>> co-chair herman: i don't have anything. >> co-chair pelzman: i don't either. we can move on with our agenda. our first presenter today is maria benjamin, the deputy director of housing and community development. the presentation will be addressing accessible housing for people with disabilities. hi, maria. >> good afternoon, commissioners. again, my name is maria benjamin. i'm so happy to be here. we were supposed to come earlier this year, so i'm glad to be here now, and to provide information about the affordable housing units that the mayor's office of housing and community development is sponsoring. there are part of those tornup sidewalks are because of new construction of affordable housing developments. and there are the mayor's plan is to have 10,000 new affordable units by 2025. we are well over halfway to make that goal. in fact, we're close to it now. and so that's the good news. there are -- affordable housing comes to -- city-sponsored affordable housing comes from different places, right? so we have affordable housing that comes to us through inc

>> no. >> co-chair pelzman: a rough estimate? >> no, we don't have that number for even the general public of how many people are waiting to get into affordable housing. i can tell you how many people are applying, you know -- >> co-chair pelzman: i mean on the wait list, who are identified as needing accessible housing. >> yeah, for sure. on each wait list, yes, absolutely. we can tell you by building. >> co-chair pelzman: could you provide us with that information? >> we can provide that for you through the dahlia system for sure. >> co-chair pelzman: that would be great to know. i'm curious what your marketing efforts are? what they are? what you're doing? >> we require -- one of the newer requirements is that, how about putting a sign on the building? there are affordable housing units coming. that's a newer one. but for these specific units, we require that project sponsors reach out to independent living resource center, to lighthouse for the blind, visually impaired, to support for families of children with disabilities, a

>> no. >> co-chair pelzman: a rough estimate? >> no, we don't have that number for even the general public of how many people are waiting to get into affordable housing. i can tell you how many people are applying, you know -- >> co-chair pelzman: i mean on the wait list, who are identified as needing accessible housing. >> yeah, for sure. on each wait list, yes, absolutely. we can tell you by building. >> co-chair pelzman: could you provide us with that information? >> we can provide that for you through the dahlia system for sure. >> co-chair pelzman: that would be great to know. i'm curious what your marketing efforts are? what they are? what you're doing? >> we require -- one of the newer requirements is that, how about putting a sign on the building? there are affordable housing units coming. that's a newer one. but for these specific units, we require that project sponsors reach out to independent living resource center, to lighthouse for the blind, visually impaired, to support for families of children with disabilities, a