huggins, it's your turn now. >> thank you so much, commissioners. my name is karen huggins, i'm the president of the holly courts president council and i'm president of the tenant and san francisco housing authority tenants union. now, i do agree with this resolution, but i believe you ought to hold the fete to the fire of the housing authority, as we know, the management of that housing authority is in the reason it's in the trouble it's in, it will not look at residents as resident leaders the way it should, it would not look into resident management the way it should and also resident empowerment and they need to do that to fix the problems that they have or they will continue to come to you for help and bail-out. as i mentioned before, holly courts has a panels for just heating hot water, i've gone to the housing authority and its commission and it's acting ed several times and i've asked them about the solar panel that is we need to change to. i asked them about the charging stations where we need to enact that for charging of electric cars. i

my name is karen huggins and congratulations to your new seats. i'm here as president of [speaker not understood] resident council, also a member of the black leadership coalition that is headed up by espinola jackson, dr. espinola jackson. i'm here in her regards. as you know, 3450 3rd street, i believe is slated for a wellness center. we would like to see that that be given an eih because of the toxic problems that's been occurring there for years and years. ~ e-i-r so, before we put that wellness center there, we would like to see that e-i-r be instrumented. also, as you know, hunters point residents will be coming down to that wellness center and they already have been suffering with a lot of toxic problems in itself. so, we want it clean where they're coming to get help for, okay. also i was reading your agenda kind of late. your number 10 on the agenda, i see where you're going to commend the laborers 261, i am a ceo and founder of the san francisco tenants union. we are union supporters. in this resolution number 10, public housing was not

. >> joining me to have this discussion are cheryl huggins soloman, stephanie humphreys, tech life experto your black world.com and of course our own patricia, director of pr and marketing for black enterprise. thank you for being here. the question i want to know is people keep saying the african-american community doesn't access technology. that we are not full participants in this thing. but everyone i know has a cell phone. everyone i know is on the internet and everyone is texting. >> it is easy to get a prepaid phone from cricket but the quality of engagement is changing and that's where we are lk lacking as a community. >> campaigns are huge in the world. >> it is huge in my world. >> high quality engagement, if you are able to access the broadbanda broadband internet you can get across the board communicatively. >> and there was a study and it was shown that when african-americans do have access to broadband then they actually index higher, looking for information about jobs, about housing, about healthcare. and about church. of course. so when that access is there, we use it in a

i'm karen huggins, [speaker not understood] a lot of other groups that you know about. but to the commissioner wald, i firmly agree with you. when it comes to the green deal, come to public housing. we're ready for it. the building up in hunters point, it would be an excellent time to put some windmills up there because a lot of the residents up there are paying over $100 in pg&e bills. a lot of residents are paying pg&e and a lot of residents are not. we need to address that problem. i went verbally to the housing authority commission and suggested we put in charging stations in our public housing developments, hiring a security guard to guard them during the day. that was on deaf ears. i've been talking about windmills being put up in our parks that are right next to public housing, selling the energy to the public housing development, selling the rest if we have more to the city. it's a win/win deal. and also it would be where residents could actually see something happening and that's what we want. and it's a long-term deal when it comes to jobs. and i'm so glad tha