the streets we need to get them in here and invite groups of people to live here we ll have the very first building that you see there as the beginning of a navigation center where people come in and get interviewed about their needs and how we can accommodate a health care how we accommodate social services and how we accommodate immediate needs to get them food and shelter they ll be noifltd to sleep here for a period of time and then just to the right the most important portal is the serviced we provide on site it gets them into a conversation with us what s their need and outcome how can we help them get that outcome this is not a center you ll come in and go out and feel free and do their thing on the street and come back for respite this is not what that naekts center is about it is our serious attempt to come in here get a shower they ll be shoulders for men and women come in here and get support and food and let s talk heights get down to business about your life and
absolutely beautiful day this navigation center will be a brand new beginning for so many people i m excited to be here today along with my colleagues and the board of supervisors to just thank beacon hill for that his creativity (clapping) homelessness is not an offer night problem and not overnight solutions all the agencies youth lions that severs us in the hate ashbury neighborhood and other organizations that are rolling up their sleeves to make sure we re here at the navigation center is going to be a game character for our city i know we ve had challenges and i know this is really going to change homelessness in san francisco we have to continue to work hard to come up with new innovative idea if we want to tangible tackle this problem i want to thank the doors and the interfaith council for their generosity and 2nd support and all the department heads i know that mohammed nuru and dpw and the neighbors here in the midst district and thank supervisor campos for saying
calling them healthy san francisco or housing first a or project homeless connection i made the announcement of project 5 hundred we re trying to reach both the most impoverished families we want an okay. you ll building in and help us form in order to end generational poverty we re going to keeping e keep investing and trying to fought was works best for everyone the ultimate end is people they have to building and invest themselves and participate just like when we did the state of the union of nourishing banks to navigate her way through the families her pronunciations spearhead our efforts to call that the navigation center doing it better there are a lot of people to thank i want to thank the people behind me from public works to public defender to default probation to mayor s office on disability public works has spent i talk about nurses in the contract you are have to give you kudos mohammed you guys did a great amount of work (clapping.) so what was this before it if
other places they ll be matching up the occupant services to continue the support for unit so you ll not end up with a false promise or disengagement i believe more work i know it is cutting-edge and allows our city to come together tight with so many services put them in a focus effort i think we ll succeed i know other entities i have a lot of hope and thkts jerry and the challenging chamber of commerce are here the sduth school district and other agencies particularly the neighbors want to us psyche baud we honor them by having the best programmed so with that i m going to let bev and mohammed nuru walk you through a little go tour so you can understand what we re doing within this month of march we ll begin the interests this as capacity of one hundred people but 75 people mr. surpass so we can give quality support so our director (clapping.) we wouldn ter here without the mayor putting out the call i want to say thank you for asking people to step up for the city and hom
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 coming with the ideas no idea is to the r50ek9d whether helping people getting out of inebriate ration or getting the psychological support or giving them a respite or homeless connect and the constant 24-hour service we have now for now the navigation 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 ce