gotten up to $40,000 at the closing table for homes. so we have created those opportunities. we have cut red tape and the process of buying a city-owned vacant property. what we are seeing is the investments that we are making our quadruple the city's investment and demolition. what we see is that his leveraging more development. we are blessed to be stabilizing the flight and taking advantage of some of the great neighborhood and honestly taken advantage of the pack people are being price tag around us in d.c. we work hard to make sure people understand baltimore is an affordable alternative and that is leveraging additional investment.

the governor has made a significant investment in our demolition because we have a track record internationally recognized elimination program that people will see slowly pushing back on those years of disinvestment. >> at a jump in there for a second? when you have people who are overtime dispersed over a wide area, there is some blogs with very few inhabited units and for those of you not familiar with ultimate, there's a lot of room housing. sometimes you will have 20 or 30 homes in only two of them were three of them are still inhabited. ..

>> we call it snaggle tooth. our goal is to relocate the family where they want to be and put them in no worse condition than they with now. a lot of times what happens is if there's going to be development in the area, we can move them from one house to the next, but house that's in a occupied block, you know, something that works for them and we work -- i will just say, it slows down the progress but makes for better development when you take the time to try to put people, make sure you're not hurting people as we are making the -- tearing down the blocks, we don't want to put people in a worse condition but we also have

to recognize that the longer that block stays like that -- i mean, we have road houses where they'll be one occupied home and two houses a three coming up in the road house that has been abandoned. nobody wants to live like that. the only way to change it is to change it, and we have to in many cases tear down to make new developments. >> so, jan, we have been talking about economics for a long time. let's talk about politics which economics play different role. when freedmont change, the people that were there before and the people who are new to the place. >> first of all, i think it's important to have a little bit about the history.

our city is 60 year's old. we just celebrated the 60th anniversary. 1966, five townships, primarily agricultural. it was puerto puerto rican -- i'm sorry, portugese, attraction from all over the world particularly from china and india and so there was influx of these individuals to the area, now, granted the people that live there you either liked it or you didn't and we had experienced white flight. , but the people that came to freemont were telling people in native countries, this is a great place to live, and they came, and that's how ethic communities have always started

throughout the history, whether it's a chinatown, korea town, a barrios, what have you. things have changed. we are now a minority-majority, and asian americans. okay, but within that group, there are many different types of allegations, it's not just chinese and indo americans, there's so many and the beauty of our city is that diversity that we celebrate. we have been a city for 60 years, we have had five council members of color. so i'm the first chinese-american female, we had two indo americans and chinese americans. is it a reflection of the community, i hope so. can it get better, absolutely.

>> but is it a function in the case that you just layed out of large numbers of people who are not naturalized and thus don't get counted in the eventual political outcomes or these people who haven't yet found the foot in politically say i want to be on that council, i want to see that council look like my neighborhood? >> well, i would say that asian americans in general are the fastest growing in the united states, the influence is there, significant. highest income and they're the first to be naturalized. and so when you have someone who looks like you on your city council, i think that shows that there's an interest there, but we have to be able to do the outreach. and many people have not been contacted. when you have an election, i think that the asian population looks to ethic media for their news source or the papers. and so is that accurate, i would

hope so, but to engage those people is something that we are trying to do actively. there is an api victory group that has formed to increase the voter population in this coming election cycle so that we can have that influence, and so it is -- it is happening not only in california, but in cities that are swing states like colorado and virginia and florida where we are trying to galvanize and get people to vote and be a part of the process, and we can really make a difference. >> kind of a lovely thing to be named freemont seance he came to california and stole land from the mexicans that they stole from the indians. [laughter]

>> okay. [laughter] >> but the idea of empowerment of new communities happens in as we've heard various kinds of context, you have a lot of new people in baltimore who have new baltimore roots and have no association with baltimore neighborhoods, the folk ways, the expectations of what a year in the life of baltimore is like, did those people jump right in or did they sort of still seem orientated to the places they come from? >> well, i found that people who move to baltimore want an aught -- authentic city experience. i ran to people all of the time and say that's why they move. not only is baltimore affordable, it's one of the top destinations for millennials because it's hip and we

understand the corkiness of baltimore. when people ask you what school you went to, they mean what high school. they want to know you have roots. if you don't, you can still play with us but -- [laughter] >> but that being said, i run into people all of the time that they come here not -- they come to baltimore not to recreate brooklyn in new york but engage in the unique communities that we have and i'm very grateful for that because i love the uniqueness of our neighborhoods and i don't want to lose that and it is a delicate balancing act to be a city that is -- you know, i was very clear, i want baltimore to be a welcoming city for people from around this country and from -- for people from outside of the country. i know that we will be a more sustain being vital city by having -- by welcoming diversity, but i don't want us

to lose that character. >> may i jump in? >> so i think a couple of things to build up what's been said, so i think it's important for us to just admit, i mean, and there's so much about the conversation and the way it's been framed today that our work resinates so much with, but the fact of the matter is that racial demographic shifts at the national and in many cases at the local level have not produced more racial justice. [applause] >> more of us has not meant more justice for us. what do i mean by that, in oakland we have had since the 70's a black mayor, for a black city we have had black mayors, that coincided with the white flight, pulling out from under the city of manufacturing and our economic base, the city became a shell of itself and who

was partly to blame, was our black mayors. though it was not their fault, it was not them who was moving industry. it wasn't them who were driving the federal redevelopment policies, it wasn't them that created the freeway through a black neighborhoods, it was not any of those decisions were not theirs to make in act wallty, but we've had a majority city council of folks of color. we have asian american representation, we have latino representation. and we have had lgbt representation. but to reference what's talked about in the first panel, this is the exact opposite of the post racial society that people talk about. we are in a highly racialize

society and that continues to remain true for many of our communities, the fact is that we have to continue to talk about these demographic shifts within a systemic context and not within the context of individual experiences. i think the reality is our cities and our neighborhoods have always represented and had multiple truth and provided multiple opportunities for experiences for different communities. it is very different to live in the mission and understand san francisco within the context of being a latino, central american, refugee, living in the mission for 50 years or be a black home owner in north oakland and experiencing your neighborhood and your city from that perspective, then other people who live in other parts of the city, right, so i think our cities and our neighborhoods, it is fine and it is good and it is right that people will have multiple experiences as the mayor had

said, but the fact is we have to focus on how are policies being structured to ensure that everybody has access to opportunities, access to quality housing, access to political decision making for your community. how are these things equalized and protected structurally and focus less in some ways on the experiences of individual people because people will make their individual experiences what they are -- >> how do you protect it structurally? what does that actually look like, would you to write things into statute that set aside certain powers for certain people? i don't understand how you protect that. >> i think that's a fair question. we would say three things. one every city has to have a clear plan and clear approach for community stabilization, so

what that means for us is that there has to be policies put in place in particularly around housing that ensures that for low-income, moderate-income people that want to stay in the community, that they are able to. that looks like red-control protections, that looks like maintaining and keeping quality of housing stock, that looks like eviction protections but stabilization has to be a center piece of our public policy. second, there has to be community-led, community-led planning, what do i mean, we have to ask resident, long-time resident to actually be a part of the process of deciding and driving the types of development that are coming into their communities and into their cities, meaning -- >> let me stop you right there. dawn just made a presentation at the hearing, mayor, you were sitting there and you say to yourself in your thought bubble because you don't see it into the microphone, so you thought

about it a little more. does that sound something that can work? >> and mayor, if i may add a third almost and you can respond. >> quickly. >> community-control and ownership. okay. >> so in the thought bubble -- [laughter] >> i would say those sound like very nice ideas. i would like to try to better understand some of the things you're talking about and in the -- >> you sound like a mayor. [laughter] >> i love it. >> once a mayor always a mayor. in the meantime, i need to figure out how to balance all of those interests with the fact that this neighborhood looks like hell, these folks have been complaining about the way their neighborhood looks, you need to put people to work and continue their revitalization of this

particular section, i will say the city of philadelphia. so what mayors spend a lot of their time doing is trying to balance a variety of interests. you want growth and development, you want to put people to work, you want that economic investment. as i mentioned earlier on the first question, but that has to be balanced with what is going on in the community, and so many of the things that you talked about and i appreciate you recognizing that for some of the things you specifically referenced that it was not necessarily the mayor of the city council making those decisions, which really then leads to mayors don't usually build highways through communities. so now you are really talking about what's going on with the state and the federal government and their roles in all of this. it is almost impossible for any mayor, and certainly in the current economic climate, to have anywhere near all the resources they would ever want to do many of the things that

you're talking about. and so i'm going to shift a little bit here on you, i i mean, we are in one of the most intense political seasons that any of us have experienced in recent times. it really does matter. if folks haven't been paying attention, it does matter who is in the white house. it really does and those kinds of decisions, and who is the secretary of transportation, and who is running epa, who is running the department of education, the folks understand what hud is really about. we have members of congress who vote to slash and go to ribbon cutting in hud. what happens at the city level, we fill up potholes, we do what we do. cities and states all across of

the united states of america, it's critically important how we engage with the federal government. the federal government has a role and responsibility for many of the things that you're talking about and often are off the hook or mia on a bunch of these issues. trr fact -- the fact that you cited the epa, sounds like you're assuming a democrat would win. >> i'm working on it. [laughter] >> how do you build in these guaranties of equity that people who don't want to be pushed out are not pushed out. are these workable in the marketplace that your resident operate in? >> one of the things that we've done is that we have human relation comoición as well -- commission as well and we recently had members of all of

the population come together and exchange ideas and share their issues, and sometimes we don't here about this, one of the things that came out of that was the muslim population, so that the chinese population was not sensitive to their issues. now, as a council member who has -- >> what form would that take? >> well, they were saying that it had to do with the way the muslim news was being portrayed in the ethic newspapers. i don't have -- we don't have control over what -- that's freedom of press, of course. a lot of time there's a misunderstanding. i'm going to give you an example in our community we have the very large population, the heels of freemont, a beautiful place,

because of the cultural, religious customs of the religion, you have a lot of chanting, you have free food that is meals that are given every day, you have ceremonies, a kid -- too noisy for the neighborhood, the resident are very upset about this. they complain about traffic and noise and litter and a whole host of issues but because of the rickial religious tension, is it really the traffic or they don't want in the neighborhood. things you have to do, these are the hours, let's see the traffic -- >> you can only suggest because

you can't -- >> well, you can enforce. >> that's a first amendment violation. >> sure, but if it's a large groups, there are permits that have to be applied for, notices given to the resident so that they know. there are things that are within our ability to control. >> it's amazing. the front edge of these -- i've never heard that particular problem described in an urban challenges for. q&a time. line up at the mic. you are familiar with the questions, your voice goes up at the end and you actually want to know something that the other person -- [laughter] >> knows and you are not telling us something you know instead, which is called a speech. yes, sir. >> good afternoon, my name is richard with the congressional black caucus foundation. i thank you for your time.

i want to pose the question to mayor blake, i want to ask you what are the influences of met metropolitan and also impact on housing development in mayor cities, and a lot of times mpo's don't think about equity issues and you find out about development they have is very much skewed away from developed, can you talk about your experience to philadelphia mpo, thank you. >> you can look around the country and find these organizations having different effectiveness and inclusiveness and what i can say that you can also find that power of the

organization being enhanced or curtailed by the people that are controlling the money. so in baltimore, we put together over, you know over republican administration and a democratic administration, put together a very comprehensive transportation plan called the red line with the goal of connecting people to where people needed to be, education, opportunity and jobs, and i was very clear that this red-line plan not only would create people for jobs and process because we work hard with organize labor to ensure that the opportunities that were created along the way would be of benefit to the people of those communities. when the republican governor came in, he cast that plan out without even a conversation.

so while the -- the mpo and all of the work that had been done to create that plan, i think was inclusive and had the -- had the potential to be very empowering, the person in power made sure that didn't happen. so, you know, you can have all of the plans in the world if you don't have the money behind it or the political will behind it, it's -- it's not going to happen. >> i had a very positive experience with our mpo. valley regional planning commission, but i will tell you, and i know the mayor knows this as well, we have heard horror stories of other mayors in the united states of america in dealing with some of the organizations and the department of transportation, the federal is quite well aware of some of those challenges. so it's not a one-size-fits-all, it's really more of a localized, we've benefited tremendous with the partnership with us and our

active engagement with them, infrastructure improvements, bridges, roads, regional transportation authority has benefited from dvrpc. i mean, we really took a regional approach to much of what i was trying to do as mayor. filly, delaware, 40% of the economy in the common wealth of pennsylvania. we are tucked in the right-hand corner of the state. we were able to get much more don't -- done and share in the big pie and constantly fighting for every nickel and dime. as long as we could see on the big board that everybody was getting something, true planning, 10, 15-20. everybody is getting a little bit of the action, and then, you know, you can make things work. in other places, like i said,

horror stories about what is going on. i think we saw some of that play out in the economic recovery after president obama almost, with cbc members and others single-handily brought the country back from the brink when known -- none of the republicans voted to bring back. many will admit was probably the wrong way to go. >> thanks. >> hello, my name is shane bernard. i work with a multimedia start-up company. i guess my question would be posed to you mayor and something that i have been grappling with is changing dynamic of our

cities, as someone who has grown up close to university, i have seen the massive changes in north philadelphia, football stadiums, but at the same time -- in the works, in the works. i always saw included that community was tempo. they made sure they have a healthy relationship with the neighborhood they exist in. but then you look at other schools, private schools or, you know, schools like st. john's juifort -- university, schools that have on ivy towers. what responsibility do they have to maintain partnerships or relationships? >> i don't think it's a matter of whether it's a public school or private school.

whether or not they feel like they're a part of the community or part, what i did was bring colleges and hospitals together and say, listen, we are -- the colleges and universities in our -- the hospitals, colleges, universities in our cities represent billions of dollars in spending power. billions in economic development. how can we as a community, as a group of anchors decide that those billions will be of benefit with the city. we came up with the anchor plan, i think we are the first one in the country that has all of the hospitals and universities make an agreent and sign onto an agreement that they will coordinate economic development

coordinate public safety, coordinate buying, coordinate hiring, hopkins just announced a plan where they're focused on giving, creating pathways for people and they do a very good job already but they're going to enhance that. people that have obstacle to implement, creating pathways to good jobs, that didn't happen by accident. >> student: , i pulled people to the table and said how can we work better and when we did that, i think that the colleges and universities and the hospitals started thinking differently about their role in the community. >> and i will pick up from there. philadelphia, 35, 36, 37% of the jobs in the city of philadelphia, one of out of five doctors will do his or her training in philadelphia in their career.

so colleges and universities and the medical centers or schools or hospitals are economic engines inan of themselves. they must grow and reach out and bring dollars in, the university of pennsylvania is the number two nih grant recipient in the united states of america. chop, number one virtually in the world and number one nih recipient of pediatrics hospital in the united states. many philadelphia resident, west oak lane work at colleges and universities. they bring employment. and we've got 400,000 young people getting an education at 101 colleges and universities. this is one of the reasons we had great millennial population growth. come get an education and stay. eight years ago, 28% of nonnative philadelphia students

were staying in the city, today 49%. so you're going to have conflicts. we are building this and many students want to stay on campus, great thing but is there displacement all those kinds of issue. in philly many colleges and universities, i graduated in '79, i think it was pertinent. significant increase in financial years during carter years but community relations were probably at their worse in many of those same neighborhoods

. have they gotten better, absolutely. many of them have their own economic opportunity plans, they are increasing and improving with regard to hiring. black firms, asian firms and disabled business owners. that is ultimately all about community engagement and relations. whether you want to build a stadium, more buildings, whatever you need, talk to the community and more often times than not you can work it out. >> if you wanting to back to school, it's a national phenomena, the mayors talked about the particular cases in baltimore and philadelphia, but whether it's yale and new heaven, colombia and morning

side heights stands a long history where in places where real estate was tight, where land was built out, where neighborhoods were perceived as being on nonstop decline, a time line that was going to play out and only go in one direction, universities leveraged their institutionalcloud and threatened to leave and do instruction in campuses and use that as a form of group force to change way streets ran or neighborhoods or where multiple dealings were built and where single family housing was built, they are big, heavy, iron-fisted players colleges and universities. ask my mayor and they will tell

you. but there are -- there's also kind of a tool kit because some places have tremendous positive relations with their adjoining neighborhoods. trinity university in connecticut. one of the pioneers in this regard and penn many more recent decades has opened itself to the city and become a place where people who could only dream of some day going there where actually felt like it was a part of the fabric of the operating tissue of their city, a place to go, places that built great big walls to keep those other people out and i tell you, it's one of the great stories as the industries have left cities and universities as the mayor noted have become bigger municipal players, there's a lot of ways that story can go, many of them go and many of them bad. i'm getting the cut sign and any

good program host knows that one of his most important jobs along with keeping it interesting and keeping it moving is ending on time. so thank you all very much and thank my guests. [applause] >> okay, we are going take a 15-minute break and reconvene in the next meeting room for bound b. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> we will be heading back to the mees -- museum in just a little. first update news from presidential campaign trial. scott walker endorsed texas senator ted cruz this morning tweeting the announcement and posting it on his facebook page. he writes just like we did in wisconsin, ted cruz is not

afraid to challenge the status quo and to stand up against the big government special interest, he is the best position candidate to both win the republican nomination and defeat hillary clinton. and from the trump campaign, campaign manager corey turned himself in after jupiter florida police issued arrest report, reporter with the palm beach post tweeting donald trump campaign adviser was arrested this morning for allegedly grabbing a reporter, michelle fields during a news conference in jupiter, ms. fields was a reporter and john with abc tweets a statement from the trump campaign, assault charge he will plead not guilty. security footage from the rally allegedly pulling the rorrer's arm. whether he keep you updated on road to the white house.

while we wait for things to resume, here is a look back at speakers from earlier this morning. >> good morning to all of you. thank you david cohen who as always put together a fantastic event here. thank you to my good friend juan williams from the network whose ratings are always halved by the competition. or did i get that backwards. that was my not so inside tv joke. juan, thank you as always. i learned so much watching you every day as you do the great work that you do. it is an honor to be back at this point discussion that we are about to have this year and the past five years as well. thank you again all four. this year i want to start with a story that i'm working on right now and in uncommon fashion i would like to share it before

you it actually airs. don't tell anybody, don't tell david. i filmed it wednesday and friday and my editor and i were in the dark booth yesterday, a monday for many hours. it will air on msnbc in the coming weeks w. that i want to share that with you. >> in the lead up to 1964 birmingham, new york, chicago crackle overracial inequality. rose voter turnout. giving lyndon johnson four more years. 55 die in the los angeles riots. that offer beating, voter turnout rose 5 percentage points.

>> 77% choosing bill clinton for the white house. >> i didn't know i was -- >> the big question today, might the same forces be at work in 2016. with recent crisis including trayvon martin shooting. >> and that's where we like to see it more intensified. >> luís gutiérrez hears about the topic. he works six days a work. today at a puerto rican restaurant in orlando. >> things that have happened to people are going to effect the elections. >> black people and latinos and all of that stuff, that's always a conversation substance.

>> in another swing state, registers voters for asian american, police brutality concern not a common topic she hears about. republican registered after skipping 2012. >> ferguson, the stuff that happened in the past, everybody is fair. >> people need to open their eyes and see that the big picture here. >> this is very much at the top of their agenda and we've done a number of research and polls on this and it's still ranks always in the top three. >> the top three of new voters, 26-year-old luís is registering, 14 each day if he makes his goal. each registration like gold to her, a smile when she reaches 20 each day. regardless of party, she and luís know it's these new voters, they're the ones who will decide in places like ferguson will be remembered on election day. >> see you. >> msnbc, las vegas, nevada.

>> so as you can see from that report, the state of race in this year is pretty hard to