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Timothy geithner talks begin with the 20072008 financial crisis as president of the Federal Reserve bank of new york and later as president obamas treasury secretary. This is about one hour. I have a Pretty Simple question to start. Why did you write your book . Olga komyagina write the book . I never thought it would. Because i the hard time sitting still and it takes a fair amount of patience to do it. But i wanted to give people a sense of what it was like to every chance to look at these choices we face through our eyes. It has they were pretty bad choices. I think its hard for people to u...

Be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Friedenbach and im the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, San Francisco. We have a massive housing crises and its hitting hard. Its hitting fast, and its hitting with brutal force. Right now we have elderly wo...

And 1200 12 92 in 2005. So, it has grown more. ~ i just think the urge there needs to be more for, like, when people getting ready to get evicted with the attorneys and stuff, so, thats why im asking yall to help them, the program so they can be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer ...

California district attorneys association, as we were talking before the panel began, you shared with me that your organization has previously supported a measure that mark leno brought forward to lower the punishment for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor to an infraction. In this case your organization is essentially opposed to it. What do you say to mr. Adelman and mr. Gascon . I think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal Justice System is that we have embarked on a very, very large e...

Trains. We have whole families sleeping in their cars while their mother tries to tell them theyre just there for fun camping to keep them calm because theyre really, really frightened. We have thousands of people in this desperate situation and thousands more on the brink that are being harassed and pushed and goaded by their landlords to get them out of their homes. We have an opportunity here. You have an 8. 6 billion city budget. Youre only spending it 02 on homelessness, 2 ~. This is a rich city. This is an affluent city. You need to act. As the board of supervisors you need rip that mone...