San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission

Welcome to our Oversight Commission. May is Foster Care Awareness Month and it’s Mental Health Awareness Month. These recognitions are deeply connected to the work before us. We know that far too many young people who experience foster care involvement also face housing instability and homelessness, particularly as they transition to adulthood.”

So, is the re-procurement going to change the pay schedule? Or— I don’t know enough about HSH contracts, but is it going to be fee-for-service or cost reimbursement?”

Could you let us know where we can find blueprints, and are there kitchen facilities?”

It is our most vulnerable population. It is, you know, I’ve done some work with young people at Job Corps, and I can remember those young people saying that if if I didn’t have this program, I would be homeless.”

How do we support those CBOs to find outside resources outside city resources, right? Is there a working group for these CBOs to find additional revenue sources to help with programming?”

When I think about a Good Neighbor Program, I’m actually thinking about the people whose minds and hearts have changed because they’ve connected or understood better all the challenges that go into addressing homelessness in this incredibly expensive city that is hard to do.”

I wanted to ask about how robust our relationship is with the school district, because that is really the frontline for a lot of young people who, who are experiencing homelessness.”

As long as you have them, I think for the public’s knowledge, that’s what matters. But just coming back to that 1,000, because it’s seems urgent with the deadline, the 1,000 emergency vouchers that will run out in October. So I just want to let the other commissioners know that that’s a pretty time-sensitive topic.”

Some folks were wondering about the Raphael House getting the multi-year general fund contract. Was there an RFP that went out for that, or how was that established?”

…the Kelly Cullen community site, that was supposed to be a pilot for high acuity, right? So is there a reason that we’re doing another one?”

You had 294 folks that left the list because they did not need HSH housing, and I was wondering to what degree do we know if they got housing elsewhere, or is it just we lost communication?”

One, for those of us who might not be familiar, can you just explain what Tier 1 and Tier 2 means?”

…is this counting people as individuals? So for instance, a hypothetical dataset, you have 3 people in a family and 1 individual, you house the family, you would say 75% of all exits from homelessness to housing?”

And those who have exited their RVs into any form of housing, is there, you know, typically, like, where do they go? Is it all throughout the city?”

…for folks who are trying to do Journey Home, how do they get information? And also who’s been served, all that kind of stuff.”

So for those of you who are like, we keep talking about TAY. My God, I just did it. I just did the thing. I try not to do acronyms. Transitional age youth are people in their 20s, generally 18 to 25, 26, 27. And they are disproportionately in the homeless population.”

I mean, that’s— we’re a homeless oversight commission and we have homes that are vacant.”

I think what I was— the question was, if we’re given a grant of $100,000, we’re committing ourselves potentially to spend more than that grant, correct?”