. >> thank you, madam chair and i too want to thank president chiu and his staff particularly amy katie tang for mayor numerous memoriam of work this is in a lot of ways one of the thank less are issues the views around it have insdenl technology there are ships passing in the night not only to make everyone happy not to make really some people extremely unhappy no matter what you do so i want to thank president chiu in his work for taking on this issue it's an important initial or issue to take on i said this at land use at our 12 or 13 hours of work the status quo is not working right now we know the entire system of home sharing it happening in the shadows there's this or no o oversight no perimeters it's technically all illegal but there is little enforcement because of the lack the resources and it's time to bring it out of the shadows even some would like it to remain entirely illegal the jean i didn't say out of the bottle in terms of this happening in our city and thousands of people are participating in home sharing and many are relying on it in terms of their economic well-being an