>> good afternoon, supervisors brooke turner with the coalition of better houser. i'm here to support the idea of allowing people to come to the front of the list from the ellis eviction. it's a way to address an issue in a thoughtful manner that we can get behind so thank you very much >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 4. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues the item is back in the hands of the committee >> president chiu. >> thank you all for being part of this legislation i want to thank mrs. lee and her family for stepping up and your encourage talking about all the stories that are happening around the city. thank you for all who stood with the lee families and all families facing eviction. i speak for my colleagues, we're hearing way two many stories like beverly upton and the stories thought the decide. we know during the affordability crisis we have to make sure that the city of fantasia moves forward. we have to provide relief from the holidays. i mentioned colleagues, i have two brief amendments to the legislation.

the mayor's office of houser and a community development will administer this program will balance our affordable housing nodes. this legislation would impose several things it can only be used once and the priority will expire after 6 years if not used for new developments. only 20 units can be used for the preference and tenant have to meet the eligibility requirements. from my prospective i building there is a critical measure to stop people from becoming homeless in inform. we need to make sure that your residents don't fall through the crack. i wanted to thank the co-sponsors and my colleague and the chinatown development center folks and the tenderloin clinic and the san francisco tenant union for their work on this legislation. i also want to mention i have two technical amendments we want to clarify the first is to closure there are several years of review to look at how this new preference is doing so we're adding 3 additional years to the process. that was language that was suggested by the planning commission and from the rent board it was suggested we clarify that it turns

in a landmark case, atlanta nursing home operator george houser was criminally charged and convicted for submitting claims for care deemed so bad, it was worthless. >> it created case law to where we can start looking at these cases criminally because now we have a roadmap of success. it certainly should put any corporation on edge. if i was a corporation in this line of work, that's something i would be looking at to say now i can be held liable for some of the care that i'm giving. >> but jackson says that budget cuts in government spending mean that there isn't enough manpower to investigate the number of other possible abuses in the system. >> i wish we had a hundred more agents that we could proactively go into every nursing home around the country, and dive into their medical records and look into their billings, but we don't have the resources, we don't have the ability to do that. >> america is dealing with its growing elderly population with a corporate response. it's meant that people are increasingly becoming a commodity. but when that happens, what it means to be human, a

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. >> there is a community called tiny housers, how do you define a tiny house other than its size? >> tiny houses for the purpose of our documentary we define them as anything less than 200 square feet really. the more you think about it, the lines kind of blur. but really just anything less than 200, 300 square feet. >> pardon the pun but how big is the tiny house movement? >> you know we they there are in the low thousands of people living in these tiny houses across the country. it's grown a lot in the last few years but it's hard to pinpoint exactly how many people because not everybody is advertising it. >> macy you have a great dane and about to have a baby. how do you handle that? >> i don't notice the lack of space. my dog and i go out a lot, you engage your community, you go to starbucks if you need to get away for a little bit. >> the solution is to spend less time in the house? >> i don't. >> we have a social media question let's go to hermella on that. >> christopher, diana on twitter ask, how do i make a small house that is big enough to include those i love? >> wow, i

the houser of agriculture committee, i am proud that we worked in a bipartisan manner to draft the farm bill. we didn't always agree, but we put politics aside to find solutions. i'm hopeful we can continue this positive working relationship and deliver a farm bill that is good for our farmers, our families, and food supply. settling for another extension is not good enough. uncertainty for our farmers, stymies critical research, and negatively impacts consumers in the economy. a comprehensive farm bill should include funding for specialty cropswhich represent -- which represent one third of the value of all crop production per year. we need to increase funding for programs like the specialty crop funding research initiative and the national clean plant network, which gives us great return on our investments. should bill shouldn't -- include increased funding for our local organic farmers. we also must work to protect the safety nets which millions of working families, seniors, and children depend on snap and other nutrition. -- depend on. reforming a program is one thing. arbitrarily c