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A
Matters
black
pittsburgh
matters
is
a
series
of
virtual
town
hall
meetings,
affirming
a
city-wide
agenda
that
black
pittsburgh
indeed
matters.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
means
that
black
lives
matter.
Protecting
the
health
and
safety
of
black
people
matters,
the
black
communities
matter.
It
means
we
must
rebuild
our
communities
and
invest
in
them,
and
it
means
that
black
wealth
matters.
We
must
increase
black
employment,
entrepreneurship
opportunities.
B
The
black
community
has
been
disproportionately
affected
by
concurrent
crisis,
the
kovic
19
pandemic
and
the
economic
crisis
and
race
relations,
which
is
a
public
health
crisis
normally
in
times
of
crisis,
and
great
change
like
this,
we'll
be
coming
to
you
as
the
black
elected
officials
of
pittsburgh
and
having
town
hall
meetings
across
our
city
with
our
constituents,
partners
and
allies.
B
Since
we
cannot
do
this
safely
in
the
current
pandemic,
we're
now
using
this
media
and
platform
to
come
to
you
in
the
ways
we
can
to
talk
about
what
we're
doing
and
discuss
policy
and
legislation
concerning
black
pittsburgh.
These
meetings
will
be
available
via
facebook
youtube
and
the
city's
cable
channel.
You
can
contact
or
ask
questions
via
the
black
pittsburgh
matters,
facebook,
page
or
email
us
at
blockpghmatters
gmail.com,
and
you
can
do
that
even
right.
Now.
Today's
town
hall
meeting
topic
is
sustainability
and
resiliency.
B
across
our
country,
black
people
are
more
likely
to
contact
contract
and
die
from
kovac
19
than
their
white
counterparts
in
allegheny
county
black
residents
comprise
13
percent
of
the
population,
but
have
accounted
for
25
percent
of
kovic
19
cases
and
19
of
all
deaths
according
to
allegheny
county
health
department.
In
addition,
black
businesses
have
also
been
devastated
by
the
kovic
19
pandemic.
B
The
national
bureau
of
economic
research
found
that
during
the
pandemic,
over
41
percent
of
black
businesses
have
failed
as
historic
numbers
of
black-owned
businesses
shuttered
the
center
for
responsible
lending,
estimated
that
up
to
95
of
black
businesses
remain
ineligible
to
receive.
The
federal
cares,
act,
paycheck
protection
plan
funding.
So
what
we
have
even
here
in
pittsburgh
is
a
great
strain
on
the
black
business
community.
A
The
coveted
19
pandemic
is
simply
the
latest
reminder
of
our
country
and
our
city's
moral
imperative
to
begin
distributing
resources
based
upon
racial
equity,
which
means
a
disproportionate
investment
in
black
people
in
the
communities
in
which
they
live.
The
world
health
organization,
social
determinants
of
health
remind
us
that
we
must
significantly
invest
in
economic
development,
education,
housing,
employment
and
entrepreneurial
ship,
and
we
must
continue
to
do
this
until
black
communities
have
sufficient
community
amenities
and
resident
opportunities
for
a
high
quality
of
life
for
black
people.
B
Yeah
and
this
week,
vice
president
biden
came
and
began
to
talk
about.
You
know
the
need
for
better
race
relations,
and
this
today
you
and
I
sent
the
vice
president.
As
you
know,
a
letter
asked
him
to
come
back
to
pittsburgh,
to
tour
black
communities,
to
say
that
black
pittsburgh
matters
and
to
commit
to
rebuilding
black
urban
areas
where
the
majority
in
our
cities
by
people
live,
play
and
worship,
and
hopefully
he'll
come
back,
and
we
can
showcase
the
need
for
greater
investment
in
our
communities.
A
In
addition
to
that,
I
think
it's
important
for
people
to
understand,
because,
early
on
you
start,
you
spoke
about
legislation
and
this
being
a
platform
to
highlight
it
that
at
the
end
of
july,
we
passed
legislation
creating
a
commission
on
racial
equity
and
that
commission
is
going
to
be
charged
is
charged
with
leading
this
effort
to
rebuild
our
communities.
B
Yeah
and
and
on
that
note
we
are
honored
to
have
five
experts
on
the
issue
of
sustainability
and
resiliency
in
the
black
community
to
join
us
for
our
discussion.
Today
we
have
mr
fred
brown
president
and
ceo
of
the
forest
fund,
dr
joylette
portlock,
executive,
director
of
sustainable
pittsburgh
and
mr
mark
lewis,
president
and
ceo
ceo
of
the
poise
foundation
good
evening
and
welcome
to
our
town
hall.
A
A
Thank
you
all
for
joining
us,
so
I
actually
want
to
start
with
mr
fred
brown
and
now
I
want
to
start
there
because
twice.
We've
mentioned
the
world
health
organization,
social
determinants
of
health,
and
you
were
the
first
person
who
ever
educated
me
and
informed
me
to
what
those
are
and
the
importance
of
them,
and
so
I
had
to
learn
what
that
was
about
and
the
significance
it
has
to
rebuilding
our
community
and
so
for
those
who
are
watching.
I
don't
want
them
to
be,
as
ignorant
as
I
once
was.
E
Well,
thank
you.
I
think
the
importance
of
the
social
determinants
of
health
when
you
look
at
education,
income,
stability,
affordable
housing,
community
context
and
health
and
well
health
and
health
care.
Those
five
elements
really
create
what
we
call
a
holistic
delivery
system
that
wraps
around
a
human
being.
What
we've
done
for
many
years
in
the
city
and
across
the
country
is
we've
attempted
to
resolve
social
phenomena
from
a
single
point
of
contact.
E
E
Given
the
four
critical
issues
happening
over
the
next
40
years:
income
inequality,
2030,
climate
change,
2040
minority
population
becoming
the
majority
in
2050
70
of
the
world's
population,
moving
into
the
urban
corridor,
and
so
all
of
the
people
on
today's
call
to
me
play
an
integral
role
in
helping
us
think
through
what
needs
to
be
built
around
the
human
family
to
create
a
humanitarian
response
as
a
sector
as
opposed
to
individual
responses
through
those
social
determinant.
Health
frameworks.
B
So
on
that
dr
portland
copic
19
is
a
respiratory
virus
which
means
air
quality
and
environment
or
even
more
important
factors
in
black
health
outcomes
during
this
current
pandemic,
because
environmental
health
has
such
a
big
impact
on
physical
health
right
now
and
because
I
know
that
you're,
a
member
of
of
the
county
board
of
health,
as
I
was
at
one
point,
can
you
speak
a
little
bit
about
environmental
racism
and
what
environmental
justice
and
pitch
work
may
look
like.
D
Sure
so
environmental
racism
is
the
is
the
the
the
concept
of
environmental
hazards
disproportionately
affecting
communities
of
color
based
on
race,
and
I
think
you
know
what's
been
clear
for
some
time.
You
know
decades.
It's
been
been
reported
the
number
of
different
kinds
of
health
disparities
that
exist
between
the
white
population
and
black
population
in
pittsburgh.
D
This
is
not
new
news,
but
the
disparities
are
are
serious
and
they
do
they
do
persist.
I
think,
what's
important
and
just
to
touch
on
fred's
earlier
point
and
this
this
concept
of
frameworks
and
how
we
look
at
these
issues
is
to
really
recognize
that
these
things
are
not
they're,
not
separate
issues.
D
So
when
you
talk
about
a
cardiovascular
outcome
or
a
respiratory
ailment,
there's
an
environmental
context
that
is
informing
that
right
that
that's
part
of
the
same
conversation
and
that
we
should
be
approaching
it
from
that
way,
so
environmental
health
definitely
affects
health
and
there
are
disproportionate
impacts
in
the
quality
of
the
environment.
D
The
other
thing
that
I
want
to
just
make
clear
for
everyone
watching
right
is
that
environment
is
not
some
far
away
other
place
right.
It's
not
it's,
not
a
glacier
somewhere,
you
know
or
or
or
a
forest
a
pristine
forest
right
environment
is
where
we
all
live.
Environment
is
where
we
live.
It's
where
we
it's.
Where
we
work
it's
your
home
and
there
are
so
many
factors
that
go
into
why
environmental
hazards
are
disproportionately
impacting
negatively
the
health
of
the
black
population
here
and
that's
everything
from
housing
to
industrial
pollution.
D
A
One
I'll
admit
that
environmental
justice
is
something
that
I've
really
just
come
to
better
understand
within
the
last
year
or
so
it
wasn't
something
I
was
fully
educated
on,
and
so
I'm
curious
to
hear
your
thoughts
about
how
do
we
move
forward
so
I'll?
Give
you
one
example
colleague
of
ours.
Dewitt
walton
was
we're.
Having
this
conversation,
he
was
talking
to
me
about
the
way
the
city
demolishes
homes
and
how
we
demolish
very
old
homes.
A
We
put
them
in
the
ground
and
that
lid
is
now
on
the
ground
that
when
we
dig
up
that
home
to
rebuild
we're
digging
all
that
back
up
and
that's
just
simply
one
example
of
how
we're
sort
of
contributing
to
this
problem
and
so
now
they're,
looking
at
better
ways
to
dismantle
homes,
so
that
you're
not
spreading
the
lead.
But
can
you
give
sort
of
examples
of
what
we
can
actively
be
doing
to
address
environmental
justice.
D
That's
a
great
question
you
know,
and
part
of
the
challenge
with
addressing
any
of
these
issues
right
is
that
they
are
interrelated
right.
You
talk
about
the
impacts
of
having
lower
quality
housing
stock
in
an
environmental
degradation
situation
where
you've
got
increased
water
infiltration
that
causes
more
mold
in
your
indoor
air
quality
that
exacerbates
the
asthma
disparities
that
we
see
along
racial
lines.
What's
the
solution
for
that?
D
Well,
the
solution
is
improving
the
housing
stock,
the
solution's
also,
you
know
creating
opportunities
for
wealth
for
those
in
the
community
to
to
have
options
of
what
the
housing
looks
like
right.
So
these
I
I
think,
if
there's
one
take-home,
it's
it's
going
to
be
what
what
fred
already
said,
I
think
from
for
me
for
this
conversation.
D
Sustainability
really
is
about
at
some
level
being
comfortable
with
the
complexity
of
these
conversations
and
making
sure
that
you
have
the
right
inputs
into
creating
a
solution
that
actually
works
along
a
lot
of
different
axes.
B
Mr
lewis,
mark
you
have
been
a
what
a
mentor
of
mine
to
explain
about
black
wealth
and
and
and
the
need
to
be
very
thoughtful
of
how
we
build
in
the
black
community
and
black
people,
a
black
wealth.
What
are
you
seeing?
What's
been
the
financial
impact
of
kovic
in
pittsburgh
on
the
black
community?
What
do
you?
What
do
you
think
the
in
terms
of
the
financial
impact?
What
are
the
greatest
needs?
What
do
you
see
right
now?
What's
going
on.
C
Sure
that's
a
a
great
question,
so
unfortunately,
I
can't
give
you
up-to-date
statistics,
because
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
that
information
is
usually
months
behind
or
not
even
years
behind
what
actually
takes
place.
But
if
you
take
it
or
think
about
it
from
the
context
of
where
we
were
before
covet,
19,
right
and
so
in
pittsburgh.
We've
always
had
these
in,
like
many
communities,
great
disparities
in
wealth,
great
disparities
in
income.
C
You
know
when
it
comes
to
homeownership
when
it
comes
to
health,
when
it
comes
to
everything
that's
been
talked
about
before
from
sustainability
and
looking
at
this
from
a
very
complex
issue,
the
black
community
has
always
been
at
the
low
end
of
these
disparities,
and
you
know
maybe
it's
another
conversation,
but
that's
not
by
accident.
So
when
covet
hits
or
something
like
covet
hits,
what
that
does
is
takes
covers
back,
probably
all
the
way
they're
already
ready.
C
They
were
already
halfway
back
right
on
on
all
of
our
issues,
but
it
brings
the
covers
all
the
way
back.
So
if
you
think
about
it
from
the
from
the
perspective
of
owning
a
home,
you
know
most
people
say
or
a
lot
of
people
think
that
okay,
I
rent
today,
I
want
to
just
go
into
home
ownership.
When
you
own
a
home,
you
have
to
be
prepared
for
what
home
ownership
means,
and
that
includes
the
maintenance
that
includes
all
the
issues
that
take
place
and
you've
got
to
have.
C
C
I
think
the
black
community
here
in
pittsburgh
or
a
large
part
of
us,
are
in
that
same
perspective,
right
if
you're,
if
you're
low
income,
if
you're
barely
making
ends
meet
then
you're,
always
in
that
same
situation
of
not
or
at
least
the
perception
of,
not
being
being
able
to
have
enough
to
put
something
aside
for
when
these
type
of
events
take
place,
and
so
the
devastation
on
our
community
is
has
been
great
for
a
couple
reasons.
One
black
people
make
up
a
a
disproportionate
share
of
the
essential
jobs.
C
You
know
that
take
place
in
our
community,
so
what
that
did
for
many
of
us
was
put
us
at
a
higher
risk
of
being
in
the
viruses
path
right
and
so
the
essential
workers
were
the
ones
who
could
not
stay
home.
They
had
to
be
out
there
and
they
were
put
at
risk
and
so
from
a
health
perspective
when
you
are
put
at
risk
or
if
you
contract
a
disease
or
the
virus,
then
you're
not
working.
It
has
a
major
impact
on
your
in
your
household.
C
On
the
flip
side,
black
people
are
also
highly
disproportionately
represented
in
non-essential
workers
in
low-income
non-essential
workers.
So
we
were
the
first
ones
let
go,
or
we
were
the
first
jobs
that
you
know
could
not
work
at
home,
and
so
we
were
impacted
in
a
huge
way,
but
both
of
those
aspects
from
a
financial
perspective.
C
And
so,
therefore,
if
you
don't
have
savings,
if
you
don't
have
some
type
of
reserve,
then
you
know
what
you
do
when
these
type
of
events
takes
place,
and
so
we
saw
our
community
at
a
much
greater
need
whether
it
was
food,
whether
it
was
on
the
medical
side
of
needing
assistance.
C
C
The
problem
with
that
was
that
when
this
virus
hit,
our
social
service
sector
was
impacted
as
well,
and
so
now
the
people
that
we
rely
on
to
provide
those
financial
supports
or
those
simple
daily
basic
needs
supports
that
disappear
as
well,
and
so
what
we
see
today
is
you
know
how
do
we
recover?
Someone
mentioned
businesses
earlier
today.
The
same
thing
exists
within
many
of
our
households
exists
with
a
lot
of
our
businesses.
C
Most
of
our
businesses
are
operating
at
a
level
that
is
either
barely
sustainable
or
you
know
just
do
not
have
access
to
the
capital
that
they
need
to
really
make
their
businesses
viable
and
really
being
able
to
like
a
family,
put
reserves
away
for
for
these
types
of
events
to
take
place,
so
we
saw
it
on
the
personal
side.
We
saw
on
the
business
side
our
community,
unfortunately-
and
there
are
again
many
reasons
for
that.
C
A
So
so
mark
you
mentioned
access
to
capital.
This
was
sort
of
an
interesting
conversation
for
me.
I've
had
within
the
last
week.
A
Within
the
past
week
I
had
a
family
member
who
passed
away
and
was
buried
and
he
worked
in
the
banking
industry
and
what
he
actually
the
request,
was
in
lieu
of
flowers
and
everything
else
to
actually
make
donations
to
the
poise
foundation
and
because
much
of
what
he
believed
in
was
access
to
capital,
and
I
think
it's
timely
because
I
know-
or
I
believe
anyway,
the
august
was
black
philanthropy
month.
I
believe
so.
A
C
C
So
when
we
talk
about
wealth
in
this
country-
and
you
know,
unfortunately,
over
the
last
couple
decades-
we've
seen
wealth
be
shifted
from
the
middle
class
up
to
a
very
few
individuals
that
control
really
most
of
the
wealth
in
the
world,
access
to
capital,
whether
you're,
an
individual
family
looking
to
buy
a
home,
we're
looking
to
invest
in
whatever
looking
to
invest
in
business.
Looking
invest
in
education
is
critical
access
to
capital
in
the
business.
That's
the
way
this
country,
works
and
and
capital
is
how
we
invest.
C
We
reinvest
it's
how
we
create
foundations
for
for
hope.
If
you
want
to
think
about
that,
basically,
my
hope
is
that
if
I
start
a
business
and
it's
a
good
idea
that
I
can
go
to
a
financial
institution
and
they
will
seed
right,
my
dream,
that's
what
this
country
talks
about.
Unfortunately,
what
we
see
so
often
is
that
you
know
dreams
for
certain
parts
of
our
our
of
our
community.
C
Our
our
society
are
seated
where
similar
dreams
for
others
just
aren't,
and
so
that's
not
always
a
an
issue
of.
Do
we
have
the
right
business
plan.
Do
we
have
the
right
idea?
That's
just
a
simple
issue
of
bias.
You
know
we
want
to
call
it
out.
You
know
structural
racism
and
everything
else
that
leads
to
that
in
this
country.
We
need
to
get
to
a
place
where
black
people
and
black
businesses
own
pure
and
simple.
C
I
don't
care
if
it's
owning
a
house
owning
a
business
owning
a
few
shares
of
stock
cooperatives
whatever
that
is,
we
need
to
get
to
a
place
where
we
own,
and
you
know
this
country's
built.
It's
a
capitalistic
country,
there's
good
things
about
it.
There's
bad
things
about
it,
whether
you
believe
in
capitalism,
whether
you
don't
that's
the
situation,
that's
the
system
that
we're
under,
and
so,
if
you
are
not
owning
something,
then
you
don't
control
it
right.
So
we
always
talk
about
our
neighborhoods.
C
When
we
look
at
most
of
our
black
neighborhoods,
a
lot
of
them
are
extremely
high.
You
know
rental
or
you
know,
renters
make
up
a
high
percentage
of
our
neighborhoods.
We
don't
own
the
neighborhood.
So
when
we
talk
about
controlling
what
happens
in
the
neighborhood,
we
don't
have
that
control.
C
So,
whether
it's
poise
foundation,
we
lost
dwelling
house
savings
bank,
which
your
grandfather
started
and
father
we're
integral
in
we're
losing
financial
institutions
in
our
community
that
are
critical
for
ownership,
and
so,
when
you
think
about
a
poise
foundation
right
now,
we're
a
small
black
community
foundation,
we're
one
of
three
that
I
know
of
in
the
country,
and
we
only
have
nine
million
dollars
in
assets
and
we've
been
around
for
40
years
right
and
only
have
nine
million
dollars
of
assets.
C
Foreign
foundation
should
be
at
about
100
million
dollars
in
assets,
even
if
that
all
that
just
came
from
our
community,
which
our
community
can
do
right
like
I'll
get
into
that
a
little
bit
later.
But
if
you
think
about
that
at
a
100
million
dollars,
foundations
typically
give
away
five
million
dollars,
and
you
know
five
percent
of
their
assets
in
grant
making
every
year.
But
what
we
fail
to
talk
about
is
that
other
95
percent
so
foundations
the
way
foundations
work.
C
We
get
contributions
coming
in
people
start
funds,
we
pull
those
resources
together
and
we
invest
those
resources
into
stocks
to
bonds
to
various
projects
in
order
to
make
a
return
right.
There
is
no
reason
that
if
forest
foundation
was
a
100
million
dollar
organization
that
we
would
not
take
a
part
of
those
funds
and
invest
them
back
into
small
black
owned
businesses
within
our
community,
that's
the
importance
of
why
we
need
to
build
a
poise
foundation.
C
Why
we
need
to
figure
out
how
to
create
another
black
bank,
because
when
we
collectively
pull
our
assets
together,
that
becomes
the
foundation
for
investing
in
the
dreams
that
our
community
should
have
and
often
doesn't,
because
when
they
look,
they
you
know,
have
a
dream.
You
look
around,
you
say,
okay,
so
how
do
I
fund
this
dream?
And
too
often
we
don't
have
the
the
access
to
capital
to
be
able
to
fund
our
dreams.
B
Fred,
I
fred
has
been
and
has
actually
changed.
My
thinking
for
it's
been
a
great
friend
and
great
teacher
he's
the
first
person.
I've
ever
heard
talk
about
echo
districts
right
and
and.
B
Of
coping
19
right,
because
if
we're
going
to
rebuild
these
black
communities,
we
have
to
right-size
them.
They
are
many
of
our
black
communities.
As
you
know,
are
vacant
and
laura.
You
are
instrumental
in
making
larmor
pittsburgh's
first
black
echo
district,
and
so
I
want
you
to
sort
of
explain
what
echo
districts
are
and
then
why
they
are
important
in
terms
of
the
redevelopment
of
black
communities.
E
E
Last
november
we
hosted
the
10th
annual
ecodistricts
conference
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
by
all
the
council
was
the
most
diverse
eco
districts
conference
held
in
10
years.
That's
a
strong
testament
to
the
city
of
pittsburgh
being
able
to
pull
together
regional,
national
and
global
people
to
come
to
pittsburgh
to
participate
in
that.
I
think
that's
no
accident.
I
think
pittsburgh
is
a
global
destination.
E
When
I
was
in
greece,
I
was
walking
on
the
beach
with
my
wife
and
stopped
for
dinner,
ran
into
some
people
and
they
started
talking
to
me
about
where
they
were
from.
We
said
we
were
from
pittsburgh
and
the
whole
rest
of
the
trip
people
wanted
to
talk
to
me
about
getting
a
pittsburgh
from
australia
from
the
uk,
and
I
just
I
was
dumbfounded
by
this.
E
The
devastating
thing
is
when
you
come
back
home
and
you
talk
to
black
and
brown
people
about
this
realization.
We
have
no
clue
so.
Eco
districts
allowed
us
to
have
a
global
platform
that
was
driven
by
people
of
color,
so
the
work
executed
in
larmer
in
2009
with
the
execution
in
2010
and
the
land.
You
study
a
market
study
driven
by
people
of
color
when
the
support
of
you,
reverend
burgess
as
well,
resulted
in
a
landmark
award
of
30
million
dollars
to
that
community
based
upon
the
eco
district
framework.
E
So
we're
looking
at
water
use,
land
use
energy
consumption,
how
we
use
parks
and
recreation,
how
we
use
the
built
environment
and
look
at
the
typography
of
a
particular
place
and
optimize
that
in
the
city,
and
so
one
of
the
things
pittsburgh
has,
at
least
in
the
east
end
is
we
have
between
homewood
and
larmor
there's
over
5
000
vacant
lands
and
lots,
and
it
constitutes
to
two
poor
census
tracts
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
with
the
largest
contiguous
flat
land
mass.
E
What
that
means
is
a
developer
can
come
near,
look
at
flat
land
masses
and
build
with
little
to
no
impact
on
the
rest
of
the
community
with
regards
to
having
to
do
scattered
sites
right.
But
when
you
rethink
about
that
and
you
think
about
what
happened
in
larmer,
we
talked
about
green
space
right
and
this
is
when
we
started
talking
about
rev.
You
said
some
something
that
was
very
critical.
You
know,
I
always
ask
developers
and
city
planners.
E
E
homewood
had
30
000
people
in
it
today
it's
like
642
people.
So
when
we
talk
about
ecological
footprint,
we're
talking
about
the
population
density
in
a
geographical
location,
let
me
get.
This
is
incredibly
important
when
we
were
in
new
york,
we
went
to
harlem
and
harlem
is
one
square
mile.
They
have
217
000
people
and
one
square
mile
home
was
one
square
mile.
E
They
got
6
442
people,
and
so,
when
you
start
talking
about
rebuilding
a
community,
you
can
build
a
community's
density
based
upon
a
projected
number
of
people
you
want
to
have
in
it
and
then
what
you
do
is
once
you
make
that
projection
and
I'm
using
the
eco
districts
framework.
You
begin
to
look
at
how
much
park
ash
development.
Do
you
want
to
have
to
produce
market
rate
housing?
E
How
much
in-field
housing
do
you
want
to
have
to
look
at
affordability,
how
much
mixed
income
housing?
Do
you
want
to
have
to
stratify
the
community
and
that's
a
strategy,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
were
able
to
support
through
the
working
larma?
Was
this
third
and
the
third
and
third
mix
to
really
create
a
mixed
income
construct
that
represented
the
whole
ecosystem
or
arc
of
the
region?
E
Eco
districts
is
really
about
this
notion
of
looking
at
the
built
environment
and
optimizing
those
assets,
and
so
in
pittsburgh.
One
of
the
assets
we
have
is
an
abundance
of
water,
and
so
one
of
the
greatest
areas
that
we
want
to
capture
an
eco-district's
construct
is
how
do
we
capture
more
storm
water
and
eliminate
it
from
running
into
wells
and
into
the
river?
E
And
so
you
know
rev
on
the
llama
project,
it's
one
of
the
first
ones
we
did
in
the
city
where
we
had
separated
storm
water
from
rainwater
even
before
the
city
was
ready
to
do
that,
and
so
those
kind
of
forward-thinking
processes
allows
us
to
do.
Bio.
Swells
cis
turns
capture
100
of
storm
water
on
site,
and
these
are
the
kind
of
things
the
city
in
my
opinion,
should
adopt
because,
as
you
look
around
the
city
right
now,
whenever
we
have
a
rain
event,
it's
almost
a
50
or
100
year
event.
E
We
see
flooding
in
places
we
haven't
seen
flooding
before
we
see
people's
housing
taken
in
water
in
ways
they
haven't
before,
and
so
if
we
keep
building
the
same
way,
we're
going
to
increase
the
amount
of
storm
water
that
goes
into
the
sector
which
produces
more
flooding
so
ecodistricts,
is
this
natural
organic
way
to
really
look
at?
What
does
each
community
offer
as
a
way
of
an
asset?
E
And
then
how
do
you
build
on
that
in
an
ecological
way
that
preserves
energy,
looks
at
alternative
energy
sources,
capture,
storm
water
and
most,
and
one
of
the
most
important
things
it
does
to
me?
Is
it
offers
a
way
for
regular
people
who
may
not
be
attuned
to
this
to
understand
the
value
of
energy
reduction,
the
value
of
storm
water
management,
gray,
water,
reuse,
things
we
take
for
granted,
which
becomes
a
class
in
science
and
how
you
live,
and
we
have
to
be,
I
think
down.
You
might
have
said
this
before.
E
We
have
to
teach
our
community
how
to
deal
with
complexity,
or
I
think
you
might
have
said
it
dr
portland,
and
we
don't.
We
we
kind
of
give
people
the
most
least
common
denominator
answer,
as
opposed
to
dealing
with
the
geometrical
equation
like
we
got
real
problems,
they're
going
to
get
resolved
by
giving
you
the
easiest
answer.
2
plus
2
is
4.
E
D
Think
if
I
can
just
quickly
touch
touch
base
on
that,
I'm
sorry
is
that
all
right.
B
Yes,
I
was
going
to
ask
you
I
was:
I
was
going
to
come
to
you.
This
is
your
area
of
expertise.
I
wanted
to
know
your
view
of
echo
districts
and
just
how
important
the
environment
is
to
resiliency,
but
particularly
for
the
black
community.
D
Right
well
and
to
build
on
what
fred
said
you
know
what
you're
really
talking
about
with
with
an
eco
district
with
sustainable
development
is
building
resiliency
in
the
community.
I
mean
you
talk
about
some
of
the
the
very
real
threats
that
are
disproportionately
felt
on
the
from
the
environmental
side.
D
I've
been
in
a
lot
of
conversations
lately
talking
about
climate
change
and
climate
impacts
right
and
a
concept
of
a
sustainable
community
is
one
that
is
resilient
to
all
kinds
of
threats,
and
you
know
it's
true
globally,
it's
true
locally
and
globally,
that
the
communities
with
the
least
which
is
generally
our
black
communities,
are
going
to
be
hurt
the
worst
by
some
of
those
some
of
those
impacts,
because
they
have
fewest
resources
to
deal
with
it.
D
So
you're
talking
about
building
a
more
resilient
community,
but
also,
I
think,
what's
key
about
the
ecodistricts
concept
and
sustainable
development
in
general.
Is
that
you're
building
a
community
where
people
want
to
live
right?
If
you're
talking
about
how
do
you
rebuild
a
community,
something
I
heard
so?
I
heard
majora
carter
speak
several
months
ago
and
some
of
what
she
said
just
really
stuck
with
me.
You
know
we
want
to
not
conflate
poverty
with
culture.
That
was
that
was
what
she
said,
that
you
know
we.
D
It
is
important
for
people
to
have
affordable
housing.
It
is
also
important
for
for
communities
to
be
generative
right
in
in
that
in
in
the
kinds
of
things
mark
was
talking
about
in
terms
of
being
able
to
sustain
the
population,
provide
jobs,
provide
amenities
and
those
kinds
of
things,
and
and,
and
they
think
a
framework
like
ecodistricts
helps
to
accomplish
some
of
those
goals
at
the
same
time
as
building
resilience
to
the
threats
from
impacts.
D
I
should
also
mention
that
so
as
part
of
the
ongoing
work
in
this
area
of
sustainable
community
development,
sustainable
pittsburgh,
along
with
forbes
funds,
new
sunrising,
green
building
alliance
and
other
partners
are,
are
working
on
a
collaborative
effort
called
district
pgh.
So
if
there
are
community
leaders
out
there,
many
of
whom
have
already
engaged
and
want
to
engage
further
in
understanding,
more
learning,
more
and
thinking
about
what
local
resources
exist
to
help
communities
develop.
That's
a.
I
just
have
to
I
had
to
do
that.
D
I
did
want
to
also
express
my
condolences
to
to
councilman
lavelle
for
your
recent
loss.
That's
you
know.
These
are
just
such
challenging
times,
and
I
think
that
you
know
one
of
the
things
that's
been
coming
up
for
me
over
and
over
again,
as
I've
been
listening
to
to
fred
and
to
mark
talk,
is
that
this
whole
conversation
really
is
something
I
just
learned
kind
of
recently,
which
is
that
the
saying
pull
yourself
up
by
your
bootstraps
was
originally
about
an
impossible
task
right.
D
That
was
the
saying
was
originally
to
describe
something
impossible.
There
absolutely
need
to
be
interventions
and
kind
of
an
interrogation
of
all
the
different
systems
that
are
causing
these
disparities.
That
exist,
I
mean
sustainable.
Pittsburgh
is
an
organization
that
you
know
works
in
many
communities
across
the
10
county
region,
not
only
in
black
communities,
but
our
mission
is
to
empower
decision
making
that
creates
more
equitable,
resilient,
healthy
and
prosperous
region,
all
of
which
are
extremely
important,
and
nowhere
more
so
than
in
our
black
communities.
A
So
some
of
what
I'm
hearing
and
feel
free
to
correct
me
if
I'm
wrong,
is
that
there
needs
to
be
sort
of
specific
place-based
interventions
that
exist
within
our
communities,
whether
it's
the
eco
district,
whether
it's
the
development
of
business
districts
using
black
anthropology
at
its
core.
I'm
just-
and
this
is
for
anyone
in
particular,
I'm
just
curious
to
hear
about
some
of
what
some
place-based
strategies
you
would
recommend
we
employ
to
address
our
community
as
we
come
up
out
of
this
covia
crisis.
D
I
can
start,
but
I'm
sure
others
will
have
additional
additional
comments.
I
mean,
I
think,
one
of
the
things
that
we've
been
grappling
with
at
sustainable
pittsburgh.
We
work
with
a
number
of
of
different
organizations,
hundreds
of
organizations
across
the
region
and
and
there's
just
such
a
critical
and
urgent
present
need
and
huge
disparities
in.
Even
that
need
which
is
so
critical.
D
So
there's
immediate,
immediate
needs
to
be
met
in
terms
of
financial
stability
in
terms
of
basic
services,
in
terms
of
really
just
immediate,
sustaining
right,
but
then
there's
these
longer
term
strategies
around
as
fred
was
saying,
the
built
environment
and,
as
mark
was
saying,
around
education,
and
especially
around
financial
literacy
right.
These
are
the
tools
that
that
will
help
will
help
build
from
now
into
the
future.
C
Yeah,
I
would
just
answer
that,
let's
make
sure,
when
we
talk
about
place-based
strategies
that
we're
not
just
talking
about
the
place,
the
critical
piece
of
that
is
the
people
right,
and
so,
although
we
may
be
investing
in
a
neighborhood,
it's
critical
that
we're
investing
in
those
people.
That's
the
whole
issue
of
gentrification
gentrification
happens
because
we
invest
in
the
physical
structures,
but
we
don't
invest
in
individuals.
C
So
when
the
physical
structures
become
attractive
right,
individuals
that
were
there
don't
have
the
financial
wherewithal
to
take
advantage
of
what's
now
become
attractive,
and
so
they
get
pushed
out,
and
so
you
know,
for
example,
I
think
affordable
housing,
although
it's
necessary,
should
not
should
never
be
a
long-term
strategy
right
because
all
affordable
housing
does.
Is
it
it
band-aids?
If
that's
you
know,
maybe
that's
a
bad
use
of
a
word,
but
a
bad
day
is
the
fact
that
poverty
or
some
level
of
poverty
exists
right.
E
Well,
that's
why
I've
always
loved
eco
districts,
because
in
2009,
when
I
I
got
turned
on
the
transition
times
first
out
of
the
uk
and
sophie
and
the
rest
came
in
from
the
uk
and
trained
me
in
eco
districts
and
rob
hopkins.
The
co-founder
gave
me
paris
permission
after
I
think
in
2010
I
went
to
chicago
and
got
certified
and
thrived,
which
was
their
model.
E
Then
I
got
introduced
to
eco
districts
by
christine
maunder,
who
I
think
is
one
of
the
premier
thinkers
in
his
work,
and
I
call
her
one
of
the
mothers
of
eco
districts
and
so
over
the
past
10
years
she
and
I
have
been
presenting
around
the
country
around.
How
do
we
get
architects
and
engineers
to
build
buildings
that
to
mark's
point
educates
people
how
to
optimize
the
the
footprint
of
the
building
right?
What
we
do
now
is
we
build
buildings
already
optimized
and
if
you're
not
cognizant,
how
to
optimize
it,
you
destroy
it.
E
You
can
build
all
the
things
you
want
if
you
don't
build
that
in
conjunction
with
people,
so
that
they
understand
the
value
of
that,
then
you're
gonna
have
a
hit
or
miss
situation
and
given
what
we
have
as
we.
What
we've
seen
over
the
last
80
months
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
three
epicenters
downtown
lawrenceville
and
east
liberty.
E
F
E
E
E
We
should
be
thinking
about
them
before
we
start
building,
they
should
be
included
in
the
process
and
why
I
like
ecodistricts,
is
because,
if
you
really
deconstruct
it,
it's
a
math
class,
it's
a
science
class,
it's
an
econ
class,
it's
a
human,
centered,
design
class,
it's
a
whole
university
in
and
of
itself,
and
at
each
level
you
can
actually
train
somebody
in
a
career
pathway
that
represents
the
21st
century
global
economy.
But
instead
we
take
the
most
least
restrictive
aspect
of
it
and
just
do
the
building
part.
E
And
so
I
think,
if
you
really
took
eco
districts-
and
you
pulled
back
from
it
and
said
what
are
the
cross-functional
elements
of
it,
that
would
work
in
high
school
that
would
work
in
grade
school.
It
would
be
phenomenal,
rev
and
daniel.
If
we
looked
at
these
these
communities
that
have
the
opportunity
to
be
rebirth,
if
we,
if
we
reimagine
each
of
those
communities
as
a
college,
experience
through
the
built
environment
and
we've
reverse
engineered,
what
they
need
in
elementary
school,
what
they
need
in
middle
school,
what
they
need
in
high
school?
E
What
internships
they
need
so
that
we
build
a
community
of
people
who
live
in
units
that
become
central
for
how
we
optimize
living
collectively
and
minimizing
our
impact
on
our
environment.
And
we
don't
do
that
and
to
joy's
point.
We
we
build
things
that
are
inviting
the
people
when
I
was
in
portland.
E
Their
eco
districts
framework
is
inviting
people
from
all
around
the
world.
They
got
a
waiting
list
for
people
to
live
there,
but
the
flip
side
of
that
is
the
people
who
did
live
here
got
pushed
out,
and
so
we
have
to
figure
out
how
to
mitigate
that
kind
of
change,
because
we
already
see
the
evidence
that
we're
on
the
same
pathway
to
be
portland.
If
we
don't
stop
and
think
differently
about
how
we
do
our
built
environment
framework.
B
Well,
I
think,
fred,
you
agree
that
llama
is
a
different
model
and
that's
we've
been
you
know,
I
that's
where
we
first
start
working
together
and
that
in
warmer
we
didn't
think
about
buildings.
But
how
do
we
transform
the
lives
of
people
and
then
the
buildings
are
simply
part
of
a
larger
process
to
provide
them
with
certainly
clean,
decent,
affordable
housing.
B
Now
we
have
now
market
rate
development
going
on
alongside
affordable
housing,
and
so
I
think
more,
I
think
marmara
is,
is
the
best
example
of
of
what's
possible,
and
I
just
so.
I
guess
my
question
mark-
and
I
really
I
think
about
this.
All
the
time
mark
was
the
first
person
to
talk
to
me
about
wealth
and
how,
in
allegheny
county
wealth
is
actually
black.
Wealth
is
not
in
the
city.
Black
wealth
is
in
the
suburbs.
B
That's
where
the
money,
black
wealth
is
in
the
suburbs.
You
know,
but
they
come
to
the
city
to
get
their
hair
done
to
get
some
some
wings
or
some
ribs,
maybe
a
drink
and
then
back
to
the
suburbs
so
mark.
How
do
we
do?
What
do
we
do?
How
do
we?
How
do
we
harness
the
wealth,
that's
in
the
suburbs
and
figure
out
a
way
to
invest
that
wealth
or
have
impact
in
the
inner
city.
C
I
think
it
was
the
2010
census
that
for
the
first
time
in
maybe
50
years,
there
were
more
black
people
lived
outside
the
city
of
pittsburgh
than
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
as
of
2018,
I
think
those
are
the
last
numbers
I
had
black
income
in
the
pittsburgh
region
is
about
four
billion
dollars
and
out
of
that
four
billion,
one
point
one
one
point:
two
billion
comes
from
the
city
of
pittsburgh
itself,
so
three-fourths
of
our
income
in
the
black
community
lives
outside
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh
right,
and
so,
when
you
think
about
what
that
means,
I
would
love
to
be
able
to
say
that
people
in
the
suburbs
all
come
back
in
the
city
to
spend
their
money
and
support
black
businesses.
C
But
that's
that's
not
actually
true.
So
when
it
comes
to
buying
power
when
it
just
comes
to
buying
choices,
a
lot
of
us
look
at
convenience
right
as
a
critical
piece.
So
if
I
have
a
store,
that's
two
blocks
from
my
house
nine
times
out
of
ten,
I'm
gonna
go
patronize
that
store
before
I
make
a
five
mile
six
mile
trek
into
the
city
right,
and
so
would
we,
as
as
the
black
community
needs
to
really
think
about
you
know.
C
Let
me
back
that
up
what
we,
as
black
people,
really
need
to
think
about
in
the
pittsburgh
region
is
how
do
we
operate
as
a
community,
because
I
think
we
we
have
neighborhoods,
but
I
would
be
you
know.
I
would
challenge
us
to
say
that
we
have
a
black
community,
because
a
community
would
be
supporting
itself
would
be
investing
in
itself.
It
would
be
doing
all
these
things
where
the
income
that
we
generate
the
disposable
income
that
we
have.
C
C
Some
of
them
we
may
have
to
create
because
they
may
not
even
exist
yet
that's
five
percent.
We
could
all
in
our
household
shift
five
percent
and
not
have
a
major.
You
know
adjustment
to
our
lifestyle
right,
that's
not
a
lot,
but
that
five
percent
is
200
million
dollars
a
year
that
could
support
black
business.
That
would
support
black
jobs.
That
would
change
the
trajectory
of
our
community
will
create
wealth
right
and,
as
joy
led.
You
know
mentioned
earlier.
We
need
some
financial
literacy
attached
to
that.
So
we
can
understand.
C
You
know
how
dollars
actually
move
within
our
community.
I
did
a
seminar
last
year
and
I
showed
that
if
you
take
a
hundred
dollars
in
your
pocket-
and
you
spent
that
within
a
black
community
that
could
change
or
that
could
turn
into
300
economic
impact
in
our
community,
every
100
that
we
spend
on
our
community
can
actually
turn
into
300.
C
You
can
triple
the
impact
we
have,
so
we
need
to
really
think
about
what
does
community
look
like?
Some
of
that
might
be
sacrifice
right
instead
of
me
being
able
to
take
five
minutes
and
go
to
the
store
down
the
street.
I
may
need
to
drive
five
miles
to
invest
in
a
black
business,
but
if
that
investing
in
that
black
business
is
going
to
help
our
community,
it's
going
to
help,
maybe
my
child
or
my
grandchild,
get
a
job
or
your
child
or
grandchild
get
a
job.
Then
you
know
those
are
sacrifices.
C
We
need
to
think
about
making,
because
I
think
again,
jordan,
fred
both
talked
about.
We
need
to
be
thinking
about
the
long
term.
Not
just
you
know
what
does
what
looks
good
today?
What
looks
good
tomorrow?
What
was
good
for
us
in
20
years
in
40
years
right?
How
do
we
leave
an
inheritance
for
our
children's
children's
children,
and
so
we
need
to
start
thinking
change
our
minds
have
to
really
start
thinking
about
us
as
a
community
and
how
that
impact
can
really
change.
You
know
what
happens.
B
Privately
mr
leville
and
I
have
been
working
on
something
the
mayor
referenced
for
the
first
time
publicly
yesterday,
he
and
I
have
been
working
on
this
concept
called
avenues
of
hope,
which
is
to
strategically
rebuild
black
business
districts
in
black
communities
and
so
we're.
Looking
the
mayor
mentioned
that
we're
working
to
partner
with
him.
We
do
think
holmen
avenue.
B
Center
revenue
may
be
the
first,
but
imagine
if
you
know
both
center
of
northwood
avenue
had
black
businesses
that
were
competitive
in
quality
to
any
other
business,
and
you
know
both
of
them
are
close
to
places
where
there's
resources.
You
know
the
hill
district
is
still
close
to
downtown
home,
which
close
to
point
breeze
and
could
attract
a
variety
of
diverse
business
owners.
I
think
of
all
the
things
that
we've
been
doing
recently.
I
think
this
avenue
hope
concept,
I'm
really
excited
by
the
potential
of
rebuilding
black
businesses.
C
So
if
you
think
about
this-
and
this
is
the
point
for
governmental
and
probably
corporate
investment
into
making
that
happen-
I
think
about
this
a
lot
and
daniel.
You
may
have
better
statistics
on
this
than
I
do,
but
prior
to
the
destruction
of
the
hill,
when
we
decided
to
build
an
arena
for
civic
light
opera
and
built
this
nice
dome
that
when
the
civic
leg
opera
got
into
the
dome
and
figured
out
the
q-six
didn't
work,
so
we
destroyed
the
neighborhood
right
to
build
something
that
didn't
work
prior
to
destroying
that
neighborhood.
C
C
C
Could
you
imagine
where
dwelling
house
savings
would
have
been
if
those
black
businesses
were
depositing
their
money?
So
my
point
is
that
we
destroyed
a
a
future
path
that
now
none
of
us
know
what
that
looks
like,
because
those
businesses
that
could
have
existed
today
and
could
be
employing
tens
of
thousands
of
black
people
don't
exist
right,
and
that
was
done
by
our
government.
That
was
done
by
our
corporate.
You
know,
community
and
so
to
me.
There
is
reason
to
invest
in
your
idea
of
avenue
of
hope
from
the
government
from
our
corporate
community.
D
D
You
know:
there's
a
lot
of
focus
right
now
on
racial
justice
as
a
as
a
social
conversation,
but
it's
just
so
critically
important
that
we
look
at
what
we
can
build
now,
structurally,
that's
through
policy,
including
corporate
policy.
Right.
That's,
that's!
That's!
In
a
lot
of
different
systems
across
a
lot
of
different
systems.
What
can
we
put
into
place
now
so
that
those
possibilities
remain
there
after
this
moment
of
intense
focus
on
racial
justice
is
is,
is
maybe
not
the
the
forefront
of
the
of
the
national
conversation
right?
D
We
have
to
shape
shape
systems
now
to
to
correct
the
systemic
injustices
that
have
existed,
and
I
did
want
to
thank
fred
too,
for
bringing
up
christine
mondor,
I
should
have
mentioned
of
all
va-
is
also
a
partner
in
the
district
pgh
work,
which
in
many
ways
is
parallel,
slash
building
on
the
important
pioneering
work
that
was
done
with
eco
districts
and
larimer.
E
I
would
just
say
to
both
of
my
colleagues
perspectives
that
I
would
offer
a
third
perspective.
One
is
we
have
heavily
invested
in
optimizing
systems
that
are
perpetuated
on
the
built
economy
and
what
we're
talking
about
through
ecodistricts
framework
is
optimizing
human
beings
that
can
create
any
system
that
functions
which
I
call
creating
ecosystems,
living
and
breathing
things.
E
E
It
would
change
every
facet
of
how
we
currently
conduct
business,
because
the
most
vital
precious
element
would
be
people,
but
instead
we
go
in
a
different
direction
and
we
wonder
why
there's
such
discrepancy
and
disparity?
You
can't.
You
know
when
mark
talks
about
wiley
street
days
being
destroyed,
and
you
read
dr
full
of
love's
book,
and
you
understand
that
lineage
and
daniel
once
again
are
condolences
to
your
family.
E
F
F
E
E
D
I
think
you're
touching
on
a
really
important
point,
something
that
I've
been
thinking
about
during
this
conversation
as
well,
which
is
also
the
the
representation
piece
right
having
community
voices
as
part
of
the
decision-making
process,
and
that's
also
been
something
that's
been
lacking
and
is
really
important
for
us
to
do
so
that
these
decisions
can
to
have
a
human-centered
design
approach
right.
You
need
to
approach
from
the
position
that
all
people
are
people
right
and.
E
National
foreign
and
rev
and
daniel,
I
think
that
there's
synergy
here
to
be
had
about
like
one
of
the
things
I
will
say
openly
is
pittsburgh
is
replete
with
theoretical
frameworks.
People
say
that's
a
great
idea:
that's
important!
We're
going
to
do
the
rooney
rule
we're
going
to
do
this,
but
when
you
drill
down
on
what
does
that?
What
is
the
measurable
impact
of
that
you
everybody?
E
This
car
knows
not
a
lot
not
at
scale,
and
yet
we
graduate
40
000
kids
a
year
in
our
region,
20
000
of
them
leave
the
day
after
graduation
we're
bleeding
talent.
We
recruit
30
000
people
a
year
to
work.
They
stay
for
two
years
or
less
at
a
cost
of
30
thousand
dollars
per
person,
plus
relocation
costs,
and
yet
we
have
90
communities
in
allegheny.
E
E
So
if
there's
anything
that
you
guys
can
do
to
really
shift
that
narrative
through
your
vision,
I
would
say
that
would
be
an
inviting
thing
for
the
whole
world
to
participate
in,
in
particular,
when
you
ensure
that
the
indigenous
people
of
the
city
are
thriving,
like
everybody
else
like
that
has
to
be
a
narrative
that
we
don't
walk
away
from.
You
can't
invite
other
people
here
and
the
indigenous
people
is
barely
holding
on
and
you
think
somebody
that
came
from
chicago
d.c
or
l.a
who's.
E
A
person
of
color
wants
to
put
their
family
in
that
situation.
We're
never
going
to
turn
the
corner,
that's
why
they
don't
stay,
and
it
troubles
me
that
none
of
these
companies
really
do
the
due
diligence
to
ask.
Well,
why
did
they
leave
it's,
not
money?
Those
folks
are
getting
paid
handsomely
to
be
here.
There's
another
reason:
people
leave
and
I
don't
care
what
we
build.
If
we
don't
look
at
that,
we're
going
to
continue
to
perpetuate
the
very
thing
we're
fighting
against
and
that's
why
this
is
not
a
single
point
of
contact.
E
A
So
towards
that
point
I'll
simply
say,
I
believe-
and
I
think
I
can
speak
for
rev
in
saying
that
our
attempt
to
do
this
black
pittsburgh
matters
forum
fred,
is
our
attempt
to
move
towards
the
who
and
not
just
the
what
is
our
is
our
attempt
to
really
start
talking
about
the
people
and
how
do
we
better
their
lives
and
really
build
up
the
black
community
specifically,
but
then
the
city
as
a
whole,
because
this
city
will
only
be
as
strong
ultimately
as
this
black
community
is
with.
A
That
being
said,
it
is
seven
o'clock,
so
I
want
to
respect
people's
times.
I
do
want
to
bring
in
michael
campbell,
who
is
the
intern
in
reverend
burgess's
office,
who
has
helped
us
put
this
together
actually
and
if
not
for
her,
we
probably
wouldn't
be
able
to
produce
this
in
the
way
that
we
are.
So
I
want
to
thank
her,
but
I
want
to
also
offer
her
the
opportunity
to
present
any
pressing
questions
that
may
have
come
from
the
viewing
public.
G
Thank
you,
councilman
lavelle.
We
have
a
few
questions.
Benita
has
asked:
how
do
we
get
assets
to
fund
our
dreams?
For
instance,
on
the
north
side
of
pittsburgh
manchester
area
there
are
homes
being
sold
for
300
to
400
thousand
dollars.
I
wonder
how
many
black
people
live
there
and
can
afford
to
live
there.
C
Yeah,
I
mean
that's
a
great
question.
I
think
one
there
are
probably
more
black
people
that
can
afford
those
homes
and
you
think
many
of
them
don't
live
inside
the
city.
They
have
chosen
to
live
somewhere
else.
For
various
reasons
you
know,
part
of
that
is
concentrated
poverty.
Part
of
that
is,
you
know
some
of
this
brainwashing
that
took
place.
You
know
60
years
ago,
55
years
ago,
when
desegregation
became
available.
C
We
we
just
ran
to
be
where
everybody
where
we
were
prohibited
from
being
right,
and
so
we
lost
that
sense
of
of
people
with
means
right,
living
somewhere
where
they
were
surrounded
by
people.
Without
me,
you
know,
when
I
grew
up,
you
could
see
some
poor
people,
some
professionals,
doctors
and
everybody
in
the
neighborhood,
and
now
it
seems
like
if
you
can
get
away
you
know
or
out
somewhere,
you
think
is
the
place
to
be
you
do
so.
I
don't
know
about
that.
C
Particular
because,
again,
that's
to
me
somewhat
of
a
short-term
ask
about
buying
that
house,
but
one
thing
we
do
have
and
we
need
to
think
about
in
a
much
greater
way.
Is
this
idea
of
collective
right?
So
maybe
we
don't?
C
Maybe
the
individuals
on
this
call
cannot
buy
a
300
000
home,
but
maybe
there
are
20
of
us
that
can
invest
in
a
300
000
home
right
doesn't
mean
we
have
to
live
there,
but
we
can
invest
and
own
that
and
by
making
a
return
off
of
that
turn
that
around
and
invest
and
own
and
do
other
things
so
because
we
have
been
prohibited
from
gaining
a
lot
of
individual
wealth.
We
need
to
start
thinking
again
about
collective.
How
can
we
collectively
invest
in
business?
How
can
we
collectively
invest
in
real
estate?
C
How
can
we
collectively
invest
in
education?
You
know
collective
because
that's
where
the
power
is
remember,
I
said
earlier
four
billion
dollars
a
year
comes
to
our
households.
We've
got
to
think
you
know
more
strategically
of
how
to
use
those
dollars
collectively
that
only
breaks
down
to
about
50
000
per
household
on
average
right.
So
it's
not
like
a
ton
of
money
per
household,
but
collectively
we've
got
some
power.
G
Thank
you.
I
have
another
question
that
I
also
believe
is
directed
towards
you,
mr
lewis,
that
is,
for
those
homes
being
dismantled,
how
about
rebuilding
for
black
ownership?
What
about
connecting
with
dollar
bank
first
time
homeowners
program?
It
appears
that
every
time
a
black
community
is
rebuilt,
gentrification
happens
and
it
becomes
unaffordable
for
black
people
to
stay.
What
are
some
solutions
to
fix
this
issue.
C
Yeah,
well
I
mean,
I
think,
the
first
again
as
we
talk
about
affordable
housing
or
buying
anything,
as
I
mentioned
very
early
on
black
people
are
over
represented
in
this
city
in
this
region
for
low-income
jobs.
So
the
first
thing
we
got
to
look
at
is:
how
do
we
begin
to
not
so
much
focus
on
affordable
housing
but
focus
on
affordable
wages
to
give
us
the
opportunity
to
be
able
to
afford
different
things?
C
I
was
on
the
board
and
was
chair
of
the
board
of
sustainable
pittsburgh
several
years
ago
before
portland,
and
one
thing
that
one
report
that
the
sustainable
pittsburgh
put
out
was
a
study
done
that
if
black
people
in
pittsburgh
region,
it
may
have
been
a
city,
but
I
think
the
pittsburgh
region
were
compensated
at
the
same
levels,
their
white
counterparts
right
and
at
the
same
employment
level
as
their
white
counterparts.
C
There
would
be
an
additional
350
million
dollars
a
year
economic
value
right,
so
not
changing
anything
right,
just
employees
at
the
same
level
and
employees
at
the
same
rate
and
there's
an
automatic
350
million
dollar
impact
to
our
community.
So
I
would
say
that
would
generate
some
people
can
buy
some
300
000
homes
anywhere.
They
wanted.
D
I
can
just
add
on
quickly,
you
know,
I
think,
and
this
is
basically
what
marcus
saying
you
know
these
are
a
lot
of
times.
These
are
conversations
about
about
how
to
build
wealth
in
a
community
right.
How
do
it's
about?
You
know
education,
it's
about
opportunity,
right,
it's
about
building
those
linkages
and
making
sure
that
that
there's
opportunities
to
participate
equally
in
this
society,
which
isn't
what
we
currently
have.
G
Our
next
question,
I
believe,
is
directed
towards
mr
brown
and
dr
portlock.
Thank
you.
How?
What
are
some
sorry
just
dropped
off
for
a
moment
here?
What
are
some
affordable
ways
that
people
in
black
communities
can
make
their
immediate
environments
more
sustainable,
geared
towards
the
health
effects
of
covet.
D
Okay,
that's
a
lot
of
parts
to
that
question.
Let's
see
so
you
know
I
I'd
be
remiss.
You
know
if
I
didn't
talk
about
with
in
regards
to
being
more
healthy
with
regards
to
kova
doing
all
of
the
things
that
are
are
being
recommended,
taking
seriously
social
distancing
and
mask
wearing
and
over
nose
and
mouth
and
and
and
doing
those
kinds
of
precautions.
D
So
those
are
immediate.
You
know
things
for
the
time
that
we're
currently
living
in.
D
Certainly,
I
think
that
I
think
that
in
in
terms
of
of
cove,
those
are
probably
the
most
important
things
to
stress
at
this
point
in
terms
of
general
environment
space
gosh,
there
are
a
number
of
things
that
can
be
done
in
in
your
home
environment
that
will
make
you
know
that
will
improve
air
quality.
You
know
that
you
could
talk
about,
you
know
and
kind
of
the
basic
basic
level
you
know,
plants,
indoor,
air,
monitoring,
to
improve
respiratory
health
and
and
indoor
air
quality
reduce
eliminate
smoking.
D
You
know
there
are
lots
of
different
kinds
of
intersections
there.
I
think,
as
these
things
connect,
as
these
things
connect
more
broadly
and
are
more
community
connected.
D
That's
when
you
start
wanting
to
talk
about
and
as
as
mark
was
pointing
out
kind
of
the
collective
ability
to
you
know
work
with
others
in
the
community
to
to
to
build
resilience,
strategies
and
neighbors
helping
neighbors
in
times
of
crisis,
there's
a
we
did
touch
on
kind
of
social
services
being
taking
a
hit
right
now,
but
there's
been
really
just
some
unbelievably
amazing
work
happening
in
the
direct
services
space
in
this
time
you
know,
and
a
lot
of
it
is
really
depending
on
community
members,
helping
other
community
members,
and
I
think
that
that
doesn't
get
enough
enough
enough
publicity
a
lot
of
what
fred's
talking
about,
and
I'm
I'm
deviating
from
the
question
a
little
bit.
D
So
I
apologize
but
a
lot
of
what
fred's
talking
about.
I
think,
as
I
think
through
it,
we
talk
a
lot
about
racial
justice
as
ways
we
want
to.
You
know
help
a
community
right,
but
without
recognizing
that
the
community
is
made
of
people
who
are
actors
and
have
agency
and
can
also
you
know,
there's
a
partnership
there
rather
than
a
doing
unto,
and
I
think
that
that
difference
in
approach
can
help
shape
our
policies
in
a
better
way
too.
So
yeah
stay
safe,
get
engaged.
D
E
Definitely
think
that
that's
a
great
question
and
we
need
to
have
some
practical
responses.
I
think
that
in
many
ways
we
harken
back
to
the
past,
I
think
we
have
to
look
at
sharing
resources.
I
think
we
have
to
look
at
bartering
with
one
another.
We
have
to
really
look
at.
How
do
we
optimize
our
gift
skills
and
talents,
and
not
just
from
an
economic
standpoint
but
from
a
social
well-being
standpoint?
E
I
think
we
have
to
practice
physical
distancing,
but
but
also
encourage
social
engagement
through
optimizing
small
group
gatherings
technology,
but
also,
instead
of
waiting
for
the
floor
to
drop,
we
need
to
be
more
proactive
thinking
about
what
are
the
new
emerging
opportunities
given
what
happened
to
coke
what's
happening
with
covey
and
instead
I
think
we've
been
reacting
to
covert,
which
we
have
to
we
have.
There
has
to
be.
Somebody
has
to
stop
the
bleeding,
but
you
got
to
get
up
off
the
mat
right.
E
We
have
to
figure
out
what's
next
for
us
and
I
think,
because
we've
been
left
out
of
so
many
critical
conversations
over
the
years.
We
don't
see
ourselves
as
problem
solvers
but
at
the
same
time
we're
resilient.
So
if
we
took
our
resilience
and
really
show
people
how
to
generate
businesses
and
ideas
from
that,
then
we
will
create
a
self-sufficient
community.
E
E
Overnight
would
be
in
a
position
to
have
better
health
care
live
where
they
want
to
live,
be
in
a
much
better
mental
state
of
mind
and
be
better
off,
and
so,
when
you
think
about
the
practical
things
we
can
do,
one
is
we
have
to
do
a
better
job
of
being
self-reliant,
but
that
has
to
happen
concurrently
with
the
system
creating
more
opportunities,
that
is
in
alignment
with
racial
equity,
which
we
say
we're
interested
in.
There's
no
cleaner
way
to
do
that
than
saying.
E
If
we're
all
saying
one
of
the
biggest
challenges
to
address
creating
equity
is
employment,
sustainable,
livable,
wage
jobs,
let's
deal
with
that
straight
away,
and
then
you
can
people
can
choose
where
they
want
to
live
where
they
want
to
invest,
and
I
think,
through
mark's
notion
of
you,
create
that
new
wealth
with
somebody
with
some
financial
management
classes.
They
begin
to
see
how
they
have
to
reinvest
in
the
community
and
other
people
which
we
don't
do
mark
alluded
to
this
very
acutely.
E
When
we
start
making
money,
we
left
we
never
turn
back
and
as
a
result
of
that,
we've
abandoned
a
lot
of
people
who
needed
us
to
help
them
get
a
hand
up
and
not
a
handout.
And
what
we've
done
is
we've
created
a
transactional
relationship
with
our
own
people,
and
many
is
what,
in
many
ways
when
we've
made
it
to
the
next
level
we
give,
but
we
don't
support
the
nurturing,
that's
necessary
for
that
person
to
extract
themselves
from
their
condition,
and
then
we
blame
them
for
not
pulling
yourself
up
from
their
own
bootstraps.
D
I'm
going
to
put
out
there
again
too,
that
that
sustainable
wages
and
employment
you're
right
absolutely
critical
and
intrinsically
tied
as
well
to
education
right.
I
think
that
very
much
needs
to
be
part
of
the
of
the
conversation
about
how
to
fix
all
of
the
things
right.
We've
got
so
many
different
systems
that
depend
on
that
and
when
you
start
talking
about
who,
how
do
you
get
hired
in
the
c-suite
right?
D
You
have
to
have
a
population,
that's
in
a
position
for
that
to
happen
right
and
so
there's
we're
doing
a
lot
of
thinking
as
well-
and
I
know
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
folks
are
and
a
lot
of
our
partners
are
a
lot
of
organizations
are
about.
You
know
connecting
the
chains
all
the
way
from
education
up
through
you
know:
corporate
diversity,
equity
inclusion
right.
How
do
you?
E
And
it's
a
concurrent
thing:
there's
a
academic
arc,
there's
some
people
that
don't
need
to
go,
go
to
college.
That's
not
their
calling
right.
If
we
know
that
by
2050
70
of
the
world's
population
is
going
to
live
in
the
urban
corridor
is
projected
to.
We
know
we
got
to
build
more
housing
and
we
know
we
need
to
do
it
sustainably.
E
Right,
that's
why
this
whole
arc
and
trajectory
needs
to
be
about
sustainable
development
that
reduces
our
carbon
footprint.
So
we
can
arrive
at
2030,
40
and
50
in
a
better
state.
Right
that
to
me
is
a
very
tangible
way
to
educate
people
and
form
them
and
employ
them
in
ways
that
would
make
them
viable
in
the
21st
century
global
economy
and
instead
we're
pulling
back
and
just
saying:
let's
just
do
traditional
development
like
we've
been
doing
instead
of
saying.
No,
we
got
to
plan
for
the
future.
D
Right,
it's
a
minimum
standard.
The
dots
need
just
need
connecting
right.
We
we've
got.
You
know
the
the
climate
conversation
is
not
separate
from
the
employment
conversation.
Those
are
incredibly
intertwined
and
they're
not
separate
from
the
education
conversation.
Those
are
incredibly
interesting
and
it's
not
separate
from
housing
and
it's
not
separate
from
health
right
and
that's
where
we
get
back
to
this
complexity,
but
getting
real
comfortable
with
that,
so
that
we
can
actually
reach
the
solutions
that
we
are
going
to
need.
But
I
feel
like
we
super
digressed
from
the.
A
No,
that's
that's
quite
okay,
because
I
know
the
comments
are
coming
in
and
they
appreciate
all
of
what
you
all
said.
Unfortunately,
we
have
run
out
of
time
for
this
evening
show
so
I'm
gonna
make
a
request
that
you
all
hopefully
will
come
back
with
us
for
another
opportunity,
because
I
personally
had
about
10
questions.
I
simply
did
not
get
to
because
I
was
enjoying
and
listening
listening
to
you
all
talk
and
share
the
information
that
you
had
with.
A
A
Portlock,
excuse
me,
executive
director
of
sustainable
pittsburgh
and,
of
course,
mr
mark
lewis,
president
ceo
of
the
poise
foundation,
it's
obviously
very
clear
that,
in
order
to
really
restore
black
communities
that
we
must
be
committed
to
rebuilding
those
communities
with
black
people
specifically
in
mind
and
rebuilding
the
actual
individual
person,
so
that
we
can
rebuild
those
communities
and
doing
so
with
our
partners
and
our
allies.
B
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
watching
and
participating
in
this
town
hall
meeting.
Remember
you
can
watch
this
town
hall
show
on
facebook,
the
city's
youtube
channel
or
the
city's
cable
channel
a
new
meeting
will
occur
every
wednesday.
I
want
us
and
I'm
grateful
for
this
conversation
for
all
these
great
leaders.
B
Who've
been
part
as
we
start
to
move
our
city
forward
together
by
working
together,
we
can
make
pittsburgh
really
different
and
I
think
important
in
the
lives
of
black
people
by
working
together,
united
purpose,
we
can
transform
our
city
strengthen
it
for
all
of
its
residents.