city alone. all our nonprofit providers, [speaker not understood]. they do a fantastic job, they do a good job providing quality housing, housing, and keeping folks housed. we wanted to get as many people as shelter as possible. people didn t need to get housing ready. they needed to [speaker not understood]. the vast majority for chronically homeless single adults. we have a number of 43 1 units in the pipeline that should come online over the next two years or two plus years. once they re online, we ll hit our goal over 3,000, 386 units according to the plan. and again, i talk about targeting, the vast majority of units are dedicate today chronically single homeless single adults [speaker not understood]. can i ask you a question on that? in reading around the documents, funding is a big deal for us as a city for every issue, let alone this. several dollars seem to be targeted on what the definition of homelessness is and limited in a way because of that. so, our foil us
under the leadership of the department of public health, their direct access program, and supportive housing followed along. what is supportive housing? [speaker not understood]. it means people get housed and stay housed. and it means that individuals who get housed, their reliance on other systems of care decreases significantly, meaning emergency room visits, incarceration, mental health, crisis mental health interventions, [speaker not understood]. all those go down when you house someone. we have about a 90% or more housing retention rate after a year. people do stay housed. we know it works and that s why the cornerstone of our ten-year plan really was about supportive housing. and we did as former supervisor dufty said, we had a goal of 3,000 units. again, i ll talk about the numbers later. so, the last piece of the sort of if you want to call it that. plan was prevention. what does prevention look like in the context of the plan? our home ward bound program which is
to take policy makers into the streets with more empathy, the situation of the homeless population? i m considering how i can i understand it you re a staffer, you do that. i work with clients almost every day. who interacts with clients in special shelter directors, meet with them regularly, they have a very good understanding and empathy of what is a.m. ~ what s going on on the streets. and really, it s solving this issue is bigger than the level of empathy, which is there. it calls for a lot more than that, which is funding and systematic changes in some areas to better serve folks who are on the street. i think what i saw at least within the food access open groups, project had almost a leadership team taking a snap challenge and have changed the culture i think of how they looked at the issue. for me personally that helped a lot. i m trying to look into what other ways we can be policy makers to be the issues. working with clients and community members is one thi
so, supportive housing, as i said earlier, we were really under the leadership of the department of public health, their direct access program, and supportive housing followed along. what is supportive housing? [speaker not understood]. it means people get housed and stay housed. and it means that individuals who get housed, their reliance on other systems of care decreases significantly, meaning emergency room visits, incarceration, mental health, crisis mental health interventions, [speaker not understood]. all those go down when you house someone. we have about a 90% or more housing retention rate after a year. people do stay housed. we know it works and that s why the cornerstone of our ten-year plan really was about supportive housing. and we did as former supervisor dufty said, we had a goal of 3,000 units. again, i ll talk about the numbers later. so, the last piece of the sort of if you want to call it that. plan was prevention. what does prevention look like in the
faithful street group ministries and others who try to take policy makers into the streets with more empathy, the situation of the homeless population? i m considering how i can i understand it you re a staffer, you do that. i work with clients almost every day. who interacts with clients in special shelter directors, meet with them regularly, they have a very good understanding and empathy of what is a.m. ~ what s going on on the streets. and really, it s solving this issue is bigger than the level of empathy, which is there. it calls for a lot more than that, which is funding and systematic changes in some areas to better serve folks who are on the street. i think what i saw at least within the food access open groups, project had almost a leadership team taking a snap challenge and have changed the culture i think of how they looked at the issue. for me personally that helped a lot. i m trying to look into what other ways we can be policy makers to be the issues. w