their income, and how that relates as a percentage of area income and so right now, we are limited to 35 or 30 percent of the median income and a lot of the families who need our help are in the 40, 50 and 60 percent range and the resources are not sufficient to be able to handle that. and so, and at the end, in conclusion, i would like to say our goal is for families to be securely and safely housed with a stable source of income and a rent payment that is appropriate to the income and i think that if we are working together and can come together on those out comes we have a good list of options to pick from, as we continue this dialogue and i want to thank you for allowing us, and i would also just like to mention, that the community home came up and we are funded for another year. and so, we are going to keep doing that, thank you. actually, what happens after the funding runs out? i am just curious, are there plans to seek funding from other sources? or, you know, what
long term success for the familis that we are serving as well as the community agencies work with the city funded programs we advocate for a universal system to coordinate the services for the families and providers who aim to help to secure stable housing. so efficient and creative solutions are necessary to address the issue, and considering that we have significant challenges for individuals at all income levels in our community today and all of us speaking today are open to exploring way to engage the technology community and assisting us with a solution to more broadly coordinate the crucial work that each of the organizations are providing in the community. thank you. i will call a few more speaker cards. teresa houston. tammy, joshua jones, maria avalos. and ken dra flesh man and jane shisle. good morning, my name is todd roberts i was called and asked to wish to speak on item 6. got it well stick around, thanks. hi, jennifer coalition on homelessness and tha
topic one point two million school aged children are homeless in the united states, about quarter of a million of those live in california and 2200 live right here in san francisco and i know that the homeless count, said that there is 679 members of families that are homeless in the city but there is discrepancy in the numbers that our school district did a report saying that the number is actually 2200. you all have seen many of the problems and one thing that i wanted to point out is right now it is taking a family, almost a year or more to move beyond homelessness and 7 months on the waiting list and a five month stay in a shelter, children are homeless for a year or more and all of this research and common sense tell us that long term homelessness is defined as six months or more has negative impacts on children and including the fact that a child who has experienced long term homelessness is five times more likely to be homeless as an adult. if we are going to move pass
people that have all three of those conditions and we have a lot more detail if you are interested and how many people are doing the diagnosis and so forth. but, as you can see, the percentage around women and certainly around transgender women are quite a bit over the general population. and i want to highlight some of our service and programs. and again, these for the homeless women, and the homeless families, and the community behavior health services and so that includes our mental health and our substance abuse programs, they fund quite a few programs specifically designed for homeless women and their homeless families and this is about 600 slots and i am giving a few examples here and some that you might have heard of, the woman s place and a homeless prenatal program and they have testified here before. and in your program, is the hs360 that is a former house, and hate ash bury merger and it is a woman s hope residential treatment and of course, the housed one of the p
me for being crass, you know, go and live with a guy until a guy kicks them out. just to have a roof over their head. that is it. okay, thank you. next speaker please? good morning, my name is east ton and i am the program director of the woman s place cats and the women place s drop in center, and this is some very good questions, and i appreciate that. and i didn t expect to hear about a winter shelter. i am so happy that in november i won t be sitting there getting a list and going what about the women? and so i really appreciate that, thank you so much to the powers that be. but let s see. i have got 54 women every night on howard street, multy use and emergency shelter and i have about 60 to 80 women sitting in chairs on 13th street every day and so when the shelter opens in november, maybe 30 of those will go over there. and 30 will fill those seats. and by virtue of the lack of services gender specific and there is a need for women, but i want to say gender speci