I am zach murray for the welcome Youth Services and i am rising to advocate that the board of supervisors in the department is here to do more and be accountible and give us public leadership to enhance the budget and the policy priorities to include the youth and the reality is that when compared to the homeless Adult Population you have the needs that set them apart from the Homeless Population and to date, the youth needs are rarely prioritized in the Public Policy and San Francisco is first, and the ten year plan to abolish the homelessness, and the larger exiting foster care and represent 25 percent of the population, and the needs of 3 out of four Homeless Youth were not considered in that and so i am advocating that you do more to meet those needs to understand what is happening and Market Street has produced years and years worth of research and analyzing what the youth people are experiencing and what the needs are and we know what they need and it is time for the Public Resou
Homelessness at the front end, that the tenants in San Francisco, have a right to council, and many are becoming victim to land lords, and to the real estate speculator and we know what steps to take to halt it and we got to do it. We have these units sitting empty and boarded up and we have the people who are truly suffering on our streets. And we can Fund Subsidies in the private housing and we can make sure that our nonprofit housing is affordable to the poorest people and we can make sure that the communities, have access to that housing, thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please . Good morning, my name is laura and i am a recent graduate from the uc berkeley, and a Research Assistant with dr. Cocoa on the we count, california a project for improving the count of Homeless Youth and with we ask how many, the answer depends on whether you ask the homeless out reach and the homeless and housing programs who serve thousands of young people every year are the schools that insure that 2
Happening and Market Street has produced years and years worth of research and analyzing what the youth people are experiencing and what the needs are and we know what they need and it is time for the Public Resources to be behind this and end this crisis as we speak. If we are not going to take the abundant resources of San Francisco to end the crisis and i think that the board of supervisors in the city of San Francisco can play a vital role in rallying that progress and this has been 115 million on the youth in the country and the reality that it is going to take a lot more than that in the federal government. And i want to talk about the education and workforce training this is the root of why the people are homeless and they are not getting the education and employment. And yes, they are only, 20 percent of the surveyed Homeless Youth need an education, but 72 percent of them would like the further education, and only 79 percent of the youth at Market Street report being unemploye
Anywhere from 50 to 80 people in our tiny Referral Center and maybe a tenth of a size of this room. And so it is difficult for me to really have such a compelling story. And that i am considered an expert on the matter and i think that i am considered an expert, just because i am in this work and i have a expertise comes from talking to people and so you could go to the Market Street and go on the 71 and make the way on the golden gate and go on the 19 and you could talk to people and figure out what the need is directly from them themselves and step into their homes and rather than asking for us to come to the venue which is difficult in my mind. I am zach murray for the welcome Youth Services and i am rising to advocate that the board of supervisors in the department is here to do more and be accountible and give us public leadership to enhance the budget and the policy priorities to include the youth and the reality is that when compared to the homeless Adult Population you have the
Youth were not considered in that and so i am advocating that you do more to meet those needs to understand what is happening and Market Street has produced years and years worth of research and analyzing what the youth people are experiencing and what the needs are and we know what they need and it is time for the Public Resources to be behind this and end this crisis as we speak. If we are not going to take the abundant resources of San Francisco to end the crisis and i think that the board of supervisors in the city of San Francisco can play a vital role in rallying that progress and this has been 115 million on the youth in the country and the reality that it is going to take a lot more than that in the federal government. And i want to talk about the education and workforce training this is the root of why the people are homeless and they are not getting the education and employment. And yes, they are only, 20 percent of the surveyed Homeless Youth need an education, but 72 percen