and sam patel. thank you. eighty-nine solutions to ending chronic homelessness in san francisco. thank you so very much. >> thank you. today we have a resident of the bristol, mitch, who wants to talk about his experience and why this is so important. >> good afternoon. i'm a tenant at the bristol hotel and i would like to emphasize that supportive housing does work. i was in supportive housing for seven years and i got the opportunity to move to a newly remodelled bristol hotel. i love it. it's a home for me. i don't expect to leave anytime soon. i'm very happy with the whole process. and anybody who gets step up housing like the abigail is very lucky. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, everyone else for being here today and all the folks who helped to make this possible. again, the solution, as beth said to ending homelessness, is housing. it takes opportunities like this , it takes building faster, and thinking about ways that we can get more creative to get more access to opportunities so we can get people off the streets and we can keep people who are vulnerable housed in t