thank you much, caitlin cao. next speaker, please. hi. good afternoon. my name is lena maibaum, and i am also an organizer for housing rights committee of san francisco. and i also live in a veritas building in district three. i have been with hrc for almost eight years prior to being hired in staff. i volunteered myself for two and a half years, also having three other jobs just to stay afloat with my rent, i was honored to accept the position of being an organizer, and one of the things i love doing with hrc is doing outreach door knocking. as you know, veritas owns more than 250 buildings alone and trying to reach out to all those tenants, empowering them and having them to fight back against veritas and even other corporate landlords like monster, brick and timber. so please, we need to preserve budget, not cut it. thank you. thank you much. linda. mambo next speaker, please. hello. thank you. my name is debbie nunez. i am a volunteer with the housing rights committee and a member, proud member of the veritas tenants association. i've been here befor