my name is madelein howard. i'm a staff attorney with bay area legal aid. we represent low-income tenants. we partner with housing rights committee and sarah short to help ensure that subsidized housing tenants can stay in their homes. so, we are here to support this amendment and you've heard already very powerfully from several tenants about how important this is. and i certainly cannot say it better than they can. i just wanted to highlight a couple of issues. the public housing stock, as you probably know, continues to deteriorate. and at the same time there are fewer funds available to fix it. and, so, this process is happening throughout the country and in san francisco. as you know, many public housing developments are being demolished and replaced with new housing. as you heard very powerfully from? some tenants, these communities are very strong communities. there are community bonds that develop over a long period of time and it is incredibly destructive when residents are forced to spread out over the city and even leave the city when the public