with christin mercer at the edc and supporting staff, we kept our home in our community of 27 years in our city. after a two-day stalemate with the attorney of the realtor company, christin's tenacity and diligence gave us a position not many others share. i would like to see more victories like ours. please allocate more funding toward eviction defense. thank you for your time. jamil representing mother brown's and marcus brooks, too, as well. i come from a community that's played upon for not knowing their rights and not knowing the laws and not knowing what they can do, who they can go to. and we're also seeing this with marcus brooks as well. so, we had an outmigration issue and i think this also could put some teeth into that as well, and they can make the city look respectable to my community that you're really trying to do something about the outmigration. and it's definitely affecting the african-americans. it keeps going this rate, we will have no african-americans in the city. but it's not just about african-americans either. after that it's going to be families, you know. so