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 even support animals as well. The individual just needs to take the initiate ive to contact the landlord or the Property Manageme
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
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
Impaired positive Resource Center and other Community Based organizations and of course our office. Over the course of the next several months the panel will address a number of issues such as such such such as enhancing a disability friendly culture into the department are the goals of recruitment and retention and promotion with people with disabilities and perhaps you can consider inviting them back to have a follow up meeting. Speaking of timing 2015 also marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of the americans with disabilities act and of course its a big anniversary and deserves a bay area wide celebration and mod along with a small group of Community Based agencies such as the Legal Referral Panel and public authorities have initiated a bay area wide effort to promote disability events related to the 25th anniversary and in fact reaching out to independent Living Centers in adjacent counties and other disability Rights Groups across the bay and when the process of developing a
You working with the state on all of these 3 points on vision zero . Please consider it for the safety of everyone in San Francisco. Thank you mr. Lowel l. Is there anyone on the bridge line that would like to comment . No . Okay then we have a handy resolution for this topic as well. Again, ill read through it. Well vote on it and support it in concept and well move on from there. This is resolution number 201502. Council resolution supporting the San Francisco municipal transportation agencys plan to adopt vision zero a 3 point action plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2024. Whereas at least 800 pedestrians are injured and an average of one hundred pedestrians are severely injured or killed on San Francisco streets each year and whereas the San Francisco department of Public Health has found that pedestrian and cyclist injuries and death are highly concentrated on a subset of city streets and these streets are just proportionately concentrated in low income non English Spea