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Speaker 4: When you look at your district is one of the

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Speaker 4: wealthiest districts in America, but also has some.

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Speaker 5: Of the poorest neighborhoods in America at the same time.

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Speaker 4: Right, you got eating eating wall projects, you got you

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Speaker 4: know Scarsdale, Right you got you got Mount Vernon, and

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Speaker 4: then you got largely right. And it's it's actually a

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Speaker 4: tale of America and how separate but so close, so close,

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Speaker 4: within a couple of miles. You have some of the

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Speaker 4: wealthiest places, and then you have the projects, right, and

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Speaker 4: and the wealthy people will never come to the projects,

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Speaker 4: and the people in the projects probably will never be

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Speaker 4: in the wealthy people's house ever. Right, So talk about

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Speaker 4: and it's always these these neighborhoods that are poor.

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Speaker 5: Yonkers, South Yonkers. It's always Black people and Spanish people,

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Speaker 5: Black and Latino people. They always permeate these these neighborhoods.

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Speaker 5: So talk about affordability, black wealth creation and what your

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Speaker 5: agenda is to kind of bridge that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to start with the issue of affordable housing.

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Speaker 2: So there's an affordable housing crisis across the country and

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Speaker 2: it's really manifested in Westchester County. We need about eighty

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Speaker 2: thousand units in the county. My opponent hasn't really done

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Speaker 2: much about that, even though he's been county executive for

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Speaker 2: a number of years. One of the challenges to providing

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Speaker 2: truly affordable housing so working class housing, or let's call

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Speaker 2: it low income housing, Right, those who work full time

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Speaker 2: don't make much money but need housing, need affordable housing

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Speaker 2: at a rate in terms of federal policy, thirty percent

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Speaker 2: of salary that's capped at thirty percent of salary towards housing.

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Speaker 2: We just introduced a bill today that's capping looking to

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Speaker 2: cap rental costs at twenty percent of salary to go

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Speaker 2: even lower. But what happens is places like Scarsdale, like Rye,

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Speaker 2: the wealthier areas, they don't allow affordable housing to be

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Speaker 2: built in their communities. They only want a certain type

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Speaker 2: of culture and this is a quote from them to

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Speaker 2: live in those communities. They don't want buildings, even if

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Speaker 2: they're small buildings. They don't want multifamilies. They want single

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Speaker 2: family to maintain the culture that they have in those communities.

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Speaker 2: But if we're going to really have affordable housing to

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Speaker 2: meet the needs of everyone in the district, we should

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Speaker 2: be building in those areas as well. So that's a

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Speaker 2: key important point. Another point is the fact that the

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Speaker 2: reason why we don't have more affordable housing is because

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Speaker 2: the housing stock is low, and it's low by design

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Speaker 2: from Wall Street to keep prices up. We believe housing

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Speaker 2: is a fundamental human right and if you pay taxes

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Speaker 2: and you live in America, a wealthy nation, you should

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Speaker 2: be able to have affordable, dignified housing. As you know,

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Speaker 2: child also isn't affordable for the working class. Utilities are crazy,

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Speaker 2: food is crazy, Transportation, it's hard to People are just

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Speaker 2: ways to handle that. One is making sure corporations in

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Speaker 2: a wealthy pay their fair share. We're not saying take

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Speaker 2: all their money in taxes, but they should be paying

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Speaker 2: a little more so that we could build more affordable

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Speaker 2: housing and deal with utilities and all of that. Right now,

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Speaker 2: that's not happening. The other part of it, black wealth

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Speaker 2: building is not just about financial literacy. It's also about

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Speaker 2: public investments in repairing the harms that have happened historically

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Speaker 2: in America. And so reparations is about responding to redlining.

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Speaker 2: Redlining is when our communities were isolated and devalue simply

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Speaker 2: because they were black. We need to now reinvest federal

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Speaker 2: dollars in those areas to rebuild those areas and allow

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Speaker 2: them to begin a bootstrapping system of building wealth within

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Speaker 2: their own neighborhoods. The federal government has subsidized building white

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Speaker 2: wealth for since the beginning of America. It's never done

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Speaker 2: that for black people. So that needs to happen. That's

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Speaker 2: what reparation is all about. And then finally, the issue

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Speaker 2: of entrepreneurship is really really key. But the issue of

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Speaker 2: entrepreneurship around new ideas is really really key as well,

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Speaker 2: and so financial literacy is what we need in all

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Speaker 2: of that proper investments, but we need new ideas. We

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Speaker 2: need to build and design new products and services to

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Speaker 2: help that America in the world needs to help us

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Speaker 2: build wealth similar to this apparatus we're working on now.

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Speaker 2: Both the hardware and software that we're using has built

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Speaker 2: wealth for individuals and groups. We need to do the

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Speaker 2: same thing as well. And to me, the pathway to

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Speaker 2: that is technology. And because technology it's still in its

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Speaker 2: infant stage, is it's still like a goal rush type

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Speaker 2: of space. But this is why I advocate so much

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Speaker 2: for STEM education in our schools, because we got brilliant kids,

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Speaker 2: but we got to make sure they're thinking on an

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Speaker 2: entrepreneurship level, not just a worker level.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I want to talk about a

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Speaker 1: population that obviously is there there all of us, that

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Speaker 1: is kind of the crown jewel of all of most communities,

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Speaker 1: and that's our women and our children. So you spoke

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Speaker 1: about financial literacy. I know both you and I come

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Speaker 1: from an educational background, but we don't talk about women's

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Speaker 1: issues enough. Whether that I know from a general election

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Speaker 1: that's going to be a heavy topic, and from a

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Speaker 1: local and state election, I'm assuming that it'll be just

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Speaker 1: as important. So we talk about reproductive rights, we talk

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Speaker 1: about you know, gender bias, we talk about maternity, all

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Speaker 1: these issues. How we can combat in that from the

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Speaker 2: From your perspective, the state is doing pretty well with

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Speaker 2: reproductive justice overall. You know, if you women chooses to

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Speaker 2: to do that without being criminalized or targeted or whatever.

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Speaker 2: So reproductive rights in the state are pretty strong. Where

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Speaker 2: we are not strong is maternal mortality and what happens

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Speaker 2: with maternal mortality overall, and also maternal mortality with Black women,

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Speaker 2: Like black women die of childbirth in New York State

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Speaker 2: at a rate that's incredibly high. Like the country. Across

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Speaker 2: the country is very high, but in New York State

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Speaker 2: it's incredibly high. And that's a major problem because we

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Speaker 2: still have racism and racist practices within our healthcare system overall,

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Speaker 2: the way black women are treated, their so called tolerance

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Speaker 2: to pain, their relationships with obg y ns, the lack

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Speaker 2: women are seeking to have a child is a real problem.

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Speaker 2: And then the overall medical field and the lack of

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Speaker 2: bias and racial anti racist training from doctors and nurses

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Speaker 2: and obg y ns is really is really critical to this.

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Speaker 2: And so, you know, our healthcare system has a history

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Speaker 2: of racism, from Henrietta Lax to the Tuskegee Experiment to

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Speaker 2: the the the what's the term of forgetting the term now,

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Speaker 2: the sterilization of black and brown women in our country.

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Speaker 2: There's a horrible history with the healthcare system and there

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Speaker 2: still is now, which is why a lot of us

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Speaker 2: don't even seek healthcare right And so, uh, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: state has to do way more in terms of anti

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Speaker 2: racist uh training and funding to deal with the issue

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Speaker 2: of infant mortality, maternal mortality, and maternal morbidity.

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