Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show.

Apologies for this kind of echoy sound quality, but I wanted to make sure to get out this

episode while it's still fresh, a couple of updates. One is I'm going to be releasing a lot of

episodes in a row I'm doing kind of like a marathon of Katie helper shows and consider

yourself lucky blessed it's a Christmas came early this year or Hanukhuanza. Also we talk about a

loft law that we urge Cuomo to sign on this episode and this episode was done

live radio and guess what guys because of you because of the listeners I'm sure that was a large part of it

The law flaw got the Katie Helper show Bump and Andrew Cuomo signed the. You'll hear about that more during the episode.

Stand by for an episode with Ro-Kana, Anne O'Shea from No Olympics LA, Dean Spade, Connor Habib, John Pat Leary, and many, many more.

Very excited to have two great guests on the show today. We have with us in studio,

Ava Farkas, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing,

which is a housing organization, and she's going to talk to us about a landmark

victory that she and countless organizers achieved in terms of housing and

rent laws. But before that, well how are you doing

Aba? Great, great. I had to run a little bit to get here. How come? I live really

far away.

Okay, yeah.

Not a morning person, but a fighting person.

I know.

I'm amazed. I've known ABA for years and sometimes I'm amazed that you've achieved as much as you have.

Maybe, is there a classification, like I have this too a little bit, but like temporarily

challenge for people who are late a lot?

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