. >> commissioner dufty. >> thank you. good morning everyone.first i want to start off and thank the director and staff for putting together this great report and that there is so much positive news and that the imperatives that we had around reducing our vacancy rate and other you know, situations that that have been really challenging to the city over many, many years to see the progress that's that's taking place. i want to thank you, director, for your unequivocal statement about how important it is that we continue to support and be open and emphatic about the needs of transgender san franciscan and others who doubtlessly will come here because they're not safe in other states and communities that don't have some of the protections that we do in san francisco and in the state of california due to laws that we have that we have passed. i just want to take a moment and just say that, you know, as a gay man i you know, you look at stonewall, for example in new york where in response to police violence and abuse that patrons of a bar the stonew