and the abag boards later in october. i did want to highlight the housing part of it because that's what i've been focused on through abag, and the plan barrier 2050 has housing strategies that seek to protect and preserve housing opportunities for all income levels and housing strategies. i did want to note that these housing strategies had a cost of $467 billion and also 219 billion for housing development, so we have a lot of work to do to build the affordable housing that we need in the san francisco bay area, but one step forward that has come about through abag and m.t.c.s work with the bay area housing finance authority, and this was established by state legislation, a.b. 1487 that assembly man chiu sponsored and that bafa will provide tools to address the region's housing crisis. and specifically, bafa -- or one key feature of bafa is its ability to raise significant new funding for affordable housing through a regional revenue ballot measure, and this was seriously considered from november 2020 but was put on hol