. >> good afternoon again, my name is maureen decass and i am here to oppose ab 1421. i have heard a lot of language going on that says this is not a panacea, this will not solve all of the problems which is absolutely true. yet what i do hear coming up over and over again is that somehow this will correct the homelessness problem in this city. it will not. there is a cognitive dissonance going on here of saying this law will take care of homelessness, yet it does not express how it will take care of that problem. what we've got is a law that will still have law enforcement coming in and still having to deal with people. it does not pull law enforcement out of them doing their job. it does not prevent homelessness. if anything, what it does is it puts people going through a court system but if trs no beds, if there is no help for these people, if there is no funding for these people, how do you expect these people to get the help and move off of the street? if you want to address the issue of homelessness then let's focus on laws that will work with people who are home