoke. Im glad we did Public Comment first because i think you all really added so much to the conversation and so many of the folks doing this work every day and have really been a part of where most of the ideas that are in this legislation have come from. And also i want to thank the dope project and the union, we did a lot of trainings in the community and here at city hall, and i think that was a powerful statement of the collective responsibility that we all have in the course of this epidemic. I have a few things. But i figure maybe you all might want to go first. I see supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor haney for calling this very important hearing. And thank you for everybody who came out out to come and for the presentation. And a few things i picked up in Public Comment that i wanted to just touch on. I liked what someone said about compassion rather than condemnation for those that are, of course, suffering from the disease of addiction on our streets. Also what david said, i think it was our first speaker in terms of having people out on the streets with our peace officers and sometimes public works employees that have experience with addiction and who are Homeless Outreach team are people that are if we are making contact with people, we have to have people on the frontlines to know exactly what addiction is all about. And i think that thats something we need to get better at in terms of coordinating with responses to what we see on our streets. And i wanted to Say Something too that im very, very, very familiar with addiction and have a lot of experience personally in my family and have been through the ringer on several aspects of this problem. Im sure you look at me and you probably dont think that. And i when you said something about compassion rather than condemnation, i thought, of course, that applies not just to those who are using drugs but those, i think that are affected by people who use drugs, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, public. And there are so many people that are affected by those using drugs. And i think we often judge those people as well. And i think we need to suspend judgment for all aspects of this problem. And drug use is not always peaceful. And when we have to respond to it, its not always pretty, right . And i think a lot of times we dont want to criminalize addiction, of course, but behavior that results in people being harmed because someones addiction which ive seen in my own family that is very difficult. And the consequence of peoples drug use, at times. And that has to be taken care of in a way that i think causes a lot of conflict. And i think we need to understand that aspect of it. I have so much compassion for people who are suffering from addiction. I think more than you will ever know. And i want to thank you, again, supervisor haney for calling for this. I also just want to make sure that we are all on the same page in terms of understanding that not only is the crisis for those that are experiencing addiction, and we have to find a way to help them, whether or not its increaseed use of narcan, making sure we have people going out with our Police Officers who do go out to get called to events that could harm the individual using drugs or somebody on the other side of that. And we need, i think, to have compassion for all those involved. And i want to continue to participate in the conversation and want to make sure that we suspend judgment and try to hold space for not just those that are suffering from addiction but also those that are affected by somebody elses addiction. And like i said, those, the passer by, thats someones daughter, thats someones son. Its someone its the Police Officer sometimes who doesnt probably even want to respond to that call. And i know that the sweeps are an issue, definitely. And you want everyone responding to someone that is suffering on the streets with compassion and not with aggressive force or anything like that, of course. But i just want us to try to hold space for the entire the entire problem of ones addiction. And like in 12step programs, all the jum too, its a Harm Reduction people judge Harm Reduction, people just abstinence. Its whatever works for people trying to recover. Its one of the reasons in the program, people make a list of those they harm and become willing to make amend to those they have harmed. So i want to hold space for all of it and have compassion for every person that is touched by the problem of addiction. So thank you, again, supervisor haney for calling this very important hearing. Supervisor walton. Thank you. I just want to reiterate the understanding that, one, we know we have a crisis that exists in our city right now, and it is a Health Crisis. And it needs to be addressed as such. One of the reasons why im very positive and excited about Mental Health sf is because we will be sending out mobile crisis teams with medical and Mental Health professionals versus Law Enforcement. And that is an important piece of the work, because we cannot continue to send folks out to work with our population that has addiction and Substance Abuse issues and try to address it with Law Enforcement and punitive means and strategies. And so we are committed as members of the board of supervisors to address this Health Crisis with strategies that are and responses that are under the lens of addressing this as such, as a Health Crisis. And we are going to be focused on doing that together, whether it is safe injection sites, sending out folks to work with our population that have the expertise, experience and working in our communities and with our communities that suffer from addiction. I did want to just a quick question as we talk about the streetbased engagement strategies that you are utilizing on our team. Are you also working with the Vehicle Triage Center . Is that your team thats going to be out . We are not currently working with the Vehicle Triage Center. But we are constantly looking at other partners that we collaborate with but at this point, no. Thank you. I will echo the thanks of my colleagues to you, supervisor haney, for authoring this resolution and for your commitment on this issue, which is heart breaking and tragic. And i am struck, whenever we have a hearing that touches on these issues how we talk about the siloization of City Services but how siloed our conversations about these issues are and the conversations of folks who are impacted by encampments are just completely the head space of folks who are experiencing an encampment is in such a different place. And if there was some way to have these different conversations somehow like kind of engaging with each other as someone who is participating in both sets of conversations. I dont see a universe in which encampments are going to be allowed to remain in terms of the health of the people who are living in the encampments, i fully accept the healthiest thing might be to allow the encampments to remain where they are and i cant imagine in a democraticallygoverned cities that we are going to move to a place where the sweeps end entirely. I think the burden on the city is to find better, healthier ways of creating other spaces for people to be. And i think over the next year we need to take a hard look at whether our shelter policies are expanding the places for people to sleep in a way that gives folks an alternative. Are we giving People Places to put their stuff so that their stuff does not become an impact to the community . Are we giving people the places where they can use drugs safely . Are we managing the ongoing addictions of people who have been to treatment over and over and over again . You can increase your funding for residential treatment beds and its not going to work for everybody, and those people arent terrible people, they just need a way to live. So i want to thank you, supervisor haney, and im eager to work with you on this. Thank you. And thank you for your work and your leadership on the Meth Task Force and the many hearings youve been in with this, and particularly looking at meth and how we can respond more effectively there. Im going to because i promised this wouldnt be a super long hearing, im going to sort of say a few things and that i would love to have followup on, and i know we are an ongoing conversation as well as with the partners in the room. So rather than having you come up and answer each of these things, ill sort of put a number of things out there, and i hope we can find a time to have followup on these things. The first is im very excited about the streetbased engagement. And one of the things that i would like to understand is how we have the level of streetbased engagement thats necessary to meet the need and how we understand that and how we measure that. Many of these things, whether its the mobile outreach medical teams, encampment health fairs, Harm Reduction therapies, how often they are out there, how many people they are reaching, goals around reaching more people. And obviously in partnership and coordination, because often well see there will be very large numbers of folks who are out there and having an understanding of how we are reaching them. And then under the Harm Reduction approach, the levels of engagement that we are bringing them into and how we understand sort of that set of goals that we have of folks who are out there. And i know that there are different areas and i obviously represent a district where theres a lot of this, but its not only in district 6. This needs to be more of a citywide response. I live on haight and eddy and i walk to tenderloin every day and have some sense of what it looks like there. But im sure mission and haight street and other places as well and getting a sense of really what that looks like and how we can be more supportive. A lot of this, i recognize its a shared responsibility, what more do we need to do under that . I went on a ride long with ems6 and thinking about the approach they are taking and how this fits into this and that sort of model, you know, i think often in terms of the silos, people mention that h. S. H. And police and d. T. W. Need to be a part of these conversations. I agree. Theres also the fire department. I think it plays a role in this and sort of how they are being integrated in a way thats helpful and effective. The detox and drop in and Sobering Center conversation i think i still need a bit more there. It came up when i was meeting with folks who do street outreach saying this is a need we hear about again and again and theres not a lot of places for people to go. And i see theres some sort of longerterm plans around that. But how are we really moving with urgency in light of the emergency that we are facing to establish those locations and i know it was part of the recommendation for the Meth Task Force as well, but really moving much quicker on that. The data and reporting is something i would like to continue that the dialogue around, the fact that im still referencing 2018 data and we are in 2019. I would like to understand why we cant do better on that. I introduced an ordinance that maybe its not do better, its how are we what data do we have and how are we using that effectively to respond with our Community Partners to get the information out there to save lives and also as city hall more broadly, without knowing i have no sense of the sort of the trends or the locations, like as someone who represents the communities that are have a large part of the impact, i have no knowledge when theres huge amounts of whether its overdose or deaths on the streets that i represent, i have no knowledge. And its not about me but its about our City Government and our partners and everybody knowing the data that they require to be able to respond. I love some of the comments about both peer outreach and how we do that effectively and posttreatment opportunities in terms of of the stepdown and what is the level of need in terms of folks who are coming out of treatment to make sure that they have housing available. I know this has been an issue in a lot of other hearings weve had as well. It seems like a lot of people said that and i agree that we have been a leader, and weve been doing a lot of things that are effective, but one of the things that changed in a big way is the introduction of phentynol. And i didnt hear how that has changed what we are doing and the response that we have. Because things are different. And we expect that in some ways it could get worse. And so how is this issue of phentynol changing the things we are doing as a community and what people are seeing and what the needs are . I absolutely we spoke a little bit about the connection between making sure treatment is available for people who want it, when they want it. When i was out meeting with folks and doing street outreach, there was some sense that some folks might be open but if its come back the next day or the other day, and its a lot of barriers to access. And theres not housing guaranteed on the other side. They might not want to participate in that. Or it may be much more difficult for them to participate. And kind of as a general thing, one more thing and a general thing. The Overdose Prevention sites and safe consumption sites, ive been of the view we need to move on this immediately and quick liz live as possible. I think thats been the view of the community as well. We are all in dialogue, many of the folks in the room along with laura thomas who is here and the Mayors Office around how best to do that because of the legal questions. But we are going to push as hard as we can on that to make it happen as soon as possible. And a general thing and part of the reason why i introduced this resolution with others is because i think that our residents and supervisor mandelman and the community is demanding of us to understand the severity of the crisis that they are seeing and experiencing. And they want to see a response from the city that meets that crisis. And i sort of had a number of things that i thought would be the categories and theres a lot of stuff here. Im not sure i see something that is as big or as urgent in terms of addressing whats happening right now. And i want to understand what that would be, because we need to make sure the funding is there. We need to make sure the input is there and that theres the commitment from us as a city, because i think for a lot of folks, and im sure all of us are out there every day, what we are seeing, what we are hearing, who we are talking to, some of that may not be based on opinion, not on evidence, but we do see evidence of increasing overdose deaths. Theres no doubt about that. And what we can do to stop that from happening and what we can do to address the broader crisis. I think its our responsibility. And i hope that we can have bigger, more Urgent Solutions that meet the level of the crisis that we have. And i just want to end this by saying i appreciate your work, i appreciate the work of everyone in this room. None of this is an attack on the work thats being done. Its a shared commitment for what we need to do together and what you need from us to be able to fulfill our responsibility to you and your work. And our responsibility to the residents and Small Businesses and everyone else who are screaming and yelling for more assistance. And so with that, lots of things to follow up on, and i want to appreciate you for allowing me to have another hearing here on this topic. And i know that we will continue the conversation, and certainly all of us will continue our Work Together to respond. Thank you. Thank you supervisor haney. I dont think we can have too many hearings on this topic. I do share your desire and interest to see us make things move faster and get them bigger. So thank you. Ill move we forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. We can take that without objection. Thanks everybody for coming out. Mr. Clerk, do we have any other items before us . That concludes our business for today. Well, then we are adjourned. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. Mayor breed thank you for being here. I am london breed, mayor of San Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of 1,000 shelter beds by 2020. This brings us to 566, and we have an additional 224 beds in the pipeline and the Bayview Hunters Point Community with ththe safe center. I want to take this opportunity because, you know, it is easy to say we want to do something, but sometimes it is harder to do it. In this case it was challenges, but it did take a village. That consists of partner the state to the local to the community levels. I want to start with senator scott weiner for passing the legislation to streamline the construction of Navigation Centers across the state so people experiencing homelessness throughout california have reasonable access to shelter. People ask how did you get this built so fast despite a number of obstacles . It had everything to do with the legislation scott weiner helped to pass in sacramento. Thank you to assembly man phil king because time and time again as someone who has been the chair of the Budget Committee in sacramento he prioritized not only San Francisco for a lot of resources but especially focusing on homelessness and Navigation Center. Because of his work, San Francisco has seen additional revenue to help support and move these projects forward faster. In fact, with his leadership, the state has invested 500 million to address homelessness in 2018 and 650 million in 2019. To be clear that is said wide. San francisco got a decent chung of that support. Thank you to supervisor haney for helping engage the community. I especially want to thank the neighbors of south beach. I know thi this this hasn hasn. We are committed to making sure that we fulfill the promises around safety and other challenges that people were so concerned about. We appreciate the work of the Advisory Group and the folks who have dedicated a lot of personal time to seeing this place succeed. Thank you to the port of San Francisco and the commissioners, president brandon is joining us today. Thank you for your work in allowing the opportunity for the Navigation Center to be from this location. We are grateful, we are excited. We know that this wont solve all of the challenges we have with homelessness in San Francisco, but it will help a significant number of people who we know need support and services. I also want to thank five keys. They will manage the Navigation Center. They have a lot of great experiences with helping people who are involved with the criminal Justice SystemReenter Society and be successful, and we are grateful for their leadership, work in the programs and opportunities that they will provide to the people that we want to serve. Ultimately this is about helping people not only off the streets but helping them into housing, helping them with opportunities to succeed in life. So we are grateful for their work. Now, i want to take this opportunity to introduce our state senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you, mayor. I want to thank and commend mayor breed and supervisor haney for standing their ground to make sure that this Navigation Center could open. As a former local elected official in San Francisco, i understand first hand what it is like when you have neighbors who have significant concern and fear about changes that are happening in their neighborhood. That is very intense, her hard. It is very hard. I want to thank them for looking at the big picture and the reality this will make the neighborhood safer and more livable in addition to helping many homeless in San Francisco transition to a better and healthier future. Thank you. When you look at the situation at homelessness in california, it is pretty stark. We have well over 100,000 Homeless People in the state. I think it is 130,000. A large majority of homeless residents in the bay area and los angeles are not sheltered, and this is not normal. What is happening in california and in San Francisco and the bay area around homelessness is not normal. This is not how it plays out in the rest of the country where far, far fewer people are homeless to begin with because they have enough housing for people, unlike in california where we have systematically made it impossible through rezoning and other means made it impossible to build enough housing for the people that need it. Our housing has collapsed by 75 as the population has tripled. We made a decision as a state that housing was not important, and what has that led to . Many problems with people pushed out of the state and evictions happening. It has pushed over 100,000 people to homelessness in the state of california. That is because of choices that we made here in california. It is not normal for it to be so difficult to build a Navigation Center. It should not take years to provide shelter and housing and services for people in dire straits living on the streets. That should be something we can do immediately because we are in a crisis. We have been working at the state level to support San Francisco and other local communities to make it faster and more streamlined, to create Navigation Centers in support of housing. I know we have all been working on that to pass legislation to streamline the process. Wwe are working to reform the california approach to housing because Navigation Centers are an incredible way to help people transition off the streets. If you dont have housing for people to end up in, they will cycle back to the streets. We are working at the state level to solve these problems, and it is hard and controversial. It violates how we are supposed to do things in california. That way hasnt worked and driven the car into the ditch. We have to fix things. Thank you, mayor, and everyone e else who made this happen today. [applause] mayor breed thank you senator wiener. Now we have remarks from senator phil clean wh king who helped gs Navigation Center built. Thank you, madam mayor. As the mayor and senator weiner have said. We know the solution to homelessness. We need more affordable housing, more supportive services, but, ultimately, it takes courage at all levels of government to make it happen. We are trying to do our part at the state level. We have colleagues that dont feel completely on the same page with myself and senator wiener with making sure we are building more housing. We have challenges at the state level. Mayor breed and supervisor haney have challenges. Iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing Navigation Centers to a neighborhood that has not had them. It takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. If we dont get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. This is the third Navigation Center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. They are the first step. The next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. Everybody is for housing, but in someone elses neighborhood, in someone elses city. I cant tell you how often i hear lets build a Homeless Center in stockton. Lets make it someone elses problem. Lets not solve the San Francisco problem here. Ship them somewhere else. That is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. Leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. We are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. You wouldnt know it by many of the issues we have. This is not a financial issue. This is not an issue of money or resources. The state is doing their part to help cities and counties. This is about our residents saying we are each going to sacrifice. We are each going to take a piece of this problem and solve it here. We are not going to wait for someone to save us or hope that someone else will take this burden. This is about having the courage to say this is a San Francisco problem and San Francisco needs to solve it. I am so proud to be here with all of the other city officials who had the guts to get this built, to work with the community and to say this community is safer, not by having people on the streets sleeping, not by having people in tents sleeping here, wandering around here. This community is safer when they have services, when we can get them the resources they need to go improve their life. As the mayor said we are proud at the state level 4 million from the state helped this get built. 70 million from the state to San Franciscos general fund to help with homelessness over the last two years, and this is something we can only dubai workinonly do while we work t. I applaud you for having the guts to get this done. Thank you. Thank you, phil king. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the supervisor matt haney for district 6. Thank you, mayor breed. Congratulations for your leadership, for your staff who we got to work with so closely in making this happen. I especially want be to recognize jeff and emily from the department of homelessness. You all did such a wonderful job listening to the community, working with us. We went to dozens of meetings together. I am looking at emily and hearing the feedback and using that to adapt the proposal and make commitments to the neighborhood. Thank you all for that and for listening. I want to thank our elected officials in sacramento, senator wiener and Assembly Member king. We are lucky to have advocating for us, bringing Home Resource goes to help us address what is definitely the biggest crisis not just in San Francisco but facing our state. One of the things that i think that we can agree on is that it is a really cold day right now. Being out here on a cold day, i think, it is a reminder, a sharp reminder of the fact there are thousands of people on the streets who dont have a home to go to, dont have a warm bed or a place when it is pouring rain or below 40 that they can go inside to be warm and safe. One of the things you will notice when you go inside here is the difference between how it feels out here and how it feels in there. Even just having a place where you can be warm, where you can be safe, where you can be away from the madness and the dangers that people face who live on our streets is such a huge and critical and essential thing. When people get to be inside and not have to worry where they are going to sleep tonight or tomorrow night and be able to Access Services and have Case Management and have one work with them to figure out how to get off the street permanently is a huge and wonderful thing for us to celebrate today. One of th the things about Navigation Centers. They make a commitment to the neighborhood. Navigation centers make the neighborhood safer, they improve conditions on the streets here. As we make this commitment to people to live inside this Navigation Center we make a commitment to the People Living in the surrounding community on the water front and south beach this will reduce the number of People Living on the streets. We have a lot of work to do for the people who come in here, the people in the neighborhood and more work to solve homelessness in the city. Housing is the answer. We know we need a lot more Navigation Center and shelter beds in the city. This is the third Navigation Center in district six. We are excited and happy to do our part. As a city we need every neighborhood to take responsibility for addressing and solving homelessness. I thank five keys, the port and everyone who is a part of getting us this far. We have a long way to go in the city. I am committed to working with you, mayor breed, to make that happen and to everyone in the neighborhood to make sure this Navigation Center is a success. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i appreciate your remarks. I would like to make it clear that as mayor i am responsible for the entire city. The fact is getting opportunities like this, finding land in San Francisco to do say Navigation Center, to do housing is a huge challenge. Wherever we have an opportunity to get a property like this whether it is here or anyplace else in San Francisco, we will take full advantage of excuse me. We will take advantage of the opportunity to do so. With that, i would like to ask for Community Member matt amy. Excuse me. We will listen to you when we are finished with the press conference, if you dont mind. Thank you. Matt carson, who is a member of this community will provide a few remarks. Thank you. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. I dont think i have done anything special to deserve to be here. I just own my home a couple blocks away and work in the neighborhood as well. I walk by this spot with my 2 yearold every day. I am incredibly fortunate to have those things. When i walk unand down the embarcadero i see those less fortunate. It is appalling in the city, region and country with so much that we refuse to guarantee the most basic standard of living. Those sleeping here are living here and they are our neighbors. When the mayor proposed the Navigation Center to help them, i raised my hand to says i support her. I want to raise my kid in a city that helps its people. My neighbors have legitimate concerns. I have seen shattered glass and half stolen bikes. I dont want it to get worse. The mayor and the supervisor and the city promised they will make it better in the neighborhood, not worse. I trust them. If crime does go up they wont build any more Navigation Centers. She does need to build more. This is what a housing crisis looks like. This is 200 beds, but there are thousands of people on the streets in San Francisco. We need more shelters and related services. We need more protection for renters. We need a million homes throughout the region. Our region also needs a single seamless competitive Transit System to have a chance of addressing the housing crisis and climate change. I thank the mayor and everyone involved forgetting this Navigation Center built so quickly. I want to say to all representatives it is time to be way more ambitious. Thank you. [applause] mayor breed i want to take this opportunity to thank muhammad for his leadership in getting this built so quickly. Thank you to deputy chief from the San Francisco police department. We know Public Safety is important to the community. We know that the department has added Additional Resources to help ensure safety in this particular neighborhood. You know, it really did take a village to get this done. So many folks standing behind me and folks from the community. I want to express my sincere appreciation to everyone that has had a hand in helping to get this done. The love and care that you put into even as i just saw the landscaping and the flowers and just making it look like a home and welcoming people in with dignity. That is what our goal is, and to get clearly people to help in the support that they need. This along with other Navigation Centers in the future and eventually more housing faster is going to get us to a better place not just in San Francisco but in this entire state. Thank you all for being here. Now jeff and steve will lead a tour of the Navigation Center for those interested. Thank you. [applause]