This is the unedited interview with Nicholas Hatten the founder and Executive Director of the San Joaquin County Pride Center

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When we first broadcast this show in 2017 the latest point in time homeless tally was 7,499 people and was fewer than the prior count in 2015 at 7,539 persons. The City of San Francisco estimates that 15% of the homeless population is families and that around 1,700 residents are chronically homeless which is being homeless for one year or more with a disabling condition.

The expectation in 2017 was that the homeless population would continue to trend downward especially with the City of San Franciso spending $300 million dollars annually in homeless he services. But, sadly since this broadcast in 2017 the latest point in time homeless count in early 2019 identified that the homeless population in San Francisco has risen by 17%. The new higher numbers are associated with national guidelines set by HUD as well as the number of people living in cars, RVs and other vehicles has risen by 45% since 2017.

In this episode, we feature the voice of:

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Our voices of the community are:

Edward Reiskin the Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency also know as SFMTA

San Francisco Board of Supervisor Scott Wiener who also sits on the SFMTA board and

Melvin Clark a long time Muni Operator, Driver, Trainer

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The Unpacking Gentrification: Leveraging the Shift in Communities Show will feature a panel discussion I lead with these voices of the community:

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Our panel discussion focuses on how the lack of affordability is driving the cost of living up in the San Francisco Bay Area and in turn, is continuing to expand economic disparity. Today's Voices of the Community are:

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Our show on the Digital Divide features fellow community members and organizations that are working to provide support and solutions to the digital inequality of people who do not have the resources and access to technology. We also discuss solutions to address the discrepancy between those who have the skills, knowledge, and abilities to use the technologies and those who do not.

In this episode, we feature the voices of:

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Context of the Homelessness situation in San Francisco in the 2015-2016 time period when this episode was first broadcast:

• In 2004 then-Mayor Gavin Newsom launched the Ten Year Plan to Abolish Chronic Homelessness in San Francisco. Ten years and over 1.5 Billion Dollars later 19,500 homeless people (about the size of the Castro neighborhood) have been moved off the street

• But, in the 2014 survey of Homeless citizens, the number has remained almost the same over the past 2 years at around 6,686 people to a high estimate of 8,000 or almost 1% of the population of the City of San Francisco

• Homeless Citizens have gone up 27% in some neighborhoods because of the pressure from gentrification. The population has become more visible in encampments, and open drug markets in neighborhood containment zones such as Civic Center and South of Market neighborhoods

• The homeless population has become sicker older and includes more families

• Students - children that are homeless in Calif doubled since 2010 and there are over 20 Thousand homeless students in the SF Bay Area

• According to Ben Kauffman with the Office of Pupil Services at SF Unified School District around 4% of students are homeless which is estimated at over 2,000 students in the City of San Francisco

In this episode, we feature the voices of:

Chris Shaeffer, Program Director of HARTS City College of San Francisco’s Homeless At-Risk Transitional Students Program http://bit.ly/2JN3mV2

Angel Via – A City College of San Francisco student who is using the services of HARTS

Sammie Rayner – Co-Founder of Handup http://bit.ly/2GoVFT0

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There are between 1,500 to 2,000 homeless families in San Francisco alone. This episode is the second part of our Homeless in San Francisco series. To get more context about our fellow citizen’s experiencing homelessness I would recommend that you listen to our Part One show. Please copy the link: http://bit.ly/2Y3rc7T

Part Two of the Three-Part series Homeless in San Francisco features fellow community members and organizations that are working on providing support and solutions to problems facing our fellow citizens who find themselves Homeless. Homeless in San Francisco Part Two features these Voices of our Community:

Emily Cohen the Deputy Director at Project Homeless Connect http://bit.ly/2LGXeAa

Sam Dodge the Director of the Office of Mayor of San Francisco's department of HOPE - Housing Opportunity, Partnerships, and Engagement http://hsh.sfgov.org/

Doniece Sandoval the Founder of Lava Mae http://bit.ly/2SFbR7N

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University of Wisconsin professors Satish and Priya Nambisan, says that a trifecta of austerity, complexity, and digital technology has created this new opportunity for everyday citizens to help “co-create” new solutions for solving civic problems in their communities.http://brook.gs/MsUtPU

This episode is focused on Civic Innovation and its impact on our economy, community, and democracy. In this episode, we feature the voices of:

• Krista Canellakis the Deputy Innovation Officer from the City of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Innovation http://innovatesf.com/ and
• Judi Brown co-founder of Civic Makers http://civicmakers.org/ and
• Susan Stuart Clark a Director at Common Knowledge http://ckgroup.org/

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