i would like to briefly address the obvious by the way i'm jeff beallec the director of catholic charities and i would like to address the obvious, the most cost effective and humane way to address homelessness is to prevent the families from becoming homeless, this year we will help 1200 people avoid eviction, and stay housed and including more than 300 families that is larger than the current waiting list i think that this is a very important issue. this year, we are also, we have already helped families in every district of represented except 2 so far this year, preventing homelessness works provided that we intervene early enough and we have to have good out reach and the money to cure the eviction notice and that the family must have a stable source of income that is sufficient to cover their rent with careful budgeting, the system can work in a successful in a large number of cases when we talk about homelessness, we need to differentiate between chronic and episode, most is temporary. and compared to emergency shelter, and even compared to housing preventing it on the front end is p