as mrs. vascal said, rad is a limited program. it's limited to 60,000 units under the current authorization. 172 units were applied for. that means that obviously there are 112,000 units who are waiting to get access to this program. and unless hud does some things through the budget process and the president does something through the budget process to increase the cap. or through authorizations. it will be limited to 60,000. which is unfortunate, because if we are -- if we are successful in pulling all of this together, we will need more rad. for additional units in san francisco. but we will be behind the rest of the people who have applied today. the other thing about this where we are, san francisco portfolio, though we are not the largest to apply. we were the largest portfolio to apply and be accepted. the chicago portfolio is awaiting. they are behind us. so again the central component of this is preservation. the $312 tenant rent is not sufficient by itself to even cover operating expenses. clearly there has to be an oper

both mrs. vascal and barbara said, it's the simple way of looking at how to make this work. we are taking money, housing authorities get funded turned category called section 9. and this is where the funding for the annual contributions contracts get funded. and this is sort of a lump-sum payment to the housing authority. and the housing authority divvies among the various developments. we are moving the assistance from the section 9 bucket to the section 8 bucket. and why is that different? we talked earlier about how often the section 9 sort of bucket would give you $100 per unit per year, or whatever. and only at the cost of operating. but only give you $70. so under the section 8 program. once you get a contract at an amount, that contract is generally fixed. you are more likely to get 100% of your section 8 amount than you would be of getting 100% of the amount eligible under section 9. the one big difference. the other big difference is the popularity or the supporters of section 9 versus section 8. the supporters of the section 9 are the residents of public housing an

mr. torres, the president of the commission of the housing authority. and the director's mayor of houseing on. and we will have regina vascal from hud. we will start with you mrs. smith, if you can give us a presentation and go from there. and after we aare done with tha, we will open up to public comment. >> supervisors, good afternoon, this is a great pleasure to come to you and talk about this collaboration that we have with other city agencies, workers and most importantly residents of public housing. i will give you a little background. and then we have our regional administrator here to talk about the rad program. and ultimately will be talking about the reenvisioning and rad for preservation of public housing in san francisco. and then we are going to talk about tenant protections and tenant engagement, which we feel is very important in this process. and also our labor communications and work with our employees and bargaining units. >> mrs. smith, before you go on, is the slide set up to show the public? >> sfg-tv, we have a powerpoint. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i am new at this -- i wonder if this works. it do