She is our new Western Region direct and her she has a long time roots here in San Francisco and having worked and run, Hampton Family center and i just wanted to acknowledge her and thank you for this opportunity. Thank you very much appreciated. Okay, we are through our speaker list right now. So i am going to open this up to public comment. I have a number of speaker cars, if you want to get up in line, if you are not first up, line up. Robert weber, robert chambers, ma lisa thompson, and joe wilson, and dan bowers, and adelman, and moniko. So those individuals come forward and come on up to the podium and everyone has two minutes to speak. Sir if you want to come up. Im robert khamers and a participant in hospitality house and also the client of other services in the neighborhood nearby. And i was aformally homeless and in the end of 2011 and i was successful in having the table housing now, and through, the help of and in San Francisco who provide the help to the community and so
Housing and 610 did not and my guess, and then it might have found our housing and might still be homeless, and if you look at the line up on top, and that is the mortality rate for those that moved into the direct access to housing, and if you look at the other line, and the staircase going down, that is the mortality rate for those that did not go into the direct access to housing. Stark difference. Yeah. Okay. So, we will make sure that you get more information in terms of the actual cost and are there any other questions that i can answer . Colleagues any questions . No. Thank you so much for all of your hard work on this. And so, last, we have well, steven, i believe is coming from Supportive Housing and your colleague as well, i believe. Okay. And char on. Thank you for being here and we have not had a chance to meet, but thanks for being here. Thanks for asking us to be here, i am with the corporation for Supportive Housing and i work on the state and local policy. And so, i thi
They started to carry that cash and luckily i got pushed into it and a shelter, which was a good thing in the beginning i was lucky enough to get in housing, so the thing that helped me mostly was getting involved with the community and i speak to you guys and the other part was just recently happen is by a lucky turn not going through a drug program or not being arrested or anything like that, i have got exposed to a trauma recovery, and point being, it made me aware of the culture that we live in, and the people that do live in the sro it is like a trauma culture and i want to push out listening to the different options that were here and 11,000 for a shelter and 4,000 for the housing, and so my thing is awareness and i guess, work as a resource for people that are homeless and educational awareness. Thank you. Good morning, members of the committee i am joe wilson with the hospitality house and apology for holding this hearing and in the spot light to some important issue i want to
The total allegation of 116 million, and ten percent of that only ten percent is going to the employment and education, initiatives and i think that we need to bump that figure up i want to close with a comment that i saw this morning and something that i was familiar with over time, several years ago a group of people gathered in this city to propose, an alternative model on or for cooperation, and i am quoting here. The reason they were proposing this model, is to reaffirm faith in the fundamental rights and equal rights of men and women and to practice tolerance and live together in peace as good neighbors. And that is from the preamble of the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1948 and that should guide us as we move forward to our exploring Cost Effective strategies on tackling homelessness. Thank you. Next speaker . Brian bassinger with the aids alliance and thank you for opening up this conversation and impressed that someone is doing their homework and is listeni
Have been avoided. Tasers constitute a significant level of force as we have heard today. Too often, they are viewed as homeless, nonlethal devices that temporarily incompass taits that is false. When use as intended they cause pain and as we have seen across the nation they pose a risk of serious jury or death. As you have heard today, in particular people with Mental Health problem are more likely to be at high risk of death, and with that high population in San Francisco and coming in contact often with the San Francisco Police Department, we dont want to run a risk of that population being impacted. And the aclu is also concerned with the civil rights implications that the supervisors spoke of today. You know, across the nation and in San Francisco, you will see the African American communities of color are impacted by accessive use of force that would lead us to believe that once they are instituted they would also be disproportionately used against the xhupts of color. Because th