We dont have really great data on exactly what were doing at 16th street b. A. R. T. , but i can provide you with some information as youll here. District nine as 271 of the sheltered Homeless Population and 281 of the unsheltered Homeless Population. In january 2017 when we did the point and time count. You also will see that relative to the Homeless Population in the city, district nine has 6. 6 of the unsheltered but 17 of the calls. Part of this is due to the residential nature and the high population density in the Mission District. Theres a lot of people there. And a lot of new residences and businesses. But we are receiving a fair number of complaints and concerns from citizens around this issue relative to the size of the Homeless Population. This next slide will show you the Homeless Outreach team. That star is the 16th street b. A. R. T. Station and you will see that it is in red meaning that it is one of the areas where the hot team has about 6,000 serves 6,000 people a year
Going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are perhaps involved in behavior thats not really conducive for the neighborhood they are in or appropriate outdoors, i think having Community Ambassadors to talk to, to work with, to point folks in the right direction and encourage them is Something Else we should be considering in the city. My focus really is how do i help as many unhoused people get off the streets and into shelter. However, i cer
Going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are perhaps involved in behavior thats not really conducive for the neighborhood they are in or appropriate outdoors, i think having Community Ambassadors to talk to, to work with, to point folks in the right direction and encourage them is Something Else we should be considering in the city. My focus really is how do i help as many unhoused people get off the streets and into shelter. However, i cer
So part of what came out of the Cooperation Amongst all the agencies is that in november, sfmta and bart agreed to jointly fund a hot team for the four downtown stations. So thats in the early stages. I mean, theyre out there. Theyre making contact with the people that are residing in our stations. So, were using that, were participating in sf leads. I was just on the way over here, i saw something that i seldom see, i saw two San Francisco Police Officers in the bart station. So there is joint patrols that are going on. So there is just a whole lift of initiatives that were trying to get our arms around this very difficult problem. And again, i have to say you know, were not immune from the commissions conditions that exist outside of the system. At the end of the day, it presents a real challenge for what is a Transportation Agency to deal with what are very, very deep rooted social problems. Do you have interventions with other jurisdictions such as oakland . I know this may be anec
We cant just add stations, though. If we just add stations, were going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are perhaps involved in behavior thats not really conducive for the neighborhood they are in or appropriate outdoors, i think having Community Ambassadors to talk to, to work with, to point folks in the right direction and encourage them is Something Else we should be considering in the city. My focus really is how do i help as many unh