Really inefficient of how, it did not have to be that way t does not have to be that way in the future. It was partly that way because it was in the code, if you will remember. It was designated and you know, i think that is for us, if we are going to pursue putting the fund together, again, and making it available, we should think carefully about what the policy choices are and what it should be and what the policy out comes, you know . Should be . Before we start putting in details of you know what the transfer of funds will be. Before you talk, we should try to figure out where we are going with it. And then makeup the rules. And then i would suggest that this may be but you have to populate the fund because there sno money. There is probably 2,000 on our side if even that. If you wanted to populate the fund just like we are populating the repair and Demolition Fund so there is sufficient money there to be able to do emergency orders and then, hopefully be able to recover that money
Of the many fires and it was part of the department of public health, but the board determined that this department should take over the program two years ago. The rooms are very small and the tenants must share the toilet and showers including senior and familiwise young children. Priorities include conversions infestation and continued enforcement and grab bar legislation implementation. They are difficult to live in and difficult to manage. They have skom a long way in the time that i have been working on them and thanks to the collaboratives they remain a important resource for the city. The board of supervisors recently recognized our department and our division for another case that was uncovered by our programs, 245 levenworth where 423 habitbility violations were corrected due to our actions. And i am going to pass this around. So we have the representatives where we have time to hear from a few of them. One of the executive directors here, sarah . Sarah is the director of the
Frequently happens where we will have a situation like this in an Apartment Building or even in an srl in which the organization will occur so the inspector will know that this is going to happen, and they will allow enough time for each individual to let them in and show them the conditions. Which would not happen without this program. We might not see what is behind those closed doors, especially in an Apartment Buildings or Residential Hotels or other residential uses where people are afraid or dont understand what their rights are. So that is why it is a great illustration of where this program is right now. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners, my name is page, i am a counselor, housing rights counselor and we are based in the Commission District and also have an office in oakland. So they help us to manage the cases better and insure the case resolution since the workers working with the clients are connected to the inspectors as the only one with bilingual managers, we increas
They have taken the first steps of you know, contacting their landlord and perhaps, even writing letters, etc. And we are able then to sort of help them navigate through the system and get in contact with dbi when we need to. And then, as jamie mentioned work with the land lords as well. We contact the Apartment Association in some cases and have them sort of work on the other end speaking to the landlord complying with codes and all of that. And we have had great success. The other thing that it allows us to do is a little bit of a more of a Case Management model. Some of our counseling that we do it is really where we are only able to sort of do an in and out and advise them a little bit and send them on the way and with this, we are able to do follow up calls and we send out post cards saying has your issue been resolved and we will track the cases thoroughly. If the people are not getting anywhere, we are able to escalate through the dbi system if we need to or keep helping them wo
Well. We contact the Apartment Association in some cases and have them sort of work on the other end speaking to the landlord complying with codes and all of that. And we have had great success. The other thing that it allows us to do is a little bit of a more of a Case Management model. Some of our counseling that we do it is really where we are only able to sort of do an in and out and advise them a little bit and send them on the way and with this, we are able to do follow up calls and we send out post cards saying has your issue been resolved and we will track the cases thoroughly. If the people are not getting anywhere, we are able to escalate through the dbi system if we need to or keep helping them work with the landlord. I think that it provides a Great Service not just to the community and the tenants but to your department frankly. We are trying to do a lot of the groundwork so that these cases dont necessarily get to you. We are trying to sort of do what we can do just throu