center is all a continuance of into the weeds ideas to written people we want and desire us you kick with our sframz a true home or connect up with you to provide a level of services to get it a point where you can make a reasonable decision and at the end of the navigation center we ll have a long term housing opportunity for people now we re talking about hundreds of unit obey identified we already have in our spemgs a hundred units backing up this center and working with our residential hotel providers who are business people in their own right and offering us sfunt to work with n them as well the enforcement community building our housing i say we ve spent billions of every year to insure that people get services whether their transitional or senior ever veterans or families or single mothers and we ve had creative programs whether calling them healthy san francisco or housing first a or project homeless connection i made the announcement of project 5 hundred we re trying
simply because they re only insecurities or health are ones they feel challenged or safer on the streets than in - we re beginning to understand the survival tactics that people have learned and implemented to are control their own lives to try to offer them an opportunity to get off the streets this is a continue yum of serviced of ideas of support to get people off the streets i happen to believe i know that all the folks that are standing here building as well living on the streets is not a good thing as good as the weather and generous as people that give cash and lovely as the diversity that happens on the streets living on the streets particularly when you watch what happens in the evening is dangerous i don t courage anyone, of course, the early stories i m used to hearing i m seeking an alternative we have to come up with more alternative that s a challenge that s why all the entities are working to find creativity and more combooift was i want to say to beven keep co
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challenge wasn t we ve done in the past there s a better future for the homeless in san francisco and today is just the beginning thank you very much (clapping). several years ago when i had joined the sdpufks san francisco budget & finance committee i remember feel like we never had enough teachers or pens or enough paper and it was midway through office i realized there s the one thing the city and county city had too much it was land and what our surplus property would like and since this day this is the number one priority we know the the achievement gap is the opportunity gap we started thinking about values in our surplus property now the automatic is thinking about dollars let s build market rate housing on the site this used to be the site of fedex school it was we all had long kvendz whether what about a different surplus to build grocery stores where kids have access to healthy food and build affordable housing for teachers and kids this is what is keeping our kid