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A “Fourth Leg” Agenda

A “Fourth Leg” Agenda. Stabilizing a New Vision of Economic Possibility for Baltimore City. A presentation to the Baltimore Economic Democracy Conference. Around Developing the City’s People. Imagine trying to build a sustainable City.

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A “Fourth Leg” Agenda

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  1. A “Fourth Leg” Agenda Stabilizing a New Vision of Economic Possibility for Baltimore City A presentation to the Baltimore Economic Democracy Conference Around Developing the City’s People

  2. Imagine trying to build a sustainable City Balanced precariously on three legs of a four-legged stool Business This image is more accurate Not-for-profits Government Than anyone would like to believe

  3. Consider the challenge that Baltimore City really is Examine median household income Baltimore City 23rd of 24 Maryland Subdivisions

  4. Consider the Median Value of Owner Occupied Dwellings Baltimore City Baltimore is 22nd of 24 subdivisions

  5. How about the educational attainment of its residents? Baltimore City Baltimore is in the middle of the pack 11th out of 24 subdivisions

  6. Where then is Baltimore Economically Competitive? Baltimore City With its average weekly wage Baltimore is 4th of 24 subdivisions

  7. But even here, Baltimore was more competitive in 2003 In 10 years, it fell from No. 2 to No. 4 Baltimore City

  8. But where is Baltimore most competitive? Baltimore City The relative magnitude of the poverty that engulfs the lives of so many. Baltimore is 1st among all 24 subdivisions.

  9. In Not Graduating High School Students Baltimore City The % of Baltimore residents age 25 and over not completing High School Leads the other 23 subdivisions.

  10. So then, what is it about . . . Leading State jurisdictions in the % of adults never completing High School and falling just in the middle of the pack on adults with a graduate degree OR Leading all State jurisdictions in the % of its population in poverty while holding down the 3rd lowest rank on the value of owner occupied dwellings OR Having the 4th highest weekly wage while sustaining the 2nd lowest median household income That says conventional development alone can turn around these trends undermining the future stability of Baltimore City?

  11. What most complicates Baltimore’s stability? The desirabilty of living in Baltimore City varies depending on whether you consider its White residents or its Black residents RACE

  12. For example, the % of Baltimore’s adults holding management, business, science, and arts occupations White Baltimore The relative size of this occupation group correlates with income, housing value, and education loom in the middle, but . . . Baltimore City Black Baltimore

  13. Consider . . .

  14. Do these statistics make the City only look desirable if Baltimore City’s Black population Would cooperate by just disappearing Or simply refusing to be counted. Going away

  15. Most of Us Treat the Mass of People as . . . Separate Static Passive – if not invisible

  16. Is the illusion of stablity enough to sustain its reality? Or can we do better? What happened to the people who now live in that space? Consider this vision for the Oldtown community in East Baltimore What might be if only we had the imagination . . . ?

  17. Which possible Oldtown do you prefer? The Oldtown of Planning Consultants The Oldtown of Resident Aspirations

  18. What makes the two Oldtowns Different? The new building constructed To displace the old population To emerge from the old population The new people developed

  19. If we are not to keep trying to stand on that stool? Balanced precariously without an absent fourth leg – Business Business Community Not-for-profits Not-for-profits The people of Baltimore City Government Government Then we need to understand a stability that includes ALL of Baltimore’s people.

  20. With a “cooperatived” platform for social mobility Self-employment exponentially expands the productive economic value of work Comparably expanding available income among existing residents in those neighborhoods of perceived need

  21. Where the neediness of people Moves beyond human tragedy to become . . . An economic opportunity in which the needy can both meet their own needs and, by so establishing their own enterprises, eliminate their neediness.

  22. Imagine . . . C o m m u n i t y C o m m u n i t y C o m m u n i t y C O M M U N I T Y C O M M U N I T Y C O M M U N I T Y As a fundamental economic component and as an indispensible tool for development

  23. Community has always worked this way To sustain social mobility in the manner embodying a characteristically American ethos portrayed in many classic Hollywood movies Where ordinary people achieve extraordinary things

  24. When you connect individual activity to create collective wealth for the group You empower people with meager existing resources to have and own more than each could all alone.

  25. The picture we must change What are the requirements for radical economic change?

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