To stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you for this important discussion on this important issue. Im sorry. The issues that i wanted to raise was about training and on going assistance with using the data portal. I think making sure things are fully accessible is a really important step but even when they are as accessible as they can be we are going to have a lot of people who arent familiar with computers and going online and people who dont speak the language at all and are going to need some assistance. Im trying to figure out where people can go and get assistance from either existing Service Providers and how will those Service Providers tv capacity to provide that one on one service needed and a conventions of possibilities and different places all over town where people go and get some of this assista
We are taking as an aggressive posture as we can with landlord attorneys letting them know that if they are going to be evicting folks they are going to have to fight at the top of their game and we have already seen a dramatic improvement in the results that we are able to get for our clients. I think landlord attorneys assumed that tenant attorneys would not have the resources to go to trial and they are seeing that is not the case any longer. It is a bit of a game changer. At the same time the number of eviction are rising so dramatically that it is overwhelming for our small office and we still need more resources in order to handle the housing cases that come in our door. I cant say that we save someones housing everyday, but we do save it every week and there is days where we save three peoples housing in a day and im incredibly proud of the work that our attorneys are doing. I think i have been around for each of the now four aids housing plans in the city. There was a time when
Get current updated information from all the housing providers. And by all of the housing providers, i mean not just the bmrs which are a very small set of Affordable Housing and not really affordable to folks that we are talking about, but Public Housing certainly the nonprofit housing brian as you mentioned the Affordable Housing that has a for profit developer that manages it but also a lot of the city run houses is only accessed by some internal referral mechanism. So the department of Public Health has access to the housing programs and you can only be referred through the department of Public Health. So all of that is really an important part of the process, all the Residential Care, facilities that are really part of the whole fabric of housing. So just want to stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you f
[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Privilege. Other other issue energy independence. What did you propose that is different . We have to wean off fossil fuels. Investing in alternate Energy Resources while engaging in an all of the above strategy. We are getting to the point where we are exporting natural gas. But we have to have the all above strategy. Not drill baby drill. Who is the next generation of leaders in congress . Would you like to be speaker of the house . I am focused on what is in front of me and that is doing the best i can for the 23ered congressional district. Who is the next generation of leaders in the house . On both sides. There are a number of members on both sides of the aisle that are building toward positions of leadership but i think probably better to leave that question to others. I know nancy has her list and i was included in and pleased to be asked to be a part of the leadership and serve. So you know, right now, we have to focus on working together and getting things turned around. First