Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
1957 a look at the issue of housing discrimination. All of the way home dramatizes the flurry of rumors and prejudice that arrive in a fictional white suburb. Written by political activist it was promoted by over a dozen civil groups including the naacp and the National Urban league. A quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in the middle of the 20th century. When you look for a house, what are you looking for . What do you see . People who lived in square fine ample houses. The ferocious slums. Many still stand, many torn down, rebuilding among the people and neighbors. A way being made for the projects. Signs of change in all of the cities. And still, the dark red blindness of walls. The cities reach out. The ghettos burst out after a long while. Every kind. Borders into the sunny pushing out into the new country waiting for the filters. Some of us still live in uniformity. But the sifting has begun. When you look further, when you look for a house, you see the citys reach. What are you
The suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Okay, almost all of you. And what kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Nathaniel, i cant hear you. Proud. Proud, okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Nicholas . Its like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere. Good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. Safe. K cassidy. Utopia. Emily . Familyoriented. Nicholas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I loved it. Good. I mean, some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary suburbia. This is an engagement shoot, a young couple who have taken to the suburban street for their engagement you know, people get married and they take engagement photos, and this went around the internet for a while and lots of people, including myself, laughed at it. So whats so weird about that . Why does t
This is levittown, pennsylvania, a new suburban community of 60,000 people, midway between philadelphia and trenton, new jersey. With a giant Shopping Center, winding lanes, it is typical of communities all over america where families are pursuing the American Dream to fir their children a better chance at life. Levittowners are people of modest means. Theyre mostly young people. A large proportion are veterans. There are a few agencies and while many have had social churches, they have not adequately served the community. Most are proud and happy in their new environment. For many, it is the first house of their own and it represents a major financial investment. Social life is mainly confined to visits with the neighbors. Occasionally there are communitywide residents. Its too early yet for most residents to become identified with the broader aspects of community living. Levittown is built by one man for whom it is named. Like Many Developers he set the initial policy and provided th