City alone. All our nonprofit providers, [speaker not understood]. They do a fantastic job, they do a good job providing quality housing, housing, and keeping folks housed. We wanted to get as many people as shelter as possible. People didnt need to get housing ready. They needed to [speaker not understood]. The vast majority for chronically homeless single adults. We have a number of 43 1 units in the pipeline that should come online over the next two years or two plus years. Once theyre online, well hit our goal over 3,000, 386 units according to the plan. And again, i talk about targeting, the vast majority of units are dedicate today chronically single homeless single adults [speaker not understood]. Can i ask you a question on that . In reading around the documents, funding is a big deal for us as a city for every issue, let alone this. Several dollars seem to be targeted on what the definition of homelessness is and limited in a way because of that. So, our foil us on the chronic
Under the leadership of the department of public health, their direct access program, and Supportive Housing followed along. What is Supportive Housing . [speaker not understood]. It means people get housed and stay housed. And it means that individuals who get housed, their reliance on other systems of care decreases significantly, meaning emergency room visits, incarceration, mental health, Crisis Mental Health interventions, [speaker not understood]. All those go down when you house someone. We have about a 90 or more housing retention rate after a year. People do stay housed. We know it works and thats why the cornerstone of our tenyear plan really was about Supportive Housing. And we did as former supervisor dufty said, we had a goal of 3,000 units. Again, ill talk about the numbers later. So, the last piece of the sort of if you want to call it that. Plan was prevention. What does prevention look like in the context of the plan . Our home ward Bound Program which is the plan reun
Faithful street Group Ministries and others who try to take policy makers into the streets with more empathy, the situation of the Homeless Population . Im considering how i can i understand it youre a staffer, you do that. I work with clients almost every day. Who interacts with clients in special shelter directors, meet with them regularly, they have a very good understanding and empathy of what is a. M. ~ whats going on on the streets. And really, its solving this issue is bigger than the level of empathy, which is there. It calls for a lot more than that, which is funding and systematic changes in some areas to better serve folks who are on the street. I think what i saw at least within the food access open groups, project had almost a Leadership Team taking a snap challenge and have changed the culture i think of how they looked at the issue. For me personally that helped a lot. Im trying to look into what other ways we can be policy makers to be the issues. Working with clients a
One additional half Million Dollars in supportive services. This is in hsa [speaker not understood]. You can see the units attached to that 370 units. And then our Master Lease Program weve really and its notable given the budget cuts we had to ensure the last number of year. We were preserved. We didnt cut [speaker not understood]. We have increased through business increases he, and theres been a couple privacy. Thats atrictionvable to some of the countries. I know this was lengthy, but it was a lengthy plan. Homeless prevention, we were lucky to get a 89 thousand dollars influx of [speaker not understood] from the feds in ara in three years. ~ 9 million home for the holidays was mentioned earlier between sales force and us. I amoebationved mcgriffin mc kinney, 4. 3 million over five years primarily again because we are really good for applying for homeless supportive project. We get the bonus almost every year. Can i ask a question truly, though, we are an year to year basis on that
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