and if we can't, or if edc or any other the organizations can't save that person's housing that person is likely to become another homeless statistic in the city and have a very hard time climbing out of that as you have heard from all of the testimony today. a lot of these people have waited for years to get in their subsidized housing so to be evicted for $150 or some other reasons such as an action that is due to their disability, that needs to be accommodated, hording, cluttering and things that services could possibly intervene and improve that person's situation, and so we work hard to try to save these types of housing to make sure that these people don't become evicted for something that can be helped. and in order to end homelessness or for work towards ending homelessness and we have to recognize that reducing evictions is key and to do that, we need to increase, services support services on site, and in the city to people who need it and also, to make sure that people received fair representation in the eviction process, the people who have already gotten that far. and on a

years before, i worked for affordable housing volunteering and doing eviction defense and working with edc and you know, we have seen, and we have seen what could happen. but why does chp has a 98.5 percent retention rate? it is not because we just failed to evict. right? it is not because we just looked the other way, when around the behaviors because there are services and in our buildings, and that can, that can support the people, when they are, when they are experiencing things in their lives that would get them evicted from other housing providers, and it is a very, very important, as over the 23 years that i have been in the community and i have seen the people go from homelessness to many, many different housing providers and it is, and it is a very, very important that we, that the type of services are as robust and in whether they go to the master lease or whether they go to one of our buildings or whether they are the ecs and everybody deserves these type of resources that will help them move up the housing ladder. thank you. >> thanks very much, next speaker please? >> hi, i ju

she says they house oversight said committee is singling out edc council approved a bill to end arrest for possession. vincent gray has signed the bill but has yet to take effect. this is one hour and 15 minutes. >> i would like to welcome everyone and called to order the subcommittee and operation. its is the subcommittee of the south oversight committee. the title of today's hearing is mixed signals, the administration's policy on marijuana. ofs is the third on a series hearings that we have been in on the subcommittee to conduct some andhe changes in the law also some of the practices that we are seeing across the country in the heart to the use of an enforcement of law relating to marijuana. other members wish to be recognized. when we finished with that, we have two panela this morning. we have the delicate from the district who we will hear from first. fourwe have a panel of witnesses that we will hear from in the second panel. we gather today and i will start out by saying an opening statement. the filling an important responsibility of the congress. that is the oversight role o