have continued to go up, the resources that we have available to address those needs has been declinindeclinin. there are other federal programs, and why we will talk about the rad program. that do provide ways of greatly increasing the resources available to fix up our public housing. and right now our residents are living in conditions that really need improvement. and what we would like to do is pursue this rad funding, and provide better housing for our residents. make the kinds of improvements that the housing needs. and be able to preserve this stock on into the future, for future low-income households as well. our regional administrator will tell you about the rad program. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, breed and avalos. i will take a few minutes to describe the rental assistance program. and it's set up on a national basis of why we ended up with this new program. we have 1.1 million housing units across the country. and not much different than what mrs. smith described. the capital needs is $1.6 billion across the portfolio. the funding is received under the united states ac