so many of those kids end up homeless. they throw their stuff in a black hefty bag and they end up desperate and without any sort of tribe or kin or family to help support them. if we could fix that in our foster care system so within the circle of the public sector we could fix that, it would dramatically impact what homelessness looks like in this country. >> and i think it is important to focus on the way we do know ways to fix that system. we have ways of getting kids older and in foster care adopted out. we have ways of getting kids first coming into the foster system into permanent families. we talk in the book about extreme family finding program in st. louis where they have retired detectives trying to find kin from not just mothers and grandmothers and aunts. they will find second cousins and great-aunts and call up and say, would you be interested in giving a home to your relative. 70% of the time with that program they're able it find permanent homes for the young people compared to 40% just under regular proced

so that these can work with homeless? >> four holla-- we offer young people to come and for the party's. cookie decorating or pumpkin carving that people have never had. it seems childish but they have never had those experiences. i used to pain to nails. that would make them feel valued i don't know about a full-time volunteer? >> i think there are age limits there are cool things going on across the country at colleges and high-school that young people have been slipping out to sleep out with the crisis of of business to raise money for homeless young people. also those two organize a clothing room in a shelter. you can throw them in a pile recognize this is a moment to get tough kid to feel special to organize it like a boutique even though they have nothing else to wear people who come and they're doing this tonight in anchorage planning ways to make that experience to fine a pair of jeans and turn that into something special. high-school students will do that to see the close. covenant house will touch 56,000 people

the homeless youth? for example, i went to the academy in niewrks, and -- newark, and there's other high schools with mentoring programs or, perhaps, like volunteer programs, but working with the youth coming to the house, but are there different avenues that can be opened up so that youth can work the homeless rate? >> i know that for the holidays we often have young people come in for parties. you can have cookie decorating or pumpkin carving, things people in the shelter never had. at first, it appears childish, but they didn't have those experiences, and they love it. i used to go to the shelter and paint people's nails, something that simple, that act of caring that made them feel valued and realize that people outside the shelter system care for them. i don't know about being a full-time volunteer, if there's age limits on that. >> i think there are with respect to when a young person can come into the shelter to help the kids, but there's cool things going on across the country in colleges and hig

corporate executives are wining and dining their clients was steak dinners and expensive wines thousands of homeless americans are struggling to find the food they need to survive how could a limb in a corporate wining and dining write offs help put an end to homelessness in the united states and internets daily take way back when of a company was facing hard times its c.e.o. would give up his or her salary for the good of the employees in the business those days are long gone c.e.o.'s continue to pad their wallets as the rank and file workers carry all the birds. in the us the rest of the news we hear a lot of simpson bowles you know those two guys would make forty thousand bucks a whack as a speaking fee run around the country and as republicans and democrats try to find some way to avert a disaster that they created and then in the named the fiscal cliff and that's just how simpson and bowles would like it alan simpson a former republican senator bowles or former banks are both very wealthy came together last year and thought of a way to reduce the deficit that asked the very rich to sacrifice vi

but i hope that as we look at homeless policy, we take a man approached that does not blame homeless people for their own predicament but looks at how we can improve the economy, jobs, and educational opportunities for many people who are currently homeless. >> you started to touch on this a little bit as the city's housing needs. what do you think the board of supervisors should be doing to address some of those needs? supervisor mar: even as we will be holding a hearing on senior housing needs in a few weeks, we did a study with the budget analyst office that shows that there is a huge need for housing, especially for affordable housing for the lowest income population, but even for our middle-income, aging population, there is nowhere near enough housing that is affordable for people, so it may mean an exodus of more working families, or seniors that are middle or lower income from the city, we must build more housing that is affordable. there is also the danger that san francisco becomes a city that loses families because it may be cheaper or more affordable to live in daly city

gifts for the homeless is making sure the homeless are getting the clothes they need to stay warm this winter. if you can help gift for the homeless, the phone bank volunteers are standing by to take your calls. they need donations. to tell us why, we are with the gifts for the homeless. thanks for being with us. you are giving the gift of warmth. tell us about your gift. >> sure. it's a 100% volunteer organization that collects clothes once a year for distribution to all the shelters in the washington region. we are also the only source of new clothing for many shelters. we purchase it and distribute it to the area. >> you had a big distribution over the weekend? >> we did. this past weekend we had 300 volunteers who collected and distributed clothing to shelters. >> the shelters are your recipient organization. david, i'm sure it helped a lot of people who were happy to get those. >> it's wonderful for us. they bring a large quantity and good quality. you can count on it and plan your distribution. you know what you are going to receive. >> tell us about the people who are receiving.

is there a big difference between the adult homeless and. the children is it is it more difficult to approach the. yes there is great difference on the street children live in small groups this is the only way for them to survive if they give their. small groups and bigger children i'm actually dominate in these groups including sexual domination. and all children in those groups inhale drugs these children are ignored by everybody government bullies people on the street. but ironically these true journal are capable of over adapting to the life they lived. through but let me explain books that you make speak preach the more they will live on the street do so the more they adapt to living on this street but the more they don't have to living on the street the less they can adapt to a living in society so it takes a lot of hard work to change that but still your chances with children are better than with adults because children's mind is more flexible when you science children don't take life seriously they think it's a game so if we work wit

they need to survive how could eliminate corporate wining and dining write offs help put an end to homelessness in the united states and internets daily take way back when of a company was facing hard times its c.e.o. would give up his or her salary for the good of the employees in the business those days are long gone c.e.o.'s continue to pad their wallets as the rank and file workers carry all the birds. in the us the rest of the news we hear a lot of simpson bowles you know those two guys who make forty thousand bucks a whack as a speaking fee run around the country and as republicans and down. try to find some way to avert a disaster that they created and then in the name to the fiscal cliff and that's just how simpson and bowles would like it alan simpson a former republican senator bowles a former banks are both very wealthy came together last year and thought of a way to reduce the deficit that asked the very rich to sacrifice virtually nothing and the very poor to sacrifice a lot all the ladies fight a lot of name dropping congress never passed their vision in fact their own committee n

then you have another category of homelessness, which is chronic homelessness. it is not just living paycheck to paycheck, but other issues like mental health or drug addiction. that is a much harder population to address. i think -- the district that i represent as many of the community organizations. it continues to be a pressing problem. >> where do you think the attics and mentally ill will go? supervisor kim: first of all, a ton of families live in the tenderloin. people do not realize this, but the tenderloin is a family neighborhood. it in not a proponent for cleaning up the tenderloin. i love the tenderloin. i love what it is right now. you know, i recognize that we have a diversity of folks who want to live there. i do not have a problem with people being out on the streets and socializing. it is part of the character of the neighborhood. i do not think the party is something we should criminalize. that being said, we cannot have open drug dealing. i do support a foot patrol. we are currently working with several organizations or have safe passages wher

neighbors, even strangers, opening homes to the homeless. we talked to the bravermans at the neighbor's house. they've been here three months, and that is starting to worry them. >> i want to give the neighbors their own privacy too, you know? i don't want to be invasive. >> so you miss your privacy from across the street. what else? >> sometimes, you know, i have to go to the bathroom at night, and here i have to be, like, really, really quiet, 'cause if i wake them up, i don't want to make them upset and get us kicked out. >> homeless kids tiptoe in a world of insecurity, hoping to be invisible. >> people said that i talk too much, and now they say that i don't talk enough and that i'm really shy, i guess. >> you think all this has changed you? >> yeah, and i haven't realized it, but i think i've gotten very mature in a very short amount of time. >> look for the homeless in seminole county, and you'll find robert williams's family of five in one motel room. he and his wife lost their tourism jobs several months back. when angel abreau lost

between 5 and 15 new homeless students a day. >> every day? >> every day. >> and she told us something else is new. >> when i first started this program eight years ago, homelessness lasted maybe two, three months. but now with it lasting three, six months, a year, or two years, this is when children are developing who they are, and their foundation is broken. >> how are these kids doing in school? >> they're struggling. it's much harder. they're more at risk of not doing well. they're focusing on, "how can i help mom and dad?" we have so many students that want to quit school and go to work. >> beth davalos is working to keep jacob braverman on track in school. his family lost this house suddenly in october. when he got off the bus that day, the door was locked. >> that was the last thing i expected. >> it wasn't your house anymore. >> yeah. >> his mother, rosa, lost her job, but the eviction was a shock. the bank told rosa she had 30 days, but it was five days later that the cops moved them out. there's a lot of chaos in foreclosures all acr

woman found dead in a creek as advocates remind us the perils the homeless face every day. it appears the death may be a deliberate attack. ktvu's robert handa is live where the people who are ignored are being remembered. >>> we are in the neighborhood where police have been investigating this death. initially police reported the body of a adult female was found. the body was actually found floating in this creek. >> reporter: on most days homeless people gather in san jose but not today. a woman known to have live here was found face down in the water wednesday afternoon. police call it suspicious. friends say she was a drug addict. >> she is a nice person. she will do a lot for a lot of people. she went out there, you know, she has a few enemies from things she has done. >> reporter: the latest death had an impact on a memorial to remember the homeless who died on the streets this year. they conducted the ceremony where leaders read the names of names of the deceased. >> we had a decline but we are still losing people to homelessness. that is what her death symbolizes fo

it turns out he is not hom homeless. jeffrey and the nypd officer became internet sensations after a photographer snapped the touching moment between them. the city officials said he has an apartment to live in, paid for by federal housing vouchers. and he continues to liver on the streets. we thought this is a common problem, especially in san francisco. and the bay area. although you provide housing, federally funded housing, many of the people that found themselves indigent or homeless chose not to even live in those shelters. instead take to the street. we touch on mental illness and those who will take medication. they don't want to feel sick. they take them and end up on the street. >> he has had some problems. he was cold and he was there. i don't want to take away what the officer did. the homeless person, the so-called homeless person, hillman, he has a major mental illness or drug problem. >> eric: i work with homeless more -- not so much now. >> bob: but back in washington. a lot of problems with the shelters

[speaker not understood] provide homeless individuals [speaker not understood]. and you have in your package attached the list of all the organizations that are going for renewal. as you know, we undertake intense community process for determining priorities and the competition process each year. for this year's competition, there will be a [speaker not understood] discussed at our funding committee meeting [speaker not understood]. the funding committee considered community priorities and decided [speaker not understood] materials for the local homeless for approval. as part of the review process, the human service agency and the local homeless will review applicants to score the applications according to our community process. we also had a panel of nonconflicting people that score the applications for new projects. [speaker not understood] delivery to applicants any project that is at risk of not being funded will have the opportunity to appeal. we just want to bring the resolution and hope that the full board will approve it before december. >> thank you very

that is one cause -- one part of the homeless population, but also, being homeless makes you more susceptible to contract in hiv. so we need to look at the public health system to make sure we can do our work around finding resources to get people to understand how they need to live more healthy. housing is an issue. i like the idea of building more supportive housing that can help people have a room but also these other services i have mentioned, so that they can be stable in their housing. it is probably -- i would like to think that we can get over it, but building the housing stock, having an economy with enough jobs for people where it can be stable, services on the health side is what it will take. homelessness has been an issue that is always a perennial issue that people are using in campaigns, what they are going to do to resolve the homeless issue. sometimes, i see them being scapegoat as the cause of a problem, but we need to think of it in a compassionate way, how we can provide real care that will help people turn their lives around. the success is how we are able to help people

for hose who are truly homeless, they want to be homeless. there's shelters and things like that, but a lot sell it. if they are on drugs, they are going to sell it. you know, they are jus not going to have the phones long, the majority of them. neil: 36 states doing this. wow. all right, charles payne, thank you very much. in the meantime, the head of boeing okay with paying more. >> our position isthat both sides give a little to get a lot. that's framing right now is substantial revenue increases. neil: well, i want you to meet the small business guy who has a very big problem with that guy and that kind of talk. ♪ ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride get the mercedes-ben on your wish list at the winter event going on now through december 31st. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 e350 for $579 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >> if the president's tax increase goes through, there's a million small businesses in america that are going to pay higher taxes. >> falls on the small b

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for hose who are truly homeless, they want to be homeless. there's shelters and things like that, but a lot sell it. if they are on drugs, they are going to sell it. you know, they are just not going to have the phones long, the majority of them. neil: 36 states doing this. wow. all right, charles payne, thank you very much. in the meantime, the head of boeing okay with paying more. >> our position is that both sides give a little to get a lot. that's framing right now is substantial revenue increases. neil: well, i want you to meet the small business guy who has a very big problem with that guy and that kind of talk. >> if the president's tax increase goes through, there's a million small businesses in america that are going to pay higher taxes. >> falls on the small businesses. >> raising taxes on small business -- >> people who spent a lifetime building a small business -- >> staxes small business' incomes. >> it kills the middle class workers who work for small businesses. neil: we thought it a good time, neighbor by the end of the week,

for hose who are truly homeless, they want to be homeless. there's shelters and things like that, but a lot sell it. if they are on drugs, they are going to sell it. you know, they are just not going to have the phones long, the majority of them. neil: 36 states doing this. wow. all right, charles payne, thank you very much. in the meantime, the head of boeing okay with paying more. >> our position is that both sides give a little to get a lot. that's framing right now is sutantial revenue increases. neil: well, i want you to meet the small business guy who has a very big problem with that guy and that kind of talk. >> if the president's tax increase goes through, there's a million small businesses in america that are going to pay higher taxes. >> falls on the small businesses. >> raising taxes on small business -- >> people who spent a lifetime building a small business -- >> staxes small business' incomes. >> it kills the middle class workers who work for small businesses. neil: we thought it a good time, neighbor by the end of the week, ch

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he didn't know me. >> but we were homeless together. and that made us brothers. >> i'm just trying to fight my way back and feel like a human being again. >> when i was on the streets, i didn't want you to throw money at me. i wanted you to sit down with me and have a cup of coffee and treat me like a human being. so let us not be demonized, stereotyped, marginalized. let us rise above the fear, let us rise beyond the sooty streets. >> i used to look at people who were homeless the same way people look at me and i understand now what it is about. anybody can be in this position. >> whatever your name is, i am you. whatever rage you were born -- rage you were born in, i -- language, i am you that hungers for justice and the right to love. >> i think christmas is an everyday thing. you celebrate christmas every day. >> to be able to find a place to be warm out there and have a good meal and be safe. >> the one thing that i gained from being homeless was to love and the unselfishness of the people who shared that experience with me. >> mer

but we were homeless together. and that made us brothers. >> you either run away from your situation or fight your way out of it. and right now i'm trying to fight my way out and feel like a human being again. >> when i was on the street i didn't want you to throw money at me. i wanted you to sit down with me and have a cup of coffee and treat me like a human being. >> so let us not be demonized, stereo typed, let us not be cast aside, marginnized. let us rise above the fear. let us rise beyond the sooty streets. >> i used to look at people who were homeless in the same way people look at me and i understand now what it's about. anybody can be in this position. >> whatever your name is, i am you. whatever language you were born into, i am you. i am in every postso that hungers for justice and the right to love. >> i think christmas is an every day thing. you celebrate christmas every day. >> peace on earth and all the people that are out there homeless be able to find a place to be warm and have a good meal and be

but we were homeless together. and that made us brothers. >> either you surrender to your situation or you fight to get out of it and i'm just trying to fight my way back and feel like a human being again. >> when i was on the street, i didn't want you to throw money at me. i wanted you to sit down with me and have a cup of coffee and treat me like a human being. >> so let us not be demonized, stereo typed, let us not be cast aside, marginalized, let us rise beyond the fear, let us rise above the sooty streets. >> i used to look at people that were homeless in the same way that people look at me. and i understand now what it's about. anybody could be in this position. >> whatever your name is, i am you, whatever language you were born into, i am you. i am in every postso that hungers for justice and to love. >> peace on earth and that everybody out there that are homeless will be able to find a place to be warm and have a good meal and be safe. >> the one thing i gained from being homeless was to love and the young

a match in a country with no homeless people i know it's not the most festive or jolly like question to ask during the holiday season but see here in the u.s. nearly six hundred and thirty four thousand people went homeless last year and as it turns out just a sliver of the money american spent on blinking lights insole bright stars and shiny presents could actually and the nation's homelessness epidemic. is she. is the way. there is only one it is a waste there decoration you kidding me. imagine how much stand you can do for a lawyer with no income housing with that kind of money that's what people need housing is all for show us and a lot a lot of you know very desperate people on the streets in new york texas wherever i mean it's it really is a sad situation and i think we can all do better you know maybe sometimes people go a little overboard and you know we want to we all be in the christmas spirit but i guess there's other things that you could be doing with your money six billion dollars spent just on flights and all and all that because people want to get into the spirit righ

>> so know way, i work for the division of homelessness. and today i come to oppose against tasers and i have to maintain why i oppose against tasers. because they are killing people. the tasers are killing people and we have several number of people that be killing for the police. they be shooting for the police. and the reason why oposing and we are oposing against tasers. so i prefer to see something given, i prefer to see like a weekend create kind of level and consciousness to the police to let me how killing the people. or to feeling better to the people, immigrants like latinos or people who come from around the world to this country. so we don't need to create more, new, forms of how we can killing people. first this is a killer. tasers are killers and we have already known these numbers. so please supervisors be supporting and oposing against tasers, again any time that tasers are weapons to killing people, more with mental illness, for homelessness, with living without any protection, any support. so please, against tasers, thank

no nude or homeless person has ever bothered me and if a nude or homeless person cause gz trouble punish them for what they have done. this is attempt to legalize bigging on tree and if they don't want to conform they can wear clothes. we should all have the opportunity to chose what we wear and when and when we wear it. i was born nude and public nudity is a civil right. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i am tommy. i have lived in the castro for 21 years. i have been a activist for years and 61 years old and i mention that because i remember a time when there were controversies about gay men and drag queens gathering in public spaces because people were offended by gay men who were drag queens in public spaces, offended and some of the things that are said here it was said about us and i was one those were offended by. they were offended by the sight of me in woman's clothing so pardon me for not feeling sympathetic and i was the object of that when i came out and also in san francisco i remember a time when we tried to set up shelters for homeless youth in the castro and i

and we do know that homeless people are more likely to have physical problems. we know that persons in crisis, react differently to physical reactions. and in fact, it is possible that with adrenaline and various other functions of our body, that a jolt of 50,000 volts with add both to our crisis and to possible mal adaptive reactions. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, my name is andrew mendes and i am a san francisco resident and a volunteer of the coalition of homelessness. just to echo the sentiment of my colleagues, the crisis intervention team is nowhere being completely implemented none of the other parts of the program have been deployed. there is a 911 protocol that is meant to be deployed where the dispatch is flagged. there is no changing of protocol to responding to crisis and putting the cit officers in charge of the scene or the intense evaluation in the field. tasers would kill the effort before it has truly gone off the ground and the remarks about or by the police chief sure saying now the chief is gone.

. >>> some of san francisco's homeless and jobless may soon be carrying cell phones around town. approval by the city would provide phones nearly free of charge. we have more live with that story. the big question is, kate, why? >> reporter: well, frank, there are a number of answers for that that we will get to in a moment. this is a program that exists in about 36 states and pending approval from the california public utilities commission we could be state number 37. the reason behind it, because city leaders and homeless advocates say this could be a game changer for san francisco's homeless. >> in this world you can't do anything without a cell phone. >> reporter: john gallagher hasn't been able to right down a perpetrate address for the past ten years, much less a point of contact. >> they think there is something wrong with you the instant you say i don't have a cell phone or another number you can use. the world has changed from the point where having a communication device on you at all times is an imperative. >> reporter: john says it has held him and other homeless back

homeless advocates are calling this a game changer. they say that not only will this help employers or housing agencies get in touch with the homeless, but in the best case scenario it can even set some of them on a path of independence. who is paying the tab? we found out most likely, you are. about a third of americans don't have a land line to use their cell phones exclusively. >> how important is your cell phone to you? >> i feel as though i can't live without it. >> it is a necessity for most, but some can't even afford them. for the homeless, it means missing calls for a job or housing. john gallagher knows. he's living it. >> they think there is something wrong with you the saint you say i don't have a cell phone. >> he is look for a new program that was just approved by the california public utilities commission. it is a federal program called lifeline run by the cell company assurance. it would give a free cell phone to the homeless and those with a very low income. to call if i you have to make less than 24,700 a year in a on

why friends suspect foul play in the death of a homeless woman. >>> happening now, a celestial light show, the annual gemenie meteor store is peaking tonight. patti lee joins us to tell us why this should be a beautiful show. >> reporter: this telescope can magnify up to 5,000 times but because there's no moon and no clouds the best way to enjoy this show might be with a pair of binoculars. or as you see, just with a naked eye. >> i talked to my friend about a falling star she saw, if i could see that that would be great. >> you won't see anything, now all of a sudden you will see a little fly go. >> reporter: from our vantage point in the east bay, meteor shore spotting started picking up around 10:00. >> i saw a very bright streak going across the sky and it was really spectacular. >> reporter: astronomers are expecting this celestial display to be spectacular. the gemini will be visible tonight and maybe joined by a never before seen meteor shore from the comet retonin. >> by 1:00, 2:00 in the morning it'll be three a minute. >> reporter: this group waited in line to use the teles

president obama established a goal to end veteran's homelessness by 2015 which i think is doable and the department of housing and urban development came together to establish the hud slash veterans housing program which, is models after section eight and san francisco has received 500 of the vouchers to date. we have learned that our chronically homeless veterans were having a difficult time finding apartments in the private marked in fact many veterans have had vouchers issued in 1212 and so what we have here is a situation where we have a federal agency, the mayor's office and housing authority and human services agency who have focused to encourage private landlords to provide housing for these veteran and is a few months ago one of those landlords the owner of 2524 mission street came forward to offer to least his 33 stew apartments which are above the restaurant on joule which, is now the -- restaurant to least those apartments to veterans who have those vouchers and i think for those of us who really see the need to address this issue this is a very exciting possibility. you k