coach i got to go on the top or you he may take you don't want to turn you could didn't die you know yeah if i'm going to be summarizing what we've been done for the past couple of weeks we've been editing the document our documents that we taped with sarah chayes helping or with the software that are seeing how it would piece how we could do certain techniques making a smoother and everything that's in there and then they have taken their time almost a month into putting into this video but they have to have trust issues because they have experience from other communities where they were promised that they can come back after the redevelopment if they want to but at the end they couldn't and i think that's a major issue and the lack of knowledge about the region element so that there are a lot of old people here who cannot just walk to seattle housing and get information or people who can really speak english so that they can and the stand they get a letter from s housing and they tell them when to when they have to move out so that's a problem too and the other thing is community they formed here so when i first came here i saw that the people here really care about each other and they invite each other for dinner at their home and it's really nice  feeling you get here and after the redevelopment this feeling exists anymore because they just get separated from each other and and what i learned here is that through pictures and videos you can send a message to people like we are doing with our videos we can we are showing how the people here think about the redevelopment and how we ourselves think about it and through our pictures we can show that there are negative sides of the redevelopment but also positive and in you in you than in the media i learned how you can express your feelings through learned a lot and i'm really glad that i took part in this program sally clark planning has been going on for many years now so the planning has been going on technically for about six years but there have been discussions about yes there for much longer than that so over the course of six years there have been different committees and there have been yesler residents who have been a part of those committees they've also been different meetings that have been held either at the us or community center or at the steam plant or other places within the community to talk about what people's priorities are and what they would like to see for the future yes for the future is a little bit difficult because if you're living there right now you really care about the way yesler functions for you and your family you also have to think in the future to think ok if he does get redone how would i like it to work for me and my family and how do i think thirty years out for when me and my family are no longer here and it has to function well for a whole different group of people who i know i don't know where they come from i don't know what their needs might be but how do i make my best effort to guess at how to make a great community for them so the city council does are part of that related to approving or reviewing the proposal that seattle housing authority makes so seattle housing authority goes through the six years or more of trying to figure out a proposal for how to generate enough money to replace the housing bill better parks build better streets build better sidewalk in order to achieve those things they need to come to the city and ask the city for different ways to build buildings different heights different ways that the building connects with the street the sidewalk different approaches to parks probably some swaps and how some of the property the works so we get the proposal from them and we go out to the community and we truth test we try to talk to people and say ok here's what's our housing authority proposes to do here's how they envision making a great community over the next twenty years for people who come after us how much of this rings true who here has been involved with it how much say have they had who got to vote who didn't get to vote who participated in visiting meetings who came out to the garden and talked about gardens and we try to figure out have they actually worked with people and is it a proposal that will yield the best chance for a great community going forward it's always all about money so in an ideal world you would have a funder i don't know if it be the federal government the state government maybe the city government but that's hard to envision that would work with seattle housing authority the owner of that property and whose mission it is to provide low income housing and great communities and would simply have the money to do that in an ideal world there be a budget line and it would have the adequate amount of money in there to build a great community that's not the reality the seattle housing authority and the housing authorities all over the united states struggle to figure out how to both keep the existing units in great shape so that they're great places to live and how to look forward and create new units in this case they're looking at something that was built back in the forty's it has been well loved by a lot of families and individuals over many many decades and it's showing its wear and tear and it frankly is is designed in such a way that it is kind of spread out and can only accommodate the five hundred sixty one households that are there right now and yet it's in a city that is having more people come to it that need more services that need more help the way this housing authority proposes to do this and a lot of housing authorities have had to think about this is do you sell off some of the property and do you do that to the private market and ensure that the private market can make enough of a profit off of it that seattle housing authority receives the benefit of that property and plows that back into building the new parks building the better streets building the better sidewalks and building the housing so that it can last at least another fifty years if not more for families who are going to move back in and new families will come here from all over there are estimates for how much it will cost over time they approach anywhere up to two hundred million dollars over twenty years a lot of those are guesses and that's part of the difficulty of figuring out how this whole thing kind of fits together right now in twenty twelve there are a lot of estimates for how much the land value is going to be worth to somebody in the private market and it changes it changes as to whether somebody's going to build an office building or whether they're going to build residential units whether they're going to build something that will be leased out to medical folks who might be part of the first hill community there all of that goes into a great big equation and a great big equation hopefully yields enough revenue to seattle housing authority that if they get some help from the city and there's some debate about whether they should get help from the city or not from the housing levy and if they do their own mortgage on some of the properties that they're already on and get a mortgage loan essentially plus other grants things that they're applying to from the federal government and other foundations that all over twenty years should yield the amount of money necessary to make the community that's envisioned in the proposal that's before us right now that's the idea for yes lex haris the committee the citizens oversee the citizens review committee really wrestled with this the original vision and committee talked about this housing authority it's clear and on the record that if someone wants to move back there again the ability to move back what we learned at high point at rainier vista new holly not every family wants to move back and so you also don't want to require people to have to come back everybody should have the freedom to make a choice about where they can build their best life there will be some number who want to come back to yes there will be the right choice for them there will be some number who move out of seattle that's the right choice for them there will be some number who want to live in rain or vista that's the right choice for the seattle housing authority has a tough job in trying to figure out how to make all of that true and how to give people the most flexibility in order to be where they want to be but they've committed that if you want to be back at us like you absolutely have the right of return no questions asked so in the short term there will be displacement of some of those gardens and hopefully during the transition we can replace as much of it as possible on site there may be some folks who are having to garden at some other areas in the transition we've asked a lot about this because the city of seattle has a strong interest in people being able to garden do subsistence gardening for their own and in order to also do something with a larger scale we're really interested in urban farm models and the ability to scale up in the transition plan over time what we are hoping to see is three times as much garden space as what is there right now that's the vision that you would have three times as much it may not be in one mega garden it might be split up in different pockets around the community that's good that gives people something close to where they are and where it needs to be of scale then we want to see seattle housing authority be able to put enough together so that you've got a good farming community there were it makes sense over time though we really want to see the three times current amount happen and that'll be something that we're really tracking over time all of this again where we're not building it we're the ones that come to to ask permission and ask for support and help from and in order to do that we want annual reports so there will be annual reports to the city on who's  displaced where they go if they're not if they're being successful in relocation why the gardens the trees all of this has to come back to the city of seattle with an annual report every year so that we can keep track and make sure that we're getting what we thought we were   in up early on actually and so the folks who do child care recognized like known child care in their homes they will be recognized as having a home based business and they have a different level of support and relocation assistance from seattle housing authority that's catered to what they do as childcare providers they've also been guaranteed that they can come back in if they choose to and continue to do that business in seattle housing authority in the u s we're tears propert s the spaces that you're talking about the retail spaces down below that's actually a huge struggle force in the state of washington we do not have a lot of ways that we can help business people get rent and retail spaces commercial spaces there's a requirement that we not use public tax dollars to benefit a province to so the city doesn't get to walk in and write down or pay part of somebody is rent in a building so we struggle with that a lot really try to figure out how to work with land trusts we try to figure out how to work with the owners of buildings we try to figure out how to use different loans that basically pay them the difference for what they would have to charge somebody in that space this is actually the biggest thing that we struggle with throughout the whole city light rail is going in little saigon when we talked about the zoning changes there and it's the thing that we really have not been able to find an easy solution to yet figuring out how to keep commercial partnerships and some of the things they said about the redevelopment is a good thing it should go forward and all that so sam university i mean i would say universities made a huge commitment to the area and there are a lot of opportunities with that there aren't a lot of schools that make the kind of commitment to the surrounding neighborhood that university is made it's a great opportunity and it should be really helpful to students as they're moving into the school system into to moving forward that's a little bit separate from the zoning proposals that are made and whether the building should be a certain height from the setback from the street and all that but i think it's it's a great thing for the neighborhood so again everybody will  from out from our perspective everybody has to have really good case management from seattle housing authority again that's the seattle housing authorities were more about the permission that we give them to do the project but this has been a really big question mark for us to make sure that when we're giving permission for the project in terms of the zoning and possibly city financial support we need to make sure people are taking care we need to make sure that people have the kind of case management and support to find the right next for them and for folks who are elderly disabled on their own don't have other support they're going to need special attention and that's going to be part of that annual reporting we're going to again want to see making sure people get that really good quality level of help and that they they go to the place that is most comfortable for them and that they get the kind of assistance and support from seattle housing authority staff and their partners that they deserve they deserve that they're being to being moved from where they live and it's got to be done in a sensitive way where they get the best outcome flair is one of our strongest sites because of the the strong partnerships that we've built over the years this project in particular  really exciting because of working with the other university and them r c i and use and focus with so many gifted talented professionals behind this really supporting our youths we're really excited for kind of the final product and not only that but the process of what the students have learned wreck tech is really one of the four runners and being able to provide  internships where students are learning not only of the technical skills of digital photography filmmaking just kind of the multimedia presentations but they're also learning about the social issues in their local community their building community among themselves and with other with adults and then they also get an opportunity to voice their perspective to give to give  us the way that they see the world to give us their voice through through films so we are very excited just not only be able to see what what what this project has  come but hear here in the us their community it's things are changing and they're changing pretty quickly and i and this project in particular is very minute mental because we're able to capture the history of this place where we've been and where we're going and not being able to forget that so i think the youth are going to be able to articulate all of that through this project and  it's i think it's gone really smoothly and we hope to continue in these partnerships that we have so that we can continue to give youth opportunities like this most cons charge and th