We've had these incredible price inflation in rental housing and at all housing, you know, not just in America,
but globally. And more and more people are being left behind, and there are terrible consequences for society.
When more and more people can't keep a roof over their head, it impacts all of us.
Hello, my name is Elvis, I am Elvis, nice to meet you. I live in the heart of the Castro.
I'm actually like a stylist, a barber. Because of Covid-19, um, I have not been able to work.
I'm literally at rock-bottom, and the last thing I want to do is lose my home, like
where I live, you know. So...(sighs)
I found myself I couldn't do it alone. I found myself needing to go into hospital for treatment
and the building filed eviction where my mother was, and I didn't find out about it
until the three-day notice had been done, the unlawful detainer, all that stuff, and
they were going to evict her in 24 hours.
If it wasn't for the Q Foundation, I don't know what I, what would happen to me.
We are a non-profit technology company doing rent-payment processing in the social services sector.
So, we help people pay their rent and stay in their homes.
Well, everybody has hard times, right, and it's better for society that when somebody has
a hard time, they also don't lose their home. And most people, we can help them resolve it.
In a short period of time, people go back and they carry on and lead, you know, happy, healthy
normal, productive lives. But if they lose their housing, things change radically, and their future changes.
We started using FileMaker just to stay above water. It was really like, "We've got to automate this, there's like..."
"How do we get the computer to do this work?"
I'm extremely proud of being able to work with the Q Foundation in the work that we've done there.
And although he'd had a FileMaker solution for a long time, he'd done work on it himself, and with other developers over the years,
he realized that with the Covid-19, that lockdown was imminent,
and that he needed his staff and his team to be able to work productively from home.
So that's when we got the call and started working together.
A bunch of people are gonna lose their jobs and it's like, there's gonna be a hundred thousand unemployed people
in San Francisco that can't pay their rent.
One of the the big issues was that a lot of what they do is about writing checks for landlords.
So, we needed a way quickly to be able to automate that.
So we looked around at an online payment gateway that we could integrate FileMaker into.
And that's what we did. And, because
FileMaker has this great open architecture that allows APIs to be integrated into it,
within a matter of weeks we had a fully automated online process.
And so stuff that we built with Claris FileMaker has actually been adopted by the city and has become
national standards and, you know, is changing the way social services are delivered in America.
It was like a miracle. It was like a blessing. it was like I was able to breathe, like I was able to breathe.
Q Foundation his managed to, one, ah (emotional), I want to say: step up when nobody else would
And they've continued to be supportive of her in a number of ways, you know, finding a new place.
They've been unbelievable.
I will never forget this, like, it's one of things where it's like this was the hope that I needed.