0 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:15,000 YoubetCash.vip Agen Judi Online Aman & Terpercaya 1 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:16,965 Get ready to experience Baltimore. 2 00:00:17,726 --> 00:00:19,558 The Flippers. 3 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:21,414 Y'all ready to come see this bathroom upstairs? 4 00:00:21,438 --> 00:00:23,318 That door right there. Dude take your shoes off. 5 00:00:24,983 --> 00:00:27,170 - Uncle Yank right there. - Uncle Yank right there, yeah. 6 00:00:27,194 --> 00:00:29,481 That's Uncle Yank. 7 00:00:29,613 --> 00:00:31,229 One, two, three, four bedrooms. 8 00:00:31,657 --> 00:00:33,398 Bathroom in here, this is the one. 9 00:00:33,534 --> 00:00:34,677 This is the one. 10 00:00:36,745 --> 00:00:38,702 Come check the shower out. Check the shower out. 11 00:00:40,123 --> 00:00:42,911 All granite. Huge, sexy. 12 00:00:43,877 --> 00:00:45,243 This is a sexy shower. 13 00:00:45,379 --> 00:00:48,918 Me, a woman, her friend. 14 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:50,329 Whatever you into. 15 00:00:50,384 --> 00:00:51,795 You know! 16 00:00:52,844 --> 00:00:54,130 Baltimore. 17 00:00:54,596 --> 00:00:57,680 The... The Flippers. 18 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:00,036 - Dan is gonna create... - I'll put a puddle there. 19 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:02,302 He's gon' create a puddle in the middle of the concrete. 20 00:01:02,437 --> 00:01:03,957 - Money should have just flow. - Nah... 21 00:01:04,022 --> 00:01:05,622 - Man off... - Yeah, if you're asking me, 22 00:01:05,691 --> 00:01:07,126 I prefer my shit just full straight out. 23 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:08,211 - Go straight out. - Ain't nothin' heavy 24 00:01:08,235 --> 00:01:09,235 coming back here, though. 25 00:01:10,612 --> 00:01:12,854 It ain't ever heavy, but my whole thing is puddling. 26 00:01:16,952 --> 00:01:19,820 Home ownership to me, it means freedom, strictly. 27 00:01:20,289 --> 00:01:21,575 It is a... 28 00:01:21,707 --> 00:01:24,495 The more and more I evaluate this world, 29 00:01:24,626 --> 00:01:26,413 the more and more I understand that 30 00:01:26,545 --> 00:01:32,166 when you don't own anything, you are nothing, you know? 31 00:01:32,301 --> 00:01:35,089 Something happens in this world, catastrophic. 32 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:39,214 You gotta have a place that you can go to, and say this is mine. 33 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:41,591 No matter what's going on, I own this. 34 00:01:42,561 --> 00:01:44,681 And it means so much to me, it means everything to me. 35 00:01:52,529 --> 00:01:54,987 If I'm by myself, I tend to savor it. 36 00:01:56,491 --> 00:01:57,491 So peaceful. 37 00:01:58,827 --> 00:02:00,987 Getting out of the bed, walking around in my underwear. 38 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:04,368 Going into the refrigerator, get then some apple juice or somethin' 39 00:02:04,499 --> 00:02:06,991 and go out on to the porch and smokin' a cigarette. 40 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:10,707 You always find a reason to snap out of it. 41 00:02:11,757 --> 00:02:13,623 'Cause like, you can only daydream so long. 42 00:02:15,469 --> 00:02:17,677 It's not fun when you leave and go home 43 00:02:17,804 --> 00:02:20,763 and you back to where they call the trenches. 44 00:02:38,450 --> 00:02:41,659 From the '30s onward, every single president 45 00:02:41,787 --> 00:02:43,824 has spoken of home ownership almost 46 00:02:43,955 --> 00:02:45,446 as the basis of citizenship. 47 00:02:46,249 --> 00:02:49,742 Your ability to own a home kind of makes you a citizen. 48 00:02:50,629 --> 00:02:52,837 The most tangible cornerstone 49 00:02:52,964 --> 00:02:55,422 that lies at the heart of the American Dream, 50 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:57,758 and that's the chance to own your own home. 51 00:02:57,886 --> 00:02:59,752 For those of us who've been given positions 52 00:02:59,888 --> 00:03:02,881 of responsibility must, must do everything we can 53 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:05,679 to spotlight the dream and to make sure 54 00:03:05,811 --> 00:03:08,098 the dream shines in all neighborhoods. 55 00:03:09,231 --> 00:03:10,625 All across the country 56 00:03:10,649 --> 00:03:12,936 I say to millions of young working couples, 57 00:03:13,068 --> 00:03:15,731 by the time your children are ready to start the first grade, 58 00:03:16,321 --> 00:03:19,155 we want you to be able to own your own home. 59 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,489 Because in order to be secure in their human rights, 60 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:26,613 people need access to property rights. 61 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:30,867 We must make sure that every family in America 62 00:03:31,002 --> 00:03:33,244 lives in a home of dignity. 63 00:03:34,881 --> 00:03:38,966 A neighborhood of pride is the community of opportunity 64 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:42,636 and a city of promise and hope. 65 00:04:04,119 --> 00:04:06,862 Hi, I'm Jim, The Realtor. Here's some tips for home buyers. 66 00:04:07,622 --> 00:04:09,614 Number one, work with a great realtor. 67 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:12,621 A good realtor sells at least one house a month. 68 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:14,790 Check their sales history on Zillow. 69 00:04:22,387 --> 00:04:25,596 Americans love buying homes. 70 00:04:26,224 --> 00:04:29,217 In Southern California especially, we dig real estate. 71 00:04:29,686 --> 00:04:34,431 And we forgot about the bubble and all the other trouble, 72 00:04:34,566 --> 00:04:36,398 the financing and everything else. 73 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:40,695 And here we are right back at it, frenzied up, 74 00:04:40,822 --> 00:04:45,066 five, ten, fifteen buyers for every house, like none of that ever happened. 75 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:52,161 Here we are on the 800th video. 76 00:04:53,543 --> 00:04:56,206 I document the real estate market on YouTube. 77 00:04:56,379 --> 00:04:59,167 I got almost 1500 YouTubes now, 78 00:05:00,175 --> 00:05:02,758 and it gives people a real good sense of what's happening. 79 00:05:04,387 --> 00:05:05,878 I'm in Chula Vista today. 80 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:10,885 That house sold for 1.6, 1.1, 81 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:13,056 I'm talking millions here. 82 00:05:14,731 --> 00:05:15,847 1.4. 83 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:20,152 585. 84 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:23,400 I don't know what to say either. 85 00:05:23,865 --> 00:05:25,026 Let's go take a look. 86 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:29,194 What! I don't what the heck that is, a doll house. 87 00:05:30,747 --> 00:05:31,783 Pool in the front yard. 88 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:37,836 Slightly unfinished fire pit. 89 00:05:37,963 --> 00:05:41,456 Why are you stealing the trim piece out? You got me. 90 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:44,257 All the other appliances all stolen. 91 00:05:45,303 --> 00:05:47,545 What could have been so nice about those pillars 92 00:05:47,681 --> 00:05:50,264 that they had to steal those? I'm not sure about that. 93 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,894 There's 15 houses on this street. 94 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:03,145 I think it was at least eight of them had loans way over a million. 95 00:06:03,738 --> 00:06:06,981 Well, if you're sitting on a 1.2 or 1.4 loan, 96 00:06:07,659 --> 00:06:11,243 and you see houses listed for 585, 97 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:15,702 how's that gonna make you feel about making that next payment? 98 00:06:19,212 --> 00:06:20,328 I'm Jim, The Realtor. 99 00:06:23,133 --> 00:06:27,924 So what we saw in 2008 was the unwinding of the housing finance system. 100 00:06:28,430 --> 00:06:32,595 What most people understand as a financial crisis, 101 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:35,013 or a problem of our housing stock, 102 00:06:35,562 --> 00:06:38,430 actually is the unwinding of a social contract 103 00:06:38,565 --> 00:06:41,057 that was built in the 1940s. 104 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:45,061 And so understanding that, and how the American home 105 00:06:45,196 --> 00:06:47,313 was the basis of how we organize the economy, 106 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:49,573 and how we organize social stability, 107 00:06:49,701 --> 00:06:53,615 is an important part of understanding why we are where we are now. 108 00:07:09,137 --> 00:07:10,969 It's still pretty nice neighborhood here. 109 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:13,548 How you doin'? 110 00:07:14,935 --> 00:07:16,162 Do you know if any of these places here used to be 111 00:07:16,186 --> 00:07:18,974 - an old firehouse many years ago? - Uh... 112 00:07:19,606 --> 00:07:21,347 - Is a somewhat active firehouse? - Yeah. 113 00:07:21,524 --> 00:07:23,641 Oh no, this was an old, old firehouse. 114 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:24,858 Years ago it shut down. 115 00:07:25,236 --> 00:07:26,693 - Hi. - Hi. I'm sorry to bother you. 116 00:07:27,364 --> 00:07:28,980 - I, I want... - Did you ring the bell? 117 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,823 - I did. - Which one, the yoga or the attorney? 118 00:07:31,952 --> 00:07:34,160 Well no, I was born here many years ago, 119 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:37,951 and there used to be an old firehouse around here someplace, 120 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,563 would you know where it would've been? 121 00:07:40,794 --> 00:07:45,630 Might have been here, that was converted, or there. 122 00:07:47,717 --> 00:07:49,709 That used to be a tiny, tiny firehouse. 123 00:07:50,887 --> 00:07:52,687 But let me just check up a little bit further. 124 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:03,019 My mother punched a nun right in the face over there. 125 00:08:06,027 --> 00:08:10,192 When I was six months old, we moved from Little Italy 126 00:08:10,824 --> 00:08:15,034 in Manhattan to this area right here, 127 00:08:15,161 --> 00:08:16,743 it was a housing project. 128 00:08:16,871 --> 00:08:18,557 One night, my Uncle Frank 129 00:08:18,581 --> 00:08:21,665 was over with his wife and a mob of guys... 130 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:23,955 ...came down this path, 131 00:08:24,087 --> 00:08:25,815 all Italian guys, with bats... 132 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:27,775 ...and belts and sticks. 133 00:08:27,799 --> 00:08:30,041 They were on their way to fight a bunch of black guys. 134 00:08:30,802 --> 00:08:32,338 And they walked past us 135 00:08:32,470 --> 00:08:34,211 and my Uncle Frank said to my father, 136 00:08:34,848 --> 00:08:38,216 "Get this kid, get him out of this neighborhood and move." 137 00:08:39,310 --> 00:08:41,848 And it was not that long after that that we moved to Levittown. 138 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,848 I still say you're making a big mistake, Tony! 139 00:08:44,983 --> 00:08:46,440 How could you leave New York, huh? 140 00:08:46,568 --> 00:08:48,184 The Triborough Bridge. 141 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,632 Hey look, Mrs. Rossini, you gotta admit this neighborhood is falling apart. 142 00:08:51,656 --> 00:08:53,648 How you gonna support yourself, huh? 143 00:08:53,783 --> 00:08:56,400 Oh hey, Mrs. Rossini, I got a great job and a great place. 144 00:08:56,995 --> 00:08:58,531 It's all green with picket fences. 145 00:09:04,586 --> 00:09:07,454 ♪ There's an open road And a road that's hidden ♪ 146 00:09:07,630 --> 00:09:10,247 ♪ A brand new life Around the bend ♪ 147 00:09:10,383 --> 00:09:13,467 ♪ There's a path you take And a path not taken ♪ 148 00:09:13,636 --> 00:09:16,379 ♪ The choice Is up to you, my friend ♪ 149 00:09:16,514 --> 00:09:17,595 - ♪ Not so long ♪ - Aw! 150 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:19,215 ♪ But you might awaken ♪ 151 00:09:19,350 --> 00:09:21,182 ♪ To a brand new life ♪ 152 00:09:21,644 --> 00:09:24,603 ♪ Brand new life, a brand New life around the bend ♪ 153 00:09:24,731 --> 00:09:26,063 Goodbye. 154 00:09:36,659 --> 00:09:37,659 Holy shit. 155 00:09:40,705 --> 00:09:41,705 Wow. 156 00:09:43,583 --> 00:09:45,791 - How much you want for that? - 38. 157 00:09:48,546 --> 00:09:51,129 - $3800? - Yeah, right. 158 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:52,623 - That... That's a deal. - Okay. 159 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:02,971 Levittown is not a rich neighborhood as you can see, 160 00:10:03,812 --> 00:10:08,102 but what I love about this town is, it's a blue-collar town. 161 00:10:09,025 --> 00:10:12,939 It is what I consider to be the backbone of America. 162 00:10:13,530 --> 00:10:18,400 When America fights its wars, it's people like us who go. 163 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:32,205 Levittown was the first community of its kind that was built like this in the nation. 164 00:10:32,715 --> 00:10:35,173 Nobo... everybody thought it was gonna fail, 165 00:10:35,301 --> 00:10:38,294 because he built 10,000 houses like that. 166 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:42,302 Coming out of the second World War, 167 00:10:42,851 --> 00:10:44,968 the idea of mass production became something 168 00:10:45,103 --> 00:10:46,639 that was truly a reality. 169 00:10:46,771 --> 00:10:49,354 Hey kids, look, 170 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:51,769 a whole new world to build. 171 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,899 The idea that came to a man named Bill Levitt was this, 172 00:10:56,030 --> 00:10:59,364 why not mass-produce the elements that go to make up a house 173 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:02,860 just as the auto industry does with the parts that go into a new car? 174 00:11:04,539 --> 00:11:08,374 When I was living there, it was at a very particular moment, 175 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:12,962 and that was coming out of post-war trajectory 176 00:11:13,089 --> 00:11:16,423 that created the need for that type of housing. 177 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:22,796 If you were a returning G.I., 178 00:11:22,932 --> 00:11:24,652 you could buy a house... 179 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:28,431 ...for as little as $100 down and about $99 a month. 180 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:31,889 And that was partly because the federal government 181 00:11:32,025 --> 00:11:34,267 was insuring your mortgage. 182 00:11:35,445 --> 00:11:39,234 We had the G.I. Bill encouraging construction of new homes 183 00:11:39,365 --> 00:11:43,609 so the whole idea is, your government wants you to have a home. 184 00:11:44,746 --> 00:11:47,204 So this was an easy way to sort of jump start 185 00:11:47,332 --> 00:11:50,496 the housing industry and make home ownership possible. 186 00:11:51,169 --> 00:11:52,605 Without those subsidies, 187 00:11:52,629 --> 00:11:53,915 lower-middle class families 188 00:11:54,047 --> 00:11:55,709 would never have been able to afford 189 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,957 the massive movement into the suburbs that we saw 190 00:11:58,092 --> 00:12:02,382 in the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. 191 00:12:15,151 --> 00:12:18,110 I was a police officer here in Nassau County, 192 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:20,688 and we were, uh, the SWAT Team as well. 193 00:12:21,115 --> 00:12:22,981 Here's the school I went to. 194 00:12:23,117 --> 00:12:25,037 And you know the story about sticking your tongue 195 00:12:25,119 --> 00:12:27,736 on the flag pole in the middle of the winter? 196 00:12:27,872 --> 00:12:29,712 - Yes sir. - I did that right there, 197 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:32,124 right on that flag pole. 198 00:12:33,294 --> 00:12:34,455 I swear to god I did. 199 00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:40,504 If you couldn't afford to put a down payment on these homes, 200 00:12:40,969 --> 00:12:45,009 Levitt would let you rent them with the option to buy, 201 00:12:45,473 --> 00:12:46,714 so he was just terrific. 202 00:12:48,184 --> 00:12:50,767 Ladies and gentlemen, this is William Levitt, 203 00:12:50,895 --> 00:12:55,139 who heads the largest home-building firm in the world. 204 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:58,438 Bill, all this must have taken an awful lot of doing. 205 00:12:58,569 --> 00:13:01,858 We had to start from scratch with absolutely nothing, 206 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:03,526 and everything had to be done at once. 207 00:13:04,242 --> 00:13:06,359 If you go back to William Levitt, he said, 208 00:13:06,494 --> 00:13:08,656 "No man who owns his own home and lock 209 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:12,452 can be a communist, because he has too much to do." 210 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:21,499 This was a fundamental part of how our political leadership 211 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:24,377 and our country at large understood the bargain. 212 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:27,304 You get a home, right, I mean, you have to work, 213 00:13:27,432 --> 00:13:31,847 there are 30-year jobs that go along with it that match the 30-year mortgage. 214 00:13:32,186 --> 00:13:34,599 And then you don't rebel, right, that's the thing, 215 00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:37,348 you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. 216 00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:08,837 CBS News now presents 217 00:14:08,973 --> 00:14:11,056 a special report on one of the most unusual 218 00:14:11,184 --> 00:14:13,050 diplomatic events in recent history. 219 00:14:24,155 --> 00:14:26,989 So the Kitchen Debate served one of the most famous moments 220 00:14:27,116 --> 00:14:28,857 in the history of post-war housing. 221 00:14:31,245 --> 00:14:33,362 That's basically Nixon saying to Khrushchev 222 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:36,616 that the strength of the American economy is the post-war home 223 00:14:37,335 --> 00:14:41,079 and the ability of Americans to purchase consumer-durables to fill it. 224 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:43,942 So let's compete. 225 00:14:43,966 --> 00:14:47,926 The system that will give the people more goods will be the better system. 226 00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:51,718 In this one particular moment, Nixon was right. 227 00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:59,559 This was the strength of the American economy. 228 00:15:00,775 --> 00:15:06,066 I can remember, even as a kid, looking at house magazines 229 00:15:06,197 --> 00:15:10,862 and seeing these incredible visions of the future. 230 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:13,281 The house represented in those pages 231 00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:16,363 was something that you could aspire to, 232 00:15:16,499 --> 00:15:18,536 and that was starting to become a reality. 233 00:15:18,668 --> 00:15:20,751 What a dream. 234 00:15:21,587 --> 00:15:24,796 Imagine how wonderful it would be to live in a house like this. 235 00:15:25,716 --> 00:15:28,299 Just imagine. 236 00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:32,138 The future becomes the present in House of The Future. 237 00:15:33,141 --> 00:15:36,930 The house of 1999 will be virtually maintenance-free. 238 00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:47,687 Yes, life will be richer, easier, healthy 239 00:15:47,822 --> 00:15:49,859 as space-age dreams come true. 240 00:16:09,844 --> 00:16:13,212 And now we channel our tuning, it tracks the color more automatically than ever. 241 00:16:13,347 --> 00:16:14,804 See the talking alarm clock. 242 00:16:18,269 --> 00:16:20,247 Enjoy the classic beauty of these rugs 243 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:21,557 for a fraction of the cost. 244 00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:25,513 But I'll confess, I like the conveniences as well. 245 00:16:26,736 --> 00:16:29,479 - Wouldn't you like to trade in your old kitchen? - For one like this? 246 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:35,283 MasterCard gives me what I want, 247 00:16:35,411 --> 00:16:37,653 and anything is possible. 248 00:16:57,308 --> 00:16:58,308 Hello? 249 00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,017 Hey buddy, give me like 45 minutes. 250 00:17:01,145 --> 00:17:03,248 - Okay. - Alright, buddy boy? 251 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:06,515 Alright. Alright. 252 00:17:09,987 --> 00:17:14,573 The only thing that Levitt did that was wrong... 253 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:17,744 Wow, look at that. 254 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,123 The only thing that Levitt did that was wrong, 255 00:17:23,251 --> 00:17:25,038 and I'll be the first one to admit this, 256 00:17:27,088 --> 00:17:28,169 "No blacks allowed." 257 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:31,752 "No blacks allowed." 258 00:17:33,344 --> 00:17:36,132 And that is disgraceful. 259 00:17:42,103 --> 00:17:44,561 If I'm fighting alongside a black man 260 00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:46,305 who's willing to die for his country... 261 00:17:49,193 --> 00:17:51,526 ...and he can't buy a house next to me in Levittown? 262 00:17:52,989 --> 00:17:55,356 I'm sorry man, that don't make any sense to me. 263 00:18:00,663 --> 00:18:02,663 Why did you select Levittown to live? 264 00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:05,536 We were looking for a place to buy a home. 265 00:18:05,668 --> 00:18:08,001 We looked at Levittown, we liked the homes here, 266 00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:10,587 we liked the advantages that Levittown seemed to offer 267 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:13,173 and, uh, in comparison to other cities. 268 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:16,321 And we understood that it was going to be all white, 269 00:18:16,345 --> 00:18:18,177 and we were very happy to buy a home here. 270 00:18:45,207 --> 00:18:46,768 When you come to this neighborhood, 271 00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:48,784 you know immediately, it's different. 272 00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:51,290 They're all drawn together. 273 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:53,876 There's no real fences. 274 00:18:54,717 --> 00:18:58,085 It gives you a feeling of a park-like setting. 275 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:24,907 I was struck by how familiar it felt. 276 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:27,201 It was a connection to Levittown 277 00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:30,701 that they both developed as post-war suburbs. 278 00:19:32,922 --> 00:19:34,584 I believe Gregory Ain, 279 00:19:34,715 --> 00:19:37,708 when he built these houses, he really built these houses 280 00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:40,051 for the veterans coming home from the war. 281 00:19:40,930 --> 00:19:45,049 It was hard for him to get financing for these houses, because they were so different. 282 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:49,595 The whole social part was part of his design, 283 00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:55,230 and, um, probably also, I shouldn't even say that, 284 00:19:55,361 --> 00:19:57,102 so don't, I'm not even going to open... 285 00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:59,278 - Aw, I wanna hear it. - He was a socialist, 286 00:19:59,323 --> 00:20:03,112 and I think a lot of the people that moved in here were... 287 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:05,740 I'm gonna get in trouble for this. 288 00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:16,538 My father is Gregory Ain, a fairly well-known 289 00:20:16,674 --> 00:20:19,462 California architect from the '40s and '50s. 290 00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:22,336 So these are the letters. 291 00:20:24,473 --> 00:20:26,430 It does say, "I just came into my hotel room 292 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:28,221 from an interesting and unexpected visit 293 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:30,969 through the basement drafting rooms at Yale. 294 00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:34,856 The one and a half days at Phillip Johnson's dual new canon, 295 00:20:34,984 --> 00:20:38,227 he is a real fascist intellectual." 296 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:44,025 I started rummaging through some old papers and then I came across this, 297 00:20:44,702 --> 00:20:48,787 you know, 200 page or 100, yeah, 200 page file 298 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:51,907 that the FBI kept on him and they were watching 299 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:55,285 everything he did from the mid-'40s to the mid-'50s. 300 00:20:57,298 --> 00:21:00,416 Gregory believed that decent housing should be 301 00:21:00,885 --> 00:21:05,095 the right of everyone, not just the privileged and very wealthy people. 302 00:21:05,723 --> 00:21:06,930 Archie. 303 00:21:07,391 --> 00:21:09,257 Twelve per cent of the population is black, 304 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:11,538 there should be a lot of black families living out here. 305 00:21:11,562 --> 00:21:14,179 Yeah, this is only a beginning but I think it's wonderful. 306 00:21:14,356 --> 00:21:16,063 Well, let's see how wonderful it is 307 00:21:16,192 --> 00:21:18,525 when the watermelon rinds come flying out the window. 308 00:21:36,504 --> 00:21:38,962 Oh that... oh. 309 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:40,632 Too many notes. 310 00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:44,922 The neighborhood was supposed to be, uh, twice as large. 311 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:48,764 The plans was for 100 homes and only 52 were built. 312 00:21:49,809 --> 00:21:52,552 The FHA at the time didn't think that 313 00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:57,272 integrated neighborhoods would be attractive to the general public. 314 00:21:58,234 --> 00:22:01,523 And they're providing mortgage insurance, and in their minds, 315 00:22:01,654 --> 00:22:04,067 that would bring down the value of the homes. 316 00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:11,028 You know, most people in America, the value of those homes, 317 00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:14,201 and parents passing that on to their children, 318 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:16,620 that's made the biggest difference. 319 00:22:17,419 --> 00:22:19,502 African-Americans were left out of that. 320 00:22:21,257 --> 00:22:24,091 That inability to participate 321 00:22:24,218 --> 00:22:27,336 in what created American middle-class, 322 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,299 um, has a lot to do with the problems we have now. 323 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,767 It would be really interesting to dial it back, 324 00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:45,145 and think about the longer, deeper history 325 00:22:45,281 --> 00:22:48,319 of what housings meant in the United States. 326 00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:51,993 Not just that old question of the American Dream, 327 00:22:52,121 --> 00:22:55,205 but the bigger question of who the dream has been for. 328 00:23:18,272 --> 00:23:20,855 ♪ It's a good feeling ♪ 329 00:23:21,483 --> 00:23:23,850 ♪ To live in Baltimore ♪ 330 00:23:24,653 --> 00:23:27,566 ♪ There's something Magic in the air ♪ 331 00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:31,362 ♪ Just waiting here for you ♪ 332 00:23:32,494 --> 00:23:34,531 ♪ It's a good feeling ♪ 333 00:23:34,663 --> 00:23:35,744 ♪ Baltimore ♪ 334 00:23:35,873 --> 00:23:38,741 ♪ It's a good feeling to know ♪ 335 00:23:38,876 --> 00:23:40,583 ♪ It's a good feeling ♪ 336 00:23:40,711 --> 00:23:41,792 ♪ Baltimore ♪ 337 00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:45,130 ♪ It's a good feeling to know ♪ 338 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:50,469 ♪ It's a good, good Feeling to know ♪ 339 00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:06,063 Baltimore is the beautiful little city 340 00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:07,777 with a lot of bad habits. 341 00:24:09,573 --> 00:24:12,862 The houses here are beautiful, but what goes on outside the house... 342 00:24:15,496 --> 00:24:17,613 It's tough, it's tough. 343 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,339 As a kid, I didn't really understand how segregated 344 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,629 the city was 'cause I never left my areas. 345 00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:34,629 One time, my dad sending me to my godfather's house for a week. 346 00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:37,473 It was like Liberty right outside the city 347 00:24:37,601 --> 00:24:39,217 and he had a nice apartment complex. 348 00:24:39,353 --> 00:24:41,595 We went in the pool every day, we were grilling. 349 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:45,144 People had decent cars, it wasn't loud at night, 350 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:49,940 it was fun, but when I got back to the city, we got evicted. 351 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:53,482 My dad sent us somewhere for the week 352 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:54,858 just to get the house together. 353 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:00,284 I've moved too many times to count. 354 00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:03,075 I've lived in so many neighborhoods. 355 00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,211 It doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal. 356 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:13,136 This neighborhood still pretty much look the same. 357 00:25:15,305 --> 00:25:16,637 A lot of these houses are vacant. 358 00:25:16,765 --> 00:25:18,006 We used to go all behind them 359 00:25:18,392 --> 00:25:20,203 and climb up in 'em. 360 00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:21,997 Almost like a treasure hunt. 361 00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:23,461 You'd go in there and find everything 362 00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:25,524 that the people have left before they got evicted. 363 00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:26,773 Uh... 364 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,812 You know, a jackpot, 365 00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:31,812 you a would find some pornos or something like that. 366 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,654 - Ooh! - Whoa. 367 00:25:34,116 --> 00:25:36,316 The community didn't feel as empty as it does now 368 00:25:36,410 --> 00:25:37,742 when you see all these vacancies. 369 00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:39,862 When we was kids it was just about having fun. 370 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:51,256 Baltimore is a microcosm of many urban areas in America 371 00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,626 and it is, like Dickens would say, the tale of two cities. 372 00:25:56,346 --> 00:25:59,680 You have great investments in certain parts of town 373 00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:02,300 and other investments looking like a ghost town. 374 00:26:05,898 --> 00:26:08,686 Baltimore, in many ways, is the ground zero 375 00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:10,774 for racial apartheid in America. 376 00:26:11,612 --> 00:26:16,482 It's where racial zoning was invented in 1910 377 00:26:16,617 --> 00:26:19,906 and then racially restrictive covenants were also created here. 378 00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:23,322 We have a myth in this country that, uh, 379 00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:25,198 the reason neighborhoods are segregated is 380 00:26:25,334 --> 00:26:27,826 because people like to live with one another 381 00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:32,331 who are of the race or because African-Americans have 382 00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:35,296 too little income to move into white neighborhoods, 383 00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:38,678 or because this private prejudice that prevents 384 00:26:38,806 --> 00:26:41,219 African-Americans from buying homes in white neighborhoods. 385 00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:45,519 And that's all true, but it's a tiny, tiny part of the truth. 386 00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:50,640 There's intentionality with the Capitol decisions 387 00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:55,521 that were made around housing in the '40s and in the '50s, 388 00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,189 and I think people are lulled to sleep thinking 389 00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:02,239 that certain things happen by default rather than by design. 390 00:27:02,371 --> 00:27:04,237 You have the FHA and the VA, 391 00:27:04,373 --> 00:27:05,693 the Federal Housing Administration 392 00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:07,081 and Veteran's Administration. 393 00:27:07,209 --> 00:27:10,327 They subsidize home-building in suburbs 394 00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:12,708 and then they say it's racially exclusive. 395 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:16,549 It means white people can move out to these areas 396 00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:19,090 but black people can't. 397 00:27:19,221 --> 00:27:21,383 What is probably a surprise to a lot of people 398 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:24,883 is that redlining is created by the federal government. 399 00:27:25,018 --> 00:27:26,725 Michael, what's redlining? 400 00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:28,971 That's when the white bankers draw red lines 401 00:27:29,106 --> 00:27:32,941 around black areas and don't give up no green. 402 00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:36,357 And the government has to determine which zones is it going to insure 403 00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:40,107 and which zones is it not going to insure, and it does that based on 404 00:27:40,242 --> 00:27:42,029 the racial makeup of neighborhoods. 405 00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,910 Neighborhoods that had a certain number 406 00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:48,156 of black residents would have literally red lines 407 00:27:48,292 --> 00:27:50,204 drawn around them on the map, 408 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:53,878 and they wouldn't insure mortgages in those areas 409 00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:57,420 because they believed that the properties would not hold value. 410 00:27:57,551 --> 00:27:58,758 The bank turned down our loan. 411 00:27:58,886 --> 00:28:00,718 They said I'm a bad risk. 412 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:02,382 Why would they say that? 413 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,676 Banks take up that same practice. 414 00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,050 They decide they're not going to lend in those areas. 415 00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:08,621 That meant that all these benefits 416 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,807 that were flowing to potential home owners 417 00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:13,352 were flowing to whites and not flowing to minorities. 418 00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:15,858 It baked this element of racism into 419 00:28:15,986 --> 00:28:17,898 our home ownership culture. 420 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:21,523 It ain't their problem, it's our problem! 421 00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:24,617 These people are stepping up in life and we're moving down. 422 00:28:24,745 --> 00:28:27,807 How much you think our property's gonna be worth with them living two doors away? 423 00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:31,620 So we passed the law in 1968, the Fair Housing Act. 424 00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:36,959 It proclaims that fair housing for all, all human beings, 425 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:41,335 is now a part of the American way of life. 426 00:28:55,984 --> 00:28:59,568 The mandate that the government has given to not just prevent discrimination, 427 00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:04,316 but to actually affirmatively go out and say how do we desegregate America, 428 00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:08,241 except the government betrays that policy. 429 00:29:10,457 --> 00:29:12,323 I find as I travel across the country 430 00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:15,952 that, uh, whether we're talking about white Americans 431 00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,796 or people who may be, not Negro, 432 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,337 but in other minority groups like the Mexican-Americans, 433 00:29:21,468 --> 00:29:24,586 the rest, uh, just like the black Americans, 434 00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:28,761 what everybody wants is an equal chance to have a piece of the action. 435 00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:32,681 But the federal government has never enforced the Fair Housing Act 436 00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:36,518 and that State and local governments do not enforce the Fair Housing Act. 437 00:29:36,650 --> 00:29:39,688 And so, again, you know, you could have federal policy 438 00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:43,029 but it's the local administration of these policies 439 00:29:43,156 --> 00:29:46,900 that often meant that black people received discriminatory treatment. 440 00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,778 Hello, my name is Tyrone Washington, I'm calling about 441 00:29:49,913 --> 00:29:52,496 - the apartment on Park Street. - It's not available. 442 00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:56,208 Yes, hello, my name is Graham Wellington, I'm calling about the apartment 443 00:29:56,336 --> 00:29:58,623 for rent on Park Street, is that still available? 444 00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:00,417 - Yes it is. - Oh it is? 445 00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:01,915 - Yes. - Really? 446 00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:03,695 And so what does this mean? It means 447 00:30:03,719 --> 00:30:06,632 that the places that were segregated 448 00:30:07,264 --> 00:30:11,304 in the '30s, '40s and '50s, they're still racially segregated today, 449 00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:15,975 because we haven't done anything to undo the racial segregation. 450 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:21,522 Uh yeah, Levittown today is over 95% white. 451 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:23,861 Very few minority families living there. 452 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,662 We didn't fix the damage that was done, 453 00:30:27,701 --> 00:30:30,159 we just allowed all those inequalities to continue 454 00:30:30,287 --> 00:30:32,904 but said from this day forward, we can't discriminate. 455 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,077 So it didn't fix it. 456 00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:37,541 All of these policies and practices, 457 00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:41,083 these systems that federal government, state government 458 00:30:41,214 --> 00:30:43,171 and local government pass and enact, 459 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:48,675 they converge to sort of create concentrated poverty 460 00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:51,339 by the time we reached the '50s and '60s. 461 00:30:52,184 --> 00:30:55,348 So that creates a situation where in many urban areas, 462 00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:57,846 you had like, what George Clinton would call, 463 00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:00,223 you know, chocolate cities in the vanilla suburbs. 464 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,727 Oh, what's happening CC? They still call it the White House, 465 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,273 but that's a temporary condition. 466 00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:08,527 There's a lot of chocolate cities that are around. 467 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:10,115 We've got Newark, we've got Gary, 468 00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:11,734 somebody told me we got L.A. 469 00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:14,370 And we're working on Atlanta. 470 00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:18,912 Hey, uh, we didn't get our 40 acres and a mule. 471 00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:21,536 But we did get you, CC... 472 00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:39,104 I am trying to tell you that I know now 473 00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:42,520 there is no program or promise that a president can make. 474 00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:45,051 - Thank you. - That the federal government can then come in... 475 00:31:45,112 --> 00:31:47,445 ...and wave a wand and do this. Yes. 476 00:31:47,989 --> 00:31:50,948 There is legislation in congress. 477 00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:54,486 The condition of black veterans and white veterans 478 00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,621 diverged even though, when they returned from the war, 479 00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,537 they were economically similar families. 480 00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:04,208 Public housing then became a black phenomenon. 481 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,792 The people who fall into this category, 482 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:13,137 they have to live where society is pushed them to live. 483 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:19,143 It... it's depressing just not to have 484 00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:21,763 any kind of nature. Just, uh 485 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:25,725 tearing down things and people constantly tell you, 486 00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:26,942 "You're the cause of this." 487 00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:33,070 Cities didn't adequately service neighborhoods 488 00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:36,615 that were heavily concentrated with African-Americans. 489 00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:39,580 Garbage collection wasn't picked up as frequently, 490 00:32:40,125 --> 00:32:42,037 streets weren't repaired as well, 491 00:32:42,169 --> 00:32:45,503 and conditions deteriorated then urban areas became slums. 492 00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,860 Yeah, I would like to rub America's nose 493 00:32:48,884 --> 00:32:50,796 in this and say take a look at it. 494 00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:53,006 You wanna reject it, go ahead. 495 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,014 But I certainly would hate to think that anybody 496 00:32:57,142 --> 00:32:58,782 thought I'd said they were giving up hope. 497 00:32:59,352 --> 00:33:01,594 What I'm really saying is that society has failed 498 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,892 the hope of the people who live here and struggle here. 499 00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,397 That's what I'm really saying, 500 00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:07,187 they're gonna go on struggling anyway 501 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:08,399 whether we fail or succeed. 502 00:33:10,864 --> 00:33:13,572 But at the same time you have concentration, 503 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:18,031 you also have clearance, you have highway construction 504 00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,371 which is destroying black communities. 505 00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,161 Highways, often time in urban areas 506 00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:24,579 are built dead in the middle of black communities 507 00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:26,623 so there's a sort of rising anger 508 00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:28,496 and frustration that takes place. 509 00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:32,755 Once they became slums, authorities looked at them 510 00:33:32,886 --> 00:33:34,878 and said, well, we need to do some slum clearance. 511 00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:40,053 These subsidized homes! 512 00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,677 We can't afford no other homes! 513 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:17,879 What the heck. 514 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,618 Where are all those black people, 515 00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:03,369 all those little kids, where are they going? 516 00:35:03,393 --> 00:35:05,350 When they're uprooting their neighborhood, 517 00:35:05,478 --> 00:35:07,219 they're messing with our unity. 518 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:09,267 It takes ten years to re-root yourself. 519 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:15,103 They know what they're doing, this is systematic genocide. Systematic. 520 00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:19,941 Well those African-American families who were displaced, uh, had to move somewhere. 521 00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:22,659 So those families were given Section 8 Housing Vouchers. 522 00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:26,622 The idea behind Section 8 is fabulous. 523 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:28,457 It's exactly what one would hope is 524 00:35:28,585 --> 00:35:31,043 that people who are impoverished have an opportunity 525 00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:33,420 to move into neighborhoods that are not impoverished. 526 00:35:34,549 --> 00:35:37,417 Unfortunately for black Americans, it doesn't work that way. 527 00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:41,490 A large reason for that is is you can still legally 528 00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:44,302 discriminate against someone for using a Section 8 Voucher. 529 00:35:44,434 --> 00:35:48,553 So landlords in most suburbs would not accept Section 8 Housing Vouchers. 530 00:35:48,688 --> 00:35:49,768 And that's perfectly legal. 531 00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:52,936 White home owners, deathly afraid 532 00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:54,775 of a black person moving next to them 533 00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:59,022 because blackness is associated with lower home values. 534 00:36:00,033 --> 00:36:02,491 We feel your presence in the neighborhood 535 00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:05,953 can undermine the value of our homes, and we're concerned. 536 00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:09,165 We'd like you to move out before it becomes common knowledge 537 00:36:09,876 --> 00:36:11,959 that there's a Negro family in the area. 538 00:36:12,921 --> 00:36:15,789 - It's nothing personal. - Oh, it never is. 539 00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,254 If it was personal, well, I'd feel real bad. 540 00:36:19,386 --> 00:36:21,969 We grew up in Philadelphia actually, originally, 541 00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:24,089 and we were in an all-black neighborhood 542 00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:27,599 and my life changed when we moved to South Jersey, 543 00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:30,470 not far from some of the Levittown type of neighborhoods. 544 00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:34,190 And when we came in, the police had to come in with us 545 00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:37,685 because people were, uh, throwing things at our house 546 00:36:37,821 --> 00:36:39,904 and terrorizing our house at night. 547 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:48,822 We moved there because we wanted a place that was integrated 548 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:51,620 and we just wanted to raise our standard of living, 549 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". 550 00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:04,299 Do you think a Negro family moving here 551 00:37:04,431 --> 00:37:06,388 will affect the community as a whole? 552 00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:09,307 - Definitely. - In what way? 553 00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:11,018 I think that, well, the property values 554 00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:13,684 will immediately go down if they're allowed 555 00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:15,015 to move in here in any number. 556 00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:17,878 Do you think the Meyers staying in Levittown 557 00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:19,393 will affect property values? 558 00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:25,074 Uh, I don't think that the Meyers have anything to do with the, uh, 559 00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:28,069 the property decreasing or increasing. 560 00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:32,665 I think it's purely a white problem, not a Negro problem. 561 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:35,750 Well, as a result of all these policies, 562 00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:38,121 we created a segregated system. 563 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,298 And because we've forgotten now this entire history 564 00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:44,760 of how it happened, white families believe 565 00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:48,757 that they got where they are simply by their own hard work 566 00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:52,806 and determination to succeed in the middle-class life. 567 00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:56,726 What they don't understand is that their parents 568 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,767 could have come as an immigrant from a white country 569 00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:02,441 and immediately had access to loans 570 00:38:02,572 --> 00:38:04,492 and the ability to move in to white neighborhoods 571 00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:06,694 that black Americans whose families had 572 00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:08,408 been citizens for generations could not. 573 00:38:09,913 --> 00:38:12,451 And so, it's not saying that their families didn't work hard, 574 00:38:12,874 --> 00:38:14,706 but it is saying that their families benefited 575 00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:17,146 from a great deal of affirmative action to get where they are. 576 00:38:20,799 --> 00:38:23,519 White Americans don't see what it's like to live in these communities. 577 00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:26,544 And so, because of that, they're unable to connect 578 00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,716 with what it is like to be in these areas 579 00:38:28,848 --> 00:38:31,215 that have been deprived of every type of opportunity. 580 00:38:33,061 --> 00:38:35,644 Now, how do these communities get seen? 581 00:38:36,231 --> 00:38:39,395 They go for decades in these festering situations. 582 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:43,353 They are segregated communities that have been completely abandoned. 583 00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:47,736 And suddenly we see them only when they burn something up. 584 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:03,297 This is a world of hurt people 585 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:08,337 crushed by conditions that they don't understand, 586 00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:11,430 and the rest of America doesn't even want to admit they exist. 587 00:39:22,944 --> 00:39:25,631 - Can you make it out, what it is? - Uh, I can't Al. 588 00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:28,489 Smoke just billowing out of that entrance to the CVS. 589 00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:33,577 What can you say about having all this murdering and... and co... confusion? 590 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:42,662 They're poking holes with a knife. 591 00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:47,208 This is a city that is out of control. 592 00:39:51,514 --> 00:39:54,314 It happened for reasons we had not been willing to recognize. 593 00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:57,051 And it is this riot we must understand 594 00:39:57,186 --> 00:40:00,350 if we are to do something about the dangers that face us now. 595 00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,015 It shouldn't be that hard to understand 596 00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:05,768 why that becomes kind of the ultimate outcry. 597 00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:07,715 Because it's the only way that these communities 598 00:40:07,739 --> 00:40:09,651 becomes visible to most Americans. 599 00:40:17,624 --> 00:40:19,411 I don't want anything big, big, big, big. 600 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,534 - You wanna get a meatball hero? - I think so. 601 00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:25,065 - Where is it? - Not on here, but you said you can get 'em. 602 00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:26,483 What are you gonna do, Johnny? 603 00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:28,874 I'm gonna get a meatball platter, that's what. No bread. 604 00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:30,296 I'm gonna get a meatball platter. 605 00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,010 - Yeah. - Why? 606 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:34,091 - I love meatballs. - So do I. 607 00:40:34,223 --> 00:40:36,215 Just a platter of meatballs, meatballs, 608 00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:38,638 - and, and he wants a hero. - Hero? 609 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,873 - Meatball hero. - Yeah, put parmigiana on it too, okay? 610 00:40:40,897 --> 00:40:43,000 Okay, one platter with meatball, only meatball. 611 00:40:43,024 --> 00:40:45,357 - Yeah, only meatball. - Yeah, platter of meatball, 612 00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:46,646 - platter of meatball. - Yes. 613 00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:55,488 Well, in 1956 when I came out here, there were farms. 614 00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,988 I was five years old when I came here in 1949. 615 00:40:59,123 --> 00:41:00,843 I came from the South Bronx. 616 00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,534 My father foresaw the future in that area and he says, 617 00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,662 "Let's get the hell out of here." And we did. 618 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,005 He had a very outstanding career 619 00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:10,044 with the police department. 620 00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:12,634 They took him out of the South Bronx 621 00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,298 for the benefit of the community. 622 00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:17,636 When I first became a policeman, I was in the riot squad. 623 00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:19,633 And any riot or any type of demonstration 624 00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:21,476 there was in the city, I went to it. 625 00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:24,976 Mostly Irish cops on the job then. And they were nasty. 626 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... 627 00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:32,563 There was law and you didn't... you didn't disobey it. 628 00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:34,315 Protest all you want, 629 00:41:35,118 --> 00:41:37,701 people fought for your right to protest, 630 00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:39,162 but you see guys 631 00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:43,704 putting holes in hoses so they can't put out fires, 632 00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:47,624 not just to businesses, but to people's homes. 633 00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:49,371 Now, you have a right to protest, 634 00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:50,998 but you don't have a right to do that. 635 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:00,660 Are you sick and tired of where you are, 636 00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:02,045 working hard for years for nothing? 637 00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,394 Do you have the guts to step out of where you are 638 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:05,933 to achieve your financial freedom? 639 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:07,931 It's pretty easy to do 640 00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:11,185 if you just follow my system, step by step. 641 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,607 It's so easy to make money in real estate 642 00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:16,357 and I'm planning to be a millionaire by age 25. 643 00:42:16,492 --> 00:42:18,984 Look, I just got my first deal, and I'm gonna do 644 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,453 many more like this for millions of dollars. 645 00:42:22,415 --> 00:42:25,704 Make seven deals in 30 days, make $15,000, 646 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:28,999 a check to prove it, one, two, three, four, five... 647 00:42:29,130 --> 00:42:31,167 You can do it too, what are you waiting for? 648 00:42:31,299 --> 00:42:34,383 I own that one, that one and this one right over here. 649 00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:38,633 Now's the time to buy a home. 650 00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:48,222 - Eh, Adam. - Yeah, Halloween. 651 00:42:48,357 --> 00:42:50,037 Trick or treat would be Halloween. 652 00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:52,268 No, Halloween... 653 00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:56,823 Be good for mom. 654 00:42:58,326 --> 00:43:00,126 - I will. - Can you be good for mom? 655 00:43:00,203 --> 00:43:01,694 Okay, I'll be good for mom. 656 00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:03,536 Seriously, try to be a little less crazy. 657 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,924 He has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning 658 00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:27,303 from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute. 659 00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,350 Please give them Chuck... 660 00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:33,062 - Thank you. - ...a warm welcome. 661 00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:36,650 Thank you. Um... 662 00:43:37,031 --> 00:43:39,398 A little bit about our organization Strong Towns. 663 00:43:39,534 --> 00:43:42,993 Our organization has now evolved into a national movement 664 00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:46,535 of people trying to reconfigure their communities, 665 00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:48,703 uh, to be more financially sound. 666 00:43:50,294 --> 00:43:54,709 Post World War Il America, the financing mechanisms of it 667 00:43:54,841 --> 00:43:56,753 act very much like a Ponzi scheme. 668 00:43:57,552 --> 00:43:59,669 You have this immediate sugar high 669 00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:02,547 with this long-term liability kind of hanging out 670 00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:05,841 there in the future, and the last generation standing 671 00:44:05,977 --> 00:44:07,897 is the one that's gonna have to pick up the bill. 672 00:44:09,605 --> 00:44:12,097 We preyed on our fellow Americans 673 00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:13,940 just so we could keep the growth going. 674 00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:16,564 And nobody stopped to consider the impact 675 00:44:16,737 --> 00:44:19,696 that this was gonna have on real people and real families. 676 00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:28,530 I was bird dogging, 677 00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:32,247 finding foreclosures for other investors. 678 00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,043 I just saw that the majority of the wealth 679 00:44:37,175 --> 00:44:39,713 created in the United States was through real estate. 680 00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:43,300 So, I was determined to follow that track. 681 00:44:44,432 --> 00:44:47,425 It was so much fun, at the height of when we were making money, 682 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,268 the company had season tickets to the Lakers 683 00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,979 right behind the Lakers bench. 684 00:44:53,107 --> 00:44:54,973 So Kobe Bryant's wife, 685 00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:57,601 Leonardo DiCaprio, literally right in front of us, 686 00:44:57,737 --> 00:45:00,480 and when he used to date Gisele and my son, I'll never forget, 687 00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:02,759 he's 15 years old, Gisele's sitting right in front of him. 688 00:45:02,783 --> 00:45:05,947 Gisele's hair is hanging over the back of her seat 689 00:45:07,205 --> 00:45:09,367 and Jeff goes, "Dad", and I go, "What?" 690 00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:11,831 And he goes, and he starts playing with Gisele's hair. 691 00:45:11,959 --> 00:45:14,076 So I'm, oh my god. 692 00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:17,751 Anyway, I tell you right, it was just a bit... But, uh... 693 00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:21,458 Back in '96, '97, there's a new product 694 00:45:21,594 --> 00:45:22,874 that started to flood the market 695 00:45:23,179 --> 00:45:25,466 called a 125% loan to value. 696 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:27,942 And when I first started seeing that, I said, 697 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:30,426 "This is a recipe for disaster." 698 00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:36,056 Are you a home owner with too many bills, 699 00:45:36,192 --> 00:45:38,275 too many high interest monthly payments? 700 00:45:38,402 --> 00:45:40,815 Why not pay them off with a second mortgage... 701 00:45:40,947 --> 00:45:44,315 They'll lend you up to 125% of the value of your home, 702 00:45:44,450 --> 00:45:45,816 less your first mortgage balance. 703 00:45:46,285 --> 00:45:48,652 They went after the payment buyer, that's what they did. 704 00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:52,660 "Hey, get a $50,000 second for 500 bucks a month. 705 00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:55,284 Go buy that boat, go buy that second car." 706 00:45:57,838 --> 00:45:59,249 It wasn't a home improvement loan. 707 00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:02,236 It was a signature loan that you could do whatever you want with. 708 00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:05,549 I just thought it was an exceedingly irresponsible 709 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,675 loan product, but I took advantage of it. 710 00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:16,564 Tiki, come here Tiki. 711 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,857 Come on, come on, good girl. 712 00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:21,935 Mikey, Mikey, come here, Mikey. 713 00:46:23,114 --> 00:46:25,948 Hey, hey, Cinnabons, no, no! 714 00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:29,034 The lenders got greedy and they figured, 715 00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:31,824 okay, we exhausted the 125 potential pool, 716 00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:37,869 let's go make it super easy to get purchase money now. 717 00:46:38,004 --> 00:46:40,291 If you were to ask me what the perfect credentials are 718 00:46:40,423 --> 00:46:43,235 to qualify for a home loan, I honestly couldn't tell you. 719 00:46:43,259 --> 00:46:45,501 May I help you sir? 720 00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:47,447 Need a quick answer on a new home loan? 721 00:46:47,471 --> 00:46:48,511 Oh yeah. 722 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,909 Stated income, stated employment, 723 00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:52,720 stated, stated, stated, which means, 724 00:46:52,852 --> 00:46:55,686 whatever the borrower says, is factual. 725 00:46:56,731 --> 00:47:00,520 As recently as 1997, you had to put 20% down 726 00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:03,894 and you had to struggle to save that kind of money. 727 00:47:04,447 --> 00:47:07,235 You fast forward five years, and a bus boy 728 00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:10,825 from a local coffee shop can buy the same house for nothing. 729 00:47:11,579 --> 00:47:13,115 We'll have to verify your credit so 730 00:47:13,247 --> 00:47:14,447 how about a list of creditors? 731 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:16,202 We don't have any. 732 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,497 If we can't pay cash, we do without. 733 00:47:19,628 --> 00:47:20,628 Shh, shh, shh. 734 00:47:21,547 --> 00:47:23,038 What are you saying? 735 00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:24,894 That could ruin the entire American economy. 736 00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:27,362 I mean, where would this country be if we didn't all owe 737 00:47:27,386 --> 00:47:29,573 more than we could pay back? 738 00:47:29,597 --> 00:47:32,135 In order for the house of cards to stay standing, 739 00:47:32,266 --> 00:47:33,266 it has to get bigger. 740 00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:37,622 So the guy that's in the three bedroom, one and a half bath house, 741 00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:39,806 he's gotta move up to the four bedroom, two bath house. 742 00:47:41,067 --> 00:47:42,747 The house of cards just kept getting bigger 743 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:44,140 and bigger and bigger and bigger, 744 00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:46,444 and bigger and bigger and bigger. 745 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:50,403 And it's just all on fake valuations. 746 00:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,867 Yeah, at that point, the home did absolutely 747 00:48:00,002 --> 00:48:02,995 become a vehicle for excess. 748 00:48:03,464 --> 00:48:06,207 Home prices rising, it's from the Case-Shiller Index. 749 00:48:06,342 --> 00:48:08,925 I look at the number, and I say, yes this looks good, 750 00:48:09,053 --> 00:48:11,966 it's much better than expected. You look at the number and say... 751 00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:16,049 Nobody knows what home prices are gonna do. 752 00:48:21,524 --> 00:48:24,312 People are increasingly speculative. 753 00:48:24,443 --> 00:48:27,231 When they buy a house, a major concern is 754 00:48:27,363 --> 00:48:31,403 how much can I sell this to someone else at the other end. 755 00:48:31,534 --> 00:48:34,447 It can be called, "the greater fool theory." 756 00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:37,195 Maybe I'm a fool to buy such a big house, 757 00:48:37,331 --> 00:48:39,789 but I'm gonna sell it to an even greater fool. 758 00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,380 There were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago 759 00:48:47,508 --> 00:48:50,342 that home prices should decline with time, 760 00:48:51,512 --> 00:48:53,720 and the reason is, they wear out. 761 00:48:59,311 --> 00:49:02,554 Don't expect it to gain value, expect it to lose value. 762 00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:05,102 That was a common view in the past. 763 00:49:06,152 --> 00:49:09,395 For so long we have come as a society 764 00:49:09,530 --> 00:49:12,864 to place a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. 765 00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:15,184 And the bigger the home, the better. 766 00:49:19,582 --> 00:49:21,790 It's interesting because Levittown 767 00:49:21,917 --> 00:49:24,580 and the houses were meant to evolve and change 768 00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:28,376 as families evolved and changed over time. 769 00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:36,510 The idea was that this home would be livable all your life. 770 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,723 You could have one bedroom or three bedrooms, 771 00:49:38,851 --> 00:49:42,015 depending on what your needs were at the time. 772 00:49:42,146 --> 00:49:46,982 And, um, this area was, could be an extension of the living room, 773 00:49:47,109 --> 00:49:49,726 or it could be closed off and become a bedroom. 774 00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:51,196 Sorry. 775 00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:53,613 So you close it here. 776 00:49:53,741 --> 00:49:55,719 - You wanna go outside so you can talk? - Yeah, yeah. 777 00:49:55,743 --> 00:49:57,109 You'd close it here. 778 00:50:00,664 --> 00:50:04,032 And then you would enter from the hallway. 779 00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:10,335 So I have, I'm coming out from the bedroom hallway now 780 00:50:10,466 --> 00:50:12,253 where all the entrances are to the bedrooms. 781 00:50:13,302 --> 00:50:15,544 So it could be either one bedroom or three bedrooms. 782 00:50:15,679 --> 00:50:17,261 Right now, we created one bedroom here 783 00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:19,597 and in the rear there's one bedroom 784 00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:22,559 that could be partitioned with a rolling wall 785 00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:24,427 so it would become two bedrooms. 786 00:50:28,067 --> 00:50:31,731 That was an extension of the dynamic coming out 787 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:34,855 of post-war idea of what the house provided. 788 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:37,073 Wasn't really about the upscaling 789 00:50:37,201 --> 00:50:38,942 or the supersizing of the house. 790 00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:42,825 And so that relationship between the growth 791 00:50:42,957 --> 00:50:47,668 of the physical house was still somehow in balance. 792 00:50:47,795 --> 00:50:51,379 Subsequently, people began to make the scale shift, 793 00:50:51,507 --> 00:50:54,124 where the houses became just large. 794 00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:59,049 I'm in love with this indoor tree. 795 00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:01,468 I hope it ain't a ficus. 796 00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:04,894 I don't think it is. 797 00:51:07,398 --> 00:51:09,981 So this is where your dining room would be. 798 00:51:10,150 --> 00:51:11,391 That's a lot of alcohol. 799 00:51:14,738 --> 00:51:17,276 It's a maze, 5000 square feet. 800 00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:19,383 Only one staircase, it kind of feels like 801 00:51:19,493 --> 00:51:21,405 that back staircase or something. 802 00:51:24,373 --> 00:51:26,706 I feel like it's very track home-ish. 803 00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:37,968 So the attached office, I can see that set up. 804 00:51:38,971 --> 00:51:42,009 That is really more suited for Grandma. 805 00:51:42,141 --> 00:51:44,929 She doesn't really wanna have a detached unit. 806 00:51:46,312 --> 00:51:49,350 I don't think Grandma needs 12-foot ceilings though. 807 00:51:49,481 --> 00:51:53,020 The McMansions, they're going the way of the dodo bird. 808 00:51:53,193 --> 00:51:54,775 People wanna buy what they need 809 00:51:54,903 --> 00:51:56,815 and they don't want any extra. 810 00:51:57,531 --> 00:52:00,194 And this has so much square-footage and wasted space. 811 00:52:01,869 --> 00:52:03,389 They might get away with one more sale, 812 00:52:03,495 --> 00:52:04,986 but in the years to come, 813 00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,533 it's gonna be tougher and tougher. 814 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,523 - Connor, was that fun? - Yeah. 815 00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:20,586 There's just tremendous economic dependence 816 00:52:20,721 --> 00:52:22,508 on this idea that we can keep building 817 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,632 new single family homes in their own lots. 818 00:52:25,309 --> 00:52:29,019 And that they have to keep marching across the US landscape 819 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. 820 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:37,480 Dolce, come here. 821 00:52:39,406 --> 00:52:41,272 Yes, so our property line 822 00:52:41,408 --> 00:52:43,768 is just basically the white picket fence all the way around, 823 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:45,952 all the way back up to there. 824 00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,956 So we're gonna have our garden over here, 825 00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:52,872 and a chicken coop over there. 826 00:52:53,504 --> 00:52:54,961 Gigi's a grand champion. 827 00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:58,464 Uh, not so much Dolce. 828 00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:07,094 So this whole industry of easy, 829 00:53:07,226 --> 00:53:12,017 quick money for property did not end at the retail borrower. 830 00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:15,731 The developers were exposed to these funds. 831 00:53:16,819 --> 00:53:19,402 So these companies were going in and buying up 832 00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:23,695 swaths of land from these farmers at ridiculous prices. 833 00:53:24,660 --> 00:53:26,697 Just giving them enough money 834 00:53:26,829 --> 00:53:29,446 for their great-grandchildren to retire on. 835 00:53:29,581 --> 00:53:32,949 And it, it was just so hard to say no. 836 00:53:35,254 --> 00:53:39,669 And that's where you see all of these citrus farms in the Inland Empire gone. 837 00:53:43,554 --> 00:53:46,638 And of course, the cities were loving it, 838 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:50,342 because the tax basis on real property 839 00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:54,187 with a house on it is far higher than farmland. 840 00:53:55,441 --> 00:53:59,560 The cities were seeing their tax base quintuple, 841 00:54:00,571 --> 00:54:01,982 literally overnight. 842 00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:09,453 And then the developments stopped. 843 00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,800 The United States economy has never been in better shape. 844 00:54:33,854 --> 00:54:36,267 We have created the highest standard of living 845 00:54:36,398 --> 00:54:38,310 for a country of our size. 846 00:54:38,442 --> 00:54:42,402 ♪ I never knew ♪ 847 00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:45,863 ♪ How to say ♪ 848 00:54:45,991 --> 00:54:47,107 ♪ No to you ♪ 849 00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:48,983 It's a terrific time to buy. 850 00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:50,985 We've never had a decline in house prices 851 00:54:51,121 --> 00:54:52,578 on a nationwide basis. 852 00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:55,539 Homes may see an ebb and flow in the price 853 00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:58,334 but you're not going to see the collapse 854 00:54:58,462 --> 00:55:00,222 that you see when people talk about a bubble. 855 00:55:02,633 --> 00:55:05,216 If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, 856 00:55:05,385 --> 00:55:11,097 I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go out and buy. 857 00:55:11,225 --> 00:55:14,593 A new warning that the housing bubble is about to burst. 858 00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:18,722 ♪ How to say no to you ♪ 859 00:55:18,857 --> 00:55:19,973 It's poppin'! 860 00:55:26,365 --> 00:55:28,573 Our entire economy is in danger. 861 00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:30,908 And that means life as most Americans know it, 862 00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,447 now it is about to change. 863 00:55:32,579 --> 00:55:34,445 14 million people took a mortgage 864 00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:36,868 in the last three years. They will lose their homes. 865 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,411 This is crazy! 866 00:55:38,544 --> 00:55:40,911 That rate is actually higher among people of color. 867 00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:42,537 ♪ Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba ♪ 868 00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:44,414 San Bernadino recently became the third 869 00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:46,416 Californian city to file bankruptcy. 870 00:55:46,552 --> 00:55:48,669 And unlike a home owner who can walk away 871 00:55:48,804 --> 00:55:50,844 from a mortgage that's more than the house is worth, 872 00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:52,551 a municipality cannot. 873 00:55:55,102 --> 00:56:00,018 ♪ I never knew how to say no ♪ 874 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,147 If you come back to this property, 875 00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:03,733 it's considered trespassing. 876 00:56:04,111 --> 00:56:07,104 Did you ever think that this word could become 877 00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,653 - 50% of your business? - No, never would've imagined. 878 00:56:12,411 --> 00:56:15,529 - ♪ Say yes ♪ - Yes, I found a flaw 879 00:56:15,664 --> 00:56:18,702 in the model that defines how the world works. 880 00:56:18,834 --> 00:56:21,451 - ♪ Never knew how ♪ - Your ideology was not right? 881 00:56:21,587 --> 00:56:24,079 - ♪ To say no ♪ - Precisely. 882 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:25,546 ♪ Say yes ♪ 883 00:56:25,674 --> 00:56:27,210 ♪ Never knew Yes ♪ 884 00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:30,130 ♪ Never knew how to say no ♪ 885 00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:37,850 Jar opener, everyone needs one of those. 886 00:56:45,861 --> 00:56:47,397 Yeah, it's not in here. 887 00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:03,661 That's 10 by 17 for the living room. 888 00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:13,712 That was 18 counting the counter. 889 00:57:15,182 --> 00:57:17,890 - Did you count this two feet here? - No. 890 00:57:19,978 --> 00:57:21,578 I've only been doing real estate with him 891 00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:25,348 since Natalie was two so that's, um, 16 years. 892 00:57:26,485 --> 00:57:30,445 After the L.A. Times article, the Nightline piece, all that, 893 00:57:31,156 --> 00:57:36,322 I remember us being just completely crazy busy. 894 00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:39,912 I mean, as, as great as it was, it was such a blur. 895 00:57:47,172 --> 00:57:49,505 - It was a blur? - Yeah, complete blur. 896 00:57:49,633 --> 00:57:51,169 You think when I said blur, 897 00:57:51,301 --> 00:57:53,213 you think that I don't know all those details? 898 00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:55,462 I'm just saying blur meaning it was 899 00:57:55,597 --> 00:57:57,179 a blurred time of my life. 900 00:57:57,307 --> 00:57:58,576 Well, let me add some color then 901 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,387 because I remember every detail. 902 00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:03,353 - I'm sure you do. - The blog was running... 903 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,000 I don't wanna talk about those details. 904 00:58:06,274 --> 00:58:08,982 Because of our connection to Countrywide, 905 00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:11,603 they started, at least they had us apply 906 00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:14,105 to be one of the agents, that's what happens. 907 00:58:15,367 --> 00:58:17,687 You should watch yourself do this 'cause it's... 908 00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:21,491 December 2006, 909 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,531 this house sold for a million dollars. 910 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:27,210 1900 square feet, right across the street from the freeway. 911 00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:28,337 One million. 912 00:58:30,799 --> 00:58:35,544 That's what we call a retro water heater. A vintage. 913 00:58:37,556 --> 00:58:39,047 Oh, lovely. 914 00:58:40,142 --> 00:58:44,807 If you, uh, are watching this video and you're a realtor, 915 00:58:46,815 --> 00:58:48,375 and you're jumping off the couch saying, 916 00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:50,349 "Wait a minute, I represented the buyer 917 00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:53,694 when they paid a million", 918 00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:58,783 I want you to put your Mai Tai down and go grab your shingle 919 00:59:00,245 --> 00:59:02,362 and send it in to the D.R.E. right now. 920 00:59:02,497 --> 00:59:03,829 You don't deserve to be licensed. 921 00:59:04,875 --> 00:59:08,960 December 2006, this sold for a million dollars. 922 00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:13,168 Everyone who was on that deal deserves to get fired. 923 00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:15,885 I'm Jim, The Realtor. 924 00:59:19,681 --> 00:59:21,593 There's a lot of trust... 925 00:59:21,725 --> 00:59:23,387 ...in the marketplace on value. 926 00:59:24,186 --> 00:59:26,929 Could this be just a value bubble where people 927 00:59:27,064 --> 00:59:29,852 just keep paying these crazy prices a lot more 928 00:59:29,983 --> 00:59:32,270 than they used to just, literally, a year ago, 929 00:59:33,195 --> 00:59:35,187 just because they wanna get a house. 930 00:59:35,614 --> 00:59:38,573 There really isn't the evidence to help support them 931 00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,033 that I can say, "Oh, for sure, it's worth that." 932 00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:45,701 There's really, I think, some valid concern 933 00:59:45,832 --> 00:59:49,576 about valuations when the proof is so thin. 934 00:59:50,670 --> 00:59:53,037 It's always been a problem in this industry. 935 00:59:53,173 --> 00:59:57,918 There is really just that one way to determine 936 00:59:58,053 --> 01:00:00,386 what something is worth is look what other people pick. 937 01:00:00,514 --> 01:00:02,301 What if the other people were crazy? 938 01:00:10,065 --> 01:00:11,745 They were hoping to get two million dollars 939 01:00:11,817 --> 01:00:14,685 for these up here, and you can see they built, 940 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:16,982 I think, a handful of 'em and gave up. 941 01:00:17,489 --> 01:00:20,197 And those are five and six thousand square-foot houses. 942 01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:31,083 Everyone was going by the mantra, "Get in, 943 01:00:31,211 --> 01:00:33,123 or you might get priced down forever." 944 01:00:33,922 --> 01:00:36,255 'Cause, up to that point, no one had seen 945 01:00:36,383 --> 01:00:39,876 any previous downturn, it just wasn't in the vocabulary 946 01:00:40,011 --> 01:00:42,503 and nobody, including realtors, ever really thought, 947 01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:44,380 hey, party's never gonna end. 948 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. 949 01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:07,737 I was the engineer who would design 950 01:01:07,873 --> 01:01:09,785 and lay out and build this stuff. 951 01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:15,128 I would work on these big development projects. 952 01:01:15,922 --> 01:01:18,039 Cities would come to us, we want this done, 953 01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:20,588 we go out and build it and I sincerely believe 954 01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:24,212 that the work I was doing was building a great America. 955 01:01:25,390 --> 01:01:28,554 But then I started to ask some questions 956 01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:31,723 about what comes next. 957 01:01:31,855 --> 01:01:34,848 After we build something, how do we take care of it? 958 01:01:34,983 --> 01:01:37,225 What's the cash flow that makes this all work? 959 01:01:37,986 --> 01:01:40,524 I started to look at developments that I had worked on 960 01:01:40,655 --> 01:01:42,897 and run some larger math problems. 961 01:01:45,535 --> 01:01:46,846 For example, the developer would come in and build the road, 962 01:01:46,870 --> 01:01:48,987 the developer paid all the cost to build it. 963 01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:51,697 People have been paying their taxes, 964 01:01:51,833 --> 01:01:53,449 and the idea was they pay their taxes, 965 01:01:53,585 --> 01:01:55,702 and then the government would fix this road. 966 01:01:56,463 --> 01:01:59,627 The cost was $354,000 to fix that road. 967 01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:03,008 We asked the question, okay, based on the taxes 968 01:02:03,136 --> 01:02:05,128 the city's collecting from these people, 969 01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:06,782 how long is it gonna take them to recoup 970 01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:07,922 the money they just spent? 971 01:02:09,392 --> 01:02:10,928 The answer is 79 years. 972 01:02:13,063 --> 01:02:17,148 As an engineer, I knew that road wasn't gonna last 20, 25 years. 973 01:02:17,776 --> 01:02:19,438 This doesn't make any sense. 974 01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:23,654 The growth creates what we call, "the illusion of wealth." 975 01:02:24,491 --> 01:02:27,950 If you lose money on every transaction, you don't make it up in volume. 976 01:02:30,247 --> 01:02:31,533 Where are we at today? 977 01:02:32,999 --> 01:02:34,831 We... we're like way out here. 978 01:02:39,714 --> 01:02:43,503 You can look at the run up to the housing crash as a prime example. 979 01:02:44,469 --> 01:02:47,678 Everybody felt like, well we're doing okay because, you know, yeah, 980 01:02:47,806 --> 01:02:49,593 I made $12,000 in housing payments 981 01:02:49,724 --> 01:02:51,511 but my house went up by $40,000. 982 01:02:51,643 --> 01:02:53,430 I cashed out the difference, I'm doing fine. 983 01:02:54,521 --> 01:02:57,013 You're essentially skirting around the core problem 984 01:02:57,148 --> 01:02:59,606 which is that the underlying economy does not work. 985 01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:06,689 In 2000, we had 1100 census tracts in this country 986 01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:10,359 that you could classify as persistent poverty. 987 01:03:10,829 --> 01:03:14,163 In 2010, it went from 1100 census tracts 988 01:03:14,291 --> 01:03:18,285 to 3300 census tracts, three times the American geography 989 01:03:18,420 --> 01:03:19,752 is now in persistent poverty. 990 01:03:21,423 --> 01:03:24,291 Our places don't work, they're just designed to decline. 991 01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:29,595 If you don't know what was lost, 992 01:03:30,473 --> 01:03:32,840 you... you don't look at the place and see, 993 01:03:32,976 --> 01:03:34,592 like, this is decline. 994 01:03:37,272 --> 01:03:41,516 Well I'm 43. If you're 10 years, 20 years, 30 years older than me, 995 01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:42,858 all you see is wounds. 996 01:03:45,530 --> 01:03:48,364 And so it's really hard for you to get your mind out of that, 997 01:03:48,491 --> 01:03:50,949 and actually see how this could be a better place. 998 01:03:55,457 --> 01:03:57,995 Now we have an Olive Garden so we've made it, right? 999 01:03:58,126 --> 01:04:00,438 I don't know, man, in the Mid-West is heartbreaking. 1000 01:04:00,462 --> 01:04:02,022 The Mid-West is heartbreaking. 1001 01:04:02,130 --> 01:04:03,871 Think of all the places, this is like, 1002 01:04:04,007 --> 01:04:05,207 one of the last ones I live in 1003 01:04:05,258 --> 01:04:07,295 but it's home and I, you know, 1004 01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:09,885 - there's a part of me that loves it too. - Yeah. 1005 01:04:10,013 --> 01:04:11,824 Like I look at it and I'm like, I wanna help this place, 1006 01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:13,408 - I want to make it better. - Yeah sure. 1007 01:04:14,517 --> 01:04:15,619 I'm moving the little Google street view guy... 1008 01:04:15,643 --> 01:04:16,724 Yeah, yeah. 1009 01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,845 ...down South 6th Street. 1010 01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:20,892 - Yeah, that was our... - Holy shit, man. 1011 01:04:21,024 --> 01:04:23,391 That's our Champs-Elysées, man, that's our one street... 1012 01:04:23,526 --> 01:04:26,109 - One muffler shop after another. - Yeah, I know. 1013 01:04:32,202 --> 01:04:36,492 I'm educated enough to, to know that I shouldn't talk about 1014 01:04:36,623 --> 01:04:40,663 some race things because I'm, I'm... I realized how ignorant I am. 1015 01:04:40,794 --> 01:04:44,378 I mean, I grew up in a city that is 99% white 1016 01:04:44,506 --> 01:04:47,624 and probab... still is very close to that. 1017 01:04:48,843 --> 01:04:50,755 But when you start to get a mixing of people 1018 01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:53,345 in the community like "the other" start to move in, 1019 01:04:53,473 --> 01:04:55,510 whether "the other" is someone of a different race 1020 01:04:55,642 --> 01:04:57,349 or someone of a different social class, 1021 01:04:58,269 --> 01:04:59,805 I think, like, psychologists have said 1022 01:04:59,938 --> 01:05:01,749 there's a natural human tendency to in a sense, 1023 01:05:01,773 --> 01:05:02,934 like circle the wagons. 1024 01:05:03,691 --> 01:05:05,808 And what zoning did is it gave like this really 1025 01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:08,602 wonderful tool to be able to write 1026 01:05:09,364 --> 01:05:11,981 in a more camouflaged kind of racist way, 1027 01:05:12,492 --> 01:05:14,028 uh, we don't want those people here. 1028 01:05:15,328 --> 01:05:17,741 I think the irony today is that 1029 01:05:17,872 --> 01:05:20,239 it's also now trapped poor white people. 1030 01:05:20,375 --> 01:05:21,832 The mechanic says you owe 1031 01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,623 $250 for new brake lines. 1032 01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:27,474 - Doug. - Well, what is you better go to that dude in my neighborhood, 1033 01:05:27,507 --> 01:05:30,045 - he'll fix anything for $40. - White boy, you know Cecil? 1034 01:05:30,176 --> 01:05:33,214 Yeah, but my Cecil's name is Jim and he fixed my refrigerator, 1035 01:05:33,346 --> 01:05:34,837 my air conditioner and my cat. 1036 01:05:34,973 --> 01:05:38,011 Yeah, yeah, everybody's got a guy. 1037 01:05:38,143 --> 01:05:39,384 Ooh, you alright, Doug. 1038 01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:44,305 You know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said, 1039 01:05:44,441 --> 01:05:47,650 "The, uh, hyper problem we have today is less race 1040 01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:48,893 than it is poverty." 1041 01:05:49,237 --> 01:05:50,853 And I think he was exactly right, 1042 01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:53,276 I mean, there... there's a racial element to it, 1043 01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:58,278 but middle-class whites will sacrifice poor whites too. 1044 01:05:58,413 --> 01:06:00,370 There's no racial loyalty there, 1045 01:06:00,498 --> 01:06:02,330 they're gonna kick 'em to the curb. 1046 01:06:05,879 --> 01:06:07,586 I've been able to travel around the country 1047 01:06:07,714 --> 01:06:09,455 and experience different communities. 1048 01:06:09,591 --> 01:06:12,083 Uh, it's the same, it's the same thing. 1049 01:06:13,428 --> 01:06:15,420 So you see across the Rust Belt 1050 01:06:15,555 --> 01:06:19,174 and you see across rural America, people struggling, 1051 01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:23,678 and those struggles are kind of shared struggles 1052 01:06:23,813 --> 01:06:27,227 with people in urban areas that have long been left behind. 1053 01:06:28,318 --> 01:06:31,902 When you find that you can no longer get the mortgage, 1054 01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:34,188 uh, when you can no longer cash out the equity, 1055 01:06:34,324 --> 01:06:37,362 when you can no longer get the car loan for the new car, 1056 01:06:37,494 --> 01:06:40,783 your world changes and your experience changes, 1057 01:06:40,914 --> 01:06:43,702 and America becomes like a really cruel place. 1058 01:06:44,834 --> 01:06:46,496 We're starting to see more and more, 1059 01:06:46,628 --> 01:06:48,790 that is a mainstream experience. 1060 01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:52,086 How are you going to get your message to anybody 1061 01:06:52,217 --> 01:06:56,052 when even the commissions aren't here and nobody else 1062 01:06:56,179 --> 01:06:58,387 comes to council meetings, how do you... 1063 01:06:58,515 --> 01:07:00,177 How are you gonna get to the people? 1064 01:07:02,769 --> 01:07:05,853 You can create a social contract and make tons of promises. 1065 01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:09,732 Uh, we now live in the day when those promises are coming due. 1066 01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:13,899 And that's not a left or a right thing. 1067 01:07:14,030 --> 01:07:16,818 Uh, it kind of transcends left and right, 1068 01:07:16,950 --> 01:07:18,816 'cause neither side understands that. 1069 01:07:18,952 --> 01:07:22,992 They both wanna go back to what they thought worked. 1070 01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:25,123 It didn't work. 1071 01:07:30,672 --> 01:07:32,664 Baltimore is very similar 1072 01:07:32,799 --> 01:07:35,212 to many cities in terms of the way 1073 01:07:35,343 --> 01:07:38,177 that it's been wrecked by post-industrialization. 1074 01:07:38,304 --> 01:07:40,796 Between 1950 and 2000, Baltimore lost 1075 01:07:40,932 --> 01:07:42,969 100,000 million factory jobs. 1076 01:07:44,811 --> 01:07:47,849 So that's had a negative effect on people feeling like 1077 01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:52,191 they have control over the necessities of their lives. 1078 01:07:52,944 --> 01:07:55,561 We don't like it then. 1079 01:07:56,239 --> 01:07:57,946 They can run around and they say, you bet, 1080 01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:00,407 they can run around and gas and everything else. 1081 01:08:00,535 --> 01:08:01,535 We're paying for it! 1082 01:08:03,037 --> 01:08:05,154 And what the hell are the guys on the streets doing? 1083 01:08:05,999 --> 01:08:06,999 Nothing! 1084 01:08:07,333 --> 01:08:08,699 They're sittin' on the corners, 1085 01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:10,785 they can't work, 1086 01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,411 they got no work. 1087 01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:14,664 Doesn't mean anything at all! 1088 01:08:14,799 --> 01:08:18,338 And we're not gonna be fooled against each other anymore. 1089 01:08:18,886 --> 01:08:21,299 We're gonna fight with each other, no matter the Hispanics, 1090 01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:24,219 the colored, white, anything, we're gonna be a rainbow. 1091 01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:26,888 Not only this community, we're gonna get 'em 1092 01:08:27,020 --> 01:08:29,228 all together and fight! 1093 01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:33,561 We will build it. 1094 01:08:33,693 --> 01:08:34,774 Together. 1095 01:08:34,902 --> 01:08:35,902 Port Covington. 1096 01:08:35,945 --> 01:08:37,026 And when we build it... 1097 01:08:37,155 --> 01:08:38,441 ...it will be ours. 1098 01:08:40,158 --> 01:08:42,011 Port Covington, a bold vision for Baltimore. 1099 01:08:42,035 --> 01:08:44,152 At the heart of it, a new world headquarters 1100 01:08:44,287 --> 01:08:47,155 for UnderArmour, an opportunity for all of Baltimore. 1101 01:08:48,499 --> 01:08:51,583 This will be big, Baltimore big... 1102 01:08:54,047 --> 01:08:55,709 Tonight, Baltimore City Council 1103 01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,423 put the stamp of approval on the $660,000,000 1104 01:08:58,801 --> 01:09:00,133 for the Port Covington project. 1105 01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:02,845 The developers guarantee the city affordable housing, 1106 01:09:02,972 --> 01:09:04,679 jobs in exchange for the investment. 1107 01:09:05,391 --> 01:09:08,884 Our intent is to have a mixed income, diverse community. 1108 01:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,852 Their definition of affordable housing 1109 01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:12,516 is affordable to families who're making 1110 01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:14,390 about $70,000 per year. 1111 01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:16,938 So what we're saying is, you just can't build 1112 01:09:17,070 --> 01:09:19,027 a community with people who are wealthy. 1113 01:09:19,489 --> 01:09:23,324 This sort of a, you know, snarkiness 1114 01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:25,784 - is not helpful to the discussion. - Boo! 1115 01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:27,723 - It doesn't follow logically... - But if only a select few 1116 01:09:27,747 --> 01:09:29,516 individuals get to move into those neighborhoods, 1117 01:09:29,540 --> 01:09:31,031 is there still inequality? 1118 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:32,167 No. 1119 01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:33,784 All in favor. 1120 01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,036 Aye. 1121 01:09:36,214 --> 01:09:37,500 Any opposed? 1122 01:09:43,721 --> 01:09:48,216 Remember, we are creating structural disadvantage 1123 01:09:48,351 --> 01:09:51,310 in ourAfrican-American communities, but we're creating 1124 01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:55,932 structural advantage in our white communities. 1125 01:09:56,067 --> 01:09:57,774 And that's where we are today. 1126 01:09:58,820 --> 01:10:02,029 It wasn't 'til I got older and started understanding 1127 01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:05,069 um, politics a little bit more, 1128 01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,488 and at the same time I started 1129 01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:09,953 getting real big into, uh, black history 1130 01:10:10,790 --> 01:10:13,498 and about the things that America had done to us. 1131 01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:16,744 A gun shot, a stab that makes the evening news, 1132 01:10:17,130 --> 01:10:18,587 that's spectacular violence. 1133 01:10:18,715 --> 01:10:21,549 We readily recognize that is violence, right? 1134 01:10:21,968 --> 01:10:25,882 But we don't recognize redlining as slow violence. 1135 01:10:26,723 --> 01:10:30,467 We don't recognize putting people in environments 1136 01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:34,428 where they don't have opportunity as slow violence. 1137 01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:38,603 But that's what's going on in Baltimore City. 1138 01:10:41,279 --> 01:10:44,488 I was sitting here at my desk watching the police 1139 01:10:44,615 --> 01:10:49,076 and the children interact on the day of April 27th, 2015. 1140 01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:51,779 And the children were throwing rocks, 1141 01:10:51,914 --> 01:10:54,122 the police throwing rocks back at the children. 1142 01:10:54,709 --> 01:10:56,541 And eventually, the police, you know, 1143 01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:59,161 they're shooting rubber bullets and they deploy tear gas, 1144 01:10:59,297 --> 01:11:01,334 and at the moment they deploy that tear gas, 1145 01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:03,731 I'm sitting here and I'm like, I feel like 1146 01:11:03,801 --> 01:11:06,168 this weight come right on my chest, 1147 01:11:06,721 --> 01:11:08,713 and I'm like, I can't breathe. 1148 01:11:08,848 --> 01:11:11,088 I couldn't watch it anymore because I knew it was causing 1149 01:11:11,142 --> 01:11:14,101 some sort of physiological reaction in my body. 1150 01:11:15,688 --> 01:11:20,058 It really was, uh, a powerful, pivotal turning point, 1151 01:11:20,568 --> 01:11:22,525 'cause everybody went into overdrive after that. 1152 01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:26,613 Everybody went into throwing themselves into activism 1153 01:11:26,741 --> 01:11:29,233 and non-profit work and volunteerism. 1154 01:11:33,581 --> 01:11:37,746 So, um, this is what you're gonna talk about here. 1155 01:11:37,877 --> 01:11:39,459 So you're gonna talk about what is home 1156 01:11:39,587 --> 01:11:41,749 in a neighborhood mean to you? 1157 01:11:41,881 --> 01:11:43,998 Exercise is set up for you to be with a person 1158 01:11:44,133 --> 01:11:46,013 that you would least likely be with in the room. 1159 01:11:46,427 --> 01:11:49,044 Partner up and really sit with your partner, folks, 1160 01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:51,763 don't sit side by side like this, sit... 1161 01:11:51,891 --> 01:11:53,848 - How you doing, Miss Gale? - Hi, Greg. 1162 01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:56,138 I'm originally from Greenmount, the Greenmount area. 1163 01:11:56,771 --> 01:11:59,354 To me, that small section of a neighborhood is everything 1164 01:11:59,482 --> 01:12:01,189 because it's a certain level of pain 1165 01:12:01,317 --> 01:12:04,435 you gotta go through to be, uh, really from Baltimore, 1166 01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,653 and when you're really from a neighborhood 1167 01:12:06,781 --> 01:12:10,070 that has a reputation, you get what's known as a stamp. 1168 01:12:11,202 --> 01:12:13,694 I have my, my literal stamp. 1169 01:12:13,830 --> 01:12:15,116 You know? Uh... 1170 01:12:15,957 --> 01:12:18,074 Zone 18, it stands for the last two digits 1171 01:12:18,209 --> 01:12:23,170 of your area code, so it's really big, 1172 01:12:23,756 --> 01:12:25,873 you know, to be connected to a neighborhood. 1173 01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,218 What people outside this street don't understand, 1174 01:12:30,930 --> 01:12:32,637 all of this stuff is about legacy. 1175 01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:35,159 We don't really know where we come from, 1176 01:12:35,226 --> 01:12:37,809 we don't know our families. So when you decide 1177 01:12:37,937 --> 01:12:41,101 that you're a street dude, then you put your all into being a street dude. 1178 01:12:41,941 --> 01:12:43,773 It's really the only industry that we run, 1179 01:12:43,901 --> 01:12:46,188 or we think we run, you get what I'm sayin'? 1180 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,734 So from there, your kids grow up under your name. 1181 01:12:49,866 --> 01:12:52,627 What is your name? What kind of name you wanna leave for your children? 1182 01:12:52,910 --> 01:12:55,347 You get what I'm sayin'? That... That's the name my father left for me. 1183 01:12:55,371 --> 01:12:57,579 I, I could go anywhere I want to in East Baltimore 1184 01:12:57,707 --> 01:13:00,245 and not have a problem because of who my father was. 1185 01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:02,368 But, because I'm not a street dude, 1186 01:13:03,004 --> 01:13:04,870 and, but I still carry those morals, 1187 01:13:05,006 --> 01:13:06,246 I gotta leave my son something. 1188 01:13:07,758 --> 01:13:08,998 I'mma buy a block in this city. 1189 01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:10,594 And it's gonna be a... 1190 01:13:11,679 --> 01:13:13,921 It's gonna be new block, I'm tryin' to tell you. 1191 01:13:14,599 --> 01:13:16,535 I'm gonna help a lot of people just by giving them 1192 01:13:16,559 --> 01:13:18,596 places to stay in, and doing what I know how to do, 1193 01:13:18,728 --> 01:13:19,969 use these hands. 1194 01:13:20,813 --> 01:13:22,520 I know too much about real estate 1195 01:13:22,899 --> 01:13:24,765 to not get them into these homes. 1196 01:13:25,526 --> 01:13:27,984 That's gon' be my legacy, that's gon' be my legacy. 1197 01:13:31,282 --> 01:13:33,695 It wasn't until the early '70s 1198 01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:37,240 when they started putting money into the harbors, 1199 01:13:37,371 --> 01:13:40,705 and said it would back into the neighborhoods, which it did not. 1200 01:13:42,335 --> 01:13:45,578 I have seen so much in Baltimore and it hasn't changed 1201 01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,506 uh, from when I was younger to now. 1202 01:13:50,009 --> 01:13:52,001 Telling us, our neighborhoods are bad, 1203 01:13:52,136 --> 01:13:54,628 and it's dangerous, and then we, as African-Americans, 1204 01:13:54,764 --> 01:13:57,006 feed into it, and then we move out, 1205 01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:59,303 and then other people move in, then all of a sudden, 1206 01:13:59,435 --> 01:14:00,635 the neighborhood's good again. 1207 01:14:02,730 --> 01:14:07,145 People who've been here and have been mentally beaten up 1208 01:14:07,276 --> 01:14:08,983 their entire life, there's so much 1209 01:14:09,111 --> 01:14:11,694 that you got to be mad at. 1210 01:14:12,615 --> 01:14:15,153 That feeling of hopelessness in me, 1211 01:14:15,284 --> 01:14:17,241 kind of manifested itself into hate. 1212 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,830 So when you get the opportunity to display your anger, 1213 01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:24,745 and it's been pent up forever, it just, 1214 01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:27,290 it goes way beyond anybody could think. 1215 01:14:59,870 --> 01:15:02,112 Hey guys, theyjust set the CVS on fire. 1216 01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:06,124 They just set the CVS on fire. 1217 01:15:10,715 --> 01:15:12,331 What you get an the example of is 1218 01:15:12,466 --> 01:15:15,174 what's really inside of everybody. 1219 01:15:16,971 --> 01:15:19,964 Our trials is they build up and build up. 1220 01:15:20,099 --> 01:15:21,556 How far is this gonna go? 1221 01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:23,346 As far as they take us. 1222 01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:25,264 - As far as they take us. - What is this... 1223 01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:26,978 Watch out for that. 1224 01:15:27,106 --> 01:15:29,098 See that? Theyjust... 1225 01:15:29,233 --> 01:15:30,565 Did you see that? 1226 01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,021 We just saw that 1227 01:15:33,154 --> 01:15:34,611 they just, while we were talking, 1228 01:15:34,739 --> 01:15:36,446 they've just cut through that hose. 1229 01:15:36,615 --> 01:15:39,824 We just saw that guy cut through the hose 1230 01:15:39,952 --> 01:15:42,820 trying to thwart the efforts of the authorities 1231 01:15:42,955 --> 01:15:44,742 to actually turn out this fire. 1232 01:15:45,499 --> 01:15:47,019 So I'm gonna stop it right here. 1233 01:15:47,043 --> 01:15:48,683 I just wanted you to see this piece first, 1234 01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:50,543 but I wanna do something else in here too. 1235 01:15:51,297 --> 01:15:53,584 You saw that young man was poking 1236 01:15:53,716 --> 01:15:56,003 the water hose with the pocket knife? 1237 01:15:58,012 --> 01:16:00,550 Well, I want you to know, that's him right there. 1238 01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,423 Right there. 1239 01:16:07,563 --> 01:16:11,477 At 21, with no priors, 1240 01:16:11,650 --> 01:16:15,018 I spent two years fighting 25. 1241 01:16:16,030 --> 01:16:18,670 And people was trying to give me more time than I had been on Earth. 1242 01:16:19,950 --> 01:16:23,819 It was scary, but it was eerily familiar, 1243 01:16:24,371 --> 01:16:26,600 because it felt like, no matter what I accomplished in my life, 1244 01:16:26,624 --> 01:16:28,184 being the first person to go to college, 1245 01:16:28,209 --> 01:16:30,371 graduating high school, I felt like 1246 01:16:30,503 --> 01:16:31,583 I was supposed to be there. 1247 01:16:32,797 --> 01:16:36,290 It's kind of hard for you to... take this stuff 1248 01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:40,795 that we see here and translate it into the humanity of it 1249 01:16:40,930 --> 01:16:41,930 as a person. 1250 01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:44,099 A million. 1251 01:16:45,017 --> 01:16:46,537 I got a million dollars in restitution. 1252 01:16:47,311 --> 01:16:49,098 $100 a month, that's 10,000 months. 1253 01:16:50,106 --> 01:16:52,598 Anybody know anybody here that's lived 10,000 months? 1254 01:16:53,192 --> 01:16:56,060 Yeah, can't leave the city 'til my restitution's paid. 1255 01:16:56,946 --> 01:16:58,965 - Wait what? - Whoa. I didn't know that. 1256 01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:00,949 Yeah, can't, you're not allowed to leave your city 1257 01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:02,913 - 'til the restitutions paid. - Seriously? 1258 01:17:03,327 --> 01:17:05,410 These are the struggles that don't make the news. 1259 01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:08,789 These are the differences that make people 1260 01:17:08,916 --> 01:17:11,704 like myself turn off from everybody. 1261 01:17:12,503 --> 01:17:15,211 Hate yourself, you know what I mean? 1262 01:17:15,339 --> 01:17:16,830 Because everybody else hates you. 1263 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,657 When people make the claim of, you know, 1264 01:17:23,681 --> 01:17:25,673 why would people burn down their own neighborhood? 1265 01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:28,971 I think it's sort of a glib statement, 1266 01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,141 to sort of gloss over the fact that many of these neighborhoods 1267 01:17:32,273 --> 01:17:34,435 don't have investment to begin with. 1268 01:17:35,651 --> 01:17:37,731 I mean, why would they burn down their own community? 1269 01:17:37,778 --> 01:17:40,737 I mean, it really isn't a community 1270 01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:43,824 that they've been able to have ownership in. 1271 01:17:47,454 --> 01:17:51,243 ♪ Don't push me 'Cause I'm close to the edge ♪ 1272 01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:53,742 Black communities have been pushed to the edge 1273 01:17:53,878 --> 01:17:56,962 and I think that is sort of why we see some 1274 01:17:57,089 --> 01:17:58,330 of the uprisings we see now. 1275 01:17:58,465 --> 01:18:01,082 Black lives matter! 1276 01:18:02,052 --> 01:18:04,419 People may begin to understand 1277 01:18:04,555 --> 01:18:07,593 that black lives matter, but black lives don't matter 1278 01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:09,257 if black neighborhoods don't matter. 1279 01:18:12,605 --> 01:18:15,973 I came back here subsequently when I was a police officer. 1280 01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:20,648 And it was all bricked up, all the, the windows, the doors. 1281 01:18:22,907 --> 01:18:24,614 It's choice property now. 1282 01:18:24,742 --> 01:18:26,904 The area is gentrified. 1283 01:18:27,620 --> 01:18:29,202 You know, gentrification, I suppose, 1284 01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:31,170 on one hand is a good thing 'cause it cleans up 1285 01:18:31,207 --> 01:18:33,290 the neighborhood, it makes it nice. 1286 01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:36,581 But my heart goes out to the people who once lived here, 1287 01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:39,921 who got moved out, because where did those poor people go? 1288 01:18:40,799 --> 01:18:42,861 You know, they were forced out of their neighborhood. 1289 01:18:42,885 --> 01:18:43,966 Their homes are gone. 1290 01:18:46,722 --> 01:18:48,617 If we as a country don't pay attention 1291 01:18:48,641 --> 01:18:52,760 to the places where people live, the homes that people have, 1292 01:18:53,312 --> 01:18:56,225 then we'll continue to go in circles and not really 1293 01:18:56,357 --> 01:18:57,768 get to the root of the problem. 1294 01:19:05,574 --> 01:19:07,657 When you look at a rainforest, 1295 01:19:08,369 --> 01:19:10,986 you're seeing a very complex ecosystem. 1296 01:19:11,664 --> 01:19:14,156 Not only do you have these massive trees, 1297 01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:16,374 but you have all the understory, all the animals. 1298 01:19:16,502 --> 01:19:19,836 Every leaf has its own individual ecosystem. 1299 01:19:20,589 --> 01:19:24,253 And when you add up all of that, you have this massive, massive complexity. 1300 01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:28,087 You compare that to, say, a corn field. 1301 01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:33,141 You have one species of plant, a complete monoculture. 1302 01:19:35,354 --> 01:19:38,142 And what you see is a very efficient undertaking. 1303 01:19:38,274 --> 01:19:40,857 And you produce a lot of corn in a very small space. 1304 01:19:41,318 --> 01:19:43,184 But you certainly don't have the complexity 1305 01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:46,438 and the ability to thrive that a rainforest does. 1306 01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:51,443 So what we did is we switched cities 1307 01:19:51,578 --> 01:19:53,820 from being complex systems to corn fields. 1308 01:20:04,883 --> 01:20:06,374 You look back in history, though, 1309 01:20:06,510 --> 01:20:09,753 in the way humans evolved along with the city. 1310 01:20:11,265 --> 01:20:13,427 And what you see is that messiness, 1311 01:20:13,559 --> 01:20:16,643 that friction, that rubbing up against other people, 1312 01:20:16,770 --> 01:20:18,762 is an essential component of it. 1313 01:20:20,816 --> 01:20:24,730 And there was a certain discomfort that went along with that, 1314 01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:27,611 but there was also a social dimension to it, 1315 01:20:27,740 --> 01:20:29,823 that we've just completely lost. 1316 01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:35,446 This pattern of development has allowed us 1317 01:20:35,581 --> 01:20:40,121 to be intentionally ignorant of the pain 1318 01:20:40,252 --> 01:20:41,743 and the hurt and the needs 1319 01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,162 that go along in all our places. 1320 01:21:59,581 --> 01:22:03,165 ♪ My house was shoved On the corner ♪ 1321 01:22:03,293 --> 01:22:07,207 ♪ On a gravel Road Edmund Street ♪ 1322 01:22:07,339 --> 01:22:10,923 ♪ But here's You missed and you got 'em ♪ 1323 01:22:11,051 --> 01:22:13,213 ♪ Never wanted help from me ♪ 1324 01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:15,086 ♪ You'll never say I'm the one ♪ 1325 01:22:15,222 --> 01:22:16,929 ♪ Ayo ayo ♪ 1326 01:22:20,436 --> 01:22:22,553 ♪ You'll never say I'm the one ♪ 1327 01:22:22,688 --> 01:22:23,929 ♪ Ayo ayo ♪ 1328 01:22:27,568 --> 01:22:29,560 ♪ Ayo ayo... ♪