the first award goes to the dahlia housing portal team. >> dahlia stands for the housing information. >> was onerous. you had to go to the developer and turn in the application and they then gave you a circus ticket. if you lost it you didn't know your lottery number. was i in it and you had to fill out an application for each and every development. there was not one place to find out about affordable house. >> we're trying to create a one-stop resource. we have a good guide to how affordable housing works where you can find it. >> the challenge for us was to build this electronic system but make it very accessible and get all that information into the one place. >> now, every application is accounted for with the dahlia system. people are feeling better about knowing where they stand right up front. we're also able to hook people up with subsidy program this way and providing better resources. we checked to see if people are eligible for certain housing preferences which gives them an extra advantage in the lottery and if they look like they qualify we'll nudge them and say hey, you

where's the entire dahlia housing portal team? is is a group that streamlined our affordable online housing service. thank you on behalf of so many people congratulations to you and to our encampment resolution team. these are the individuals making a huge difference on our streets. i see mohamed and jeff with you. thank you for all you do on behalf of the city. listen, congratulations everyone. i hope everyone has a wonderful evening and i'd like to bring up two amazing people our city starter and jason elliott. >> good evening, everyone. so this time last year we were at the impact awards and mayor lee came up here and we had a long-running joke that i've been with the city almost 20 years and i never got an impact award. he said the same thing too because you know he started his career and he mentioned that when he gave his remarks. i thought about it this year about all the thing he did, not as mayor because as mayor you have a 33,000 workforce so you have an idea they move heaven and earth to try to implement it if you can thr