we get over 20 million a year from the feds through the continuing of the care process and so the count is geb, again is a condition of that, but it also helps us to measure our progress, clearly and also gives us a much richer understanding every couple of years of the population on the street and we couple our point in time count, which is done by the volunteers. and i think that we had over 500 volunteers span the entire city and you walking or driving to attempt to encounter those who they see on the street that appear homeless. and in addition to that, we follow the count, with a survey. and we get a fairly large sample size, and so we can generally draw the conclusions from that representative sample and that gives us things like age and length of time that we have been on the street. and issues of behavior health and a lot of other really, interesting data that helps to inform our system, as we continue to see it evolve and continue to think of new interventions target
information, compiled for the 2015, point-in-time, homeless count. thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in time homeless count here in san francisco. as many of you are aware, the homeless count occurs every two years, in order to receive, federal funds to address, homelessness here locally. back? january, i joined the city staff and the non-profit partners to participate in the count and the white house, chief of staff came out as well and the results were just released publicly in july. and the results of the count, which we will discuss, in detail, today, provide some optimism, but also, show the way of a much more work to do ahead of us to reduce the homelessness here. and the stats in july shows that we continue to make the progress in the homeless, and we are on the way of achieving and 2015. but the count revealed that the population is older and a higher rate of substa
i would like to thank those in the bay area who in supporting those projects. my neighbors and i agree. the project is listed in a town that is to lower income chinese families and immigrants. up until this recent sale this project was offered by the demographics. we are curious as to how this story luxury penthouse wrapped in floor to ceiling windows can be desirable. this is completely out of context with the surroundings. casting a permanent shadow that leaves many homes. perhaps this is why the sponsor has not showed the rendering. instead the sponsor has provided a series of maps highlighting other properties. over half of these examples are completely different than the subject property and higher limits. the sponsors own exhibits for conditional use. commissioners, you have over 50 neighbors who have gone on record as stating that no opposition to the sponsor adding a unit otherwise increasing the height and bulk of this property this can hardly be considered antidevel
thank you. good morning, everyone and welcome to the san francisco budget and finance committee for a wednesday, september 16, 2015, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by tang and we will be joined by eric mar and i want thank sfgtv no covering this meeting as well as the clerk miss linda woning, do you have any announcements? please, silence all cell phones and electronic device and completed speaker cards and the documents to be included as part of the files should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted upon today will be on the september, 22nd board of agenda unless otherwise stated. could you call item one? it is a hearing on the new, information, compiled for the 2015, point-in-time, homeless count. thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in time homeless count here in san francisco. as many of you are aware, the ho
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