This hearing is entitled housing america addressing challenges and serving people experiencing homelessness. I now recognize myself for three minutes. Homelessness in the United States is an unnecessary and worsening crisis. Between 2016 and 2020, homelessness increased in the richest nation of the planet by 6 percent by 580,000 people including Children Experiencing Homelessness january 2020 is significant instability by by covid19 and Homeless Service providers on the frontlines have only highend concerns about conditions facing the homeless and the at risk population. Homeless Service Providers but those communities and is without question they are heroes and the work they provide saves american lives. Cd growing backlogs for critical Housing Resources have pushed some americans into homelessness and left millions more at risk. In addition the national Housing Resources the ability of Service Providers to provide a positive outcomes for americans battling housing insecurity. In the
Real money. [ music ] this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up on facebook. Most americans agree the middle class is in crisis. Squeezed by years of job lose, rising costs and stagnant wages, 40 of americans say they belong to the middle class, down by 53 in 2008, when the recession hit. There is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists define it by income. We define americas middle class as households with incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,000, based on analysis. That encompasses middle income families with similar dreams and pierations, securing a job, home, health care add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough for retirement. They are becoming harder to achieve. Median Household Income in the United States was 53,171 a year in 2012 thats the most recent year for which we have data. Half of all households earn more, half less. This number is 7 lower than i
Real money. [ music ] this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up on facebook. Most americans agree the middle class is in crisis. Squeezed by years of job lose, rising costs and stagnant wages, 40 of americans say they belong to the middle class, down by 53 in 2008, when the recession hit. There is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists define it by income. We define americas middle class as households with incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,000, based on analysis. That encompasses middle income families with similar dreams and pierations, securing a job, home, health care add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough for retirement. They are becoming harder to achieve. Median Household Income in the United States was 53,171 a year in 2012 thats the most recent year for which we have data. Half of all households earn more, half less. This number is 7 lower than i
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Is the poorest are there. Do we have an approach to help those folks i can tell you that my department and even if Agency Shares the sent minded were comment to because frankly after a drafr those are the folks who are going to need the help and the city resources are going ton spent. It it is incumbent upon us to use appropriate language. In San Francisco the outreach materials you mentioned 72 hours. Org we make those available in chinese and russian and japanese. We do a lot of outreach through Community Meetings and were happy to come and attend that the supervisors hold in their districts. And we work hard to do that. I think that during the Immediate Response when folks call 911 we try to encourage factories say the name of our language first so we can translate it. I want thats also going to be a priority to us. Ill refer back to the work we fire post recovery. Their usual in large fires. A lot of those folks are not English Speaking so we work hard to coordinate those Services