ms. hester. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. tree sa flander, senior and disabilities action. i'm actually here to talk about preserving housing rather than building. in terms of i wish there could be better communication between d.b.i. and planning so that someone is going out and actually inspecting sites to know what is there and what might be lost. at a minimum also to have a basic understanding of what rent control is, how that functions and what impact that has actually on our housing. in terms of the housing loss and housing balance report, when we are building two units and losing one for each two, that is also very concerning when you see that the merging of two-bedroom flats, two two-bedroom flats are allowed as long as an a.d.u. is built and that could be an in-law. [please stand by] [please stand by] that has meant the merging of two units where in the three-unit building they are now essentially just two units. with a stairway that you go through someone's living room. it is also very discouraging to see units that had been allowed to merge are now doing short-ter

ms. hester. >> sue hester, displacement of tenants seems to be an issue today. i want to talk briefly about the importance of lighting on the sidewalks and it's a follow-up particularly on ms. melgar's comment when people change the use to a nonretail use, they don't understand what might happen if the building owner doesn't have to light the sidewalk. women are particularly vulnerable to walking down dark streets in commercial districts. i'm one of them. people with handicaps know that they are vulnerable. and the planning department doesn't scrutiny and doesn't require every building owner and the building department needs to do this as well to light the sidewalks. it should not be a fault of the ownership -- whether or not there is a tenant that happens to be there and lights the sidewalk on the ground floor. it should be the responsibility of the building owner. apart from that issue, the housing -- there needs to be a real housing analysis person in the planning department that reviews a lot of issues. in the neighbourhoods in tenderloin and china town, they