i am seth katzman. i am also an appointed member of the sro health and safety task force. today i am speaking for our clients which #850. their average age is over 50. all of them have disabilities. most of the vast majority live in private sro's. we have managed to get a good fraction into subsidized and other supportive housing, but it is difficult. i have been doing this for 17 years and i have been involved in the process of trying to get habitable and safe conditions for our representative clients for 17 years. i get the same complaints and i see the same conditions. only we have fewer resources to work with. our old contracts used to specify that our case managers -- we were required to visit people in their units to report back to the department of human services about conditions. we have not been able to afford to do that for 10 years. i should tell you connard house and the other non profits will affiliate with, we do not have the problems that the privates do. you cannot take pictures like the kind we saw. you will not find them in our buildings. the house has no