Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to willk F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: what a fucking week. Let me start with the fact
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is absolute trash, but we are going
Speaker 1: to get into that on Friday, but let me just
Speaker 1: preview that not only is Donald Trump found libel for
Speaker 1: sexual abuse, for defamation, but in a recent interview with MSNBC,
Speaker 1: his former running mate Mike Penn said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that the American people really care about this. Are
Speaker 1: you fucking dumb? Do you think that Americans, particularly women,
Speaker 1: don't care about the fact that the Republican Party is
Speaker 1: a coven for misogynists, is a coven for sexual abusers.
Speaker 1: From the state, local, and federal level, there have been
Speaker 1: accusations for a number of people. A person in Tennessee
Speaker 1: and the Tennessee Legislature just resigned because he was fucking
Speaker 1: an intern. So you think that the party that wants
Speaker 1: to couch themselves as somehow about family values, We know
Speaker 1: that there are there's no family and there are no values.
Speaker 1: All these people want is fucking power so that they
Speaker 1: can impose their will, their religion, their bullshit, their lives
Speaker 1: on the rest of us. Donald Trump is a man
Speaker 1: that they bowed down to. They they would give blood
Speaker 1: for this man so long as he says that he
Speaker 1: will make the people around them who they don't like
Speaker 1: lives harder, so long as he will release cruel policy.
Speaker 1: Because if you ask these very same people, you know
Speaker 1: there'll be a whole heap of them that will be
Speaker 1: at that bullshit CNN town hall which I did not watch,
Speaker 1: am not watching. But by the time you listen to this,
Speaker 1: we will know what has happened. Four hundred people call
Speaker 1: themselves Republicans in the widest fucking state of New Hampshire
Speaker 1: to give softball questions to Donald Trump. The question that
Speaker 1: I would ask. Ask these people how their lives have
Speaker 1: been made better by the Republican Party. Tell me exactly
Speaker 1: how your specific life. Don't talk to me about all
Speaker 1: day banned abortion. Tell me exactly how your life and
Speaker 1: the lives of your family members are better because of
Speaker 1: Republican policies. I'll wait, tell me how, over four years
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's corrupt, fucking ass presidency that your life improved.
Speaker 1: Because unless you are a multi millionaire and a billionaire.
Speaker 1: The answer is the same way that couldn't answer the
Speaker 1: fucking question around what does it mean to be woke.
Speaker 1: What they care about and what they know for certain
Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump is a misogynist, white supremacist, and
Speaker 1: that is what they like in a candidate. That's what
Speaker 1: they like in a party. They want to go back
Speaker 1: to a time when it was okay for men to
Speaker 1: grab women however, whenever and wherever that they wanted, and
Speaker 1: those women didn't have any recourse. They want to go
Speaker 1: back to a time when black people were forced off
Speaker 1: of sidewalks because white people were walking down the street.
Speaker 1: They want to go back to a time where gay
Speaker 1: people are forced into the closet or jailed. That's their
Speaker 1: idea of making America great again. So miss me with
Speaker 1: the bullshit with these fucking fake ass journalists who can't
Speaker 1: take questions. You know, the other day, bravo to Joe
Speaker 1: Biden who flipped it on reporters at the White House
Speaker 1: when he asked them, you tell me what Republicans said
Speaker 1: was in their plan? Did you ask them? He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be funny, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: even be a wise guy. But did you ask? And
Speaker 1: I realized that when questions are posed back to these reporters,
Speaker 1: they don't have fucking answers because they don't ask the
Speaker 1: very politicians that they are throwing in Democrats' faith. They
Speaker 1: don't ask Kevin McCarthy. So you say that it's fine
Speaker 1: for George Santos to remain in Congress because you need
Speaker 1: the votes, and that he's innocent until proven guilty. So
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Donald Trump being held liable
Speaker 1: for sexual abuse and defamation? Should he, then, by your
Speaker 1: line of thinking, be able to still run for president?
Speaker 1: And will you back him? Because a jury of his
Speaker 1: peers found him liable and would have found him fucking guilty,
Speaker 1: and he would have been jailed if the statutory of
Speaker 1: limitations was unlimited, But by grace of new legislation in
Speaker 1: New York, Egen Carroll was able to file a civil suit.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, I just keep thinking about the fact
Speaker 1: that this country, I really, honestly, you know, all credit
Speaker 1: is always given to the forefathers of this nation for
Speaker 1: concocting this project called democracy. And I got to say,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of fucking holes that they left unfilled,
Speaker 1: because why is it that you can be indicted, that
Speaker 1: you can be how liable for sexual violence, that you
Speaker 1: can be charged with crimes and still run for president
Speaker 1: and still be a member of Congress is fucking beyond me.
Speaker 1: It's as if the forefathers either they thought that to
Speaker 1: be a politician was to be above reproach, you know,
Speaker 1: the same way that again, no real laws right except
Speaker 1: for ethics, no real laws put in place for grifting
Speaker 1: as Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas is able to be
Speaker 1: a kept fucking man by Harlan Crowe. No oope, no
Speaker 1: violations around that, no laws on the books ensuring that
Speaker 1: there's actual accountability and responsibility for the people who are
Speaker 1: making decisions about the rest of us. You see, if
Speaker 1: they were only making decisions for them, go with God,
Speaker 1: I could give a fuck. But you see, their perspectives
Speaker 1: are being colored in order to side with people who
Speaker 1: are able to give them the most money. So then
Speaker 1: your decisions that you're making and how you are making them, oh,
Speaker 1: they matter. The Republican Party has shown their entire ass
Speaker 1: as has CNN, and the question is much in the
Speaker 1: same way that people took over this State House in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: They're taken over the state house in Ohio. I believe
Speaker 1: that the people of this good country right because I
Speaker 1: still believe that there are more more. I want to
Speaker 1: believe this people. I want to I want to believe
Speaker 1: that there are more good people, right, sane people, logic
Speaker 1: driven people in this country than there are Trump supporters.
Speaker 1: The Trump supporters are just the whiniest and everyone gives
Speaker 1: them a fucking microphone. But I believe that what we
Speaker 1: are seeing, which is not being covered by mainstream media,
Speaker 1: what we are seeing with these protests taking over state houses,
Speaker 1: is that the American people have had enough. They don't
Speaker 1: want to be dictated to. They want to be able
Speaker 1: to choose their representatives and remove their representatives when their
Speaker 1: vision for the future no longer aligne. We are once
Speaker 1: again in an outrageous place, and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: keep having this conversation. I asked Glenn the very same
Speaker 1: question earlier this week. You know, does America come out
Speaker 1: of this right? Do we get to the other side?
Speaker 1: Do we restore our integrity, our global standing? I don't
Speaker 1: think so, and neither do a lot of people that
Speaker 1: I talk to. I think that this is it. So
Speaker 1: it has those of us who believe in democracy as
Speaker 1: imperfect as it is, who believe in justice as rare
Speaker 1: as it is, to continue pushing. But the question is
Speaker 1: until what point? Which brings me to something I've talked
Speaker 1: about on this show and I continue to talk about
Speaker 1: every time I go on TV. We need a national strike.
Speaker 1: We need to shut this fucking country down. If we
Speaker 1: are to restore this nation's integrity and integrity in our institutions,
Speaker 1: then everything must be grinded to a halt until action
Speaker 1: is taken. One person, Joe Manchin, right now put out
Speaker 1: a statement. He is the head of the Natural Resources
Speaker 1: and Energy Committee in the Senate. He's not passing any
Speaker 1: more EPA names because guess what they are, radical, says
Speaker 1: the man for Big Coal, because he doesn't care about
Speaker 1: how many of his constituents have died of black lung.
Speaker 1: He doesn't give a fuck. So long as he can
Speaker 1: continue making money off of polluting the environment, he will.
Speaker 1: So now he's gonna hold the rest of the country's
Speaker 1: safety hostage. Tell me the difference between Joe Manchin, Kirsten Cinema,
Speaker 1: and the Republican Party. There isn't one, folks. We have
Speaker 1: got to recognize that our time, this democracy, this clock
Speaker 1: is running out, and the question is are there really
Speaker 1: enough good people to do what's right that, dear friends,
Speaker 1: I honestly do not know, but it's a question that
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to dig into and ask of
Speaker 1: our guests every single week that we make it to
Speaker 1: the end of Coming up next, my conversation with Helen Gimm,
Speaker 1: who is the Democratic front runner in the primary for
Speaker 1: mayor in Philadelphia. That primary takes place on Tuesday, so
Speaker 1: if you are in the Philadelphia area, this is an
Speaker 1: important conversation for you, and even if you are not,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be a progressive urban mayor
Speaker 1: at a time when this country and quote unquote blue
Speaker 1: centers are on the fritz? Folks. I am very excited
Speaker 1: to welcome to wok F Daily mayoral candidate for Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and the Democratic front runner, Helen Gimm, who is a
Speaker 1: urban twenty first century style mayoral candidate, and Helen one,
Speaker 1: congrats on your positioning on the conversations that are bubbles
Speaker 1: up around you. I know that the primary is on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but you should feel really good about about where you are,
Speaker 1: so talk to me, talk to us about what does
Speaker 1: it mean to be a progressive urban mayor given the
Speaker 1: climate you know that the entirety of the country is
Speaker 1: in right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I come out of more
Speaker 2: than twenty years of organizing with communities on the ground
Speaker 2: who never felt like politics was a place where we
Speaker 2: were going to start with our change. Our politics never
Speaker 2: started with politicians. They always started with us, and that
Speaker 2: was largely because the politics of any given moment are monstrous.
Speaker 2: They tear families apart from one another, you know, they
Speaker 2: disinvest in neighborhoods and communities. We've allowed some of our
Speaker 2: most essential institutions to completely fall apart, whether that's public
Speaker 2: transit or schools, or the issue of public safety. And
Speaker 2: now more than ever, I think what you are seeing
Speaker 2: from a new wave of candidates who are coming in
Speaker 2: are not people who just hold a set of ideologies,
Speaker 2: but people who are born out of movements, who have
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time in them, not just kind
Speaker 2: of you know, like hanging around on the edges, but
Speaker 2: have actually driven large scale movements for change. When we
Speaker 2: get into office, we actually deliver. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 2: about what needs to happen with the big cities. And
Speaker 2: a progressive movement right now. We have to actually deliver
Speaker 2: the things that we're talking about. It's not enough to
Speaker 2: talk about it. It's not enough to disparage the status
Speaker 2: quo austerity politics of the past. We actually have to
Speaker 2: prove that we can deliver safe drinking water to every
Speaker 2: child and every family you know, in every neighborhood. We
Speaker 2: actually have to deliver an economic justice mission that gives
Speaker 2: jobs to people in communities and neighborhoods and doesn't simply
Speaker 2: recycle them into like the low wage, high turn work
Speaker 2: of other places. And we have to deliver housing. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is the mission right now. This is why cities
Speaker 2: are on the move and they're tired of the status
Speaker 2: quo politics that haven't that have failed to deliver. But
Speaker 2: we have to be able to deliver that, and that's
Speaker 2: born by people who've actually done the work.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I saw on
Speaker 1: your campaign website, you know, one of the first items
Speaker 1: and issues is gun violence. And I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about that because you know, it used to
Speaker 1: be the myth is that it was the cities that
Speaker 1: were riddled with gun violence, as we've seen with so
Speaker 1: many mass shootings too many to even count this year,
Speaker 1: that it isn't just cities, right, and you in your
Speaker 1: campaign have talked about the importance of getting these guns
Speaker 1: off the street. So talk to us about your platform
Speaker 1: for gun safety.
Speaker 2: Yes, so safety is real in all the work that
Speaker 2: we do in community organizing. My work got started with
Speaker 2: victims of crime who were ignored, marginalized, or sidelined. We've
Speaker 2: gone into situations where schools were falling apart because you know,
Speaker 2: people didn't take the safety of everyday lives. And I
Speaker 2: think that's what needs to resonate right now. We see
Speaker 2: a lot of mass shootings and horrifying things happen in
Speaker 2: other communities, but when they're happening in black and brown
Speaker 2: and immigrant communities, they're seen as just a course of life,
Speaker 2: and that is absolutely not the case. And that's why
Speaker 2: it is so important for us to restore the mission
Speaker 2: of safety back to the progressive movement, a mission that
Speaker 2: has taken on and fought, you know, ridiculous prohibitions on
Speaker 2: common sense gun control, but has also talked about the
Speaker 2: need for investments if we believe that violence is rooted
Speaker 2: in disinvestment. And you know, Philadelphia often called the poorest
Speaker 2: large city in the country. Almost one out of four
Speaker 2: our residents live in poverty, thirty seven percent, thirty seven
Speaker 2: percent of our children's party. And I don't believe any
Speaker 2: of that is by accident. Whether intended or not. Those
Speaker 2: policies have been deliberate, they have been purposeful, and they
Speaker 2: have been devastating. And thus everything we do has to
Speaker 2: be equally purposeful, equally determined to reverse those trends and
Speaker 2: to ensure that people live healthier, safer, and more enriched lives.
Speaker 2: And so our platform absolutely goes in on taking illegal
Speaker 2: guns off the street. It absolutely talks about, you know,
Speaker 2: different levels of law enforcement coming together. That's what people
Speaker 2: have been struggling with and doing. But I'm also very
Speaker 2: clear I'm here to deliver crisis response because that's one
Speaker 2: of the things that our communities talk about. We want
Speaker 2: to promote more detectives, not just hire police officers. We
Speaker 2: do it twenty to forty at a time. We've got
Speaker 2: a thousand off, we have a thousand positions vacant in
Speaker 2: our police department. Absolutely, people feel like there's not enough police.
Speaker 2: But it would take me forever to promise that I
Speaker 2: could deliver police officers so what I'll do in the interim.
Speaker 2: We're going to promote more detectives to reduce caseloads and
Speaker 2: actually solve crimes, which is the most lawless thing about Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: People are gaining away with it. Second, we're deploying more
Speaker 2: first responders, mental health first responders to take off the
Speaker 2: hands of our nine to one one calls in our
Speaker 2: police departments, the homelessness, addiction, domestic situations, certain domestic situations,
Speaker 2: and mental health episodes that are not well dealt with
Speaker 2: by the police department, and allow our police officers to
Speaker 2: focus more on the violent crimes that individuals want. And
Speaker 2: then we're deploying more group violence interrupters. We had thirty
Speaker 2: six hundred kids drop out of school in September of
Speaker 2: this year. Since September, four thousand kids dropped out of
Speaker 2: school last year. They are not going to the police,
Speaker 2: they are not calling a nine to one one. I
Speaker 2: have got to reach them, and so we need individuals
Speaker 2: on the ground in communities doing the group violence interventions
Speaker 2: interruptions that we have seen make a difference, but it
Speaker 2: is not always in the form of a police officer.
Speaker 2: We can get crisis response, we can get first responders
Speaker 2: out onto the streets. If we understand that we have
Speaker 2: to handle crime differently from just ramping, you know, making
Speaker 2: false claims that we're going to be able to restore
Speaker 2: a thousand police officers when we're in a state of
Speaker 2: emergency right now.
Speaker 1: You know, you bring up the fact that young people
Speaker 1: are leaving school, are dropping out of school, and you know,
Speaker 1: one of the major issues right now is, you know,
Speaker 1: emotional instability in our youth. You know, we're taxing them
Speaker 1: with way too much with you know, school shootings, with
Speaker 1: anti LGBTQ rhetoric, with disrupting curriculum. So when you look
Speaker 1: at the youth of Philadela and you see those numbers,
Speaker 1: what do you think for your city is the cause?
Speaker 1: And how do you plan to address that level of anxiety,
Speaker 1: instability and what many have said is post traumatic stress
Speaker 1: disorder that young people are dealing with right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for more than twenty five years, I've talked about
Speaker 2: a city and state that disinvests in Philadelphia's youth, in
Speaker 2: their families and in their neighborhoods. Look, if we are
Speaker 2: you know, our school system, it's one of the areas
Speaker 2: where I spent most of my life trying to uplift
Speaker 2: a school system that should be delivering for two hundred
Speaker 2: thousand children and families in the city of Philadelphia, and
Speaker 2: time and time again, we've been kind of stymied and
Speaker 2: deliberately blocked. I fought for fair funding lawsuits that have
Speaker 2: won their constitutional grounding through state courts, but it's still
Speaker 2: up to us to fight for this. Thirty years ago,
Speaker 2: I was a teacher in the public schools, teaching thirty
Speaker 2: eight kids and a one hundred year old building without
Speaker 2: air conditioning on the fifth floor. And I knew then
Speaker 2: that our kids deserve so much better. But I also
Speaker 2: know this, you get the city you fight for. No
Speaker 2: one's coming in to hand this to us. So we
Speaker 2: got to go out, and for the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: I've tried to build a movement to fight on behalf
Speaker 2: of kids. I've made it very clear from the moment
Speaker 2: you walk in to a public school in Philadelphia, where
Speaker 2: the average age of a building is seventy years old,
Speaker 2: you can build the disinvestment. You can feel it when
Speaker 2: we start suspending kids as young as five years old.
Speaker 2: You can feel it when we deny kids. A nurse,
Speaker 2: a librarian, and a counselor, but we guarantee them a
Speaker 2: surveillance camera, a metal detector at the front door, and
Speaker 2: a school police officer. We've got more police officers than
Speaker 2: we have counselors in our schools. And that's why when
Speaker 2: I came into office, I did a number of things. One,
Speaker 2: I helped end a seventeen year state takeover of our
Speaker 2: public school systems that had depressed and closed down more
Speaker 2: than thirty public schools that had disinvested around these things,
Speaker 2: and with the same people in charge, we put back
Speaker 2: nurses and counselors. We built out a social worker program,
Speaker 2: we made we made investments in pre K I started,
Speaker 2: you know, arts and music, and I am here to
Speaker 2: run for mayor to finish that job. I don't think
Speaker 2: that a city can rise when it tells so many
Speaker 2: young people and their families that they are not worthwhile.
Speaker 2: And if you can tell that to a five year
Speaker 2: old child in a neighborhood, you will tell it to
Speaker 2: their parents, you will tell it to the communities around them,
Speaker 2: you will disinvest overall. And that's what I think we're
Speaker 2: feeling in Philadelphia. And in the meantime, we've been chasing
Speaker 2: all manner of things to make up for our lack
Speaker 2: of investment in families, in neighborhoods, in communities, and in
Speaker 2: the stabilizing things that make people healthy and hop We've
Speaker 2: done massive corporate tax breaks. We've given away the stores
Speaker 2: to like, you know whatever, if a billionaire sports owner
Speaker 2: will hand them the keys to the city and an
Speaker 2: open checkbook. We flirted with casinos. We are surrounded by
Speaker 2: more casinos than almost any other city in the state
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania, and it has brought us nothing because those
Speaker 2: things are extractive. They do not invest, and most of all,
Speaker 2: they don't build. They extract capital out of communities. I
Speaker 2: am here to put that capital back into people, and
Speaker 2: I want to show what it looks like by having
Speaker 2: strong schools that are invested, open year round, after school
Speaker 2: programs seven day a week, libraries, parks that are lit
Speaker 2: up and brightened, programmed library you know, recreation centers that
Speaker 2: are open in the evenings, and summer camps that are running.
Speaker 2: The fact that this is called radical is outrageous. The
Speaker 2: most by the most radical thing about me is that
Speaker 2: I actually delivered these things. That is a radical thing,
Speaker 2: because when we reorient the budgets, when we actually prove
Speaker 2: that the things that hold us back were just us
Speaker 2: and not you know, all these external forces. We show
Speaker 2: how small the ideas always were. We unlocked opportunity in
Speaker 2: capital and we watch people rise. And I think there
Speaker 2: are plenty of people who are scared about that. I've
Speaker 2: got a billionaire right wing zeal putting in, you know,
Speaker 2: a million plus dollars into negative advertising against me to
Speaker 2: hold that back. But I know that the thing that
Speaker 2: they're afraid of are the people that are working and
Speaker 2: laboring for years to change the city and put its
Speaker 2: resources back into communities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you knows. As a former educator, I know that
Speaker 1: one of the places that is consistently defunded but we
Speaker 1: don't use that language, is education and has been, and
Speaker 1: that if you were to actually invest in young people,
Speaker 1: invest in instead of putting in, as you said, police
Speaker 1: officers in schools and putting counselors and put in nurses,
Speaker 1: put in therapists, and create schools as community hubs, which
Speaker 1: is what they are with wrap around services for families
Speaker 1: as well, then cities that have been targeted by the
Speaker 1: by Republicans and the extreme right would actually thrive. And
Speaker 1: that's what they don't want. Are black and brown people thriving.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest issues and I'm in New York
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and one of the biggest issues that we're
Speaker 1: facing in this city, as in a lot of cities,
Speaker 1: including yours, is the rising housing costs. Housing costs have
Speaker 1: got out of control, rent has gotten out of control.
Speaker 1: Just recently, you know, we had a horrific situation here
Speaker 1: with a homeless man, Jordan Neely, who was murdered, whose
Speaker 1: killer is still out free, and people are protesting and
Speaker 1: saying that we should have done something, you know, for
Speaker 1: a person that is experiencing a mental health crisis that
Speaker 1: has been pleading and asking for help, but we don't. Right,
Speaker 1: So what do you say with regard and how would
Speaker 1: your administration be dealing with the rising housing costs and
Speaker 1: how that is also connected to the homelessness crisis that
Speaker 1: we're seeing across major cities. How would you deal with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, obviously housing and home life is the key
Speaker 2: to stability, and the disruption that you see around it
Speaker 2: is shocking. One of the things I was most proud
Speaker 2: of in my time on city Council was that in
Speaker 2: less than five years, we took the fourth highs evicting
Speaker 2: city in the country, and we slashed evictions by almost
Speaker 2: two thirds. During the pandemic started to creep up again.
Speaker 2: But you know, like what we were able to show
Speaker 2: is that when a city actually leans in on really
Speaker 2: aggressive policies to create alternatives to an eviction that could
Speaker 2: otherwise keep somebody house, we can deliver. The program that
Speaker 2: I delivered not only showed that significant reduction, it drew
Speaker 2: down almost a quarter of a billion dollars in investments
Speaker 2: from state and federal actors. It's the law that I
Speaker 2: built now is passed in one hundred and eighty cities
Speaker 2: across thirty six states, and was part of the Biden
Speaker 2: Bill of Rights. The reason why I bring that up
Speaker 2: is that nothing outside of us is actually going to stop.
Speaker 2: We know what markets do, right they market response. There
Speaker 2: is nothing at the federal government. You know. I think
Speaker 2: that there's a lot that could be done. Let me
Speaker 2: be clear, but I cannot afford to wait for a
Speaker 2: federal government or a regressive state legislature to act when
Speaker 2: we know what the crisis looks like. That's why I
Speaker 2: think America's cities have to lead on an affordable housing vision.
Speaker 2: We can't actually fund it. I think that's the difference.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people don't want to do things
Speaker 2: that they can't fund. But my belief is you can't
Speaker 2: fund something that doesn't and if you don't have a
Speaker 2: clear idea of what you want, you become victim to
Speaker 2: a pastiche of different federal programs, different little state things,
Speaker 2: and we start piece mealing stuff and it doesn't meet
Speaker 2: the need. Right now, what I have is an all
Speaker 2: out mission to keep our people house. I've got eighty
Speaker 2: five hundred vacant lots that are city owned. I have
Speaker 2: to have a plan for that. I have, you know,
Speaker 2: municipal courts where we see evictions after all the work
Speaker 2: that we've done kind of ticking up. I've got to
Speaker 2: have a plan for that. And I believe that when
Speaker 2: we keep people housed, when we link housing to stronger education,
Speaker 2: to healthier individuals. Our eviction work was reviewed by the
Speaker 2: by Pen Medicine, by the Hospital of the University of
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and prove that housing saves lives during COVID And
Speaker 2: we've already made the link with the Children's Hospital of
Speaker 2: Philadelphia that mediating on housing actually helps people live healthier lives.
Speaker 2: So I'm here to deliver on a housing in the
Speaker 2: midst of a housing crisis. I'm here to deliver on
Speaker 2: a housing plan that not only addresses affordability, but can
Speaker 2: also tackle climate and health. And what I mean by
Speaker 2: that is people black and brown folks living residents living
Speaker 2: in some of the poorest sections of the city have
Speaker 2: the highest utility bills, are the live in the most
Speaker 2: substandard housing. So if we are leaning in on home
Speaker 2: repairs or prioritizations on affordability, not everything has to be
Speaker 2: built new right now, because that's not the most efficient
Speaker 2: way to do things. But if we are doing a
Speaker 2: real emphasis on home repairs, rent stabilizations, other types of things,
Speaker 2: then let us make sure that those communities are first
Speaker 2: in line for solar energy and the lowest utility bills.
Speaker 2: Let's make sure that they are first in line for
Speaker 2: lead remediation and the healthiest homes. Make sure that we
Speaker 2: do the you know, the vacant lot usage, so that
Speaker 2: we're building up tree canopies and making those places as
Speaker 2: restorative as a community as we are focused on the
Speaker 2: individual house itself. These are the things that cities can
Speaker 2: do more importantly when we do it at scale. The
Speaker 2: most important thing we can do is send a message
Speaker 2: out to the market. We're not letting just the market
Speaker 2: decide all of these things. There is a big investment
Speaker 2: effort right now on maintaining affordability whole homes repair. I
Speaker 2: can provide seed money, including loans and revolving loans, types
Speaker 2: of things we can start, you know, with rent assistance
Speaker 2: that is able to keep people house. I need to
Speaker 2: command our private markets to see this as a place
Speaker 2: of investment, like a kind of venture capital, but this
Speaker 2: time not a venture capital for the wealthiest. This time
Speaker 2: a venture capital that actually invests in communities and watches
Speaker 2: the economic wealth of a region go up. That is
Speaker 2: a task like I think we've seen it done in
Speaker 2: different areas. It tends to be done by like economics
Speaker 2: sectors and that kind of thing. But a strong signal
Speaker 2: goes out to the investment community. You want to be here,
Speaker 2: and I want to send that signal because I know
Speaker 2: that this is not just going to be done simply
Speaker 2: by municipal funds alone. I need to excite a different
Speaker 2: kind of economy here that invests back. And I need
Speaker 2: to do yeah with big banks, you know, new lending institutions,
Speaker 2: but a real eye towards equity, affordability, and how people live.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you that I am very excited
Speaker 1: about your candidacy. I'm very excited for folks who are
Speaker 1: listening to this who aren't in UH, who are in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The primary is on Tuesday, so get out there and vote.
Speaker 1: And Helen, I hope to have you back on when
Speaker 1: you are mayor.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Danielle, and I'm so glad to
Speaker 2: be on the Woka of Daily, So thank.
Speaker 1: You for having me, thank you for joining. That is
Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on woke a app
Speaker 1: as always power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.