thank you, sophia kitler. so severin is representing the budget analyst, and will make a short presentation to this committee to talk about priorities specific to homelessness and again she's independent of the mayor's office, independent of any department and her job is to analyze and dissect the numbers. i'm anxious to hear what she has to say. >> good ach, chair cohn and members of the committee. i want to introduce monica here who did a lot of the work on the reports. i'm going to start with housing, but to put this in context, this is the first year that we have tried to look at priorities in the budget prior the mayor's budget. we did survey the board of supervisors and four areas stood out in terms of budget priority. street cleaning, public safety, and housing and homelessness as two separate areas. i'm going to start with housing because that was the most recent. that was discussed in terms of the budget options we've identified. i want to point out in the 2017 survey of city residents, homelessness a