Please call the role. [roll call] [roll call] thank you both. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome all of you here this evening for the special joint hearing hosted by the Human Rights Commission. I would like to welcome our human rights of commissioners. Thank you for joining us this evening, on behalf of my colleagues we are delighted to be cohosting this hearing with you. We look forward to a good, and open conversation this evening. We have some excellent speaker testimony that we are looking forward to gathering. We very much look forward to hearing from members of the community on the issue of the border crisis, our first order of business to are there any announcements . Thank you. Office of Civic Engagement and veterans affairs. To members of the public, this is special joint meeting at the San Francisco immigrant rights commandant commission on the Human Rights Commission cosponsored by yee and ronan. Please silence all cell phones so speakers are commiss
Engagement and immigrant affairs and sf government tv. Thank you, agnes. Then we also do have overflow seating in the chamber. Is that where we are doing it . It is being arranged presently. Folks can watch from there. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Please silence cell phones. Your completed speaker calls should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor mandelman please call the first item. Clerk clerFood Insecurity ag lowincome pregnant people in San Francisco. Supervisor stefani thank you everybody for coming out this morning. I called this hearing because Food Insecurity in San Francisco particularly among lowincome pregnant women and families is a growing problem. Access to food should be a basic human right because it is a fundamental human need. It is limited or uncertain access t to add what food adequate food. People who are hungry or starving is something that affects every neighborhood in every community in this city. Economic insecurity is the primary cause for Food I
Street w. This new data and focus on the 200, we can make a difference. I think when people are ready for treatment and volunteer for treatment, that is key. I also think we need to recognize that one of our challenges on the streets that some people will refuse treatment. Some people in the most dire needs of treatment will refuse treatment. So we need to be there when people are ready to go into the services and meet them. When theyre ready. But we also need laws like the conservatorship law to provide people with the support for shorttime conservatorship to help them save their lives. These are lifesaving interventions. And that persistent compassion is what we have seen here and what weve come to expect from our director of Mental Health reform in. A few short months, hes transformed the way many of us think about caring for people experiencing the intersection of homelessness, serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse disorders. This is a population, as youve heard of 4,000 peopl
Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. When one of the deadliest wildfires in history raced through the tiny town of paradise, california, last november, it killed 85 people and burned nearly 15,000 homes. The town lost about 90 of its population in the aftermath. It was once home to 26,000 people. Now its estimated between just 2,000 to 3,000 remain. So the question is now is paradise lost forever . Our correspondent Jessica Gomez traveled to paradise and found a community of people resilient and ready to rebuild. I mean, everybody has seen a burnt down house, no one has seen a burnt down town. I think if you watched a movie about the end of times, thats what this town feels to me like now. Like the apocalypse happened. Its just horrific. Jessica paradise, california, a town stopped in its tracks last november 8. The sounds of charles and Rachel Rogers life, crunching under their feet. Like most here, they lost everything. Wow, the ipod. Jessica with no renters insuranc
Democrats capitalism versus socialism. Now, none of democratic president ial candidates have embraced true socialism as a platform. They support capitalism, but say that system is not working as it should. In 2016, that was thencandidate Donald Trumps message. He appealed to voters by saying they were left out of Economic Growth in america. So what economic message will resonate with voters . Bruce mehlman produces a Quarterly Report on the Political Climate of the country. Its so nice to see you again. Bruce thanks for having me back. Soledad 2020 in a word. Whats it going to be about, do you think . Bruce more than anything else, i think its the economy. If the economy stays strong, the president s prou gback and lookn american history, no president who has avoided a recession in the two years prior to and then theres an asterisk, right, which is if you actually they dont feel like the economys good. Even people who you would say are solidly middle class dont feel like its all going