The Regressives Ep. 4 | The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

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🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Regressives Ep. 4 | In America, it's all too common that we measure success by whether you leave the town you grew up in. The best and brightest, it's assumed, are those that get out. Why do we accept that as a country? Urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter says we shouldn't, and we won't see real improvement in our low-income neighborhoods until we approach them differently. Ravi and Majora get into a wide-ranging discussion about flawed community outreach, the "non-profit industrial complex," gentrification, affordable housing and urban renewal. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	Welcome to a crossover of the Regressives and the Lost Debate.
0:08.0	And today we're going to be talking about development, gentrification, economic diversity,
0:14.5	what it means to be from a place and want to stay in that place.
0:17.8	And I think these are huge questions.
0:20.1	And I think the people who dominate these debates tend to have a certain perspective. And I think these are huge questions. And I think the people who dominate
0:21.3	these debates tend to have a certain perspective. And I think this perspective was on full display
0:26.4	the other day when we were talking about this controversy around affordable housing and Chappelle
0:30.2	and how these mega developments happen and who's responsible for them and should we be subsidizing
0:36.0	affordable housing, et cetera. And it seems like
0:38.5	there's not enough narratives here. And that's why I'm really excited to welcome my friend,
0:43.5	Majora Carter. She's a native of the South Bronx. She's a real estate developer, serial
0:47.3	entrepreneur, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award winning
0:52.3	broadcaster. And she's responsible for the creation of
0:55.1	numerous economic developments, technology, inclusion, and green infrastructure projects, policies,
0:59.7	job training, and placement programs and systems.
1:02.2	And she currently serves as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell,
1:07.5	Incorporated, and is the author of the recent bestselling book,
1:12.1	reclaiming your community. You don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one. Majora, it's great to have you here. Thank you. She sounds so awesome. She is, and you know what, Majora, we were just joking about this off camera. The last time I saw you was months before the pandemic. I took a group of people up to your neighborhood, which is Hunts Point in the South Bronx.
1:30.5	Paint the picture... I saw you as months before the pandemic. I took a group of people up to your neighborhood,
1:28.3	which is Hunt's Point in the South Bronx.
1:30.4	Paint the picture for us of what that neighborhood is,
1:33.1	like the South Bronx and Hunts Point,
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