Good afternoon, chairman, council, all the councilmembers, my name is latonia dixon, i am the president of the San Francisco Veterans Alliance club and im also disabled veteran. I have pts with anxiety and my rating was pretty high as well, but i wanted to speak about the jobs and i guess mostly actually housing in the medical benefit. Housing, i was told by many veterans that there is difficulty in getting housing if they have pet or their service dogs, so i guess i was trying to find out if there is anyway, especially now like there are a lot of apartments they are not allowing pets or service dogs into their apartments, so thats even more difficult for a veteran or people with disabilities to even get housing and im trying to see if there is anyway possible that maybe swords of plow shares or ilrc if there is a listing or something that can help the veteran so they can go to different places to find so they wont be stressing out especially those that have pts like me. The other thin
Where we discuss our programs and other Community Based organizations that support veterans in the local area. We recommend how they can recruit and outreach to veterans besides the current avenues their conducting by obtaining job fares by partnering with transition service, with Service Academies and utilizing social networks and creating web pages that show the desirable skills they are looking for any employee and we recommend they partner with Veterans Service providers in the area like swords. With that, when you partner with us, we can review their materials and show to recommend best practices on being veteran friendly and outreach to more specific sections of veterans if they are looking for women veterans, officers, enlisted, new eras, etc and we can give recommendation for the process for how to best ask those skills that employers are looking for out of their potential employees with being aware of their military experience and not stepping over personal bounds. And with th
Latonia, i wanted to touch upon a comment that you made earlier regarding Service Animals and some of your clients experienced barriers to housing with animals. I want to say that is against the law under the housing amendments act. There are resources out there from our office. If a client is trying to get housing through a city program or city housing, they can file a complaint with our office and there is another city office to help mediate issues with disabilities at the human rights commission. Im not sure if you have already worked with them or referred clients to them, but there is another great resource and there is another nonprofit called the housing equality law project but they are a Legal Law Office that offers free consultations and another important thing for clients to know is what their legal rights are and the reasonable accommodation process that takes place in housing. So even though housing might have a no pets policy, Service Animals can be exempt from that and ev
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