Even more devastating. So, i want to figure out a way that we can do a better job at making sure that we are really focusing on the families, especially the children that are getting up every single morning and going to school in our city. So, thank you all so much, and i appreciate the fact that this report will always be posted in a timely manner in the near future from this point forward. Thanks. Thank you. ~ supervisor cohen. Again, can i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair . So moved. Second . Motion by consensus, moved. [gavel] madam clerk, can we have item number 6 . Item number 6, hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 23, 2014, to the Shelter Monitoring Committee. There are two seats and three applicants. Thank you. We will now hear from the applicants in the order they are listed on the agenda. Ms. Amanda reichmuth. Hello, my name is amanda reichmuth. I currently work as a Victim Advocate with the district attorneys office.
1100 shelter beds in the city. Were the largest shelter provider ~. And actually i dont actually work in the Shelter Division of ecs. I work with the Asset Management and Housing Development side. We work very closely in permanent Supportive Housing with clients who are coming straight from the shelters. Whether theyre single adults or families. I have been working in supportive and Affordable Housing for 14 years, 8 of them here in San Francisco, and ive been at ecs for the last four years. Part of my role at ecs is working very closely with our Property Management and support services on our permanent Supportive Housing sites. We have three that we own and five that are leased through the Housing First sro Master Lease Program, and theyre very different. Our newest problem, 134 units of permanent Supportive Housing for single adults, Bishop Health community house, is really what i like to think of as the shining example of what permanent Supportive Housing and housing people coming f
Been at ecs for the last four years. Part of my role at ecs is working very closely with our Property Management and support services on our permanent Supportive Housing sites. We have three that we own and five that are leased through the Housing First sro Master Lease Program, and theyre very different. Our newest problem, 134 units of permanent Supportive Housing for single adults, Bishop Health community house, is really what i like to think of as the shining example of what permanent Supportive Housing and housing people coming from chronic homelessness, coming from the shelters should be. A lot of the sros in our Master Lease Program are more challenging buildings. Theyre old. They are not owned by us as joyce kerr mentioned. And part of the the part of the job that i really enjoy is going into those buildings and trying to raise the bar on the standards of the facilities and the operations to make it more efficient and make it better for the clients and the residents. And i woul
So, i mean, i do have ideas regarding solutions. Some of my solutions are i think we really need to get towards maybe a psychological evaluation of the people that they hire so that they dont get traumatized when they come into the shelter system. Another thing is i think we need to look at the San Francisco hot team and consider some of the programs that theyve done and then try to implement them into the Shelter Systems because and i think some of it just goes to the philosophy of what were doing. I think we need to really share [speaker not understood] of the philosophy were going to warehouse somebody until they die or stuff them in an sro. I feel like then do we empower the homeless to own houses or start their own businesses . Okay, thank you. Thank you for your Public Comment. [speaker not understood]. Your last meeting of the rules committee you did appoint [speaker not understood] freeman to seat 6 who was africanamerican. Thank you. Thank you. Was there a reason why didnt we
We work very closely in permanent Supportive Housing with clients who are coming straight from the shelters. Whether theyre single adults or families. I have been working in supportive and Affordable Housing for 14 years, 8 of them here in San Francisco, and ive been at ecs for the last four years. Part of my role at ecs is working very closely with our Property Management and support services on our permanent Supportive Housing sites. We have three that we own and five that are leased through the Housing First sro Master Lease Program, and theyre very different. Our newest problem, 134 units of permanent Supportive Housing for single adults, Bishop Health community house, is really what i like to think of as the shining example of what permanent Supportive Housing and housing people coming from chronic homelessness, coming from the shelters should be. A lot of the sros in our Master Lease Program are more challenging buildings. Theyre old. They are not owned by us as joyce kerr mentio