i also wanted to thank maria guillen and another.e organizations have been tireless hours in this, with a chinatown sro collaborative, and also folks from the in-house support consortium, but also many, many others, as well. the city, as many of you know and from previous studies, needs to develop strategies across departments to reduce the isolation, make buildings safer, and provide the elderly and disabled greater access to more resources and better housing. i should say that i am a baby boomer, of born at the edge of the baby boom. i think if it is from 1946 and 1964, and some say that the baby boomers are going to be the senior boomers in a short 20 to 30 years, and many of us already are, and studies we have done in the city, like one year ago, i worked with organizations to look carefully at aging in place and housing it upgrades to improve accessibility and housing needs for seniors in the city, and the study looked at the demographics of the population and showed tremendous needs. also, our city is not keeping up with housin