my name is very konica shepherd. i'm a director of community partnership with the bayview health and wellness center. however, i stand here today in a whole different note as a voice of poor black people in the bayview hunters point community. our community as you know that has high rates of disparity across the board. what's sad to me is 6% of the population of black people that live here, 56% of them are inmates in our jails. i could go on and on with data as you already know, but i'm concerned as aes are department of the city of san francisco who was born and raised here and to have four generations of my family still in this community and the desire to build a jail that costs $290 million is absolutely nonsensical to me. nonsensical because this wonderful city, which is one of the wealthiest cities in the nation, has a huge gap for poor people to ascertain affordable housing. last week, as the mayor spoke on the state of the city, he talked at the naval hunters point shipyard, he spoke of the eloquent housing sh

insurance for basic health care things where you only need insurance for critical care so cancer konica transfer from what we have to now to that has problems it would it would create costs and everybody. i would have to be on board with the hiccups going that way. as an end state we can definitely get there how we get there i think there's a lot of people who are my on my side that honestly completely honest about the problems just psychologically getting america to that place now i know that you think policies regarding well they should be targeted at increasing economic opportunity so that's an increase in economic opportunity but what specifically can the government do to increase those opportunities to get so if we want to get stop talking about the federal government as nothing's going to happen there we can talk about the state and local governments and their small things like what things are called occupational licensing which are really sexy to talk about but if you want to be a barber if you want to be. a theory or designer there's about a thousand different occupations that y