. >> good afternoon, chair preston and supervisors, connie ford, and i'm representing jobs of justice today, jobs with justice is a collaboration of unions and community groups working together and one of our key issues we are working on is affordable housing. i mean -- this hearing has been very difficult to listen to, you know. we are in a crisis, we are -- we are not in the everyday, this is the 1980s, or 1990s or whatever and there was a problem. this is a crisis. members of our unions are leaving, their children can't stay here. we are going to have a city, becoming a city of the rich and the very poor. who is going to do the essential jobs, who is going to do this work? they are going to come from vacaville or tracy and i know individuals who do that. this is a crisis and needs to be addressed as a crisis. one of the things that is frustrating now is the funds, it's not going to where it needs to go, there is a huge gap and money in the general fund, the majority of san francisco is loaded. to put that money into the development of affordable housing, not only that, there was an