Get us going. [noise] the subcommittee on housing, transportation, and Community Development will come to order. This hearing is in hybrid format. We will have witnesses testifying both in person and by video, and senators may appear in person and by video as well. I want to thank senator rounds for joining me in this bipartisan hearing, focusing on the issue of homelessness. Senator rounds found out late yesterday, i think, that he is needed at an important market with the form of relations committee, so we wont be able to stay for the entire subcommittee, which we understand. Thank you for being here. And thank you all to our panelists, those of you in person as well as those of you joining virtually, for being here today. So, without a safety, sit, affordable place to live, nothing in your life works. Its nearly impossible to maintain a job, go to school, or stay healthy. Based on data from 2020, almost 600,000 americans experienced homelessness on any given night. With this number,
Get us going. The subcommittee on housing, transportation, and Community Development will come to order. This hearing is in hybrid format. We will have witnesses testifying both in person and by video. And senators may appear in person or in video as well. I want to thank senator rounds for joining me in this bipartisan hearing, focusing on the issue of homelessness. Senator rounds found out late yesterday, i think, that he is needed at an important Foreign Relations committee, so he wont be able to say for the entire subcommittee, which we understand and thank you for being here. And thank you also to our panelists. Those of you in person, as well as those of you joining virtually, for being here today. So, without a safe, decent, affordable place to live, nothing in your life works. Its nearly impossible to maintain a job, go to school, or stay healthy. Based on data from 2020, almost 600,000 americans experienced homelessness on any given night. With this number, 61 of those experie
Smaller organization and it came about by a group of advocates and consumer advocates who identified hoarding and cluttering as a unique challenge to San Francisco in particular and this was wellbefore the tv shows and before it had a lot of notoriety and brought out in some circumstances and it was a group of folks, advocates in our office, to deal with these challenges and we need a place to come and meet and talk about it and give each other peer support. That is really a testament to the amazing advocacy of people who have worked on this, who have directly experienced challenges with hoarding over the years. So we ran a support group for many years. We still run it on a weekly basis, dropin, peer support group. And then we kind of branched into had a conference. So we have had the biggest conference on hoarding for the last 15 years, in the united states, and quite possibly the world. We just had it back in may. One of our specialtis that we see yourselves doing is really bringing
Those who want to live in san francisco, those who want to provide service for san francisco, because we believe that this is where we belong. And that being said, thank you all. Thank you for coming out here. And thank you for letting me speak. Thanks again. applause thanks, merci. And thanks again for everyone being here today. I am supremely proud to stand with our men and women in uniform that are our Public Safety officers here in san francisco, with mayor ed lee and his team to launch this program today, and look forward to making it a great success. So, mayor lee, olson, i will be here to answer questions if you like off to the side. But thank you all for being here. Much appreciated. Usic hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to the road to recovery 2012. This episode highlights the many accomplishments of the 2011 National Recovery month observance as we look forward to a successful celebration in 2012. Throughout the country, millions of americans have been making their voices
Of notoriety and brought out in some circumstances and it was a group of folks, advocates in our office, to deal with these challenges and we need a place to come and meet and talk about it and give each other peer support. That is really a testament to the amazing advocacy of people who have worked on this, who have directly experienced challenges with hoarding over the years. So we ran a support group for many years. We still run it on a weekly basis, dropin, peer support group. And then we kind of branched into had a conference. So we have had the biggest conference on hoarding for the last 15 years, in the united states, and quite possibly the world. We just had it back in may. One of our specialtis that we see yourselves doing is really bringing together advocates and people directly affected by hoarding and cluttering challenges and stakeholders such as researchers and clinicians and throughout the world, really acting as a hub of resources here in San Francisco. So i would say t