Cant afford a place. Im tired of apologizing to tourist people when i see them downtown and seeing people homeless laying on the street, you know. San francisco is a beautiful town. I want to stay here. We need Affordable Housing [inaudible]. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, chairman farrell, supervisor avalos, supervisor mar, and supervisor breed. My name is angie david. I work for the San Francisco Homeless Outreach team as a case manager which i have done for eight years. First i want to give thanks for the 1. 5 that has already been allocated to the mayors budget. I would like to encourage the supervisors to support the hespa [speaker not understood]. For me, this is imperative for the line of work that i do. Its critical to keep people housed and to provide them with support so they can maintain their housing and have support to aid them if their housing is in jeopardy. As you know, Affordable Housing is becoming obsolete in San Francisco. The tsunami for
Trains. We have whole families sleeping in their cars while their mother tries to tell them theyre just there for fun camping to keep them calm because theyre really, really frightened. We have thousands of people in this desperate situation and thousands more on the brink that are being harassed and pushed and goaded by their landlords to get them out of their homes. We have an opportunity here. You have an 8. 6 billion city budget. Youre only spending it 02 on homelessness, 2 ~. This is a rich city. This is an affluent city. You need to act. As the board of supervisors you need rip that money out. Do we really need 86 million to pave our general fund . Do we need [speaker not understood] to sweep Homeless People six mornings a week to harass them . Take it and invest it. Fund the rapid rehousing subsidies and the subsidies in nonprofit housing so that over 500 thousand holds can exit homelessness. Level the playing world Playing Field so tenants actually have some rights. They have a
They do have the social worker on hand. Its terrible to see librarians having to mediate disputes between some irritable patrons. But, all in all, i think the library is a find place and i believe they are doing a great job and are to be commended. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . All right. Thank you very much. Next we are moving on to item no. 8. Lava mae. This is denise sandoval. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that vide
Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is ward [speaker not understood]. At 8 30 in the morning, 1959, i was born at San Francisco General Hospital here. Im a native of the city. I grew up in San Francisco western addition. I grew up in Public Housing. At the age of 21 i graduated from city college and i moved into my first place of my own buying a house in the Bayview District in San Francisco. [speaker not understood] i got another job. That company went under. Eventually i became disabled like i am right now with posttraumatic stress disorder and im living on disability. I ended up in an sro. Ive been in the sro for 10 years. Thank god for the subsidy because i live in without the subsidy i couldnt afford to live in where im living now, 700 for an sro. Ive been in there on the waiting list for social housing for two years trying to get a place. You know what, i havent had a bath in ten years. You know why . Because i live in a room. I have a desire to have an ap
Good afternoon, chairman farrell, supervisor avalos, supervisor mar, and supervisor breed. My name is angie david. I work for the San Francisco Homeless Outreach team as a case manager which i have done for eight years. First i want to give thanks for the 1. 5 that has already been allocated to the mayors budget. I would like to encourage the supervisors to support the hespa [speaker not understood]. For me, this is imperative for the line of work that i do. Its critical to keep people housed and to provide them with support so they can maintain their housing and have support to aid them if their housing is in jeopardy. As you know, Affordable Housing is becoming obsolete in San Francisco. The tsunami for the people that i work with, for the people, myself, my coworker, my members of local 3. It is hard to try to provide a support and service for this increasingly Devastating Community that we work with. A 1. 5 increase in addition to 1. 5 increase is essential essential for the cost o