campos. supervisor weiner? >> thank you. and mr. chairman and thank you very much for calling this hearing. and thank you for campos for your remarks. and i agree with them. we know that there is a myth of lgbtq aflu ans and that our community is somehow healthy than other communities because we are less likely to have kids or whatever else or what other narratives are out there but we know that many in our community are not afluent and many struggle particularly in a city as expensive and challenging as san francisco. as wonderful as this city is, is challenging in a lot of ways, if you don't have the stable housing if you don't have city employment, and if you don't have a social or a family network, to support you, when you need support, and so, it is so critical that we as a community take care of our own. and that we are there, as a community, to support people who need this support and who need that safety net. and it manifests in our community in a number of ways and i agree that it is incredibly important to provide particularly housing and job training but particularly housing for o

we met with both supervisor campos weiner and olague at the time and we moved this forward. and this became a very, very important, important thing that do in the community. but due to health reasons, i am a long term hiv survivor and due to the fact that new land lords took over my rent controlled building where i lived for 25 years. i had to step down from the aging policy task force and i had to cut back on my work. so all of us here need to have this report. not only accepted, but really acted upon. i'm a perfect example of that. and now, i am worried about, and just about to turn 64 in a few weeks and i am worried about my housing and we just need to make this really, really happen now and not sit on the bench. so that is all that i have to say and i wanted to say that i really appreciate you can receptive to this from the beginning and helping us to move this idea forward and it has really taken form and so thank you very much and i expect good things to come out of this report. >> we all do. >> thank you, next speaker. >> and i will read a couple more names. >> michae

and it is very unique and so i will be very glad to support legislation that supervisor weiner and supervisor campos will be forwarded. >> thank you supervisor yee. and as i noted before i am proud to join supervisor weiner today in holding this hearing. the san francisco lgbt aging policy task force and this report, truly a product of a community effort. to raise the profile of issues effecting lgbt seniors in san francisco. and i also want to acknowledge the work that former supervisor kristine and the three of us and the lgbt caucus of the board at the time that created this task force in october of 2012, the task force is final report, aging at the golden gate, and quite frankly has far surpassed my expectations and it bring to light the critical issues that are facing san francisco's aging lgbt community. and the efforts by the task force are truly admirable, before the task force what is established, the lgbt community in san francisco, had really not made it a priority to advocate for seniors, and quite frankly, speaking about aging in the lgbt community can be a difficult thing to do. we rec