amy: so talk about where you see this all headed, kevin lin. hing surprised you in your years of work on issues in china and hong kong? kevin: i think there are -- what is not t surprising i i sh start with is the repression and that started -- it escalated since the ascendents of xi jinping, the administration, and have seen a huge increase in state oppression against social movements and that includes labor, feminist, people who work on anti-discrimination, human rights lawyers, religious freedom. it's all across the board, oppression against social movement activists in mainland china. and so what we see in hong kong is that oppression designed -- kind of coming over ththe borde to hong kong so in essence we're now suppressed. but we are suppressed by the response of the hong kong public because for many years, a lot of people in hong kong believe e the new generation, t younger generation in hong kong are apolitical and don't care about politics but what we've seen the last few months is a very involved, very engaged public that trieses to p

lin, executive director, los angeles homeless service authority. margarita lorez, chief program officer, housing authority of the city of los angeles. monique king theland, executive director los angeles county development authority. and kevin murray, former state senator and president and ceo of the wine garten center. the director of the los angeles county homeless initiative. without objection, we're going to take their written statements to be part of the record. each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony. i'll give you a signal by tapping the gavel when one minute remains. i would ask you to wrap up your time so we can be respectful of the committee members' time. there are other elected officials who have joined us here today. i'd like all of the other elected officials that are in the audience to please stand. ms. miller you're now recognized for five minutes to present your oral testimony. >> thank you very much, chair woman waters and esteemed members of the committee, my name is christina miller and i serve as deputy mayor of los angeles. chairwoman, i want to begin by commending your leadership by introducing the ending homelessness acts. this is a pervasive issue nationally. it's impacted big