community. so all of the other food civil will not. live up north of the pit. perhaps most important of all people in low income neighborhoods also feel safer which is open the door to more diversity. mechelen has shown that it is possible to be tough on crime and to promote integration but it takes a lot of work. the investments seem to be paying off though. most people in maryland that i. nope are telling me that the cameras are giving them a more secure environment to shop or by example because he told the shopping areas covered by cameras so they know if something happens they know we ve got the possibility the idea identified the author of the crime. and the city also uses volunteers counselors and social workers to stay in touch with the community and
community. and all of the other the third civil. liberties of the north and the fifth. perhaps most important of all people in low income neighborhoods also feel safer which is open the door to more diversity. mechelen has shown that it is possible to be tough on crime and to promote integration but it takes a lot of work. the investments seem to be paying off. in. most people s in mechelen that. no telling me that the cameras are giving them a more secure environment to shop a by example because he hold a shopping area is covered by cameras so they know if something happens they know we ve got the possibility to i do identify the order of the crime. in the city also uses volunteers counsellors and social workers to stay in touch with the community
asians get involved and work together. to. get there. it takes patience and dedication integration doesn t just happen overnight. it s got sort of it is the current generation processes multifaceted plan of the doesn t always work perfectly we re a big city man this is a situation that we cannot ignore and for there will always remain an issue that we have to stay on top of them this is what we can spread this to other cities to just takes an open mind in the world to see things through the numbers and when that s a. mechelen mayor about some us would agree with that summers tries to bring people together and he expects his city to show the same openness that he himself practices. as believing in him. that
i like to connect with people because i think a good mayor needs empathy in fact we all need to the citizens in a mixed society empathy helps you to to place you in the shoes of some of the ills and then you see that the city looks completely different sometimes and if you all need to use that empathy then you can create. a good society. everyone should help in that effort and it would seem that everyone here is these days fewer people in mechelen are voting for right wing populists reality of our world is that we change every day and we have to adapt to those changes so if we speak about integration in a diversity we all have to do efforts we all have to do to try to make the best of it and it s not only them we have to become like we know we all are together in the same city and we or it s all. it s not a paradise here we have our problems have
back in mechelen there are no such housing quotas so mayor summers has had to come up with some new ideas to undo past segregation. in the one nine hundred seventy s. a number of cheap housing estates were built. they filled up quickly predominately with immigrants. they were only interested in the quantity but not in the quality of what they were building and so then you put people together in houses over better quality where you can hear the neighborhood but if you are in the ranch you and you live in a kind of here and get zero atmosphere and that s not good because those people deserve better. housing social supports and the promotion of interethnic dialogue summers works to get everyone on board to face communal challenges together. get