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Yeah, I mean, I think that fundamentally it just comes down to the challenge that most of the funding out there that tribes have available through NAHAZDA is income-restricted.

And that has a little bit more flexibility.

Tribes can obviously run up to families at 80% area median income.

But there's a huge portion of tribal populations now that is, like Jonas had mentioned before, that maybe they're just beyond that 80% area median income.

We're not talking about wealthy families.

Um, so these three methodologies without getting really into the weeds basically default to the lower of these three.

And so for tribes, that would most likely mean the methodology that uses the national median sales price.

And so basically, uh, the mechanism is this, um, Tribes would be eligible in that scenario for about $137,000 worth of credit.

I want to bring you on because this past week, I think it's in the past week, FAI did something which is, I guess, a little bit unusual as far as think tanks go.

If you go to tribes.thefai.org, we have officially released the 2026 Field Guide to the Tribes of Silicon Valley, which is a quiz you can take to be placed into your respective tribe in Silicon Valley.

And This has caused a lot of joy, consternation, worry, critique, and discussion online.

And I guess, Max, maybe a good place to start is, do you want to talk a little bit about why we did this field guide and what it's for? Yeah.

We had a lot of fun scheming this up.

The initial impetus for the tribes quiz was the head honcho of FAI, Zach Graves, tweeting out as a joke, would it be helpful for us to write a memo to policymakers explaining all the different tribes of Silicon Valley, right? All of the sort of weird intellectual subcultures that have been bubbling up in the ferment of the bay for the past 30, 40 years.

And I saw this and I thought this might actually be a good idea.

We talked to some of our friends in government and they're all like, yeah, that would actually be really helpful.