Our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. Its really important to the city of San Francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the yUnited States, and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire popu
Today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of 1,000 shelter beds by 2020. This brings us to 566, and we have an additional 224 beds in the pipeline and the Bayview Hunters Point Community with ththe safe center. I want to take this opportunity because, you know, it is easy to say we want to do something, but sometimes it is harder to do it. In this case it was challenges, but it did take a village. That consists of partner the state to the local to the community levels. I want to start with senator scott weiner for passi
Has been downhill in the polls ever since. Harris has struggled to keep up in funding and she finished the Third Quarter raising over 11 million putting her well behind biden and senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and mayor pete buttigieg. Recent poll had her tied for fifth with the newcomer michael bloomberg. We sent out a push alert when the news came. Download our nbc bay area app to get the alerts when were not on the air. Streets in San Francisco flooded and water rushing into homes with another big water main break and sinkholes. On 18th street and noriega in the sunset district and Sharon Katsuda is there live with the very latest. Sharon . Reporter well, laura, look at this mess behind me and a spokesperson just confirmed with me, that all of this was caused by an eight inch water main break. This was a 1930s old pipe now being replaced. Youre seeing the process happen right now. It all started at about 7 00 this morning. Old faithful. That is what it looks like. It l
People are saying. And one of the things that is so striking about this day, that i know a lot of us can see when we see the signs that we are carrying, is that of the 26 transgendered women that have been killed this year, 24 of them are black transgendered women. And with that, there was a speaker earlier today, a performance artist and poet named miss mojo who asked, what do we do when two black transgendered women are getting murdered every month. What do we do . And thats a really important and hard question for us to answer about what we can do. And in that, i wanted to take leadership in trans women of color and what they are saying. And one of the things Racquel Willis is a amazing editor at out magazine. She wrote a post today but all the things we can do. And one of the big things is investing in our communities. Investing in our leadership, putting resources in these organizations, and particularly with black transgendered women. So with that, kicking off transgender day of
In isolation. We are working with the Behavioral Health system, and as i said time and time again there is a real issue around equity. Around those 4,000 people that we know we are not serving properly, 35 of them are africanamerican. We need to call out the injustices in these systems and make deliberate investments in targeting the population that continue to get left out when we propose new solutions to support the communities that we know are most vulnerable. So we are going to be making deliberate investments around making sure that africanamericans are supported as we move this process forward. [ applause ]. Mayor breed i want to thank dr. Nigusse bland and dr. Colfax because you have been doing the difficult work of managing the system with the resources that you have and not necessarily getting the support that you need to do it and that change starts today. That change wont happen overnight. We will be working towards making this a more justice, equitable, fair system using da