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Asked that question for my own benefit i shift my attention from other people and my desire for them to change their behavior where i wield no power, to recognizing how i have contributed to the situation and how i might change my behavior to affect a change and influence others to do likewise. A question which i have not heard being asked in this hearing or in any other situation is why are an estimated 70,000 rental units being withheld from the market . Nobodys been surveyed, i havent been as...

Loan has been transferred and sold more than once since then for a profit. To this point i didnt know the real loan owner. Thank you, maam, if you can close and finalize your thoughts. I am just saying that housing speculators who buy these houses for cash and driving the Common People out for cash money should be charged more, foreclothesing houses and selling these houses more expensive. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is julian lago...

The testimonies here but at the same time its like feeling the strength of these people and also want to ask you for more support and also thank you for your support and that no giving up on us in the city. One thing is clear for us in our building, we dont want money, we dont want compensation, we want our homes. No money can buy, my childrens were born in the house and weve been living and investing in our buildings and we dont want to leave. I am one of the persons who spoke said what are we ...

Mic please, thank you very much. I am mary lou sampson, fighting for my home against foreclosure. They gave me an undisclosed adjustable mortgage, the payment and rate went up so much at the same time, our speculator bought my home who is evicting me when i could not afford the payment when it went up from 1,854 to 3,394. I kept being denied my loan notification which made me feel hopeless. I made 20 percent on a 700,000 house. Being evicted by these real estate investors, speculators, the riche...

Loan has been transferred and sold more than once since then for a profit. To this point i didnt know the real loan owner. Thank you, maam, if you can close and finalize your thoughts. I am just saying that housing speculators who buy these houses for cash and driving the Common People out for cash money should be charged more, foreclothesing houses and selling these houses more expensive. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is julian lago...

Wanted to advocate for all of them and myself. I have been a musician in this town for 20 years and feel like i have contributed to the cultural the culture that made the city the place that all these speculators are capitalizing on. So thank you very much. I think we deserve our place here too. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i am mary johnson. If you can speak into the mic please, thank you very much. I am mary lou sampson, fighting for my home against foreclos...

I am deeply honored to serve you and to serve president obama in your noble endeavor to achieve israeliPalestinian Peace. The fact that later today, israeli and palestinian negotiators will sit down in this building to resume final status negotiations after a threeyear hiatus is testament to your extraordinary tireless efforts backed by president obama to try to resolve this intractable conflict. President obama made the case so eloquently in his historic speech in jerusalem in march of this yea...

Health services no. They only have to look at the hospital. They have to look at the wells and have not met any of their targets. And we have been scrapping it. There are fewer administrators. He would cut the nhs. They described executives accused of deleting an internal review that was critical of the on inspection. The trio denied any wrongdoing. When he appeared before committee, the new head of the organization said they had change. Subsequent actions have radically overhauled. The entire S...

This black history month, honoring 100 african-americans who are now making history. my next guest is among them, dr. chandra gil is an educator and activist who is also the founder and ceo of blacademically speaking. congratulations on this honor. what inspired you to launch blacademically speaking? >> hi, how are you today? its quite simple, actually, for me as very personal as a black woman and an academic, its a very important piece to recognize that our children, specifically african-americ...