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How to revitalize a neighborhood -- without gentrification | Bree Jones

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The housing market can be vexing: while some neighborhoods get ridiculously expensive and price out longtime residents, others have historic homes sitting vacant without demand. Equitable housing developer and TED Fellow Bree Jones shares how she found a way to revitalize neighborhoods experiencing hyper-vacancy while preventing gentrification -- supporting home buyers and transforming communities along the way.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Ted Talk's Daily, I'm Elise Hugh, and the housing market is pretty

0:08.4

vexing to me as some neighborhoods get ridiculously expensive, pricing out and displacing long-time

0:14.4

dwellers while other neighborhoods have historic homes just sitting vacant and without demand.

0:20.1

Equitable housing developer, Breed Jones, has found a way to rebuild forgotten housing,

0:25.4

support home buyers, and transform communities along the way.

0:29.2

Pretty exciting, right?

0:30.2

She shares how in her talk from the Ted 2022 stage.

0:33.8

That's after the break.

0:34.8

Hey, I'm Stephen Johnson, host of the Ted Interview Podcast.

0:41.4

On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people.

0:45.4

On the latest episode, researcher and activist, Zaru J. Aramak talks about her nationwide

0:50.6

campaign for a fair wage in the service industry.

0:53.5

We're in a very historic moment where after 160 years of this wage structure lasting

0:59.8

since emancipation, it is finally being rejected by millions of workers.

1:05.0

Check out the Ted Interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

1:12.5

Picture this.

1:14.7

You have the opportunity to own a beautiful home in a historic neighborhood with deep cultural

1:20.1

roots designed by some of the best urban planners in the world, all in a charming waterfront

1:25.5

city.

1:26.9

You'd want to live here, right?

1:29.6

But what if I told you that this home was in an area of Baltimore called the Black Butter

1:34.6

Five?

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