it just tears your heart out. what can you done about these basement apartments that can be so dangerous for the residents? a lot of folks can t afford anything else in some cases. but what can be done about it? i ll start with what we re doing in this office. i can t speak for everybody else. but we have approved 10,000 units of affordable housing. we have done some ground breaking for weeks. we know that s a drop in the bucket when you are talking about a city where you have nearly 300,000 people living in base basements. one of the proposals i have is to subsidize these units to bring them up to grade, up to compliance where there are windows, where we can do e gress. that s a larger policy decision, but we know money needs to be attached to this conversation as well. why is it that is it a drainage issue in these basements?