things. tell us, where are you and what's going on? good to have you with us tonight. >> i'm in one of detroit's middle class neighborhoods on the northwest side of detroit. called the bagley community. i wanted your viewers and listeners to understand what the state is doing to my neighborhood. we have been fighting to try to stabilize this neighborhood and keep residents in this area. this is one of the most highly heavily pop laid areas. one of the most heavy voting districts in the city of detroit. upper middle class homes made out of brick and plaster. the state of michigan's office of urban and metropolitan issues came to us and that they got grant money to tear down blighted and condemned homes around bagley elementary school. what they ended up doing is saying that they were going on meet with us to work on finding houses that we deemed that were