. >> i'm dennis richards here as a private citizen. the prior citizen took the wind from my sails. we have a real estate bill in front of us. the approach to building housing that costs $600,000 and $700,000 a unit won't make the teacher or security guard able to afford it. if senator wiener wanted to an affordable housing bill he'd look at housing and if you build more luxury units the prices of the luxury units comes down. hour the person at -- however the person at the bottom of the rung has no benefit. if you lower the price of rolls-royces, the price of priuss don't come down. the market has failed us. what do we do about it? the state's imposing a role that will tell us what to do. >> thank you. >> may i address the public, speaker, please, mr. richards. i have a question for you. i wanted to know that we have heard today about this will lead to the building of more affordable housing. can you please clarify that for us? >> so many of the things that are coming out in support of this legislation are technically true but don't solve the problem. we have a nexus study that says