On, and in the beginning of the services program, but we are starting to do that with some of the recognition, and noticing the increases that have come out for women who are homeless, and the trauma is a big part of it, and in recognizing the safety issues, related to their discussion of their past histories with the Domestic Violence and interpartner relationships. Thank you, and i yield back, madam chair. Thank you very much. I would like to thank the second panel of witnesses for their testimony here today. I would like to say a very special thanks to ms. Vizcaino and mr. Hanes for coming here to tell your story and the panel of the witnesses here today, it is your work that causes a mr. Hanes and ms. Vizcaino to be here today to talk about how their lives have been changed. So everybody, give a big round of applause for the second panel. Mr. Mayor, we welcome you. I thank you for the opportunity that you have afforded to me and other members of congress to visit with you recently
Rep. Waters mr. Mayor, we welcome you. I thank you for the opportunity that you afforded to me and other members of congress to visit with you recently while you helped help us to understand exactly what you are doing and what other assistance could be helpful in what you are attempting to do. With that, mr. Mayor, you are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Mayor garcetti great. Thank you so much. Thank you for your friendship, your leadership, thank you for your presence. It is not the first time we have testified together. Whenever Maxine Waters is there on an important subject, i am there. This is the most important of all of the subjects i have ever come before you to talk about. Im grateful to be here before you to have to have representative green and representative garcia, and my dear friend brad sherman who represents my hometown in the san fernando valley. Thank you for being part of this. I come before you today as a mayor, as a parent, as a foster parent,
Current, as a foster parent, as a volunteer and organizer and longtime activist on the issue of homelessness. 14 on skidhen i was predatedthing that even my decades, there was a place where we just posited our social ills and trauma. I think about what the 14yearold Erica Garcetti would tell the 48yearold Eric Garcetti if he could talk about how far we have come and how far we have not come. I am asked all the time what causes homelessness, and im sure you have had a great testimonies. Im the last panel, a panel of one. You are probably tired, hungry, and probably a little depressed hearing some of the things you have heard today. I hope to give you a perspective to give you some hope. And some belief that this is a human caused problem. That alternately can be a human solved problem as well. There is no issue i work on more than this. Mayors across the country are brought together on this issue. Mayors ironically have few of the direct power over the causes out of homelessness we have