Homeless and dont know it. This Program Offers a significant benefit. All people benefit. Weve been at this location for over a decade approaching 15 years. Weve got partnerships and those have welcomed the lgbt communities and theyve been providing those services and weve partnered them. Our immigrant groups have helped the Lgbt Community. While this project has been developed weve been recruiting within those lgbt homeless folks. Our daily operations are as minimally intrusive to the neighborhood. People enter by 7 in the evening and we put up barriers not to obstruct the sidewalks. Those recessed escalations are offsite so our staff received specialized training in the Lgbt Community. We have two case managers that take care of housing. They invite the shelter on various evening and they also go during the day. Because we try to provide eeflt places for people to go throughout the day and restrooms and a place to rest. Over the last couple of years weve met with the Lgbt Community c
Environment where people are really made to feel its atkins a sanctuary. And were completely confident this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. Hoping youre going to support it and confident youre going to support it, its really historic. Thank you thank you. Hello the executive director of the aids foundation. I want to take a moments the memory even if erick. When tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a two prong strategy. One was to procedure beds but i went to erick and if we could find space in one of his existing buildings we didnt have time to wait for a huge long process. Others mentioned that 29 percent of the Homeless Count identified as let the record show and others have said its higher than that. We experience it differently and were about 15 percent of San Francisco population but 29 percent of the homeless. Theres a reasons for it and i think that all of us are recognizing its time
And 35 adult beds. Im on the committee and help to inspect our homeless shelter by anything that i say today doesnt reflect my companies opinion. We have 25 percent identified as lgbt and this is a significant under count since thats a sensitive issue to reveal. Our general population and our transgender residents are sprinkled insprinkled variesly within our shelter. Arising from the circumstances of an apparent node for the Homeless Population to access the she felt. And nonthreatening based on nongender or sexual orientation. And a anymore general point of view their recommendations were record theres been already so much said about the merit of the application for conditional use so ill cut short my comments and simply state this is a modesty application. Theres been very few objections from neighborhood residents. Weve had long go well advertised forums and theyve been restated and being resolved. The effort by dlols really helped me to its far more than a gesture. This is a beaco
A spaceless people are living. Those are the temporary homes but, of course, were surround by strangers and we found for example, when we did this survey that the transgender population was experiencing physical abuse and harassment at 3 times the rate of other shelter residents. A popcorn whos also done those surveys might have i do some interviews that were really upsetting in terms of what people are experiencing simply to rest their heads. And, of course, outside the shelter the health deteriorates. Everything gets worse you get a small infection or a cold and it turns into phenomena. I think that San Francisco is San Francisco, you know, were a gay town. Were supposed to be craigs and we have a Huge Population without housing and they dont have a place to go or live. Weve been working on this looked like were really, really excited about this. Our experience with delores street is great. We create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel its atkins a sanc
We have a Huge Population without housing and they dont have a place to go or live. Weve been working on this looked like were really, really excited about this. Our experience with delores street is great. We create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel its atkins a sanctuary. And were completely confident this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. Hoping youre going to support it and confident youre going to support it, its really historic. Thank you thank you. Hello the executive director of the aids foundation. I want to take a moments the memory even if erick. When tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a two prong strategy. One was to procedure beds but i went to erick and if we could find space in one of his existing buildings we didnt have time to wait for a huge long process. Others mentioned that 29 percent of the Homeless Count identified as let the record sho