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Get ready
to experience Baltimore.
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The Flippers.
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Y'all ready to come see
this bathroom upstairs?
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That door right there.
Dude take your shoes off.
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Uncle Yank right there.
-Uncle Yank right there, yeah.
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That's Uncle Yank.
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One, two, three, four bedrooms.
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Bathroom in here,
this is the one.
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This is the one.
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Come check the shower out.
Check the shower out.
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All granite. Huge, sexy.
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This is a sexy shower.
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Me, a woman, her friend.
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Whatever you into.
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You know!
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Baltimore.
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The... The Flippers.
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Dan is gonna create...
-I'll put a puddle there.
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He's gon' create a puddle
in the middle of the concrete.
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Money should have just flow.
-Nah...
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Man off...
-Yeah, if you're asking me,
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I prefer my shit
just full straight out.
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Go straight out.
-Ain't nothin' heavy
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coming back here, though.
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It ain't ever heavy,
but my whole thing is puddling.
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Home ownership to me,
it means freedom, strictly.
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It is a...
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The more and more
I evaluate this world,
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the more and more
I understand that
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when you don't own anything,
you are nothing, you know?
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Something happens
in this world, catastrophic.
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You gotta have a place that you can go to,
and say this is mine.
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No matter what's going on,
I own this.
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And it means so much to me,
it means everything to me.
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If I'm by myself,
I tend to savor it.
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So peaceful.
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Getting out of the bed,
walking around in my underwear.
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Going into the refrigerator,
get then some apple juice or somethin'
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and go out on to the porch
and smokin' a cigarette.
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You always find a reason
to snap out of it.
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'Cause like,
you can only daydream so long.
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It's not fun when
you leave and go home
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and you back to where
they call the trenches.
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From the '30s onward,
every single president
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has spoken of home
ownership almost
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as the basis of citizenship.
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Your ability to own a home
kind of makes you a citizen.
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The most tangible cornerstone
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that lies at the heart
of the American Dream,
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and that's the chance
to own your own home.
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For those of us who've
been given positions
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of responsibility must,
must do everything we can
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to spotlight the dream
and to make sure
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the dream shines
in all neighborhoods.
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All across the country
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I say to millions
of young working couples,
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by the time your children are
ready to start the first grade,
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we want you to be able
to own your own home.
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Because in order
to be secure in their human rights,
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people need access
to property rights.
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We must make
sure that every family in America
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lives in a home of dignity.
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A neighborhood of pride
is the community of opportunity
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and a city of promise and hope.
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Hi, I'm Jim, The Realtor. Here's
some tips for home buyers.
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Number one,
work with a great realtor.
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A good realtor sells
at least one house a month.
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Check their sales history
on Zillow.
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Americans love buying homes.
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In Southern California
especially, we dig real estate.
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And we forgot about the bubble
and all the other trouble,
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the financing
and everything else.
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And here we are right back
at it, frenzied up,
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five, ten, fifteen buyers for every house,
like none of that ever happened.
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Here we are
on the 800th video.
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I document the real
estate market on YouTube.
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I got almost 1500 YouTubes now,
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and it gives people a real
good sense of what's happening.
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I'm in Chula Vista today.
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That house sold for 1.6, 1.1,
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I'm talking millions here.
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1.4.
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585.
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I don't know what to say either.
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Let's go take a look.
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What! I don't what the heck
that is, a doll house.
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Pool in the front yard.
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Slightly unfinished fire pit.
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Why are you stealing the
trim piece out? You got me.
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All the other appliances
all stolen.
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What could have been
so nice about those pillars
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that they had to steal those?
I'm not sure about that.
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There's 15 houses
on this street.
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I think it was at least eight
of them had loans way over a million.
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Well, if you're sitting
on a 1.2 or 1.4 loan,
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and you see houses
listed for 585,
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how's that gonna make you feel
about making that next payment?
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I'm Jim, The Realtor.
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So what we saw in 2008 was the
unwinding of the housing finance system.
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What most people understand
as a financial crisis,
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or a problem
of our housing stock,
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actually is the unwinding
of a social contract
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that was built in the 1940s.
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And so understanding that,
and how the American home
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was the basis of how
we organize the economy,
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and how we organize
social stability,
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is an important part of understanding
why we are where we are now.
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It's still pretty nice
neighborhood here.
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How you doin'?
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Do you know if any
of these places here used to be
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an old firehouse many years ago?
-Uh...
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Is a somewhat active firehouse?
-Yeah.
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Oh no,
this was an old, old firehouse.
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Years ago it shut down.
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Hi.
-Hi. I'm sorry to bother you.
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I, I want...
-Did you ring the bell?
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I did.
-Which one, the yoga or the attorney?
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Well no,
I was born here many years ago,
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and there used to be an old
firehouse around here someplace,
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would you know
where it would've been?
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Might have been here,
that was converted, or there.
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That used to be a tiny,
tiny firehouse.
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But let me just check up
a little bit further.
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My mother punched a nun
right in the face over there.
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When I was six months old,
we moved from Little Italy
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in Manhattan
to this area right here,
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it was a housing project.
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One night, my Uncle Frank
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was over with his wife
and a mob of guys...
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...came down this path,
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all Italian guys, with bats...
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...and belts and sticks.
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They were on their way
to fight a bunch of black guys.
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And they walked past us
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and my Uncle Frank
said to my father,
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"Get this kid, get him out
of this neighborhood and move."
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And it was not that long after
that that we moved to Levittown.
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I still say you're
making a big mistake, Tony!
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How could
you leave New York, huh?
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The Triborough Bridge.
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Hey look, Mrs. Rossini, you gotta admit
this neighborhood is falling apart.
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How you gonna support yourself, huh?
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Oh hey, Mrs. Rossini, I got
a great job and a great place.
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It's all green
with picket fences.
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* There's an open road
And a road that's hidden *
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* A brand new life
Around the bend *
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* There's a path you take
And a path not taken *
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* The choice
Is up to you, my friend *
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-* Not so long *
-Aw!
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* But you might awaken *
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* To a brand new life *
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* Brand new life, a brand
New life around the bend *
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Goodbye.
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Holy shit.
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Wow.
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How much you want for that?
-38.
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-$3800?
-Yeah, right.
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That... That's a deal.
-Okay.
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Levittown is not a rich
neighborhood as you can see,
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but what I love about this town
is, it's a blue-collar town.
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It is what I consider to be
the backbone of America.
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When America fights its wars,
it's people like us who go.
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Levittown was the first community of its
kind that was built like this in the nation.
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Nobo... everybody thought
it was gonna fail,
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because he built
10.000 houses like that.
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Coming out
of the second World War,
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the idea of mass production
became something
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that was truly a reality.
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Hey kids, look,
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a whole new world to build.
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The idea that came to a
man named Bill Levitt was this,
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why not mass-produce the elements
that go to make up a house
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just as the auto industry does with
the parts that go into a new car?
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When I was living there,
it was at a very particular moment,
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and that was coming out
of post-war trajectory
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that created the need
for that type of housing.
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If you were
a returning G.I.,
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you could buy a house...
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...for as little as $100 down
and about $99 a month.
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And that was partly
because the federal government
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was insuring your mortgage.
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We had the G.I. Bill encouraging
construction of new homes
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so the whole idea is,
your government wants you to have a home.
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So this was an easy way
to sort of jump start
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the housing industry and make
home ownership possible.
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Without those subsidies,
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lower-middle class families
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would never have been able
to afford
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the massive movement into the
suburbs that we saw
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in the late 1940s,
1950s and early 1960s.
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I was a police officer
here in Nassau County,
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and we were, uh,
the SWAT Team as well.
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Here's the school I went to.
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And you know the story
about sticking your tongue
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on the flag pole
in the middle of the winter?
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Yes sir.
-I did that right there,
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right on that flag pole.
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I swear to god I did.
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If you couldn't afford to put
a down payment on these homes,
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Levitt would let you rent them
with the option to buy,
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so he was just terrific.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
this is William Levitt,
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who heads the largest
home-building firm in the world.
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Bill, all this must have
taken an awful lot of doing.
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We had to start from scratch
with absolutely nothing,
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and everything
had to be done at once.
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If you go back to
William Levitt, he said,
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"No man who owns
his own home and lock
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can be a communist,
because he has too much to do."
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This was a fundamental part
of how our political leadership
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and our country at large
understood the bargain.
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You get a home, right,
I mean, you have to work,
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there are 30-year jobs that go along
with it that match the 30-year mortgage.
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And then you don't rebel,
right, that's the thing,
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you don't revolt if you have
a stake in the system.
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CBS News now presents
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a special report on one
of the most unusual
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diplomatic events
in recent history.
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So the Kitchen Debate served
one of the most famous moments
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in the history
of post-war housing.
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That's basically Nixon
saying to Khrushchev
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that the strength of the American
economy is the post-war home
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and the ability of Americans to
purchase consumer-durables to fill it.
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So let's compete.
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The system that will give the people
more goods will be the better system.
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In this one particular moment,
Nixon was right.
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This was the strength
of the American economy.
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I can remember, even as a kid,
looking at house magazines
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and seeing these incredible
visions of the future.
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The house represented
in those pages
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was something
that you could aspire to,
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and that was starting
to become a reality.
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What a dream.
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Imagine how wonderful it would
be to live in a house like this.
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Just imagine.
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The future becomes the
present in House of The Future.
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The house of 1999 will be
virtually maintenance-free.
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Yes, life will be richer,
easier, healthy
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as space-age dreams come true.
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And now we channel our tuning, it tracks
the color more automatically than ever.
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See the talking alarm clock.
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Enjoy the classic
beauty of these rugs
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for a fraction of the cost.
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But I'll confess,
I like the conveniences as well.
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Wouldn't you like to trade in your old kitchen?
-For one like this?
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MasterCard
gives me what I want,
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and anything is possible.
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Hello?
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Hey buddy,
give me like 45 minutes.
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Okay.
-Alright, buddy boy?
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Alright. Alright.
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The only thing that Levitt did
that was wrong...
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Wow, look at that.
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The only thing that Levitt did
that was wrong,
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and I'll be the first one
to admit this,
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"No blacks allowed."
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"No blacks allowed."
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And that is disgraceful.
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If I'm fighting
alongside a black man
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who's willing to die
for his country...
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...and he can't buy
a house next to me in Levittown?
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I'm sorry man,
that don't make any sense to me.
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Why did you
select Levittown to live?
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We were looking
for a place to buy a home.
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We looked at Levittown,
we liked the homes here,
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we liked the advantages
that Levittown seemed to offer
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and, uh, in comparison
to other cities.
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And we understood that it was
going to be all white,
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and we were very happy
to buy a home here.
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When you come
to this neighborhood,
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you know immediately,
it's different.
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They're all drawn together.
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There's no real fences.
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It gives you a feeling
of a park-like setting.
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I was struck by
how familiar it felt.
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It was a connection to Levittown
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that they both developed
as post-war suburbs.
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I believe Gregory Ain,
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when he built these houses,
he really built these houses
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for the veterans
coming home from the war.
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It was hard for him to get financing for
these houses, because they were so different.
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The whole social part
was part of his design,
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and, um, probably also,
I shouldn't even say that,
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so don't,
I'm not even going to open...
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Aw, I wanna hear it.
-He was a socialist,
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and I think a lot of the people
that moved in here were...
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I'm gonna get
in trouble for this.
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My father is Gregory Ain,
a fairly well-known
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California architect
from the '40s and '50s.
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So these are the letters.
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It does say,
"I just came into my hotel room
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from an interesting
and unexpected visit
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through the basement
drafting rooms at Yale.
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The one and a half days at
Phillip Johnson's dual new canon,
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he is a real fascist
intellectual."
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I started rummaging through some old
papers and then I came across this,
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you know, 200 page or 100,
yeah, 200 page file
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that the FBI kept on him
and they were watching
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everything he did from
the mid-'40s to the mid-'50s.
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Gregory believed
that decent housing should be
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the right of everyone, not just the
privileged and very wealthy people.
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Archie.
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Twelve per cent
of the population is black,
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there should be a lot of black
families living out here.
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Yeah, this is only a beginning
but I think it's wonderful.
307
00:21:14,356 --> 00:21:16,063
Well, let's see
how wonderful it is
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when the watermelon rinds
come flying out the window.
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Oh that... oh.
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Too many notes.
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The neighborhood was supposed
to be, uh, twice as large.
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The plans was for 100 homes
and only 52 were built.
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The FHA at the time
didn't think that
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integrated neighborhoods would be
attractive to the general public.
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And they're providing mortgage
insurance, and in their minds,
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that would bring down
the value of the homes.
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You know, most people in America,
the value of those homes,
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and parents passing that
on to their children,
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that's made
the biggest difference.
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African-Americans
were left out of that.
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That inability to participate
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in what created
American middle-class,
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um, has a lot to do
with the problems we have now.
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It would be really
interesting to dial it back,
325
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and think about the longer,
deeper history
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of what housings meant
in the United States.
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Not just that old question
of the American Dream,
328
00:22:52,121 --> 00:22:55,205
but the bigger question
of who the dream has been for.
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* It's a good feeling *
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* To live in Baltimore *
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* There's something
Magic in the air *
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* Just waiting here for you *
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* It's a good feeling *
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* Baltimore *
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* It's a good feeling to know *
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* It's a good feeling *
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* Baltimore *
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* It's a good feeling to know *
339
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* It's a good, good
Feeling to know *
340
00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:06,063
Baltimore is
the beautiful little city
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00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:07,777
with a lot of bad habits.
342
00:24:09,573 --> 00:24:12,862
The houses here are beautiful,
but what goes on outside the house...
343
00:24:15,496 --> 00:24:17,613
It's tough, it's tough.
344
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,339
As a kid, I didn't
really understand how segregated
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the city was
'cause I never left my areas.
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00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:34,629
One time, my dad sending me to
my godfather's house for a week.
347
00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:37,473
It was like Liberty
right outside the city
348
00:24:37,601 --> 00:24:39,217
and he had a nice
apartment complex.
349
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We went in the pool every day,
we were grilling.
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People had decent cars,
it wasn't loud at night,
351
00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:49,940
it was fun, but when I got back
to the city, we got evicted.
352
00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:53,482
My dad sent us
somewhere for the week
353
00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:54,858
just to get the house together.
354
00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:00,284
I've moved
too many times to count.
355
00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:03,075
I've lived
in so many neighborhoods.
356
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,211
It doesn't allow you
to gauge what is normal.
357
00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:13,136
This neighborhood still
pretty much look the same.
358
00:25:15,305 --> 00:25:16,637
A lot of these
houses are vacant.
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00:25:16,765 --> 00:25:18,006
We used to go all behind them
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00:25:18,392 --> 00:25:20,203
and climb up in 'em.
361
00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:21,997
Almost like a treasure hunt.
362
00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:23,461
You'd go in there
and find everything
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00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:25,524
that the people have left
before they got evicted.
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00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:26,773
Uh...
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00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,812
You know, a jackpot,
366
00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:31,812
you a would find some pornos or
something like that.
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00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,654
Ooh!
-Whoa.
368
00:25:34,116 --> 00:25:36,316
The community didn't feel
as empty as it does now
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00:25:36,410 --> 00:25:37,742
when you see
all these vacancies.
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00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:39,862
When we was kids
it was just about having fun.
371
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:51,256
Baltimore is a microcosm
of many urban areas in America
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00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,626
and it is, like Dickens would say,
the tale of two cities.
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You have great investments
in certain parts of town
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00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:02,300
and other investments
looking like a ghost town.
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00:26:05,898 --> 00:26:08,686
Baltimore, in many ways,
is the ground zero
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00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:10,774
for racial apartheid in America.
377
00:26:11,612 --> 00:26:16,482
It's where racial zoning
was invented in 1910
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00:26:16,617 --> 00:26:19,906
and then racially restrictive
covenants were also created here.
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00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:23,322
We have a myth in
this country that, uh,
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00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:25,198
the reason neighborhoods are
segregated is
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00:26:25,334 --> 00:26:27,826
because people like
to live with one another
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00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:32,331
who are of the race or because
African-Americans have
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00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:35,296
too little income to move
into white neighborhoods,
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00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:38,678
or because this private
prejudice that prevents
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00:26:38,806 --> 00:26:41,219
African-Americans from buying
homes in white neighborhoods.
386
00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:45,519
And that's all true, but it's
a tiny, tiny part of the truth.
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00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:50,640
There's intentionality
with the Capitol decisions
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00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:55,521
that were made around housing
in the '40s and in the '50s,
389
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,189
and I think people are lulled
to sleep thinking
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00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:02,239
that certain things happen by
default rather than by design.
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00:27:02,371 --> 00:27:04,237
You have the FHA and the VA,
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00:27:04,373 --> 00:27:05,693
the Federal
Housing Administration
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00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:07,081
and Veteran's Administration.
394
00:27:07,209 --> 00:27:10,327
They subsidize
home-building in suburbs
395
00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:12,708
and then they say
it's racially exclusive.
396
00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:16,549
It means white people
can move out to these areas
397
00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:19,090
but black people can't.
398
00:27:19,221 --> 00:27:21,383
What is probably
a surprise to a lot of people
399
00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:24,883
is that redlining is created
by the federal government.
400
00:27:25,018 --> 00:27:26,725
Michael, what's redlining?
401
00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:28,971
That's when the white bankers
draw red lines
402
00:27:29,106 --> 00:27:32,941
around black areas and don't give up no green.
403
00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:36,357
And the government has to
determine which zones is it going to insure
404
00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:40,107
and which zones is it not going to insure,
and it does that based on
405
00:27:40,242 --> 00:27:42,029
the racial makeup
of neighborhoods.
406
00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,910
Neighborhoods
that had a certain number
407
00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:48,156
of black residents would
have literally red lines
408
00:27:48,292 --> 00:27:50,204
drawn around them on the map,
409
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:53,878
and they wouldn't insure
mortgages in those areas
410
00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:57,420
because they believed that the
properties would not hold value.
411
00:27:57,551 --> 00:27:58,758
The bank turned down our loan.
412
00:27:58,886 --> 00:28:00,718
They said I'm a bad risk.
413
00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:02,382
Why would they say that?
414
00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,676
Banks take up
that same practice.
415
00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,050
They decide they're not going
to lend in those areas.
416
00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:08,621
That meant that
all these benefits
417
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,807
that were flowing
to potential home owners
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00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:13,352
were flowing to whites
and not flowing to minorities.
419
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:15,858
It baked this element
of racism into
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00:28:15,986 --> 00:28:17,898
our home ownership culture.
421
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:21,523
It ain't their problem,
it's our problem!
422
00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:24,617
These people are stepping up
in life and we're moving down.
423
00:28:24,745 --> 00:28:27,807
How much you think our property's gonna
be worth with them living two doors away?
424
00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:31,620
So we passed the law in 1968,
the Fair Housing Act.
425
00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:36,959
It proclaims that fair housing
for all, all human beings,
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00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:41,335
is now a part
of the American way of life.
427
00:28:55,984 --> 00:28:59,568
The mandate that the government has given
to not just prevent discrimination,
428
00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:04,316
but to actually affirmatively go out
and say how do we desegregate America,
429
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:08,241
except the government
betrays that policy.
430
00:29:10,457 --> 00:29:12,323
I find as I travel
across the country
431
00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:15,952
that, uh, whether we're
talking about white Americans
432
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,796
or people who may be, not Negro,
433
00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,337
but in other minority groups
like the Mexican-Americans,
434
00:29:21,468 --> 00:29:24,586
the rest, uh,
just like the black Americans,
435
00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:28,761
what everybody wants is an equal
chance to have a piece of the action.
436
00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:32,681
But the federal government has
never enforced the Fair Housing Act
437
00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:36,518
and that State and local governments
do not enforce the Fair Housing Act.
438
00:29:36,650 --> 00:29:39,688
And so, again, you know,
you could have federal policy
439
00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:43,029
but it's the local
administration of these policies
440
00:29:43,156 --> 00:29:46,900
that often meant that black people
received discriminatory treatment.
441
00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,778
Hello, my name is Tyrone Washington,
I'm calling about
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00:29:49,913 --> 00:29:52,496
the apartment on Park Street.
-It's not available.
443
00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:56,208
Yes, hello, my name is Graham Wellington,
I'm calling about the apartment
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00:29:56,336 --> 00:29:58,623
for rent on Park Street,
is that still available?
445
00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:00,417
Yes it is.
-Oh it is?
446
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:01,915
Yes.
-Really?
447
00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:03,695
And so what does this mean?
It means
448
00:30:03,719 --> 00:30:06,632
that the places
that were segregated
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00:30:07,264 --> 00:30:11,304
in the '30s, '40s and '50s,
they're still racially segregated today,
450
00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:15,975
because we haven't done anything
to undo the racial segregation.
451
00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:21,522
Uh yeah, Levittown today
is over 95% white.
452
00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:23,861
Very few minority
families living there.
453
00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,662
We didn't fix
the damage that was done,
454
00:30:27,701 --> 00:30:30,159
we just allowed all those
inequalities to continue
455
00:30:30,287 --> 00:30:32,904
but said from this day forward,
we can't discriminate.
456
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,077
So it didn't fix it.
457
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:37,541
All of these
policies and practices,
458
00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:41,083
these systems that federal
government, state government
459
00:30:41,214 --> 00:30:43,171
and local government
pass and enact,
460
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:48,675
they converge to sort of
create concentrated poverty
461
00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:51,339
by the time we reached
the '50s and '60s.
462
00:30:52,184 --> 00:30:55,348
So that creates a situation
where in many urban areas,
463
00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:57,846
you had like,
what George Clinton would call,
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00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:00,223
you know, chocolate cities
in the vanilla suburbs.
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00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,727
Oh, what's happening CC?
They still call it the White House,
466
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,273
but that's
a temporary condition.
467
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:08,527
There's a lot of chocolate
cities that are around.
468
00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:10,115
We've got Newark,
we've got Gary,
469
00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:11,734
somebody told me we got L.A.
470
00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:14,370
And we're working on Atlanta.
471
00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:18,912
Hey, uh, we didn't get
our 40 acres and a mule.
472
00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:21,536
But we did get you, CC...
473
00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:39,104
I am trying
to tell you that I know now
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00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:42,520
there is no program or promise
that a president can make.
475
00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:45,051
Thank you.
-That the federal government can then come in...
476
00:31:45,112 --> 00:31:47,445
...and wave a wand and do this. Yes.
477
00:31:47,989 --> 00:31:50,948
There is legislation in congress.
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00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:54,486
The condition of black
veterans and white veterans
479
00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,621
diverged even though,
when they returned from the war,
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00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,537
they were economically
similar families.
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00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:04,208
Public housing then
became a black phenomenon.
482
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,792
The people who fall
into this category,
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00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:13,137
they have to live where society
is pushed them to live.
484
00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:19,143
It... it's depressing
just not to have
485
00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:21,763
any kind of nature. Just, uh
486
00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:25,725
tearing down things
and people constantly tell you,
487
00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:26,942
"You're the cause of this."
488
00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:33,070
Cities didn't
adequately service neighborhoods
489
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:36,615
that were heavily concentrated
with African-Americans.
490
00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:39,580
Garbage collection
wasn't picked up as frequently,
491
00:32:40,125 --> 00:32:42,037
streets weren't
repaired as well,
492
00:32:42,169 --> 00:32:45,503
and conditions deteriorated
then urban areas became slums.
493
00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,860
Yeah, I would like
to rub America's nose
494
00:32:48,884 --> 00:32:50,796
in this and say
take a look at it.
495
00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:53,006
You wanna reject it, go ahead.
496
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,014
But I certainly would hate
to think that anybody
497
00:32:57,142 --> 00:32:58,782
thought I'd said
they were giving up hope.
498
00:32:59,352 --> 00:33:01,594
What I'm really saying
is that society has failed
499
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,892
the hope of the people
who live here and struggle here.
500
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,397
That's what I'm really saying,
501
00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:07,187
they're gonna go on
struggling anyway
502
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:08,399
whether we fail or succeed.
503
00:33:10,864 --> 00:33:13,572
But at the same time
you have concentration,
504
00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:18,031
you also have clearance,
you have highway construction
505
00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,371
which is destroying
black communities.
506
00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,161
Highways,
often time in urban areas
507
00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:24,579
are built dead in the middle
of black communities
508
00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:26,623
so there's
a sort of rising anger
509
00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:28,496
and frustration
that takes place.
510
00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:32,755
Once they became slums,
authorities looked at them
511
00:33:32,886 --> 00:33:34,878
and said, well, we need
to do some slum clearance.
512
00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:40,053
These subsidized homes!
513
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,677
We can't afford no other homes!
514
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:17,879
What the heck.
515
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,618
Where are all
those black people,
516
00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:03,369
all those little kids,
where are they going?
517
00:35:03,393 --> 00:35:05,350
When they're uprooting
their neighborhood,
518
00:35:05,478 --> 00:35:07,219
they're messing with our unity.
519
00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:09,267
It takes ten years
to re-root yourself.
520
00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:15,103
They know what they're doing,
this is systematic genocide. Systematic.
521
00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:19,941
Well those African-American families who
were displaced, uh, had to move somewhere.
522
00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:22,659
So those families were given
Section 8 Housing Vouchers.
523
00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:26,622
The idea behind
Section 8 is fabulous.
524
00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:28,457
It's exactly
what one would hope is
525
00:35:28,585 --> 00:35:31,043
that people who are impoverished
have an opportunity
526
00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:33,420
to move into neighborhoods
that are not impoverished.
527
00:35:34,549 --> 00:35:37,417
Unfortunately for black Americans,
it doesn't work that way.
528
00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:41,490
A large reason for that is
is you can still legally
529
00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:44,302
discriminate against someone
for using a Section 8 Voucher.
530
00:35:44,434 --> 00:35:48,553
So landlords in most suburbs would not
accept Section 8 Housing Vouchers.
531
00:35:48,688 --> 00:35:49,768
And that's perfectly legal.
532
00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:52,936
White home owners,
deathly afraid
533
00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:54,775
of a black person
moving next to them
534
00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:59,022
because blackness is associated
with lower home values.
535
00:36:00,033 --> 00:36:02,491
We feel your presence
in the neighborhood
536
00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:05,953
can undermine the value of
our homes, and we're concerned.
537
00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:09,165
We'd like you to move out before
it becomes common knowledge
538
00:36:09,876 --> 00:36:11,959
that there's a Negro family
in the area.
539
00:36:12,921 --> 00:36:15,789
It's nothing personal.
-Oh, it never is.
540
00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,254
If it was personal,
well, I'd feel real bad.
541
00:36:19,386 --> 00:36:21,969
We grew up in Philadelphia
actually, originally,
542
00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:24,089
and we were
in an all-black neighborhood
543
00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:27,599
and my life changed
when we moved to South Jersey,
544
00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:30,470
not far from some of the
Levittown type of neighborhoods.
545
00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:34,190
And when we came in, the police
had to come in with us
546
00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:37,685
because people were, uh,
throwing things at our house
547
00:36:37,821 --> 00:36:39,904
and terrorizing
our house at night.
548
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:48,822
We moved there because we wanted
a place that was integrated
549
00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:51,620
and we just wanted to raise
our standard of living,
550
00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:55,335
and it was the strength of my parents that
said, "This is where we're going to be".
551
00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:04,299
Do you think
a Negro family moving here
552
00:37:04,431 --> 00:37:06,388
will affect
the community as a whole?
553
00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:09,307
Definitely.
-In what way?
554
00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:11,018
I think that, well,
the property values
555
00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:13,684
will immediately go down
if they're allowed
556
00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:15,015
to move in here in any number.
557
00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:17,878
Do you think
the Meyers staying in Levittown
558
00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:19,393
will affect property values?
559
00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:25,074
Uh, I don't think that the Meyers
have anything to do with the, uh,
560
00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:28,069
the property decreasing
or increasing.
561
00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:32,665
I think it's purely a white
problem, not a Negro problem.
562
00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:35,750
Well, as a result
of all these policies,
563
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:38,121
we created a segregated system.
564
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,298
And because we've forgotten
now this entire history
565
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:44,760
of how it happened,
white families believe
566
00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:48,757
that they got where they are
simply by their own hard work
567
00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:52,806
and determination to succeed
in the middle-class life.
568
00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:56,726
What they don't understand
is that their parents
569
00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,767
could have come as an immigrant
from a white country
570
00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:02,441
and immediately
had access to loans
571
00:38:02,572 --> 00:38:04,492
and the ability to move in
to white neighborhoods
572
00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:06,694
that black Americans
whose families had
573
00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:08,408
been citizens
for generations could not.
574
00:38:09,913 --> 00:38:12,451
And so, it's not saying that
their families didn't work hard,
575
00:38:12,874 --> 00:38:14,706
but it is saying
that their families benefited
576
00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:17,146
from a great deal of affirmative
action to get where they are.
577
00:38:20,799 --> 00:38:23,519
White Americans don't see what it's
like to live in these communities.
578
00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:26,544
And so, because of that,
they're unable to connect
579
00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,716
with what it is like
to be in these areas
580
00:38:28,848 --> 00:38:31,215
that have been deprived
of every type of opportunity.
581
00:38:33,061 --> 00:38:35,644
Now, how do these
communities get seen?
582
00:38:36,231 --> 00:38:39,395
They go for decades
in these festering situations.
583
00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:43,353
They are segregated communities that
have been completely abandoned.
584
00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:47,736
And suddenly we see them only
when they burn something up.
585
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:03,297
This is a world
of hurt people
586
00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:08,337
crushed by conditions
that they don't understand,
587
00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:11,430
and the rest of America doesn't
even want to admit they exist.
588
00:39:22,944 --> 00:39:25,631
Can you make it out, what it is?
-Uh, I can't Al.
589
00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:28,489
Smoke just billowing
out of that entrance to the CVS.
590
00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:33,577
What can you say about having all this
murdering and... and co... confusion?
591
00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:42,662
They're poking holes
with a knife.
592
00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:47,208
This is a city
that is out of control.
593
00:39:51,514 --> 00:39:54,314
It happened for reasons we
had not been willing to recognize.
594
00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:57,051
And it is this
riot we must understand
595
00:39:57,186 --> 00:40:00,350
if we are to do something about
the dangers that face us now.
596
00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,015
It shouldn't be that
hard to understand
597
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:05,768
why that becomes kind
of the ultimate outcry.
598
00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:07,715
Because it's the only way
that these communities
599
00:40:07,739 --> 00:40:09,651
becomes visible
to most Americans.
600
00:40:17,624 --> 00:40:19,411
I don't want anything big,
big, big, big.
601
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,534
You wanna get a meatball hero?
-I think so.
602
00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:25,065
Where is it?
-Not on here, but you said you can get 'em.
603
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:26,483
What are
you gonna do, Johnny?
604
00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:28,874
I'm gonna get a meatball
platter, that's what. No bread.
605
00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:30,296
I'm gonna get
a meatball platter.
606
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,010
Yeah.
-Why?
607
00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:34,091
I love meatballs.
-So do I.
608
00:40:34,223 --> 00:40:36,215
Just a platter of meatballs,
meatballs,
609
00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:38,638
and, and he wants a hero.
-Hero?
610
00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,873
Meatball hero.
-Yeah, put parmigiana on it too, okay?
611
00:40:40,897 --> 00:40:43,000
Okay, one platter
with meatball, only meatball.
612
00:40:43,024 --> 00:40:45,357
Yeah, only meatball.
-Yeah, platter of meatball,
613
00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:46,646
platter of meatball.
-Yes.
614
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:55,488
Well, in 1956 when I came
out here, there were farms.
615
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,988
I was five years old
when I came here in 1949.
616
00:40:59,123 --> 00:41:00,843
I came from the South Bronx.
617
00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,534
My father foresaw the future
in that area and he says,
618
00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,662
"Let's get the hell out
of here." And we did.
619
00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,005
He had a very outstanding career
620
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:10,044
with the police department.
621
00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:12,634
They took him out
of the South Bronx
622
00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,298
for the benefit
of the community.
623
00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:17,636
When I first became a policeman,
I was in the riot squad.
624
00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:19,633
And any riot
or any type of demonstration
625
00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:21,476
there was in the city,
I went to it.
626
00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:24,976
Mostly Irish cops on the job
then. And they were nasty.
627
00:41:25,566 --> 00:41:28,775
They'd tell you to move and you didn't move, you got the stick.
-I mean...
628
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:32,563
There was law and you didn't...
you didn't disobey it.
629
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:34,315
Protest all you want,
630
00:41:35,118 --> 00:41:37,701
people fought
for your right to protest,
631
00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:39,162
but you see guys
632
00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:43,704
putting holes in hoses
so they can't put out fires,
633
00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:47,624
not just to businesses,
but to people's homes.
634
00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:49,371
Now, you have
a right to protest,
635
00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:50,998
but you don't have
a right to do that.
636
00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:00,660
Are you sick and tired
of where you are,
637
00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:02,045
working hard for years
for nothing?
638
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,394
Do you have the guts
to step out of where you are
639
00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:05,933
to achieve your
financial freedom?
640
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:07,931
It's pretty easy to do
641
00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:11,185
if you just follow my system,
step by step.
642
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,607
It's so easy
to make money in real estate
643
00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:16,357
and I'm planning to be
a millionaire by age 25.
644
00:42:16,492 --> 00:42:18,984
Look, I just got my first
deal, and I'm gonna do
645
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,453
many more like this
for millions of dollars.
646
00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:25,704
Make seven deals in 30 days,
make $15.000.
647
00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:28,999
a check to prove it,
one, two, three, four, five...
648
00:42:29,130 --> 00:42:31,167
You can do it too,
what are you waiting for?
649
00:42:31,299 --> 00:42:34,383
I own that one, that one
and this one right over here.
650
00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:38,633
Now's the time to buy a home.
651
00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:48,222
Eh, Adam.
-Yeah, Halloween.
652
00:42:48,357 --> 00:42:50,037
Trick or treat
would be Halloween.
653
00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:52,268
No, Halloween...
654
00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:56,823
Be good for mom.
655
00:42:58,326 --> 00:43:00,126
I will.
-Can you be good for mom?
656
00:43:00,203 --> 00:43:01,694
Okay, I'll be good for mom.
657
00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:03,536
Seriously, try to be
a little less crazy.
658
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,924
He has a Masters in Urban
and Regional Planning
659
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:27,303
from the University of
Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.
660
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,350
Please give them Chuck...
661
00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:33,062
Thank you.
-...a warm welcome.
662
00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:36,650
Thank you. Um...
663
00:43:37,031 --> 00:43:39,398
A little bit about our
organization Strong Towns.
664
00:43:39,534 --> 00:43:42,993
Our organization has now evolved
into a national movement
665
00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:46,535
of people trying to reconfigure
their communities,
666
00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:48,703
uh, to be more
financially sound.
667
00:43:50,294 --> 00:43:54,709
Post World War Il America,
the financing mechanisms of it
668
00:43:54,841 --> 00:43:56,753
act very much
like a Ponzi scheme.
669
00:43:57,552 --> 00:43:59,669
You have this immediate
sugar high
670
00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:02,547
with this long-term
liability kind of hanging out
671
00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:05,841
there in the future,
and the last generation standing
672
00:44:05,977 --> 00:44:07,897
is the one that's gonna
have to pick up the bill.
673
00:44:09,605 --> 00:44:12,097
We preyed on our
fellow Americans
674
00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:13,940
just so we could
keep the growth going.
675
00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:16,564
And nobody stopped
to consider the impact
676
00:44:16,737 --> 00:44:19,696
that this was gonna have on
real people and real families.
677
00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:28,530
I was bird dogging,
678
00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:32,247
finding foreclosures
for other investors.
679
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,043
I just saw
that the majority of the wealth
680
00:44:37,175 --> 00:44:39,713
created in the United States
was through real estate.
681
00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:43,300
So, I was determined
to follow that track.
682
00:44:44,432 --> 00:44:47,425
It was so much fun,
at the height of when we were making money,
683
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,268
the company had
season tickets to the Lakers
684
00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,979
right behind the Lakers bench.
685
00:44:53,107 --> 00:44:54,973
So Kobe Bryant's wife,
686
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:57,601
Leonardo DiCaprio,
literally right in front of us,
687
00:44:57,737 --> 00:45:00,480
and when he used to date Gisele
and my son, I'll never forget,
688
00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:02,759
he's 15 years old, Gisele's
sitting right in front of him.
689
00:45:02,783 --> 00:45:05,947
Gisele's hair is hanging
over the back of her seat
690
00:45:07,205 --> 00:45:09,367
and Jeff goes, "Dad",
and I go, "What?"
691
00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:11,831
And he goes, and he starts
playing with Gisele's hair.
692
00:45:11,959 --> 00:45:14,076
So I'm, oh my god.
693
00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:17,751
Anyway, I tell you right,
it was just a bit... But, uh...
694
00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:21,458
Back in '96, '97,
there's a new product
695
00:45:21,594 --> 00:45:22,874
that started to flood the market
696
00:45:23,179 --> 00:45:25,466
called a 125% loan to value.
697
00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:27,942
And when I first
started seeing that, I said,
698
00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:30,426
"This is a recipe for disaster."
699
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:36,056
Are you a home
owner with too many bills,
700
00:45:36,192 --> 00:45:38,275
too many high interest
monthly payments?
701
00:45:38,402 --> 00:45:40,815
Why not pay them off
with a second mortgage...
702
00:45:40,947 --> 00:45:44,315
They'll lend you up to 125%
of the value of your home,
703
00:45:44,450 --> 00:45:45,816
less your first
mortgage balance.
704
00:45:46,285 --> 00:45:48,652
They went after the payment
buyer, that's what they did.
705
00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:52,660
"Hey, get a $50.000 second
for 500 bucks a month.
706
00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:55,284
Go buy that boat,
go buy that second car."
707
00:45:57,838 --> 00:45:59,249
It wasn't
a home improvement loan.
708
00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:02,236
It was a signature loan that you
could do whatever you want with.
709
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:05,549
I just thought it was
an exceedingly irresponsible
710
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,675
loan product,
but I took advantage of it.
711
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:16,564
Tiki, come here Tiki.
712
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,857
Come on, come on, good girl.
713
00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:21,935
Mikey, Mikey, come here, Mikey.
714
00:46:23,114 --> 00:46:25,948
Hey, hey, Cinnabons, no, no!
715
00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:29,034
The lenders got greedy
and they figured,
716
00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:31,824
okay, we exhausted
the 125 potential pool,
717
00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:37,869
let's go make it super easy
to get purchase money now.
718
00:46:38,004 --> 00:46:40,291
If you were to ask me
what the perfect credentials are
719
00:46:40,423 --> 00:46:43,235
to qualify for a home loan, I honestly couldn't tell you.
720
00:46:43,259 --> 00:46:45,501
May I help you sir?
721
00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:47,447
Need a quick
answer on a new home loan?
722
00:46:47,471 --> 00:46:48,511
Oh yeah.
723
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,909
Stated income,
stated employment,
724
00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:52,720
stated, stated, stated,
which means,
725
00:46:52,852 --> 00:46:55,686
whatever the borrower says,
is factual.
726
00:46:56,731 --> 00:47:00,520
As recently as 1997,
you had to put 20% down
727
00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:03,894
and you had to struggle
to save that kind of money.
728
00:47:04,447 --> 00:47:07,235
You fast forward five years,
and a bus boy
729
00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:10,825
from a local coffee shop can
buy the same house for nothing.
730
00:47:11,579 --> 00:47:13,115
We'll have to verify
your credit so
731
00:47:13,247 --> 00:47:14,447
how about a list of creditors?
732
00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:16,202
We don't have any.
733
00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,497
If we can't pay cash,
we do without.
734
00:47:19,628 --> 00:47:20,628
Shh, shh, shh.
735
00:47:21,547 --> 00:47:23,038
What are you saying?
736
00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:24,894
That could ruin
the entire American economy.
737
00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:27,362
I mean, where would this country
be if we didn't all owe
738
00:47:27,386 --> 00:47:29,573
more than we could pay back?
739
00:47:29,597 --> 00:47:32,135
In order for the house
of cards to stay standing,
740
00:47:32,266 --> 00:47:33,266
it has to get bigger.
741
00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:37,622
So the guy that's in the three bedroom,
one and a half bath house,
742
00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:39,806
he's gotta move up to the four
bedroom, two bath house.
743
00:47:41,067 --> 00:47:42,747
The house of cards
just kept getting bigger
744
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:44,140
and bigger
and bigger and bigger,
745
00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:46,444
and bigger
and bigger and bigger.
746
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:50,403
And it's just all
on fake valuations.
747
00:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,867
Yeah, at that point,
the home did absolutely
748
00:48:00,002 --> 00:48:02,995
become a vehicle for excess.
749
00:48:03,464 --> 00:48:06,207
Home prices rising, it's
from the Case-Shiller Index.
750
00:48:06,342 --> 00:48:08,925
I look at the number, and I say,
yes this looks good,
751
00:48:09,053 --> 00:48:11,966
it's much better than expected.
You look at the number and say...
752
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:16,049
Nobody knows
what home prices are gonna do.
753
00:48:21,524 --> 00:48:24,312
People are
increasingly speculative.
754
00:48:24,443 --> 00:48:27,231
When they buy a house,
a major concern is
755
00:48:27,363 --> 00:48:31,403
how much can I sell this to
someone else at the other end.
756
00:48:31,534 --> 00:48:34,447
It can be called, "the greater fool theory."
757
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:37,195
Maybe I'm a fool
to buy such a big house,
758
00:48:37,331 --> 00:48:39,789
but I'm gonna sell it
to an even greater fool.
759
00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,380
There were people who thought
50 or 100 years ago
760
00:48:47,508 --> 00:48:50,342
that home prices
should decline with time,
761
00:48:51,512 --> 00:48:53,720
and the reason is,
they wear out.
762
00:48:59,311 --> 00:49:02,554
Don't expect it to gain value,
expect it to lose value.
763
00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:05,102
That was
a common view in the past.
764
00:49:06,152 --> 00:49:09,395
For so long
we have come as a society
765
00:49:09,530 --> 00:49:12,864
to place a tremendous amount
of value on the home itself.
766
00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:15,184
And the bigger the home,
the better.
767
00:49:19,582 --> 00:49:21,790
It's interesting
because Levittown
768
00:49:21,917 --> 00:49:24,580
and the houses were meant
to evolve and change
769
00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:28,376
as families evolved
and changed over time.
770
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:36,510
The idea was that this home
would be livable all your life.
771
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,723
You could have one bedroom
or three bedrooms,
772
00:49:38,851 --> 00:49:42,015
depending on what your needs
were at the time.
773
00:49:42,146 --> 00:49:46,982
And, um, this area was, could be
an extension of the living room,
774
00:49:47,109 --> 00:49:49,726
or it could be closed off
and become a bedroom.
775
00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:51,196
Sorry.
776
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:53,613
So you close it here.
777
00:49:53,741 --> 00:49:55,719
You wanna go outside so you can talk?
-Yeah, yeah.
778
00:49:55,743 --> 00:49:57,109
You'd close it here.
779
00:50:00,664 --> 00:50:04,032
And then you would enter
from the hallway.
780
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:10,335
So I have, I'm coming out
from the bedroom hallway now
781
00:50:10,466 --> 00:50:12,253
where all the entrances
are to the bedrooms.
782
00:50:13,302 --> 00:50:15,544
So it could be either
one bedroom or three bedrooms.
783
00:50:15,679 --> 00:50:17,261
Right now,
we created one bedroom here
784
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:19,597
and in the rear
there's one bedroom
785
00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:22,559
that could be partitioned
with a rolling wall
786
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:24,427
so it would become two bedrooms.
787
00:50:28,067 --> 00:50:31,731
That was an extension
of the dynamic coming out
788
00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:34,855
of post-war idea
of what the house provided.
789
00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:37,073
Wasn't really
about the upscaling
790
00:50:37,201 --> 00:50:38,942
or the supersizing of the house.
791
00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:42,825
And so that relationship
between the growth
792
00:50:42,957 --> 00:50:47,668
of the physical house
was still somehow in balance.
793
00:50:47,795 --> 00:50:51,379
Subsequently, people began
to make the scale shift,
794
00:50:51,507 --> 00:50:54,124
where the houses
became just large.
795
00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:59,049
I'm in love
with this indoor tree.
796
00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:01,468
I hope it ain't a ficus.
797
00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:04,894
I don't think it is.
798
00:51:07,398 --> 00:51:09,981
So this is where
your dining room would be.
799
00:51:10,150 --> 00:51:11,391
That's a lot of alcohol.
800
00:51:14,738 --> 00:51:17,276
It's a maze, 5000 square feet.
801
00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:19,383
Only one staircase,
it kind of feels like
802
00:51:19,493 --> 00:51:21,405
that back staircase
or something.
803
00:51:24,373 --> 00:51:26,706
I feel like
it's very track home-ish.
804
00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:37,968
So the attached office,
I can see that set up.
805
00:51:38,971 --> 00:51:42,009
That is really
more suited for Grandma.
806
00:51:42,141 --> 00:51:44,929
She doesn't really
wanna have a detached unit.
807
00:51:46,312 --> 00:51:49,350
I don't think Grandma needs
12-foot ceilings though.
808
00:51:49,481 --> 00:51:53,020
The McMansions, they're going
the way of the dodo bird.
809
00:51:53,193 --> 00:51:54,775
People wanna buy what they need
810
00:51:54,903 --> 00:51:56,815
and they don't want any extra.
811
00:51:57,531 --> 00:52:00,194
And this has so much
square-footage and wasted space.
812
00:52:01,869 --> 00:52:03,389
They might get away
with one more sale,
813
00:52:03,495 --> 00:52:04,986
but in the years to come,
814
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,533
it's gonna be
tougher and tougher.
815
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,523
Connor, was that fun?
-Yeah.
816
00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:20,586
There's just tremendous
economic dependence
817
00:52:20,721 --> 00:52:22,508
on this idea that
we can keep building
818
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,632
new single family homes
in their own lots.
819
00:52:25,309 --> 00:52:29,019
And that they have to keep
marching across the US landscape
820
00:52:29,605 --> 00:52:33,975
because it's a huge part of what the economy
depends on, for its health and wellbeing.
821
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:37,480
Dolce, come here.
822
00:52:39,406 --> 00:52:41,272
Yes, so our property line
823
00:52:41,408 --> 00:52:43,768
is just basically the white
picket fence all the way around,
824
00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:45,952
all the way back up to there.
825
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,956
So we're gonna have
our garden over here,
826
00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:52,872
and a chicken coop over there.
827
00:52:53,504 --> 00:52:54,961
Gigi's a grand champion.
828
00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:58,464
Uh, not so much Dolce.
829
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:07,094
So this whole industry of easy,
830
00:53:07,226 --> 00:53:12,017
quick money for property did not
end at the retail borrower.
831
00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:15,731
The developers were
exposed to these funds.
832
00:53:16,819 --> 00:53:19,402
So these companies were
going in and buying up
833
00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:23,695
swaths of land from these
farmers at ridiculous prices.
834
00:53:24,660 --> 00:53:26,697
Just giving them enough money
835
00:53:26,829 --> 00:53:29,446
for their great-grandchildren
to retire on.
836
00:53:29,581 --> 00:53:32,949
And it, it was
just so hard to say no.
837
00:53:35,254 --> 00:53:39,669
And that's where you see all of these
citrus farms in the Inland Empire gone.
838
00:53:43,554 --> 00:53:46,638
And of course,
the cities were loving it,
839
00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:50,342
because the tax basis
on real property
840
00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:54,187
with a house on it
is far higher than farmland.
841
00:53:55,441 --> 00:53:59,560
The cities were seeing
their tax base quintuple,
842
00:54:00,571 --> 00:54:01,982
literally overnight.
843
00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:09,453
And then
the developments stopped.
844
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,800
The United States economy
has never been in better shape.
845
00:54:33,854 --> 00:54:36,267
We have created
the highest standard of living
846
00:54:36,398 --> 00:54:38,310
for a country of our size.
847
00:54:38,442 --> 00:54:42,402
* I never knew *
848
00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:45,863
* How to say *
849
00:54:45,991 --> 00:54:47,107
* No to you *
850
00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:48,983
It's a terrific time to buy.
851
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:50,985
We've never had a decline
in house prices
852
00:54:51,121 --> 00:54:52,578
on a nationwide basis.
853
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:55,539
Homes may see
an ebb and flow in the price
854
00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:58,334
but you're not going to see
the collapse
855
00:54:58,462 --> 00:55:00,222
that you see when people
talk about a bubble.
856
00:55:02,633 --> 00:55:05,216
If there is a bubble
burst, as they call it,
857
00:55:05,385 --> 00:55:11,097
I sort of hope that happens because then
people like me would go out and buy.
858
00:55:11,225 --> 00:55:14,593
A new warning that the
housing bubble is about to burst.
859
00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:18,722
* How to say no to you *
860
00:55:18,857 --> 00:55:19,973
It's poppin'!
861
00:55:26,365 --> 00:55:28,573
Our entire economy is in danger.
862
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:30,908
And that means life
as most Americans know it,
863
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,447
now it is about to change.
864
00:55:32,579 --> 00:55:34,445
14 million people
took a mortgage
865
00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:36,868
in the last three years.
They will lose their homes.
866
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,411
This is crazy!
867
00:55:38,544 --> 00:55:40,911
That rate is actually higher
among people of color.
868
00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:42,537
* Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba *
869
00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:44,414
San Bernadino recently became
the third
870
00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:46,416
Californian city
to file bankruptcy.
871
00:55:46,552 --> 00:55:48,669
And unlike a home
owner who can walk away
872
00:55:48,804 --> 00:55:50,844
from a mortgage that's
more than the house is worth,
873
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:52,551
a municipality cannot.
874
00:55:55,102 --> 00:56:00,018
* I never knew how to say no *
875
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,147
If you come back
to this property,
876
00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:03,733
it's considered trespassing.
877
00:56:04,111 --> 00:56:07,104
Did you ever think
that this word could become
878
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,653
50% of your business?
-No, never would've imagined.
879
00:56:12,411 --> 00:56:15,529
-* Say yes *
-Yes, I found a flaw
880
00:56:15,664 --> 00:56:18,702
in the model that defines
how the world works.
881
00:56:18,834 --> 00:56:21,451
-* Never knew how *
-Your ideology was not right?
882
00:56:21,587 --> 00:56:24,079
-* To say no *
-Precisely.
883
00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:25,546
* Say yes *
884
00:56:25,674 --> 00:56:27,210
* Never knew Yes *
885
00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:30,130
* Never knew how to say no *
886
00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:37,850
Jar opener,
everyone needs one of those.
887
00:56:45,861 --> 00:56:47,397
Yeah, it's not in here.
888
00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:03,661
That's 10 by 17
for the living room.
889
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:13,712
That was 18
counting the counter.
890
00:57:15,182 --> 00:57:17,890
Did you count this two feet here?
-No.
891
00:57:19,978 --> 00:57:21,578
I've only been doing
real estate with him
892
00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:25,348
since Natalie was two
so that's, um, 16 years.
893
00:57:26,485 --> 00:57:30,445
After the L.A. Times article,
the Nightline piece, all that,
894
00:57:31,156 --> 00:57:36,322
I remember us being
just completely crazy busy.
895
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:39,912
I mean, as, as great as it was,
it was such a blur.
896
00:57:47,172 --> 00:57:49,505
It was a blur?
-Yeah, complete blur.
897
00:57:49,633 --> 00:57:51,169
You think when I said blur,
898
00:57:51,301 --> 00:57:53,213
you think that
I don't know all those details?
899
00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:55,462
I'm just saying blur
meaning it was
900
00:57:55,597 --> 00:57:57,179
a blurred time of my life.
901
00:57:57,307 --> 00:57:58,576
Well, let me add some color then
902
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,387
because I remember every detail.
903
00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:03,353
I'm sure you do.
-The blog was running...
904
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,000
I don't wanna talk
about those details.
905
00:58:06,274 --> 00:58:08,982
Because of our connection
to Countrywide,
906
00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:11,603
they started,
at least they had us apply
907
00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:14,105
to be one of the agents,
that's what happens.
908
00:58:15,367 --> 00:58:17,687
You should watch
yourself do this 'cause it's...
909
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:21,491
December 2006,
910
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,531
this house sold
for a million dollars.
911
00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:27,210
1900 square feet, right across
the street from the freeway.
912
00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:28,337
One million.
913
00:58:30,799 --> 00:58:35,544
That's what we call a retro
water heater. A vintage.
914
00:58:37,556 --> 00:58:39,047
Oh, lovely.
915
00:58:40,142 --> 00:58:44,807
If you, uh, are watching
this video and you're a realtor,
916
00:58:46,815 --> 00:58:48,375
and you're jumping off
the couch saying,
917
00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:50,349
"Wait a minute,
I represented the buyer
918
00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:53,694
when they paid a million",
919
00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:58,783
I want you to put your Mai Tai
down and go grab your shingle
920
00:59:00,245 --> 00:59:02,362
and send it in
to the D.R.E. right now.
921
00:59:02,497 --> 00:59:03,829
You don't deserve
to be licensed.
922
00:59:04,875 --> 00:59:08,960
December 2006,
this sold for a million dollars.
923
00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:13,168
Everyone who was on that deal
deserves to get fired.
924
00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:15,885
I'm Jim, The Realtor.
925
00:59:19,681 --> 00:59:21,593
There's a lot
of trust...
926
00:59:21,725 --> 00:59:23,387
...in the marketplace on value.
927
00:59:24,186 --> 00:59:26,929
Could this be just
a value bubble where people
928
00:59:27,064 --> 00:59:29,852
just keep paying
these crazy prices a lot more
929
00:59:29,983 --> 00:59:32,270
than they used to just,
literally, a year ago,
930
00:59:33,195 --> 00:59:35,187
just because they wanna
get a house.
931
00:59:35,614 --> 00:59:38,573
There really isn't the evidence
to help support them
932
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,033
that I can say,
"Oh, for sure, it's worth that."
933
00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:45,701
There's really,
I think, some valid concern
934
00:59:45,832 --> 00:59:49,576
about valuations
when the proof is so thin.
935
00:59:50,670 --> 00:59:53,037
It's always been
a problem in this industry.
936
00:59:53,173 --> 00:59:57,918
There is really just
that one way to determine
937
00:59:58,053 --> 01:00:00,386
what something is worth
is look what other people pick.
938
01:00:00,514 --> 01:00:02,301
What if the other people
were crazy?
939
01:00:10,065 --> 01:00:11,745
They were hoping to get
two million dollars
940
01:00:11,817 --> 01:00:14,685
for these up here,
and you can see they built,
941
01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:16,982
I think,
a handful of 'em and gave up.
942
01:00:17,489 --> 01:00:20,197
And those are five and six
thousand square-foot houses.
943
01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:31,083
Everyone was going
by the mantra, "Get in,
944
01:00:31,211 --> 01:00:33,123
or you might get
priced down forever."
945
01:00:33,922 --> 01:00:36,255
'Cause, up to that point,
no one had seen
946
01:00:36,383 --> 01:00:39,876
any previous downturn,
it just wasn't in the vocabulary
947
01:00:40,011 --> 01:00:42,503
and nobody, including realtors,
ever really thought,
948
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:44,380
hey, party's never gonna end.
949
01:01:02,325 --> 01:01:05,565
I mean, the thing about this is
this is the kind of crap I used to build.
950
01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:07,737
I was the engineer
who would design
951
01:01:07,873 --> 01:01:09,785
and lay out
and build this stuff.
952
01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:15,128
I would work on these
big development projects.
953
01:01:15,922 --> 01:01:18,039
Cities would come to us,
we want this done,
954
01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:20,588
we go out and build it
and I sincerely believe
955
01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:24,212
that the work I was doing
was building a great America.
956
01:01:25,390 --> 01:01:28,554
But then I started
to ask some questions
957
01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:31,723
about what comes next.
958
01:01:31,855 --> 01:01:34,848
After we build something,
how do we take care of it?
959
01:01:34,983 --> 01:01:37,225
What's the cash flow
that makes this all work?
960
01:01:37,986 --> 01:01:40,524
I started to look at developments
that I had worked on
961
01:01:40,655 --> 01:01:42,897
and run some
larger math problems.
962
01:01:45,535 --> 01:01:46,846
For example, the developer would
come in and build the road,
963
01:01:46,870 --> 01:01:48,987
the developer paid
all the cost to build it.
964
01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:51,697
People have been
paying their taxes,
965
01:01:51,833 --> 01:01:53,449
and the idea was
they pay their taxes,
966
01:01:53,585 --> 01:01:55,702
and then the government
would fix this road.
967
01:01:56,463 --> 01:01:59,627
The cost was
$354.000 to fix that road.
968
01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:03,008
We asked the question,
okay, based on the taxes
969
01:02:03,136 --> 01:02:05,128
the city's collecting
from these people,
970
01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:06,782
how long is it gonna
take them to recoup
971
01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:07,922
the money they just spent?
972
01:02:09,392 --> 01:02:10,928
The answer is 79 years.
973
01:02:13,063 --> 01:02:17,148
As an engineer, I knew that road
wasn't gonna last 20, 25 years.
974
01:02:17,776 --> 01:02:19,438
This doesn't make any sense.
975
01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:23,654
The growth creates what we call,
"the illusion of wealth."
976
01:02:24,491 --> 01:02:27,950
If you lose money on every transaction,
you don't make it up in volume.
977
01:02:30,247 --> 01:02:31,533
Where are we at today?
978
01:02:32,999 --> 01:02:34,831
We... we're like way out here.
979
01:02:39,714 --> 01:02:43,503
You can look at the run up to the
housing crash as a prime example.
980
01:02:44,469 --> 01:02:47,678
Everybody felt like, well we're
doing okay because, you know, yeah,
981
01:02:47,806 --> 01:02:49,593
I made $12.000
in housing payments
982
01:02:49,724 --> 01:02:51,511
but my house went up by $40.000.
983
01:02:51,643 --> 01:02:53,430
I cashed out the difference,
I'm doing fine.
984
01:02:54,521 --> 01:02:57,013
You're essentially
skirting around the core problem
985
01:02:57,148 --> 01:02:59,606
which is that the underlying
economy does not work.
986
01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:06,689
In 2000, we had 1100
census tracts in this country
987
01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:10,359
that you could classify
as persistent poverty.
988
01:03:10,829 --> 01:03:14,163
In 2010, it went
from 1100 census tracts
989
01:03:14,291 --> 01:03:18,285
to 3300 census tracts, three
times the American geography
990
01:03:18,420 --> 01:03:19,752
is now in persistent poverty.
991
01:03:21,423 --> 01:03:24,291
Our places don't work, they're
just designed to decline.
992
01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:29,595
If you don't know what was lost,
993
01:03:30,473 --> 01:03:32,840
you... you don't look
at the place and see,
994
01:03:32,976 --> 01:03:34,592
like, this is decline.
995
01:03:37,272 --> 01:03:41,516
Well I'm 43. If you're 10 years,
20 years, 30 years older than me,
996
01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:42,858
all you see is wounds.
997
01:03:45,530 --> 01:03:48,364
And so it's really hard for you
to get your mind out of that,
998
01:03:48,491 --> 01:03:50,949
and actually see how
this could be a better place.
999
01:03:55,457 --> 01:03:57,995
Now we have an Olive
Garden so we've made it, right?
1000
01:03:58,126 --> 01:04:00,438
I don't know, man,
in the Mid-West is heartbreaking.
1001
01:04:00,462 --> 01:04:02,022
The Mid-West is heartbreaking.
1002
01:04:02,130 --> 01:04:03,871
Think of all the places,
this is like,
1003
01:04:04,007 --> 01:04:05,207
one of the last ones I live in
1004
01:04:05,258 --> 01:04:07,295
but it's home and I, you know,
1005
01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:09,885
there's a part of me that loves it too.
-Yeah.
1006
01:04:10,013 --> 01:04:11,824
Like I look at it and I'm like,
I wanna help this place,
1007
01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:13,408
I want to make it better.
-Yeah sure.
1008
01:04:14,517 --> 01:04:15,619
I'm moving the little
Google street view guy...
1009
01:04:15,643 --> 01:04:16,724
Yeah, yeah.
1010
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,845
...down South 6th Street.
1011
01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:20,892
Yeah, that was our...
-Holy shit, man.
1012
01:04:21,024 --> 01:04:23,391
That's our Champs-Elys�es, man,
that's our one street...
1013
01:04:23,526 --> 01:04:26,109
One muffler shop after another.
-Yeah, I know.
1014
01:04:32,202 --> 01:04:36,492
I'm educated enough to,
to know that I shouldn't talk about
1015
01:04:36,623 --> 01:04:40,663
some race things because I'm, I'm...
I realized how ignorant I am.
1016
01:04:40,794 --> 01:04:44,378
I mean, I grew up in
a city that is 99% white
1017
01:04:44,506 --> 01:04:47,624
and probab...
still is very close to that.
1018
01:04:48,843 --> 01:04:50,755
But when you start
to get a mixing of people
1019
01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:53,345
in the community like
"the other" start to move in,
1020
01:04:53,473 --> 01:04:55,510
whether "the other" is
someone of a different race
1021
01:04:55,642 --> 01:04:57,349
or someone
of a different social class,
1022
01:04:58,269 --> 01:04:59,805
I think, like,
psychologists have said
1023
01:04:59,938 --> 01:05:01,749
there's a natural
human tendency to in a sense,
1024
01:05:01,773 --> 01:05:02,934
like circle the wagons.
1025
01:05:03,691 --> 01:05:05,808
And what zoning did is
it gave like this really
1026
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:08,602
wonderful tool
to be able to write
1027
01:05:09,364 --> 01:05:11,981
in a more camouflaged
kind of racist way,
1028
01:05:12,492 --> 01:05:14,028
uh, we don't want
those people here.
1029
01:05:15,328 --> 01:05:17,741
I think the irony today is that
1030
01:05:17,872 --> 01:05:20,239
it's also now trapped
poor white people.
1031
01:05:20,375 --> 01:05:21,832
The mechanic says
you owe
1032
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,623
$250 for new brake lines.
1033
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:27,474
Doug.
-Well, what is you better go to that dude in my neighborhood,
1034
01:05:27,507 --> 01:05:30,045
he'll fix anything for $40.
-White boy, you know Cecil?
1035
01:05:30,176 --> 01:05:33,214
Yeah, but my Cecil's name is Jim
and he fixed my refrigerator,
1036
01:05:33,346 --> 01:05:34,837
my air conditioner and my cat.
1037
01:05:34,973 --> 01:05:38,011
Yeah, yeah,
everybody's got a guy.
1038
01:05:38,143 --> 01:05:39,384
Ooh, you alright, Doug.
1039
01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:44,305
You know,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said,
1040
01:05:44,441 --> 01:05:47,650
"The, uh, hyper problem
we have today is less race
1041
01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:48,893
than it is poverty."
1042
01:05:49,237 --> 01:05:50,853
And I think he was
exactly right,
1043
01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:53,276
I mean, there...
there's a racial element to it,
1044
01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:58,278
but middle-class whites
will sacrifice poor whites too.
1045
01:05:58,413 --> 01:06:00,370
There's no racial loyalty there,
1046
01:06:00,498 --> 01:06:02,330
they're gonna
kick 'em to the curb.
1047
01:06:05,879 --> 01:06:07,586
I've been able to travel
around the country
1048
01:06:07,714 --> 01:06:09,455
and experience
different communities.
1049
01:06:09,591 --> 01:06:12,083
Uh, it's the same,
it's the same thing.
1050
01:06:13,428 --> 01:06:15,420
So you see across the Rust Belt
1051
01:06:15,555 --> 01:06:19,174
and you see across rural
America, people struggling,
1052
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:23,678
and those struggles
are kind of shared struggles
1053
01:06:23,813 --> 01:06:27,227
with people in urban areas
that have long been left behind.
1054
01:06:28,318 --> 01:06:31,902
When you find that you can
no longer get the mortgage,
1055
01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:34,188
uh, when you can no longer
cash out the equity,
1056
01:06:34,324 --> 01:06:37,362
when you can no longer get
the car loan for the new car,
1057
01:06:37,494 --> 01:06:40,783
your world changes
and your experience changes,
1058
01:06:40,914 --> 01:06:43,702
and America becomes
like a really cruel place.
1059
01:06:44,834 --> 01:06:46,496
We're starting
to see more and more,
1060
01:06:46,628 --> 01:06:48,790
that is a mainstream experience.
1061
01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:52,086
How are you going to get
your message to anybody
1062
01:06:52,217 --> 01:06:56,052
when even the commissions
aren't here and nobody else
1063
01:06:56,179 --> 01:06:58,387
comes to council meetings,
how do you...
1064
01:06:58,515 --> 01:07:00,177
How are you gonna
get to the people?
1065
01:07:02,769 --> 01:07:05,853
You can create a social contract
and make tons of promises.
1066
01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:09,732
Uh, we now live in the day when
those promises are coming due.
1067
01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:13,899
And that's not
a left or a right thing.
1068
01:07:14,030 --> 01:07:16,818
Uh, it kind of transcends
left and right,
1069
01:07:16,950 --> 01:07:18,816
'cause neither side
understands that.
1070
01:07:18,952 --> 01:07:22,992
They both wanna go back
to what they thought worked.
1071
01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:25,123
It didn't work.
1072
01:07:30,672 --> 01:07:32,664
Baltimore
is very similar
1073
01:07:32,799 --> 01:07:35,212
to many cities
in terms of the way
1074
01:07:35,343 --> 01:07:38,177
that it's been wrecked
by post-industrialization.
1075
01:07:38,304 --> 01:07:40,796
Between 1950 and 2000,
Baltimore lost
1076
01:07:40,932 --> 01:07:42,969
100.000 million factory jobs.
1077
01:07:44,811 --> 01:07:47,849
So that's had a negative
effect on people feeling like
1078
01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:52,191
they have control over
the necessities of their lives.
1079
01:07:52,944 --> 01:07:55,561
We don't like it then.
1080
01:07:56,239 --> 01:07:57,946
They can run around
and they say, you bet,
1081
01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:00,407
they can run around and gas
and everything else.
1082
01:08:00,535 --> 01:08:01,535
We're paying for it!
1083
01:08:03,037 --> 01:08:05,154
And what the hell are
the guys on the streets doing?
1084
01:08:05,999 --> 01:08:06,999
Nothing!
1085
01:08:07,333 --> 01:08:08,699
They're sittin' on the corners,
1086
01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:10,785
they can't work,
1087
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,411
they got no work.
1088
01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:14,664
Doesn't mean anything at all!
1089
01:08:14,799 --> 01:08:18,338
And we're not gonna be fooled
against each other anymore.
1090
01:08:18,886 --> 01:08:21,299
We're gonna fight with each
other, no matter the Hispanics,
1091
01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:24,219
the colored, white, anything,
we're gonna be a rainbow.
1092
01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:26,888
Not only this community,
we're gonna get 'em
1093
01:08:27,020 --> 01:08:29,228
all together and fight!
1094
01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:33,561
We will build it.
1095
01:08:33,693 --> 01:08:34,774
Together.
1096
01:08:34,902 --> 01:08:35,902
Port Covington.
1097
01:08:35,945 --> 01:08:37,026
And when we build it...
1098
01:08:37,155 --> 01:08:38,441
...it will be ours.
1099
01:08:40,158 --> 01:08:42,011
Port Covington,
a bold vision for Baltimore.
1100
01:08:42,035 --> 01:08:44,152
At the heart of it,
a new world headquarters
1101
01:08:44,287 --> 01:08:47,155
for UnderArmour, an opportunity
for all of Baltimore.
1102
01:08:48,499 --> 01:08:51,583
This will be big,
Baltimore big...
1103
01:08:54,047 --> 01:08:55,709
Tonight,
Baltimore City Council
1104
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,423
put the stamp of approval
on the $660.000.000
1105
01:08:58,801 --> 01:09:00,133
for the Port Covington project.
1106
01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:02,845
The developers guarantee
the city affordable housing,
1107
01:09:02,972 --> 01:09:04,679
jobs in exchange
for the investment.
1108
01:09:05,391 --> 01:09:08,884
Our intent is to have a mixed
income, diverse community.
1109
01:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,852
Their definition
of affordable housing
1110
01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:12,516
is affordable to
families who're making
1111
01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:14,390
about $70.000 per year.
1112
01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:16,938
So what we're saying
is, you just can't build
1113
01:09:17,070 --> 01:09:19,027
a community with people
who are wealthy.
1114
01:09:19,489 --> 01:09:23,324
This sort of a,
you know, snarkiness
1115
01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:25,784
is not helpful to the discussion.
-Boo!
1116
01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:27,723
It doesn't follow logically...
-But if only a select few
1117
01:09:27,747 --> 01:09:29,516
individuals get to move
into those neighborhoods,
1118
01:09:29,540 --> 01:09:31,031
is there still inequality?
1119
01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:32,167
No.
1120
01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:33,784
All in favor.
1121
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,036
Aye.
1122
01:09:36,214 --> 01:09:37,500
Any opposed?
1123
01:09:43,721 --> 01:09:48,216
Remember, we are creating
structural disadvantage
1124
01:09:48,351 --> 01:09:51,310
in ourAfrican-American
communities, but we're creating
1125
01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:55,932
structural advantage
in our white communities.
1126
01:09:56,067 --> 01:09:57,774
And that's where we are today.
1127
01:09:58,820 --> 01:10:02,029
It wasn't 'til I got older
and started understanding
1128
01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:05,069
um, politics a little bit more,
1129
01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,488
and at the same time I started
1130
01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:09,953
getting real big
into, uh, black history
1131
01:10:10,790 --> 01:10:13,498
and about the things
that America had done to us.
1132
01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:16,744
A gun shot, a stab
that makes the evening news,
1133
01:10:17,130 --> 01:10:18,587
that's spectacular violence.
1134
01:10:18,715 --> 01:10:21,549
We readily recognize
that is violence, right?
1135
01:10:21,968 --> 01:10:25,882
But we don't recognize
redlining as slow violence.
1136
01:10:26,723 --> 01:10:30,467
We don't recognize
putting people in environments
1137
01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:34,428
where they don't have
opportunity as slow violence.
1138
01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:38,603
But that's what's
going on in Baltimore City.
1139
01:10:41,279 --> 01:10:44,488
I was sitting here
at my desk watching the police
1140
01:10:44,615 --> 01:10:49,076
and the children interact
on the day of April 27th, 2015.
1141
01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:51,779
And the children
were throwing rocks,
1142
01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:54,122
the police throwing
rocks back at the children.
1143
01:10:54,709 --> 01:10:56,541
And eventually,
the police, you know,
1144
01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:59,161
they're shooting rubber bullets
and they deploy tear gas,
1145
01:10:59,297 --> 01:11:01,334
and at the moment
they deploy that tear gas,
1146
01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:03,731
I'm sitting here and I'm like,
I feel like
1147
01:11:03,801 --> 01:11:06,168
this weight
come right on my chest,
1148
01:11:06,721 --> 01:11:08,713
and I'm like, I can't breathe.
1149
01:11:08,848 --> 01:11:11,088
I couldn't watch it anymore
because I knew it was causing
1150
01:11:11,142 --> 01:11:14,101
some sort of physiological
reaction in my body.
1151
01:11:15,688 --> 01:11:20,058
It really was, uh, a powerful,
pivotal turning point,
1152
01:11:20,568 --> 01:11:22,525
'cause everybody went
into overdrive after that.
1153
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:26,613
Everybody went into throwing
themselves into activism
1154
01:11:26,741 --> 01:11:29,233
and non-profit work
and volunteerism.
1155
01:11:33,581 --> 01:11:37,746
So, um, this is what
you're gonna talk about here.
1156
01:11:37,877 --> 01:11:39,459
So you're gonna
talk about what is home
1157
01:11:39,587 --> 01:11:41,749
in a neighborhood mean to you?
1158
01:11:41,881 --> 01:11:43,998
Exercise is set up
for you to be with a person
1159
01:11:44,133 --> 01:11:46,013
that you would least
likely be with in the room.
1160
01:11:46,427 --> 01:11:49,044
Partner up and really
sit with your partner, folks,
1161
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:51,763
don't sit side
by side like this, sit...
1162
01:11:51,891 --> 01:11:53,848
How you doing, Miss Gale?
-Hi, Greg.
1163
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:56,138
I'm originally from Greenmount,
the Greenmount area.
1164
01:11:56,771 --> 01:11:59,354
To me, that small section
of a neighborhood is everything
1165
01:11:59,482 --> 01:12:01,189
because it's
a certain level of pain
1166
01:12:01,317 --> 01:12:04,435
you gotta go through to be,
uh, really from Baltimore,
1167
01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,653
and when you're really
from a neighborhood
1168
01:12:06,781 --> 01:12:10,070
that has a reputation,
you get what's known as a stamp.
1169
01:12:11,202 --> 01:12:13,694
I have my, my literal stamp.
1170
01:12:13,830 --> 01:12:15,116
You know? Uh...
1171
01:12:15,957 --> 01:12:18,074
Zone 18, it stands
for the last two digits
1172
01:12:18,209 --> 01:12:23,170
of your area code,
so it's really big,
1173
01:12:23,756 --> 01:12:25,873
you know, to be connected
to a neighborhood.
1174
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,218
What people outside
this street don't understand,
1175
01:12:30,930 --> 01:12:32,637
all of this stuff
is about legacy.
1176
01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:35,159
We don't really
know where we come from,
1177
01:12:35,226 --> 01:12:37,809
we don't know our families.
So when you decide
1178
01:12:37,937 --> 01:12:41,101
that you're a street dude, then you
put your all into being a street dude.
1179
01:12:41,941 --> 01:12:43,773
It's really
the only industry that we run,
1180
01:12:43,901 --> 01:12:46,188
or we think we run,
you get what I'm sayin'?
1181
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,734
So from there, your kids
grow up under your name.
1182
01:12:49,866 --> 01:12:52,627
What is your name? What kind of name
you wanna leave for your children?
1183
01:12:52,910 --> 01:12:55,347
You get what I'm sayin'? That...
That's the name my father left for me.
1184
01:12:55,371 --> 01:12:57,579
I, I could go anywhere
I want to in East Baltimore
1185
01:12:57,707 --> 01:13:00,245
and not have a problem
because of who my father was.
1186
01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:02,368
But, because
I'm not a street dude,
1187
01:13:03,004 --> 01:13:04,870
and, but I still carry
those morals,
1188
01:13:05,006 --> 01:13:06,246
I gotta leave my son something.
1189
01:13:07,758 --> 01:13:08,998
I'mma buy a block in this city.
1190
01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:10,594
And it's gonna be a...
1191
01:13:11,679 --> 01:13:13,921
It's gonna be new block,
I'm tryin' to tell you.
1192
01:13:14,599 --> 01:13:16,535
I'm gonna help a lot
of people just by giving them
1193
01:13:16,559 --> 01:13:18,596
places to stay in,
and doing what I know how to do,
1194
01:13:18,728 --> 01:13:19,969
use these hands.
1195
01:13:20,813 --> 01:13:22,520
I know too much
about real estate
1196
01:13:22,899 --> 01:13:24,765
to not get them
into these homes.
1197
01:13:25,526 --> 01:13:27,984
That's gon' be my legacy,
that's gon' be my legacy.
1198
01:13:31,282 --> 01:13:33,695
It wasn't until the early '70s
1199
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:37,240
when they started
putting money into the harbors,
1200
01:13:37,371 --> 01:13:40,705
and said it would back into
the neighborhoods, which it did not.
1201
01:13:42,335 --> 01:13:45,578
I have seen so much in Baltimore
and it hasn't changed
1202
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,506
uh, from when
I was younger to now.
1203
01:13:50,009 --> 01:13:52,001
Telling us,
our neighborhoods are bad,
1204
01:13:52,136 --> 01:13:54,628
and it's dangerous, and then we,
as African-Americans,
1205
01:13:54,764 --> 01:13:57,006
feed into it,
and then we move out,
1206
01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:59,303
and then other people move in,
then all of a sudden,
1207
01:13:59,435 --> 01:14:00,635
the neighborhood's good again.
1208
01:14:02,730 --> 01:14:07,145
People who've been here
and have been mentally beaten up
1209
01:14:07,276 --> 01:14:08,983
their entire life,
there's so much
1210
01:14:09,111 --> 01:14:11,694
that you got to be mad at.
1211
01:14:12,615 --> 01:14:15,153
That feeling
of hopelessness in me,
1212
01:14:15,284 --> 01:14:17,241
kind of manifested
itself into hate.
1213
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,830
So when you get the opportunity
to display your anger,
1214
01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:24,745
and it's been pent up forever,
it just,
1215
01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:27,290
it goes way beyond
anybody could think.
1216
01:14:59,870 --> 01:15:02,112
Hey guys,
theyjust set the CVS on fire.
1217
01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:06,124
They just set the CVS on fire.
1218
01:15:10,715 --> 01:15:12,331
What you get
an the example of is
1219
01:15:12,466 --> 01:15:15,174
what's really
inside of everybody.
1220
01:15:16,971 --> 01:15:19,964
Our trials is they
build up and build up.
1221
01:15:20,099 --> 01:15:21,556
How far
is this gonna go?
1222
01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:23,346
As far as they take us.
1223
01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:25,264
As far as they take us.
-What is this...
1224
01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:26,978
Watch out for that.
1225
01:15:27,106 --> 01:15:29,098
See that? Theyjust...
1226
01:15:29,233 --> 01:15:30,565
Did you see that?
1227
01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,021
We just saw that
1228
01:15:33,154 --> 01:15:34,611
they just,
while we were talking,
1229
01:15:34,739 --> 01:15:36,446
they've just cut through
that hose.
1230
01:15:36,615 --> 01:15:39,824
We just saw that guy
cut through the hose
1231
01:15:39,952 --> 01:15:42,820
trying to thwart
the efforts of the authorities
1232
01:15:42,955 --> 01:15:44,742
to actually turn out this fire.
1233
01:15:45,499 --> 01:15:47,019
So I'm gonna stop it
right here.
1234
01:15:47,043 --> 01:15:48,683
I just wanted you
to see this piece first,
1235
01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:50,543
but I wanna do something
else in here too.
1236
01:15:51,297 --> 01:15:53,584
You saw that
young man was poking
1237
01:15:53,716 --> 01:15:56,003
the water hose
with the pocket knife?
1238
01:15:58,012 --> 01:16:00,550
Well, I want you to know,
that's him right there.
1239
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,423
Right there.
1240
01:16:07,563 --> 01:16:11,477
At 21, with no priors,
1241
01:16:11,650 --> 01:16:15,018
I spent two years fighting 25.
1242
01:16:16,030 --> 01:16:18,670
And people was trying to give me
more time than I had been on Earth.
1243
01:16:19,950 --> 01:16:23,819
It was scary, but it was
eerily familiar,
1244
01:16:24,371 --> 01:16:26,600
because it felt like, no matter
what I accomplished in my life,
1245
01:16:26,624 --> 01:16:28,184
being the first person
to go to college,
1246
01:16:28,209 --> 01:16:30,371
graduating high school,
I felt like
1247
01:16:30,503 --> 01:16:31,583
I was supposed to be there.
1248
01:16:32,797 --> 01:16:36,290
It's kind of hard
for you to... take this stuff
1249
01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:40,795
that we see here and translate
it into the humanity of it
1250
01:16:40,930 --> 01:16:41,930
as a person.
1251
01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:44,099
A million.
1252
01:16:45,017 --> 01:16:46,537
I got a million dollars
in restitution.
1253
01:16:47,311 --> 01:16:49,098
$100 a month,
that's 10.000 months.
1254
01:16:50,106 --> 01:16:52,598
Anybody know anybody here
that's lived 10.000 months?
1255
01:16:53,192 --> 01:16:56,060
Yeah, can't leave the city
'til my restitution's paid.
1256
01:16:56,946 --> 01:16:58,965
Wait what?
-Whoa. I didn't know that.
1257
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:00,949
Yeah, can't, you're not
allowed to leave your city
1258
01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:02,913
'til the restitutions paid.
-Seriously?
1259
01:17:03,327 --> 01:17:05,410
These are the struggles
that don't make the news.
1260
01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:08,789
These are the differences
that make people
1261
01:17:08,916 --> 01:17:11,704
like myself turn off
from everybody.
1262
01:17:12,503 --> 01:17:15,211
Hate yourself,
you know what I mean?
1263
01:17:15,339 --> 01:17:16,830
Because
everybody else hates you.
1264
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,657
When people make
the claim of, you know,
1265
01:17:23,681 --> 01:17:25,673
why would people burn down
their own neighborhood?
1266
01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:28,971
I think it's
sort of a glib statement,
1267
01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,141
to sort of gloss over the fact
that many of these neighborhoods
1268
01:17:32,273 --> 01:17:34,435
don't have investment
to begin with.
1269
01:17:35,651 --> 01:17:37,731
I mean, why would they
burn down their own community?
1270
01:17:37,778 --> 01:17:40,737
I mean,
it really isn't a community
1271
01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:43,824
that they've been able
to have ownership in.
1272
01:17:47,454 --> 01:17:51,243
* Don't push me
'Cause I'm close to the edge *
1273
01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:53,742
Black communities
have been pushed to the edge
1274
01:17:53,878 --> 01:17:56,962
and I think that is
sort of why we see some
1275
01:17:57,089 --> 01:17:58,330
of the uprisings we see now.
1276
01:17:58,465 --> 01:18:01,082
Black lives matter!
1277
01:18:02,052 --> 01:18:04,419
People may begin to understand
1278
01:18:04,555 --> 01:18:07,593
that black lives matter,
but black lives don't matter
1279
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:09,257
if black neighborhoods
don't matter.
1280
01:18:12,605 --> 01:18:15,973
I came back here subsequently
when I was a police officer.
1281
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:20,648
And it was all bricked up,
all the, the windows, the doors.
1282
01:18:22,907 --> 01:18:24,614
It's choice property now.
1283
01:18:24,742 --> 01:18:26,904
The area is gentrified.
1284
01:18:27,620 --> 01:18:29,202
You know,
gentrification, I suppose,
1285
01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:31,170
on one hand is a good thing
'cause it cleans up
1286
01:18:31,207 --> 01:18:33,290
the neighborhood,
it makes it nice.
1287
01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:36,581
But my heart goes out to
the people who once lived here,
1288
01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:39,921
who got moved out, because where
did those poor people go?
1289
01:18:40,799 --> 01:18:42,861
You know, they were forced
out of their neighborhood.
1290
01:18:42,885 --> 01:18:43,966
Their homes are gone.
1291
01:18:46,722 --> 01:18:48,617
If we as a country
don't pay attention
1292
01:18:48,641 --> 01:18:52,760
to the places where people live,
the homes that people have,
1293
01:18:53,312 --> 01:18:56,225
then we'll continue to go
in circles and not really
1294
01:18:56,357 --> 01:18:57,768
get to the root of the problem.
1295
01:19:05,574 --> 01:19:07,657
When you look
at a rainforest,
1296
01:19:08,369 --> 01:19:10,986
you're seeing
a very complex ecosystem.
1297
01:19:11,664 --> 01:19:14,156
Not only do you have
these massive trees,
1298
01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:16,374
but you have all the understory,
all the animals.
1299
01:19:16,502 --> 01:19:19,836
Every leaf has its own
individual ecosystem.
1300
01:19:20,589 --> 01:19:24,253
And when you add up all of that,
you have this massive, massive complexity.
1301
01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:28,087
You compare that to,
say, a corn field.
1302
01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:33,141
You have one species of plant,
a complete monoculture.
1303
01:19:35,354 --> 01:19:38,142
And what you see is a very
efficient undertaking.
1304
01:19:38,274 --> 01:19:40,857
And you produce a lot of corn
in a very small space.
1305
01:19:41,318 --> 01:19:43,184
But you certainly
don't have the complexity
1306
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:46,438
and the ability to thrive
that a rainforest does.
1307
01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:51,443
So what we did
is we switched cities
1308
01:19:51,578 --> 01:19:53,820
from being complex
systems to corn fields.
1309
01:20:04,883 --> 01:20:06,374
You look back in history,
though,
1310
01:20:06,510 --> 01:20:09,753
in the way humans
evolved along with the city.
1311
01:20:11,265 --> 01:20:13,427
And what you see
is that messiness,
1312
01:20:13,559 --> 01:20:16,643
that friction, that rubbing up
against other people,
1313
01:20:16,770 --> 01:20:18,762
is an essential component of it.
1314
01:20:20,816 --> 01:20:24,730
And there was a certain discomfort
that went along with that,
1315
01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:27,611
but there was also
a social dimension to it,
1316
01:20:27,740 --> 01:20:29,823
that we've just completely lost.
1317
01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:35,446
This pattern of development
has allowed us
1318
01:20:35,581 --> 01:20:40,121
to be intentionally
ignorant of the pain
1319
01:20:40,252 --> 01:20:41,743
and the hurt and the needs
1320
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,162
that go along in all our places.
1321
01:21:59,581 --> 01:22:03,165
* My house was shoved
On the corner *
1322
01:22:03,293 --> 01:22:07,207
* On a gravel
Road Edmund Street *
1323
01:22:07,339 --> 01:22:10,923
* But here's
You missed and you got 'em *
1324
01:22:11,051 --> 01:22:13,213
* Never wanted help from me *
1325
01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:15,086
* You'll never say I'm the one *
1326
01:22:15,222 --> 01:22:16,929
* Ayo ayo *
1327
01:22:20,436 --> 01:22:22,553
* You'll never say I'm the one *
1328
01:22:22,688 --> 01:22:23,929
* Ayo ayo *
1329
01:22:27,568 --> 01:22:29,560
* Ayo ayo... *
1330
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,560
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