I have a question I'm warning I'm going to have a follow up question and you've answered some of these before One of a Kokua Consul's issues of course is aging in place My question is actually more of an affordable housing question. It's about a place to age and One of the things I do is I participate in a food not bombs at Thomas Square every Sunday for the last 10 years more than 10 years We see more and more seniors out there who are presumably Unhoused or underhoused and hungry Now other municipalities other countries have Various forms of rent control They limit the amount you can raise a rent they limit You know if you're been a long-term Uh Tenent they limit the ability to evict if you want to evict you have to show cause and that sort of thing um Are you willing to consider some form of In control and and what kind especially to help seniors have a place to age in place and I wish I could say I was asking for a friend But I have a certain amount of self interest in this Yes, I'm gonna use any of those old don't fright. Yes Well, so first of all, thank you dog for feeding so many of our neighbors That's thank you for that and I know you're not doing it to get any kind of gratitude, but I feel so grateful So yes, I am totally down for rent control I you know and I again I am a landlord and I You know, I don't Raise rents Like very all like you know like there was a situation where one of the tents at the water run for like two months and it was the water bill was really huge And I did raise the rent by $25 but generally speaking like that's not like um You know, I try to keep if I can pay my bills and and actually I have to share with you that when I go door knocking for a lot of these two sort of walk-ups I am surprised by all the older people who've been living there for years I'm like and I know that their landlord is informally doing some kind of rent control for them You know what I mean, but we that's not sustainable That's not gonna cut it for all of the individuals that you that you're seeing and that who you know aren't You know, and then what happens with that when the family number of whoever owns that building passes and it goes It's passed down to the next generation. Are they gonna want to keep these people and There's no guarantee but if we change the law then I we can have that it would also be another way to just incentivize the commodification of Real estate of of of housing again I mean, I talked about this before we have to move away Or we have to acknowledge and affirm that housing is a human need and and make sure we prioritize that over housing as A commodity as something you could make a lots of profit from So yeah, so I do support it also You know Peter Savio has spoken about this about his aunt who had rent control in New York City You know at the beginning of her life she moved in her in her 30s or something into a rent controlled apartment And because the rent never went up her salary went up over time. So she was able to actually You know Generate equity. So there's two ways of getting equity right one is if you purchase a home and you sell the home later for more money And or the value goes up and you can you can get a home Equity loan off of that increase and whatever so that's a home buyer The other way to to create equity is rent control and then that way People who have a controlled rent, but hopefully their wages go up over 30 years, right? So if you go in 30 you come out you're by 60 Hopefully your your your wages have gone up and your rent stays the same and you're able to create a Safety net for yourself as you go into retirement So yes, I'm a support Sorry did I say if I answered your question then you can go into your follow up. Yeah, no, I have a follow up and I'm glad to hear your your I just wanted to say I visited Germany. There's no I visited two cities Grettingen that used to be in West Germany, Leipzig that used to be in East Germany. No homeless people on the street they have rent control legislation they have Five main parties. They actually have nine parties that have at least one representative on the federal agents legislation the Bundestag They have a very powerful green party the Vice Chancellor is a green have a federal ministry for family of cares senior citizens Women and youth and that that minister is a green party person We in Hawaii. We got one party basically The get legislation passed you got to you got to play with these guys. Yeah, there's no competition They're all in one party. I'm not going to vote for a republican probably because They're just personal opinion. That's a that's a dog of a party, you know where a Kokoro council is Nonpartisan. So I'm not you know, I'm just expressing my own opinion about that But we need more parties. I mean we can't have a functional legislature with one f-ing party. That's ridiculous What how do you how do we put how are you going to pass legislation if you got to deal with one party and Do you have any kind of solution for this and this might be a brainstorming question It might not be something you know you thought it before but no this is exactly why I'm running I mean I feel like the it's for me. It's not just about party It's about the the way that that we don't have a dynamic Trusting open process within the deliberation within our party I also don't like the fact that the essential weight that the legislature has exempted itself from the sunshine law Which means they can go into caucus and then leadership can bully The less powerful representatives into submission right if we didn't have that kind of Waldorf privacy would and it was a more transparent process Would there be better ideas coming forward would people see how obvious and blatant the The reward and punishment structure of the current leadership is And then call them out and hold them accountable. It you know having a more open process will be messier But I also hope that the results will be more people oriented You know read what you resident focused the needs of the community as you mentioned You know elders who have who are on a limited kind of income and there's no hope of supplementing their income So what they got is what they got and so we need to make sure they're housed with those limitations So yes, I feel like we could have the best and brightest ideas A come to the surface if we didn't have the structure that is currently in place within the party Right if we expanded And I use the term democratize right bringing a repressational That kind of representational democracy back into the house and we'll get that we can actually we don't need to pass a statute We can do that all through you know the house rules We can and that's why I hope to like work with and meet with As many Representatives as possible for swearing in to say let's agree That we could do better in the way we process things to bring out the best ideas. So Yeah, I mean I at this point I would prefer a more I think there is power to having robust opposition party or even three or like you mentioned nine parties having these broad dialogues, but If we're going to have that broad dialogue between parties, why can't we have that broad dialogue within one party As long as we're having the dialogue do you know what I'm saying as long as people aren't being punished or You know their bills are all going to be killed because they you know they spoke out against one issue in a bill That was introduced by the speaker like uh that that we're never going to get to the solutions we need you know what I'm saying Yeah, thanks. Thanks for your thoughts