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Dan Tenenbaumat 1:37

you for being here glad to be here I'm there are better affordable housing Specialists than I but maybe not ones that that only manage uh an an own market rate department so that that'll be my Niche yeah exactly so so tell

Dan Tenenbaumat 2:04

affordable housing sure so um I mean I moved here in 1992 so it's been quite a while okay so you're La native yeah and and if you come from Montreal the weather aspect is important part but the other part actually was the entrepreneurial opportunity opportunity to start off in a new place and and kind of feel like it's an environment where you may not know as many people but that if you can make things happen and you can you know you can do something in fact so in that way the American dream and the California…

Dan Tenenbaumat 9:21

that happened so um it it uh it really started in a major way when I was appointed by mayor Garcetti to become a commissioner for the Housing Authority for the city of Los Angeles so that's the agency that oversees all the public housing but also the whole section 8 program for the city of Los Angeles so that was the the the the part of what I've done that's probably had the mo the largest impact on affordable housing but I I had been already involved um with various homelessness organiz ations

Dan Tenenbaumat 15:19

…be able to House people right away that became a create a sense of urgency and the fact that a lot of the development that typical development uh of affordable housing requirements were not necessary we could buy from anyone from a market rate developer who was just finishing who had planned on renting it to the general public but we were as a Housing Authority were able to purchase and we were able to purchase over 2,000 apartment units over two years wow uh over you know I forget how many transactions but you…