my name is amber diepetra and speaking as alliance of advocates a multi-agency collaborative committee including the mayor's office on disability, ihss, and many other agencies that work on issues common to everyone in the disability community. and specifically i work as a nursing home resource counselor, as part of the independent living resource center. we go into nursing homes and try to provide resources and peer counseling. these are folks who have been isolated from living in communities for a variety of reasons. lack of access to affordable, accessible housing it doesn't exist, or there is not enough people to go around to help disseminate the housing information to folks in these nursing homes, who don't have access to those applications. they are not able to leave the nursing homes. i should double-back and say when i'm talking about nursing homes or skilled nursing facilities, a lot of these folks are adults with disabilities. they are not seniors. i have client who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and the only reason they are living in nursing homes because there is a lack of