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All The Wiser

74. Breaking the Poverty to Prison Pipeline

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9652 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

He knew he was loved by his mother, and because she loved him, Yusuf Dahl knew he was worth something. Growing up in a food insecure and financially unstable household in Milwaukee taught Yusuf what not to do in order to be a successful adult. Those lessons made him a profitable drug dealer. After landing in prison, however, Yusuf began applying himself in a new way. The investment in himself set him up for a future he never could have imagined, including a degree at Princeton, a real estate career, and a mission to make housing more affordable and available for everyone.


In this episode:

  • The right to affordable housing.
  • The influence our parents and guardians have on us.
  • How we view our community matters.
  • The role demographics plays in the trajectory of your life.
  • Learning to respond to challenges and adversity with optimism.


Stay connected with Yusuf:

Websites: 

www.yusufdahl.com

www.realestatelaballentown.com

Article: Strom Thurmond blocked me from renting a home

Twitter: @YusufDahl

Instagram: @yusufdahl

Charity Donation: The Petey Greene Program



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secure. I mean, place matters. Place matters. I mean, a lot of this stuff we know empirically,

1:02.8

right? There's just been so much research over the last 10 years. And where you are born,

1:08.3

the zip code that you are born in is a predictor of where you're going to end up.

1:14.8

And so first of all, that should just outrage all of us because that goes against the very ethos of this country, right?

1:20.8

That was entrepreneur and educator Yusuf Dahl.

1:24.8

And Yusuf knows a thing or two about ending up in all kinds of places. Growing up in

1:30.6

Milwaukee, he was the youngest of three boys being raised by a single mother. Life was not easy on

1:37.3

his mom, and she had struggled with chemical dependency and alcohol addiction. It was a household

1:43.4

and a childhood defined by chaos, instability, and

1:47.6

scarcity. And so when the head of that household is suffering from these type of issues, that

1:54.9

there ends up being this leadership vacuum. And that was initially filled by my oldest brother,

2:00.5

who is seven years my senior.

2:03.4

He's somebody who I looked up to.

2:05.7

So oftentimes he would, you know, when my mother would be gone for days at a time and there

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