Are just that, a part of the system. This is just a quick snapshot of homelessness in the city and how it is directed. Primarily in districts six, ten and nine. And on the next slide you see this is the distribution of housing shelters, nav centers and all Homeless Services in the city, again concentrated primary in districts six, nine and ten based on the where the populations are. Then theres housing spread throughout the city. In some cases just one or two facilities there. Im going to skip over slides. This isnt a presentation about our strategic framework. But there are many components to it. Maybe a couple i should highlight. One being we talk about problem solving, which is because we have so many people coming into the system every year, we need to find ways to divert them out of the system as quickly as possible. And problem solving is things like eviction prevention, flexible grants. Just the other day we helped a family who was about to become homeless because the father was driving for a Ridesharing Company and he needed the side view mirror fixed so he could get back to work. 300 bucks and we prevented them from becoming homeless. To make sure before people get into the system they are being offered problem solving. And even though we have 74 hundred units of Supportive Housing, only 800 units become available. We have this new Housing Program to help residents move out into the private market with section eight vouchers or housing choice vouchers. Next year instead of having 800 units of housing turn over, we will have a thousand units become available, which will make a significant difference. And you spoke about data. On the next slide here, we are using data the data we have as well as we possibly can and are modeling for how are we going to achieve specific goals we have. And how are we going to reduce chronic momlessness by 50 . We have a fairly robust data model that weve developed that shows how housing replacementses we need to make and how many people we need to prevent from becoming chronically homeless versus the new flow. I think we are moving in that direction and we have special teams specific goals for ourselves around family youth and adult homelessness. Those are the standards by which we need to judge the efficacy of our system. And this is a visualization of what our new system looks like. You will see theres a lot of components to it. And temporary shelter is just one part of it. Den, temporary shelter only solves peoples problems and nav centers and the like on a temporary basis. Lets talk about the inventory. People send to focus on nav centers. But theres 2,300 shelter beds in our system. And they range from Emergency Shelters where you can stay one night and the others where you can stay longer. Again, we try to measure our success based on how our system is doing. Not how one particular program is doing. The program on the temporary shelter side is much bigger than nav centers. I think Everybody Knows at this point what nav centers are. I like to refer to them as shelters as they should be. There are essentially shelters but there are some unique features that dont exist in other shelters. They allow people to bring in pets, partners and their possessions. The services on site are more robust and theres deeper partnerships with h. S. A. And the department of health. It is a much Higher Service enrich environment than you will see in a shelter. Their open 24 7 so people can go. They allow people who are working or for whatever reason just want to step out to do so and not have to sort of come in and be governed by rules that some of our larger shelters have. I think its a bet every way to provide shelter and it is more attractive to people on the streets who have been in the shelter system and feel they didnt work for me. Im not comfortable being with 300 other people. That environment doesnt work for whatever reason. So, when were outreaching and offering People Places to go, they are much more attractive to individuals who maybe have had p. T. S. D. Or have been in jail and dont do well in these large settings. They are also more expensive to operate. Shelters ranges from 40 to 60 a night. Nav centers range from like 90 to 95 night. They are smaller and they have more services. A couple of things important to clear up about nav centers, theres misinformation swirling around about how long you can stay, how they work. They are really very flexible shelters we use in a environment of ways. We have nav center beds participating for one night. We have a few of those beds available. We see about five 17 people a week is our goal. We will see a couple of beds every night for folks getting ready to reunify with a family member. We have emergency beds, about a dozen, that are only sevenday stays and used for emergencies. If we get a call in the middle of the night, somebody on the street really suffering or the paramedics pick somebody up, they can call to see if there is a bed available. We dont have that flexibility in most of our shelter systems. The option are we take people to the Sobering Center and now weve the nav center beds. And we have time limited beds which people can stay in for 60 days. However, if they are working on housing or they are trying to get shelter or theres a clear path forward for them, we will extend the stay to help facilitate them getting the job or shelter bed or getting the housing. But in many cases, not everybody is using those beds for that purpose. And because we have so many people who need access to shelter and because we dont have permanent Supportive Housing for everybody, letting all those beds with time unlimited wouldnt make very much sense. The places who do that like new york city, for example, end up with 60,000 people in their shelter system with very Little Movement out of the shelter system because the investments havent been made in housing. So, we dont let people stay indefinitely. We have pathway to housing beds. We have about about 110. So, almost half of the nav centers beds are called pathway to housing beds i thought the previous slide said 352 . Yes. A little over a third. Sorry supervisors. Im probably doing the math wrong. About 150 roughly are pathway to housing beds and those are for individuals who are long term homeless who have some form of disability who will be prioritized into our housing. We just dont have housing for everybody. We prioritize the housing for that population. When we identify those individuals either on the streets or in a nav center, we will put them in that bed and stay there until they get housing. But having all these beds available until they get housing when theres not enough housing doesnt make sense because they will end up living there permanently in the nav centers. So, you are saying those 150 beds are 60day stays that can be extended . Those are 60day beds but if youre working towards housing yep. Or you have made a shelter reservation and you are going to go into a 90day shelter or moving into transitional housing and we have gotten you a slot in a Substance Abuse treatment program. We are not going to interrupt the path and say your 60 days is up. Go back out on the street for a week and then you can go into the shelter. That makes zero sense to do that. But we have, frankly, folks who are not on that pathway. And when their 60 days are up, they have to leave. What im hearing when i talk to someone who works at a Needle Exchange program and provides shelter to homeless folks, it is somewhat traumatizing when people are taken out of encampments where they have formed community. But that is ameliorated when you are taking folks and providing a safe place where they can get services. But 60 days later, if they dont get a path and theyre suddenly back on the street, their community is gone. Their whole way of being organized on the street is disrupted. And youve like traumatized them twice because now they are dumped back on the streets. So, that amplifies whatever mental or Behavioral Health or Substance Abuse issues they had before they were connected with the system. You have actually exacerbated the situation and those circumstances. You put people back on the street without their community, without their support and made them more vulnerable and more traumatized. I think it is a cycle that ends up with more negative consequences. If we get someone off the streets why we cant keep them off the streets . Hopefully the numbers i shared with you prior explain the answer to that question. We have 21,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city on any given year. Only have the resources to help about 2,000 people exit homelessness. If we allowed everybody to stay in our temporary shelters permanently, we would end up a street homeless problem the city has not seen since the 90s. Very large encampment in front of city hall. This is a heartbreak and difficult decision we have to make because we are having to ration resources where we dont have enough of. I would argue that somebody who has been homeless in San Francisco for ten years or longer, who grew up in San Francisco perhaps and who has a Severe Mental Health issue and is on our streets needs to get prioritized for housing versus somebody who maybe shows up two weeks ago and sets up in a tent and we end up responding to a neighbors complaint because that person is unhoused. We put them in a nav center and that person because they happen to have triggered a complaint and a response they end up getting permanent Supportive Housing when we have so many people on the streets suffering. These arent easy decisions to make. But folks who have been so, they are just not easy decisions to make. But weve got a system that is based on successes that we have seen in other communities, including houston which saw a 75 reduction in homelessness in about ten years. Using coordinated entry and using data and making decisions on how to effectively ration what you have. Not a perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination. And difficult decisions have to be made. Thats the reason why. The numbers just are what they are. I would also argue that whereas i have seen encampments where there is a sense of community and where people have come together to really create to care for one another. The vast majority of them are not that. They are very unsafe and very unhealthy. Theres violence. The police have indicated to me that they estimate that four out of five of the women in the encampments have been subject to violence against them and that theyre not in good places. And that using nav centers as a tool to redirect folks to more healthy environments has been a successful one. It is really a balancing act between how do you deal with a limited amount of resources, how do we address concerns that citizens have about large encampments in their neighborhoods versus and then the other thing that i will say to answer your question, supervisor, is that theres a ton of data that shows when people come indoors even if it is for 30 days, their cortisone levels drop, they gain weight and if they have serious mental illness, their thinking becomes more organized. Where i dont disagree in some cases this hasnt been a positive experience and they lost something, i would argue that in the vast majority of cases, people and theres lots of data to back this up, medically shows it is good for people to get a break from the streets and help them lead towards more maybe to resolve their homelessness on their own. So, you put a woman back on the street who four out of five have been sexually assaulted to allow them to be revictimized. And the person who came and set up a tent on the sidewalk might be a queer kid, trans kid whose life is in danger i dont get the sense that some humans are better than others. Half the young people on our treats are lgbqt it is just a concern. I would also say theres 21,000 people coming in the streets every year. About 40 of them will be women. So, yes, we may end up having a person end up bag on the streets again. Back out on the streets but theres somebody behind them able to use the bed and maybe get reconnected to a family member. Theres no easy solutions. I think its just important to remember that its not just about the person who is right in front of you. But its about looking at the system and using the resources we have to make wise decisions. As were getting more organized in how we use the resources, we have an Assessment Tool that factors in three things. Eleventh of homelessness, disability as well as like mshlg situations that people emergency situations that are people are in. If it is Domestic Violence or you just got out of the hospital and you have been discharged out on to the streets. It is not as straightforward as the length of homelessness. Theres multiple factors we use to determine and unfortunately to ration the services we have to help as many people as we possibly can. Right now, each Navigation Center bed can serve four people a year roughly. If we followed a policy in which youre going to stay here until you get housed, each Navigation Center would probably serve one person for potentially 18 months or longer. It is again a hard decision. Thats why we have multiple types of services. Again going back to the slide i showed before. Some beds are for one night and some are for 18 months. And in the pathway to housing beds they are unlimited until you get housing. We have a wide range of different types including the youth. It is a very big system with a lot of moving parts to it. Vice chair ronen i would love to chime in here. I couldnt agree more with my colleague, jeff sheehy. And this is something that you and i have been arguing about for quite some time, jeff. Im actually looking into legislating around this point because i dont think it is an either or proposition. I think we have to start being honest about what we need to solve our street homelessness crisis in this city. If we just keep sort of working around the edges and adding a couple of beds here and there and having individual supervisors fight to get a Navigation Center in her district and solve the problem in her neighborhood only, we are going to continue to have san francis franciscoians get fed up. Before mayor lee passed away, he made a pledge to add a thousand new beds to the system. Is that what is in your budget we need to see that kind of investment from the mayors office. I see jim in the crowd. I have talked to the chamber of commissioners and the golden gate restoration. They want to help but they want to see a dpifrns in the street. If difference in the street. If we are just taking people off the street for 60 days and they are traumatized you are absolutely right and youre absolutely right. But many people in the Mission District that didnt want to go to the Navigation Center, one of the reasons they said they didnt want to go is they said whats the point . Im going to be out in 60 days. They are resistant to use the services and they become distrustful of government that we are going to be able to help. We cant throw up our hands and say we dont have enough resources or beds. We need to talk about what we need to actually make a difference in this raging crisis on our streets. And then work with our partners both in and out of government to actually get there. But every time we go to the voters and we ask them for more money for Supportive Housing for Affordable Housing and for homelessness, they are like every ballot we vote yes and we put more money in and things get worse, not better. We have to start showing the voters that were taking our tax dollars and were making a visible difference on our streets and in peoples lives. That is not what is happening today. I get emails even though we have done amazing work in the mission and we have reduced tents from 264 to 60 today, i get dozens of emails people saying you cleared the encampment for a week and there it is again. I understand it will never be perfect. Thats not what were asking for. But what were asking for is a real vision about what will make a difference in the street, a plan to get there. A dollar amount that we need to solve it. And then someone leading the charge to get us there. And everything i have heard up to now is just its window dressing. It is not solving the frontal problem. Every time we are losing the faith of the people in our government. Its just not right. And we are traumatizing homeless people. I couldnt say it better than you supervisor sheehy. We are we on the thousand beds . And how are we going to make a difference in the streets . I dont disagree with you about the fact voters are frustrated and asking for more money is at times challenging when people dont see the problem getting better. But i dont know how, supervisor, other than to lay out the facts and explain what were trying to do and explain what were trying to do is developed by a lot of people who have worked on this issue both in San Francisco and nationally. Just talk about the realities of what we are facing on our streets with an in flow of 8,000 newly homelessness. For us to be able to solve homelessness would require us to built 3,000 unit as year nonstop for seven years in a row. We could get everybody off the streets and then the turnover in those units would be enough that we would be able to absorb in flow into the system. Assuming in flow doesnt increase. That would cost approximately ten builds and would take individual multiple family sites and cost 500 million a year to operate. And in the meantime we are in the middle of a crisis. I dont see that were going to be building 3,000 units of perform innocent supportive permanent Supportive Housing. We have to use what we have as effectively as we and develop a system that makes sense. That is what were trying to do. Im sorry we havent been able to maybe explain it as well as we should or help folks understand it. The fact of the matter is with the numbers we are dealing with, we have to find other solutions. One solution is problem solving that i believe i