Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining
And really to say that, and i think henry you talked about the mayors leadership here and really about the vision of transforming our housing, improving schools and supporting Economic Development that these are the most effective when the public and the private institutions Work Together and break down barriers and cut through the red tape and thank you very much for your leadership. [applause] so choice neighborhoods is just one powerful example of the Obama Administration investing better and we do what works and stop what doesnt work and form the partnerships that we need to solve the challenges of irnlt generational pof poverty for once and for all and it takes on average two generations to break that cycle of poverty and we are trying to break it in one and the efforts were supporting and we want every american to have the chance to get ahead no matter where they are and live, whether its a second grader to go to school or a parent walking their kid safely to school around the co
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