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From YouTube: LOOK TO BOSTON with Mayor Walsh -- Episode 1
Description
In his recent State of the City Address, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh urged us all to "Look to Boston as the Leader of Cities."
Boston City TV host Lois Leonard sits down with the Mayor for an up close and personal discussion about what makes Boston such a successful city.
We hope you enjoy our first episode of "LOOK TO BOSTON with Mayor Walsh."
A
Welcome
to
look
to
Boston
with
Mayor
Walsh
I'm,
your
host
Louis
Leonard
and
today
we're
in
the
mayor's
office
in
Boston,
City
Hall
for
an
up-close-and-personal
conversation
with
the
mayor
in
his
recent
State
of
the
City
address.
He
urged
us
all
to
look
to
Boston
as
the
leader
of
cities.
Let's
find
out
why.
B
A
C
C
You
know
something
that's
going
on
in
our
schools
or
did
this
challenges
to
it,
but
you
can
make
real
impact
by
the
policies
and
the
people
that
work
for
the
city
of
Boston-
and
you
know,
I,
feel
good
on
we're
going
to
talk
about
this
today,
but
I
feel
really
good
on
some
of
the
policy
areas
that
we've
advanced
on
housing,
economic
development,
schools,
those
different
program,
I,
feel
really.
Climate
I
feel
good
on
the
gains
that
were
made
in
those
areas
and
we
have
real
good,
solid
foundation
moving
forward
and.
C
C
A
C
You
know
the
White
House
this
administration
in
Washington
now
basically
has
said
that
you
know.
Climate
change
is
not
real
and
there's
enough
scientific
evidence
to
prove
that
the
client
that
climate
change
is
a
real,
real
issue
that
we're
dealing
with
in
this
world.
It's
not
just
here
in
Boston
and
as
Boston
as
we
think
about
the
moving
forward
of
Boston.
We're
dealing
with
sea
level
rise.
Will
we're
dealing
with
wanting
to
reduce
carbon
emissions
by
2050.
C
We're
dealing
with
opportunities
to
clean
the
environment
and
I
think
that
we
have
a
responsibility
for
the
future
generations
to
do
that.
Quite
obviously
we're
the
ones
who
who
have
who
have
polluted
the
environment,
human
beings
throughout
the
world
and
in
our
city,
we've
worked
on
a
couple
different
plans.
One
is
carbon
free
Boston,
which
is
to
be
carbon
neutral
by
2050,
but
also
looking
at
other
ways
of
protecting
the
environment
and
resilient
Boston
Harbor,
which
is
dealing
with
sea
level
rise
that
we
have
in
the
city.
C
A
C
A
C
We're
gonna
have
to
be
100
percent,
eventually
in
the
state
as
well
on
another
state
I'm,
not
talking
for
the
state,
but
they're
eventually,
gonna
have
to
get
there
and
we're
all
gonna
have
to
get
there
because
it
just
doesn't
work.
If
you
know
Boston's
been
a
leader
in
the
area
of
climate
change
for
a
long
time
and
we've
done
a
lot
of
talking
a
lot
of
planning
and
now
we're
implementing
these
plans
and
these
ideas
and
and
it's
important
for
us
as
we
continue
to
be
a
leader.
C
You
know
the
state
will
look
to
Boston
other
cities
looking
to
Boston
on
seeing
what
we're
doing
and
we
just
have
to
continue
and
I'm
part
of
called
the
US
Conference
of
Mayors
minutes
from
around
America.
And
you
know
some
cities
are,
you
know
we're.
We
are
in
some
cities
a
lot
further
behind
us,
but
they
all
understand
the
importance
of
this
issue
of.
C
An
issue
not
having
you
know,
we
have
a
good
partner
in
the
state
here
in
Massachusetts
in
Boston
that
that
is
doing
a
lot
more
in
this
area.
The
speaker
has
in
this
the
governor
and
the
Senate
President
have
all
made
this
a
centerpiece
of
the
legislative
term
this
year,
their
legislation.
So
that's
going
to
be
important
for
us
as
well.
You
know
they're
gonna,
put
out
guidelines
for
the
Commonwealth,
it's
ultimately
up
to
cities
and
towns
so
to
carry
out
this
work
much.
A
C
We're
working
with
a
VP
DA
and
putting
in
some
some
new
building
regulations
to
be
able
to
not
have
to
go
back
and
retrofit
these
buildings,
but
we
also
have
an
older
housing
stock.
I
think
we've
about
70,000
buildings
in
the
city
of
Boston.
Eventually,
we
have
to
locate
think
about
how
we,
how
do
we
retrofit
these
buildings
and
how
we
make
sure
that
they're
doing,
though
the
being
efficient,
if
you
will.
C
Where
our
biggest
challenge
is
going
to
come,
that's
we're
really
gonna
have
to
think
about
new
construction.
We
can
figure
that
out
and
we'll
be
doing
a
pilot
program
now
and
it
wouldn't
decide
to
change
our
building
standards
over
the
next.
You
know
over
the
next
several
years,
it's
the
buildings,
the
pre-existing
buildings.
We
have
many
many.
A
C
Our
buildings
were
built
in
the
early
1900's
and
they're,
not
going
anywhere
and
they're
big
strong
buildings
about.
We
have
to
think
about
how
these
buildings
get
retrofitted
and
what
are
some
of
the
programming
and
the
incentives
that
we
can
do
that
building
on
it's
really
stuff
to
take
this
serious
well,.
A
C
Lot
of
it
was
to
job
training.
A
lot
of
it
was
in
recognizing
that
we
had
have
a
huge
income
disparity
issue
here
in
the
city,
as
well
as
many
cities
around
America,
but
acknowledging
it
and
working
on
it's
important.
We
still
have
a
long
way
to
go.
We
still
a
lot
of
work
to
do
the
number
being
number
one
and
number
two
respectively
are
great
to
be
able
to
say
we're
doing
much
better
than
the
rest
of
the
country.
C
But
when
you
look
at
the
issue
inside
of
Boston-
and
you
realize
that
not
everyone
is
in
that
ranking,
we
have
more
work
to
do
so
part
of
a
third
job
training
Potter's
through
understanding
the
way
we've
changed.
Inclusionary
development,
creating
more
housing,
more
opportunity
for
people
to
not
only
live
in
a
home
but
buy
a
home,
first-time
homebuyer
programs.
C
Looking
at
helping
people
build
wealth
through
our
economic
mobility
lab,
and
how
do
we
create
opportunities
for
people
to
understand
what
credit
scoring
means
and
different
things
like
that,
working
with
our
young
people
in
our
schools,
making
sure
that
we're
putting
them
on
a
pathway
to
career
at
college?
So
it's
it's!
It's
a
combination
of
a
whole
bunch
of
folks
working
together
and
a
whole
bunch
of
different
departments,
working
together
as
well
as
the
outside
community
and
having
business,
understand
this
as
well
and
and
recognizing
that
they
have.
C
Every
day
bringing
new
business
since
the
city
is
so
important
in
diversity
of
businesses,
they
can't
all
be
just
in
the
biotech
tech
sector.
It's
in
life
sciences,
it's
in
it's
in
financial
institutions.
It's
in
the
law,
it's
in
a
whole
bunch
of
different
areas,
so
making
sure
that
we
stay
diversified
as
well
in
our
business
area,
just
because
we're
in
a
down
economy.
If
you
are,
if
all
your
investments
are
all
your
focuses
on
one
industry
and
that
industry
goes
out,
then
there's
troubles
and
that
happened
kind
of
in
Detroit.
C
When
the
car
industry
kind
of
collapsed,
we
saw
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
people
moved
out
of
the
city
and
moved
out
of
the
region
and
now
Detroit's
reinventing
itself
in
diversifying
the
businesses,
which
is
great,
the
number
one
is
the
number
one
product:
that's
still
creating
vehicles,
but
it's
honey.
How
do
you
create
opportunities
for
more
people?
Well,.
A
C
Me
an
incredible
progress
in
the
area
of
homelessness.
In
the
last
65
years,
we've
housed
1,600
chronically
homeless
people
in
the
city
of
Boston,
and
that's
veterans
and
non-veterans.
Individual
homelessness,
we've
taken
about
4,500
years
of
homelessness
off
the
street
and
in
my
second
swearing-in,
rather
than
having
a
big
party,
we
usually
have
inauguration
party.
We
decided
not
to
do
that
and
we
decided
to
ask
people
to
donate
to
a
fund
called
bosses
way
home
fund
to
raise
10
million
dollars
to
build
more
housing
for
chronically
homeless,
for
homeless
veterans
and
homeless.
C
A
C
Know
we
know
who's
on
the
street,
you
know
so
in
partly
that's.
If
somebody
new
appears
on
the
street
that
we're
not
sure
where
they
are,
we
can
try
and
find
out.
What's
going
on,
it's
not
just
the
city
of
Boston,
it's
the
nonprofits
as
well
like
places
like
Pine,
Street
and
Rosie's
place
and
Francis
house
and
bridge
over
troubled
waters.
So
we
were
working
collectively
as
one
one
unit
right
now
and
that's
key.
You
know
not
every
homeless
person
wants
to
come
in,
which
is
another
challenge
we
have.
C
There
are
people
that
we
did
the
homeless
census
count
in
January
was
a
freezing
cold
night
and
there
were
people
on
the
shoe.
It
was
like
7
degrees
below
zero,
and
there
were
people
on
the
street
that
just
didn't
want
services.
They
didn't
want
to
come
into
a
shelter.
They
had
no
desire
for
an
apartment,
so.
A
C
A
C
It
is
personal
in
the
way,
because
you
think
about
these
folks
that
live
they
at
one
point:
they
they
lived
in.
They
were
kids,
they
went
to
school,
they
were
loved
and
this
still
might
be
loved
by
people,
but
they
just
feel
that
their
life
is
worthless
and
and
how
do
we
make
sure
that
that
they
understand
that
the
city
that
they're
in
loves
them
and
wants
to
see
them
back
on
their
feet
and
wants
to
see
them
be
successful
and
see
them
move
forward?
So
that
that's
our
responsibility?
But.
A
C
We
have
some
major
problems
of
the
federal
government
because
we've
seen
a
lack
of
investment
in
HUD.
That's
that's
our
public
housing
we've
seen
in
the
in
the
city
in
2015,
we,
the
city
applause.
When
we
do
our
budget,
the
majority
of
the
Boston
Housing
Authority
money
came
from
the
federal
government,
so
the
the
money
didn't
come
out
of
our
general
fund.
In
2015,
we
started
to
have
to
support
the
Boston
Housing
Authority
because
of
cutbacks
in
the
federal
government.
C
So
that's
one
aspect
of
housing
and
we
get
to
continue
to
make
investments
in
public
housing
to
make
sure
that
people
who
live
in
public
housing
live
in
good,
safe,
clean
environments
and
we're
working
towards
some
some
ideas
on
how
to
do
that.
On
the
other
side,
which
is
all
one
issue
we
when
I
became
mayor
in
2014,
we
realized
that
there
was
a
housing
crisis
going
on.
There
were
people
that
want
to
come
into
the
city
of
Boston
families
that
lived
here
were
being
pushed
out
of
the
city
of
Boston.
C
There
really
wasn't
a
plan
to
build
major
housing,
so
we
launched
a
housing
plan
along
on
Sheila
Dillon
and
the
Department
neighborhood
development
to
create
53,000
units
new
housing
by
the
year
2030.
Halfway
through
last
year,
we
were
heading
towards
hitting
our
goal
file
before
2030,
so
we
raised
that
that
bar
not
a
sixty
nine
thousand
units
of
housing
by
2030
and
we're
also
working
with
regional
mayor's
to
we
came
up
with
a
plan
regionally
to
create
one
hundred
eighty-five
thousand
units
a
new
housing
by
the
year
2030.
Now
it
sounds
like
a
great
idea.
C
We
break
it
down.
You
have
low
income,
housing,
moderate
income,
housing,
first-time
homebuyer
programs,
people
who
want
to
buy
homes.
So
it's
a
gamut
of
housing
options
that
we
have
to
continue
to
work
on,
including
our
seniors
working
to
create
more
senior
housing
in
working
with
our
College
University,
so
that
they
will
have
a
hundred
percent
placement
on
campus,
hopefully
by
2030.
What
that
does
is
free
up
housing
stock
in
the
neighborhoods
right.
C
We
create
an
office
housing
stability
to
keep
people
in
their
homes.
We
were
working
with
with
folks
that
are
looking
at
that
worried
about.
This
placement
was
worried,
working
with
the
families
that
are
worrying
about
evictions,
we're
worrying
about
people
where
banks
are
taking
home
some
folks,
so
we're
working
on
those
different
areas.
We
put
together
a
legislative
package
to
deal
with
displacement
to
deal
with
representation
in
courts,
so
we're
working
a
whole
bunch
of
different
areas.
C
We
sat
down
in
this
room
that
were
being
interviewed
in
three
years
ago
with
the
business
community
to
say
that
we're
gonna
raise
the
inclusionary
development
from
13%
to
18%,
which
is
game.
That's
nedeth
about
150
million
dollars
to
put
into
a
housing,
affordable
housing,
so
every
opportunity
and
every
option
needs
to
be
on
the
table
for
us
to
move
forward.
There's.
C
C
C
A
C
Need
to
continue
to
do
more
on
bikes,
we
have
a
pretty
aggressive
transportation
plan
that
we're
looking
at
all
different
modes
of
transportation:
cars,
bikes,
darienne's,
walking
working
with
the
state
on
on
their
infrastructure
improvements.
They
want
to
invest
eight
billion
dollars
over
the
next
five
years
in
public
transportation,
a
large
portion
that
will
come
to
the
city
of
Boston
transit
areas.
So
you
know
we
have
still
work
to
do
you
know
in
dedicated
bike
lanes.
You
know
we
have.
You
know
the
total
total.
C
So
when
you
think
about
the
three
big
issues
that
will
three
of
the
biggest
issues
were
being
faced
with
in
the
future:
housing
climate,
climate,
transportation,
no
federal
policy,
you
know
bickering
back
and
forth
about
what
what
you
know
what
color
the
sky
is
when
they
really
should
be
focused
on.
How
do
you
help
the
American
people-
and
these
are
these
challenges
that
we're
facing
here
in
Boston
I'm,
just
about
Boston
right.
A
C
C
And
in
some
city,
cities
and
towns
of
doing
great
work
on
the
environment,
stuff
I
mean
that
we've
all
evolved
very
dedicated,
committed
to
reducing
emissions
and
and
having
better
that
a
better
environment
here
on
the
housing
stuff
and
in
the
education
and
transportation
stuff
that
that
is
more
of
a
local
type
of
local
regional
approach.
So
again
we're
working
on
those
locally
and
regionally.
It
happens
in
other
cities.
But
it's
kind
of
it
affects
what
happens
here
in
Boston
and
regionally.
B
C
A
A
Talk
a
little
bit
more
about
our
young
people,
because
I
think
we'd
like
to
speak
to
education.
You
know
there
are
the
state
of
our
public.
Schools
has
been
a
concern
for
decades
and
we
are
making
progress
so
we're
in
a
much
better
place.
Now
many
of
the
schools
have
reached
a
level
one
or
two
status.
So
how
did
we
get
to
that?
A.
C
Lot
of
investment
and
a
lot
of
working
to
get
collaboratively
together,
I
mean
we
don't
hear
the
good
stories
that
much
and
there's
been
a
lot.
That's
been
been
done
with
our
schools,
I.
Think
one
of
the
first
things
we're
able
to
do
is
extend
the
day
we
used
to
have
one
of
the
shortest
school
days
in
the
country,
and
now
we
don't
have
that
problem.
C
So
that's
one
aspect:
universal
pre-kindergarten,
working
towards
universal
pre-k,
we've
added
a
thousand
extra
universal
seats
to
have
young
people
getting
into
school
earlier,
something
that's
really
key
for
us,
focusing
on
on
some
of
our
some
of
our
learning
learning
programs
and
making
investments
in
those
areas
focusing
on
our
specialist
bed,
kids
and
kids
that
have
special
needs
and
they
need
extra
supports
working
with
those
folks
as
well.
We
saw
some
some
work
to
do
in
our
high
schools.
I
mean
we
had
a
report
that
came
back
last
year.
That
wasn't
really
it
wasn't.
C
It
wasn't
a
flattering
report
about
in
high
schools,
not
all
but
select
high
schools.
Some
schools
that
have
a
mission
we're
seeing
them
do
really
really
well
in
some
schools.
We
need
to
continue
to
make
it
when
I
say
investments
I
don't
mean
just
financial
investments.
I'm
talking
about
human
capital
and
people
and
those
in
programming
and
things
that
happen
and
working
to,
let
young
people
know
that
we
love
them
and
that
we
want
them
to
be
successful
as
they
possibly
can
be.
And
as.
A
C
Know
I
think
that
we
need
somebody
that
understands
systems
and
understand
that
can
manage
people
and
there's
a
great
recruiter
of
talent.
I
think
that
you
know
there's
a
lot
of
different
aspects
to
a
superintendent
that
that,
with
that,
we
could
talk
for
an
hour
and
a
half
about,
but
I
really
think
about
somebody
that
understands
systems
and
it's
a
very
big
system,
the
school
department,
roughly
8,000
employees.
We
have
fifty-seven
thousand
kids,
125
schools,
22
different
great
configurations,
22
different
start
times.
How.
C
C
College,
that's
a
program
we
launched
a
couple
years
ago
and
one
of
the
things
in
our
there
was
a
there
was
an
obstacle
for
young
people
that
couldn't
afford
to
go
to
college.
So
a
lot
of
them
have
the
idea
that
I'll
take
a
couple
years
off
and
go
back
to
college,
and
that
doesn't
happen
that
way.
So
we
have
programmer
Bunker,
Hill,
Community,
College
or
Oxford
Community
College
of
Bay
State
Community
College
to
have
free,
Community,
College,
free
community
college
tuition
for
our
kids.
C
C
So
I
mean
some
of
the
kids
that
we're
talking
about
our
very
low
income,
families
that
don't
have
the
means
and
I'm
very
in
a
lot
of
immigrant
families
that
own
the
means
and
they
should
have
same
options
and
rights
as
everyone
else,
so
we're
trying
to
create
more
opportunities
for
people
in
the
states.
Looking
at
this
program,
nacho
and.
A
C
Other
cities
are
following
us:
I
mean
they're
there
on
all
the
different
plans
that
we
have.
Other
cities
are
following
us:
I
was
talking
to
Rahm
Emanuel
in
Chicago,
and
he
is
a
similar
program
in
Chicago,
and
the
importance
of
that
is
really
is
key
to
the
future
of
the
city
that
we
have
to
create
opportunities
for
our
kids
and-
and
you
know,
when
you
look
at
the
disparities
in
society,
particularly
in
America
and
in
Boston,
the
wealth
gap
between
white
families
and
black
families.
C
Latino
families
is
a
big
gap
and
you
know
to
be
a
city
for
everybody.
We
have
to
address
those
issues,
and
you
know:
we've
talked
about
it
for
a
long
time
and
you've
set
some
policy
in
place,
but
we
actually
are
tackling
the
issues
and
not
afraid
to
tackle
issues.
So
when
we
think
about
families,
we
need
to
make
sure
we
close
those
wealth
gaps.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
we
close
inequality
gaps.
C
A
C
The
scholarship
program,
three
hundred
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
scholarship
funding
in
an
issue
we
want
to
off
that
number
by
about
30,
so
we're
trying
to
encourage
our
young
people
to
sign
up
and
get
involved,
and
it
will
help
it's
a
small
amount
but
it'll
help
add
to
the
pie
of
the
bigger
bill.
Every.
C
Summer,
job
program,
it's
it's
I,
think
it's
open
until
I
think
April
12th,
the
kids
can
sign
up.
You
know
people
can
sign
up
ages,
15
to
18
for
summer
jobs.
Well,
a
lot
of
these
summer.
Jobs
are
partnering
with
private,
private
companies
and
private
firms.
Some
of
those
programs
are
working
with
us.
Some
work
in
City
Hall
we're
gonna,
be
his
office.
So
it's
it's
a
great
way
for
a
young
person
to
spend
their
summer.
You.
A
Know
mayor,
it
seems
that
most
of
us
watch
the
news.
We
listen
and
we
worry
and
we
wonder
what's
happening
to
our
country,
our
cities.
We
wonder
if
our
leaders
are
people
we
want
to
follow,
do
they
have
integrity?
Do
they
deserve
our
respect?
And
yet
so
few
of
us
actually
go
into
public
service.
So
I'd
like
to
ask
you:
how
did
you
make
your
choice?
What
was
your
path?
It.
C
C
I
was
I
coached
around
a
little
league,
I
coach,
basketball,
I
coach
hockey
I
was
involved
in
my
Civic
Association
I
was
the
president.
I
was
active,
I've
got
involved
in
issues,
I
mean
I,
just
it
was
kind
of
in
my
family.
That
was
always
activism
going
on
in
the
house
and
and
for
me
it
was
just
one
of
those
things
is
just
natural
and
I
just
liked
it
yeah.
A
C
Did
it
was
just
it
was
something
I
enjoyed
him
and
so,
as
I
got
a
little
older,
an
opportunity
present
itself
to
run
for
State,
Representative
and
I
threw
my
hat
in
the
ring,
and
you
know
there
was
seven
people
that
ran
and
it
was
a
great
race
or
at
a
race.
I
won
in
for
16
years,
I
served
as
a
state
legislator,
and
it
was
amazing
because
it
was
I
got
a
chance
to
kind
of
really
have
an
impact
in
people's
lives
being
a
legislator
and
I
enjoyed
it
and
then
I
ran
from
era.
C
C
C
Mean
you
know
if
you
put
your
name
on
the
ballot
or
whatever
you're
running
for
you're,
putting
your
whole
public
life
from
the
old
life
on
the
ballot
to
be
public
and
it's
complicated
and
challenging.
And
then
some
people
are
trying
to
say
we
had
only
a
piece
of
that
right
now
and
so
I
hope.
It
changes,
because
it's.
C
C
A
C
You
know
they
know:
boss
is
going
through
a
boom,
a
lot
of
them
and
some
of
these
cities
are
going
through
a
boom
as
well,
and
you
know
basically
the
biggest
thing
we
share
best
practices.
We
share
ideas.
We
talk
about
challenges
that
we
might
have
we
talk
about.
How
do
we
handle
those
challenges
and
I?
Think
that
that's
something
that's
important?
The
conference
of
mayors
is
an
organization
that
is
nonpartisan.
C
You
know
we
have
a
Republican
mayor,
a
Democratic
mayor
and
we
don't
get
caught
up
in
the
rhetoric
of
what's
happening
in
Washington.
We
talk
about
the
issues
that
we
need
to
move
forward
in
Washington,
but
we
don't
get
caught
up
in
the
rhetoric
of
a
very
Democrat
I'm,
a
Republican.
Everything
you
say
is
wrong.
Everything
I
say
is
right.
We
don't
get
caught
up
in
that
world.
We
just
kind
of
think
about
how
do
we?
How
do
we
get
to
move
far
move
our
cities
forward,
which
means
we're
moving
America
forward.
Thank.
A
A
You
our
viewers
for
watching
I,
believe
today's
conversation
with
the
mayor
is
vital
to
the
success
of
our
city
mayor
Walsh
can't
do
it
alone,
it's
our
responsibility
to
stay
informed
and
be
involved.
That's
how
we'll
keep
Boston
strong
thanks
for
joining
us,
I'm,
Louis,
Leonard
and
I.
Look
forward
to
seeing
you
next
time
on
Luke
to
Boston
with
mer
wall.