mr. gullickson, thank you to the tenants union for what you do. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm share -- sarah short from the san francisco tenants union. it's very validating and what both the report showed and what we all know to be true is that indeed it is a crisis. it is an epidemic and we have no time to wait before we take measures to curb this greed that's wrecking havoc on our community. in relation to what ted said prior, i really appreciate reading that there's a coalition forming to deal with the ellis act on the state level. that absolutely needs to happen and i wanted to acknowledge that. but i also want to also reinforce that we need to continue on the path of doing everything we can locally as well to create solutions that can at least help mitigate the impact when people do get evicted or make it much harder to ellis or to disincentivize the evictions that are taking place through use of the ellis act and again a coalition of tenant groups have presented some of those ideas and some are being taken up and we read about them in the paper this morning. these ideas inclu