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The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.
The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.
And we talked about transfers from one. Thats an issue. The whole question of transfers. We have spent a little time talking with the questions of transfers. And i think the questions of transfers is really a fu fundamental goal of getting residents in the right place. Whether its seniors who need more intensive housing. So they need to go from Public Housing to Senior Housing with ground floor adult bay. So they can stay independent. If its a disabled person in Public Housing who needs more assistance in terms of a Supportive Housing environment. How do we get them into the right housing. Or the other way. A person who is in our Supportive Housing and who has been stabilized. Can we use sort this opportunity to find an exit for them. We dont know. We dont have the answers, but we are asking the questions and thinking about this. Not in just terms of transfers you talked about. But can we do this in the rules and regulations of fair housing. And can we get people on the right housing s
If we continue this way, the employees from the Public Housing to the Voucher Program is not going to work. Because we are not going to have a Voucher Program. I ask you to have someone with authority to sit at the table with us, that can guarantee our jobs for the city and county. Or see that the Voucher Program is dealt with as the system and being mismanage perianagemisman. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is teresa lee, i have been an employee for the Housing Authority for over 20 years. Though i stand here united with my union members, i speak to you as a union member but also a member that is a product of Public Housing. My siblings and i was raised by our parents that were responsible for the First Successful Public Housing rent strikes in San Francisco at chinatown housing development, i share this bit of my Family History to illustrate my commitment to the residents of Public Housing. And the concerns i have for the future, should the rad program with its Public Pri