There are a number of agencies that have taken steps to increase the enrollment and the life septembercy is between 42 and 52 without homes and we need to do more. In terms of veterans certainly hits home to me my father additional many veterans are placed at an increased risk for homelessness and drugs and alcohol are the main cause. The veterans are more likely to live on our streets compared to nonveterans veterans report fewer episodes of nonhomelessness and 63 percent live on the streets fulltime. We see a reduction in the homeless assistance and we need to continue to do better so thank you to the speakers and would like to invite up hope to mr. Duffey to kickoff the hearing. Thank you, mr. Duffey thank you so much for having this hearing this is incredibly helpful to have the committee look at the aspects were grammatical ill with. As the chairman indicating indicated the citizens are a growing population within the Homeless Population and the board will have more medical suppor
Chances they can survive pretty much anything but the small businesses. I would entertain a motion to forward to the full board as a Committee Report everyone is happy about this. Well take that without objection. Thooibz. Theres no further business. Were good morning everyon welcome to the board of supervisors San Francisco Budget Finance Committee for wednesday, may 21, 2014. My name is mark farrell ill be chairing this committee im joined by the supervisors. I want to thank sfgovtv jonathan and the clerk madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. May order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing or use of a. Items acted upon will be acted upon otherwise stated item one the hearing for the veterans and others exercising homelessness. Colleagues that is the fourth in our series even if hearings i called a while ago around our Homeless Population thank you to all who participated in the hearings. This will
Upon otherwise stated item one the hearing for the veterans and others exercising homelessness. Colleagues that is the fourth in our series even if hearings i called a while ago around our Homeless Population thank you to all who participated in the hearings. This will be their second hearing focusing on the sub populations to analyze hopefully is programs and policies in place and into the future can be put in place to have a large effect. 0 todays hearing for the veterans and citizens that are experiencing homelessness weve talked to Community Leaders and others including the va well be hearing from them shortly. Our Homeless People over the age of 50 in terms of homeless they fall between the cracks of the safety nets because theyre not old enough to quality for medicare and they have a hard time vnltsd heirs in San Francisco. For any the ssi is not enough to cover the cost of housing weve had a 9 percent drop of nonveterans receiving ssi. 35 percent even if Homeless People didnt th
Item one the hearing for the veterans and others exercising homelessness. Colleagues that is the fourth in our series even if hearings i called a while ago around our Homeless Population thank you to all who participated in the hearings. This will be their second hearing focusing on the sub populations to analyze hopefully is programs and policies in place and into the future can be put in place to have a large effect. 0 todays hearing for the veterans and citizens that are experiencing homelessness weve talked to Community Leaders and others including the va well be hearing from them shortly. Our Homeless People over the age of 50 in terms of homeless they fall between the cracks of the safety nets because theyre not old enough to quality for medicare and they have a hard time vnltsd heirs in San Francisco. For any the ssi is not enough to cover the cost of housing weve had a 9 percent drop of nonveterans receiving ssi. 35 percent even if Homeless People didnt think they were eligible
That point. So veterans in our adult shelter we dont track them but we have a contract through e Pill Community services with the Va Administration there are thirty beds directly to ah a and they corridor with the outreaching of those clients the va is responsible for placing those individuals in shelters by the they coordinate to link them to Veterans Benefits Services Including housing placement. Lets look at our Senior Housing and seniors in housing. Seniors of any anchorage housed through the protocol but there are 4 buildings with housing unit plastic for seniors the howard hotel is the only dedication in the tenderloin area we have the house in the western edition mary hell con rogers in the western edition and mary go is going to talk about park view stares but a total of did and 4 unit specifically for the seniors and it comes from the Adult Emergency system and the sf hot team. Ellis act eviction prevention we currently have a contract with the tenderloin housing client and As