gail gary, susan poor, claudia luis, and vera hale -- who is a part of the coordinating council, a longtime activist within the organization. also on here is the senior action network that has been centrally involved. we have been the trainer and others from the senior action network. let me just introduce arthur chang. >> two weeks ago everyone from the senior care health services game addressed the city for its attention to seniors. it was a rainy day and i am here to reiterate some of the requests. the fact that the senior population is growing so rapidly, census has shown that each day 10,000 individuals across the senior line of becoming a senior through the census data. i want to thank the supervisor for taking the leadership in initiating this report, which i find to be one of the most comprehensive, cogent and useful informational reports we have put out. it also shows that what is lacking in the city -- on page 12 and 13 you will find that 51% of the seniors are under the poverty line. the city needs a more comprehensive program and a makeshift modest proposal but you must look at.

i am vera hale. i was happy to see the report and i was happy that they used the age of 64 aging. that is the same age that the older americans act uses. also, that is a age at which people ought to start thinking about when they retire, if they have not already, if they have not gotten sick or lost their job. it is nice to see that standardized. it is 20% of our population. one thing missing in the report, they need to identify the tenderloin as a neighborhood with a high concentration of seniors. it seems to have slid into pulp gulch when they read the report. on the chip's program, we still have a more active program. i think that one certainly needs to be restored. if they got permission, they did it in residential hotels or as a rose -- as sorrows -- sros. for years we have talked about in law apartments and secondary housing. i remember supervisor thomas shea wanted to implement more housing. he found so many problems that nothing happened. but the idea of exempting certain people from some of the rental projections to rent out a better room may be a good possibility. senior