. >> we heard from a daniel snider who works down in the housing department in los angeles. and in the late 90s they sent a team of people up to san francisco for a week to study everything that san francisco does. and then they went back and implemented 90 percent of what we do down there. the harvard award for innovations for their program. but they are not allowed, and they had the power at first to do the liens and going to the board of supervisor and then the council took that away from them. but yeah, they do have a good program down there and i would like to bring up pativa, she is going to work on and she worked on some of the texas cities. good morning, commissioners. >> my name is pativa and i work in the city collaborative and the housing clinic and we work in the area and so one of the, and so i would presume that the texas, the city in texas but as you can see, some of the cities in texas have not much written against them because either we were not able to reach anybody there, or did not know how to go about finding information about it. so, that is a lot about