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Cory Bowman: Finding solutions to the problems downtown · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's six point thirty right now. If you have
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Speaker 1: KCD talk station by Thomas always pleased to talk with
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Speaker 1: former maryl candidate, sadly didn't get elected. Things might be
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Speaker 1: different and perhaps better than downtown Cincinna. Maybe the population
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Speaker 1: would increase had we mayor Corey Bowman, but we don't.
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Speaker 1: But we still get Corey Bowman's resident of the City
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, business owner in the City of Cincinnati, and
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Speaker 1: a guy who is always paying attention to issues that
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Speaker 1: are impacting the residents of the city of Cincinnati. Corey Bowman,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning show, my friend. It's always
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Speaker 1: great having you on the program. Joe Well, I see
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Speaker 1: he's on the line.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 1: What the hell happened to.
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Speaker 3: Your Sorry my golden retreatment was barking earlier, so I
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Speaker 3: had it on you just to make sure but.
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Speaker 2: That we're good.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate your efforts at providing a clean communication. That's an
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Speaker 1: important thing to overcome that mute button. Corey Bowman, how
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Speaker 1: you been house things in your neighborhood? And we pivot
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Speaker 1: over to people fleeing the city since day I know
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Speaker 1: there was another person shot this morning, three o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the morning at was it Walnut Street and Ninth a
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Speaker 1: little bit outside of your area, but close enough that
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Speaker 1: I guess this is kind of a common occurrence for you.
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to the point, you know, as the
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Speaker 3: warmer month, I mean, we see this every year, you know,
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Speaker 3: as the warmer months happen, then obviously the crime will
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Speaker 3: go up, more people are out and about, But this year,
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Speaker 3: just trying to monitor the location specifically, just trying to
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Speaker 3: get a handle on specific reasons obviously, and what we
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Speaker 3: can do to kind of raise awareness of it and
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Speaker 3: possibly affect policy in the future. But yeah, we're definitely
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Speaker 3: seeing an increase in shooting specifically in our area of
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Speaker 3: West End OTR very some very sad things happen.
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Speaker 1: Well, I've seen quite a few articles in you and
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Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. There seems to be no
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Speaker 1: acknowledgment that we have a gang problem in downtown, and
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Speaker 1: you kind of wonder, you know, any given shooting is
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Speaker 1: something went wrong between the two they knew each other,
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Speaker 1: they were mad at each other, someone got a little
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Speaker 1: you know, over zealous in espressing their anger in the
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Speaker 1: form of gunshot. So that's a dispute between two individuals,
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Speaker 1: unlike say a random where a guy just unloads a
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Speaker 1: couple of magazines into a crowd of people, which I've
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Speaker 1: never understood. You know, there's no specific target and all that.
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Speaker 1: But tracing it back to the why are people using guns?
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Speaker 1: Is this in your mind? And have you heard it
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Speaker 1: is a gang related issue?
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Speaker 3: We have, Yeah, absolutely, because the biggest issue that we're
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Speaker 3: seeing with all this is youth bottling youth guns. And
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Speaker 3: even just recently there was on McMicken there was an
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Speaker 3: interaction where two seventeen year old, two teenagers were trying
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Speaker 3: to purchase guns illegally and they led to an altercation.
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Speaker 3: And what we're seeing here is a major thing of
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Speaker 3: the youth. Now, when it's happening in the youth, when
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Speaker 3: it's happening with ages that are in teenage years, this
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Speaker 3: could be related to gang violence. And then what you're
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Speaker 3: seeing is that a lot of these shootings are happening
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Speaker 3: at specific areas. I keep telling the city and other
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Speaker 3: people that are involved in the process that the number
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Speaker 3: one areas you got to keep an eye on are
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Speaker 3: the city parks Downtown, Downtown, Grant Park, Laurel Park, Fairview Park,
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Speaker 3: these are hotspots.
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Speaker 2: And these are areas.
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Speaker 3: Where you know, for I mean, I guess the terminology
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Speaker 3: is turf.
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Speaker 2: Wars or areas. You know, these are areas that get hit.
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Speaker 3: A lot because these are congregated areas for these groups
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Speaker 3: of teenagers. That the classification is gangs. And we won't
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Speaker 3: talk about it because of you know, so the negative
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Speaker 3: connotations behind that of what we've seen in the past.
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Speaker 3: But that's exactly what's happening downtown.
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Speaker 1: Well, it seems to run contrary to the argument that
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Speaker 1: many make. Well, we just need more safe spaces for teams.
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Speaker 1: We need places for them to gather and you know,
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Speaker 1: have shared experiences. And I guess one make you gon
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Speaker 1: make a good argument a park. It's an ideal spot
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Speaker 1: you can get involved in sporting activities, walk around, commune
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Speaker 1: with nature, sit and enjoy life. However, but if it
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Speaker 1: becomes just another slice of turf, like any other slice
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Speaker 1: of turf, it becomes a magnet then for more violent
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Speaker 1: So I guess maybe community rec centers could suffer the
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Speaker 1: same fake Corey. If the gangs decide they want to
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Speaker 1: claim a community rec center is their turf.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and let me tell you about some things we've
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Speaker 3: experienced number one at Laurel Park. It's about three blocks
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Speaker 3: away from our church, and I've talked about it before,
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Speaker 3: but one of our church members, her granddaughter, eleven year
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Speaker 3: old Queen Irie, was shot on January first of this
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Speaker 3: year at Laurel Park. I passed by that park every
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Speaker 3: day driving to whether it be our coffee shop or
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Speaker 3: our church, and there's nobody playing there.
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Speaker 2: There's no families out there enjoying that park. It's a
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Speaker 2: large piece.
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Speaker 3: The only time that people feel safe is if it's
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Speaker 3: like a community event or if there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: people at once strength and number. You're every exactly, but
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Speaker 3: you're everyday kids playing on the park, it doesn't happen.
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Speaker 2: So those are things that we're encountering there.
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Speaker 3: But also last year we had a back to school bash.
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Speaker 3: We actually reserved the high school stadium that's downtown at
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Speaker 3: the Stargull Stadium, And what we do for all of
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Speaker 3: our events like that is we have registration. We blocked
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Speaker 3: the entrance to the lot of these events that are
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Speaker 3: held there. It's an open entrance that anybody can come
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Speaker 3: and go, and so we had security at the front.
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Speaker 3: We had a police presence there, but the police presence
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Speaker 3: was there just to show off the SWAT truck and
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Speaker 3: to be able to make it fun for the community.
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Speaker 3: But I can't tell you in the West End how
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Speaker 3: many single moms came up to me, hugged me and
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Speaker 3: said thank you so much for having this event and
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Speaker 3: having the registration at the front, because our kids need
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Speaker 3: a safe place that they can actually enjoy. Because we
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Speaker 3: had bounce outs.
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Speaker 2: As food trucks, so the kids were having a blast, but.
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Speaker 3: They said that rarely they can experience something like that
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Speaker 3: in the community because of a safety issue. So that's
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Speaker 3: why I realized that, you know, this is affecting the
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Speaker 3: whole community and we've got to get a handle on it.
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Speaker 1: Well, continue with Corey Bowman to a quick break here.
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Speaker 1: And I saw something happened in Chicago about a week
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Speaker 1: or so ago, led by ministers as sixty on a
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Speaker 1: Friday e Brian Thomas Swift Corey Bowman, former mayoral candidate,
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Speaker 1: on thoughts and impressions about violence and problems with the
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Speaker 1: with gangs perhaps downtown since say one of the root
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Speaker 1: causes of violence among the teenagers down there, Corey Bowman,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned the whole concept of strengthened numbers. People won't
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Speaker 1: go to the parks. They're typically empty because of the
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Speaker 1: concerns about violence that obviously have manifested themselves. But when
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Speaker 1: you have a big group getting together, you got the
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Speaker 1: bounce house, you got things to do for children and families,
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Speaker 1: they all show up and Strengthen nothing happens by way
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Speaker 1: of violence. And it made me think of this strength
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Speaker 1: and numbers concept. Chicago pastor, oddly enough close to your name.
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Speaker 1: His name is Corey Brooks. He's behind something called Project
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Speaker 1: Hood and he hosted this what was called one one
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Speaker 1: thousand Men Unity gathering a few days ago, declaring that
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Speaker 1: this was going to be a one hundred percent violence
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Speaker 1: free zone in the surrounding area. It's about creating a culture,
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Speaker 1: he said, where men stand together to protect families, mentor
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Speaker 1: young people, reduce violence, and build something that will outlive us.
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Speaker 1: It was pastors, mentors active as business leaders, former gang members,
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Speaker 1: residents from across the area, and they describe the unified
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Speaker 1: effort to promote safety, accountability, and opportunity. It sounds to
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Speaker 1: me like residents stepping up and deciding they are not
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Speaker 1: going to put up with it anymore. Providing that strength
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Speaker 1: and numbers concept they had. I mean, it's hundreds and
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Speaker 1: hundreds of people showed up. Now, if they were to
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Speaker 1: continue this along those lines, members in any given neighbors
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Speaker 1: in any given community outnumber I'm sure by far the
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Speaker 1: number of gang members. Right, So, if there's gang members
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Speaker 1: in your community, you're frightened of them. If the community
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Speaker 1: were to rise up, maybe engage in neighborhood watch patrols
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Speaker 1: regularly keep in contact with the police, in other words,
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Speaker 1: cooperate for the purpose of making their community better, we
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Speaker 1: could sure you use a lot of that help from
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Speaker 1: residents within the city Cincinnati, Cory, does it sound like
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Speaker 1: a concept that could work? Or am I just you know,
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Speaker 1: live in a pipe dream here?
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Speaker 2: No? I think obviously does work.
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Speaker 3: You know. One of the things that we fought on
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Speaker 3: last year was we've got to fight against the mindset
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Speaker 3: of optics over outcomes. Right, So a lot of things
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Speaker 3: do come across as hey, we're here just to take
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Speaker 3: the pictures to get the news articles. But is it
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Speaker 3: really making a difference. And there's things that we've got
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Speaker 3: our hand in in the West End right now which
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Speaker 3: I truly believe are making an impact. You know, one
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Speaker 3: of the things is that we actually just hosted at
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Speaker 3: our coffee shop a west End business council and business
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Speaker 3: owners in the West End came together at our coffe
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Speaker 3: shop that was hosted by Galen Gordon, who is the
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Speaker 3: president of the West End Community Council, and just having
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Speaker 3: those conversations with community leaders and seeing what's the best
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Speaker 3: way we can do to further A lot of it
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Speaker 3: isn't even just talking about crime and talking about how
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Speaker 3: to we further development. How can we work with the
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Speaker 3: city to kind of bypass a lot of red tape
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Speaker 3: to make sure that we get growth going as quickly
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Speaker 3: as possible in our communities. Because I mean our coffee shop,
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Speaker 3: the block just by our coffee shop being there has
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Speaker 3: completely changed where the crime just on our in our
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Speaker 3: short area there, you don't really see a lot of
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Speaker 3: activity there. Now three or four blocks late down the
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Speaker 3: road you might see something.
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Speaker 2: But we've got our hand in that and we're trying
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Speaker 2: to grow those groups. And then there's you.
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Speaker 3: Mentioned the Passers gathering pastor James Strayhorn, who is also
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Speaker 3: in the West End. He works with us the City
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Speaker 3: League Center in the west End and we've just come
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Speaker 3: on board with him it's called a Faith Advisory Council
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Speaker 3: or spiritual Advisory council. I've joined him with the National
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Speaker 3: Day of Prayer. Was able to meet a lot of
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Speaker 3: local passers and leaders at that, and we're going to
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Speaker 3: be meeting on a regular basis to discuss how we
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Speaker 3: can do community outreach. One of those is like what
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Speaker 3: we talked about the back to school bashe we're continuing
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Speaker 3: that in a couple other summer programs this year. So
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of good things happening. But you know,
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Speaker 3: it's a marathon, it's not a spread. This is something
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Speaker 3: that it's going to take everybody, and it's going to
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Speaker 3: take consistency. And I think that's something that a lot,
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Speaker 3: unfortunately a lot of elected officials don't understand, is that
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Speaker 3: it's not about climbing the ladder to get to a
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Speaker 3: state or federal level. It's about having the consistency locally
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Speaker 3: to make the impact in our city that we love.
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Speaker 1: Does outreach from you know, pastors, ministers and the religious community,
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Speaker 1: does that have an impact? Does it resonate with young
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Speaker 1: people anymore. I'm kind of worried to even ask that
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Speaker 1: question because I'm afraid you're going to say no, they
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Speaker 1: do not have faith, they do not have a belief
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Speaker 1: in a higher power or something that's bigger than them,
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Speaker 1: because that seems to be the direction we're going.
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Speaker 3: Well, what we believe is that, you know, the Bible
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Speaker 3: talks about Jesus said that we're fishers of men. So
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Speaker 3: if you're a good fisherman, you got to have some
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Speaker 3: you got to have a law or a good net.
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Speaker 3: And that's what these outreaches are to us. It's a
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Speaker 3: way to be able to grab a hold of these
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Speaker 3: young people because they'll always come to the events. They
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Speaker 3: want to have a good time, right, But then what
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Speaker 3: it's going to take is consistent discipleship and leadership. One
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Speaker 3: thing I've realized is that a lot of young men
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Speaker 3: specifically will come into our church on Sundays and I'll
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Speaker 3: have conversations with them, and they are hungry for strong
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Speaker 3: male leadership. I try to talk with a lot of
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Speaker 3: guys in our community. There's a business owner, his name's
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Speaker 3: Jeremy Wilson. He owns Wilson Maintenance that lives right across
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Speaker 3: the street from my coffee shop, and there's probably about
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Speaker 3: ten young men that he's always trying to correct or
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Speaker 3: trying to disciple because the community is hungry for strong
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Speaker 3: male leadership, strong mail role models, and I think like
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Speaker 3: bringing the pastors together, having a community church like we
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Speaker 3: do in the West End, to where we're not necessarily
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Speaker 3: on the outskirts. We're there for the community every Sunday
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Speaker 3: speaking the Word of God, but also providing that connection.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's something that's very important. We're seeing
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Speaker 3: results in it. I've seen it in several young men
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Speaker 3: in our church to where we've seen them, you know,
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Speaker 3: whether it be an unexpected pregnancy with a girl that
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Speaker 3: they're with and all of a sudden their relationship is flourishing.
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Speaker 3: They're able to be a good father, they're able to
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Speaker 3: be strong in their job and in their career. So
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Speaker 3: we do see the difference. We do see change like that,
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Speaker 3: but like what you said, strengthen numbers. We need all
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Speaker 3: hands on deck and everybody kind of contributing consistently.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, I wish parents plural were
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Speaker 1: part of that equation more than they seem to be.
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Speaker 1: You know, no way in hell that I could have
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Speaker 1: gotten away with being out at two o'clock in the
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Speaker 1: morning on a weeknight when my house I know what
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Speaker 1: that have led to and the parents don't make them
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Speaker 1: take a more, you know, active role in minding their
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Speaker 1: children and sending them on the right path. Maybe get
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Speaker 1: them over to church on a weekends so they can
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Speaker 1: interact with you. Don't go away more with Corey Bowman
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Speaker 1: Corey Bowman form a mayoral candidate ceed The population of
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Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati dropped by five hundred in the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five calendar year. He said, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: reversing a trend. I guess the city's population was gradually
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Speaker 1: increasing since the twenty twenty census, but dropped a little
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Speaker 1: bit last year. But the increase it's according to the
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Speaker 1: reporting for in Biz Journal, that this has something to
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Speaker 1: do with the immigration and that migration patterns have changed
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Speaker 1: a little bit. I guess with Donald Trump cracking down
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Speaker 1: on illegal immigrants coming into the country, we had significant
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Speaker 1: gains in the Hispanic share of the population for the
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Speaker 1: first time in twenty twenty sixty one percent of the
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Speaker 1: population growth in that year was attributed to their moving
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Speaker 1: into the area. So is that what we are relying
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Speaker 1: on in terms of bringing people into the city so
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Speaker 1: they can work and thrive and pay taxes to the
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Speaker 1: city coffers doesn't sound like a recipe for success if
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Speaker 1: you can rely on the illegal immigrant community. Corey Bowman
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Speaker 1: your thoughts.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that was something that at the beginning
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Speaker 3: of the campaign last year, we were looking at the
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Speaker 3: population growth and we once we started diving into the numbers,
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Speaker 3: we realized that much of the growth of what they
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Speaker 3: were touting in Cincinnati was due to immigration. And then
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Speaker 3: you start looking at that throughout every major city, you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, as we were running our race, we were
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Speaker 3: watching races in New York City, and even now we're
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Speaker 3: seeing races in LA and city officials, you know, running
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Speaker 3: for office, whether it be for mayor you're seeing what
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Speaker 3: Spencer Pratt is doing over there. But with these debates
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Speaker 3: and with all these you know, races happening, you start
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Speaker 3: realizing that it's the same issues all across the board
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Speaker 3: for all these major cities, and a lot of these
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Speaker 3: major cities were trying to up the population based on immigration,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of it had to do with votes,
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Speaker 3: a lot of it have to do with census and
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Speaker 3: make sure that they secure their district and secure all
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Speaker 3: of that as well.
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Speaker 2: But also I.
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Speaker 3: Would say that you know, a city's population growth that's
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Speaker 3: primarily dependent on that, you're you're gonna see, You're not
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Speaker 3: going to see the best results you can.
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Speaker 2: That's just because you know, we've always been a city.
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Speaker 3: To where a lot of young people in the rural
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Speaker 3: areas are on the outskirts of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: They want to move to the city. They want to.
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Speaker 3: Move for jobs and for opportunities, and we're not seeing
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Speaker 3: those same reasons why people are moving into the city.
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Speaker 3: And it's sad because you're not going to see the
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Speaker 3: growth like what we would want to in the.
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Speaker 1: Future, no doubt about it. And then moving over real quick,
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Speaker 1: just your thoughts and comments on the preservation of affordable housing,
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Speaker 1: one of Cincinnati's largest low income housing. They've been in
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Speaker 1: ongoing issues with toxic chemicals just again reported by w
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Speaker 1: CBO chloroform benzing. There's lawsuits out there, no hot water, mold,
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Speaker 1: sewage backups, rats, and otherwise generally poor living conditions. It's
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Speaker 1: been an ongoing phenomenon this and do you know what
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Speaker 1: the genesis of this is? And there any way around it?
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Speaker 3: Corey Bawman, Yeah, A lot of this has to do
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Speaker 3: with just not a lot of accountability locally where HUG
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Speaker 3: funding is going, where the city funding is going.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to.
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Speaker 3: Landlords and for lack of better word, slum lords. We
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Speaker 3: noticed that the first year we started our church that
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Speaker 3: people that were involved in our church congregation members they
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Speaker 3: were living in these affordable housing of POEA houses CMHA,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of them were getting mistreated. But then
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Speaker 3: as we looked into all the details of it, we
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Speaker 3: realize that they're well funded. They're getting a lot of
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Speaker 3: money to do what they do, and it's not being
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Speaker 3: reflected in their care, their maintenance of the building, or
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Speaker 3: their care of their tenants. And so I keep telling
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Speaker 3: I keep telling people, you're seeing fraud throughout the country
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Speaker 3: when it comes to like the medicaid and what you're
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Speaker 3: seeing the learning centers in Minneapolis. You're seeing a lot
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Speaker 3: of man medicaid fraud that's happening in Columbus right now.
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Speaker 3: I tell people that the fraud that's happening in Cincinnati
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Speaker 3: all has to do with the HUD funding. That has
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Speaker 3: to do with the affordable housing, and that's why they
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Speaker 3: keep pushing every year we need more housing, housing, housing housing. Well,
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Speaker 3: you know when you keep pushing that, it's because people's
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Speaker 3: pockets are getting deeper, deeper, deeper and deeper.
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Speaker 1: No accountability. Gee, we're on a trend here with that.
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Speaker 1: Just throw money out into the world, say it's going
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Speaker 1: to a good cause, and don't follow up to see
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Speaker 1: whether that money actually resulted in what you threw it
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Speaker 1: out there for.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, No, I mean there's a single mom behind
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Speaker 3: my church that you know, lives in a poe of
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Speaker 3: building and she didn't have heat or ac for the
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Speaker 3: first year that she's living there with her kids. When
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Speaker 3: they call to try to say, hey, there's mold in
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Speaker 3: my apartment, they literally get told, of verbatim, hey just
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Speaker 3: wipe it up with bleaks or spray paint over it.
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Speaker 3: And then if they continue to be a problem as
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Speaker 3: far as complaining about it, well then they get a
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Speaker 3: VIC because there's a long list of people that want
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Speaker 3: to step into this housing.
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Speaker 2: And so I get it.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to affordable housing, we really need to
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Speaker 3: have a system that helps people out of it eventually
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Speaker 3: it doesn't need to be a long term solution for
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Speaker 3: generation and generation. But then at the same time people
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Speaker 3: have caught on to this is a money funneling system.
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Speaker 3: You know, if I can get money, you know, by
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Speaker 3: being a property owner and get it classify as thirty
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Speaker 3: sixty percent AMI, if I can get all these grants
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Speaker 3: and programs, and then the sad thing is that if
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Speaker 3: it is in bad condition, if they keep it in
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Speaker 3: bad condition, well then that's the appearance of they need
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Speaker 3: more money so they can better take care of their building.
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Speaker 2: So it's almost done by purpose.
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Speaker 3: Where as long as there's the appearance of needing more money,
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Speaker 3: the money will continue to flow, not only from the
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Speaker 3: federal not only from the state, but.
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Speaker 2: From the city budget as well. And it's the taxpayers
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Speaker 2: that are suffering.
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Speaker 1: Because and the residents of the so called affordable housing
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Speaker 1: units that have to live with no heat and rats
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Speaker 1: and apparently toxic chemicals as well. Corey Bowman, you hit
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Speaker 1: the nail on the head on the end there, brother,
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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining the program. Go over Corey's coffee shop,
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Speaker 1: King's Arms. You'll find it. Just look for the cops
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Speaker 1: hanging around in his neighborhood thanks to Corey Bowman putting
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Speaker 1: a business there. Corey, God bless you, sir. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: again real soon. Have a wonderful rest of the week,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 2: Hey you too as well, Brian, Thank you so.
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Speaker 1: Much, thank you. It's six fifty seven. Congressman Warren Davidson
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Speaker 1: coming up next.