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The Future of Affordable Housing in NYC with Alicia Keys · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you because you bring up an
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  Speaker 2: interesting point. You're a native New Yorker. Affordable housing is
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  Speaker 2: something that's very big topic these days, and the rent
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  Speaker 2: skyrocketed as skyrocket over the last decade. I think the
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  Speaker 2: average manha rent is like close to four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: right now for one bedroom.
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  Speaker 3: It's too much.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of those programs that you described that
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  Speaker 2: even that you grew up and have been taken away.
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  Speaker 2: So what's your thoughts on you know, affordability in the
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  Speaker 2: city of New York.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's very hard to find. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: in so many ways, we're just being priced out of everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: It's very difficult for anybody to find a quality of life, lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard I think about, you know, I hear this
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  Speaker 4: from so many people, and so many young people just
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  Speaker 4: starting their careers and wanting to figure out, like, I
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  Speaker 4: love this city.
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  Speaker 3: I want to stay in this city, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Got to live like six hours away to be able
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  Speaker 4: to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: So it's unfortunate. It's definitely unfortunate.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like this is such a great example
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  Speaker 4: of what can come of affordable housing.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's what I because I think you are actually
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  Speaker 2: an advocate almost for it, because you said you it
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  Speaker 2: was a building for artists, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, really was specifically for artists, and I think my
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  Speaker 4: mother explained that also that they had to have thirty
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  Speaker 4: percent of people from that particular neighborhood or that currently
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  Speaker 4: lived in the neighborhood as well, which is also important
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  Speaker 4: because then people come from all over, but those in
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhood don't get the same opportunity. So that's something
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  Speaker 4: to think of it. We see that in Harlem, we
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  Speaker 4: see that in Brooklyn. You know, so much of that
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  Speaker 4: that regentrification.
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  Speaker 2: So it's important because it's like, let's say, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: you were not able to live in that building, right
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  Speaker 2: and you had to grow up in Connecticut or some
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  Speaker 2: other place. Right now, you never might not have become
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  Speaker 2: who you became, and now you're actually contributing to the
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  Speaker 2: economy of the city now, right, So now it's a
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  Speaker 2: full circle moment fact you actually are somebody that had
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  Speaker 2: benefited from that affordable housing situation. Because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times people don't have sympathy. They're like, if you can't
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  Speaker 2: afford to live here, then don't move here. But it's
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  Speaker 2: like if we take away if we take away to artists,
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  Speaker 2: if we take away the creatives, if we take away
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  Speaker 2: people that might not have the finances to pay four
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a month, then we actually are hurting the
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  Speaker 2: whole ecosystem, right, And I think, like I said, you're
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  Speaker 2: actually a perfect example of that because you're a native
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  Speaker 2: child who actually not only became extremely successful, but now
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  Speaker 2: you have a player on Broadway and now millions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars being generated.
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  Speaker 4: That's a fact that's such a huge point in being
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  Speaker 4: able to being able to have that experience, being able
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  Speaker 4: to grow up close to different creative cultural places, experiencing
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  Speaker 4: different styles of art forms. You know, having that access
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  Speaker 4: it does it changes it. It changes your experience, It
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  Speaker 4: changes your relationship with it. It changes what you can
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  Speaker 4: imagine for yourself as you could dream for yourself. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, growing up on tenth Avenue, it was always
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  Speaker 4: it was so bleak, and it was so drastically different
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  Speaker 4: from just walking out to Avenue is over three avenues
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  Speaker 4: over that seventh or eighth which had that those Broadway
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  Speaker 4: lights and the life and the you know, And so
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  Speaker 4: I think that that's definitely a big thing that I
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  Speaker 4: note a lot like the experience, the access, the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: came from the access to seeing different possibilities. And so
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  Speaker 4: I agree, I agree, we can't we can't box people
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  Speaker 4: out of the learning of the education, the of the access.
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  Speaker 4: Another thing Hell's Kitchen has done is we created a
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  Speaker 4: fellowship program to bring the young people who normally wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be in the space of set design or costume design.
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  Speaker 3: And all of these pieces are.
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  Speaker 4: The director fellow, the choreography fellow from Camille Brown, Michael
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  Speaker 4: grif who's one of the best directors you know ever
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  Speaker 4: in the Broadway space, so people get to learn under
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  Speaker 4: the greats Chris Diaz, the book writer. So it's really
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  Speaker 4: part of what we're talking about is access. We're talking
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  Speaker 4: about welcoming people into spaces where we belong and given
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to learn and so that we can diversify
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  Speaker 4: what we're seeing and so we can contribute back to
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  Speaker 4: the culture of the city. And I think that's exactly right,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the only way it happens when you have
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  Speaker 4: access like that.
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