level to provide assistance to make an investment to stem the tide of the consequences for e evictions downstream. that is something we can do on the local level. >> what i meant to ask is that when you approach higher level politicians such as members of the maryland legislature were they responsive? were there more important issues to deal with? >> we did not know the depth of the problem i did not know going into it. we didn't know that it was directly causing poverty there is a lot we have to learn that the way housing is working its way to the folks of the legislature. >>. >> bios o m from milwaukee. [laughter] >> this is so cool. [laughter] san miguel was the tenants organized in my youth. but since then i go back every two years in october before the election and i have been canvassing including the neighborhood is that you speak of. i am struck overall from one ec in that city the working-class city where 20 years ago you could make $8 an hour but today that is all over. i just want to ask you of the political consequences of the housing crisis i see when i go door-to-door. there are trem

and make an investment upstream to stem the tide of the consequences that we we reap for the evictions downstream >> was financed to ask was when you approached more high-level politicians such as if the legislature, with a responsive and did they say they had other more important issues to deal with plaques >> we didn't know the extent of this problem, i didn't know going into it. we didn't know how many people were getting evicted. so i think there's still a lot to learn and the message of the centrality of how it's working its way. we will have time for someone lined up. >> i am from milwaukee. [laughter] i was a tenant organizer but since then, i go back every two years in october before the election including the neighborhoods you speak of. i am struck and stunned by the overall reservation i see in that city. a working-class city where 20 years ago you could get a welding job and make $8 an hour which was big money then or ten or 15. today, that's all over. i just wanted to ask you the political consequences of the housing crisis i see when i go door-to-door and try to find borders there've