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From the Ted Talk by Bree Jones: How to revitalize a neighborhood -- without gentrification

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So my question became: Can we do development without dnmaslcepiet? Is there another way?

I quit my job on Wall Street and moved to Baltimore, the city that birthed redlining, with a single suitcase to find out. My first inclination was to meet with investors and, you know, to rsiae fduns for my idea. And I was literally lgehaud out of the room. They said that my idea was impossible and that we would build homes that would sit empty for lack of demand. But I knew in my heart of hearts that that wasn't true. Unexpectedly in that mmeont, being retjeecd by investors was the most iarpnomtt moment in my journey, because I realized that we didn't need big institutions to affirm the value of our communities. We’d afrfim our own value through social capital.

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So my question became: Can we do development without ____________? Is there another way?

I quit my job on Wall Street and moved to Baltimore, the city that birthed redlining, with a single suitcase to find out. My first inclination was to meet with investors and, you know, to _____ _____ for my idea. And I was literally _______ out of the room. They said that my idea was impossible and that we would build homes that would sit empty for lack of demand. But I knew in my heart of hearts that that wasn't true. Unexpectedly in that ______, being ________ by investors was the most _________ moment in my journey, because I realized that we didn't need big institutions to affirm the value of our communities. We’d ______ our own value through social capital.

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  1. rejected
  2. raise
  3. funds
  4. important
  5. moment
  6. displacement
  7. laughed
  8. affirm

Original Text


So my question became: Can we do development without displacement? Is there another way?

I quit my job on Wall Street and moved to Baltimore, the city that birthed redlining, with a single suitcase to find out. My first inclination was to meet with investors and, you know, to raise funds for my idea. And I was literally laughed out of the room. They said that my idea was impossible and that we would build homes that would sit empty for lack of demand. But I knew in my heart of hearts that that wasn't true. Unexpectedly in that moment, being rejected by investors was the most important moment in my journey, because I realized that we didn't need big institutions to affirm the value of our communities. We’d affirm our own value through social capital.

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