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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 c…

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All right, so here's the idea. You've got a big patch of blank space in an urban area. In fact, there are lots of these, and there will be more of them as the blight that already exists is torn down in the future. And a number of these already exist thanks to Bill Pulte's good work with the Blight Authority, a nonprofit that works with cities. This is important. They work with the mayors, with the community. They really get the community involved to know what to do and get them excited about what's happening. But the next phase after you tear stuff down is what do you do with it? And if you can't figure out what to do with it that's productive, well then you've only taken it halfway. It's a good half, but let's see if we can get the other half.

So imagine if you will this block of land that's in an inner city, and you're trying to think what to do with it. Here are some ideas. For those of you new to watching my Periscope, any idea you see me present you should assume it's the bad version of the idea. In other words, I'm just trying to stimulate your thought, so don't get too hung up on these ideas.

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I'm gonna comment first on the person who said no socialism. Keep in mind first of all that these are very small parts of the entire country, and nobody has to live there. We're not talking about making the entire city this way. We're talking about experiments, small experiments. Some of them might look something like this. Some of them might have no socialism. Some might have some experiments of…

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