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cott. So to people looking at this and saying you know what is this, it's actually this is a big problem. Obviously work is a big issue in many of these urban areas, Scott. People can't even get work in the area so they're having to take buses 20, 30 miles out of an urban corridor to do it. So the logic here, Scott, as you and I think you drew this out very nicely in great Dilbert format here, it…
← Previous segment →unity from the bottom up you say how do they afford it, how do they get an income, how do they get safe, how do they get a school, that sort of thing. So you can see that the possibilities are enormous.
Now Scott if I could just jump in. I've seen a lot of questions here asking you know who owns the land once you clean it. It's a great question. We frankly don't even... in terms of making sure that we're successful we want to turn the land over to the residents or we want to turn it over to the city. So we view ourselves as a philanthropic organization that basically turns the lots over to people either in the neighborhood or otherwise who can take better care of it. So it's just a common question we get. I saw a lot of people asking. It's a great question.
All right. And what's the hardest part about this process? I don't want this to go to your head Bill but this is something that probably people have wanted to do and tried to do but it's just hard. What is it that you do that gets through the hard part?
So what it's basically coordinating with everybody. So it's coordinating with the county, it's coordinating with the city and the mayor, and it's coordinating with the governor. And as you can imagine getting all three of those people, it's like an orchestra trying to get all three of these people to work together. And sometimes you have to say look, this won't look so good if you keep letting these people live like this. But you try to hope that they'll do the right thing. And actually I think when we show up on the scene, Scott, and we say look here's the solution, one two and three, here are the three things that you need, and they realize, meaning these politicians realize that they don't need to do a lot of the work and they just let us basically work with each other, it end
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s up turning out pretty nicely so far anyway Scott. But we'll see. I mean we're going to this next city that we're going to be announcing and hopefully we can take it across America. We'd love to take it across to every city in America. Yeah, the great thing about this is that you've worked out the basic process and now that's correct there's no reason it can't be cloned in other cities to get us…
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