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Subcommittee will come to order. Good mompg and welcorning and w todays subcommittee. Our oversight entitled home loan turning practices and how taxpayers could be affected. This is the second hearing. As many london with the department of Veterans Affairs discusses in his testimony, the v. A. Is guaranteed over 2 million loans in excess of 2 trillion since the 1940s. That represents millions of veterans, Service Members and their families who may not have otherwise been able to achieve the American Dream. While this program is one of the more well run programs at the v. A. And i have some thoughts about why it is, mainly because they guarantee it but the lenders are involved and they underwrite it and more people involved in administering it in the private sector. They had concerns about certain activities being cond ....
So let me add to paulas thanks to all of you who have braved cold. Half of our panel comes from the university. Torontoans are more used to this. We still appreciate it. Let me quickly introduce our panelists, give you some initial thoughts and a bit of the rules of the game. Just moving down the line of panelists, Jeffrey Pilcher is a professor of food history at the university of toronto. He is also the editor of the journal of global food history for those of you thinking of publishing outlets. Steve velazquez next to him is a cure rater in the division of home and Community Life at the National Museum of American History. And of course youve met paula. And next to her is irina, the professor of Museum Studi ....
Thank you mr. Johnson mrs. Jaquanta did i say that right. You did. Thank you. Conner and i practice in the hallway i guess there is not enough time. Brittany. Office of cohen. I wanted to share a few remarks on behalf of the supervisor to create this budget and finance subcommittee. So San Francisco has a Critical Role in setting the tone for other is cities under this federal administration we have been the champion of progressive values on pushing the policies that reflect those values we need to be a leader and fight to protect the values the president has threatened and started implement through his executive orders this is why supervisor cohen is ecstatic about the creation. This committee will devote its time to investigating and monitoring the impact of policy changes on our local budget. Will work with City Department ....
Building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success were repeating this model what weve done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you dont know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. Were pleased a Critical Mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and theyre figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustar ....