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They started to carry that cash and luckily i got pushed into it and a shelter, which was a good thing in the beginning i was lucky enough to get in housing, so the thing that helped me mostly was getting involved with the community and i speak to you guys and the other part was just recently happen is by a lucky turn not going through a drug program or not being arrested or anything like that, i have got exposed to a trauma recovery, and point being, it made me aware of the culture that we live in, and the people that do live in the sro it is like a trauma culture and i want to push out listening to the different options that were here and 11,000 for a shelter and 4,000 for the housing, and so my thing is awareness and i guess, work as a resource for people that are homeless and educational awareness. Thank you. Good morning, members of the committee i am joe wilson with the hospitality house and apology for holding this hearing and in the spot light to some important issue i want to ....
The total allegation of 116 million, and ten percent of that only ten percent is going to the employment and education, initiatives and i think that we need to bump that figure up i want to close with a comment that i saw this morning and something that i was familiar with over time, several years ago a group of people gathered in this city to propose, an alternative model on or for cooperation, and i am quoting here. The reason they were proposing this model, is to reaffirm faith in the fundamental rights and equal rights of men and women and to practice tolerance and live together in peace as good neighbors. And that is from the preamble of the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1948 and that should guide us as we move forward to our exploring Cost Effective strategies on tackling homelessness. Thank you. ....
And 11 years in sro and three years in studio. We need more housing and more beds and, we need to think dramatically different about homelessness and we need to study a program called job corp it has, you could, actually live on the sight of the two years, and they have job training on the site, and you could become a mechanic and you could be worked and this is just a full functional thing that works from anywhere to two to three years and you graduate and you have a good job and you end up being able to afford a good place to live and so we need to go to la, los angeles, San Francisco, arizona, and study the Job Corp Program in the how they are hooked up and i think that we can come back to a place like Treasure Island and set Something Like that up for just a t ....