Doo-doo-doo-doo, pom pom pom. Hey everybody, I'll let the people coming in catch up with us. We're gonna be talking about the Blight Authority. Some of you already know what that is, but it's a nonprofit effort led by Bill Pulte, and I'm helping out, in which we're trying to come up with some ideas, some creative ideas, for what to do with the blighted areas that the Blight Authority has already cleared and some that will be cleared. So there will be spaces in urban areas that will be brought down to dirt, getting rid of all the blighted areas that essentially nobody owned anymore. So it makes the land almost free, almost. So what do you do with it? What do you do with it that would help the inner city people?

I'm not talking about building shopping malls and yuppie condos. I'm talking about what can you do with that land that helps the people in the city, that addresses the low-income world. And I like to use as a standard that if you're building homes that don't work for a single parent, you haven't gotten it right yet. If you're building in an urban area, if you don't have a way for a single parent to afford to live there and to thrive, you haven't quite designed it right.

So I'm going to talk about some ideas, and then I'm going to do a little tour of my house. Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, wait a minute, a rich guy's house will teach us nothing about how to build for low-income people. That's mostly true. That's about 80 percent true. But I'm going to use my house as partly a reason to get people to watch this, so it's just really to attract eyeballs. But also there are a number of things that will remind you of a concept when you see my house that would be useful for any kind of a house. So we'll get to that after I talk about a few ideas that are already coming through for the Blight Authority, and I've added some of my own ideas just to sort of pull it together in a package.