A 2nd theres also another amp to homes as of 2018 there are nearly 1500000 vacant homes in the u. S. Yet there are an estimated 553740 2 people experiencing homelessness on any given night so that means even before the pandemic there were 3 empty houses for every homeless person we could give every homeless person 3 m. T. V. How does this not even accounting for empty apartments yog sheds extra bedrooms garages condos cubbyholes attic spaces basements pull out and walk in refrigerators and you wouldnt notice any difference except that homelessness would be over. The only difference is hugo whatever that guy usually sleeps over in the tomato patch over there oh hes not only in the richest country in the world anymore oh how odd that would be the difference no more people on the street no more fear that a little bad luck in your life and you your family could could end up under a bridge given a guy your underwear in exchange for a sandwich and all that madness would be to her and the imp
The mail from cpmc, the testimony that i think today, indicates that basic passive stance of key city departments in trying to come up with innovative and creative programs, and let me just give you three. One, the city has no real experience in dealing with permanent entry level jobs in not in construction, but permanent jobs. And the notion that it is only healthcare in a hospital, and an organization is complex as cpmc, indicates to us that the folks doing job placement do not really know what they are dealing with in cpmc and there is no real engagement with the community in that regard. In terms of the innovative programs around providing healthcare and funding in the tender loin, there has been basically no engagement with the community and the Community Groups who were made up of those people who need those healthcare needs and finally saint lukes itself, redesigning saint lukes and creating a new and vigorous saint lukes, it is nowhere, and you will hear the testimony today in
To the coalition of san franciscans for healthcare, and housing, and jobs, and justice. And made up of some 60 Community Based organizations and coalitions of organizations. To meet the three main, if you will objectives, of our program for this development, the first is following up on the innovative solutions, that this board and cpmc came to end of the Development Agreement, around Employment Training and placement, and around healthcare and around the creation of a new saint lukes hospital. And our difficulty is in meeting those three objectives, the role of city departments has been extraordinary passive, basically waiting for checks in the mail from cpmc, the testimony that i think today, indicates that basic passive stance of key city departments in trying to come up with innovative and creative programs, and let me just give you three. One, the city has no real experience in dealing with permanent entry level jobs in not in construction, but permanent jobs. And the notion that
Cathedral hill but also the tender loin residents are included in the planning for the various impacts of the project. How are we doing through the planning . They are related to various invier mental impacts and so there is no specific out reach for that and perhaps we will recognize the approval that were required for sort of Community Visioning groups, to be established relative to the various campuses. And those are, the Planning Department are not involved in those, and it was required that the cpc was responsible for establishing those and they have not begun those, as far as i am aware but they are not required to establish those yet. And then, which department over sees to make sure that they are going to engage the neighborhoods in that visioning process, which department is over that . It will be the Planning Department, since it is a condition of approval. So we will machine that in the same way that we will regulate any other for compliance. And from the Development Agreeme
Congressman mark meadows whos a staunch trump ally. Well have more on that as well in a moment. Lets start tonight with the latest on the coronavirus outbreak which continued to spread around the country and the world today. There have been 15 deaths in the United States from coronavirus. 14 in Washington State, one in california. And there are 326 confirmed cases nationwide. The states of oklahoma, kentucky, minnesota, indiana, connecticut and nebraska reported their first cases of the virus today. Which means that more than half the states in the country now have confirmed cases. New yorks governor announced today his state now has 44 confirmed cases with five of them sick enough to be hospitalized. And about 4,000 people in quarantine and being monitored for symptoms. Fall out from the epidemic continued around the country as well. In Washington State where there are now 58 confirmed cases in the seattle area, thats the countrys worst outbreak, the university of washington canceled