Are you speaking on this one . Jeff, director of the department of homelessness, i welcome you to the mic. The floor is yours. I dont need to tell you or member of the public, were in the midst of a humanitarian crisis on our streets in San Francisco. We currently have approximately 7500 people experiencing homelessness on any given night, 4300 or 58 of the Homeless Population in San Francisco is literally unsheltered. The other the remaining population is in the shelters or other locations or other institutions, but we have 58 of the population living on the streets, so its one of the highest percentages of unsheltered homeless in the united states. And often times, well hear people dont want to come into shelter and i would say that is untrue. Our shelters are generally full on any given night with the vacancy rate of less than 4 , generally caused by people who arent able to make it for the reservations. We also have a consistently every a thousand people waiting on the list. I want
To. For construction work, procurement and services relating to identified shelter crisis sites that will provide Emergency Shelter or housing to persons experiencing homelessness. Thank you very much. Weve got a presentation from the Mayors Office. Sponsors of the mayor, ronen, sheehy and cohen. Are you speaking on this one . Jeff, director of the department of homelessness, i welcome you to the mic. The floor is yours. I dont need to tell you or member of the public, were in the midst of a humanitarian crisis on our streets in San Francisco. We currently have approximately 7500 people experiencing homelessness on any given night, 4300 or 58 of the Homeless Population in San Francisco is literally unsheltered. The other the remaining population is in the shelters or other locations or other institutions, but we have 58 of the population living on the streets, so its one of the highest percentages of unsheltered homeless in the united states. And often times, well hear people dont want
In terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. Thats the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. Who are your parents . My parents are both retired professionals. One was a School Teacher and administrator of the Chicago Public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. He worked for Johnson Johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, New York Times staff photographer. Are they retired from new york. My mother always lived in chicago. My parent were divorced when i was young. My father lived in new york for over 30 years. What is your lineage . The famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, im greatgrandson of the founder of Elijah Mohammed founder of nation of islam. My mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my First Cousins aunts and uncles all very much part of t
The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that deb
The panel is timely given thelso some crisis gering numbers about how the race and poverty in the country, which should be online a national crisis. This panel is called wealth and finance and post averts america come moderated by my colleague at columbia, Damon Phillips was a professor of business and the codirector at the center of social enterprise. Is the author of shaping jazz, book on the emergent and evolution for the market for recorded just been published in top jobs within management and sociology. We are in good hands your containment, take it away. First of all thank you rich for your leadership over the years and for the fantastic event. This was a really fun time for me to have this opportunity to moderate this panel. I have really and for me some top scholars and i will introduce them but then well jump into a discussion about the project for the day. I will say a few words in between but really my job is as a moderator is to facilitate the discussion and allow all of us