i want to begin with gary rhoades. i want to start with you.ou have your own experience with donald sterling. you filed suit against him for housing discrimination. tell me what he was accused of. >> well, in the winter of 2002, tenants and employees from a couple of his buildings were coming to us at the housing rights center with this story that was going to be one of the largest and most unusual housing discrimination cases we had seen. beginning with the employees, they told us that when sterling had bought their building that they worked at he called a meeting and said several things. he said that he did not like black and latino tenants and only wanted to rent to koreans. they would pay the rent and live in whatever conditions that sterling gave them. and sure enough, the tenants reported that after that meeting they started seeing signs of a massive discrimination scheme. the african-american and latino tenants were subjected to sham inspections including one from shelling sterling herself where she showed up at one of our tenant's doors

impacted by rad, and request power authority for more services, and you can produce a study conducted by rhoades, and ensure this to stay within the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. joyce armstrong, president of the public housing association, phta, not pta, that shows how little he works with us. i am joined by the president of ccde, that is the council of disabled, and she wants you know that she supports the rad program. as far as we know it's the only program that can help the public housing in dire need of help. and she wanted me to tell you that the elevator problem, and they are blessed that something bad hasn't happened in the senior disabled buildings. she's hopeful they have service providers. right now we don't have social worker in the building, except maybe four. that's a service that is needed in the senior disabled buildings as well as the family developments. yes, as president of the phta, i support the concept of rad. we are still contacted and we requested training so we can understand and articulate what is going do happen to re