You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one | Majora Carter

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Low-status neighborhoods in the US are often stuck between stagnating assistance from the government and gentrification at the hands of real estate developers. The result is that the brightest minds are convinced that "success" means leaving town. Urban revitalizer Majora Carter has a solution: What if we treated these communities like struggling companies? She presents a restorative economic approach to capitalism, which seeks to retain talent, build resilient communities and prove that you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.5	Urban Revitalizer Majora Carter wants us to rethink poverty and economic development
0:12.4	by putting community at the center.
0:15.2	In her talk from Ted 2022, she shares her work in retaining the talent in her neighborhood
0:20.0	in the same way companies fight to keep their best people.
0:23.3	And stick around after the talk for a conversation between Majora and me about how to best put
0:27.7	her ideas into action.
0:29.8	All that after a quick break.
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0:36.9	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people to dig into the provocative
0:42.0	and powerful ideas of our time.
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1:10.0	Successful companies don't invest in talent so the competition can hire them away.
1:17.0	They keep their people motivated to grow with the company and inspire those around them
1:22.8	to lean in with them.
1:25.4	I believe that talent retention, the same tool used to grow successful companies, can be
1:31.9	used to build great neighborhoods for the people born and raised in them.
1:37.5	My hometown is a South Bronx in New York City, and it's the Kala, and it's the kind of
1:45.6	neighborhood that some might say actually has a talent repulsion strategy.
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