and i know that in our audience today we also have peter mendosa from independence center and he'll help us organize and coordinate that. my last update i wanted to share with you is that our office helped volunteer at city hall to support the same sex weddings during the pride celebration between june 28th and all the way through june 30th. john paul scott and i did everything from greeting the couples to issuing licenses to actually performing ceremonies. and our office provided american sign language interpreteration and i was happy to see there was one couple who showed up with their deaf nine year old son and they hasn't anticipated that he would be able to participate, but because we had the sign language interpreter there, he was a full part of that ceremony and that was particularly gratifying. i wanted to build on something that wilson said, i had the pleasure of attending the lion's club meeting last week in china town where our council member harriet wong was promoted to the role as president and it was a really great community to see how the people came together in support th

>> madam chair and members of the council, my name is peter mendosa and i'm with the force center in san francisco. access to housing is an important issue for our consumers that we serve. i want to urge -- first of all i want to commend this -- moving this resolution forward. i think this will bring the city together to work on this issue. i don't want to echo what has been said but i want to strongly urge that as we develop housing, we develop housing for people would are very law income -- people who are low income. the maximum rent that i believe a person who receives section 8 can rent for is around 1850 roughly. i may be off by a little bit, but the average rent in san francisco as we all know, it's higher than $1850. people with -- that are on housing on section 8 public housing, when they do get assistant through section 8, often have to move out of the city in order to find housing. that means we're losing san francisco residents who want to live here but can't live here because there's no housing available. i also would like to remind everyone that if someone moves in to ho