>> reporter: now, deborah ross told us she is confident she can make things work for herself and her grandson going forward. anyone interested in finding out more about keep oakland housed can go to our website. abc7 news.com. lawyera anthony. abc7 news. >> thank you, laura. >>> and housing is big a issue in next week's election with several local and state measures. >> the biggest challenge could be getting voters to plow through a very long ballot. live in the early voting center to tell just that is an important issue. i have to say there are so many propositions and they can be really confusing. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. the governor's race, the u.s. senate race, they're at the top of the ballot. as early voters coming to this library know, many are looking at homelessness and affordable housing are at the bottom of the ballots. and that's concerning when some of them are six pages long. the push is to get voters to turn out to support candidates and issues. but the ballot in many places is a long one. the vote by mail ballot is three pages, double-sided. not all vote

their education reporter deborah ross along with the charlotte observer. here's what's going to happen tonight. each candidate would be given one minute to answer the question posed by our panel will alter who goes first based on a coin toss that we just did before we went to air. in the moderate my job is to keep us on time and when necessary offer time for rebuttal. those be limited to 30 seconds that i would you a few questions along the way that i been submitted ahead of time by some of you at home. we also have alex childs and the charlotte observer live in our newsroom. they will be live streaming the debate on our facebook page and guilty interacting with people watching. alex, , you involved in the quat costs. having a few months ago. -- the coin toss. >> we did heads for hairs, tales for mccready. it did land heads, harris will take the first question. thank you gentle man. let's get to it, shall be? we start with some domestic issues and that's alex mentioned will begin with mr. mark harris and jim has the first question. >> good eating. let's ta