this is from the u s program and murthy i and what we do here is help they use empowered to become leaders we use in the media and technology and we're trying to connect with people and community fairs which is a nonprofit organization so yeah i've been working with the community for the last couple of years in different capacity so currently right now you're and the mare his hoping  to better serve their communities ok how about like employment to get them jobs get connected and also like help that community that is separate in community sure you've heard about the fact that ninety eight one one zip code is one of the most highly diversified zip codes in the whole country in the united states of america and that isn't seattle so the question of diversity  and the city current employment you know status is not really much and that's where the mare is doing a tremendous job to make sure the city and then by itself look like the city itself you know so necessarily only east africans but the entire immigrants are refugees under served regardless of their visible you know still growing population in this city it's great knowing that like we're getting help from the mayor and the city absolutely so you're saying that we are seeing changes from the new mayor yes i'm in i myself is a witness you know so i never thought one day a person from our community he's going to see in the next maybe in the next couple of years you know you'll be seeing a dramatic you know increase of staff accounts working for the city county and different in all levels of government ok so from this new mayor last time he came on drugs and twenty third we saw you there so he was talking about why he has been doing from the past nines and what do we hope to see in the future in a way of changing situation would be there different departments camp together you know force you know any violations all fruits and regulations of the city so the mare is taking a very very what you call this persistent follow up when it comes to enforcement and when it comes to making sure that community around the establishment feel safe and secure that's why the neighborhood walk is coming back to question was one of those initiatives the mayor promised to protect pla during this summer time and the day before yesterday we had a second walk from arcus across martin luther king and the chief of police you know who was also there was a different people from different and so what how do you think that community the society would help then you would get involved in either company b stuffs that like getting the violence or getting dragged adic integers does have a  especially the stuff you use to get all the necessary help this supposed to get from the family from the neighbors and from the community so yes that is that there's a lot of responsibility that is expecting from us the community as well beside you know that also the tremendous change you know in the students of color in especially among immigrants or refugees us world so the schools will be playing a role in you know great so what kind of mrs message do you have for instance where they use that to you know get involved in their community yeah i mean this is a very lovely question again and you know my my  message to the youth is you know i always keep on telling them you know stay stay active staying gauged you know you know don't give up because i know life is always full of ups and downs and people should not really busy you know on those social media as i just mentioned and you will be playing a tremendous role like you've been playing in the past you know in making sure these wars are always passed down to the community and t about the social media this to begin with in today's war you know any activity in the community for that matter any life in the community is becoming impossible without the social media or without any you know any kind of ethnic based medias so has been playing a very very critical role in the last couple of years in making sure the voice of the community is heard by the  appreciate what you guys have been doing for the last couple of years and you guys to continue doing what you've been doing you guys have been playing a big role and i still recall when it comes to any disaster in the community like a fire or what yours where their concerns and the worries of our community would be spread all over thank you you got out to not yeah annual fundraising gala on saturday october eleventh at emerald downs in auburn washington this fun filled event not only has silent and live auctions there will also be programs filled with live entertainment renowned speakers desire dash cultural dance food and much much more to look forward to based on rainier avenue in seattle the threatening community offers array of services not only for ethiopians but also to those who live in the area this event will give our community center that needed funds to provide additional services in the areas of youth seniors immigration employment afterschool programs and others to purchase your so i yes sir the community center we learned skills as learning how to interview people and that helped to screen the documentary and we were able to see how yes there was now and how it's going to change and redevelop and how it's going to affect the community around it in the project each for each person to be specific creating documentary is decision which is the producer the director the camera man the sound man and the chief editor and each person deeply into each of these roles to learn a better get a better tears might be a big problem for the training residents they went to is going to be the same for the residents of joining the cost of living is going to increase and we document a town people think they'll change differently  yes for terrorists one of the oldest public house developments in the nation and the country's first racially integrated public housing development is about to be changed forever yes the terrorists is a tight vibrant community were many people immigrated from east africa and southeast asia and everyone is like family because of but because of a new redevelopment plan to transform central seattle this community will be dispersed and altered in unpredictable ways well graduates for being around for seventy five years housing authority is giving private investors the opportunity to reimagine also tears with their own intentions prioritised currently yes lou terrorists consists of low income residents while in the master plan wouldn't buy seattle housing authority the future of yes to terrorists includes guarantees for only eleven percent of the new development to be set aside for the current residents while the other eighty nine percent well four thousand three hundred thirty nine units will be rented at up to market rate this means the community has been established for seventy five use will be diluted to a mere ten percent of the total population and also with this redevelopment concern arises about how local small businesses will survive the redevelopment and how the returning residents will afford the new more expensive businesses you've been talking with a couple local restaurants would like to get a good restaurant in there or something fine maybe even a small small store but you know a good mix but the most important thing is that something that activates the corner  redevelopment and also had a great deal of concern about the proposed redevelopment the target was going to do with goodwill is essentially most of those buildings most of those businesses are renting space in old buildings the brand in the new structures that are likely to be going up is going to be higher that's the biggest pieces we can try to keep the  help help them save on the cost for build darted businesses immigrant own businesses what they call the moment stores are endangered we're developing you know about what about fifty six what we call workforce apartments so for people that make eighty percent or less of their mimi so it's intended to really be true or force housing so for us it's about you know the civil servants teachers nurses medical professionals working up in the first l a area making sure that we can offer you know high quality housing with transit oriented so right on the streetcar line walkable to their job and a great vibrant neighborhood we don't have the legal authority to simply pay down some things rent  a storefront they're actually constitutional provisions on the state of washington and the lending of credit for somebody else's private benefit is not allowed in the state so we think a lot about how how do we work with property owners maybe it's a non profit maybe it's a different maybe the land trust model are there ways to create more for debility at the retail and no doubt in new construction if it's privately done they have to pay off their construction loans it cost them money to develop that building and what they have to do is pay back the banks and pay back the private investors that loaned them money in order to build that building chances are they have to charge whatever the market will bear for that for that storefront and for some of the folks who have been in buildings where the rent has been below market it's pretty hard to adapt some people will be able to adapt and some people will say a couple of it just a few years ago we did a study of where y ser terrace residents are shopping now and that study is on our website and here for welcome to access it and it and it talks about where people are going for groceries and it's some are shopping right here in their national district and so we hope that by creating better pedestrian access to to the in the neighborhood that they'll still be able to continue to shop there but it also showed that yes or terrace residents are shopping all over to get their in hell so they're already traveling to get their groceries and we have a list of what bus numbers they use i think it's important to maintain those public transit is growing and that's inevitable private investors are taking advantage of this growth and our cities leaders are planning our city's future comprehensibly but we the people need to ensure that throughout all of this change all of us whether low medium or high income small business owners and consumers have our best interests kept equally in mind now the question yes so is whose best interests is really being kept park and it basically described multiple issues that went along with that selection process are heard they're the ones impacted by the redevelopment you meant to say they had to move to a new neighborhood go to a different school and meet new people which means they will lose their community their friends that they have no for the majority of their lives and we don't think that's fair for for everything is good vs some mean home to me you know i know a lot of people here everyone knows each other and i've gained so many friends that i can now is home to me i don't get why they turn it down i just love yes there's so much as it is a big family and different from other communities because like everybody is like close and everybody knows each and another documentary we did was against all odds and it was about how the community of us are when they move away from us there how it's going to affect their health from harborview because harborview is special and they know that doctors are trained to work with different ethnicities there is yes there and it's going to shows you how what's going to happen to them once they move harborview we interviewed a few individuals one of them was carrie jackson the medical director of the international medicine clinic that i worry most about is if there's a smaller number of units that are available for low income people then those people will have to go elsewhere and when that happens many of our patients that are elderly sick or people will have a hard time getting to us and they need to be located nearby preferentially because as i described earlier they really do come to the hospital quite a bit historically new arrivals to the country would look would often relocate in housing developments like us or terrorists and so our patients were relocated in a housing development where they could walk to the hospital when they needed  care and if they had chronic diseases which is what we really cater towards people with severe chronic illness they were nearby for often repeat visits that were fairly frequent sometimes multiple visits in a day because they would go to see one doctor then they people who are able to or who have to move have to figure out new ways of getting transportation or coming to the hospital so someone who's been very close in the us or terrorists who's been able to walk is maybe not necessarily at a point where they can walk anymore so they have to learn to take the bus and so that becomes complicated and if people have time constraints and they've had a set schedule where they were able to work or go to school they now have to figure in the time to travel by bus or getting a ride from someone else in order to to get so it's time constraints and it may also means money because even though the bus tickets seem small  really like potentially five dollars a day just to get here and get home so it's it can be cost effective it's time it takes of time more time and it's going to be more cost costly for them i'm really happy and i've seen a great change in the health of the children that i take care of that have moved out of yesteryear because the housing was so poor it had mold and dust and rats and cockroaches and everything and types and a great improvement in the health of many children have  allergic diseases such as asthma and eczema so on that stand the kids are healthier they're further away i want them to come back and because you know it really it affects everyone's physical health and emotional health to have to make those kind of decisions where like all of us are faced with we only have so much money a month when do you spend that on a taxi do you spend that on childcare do you spend  on you know trying to get your doctor's office and it's really hard and if you have a child who's sick you often that takes a monetary impact on your family also to come back to get extra services and and things that insurance might not cover  it it does have a huge impact i mean i would love if all my families were just right here i think it's a good thing for their health that they're now living in healthier housing  really hope that the city's commitment to having low income housing at yes or terraces followed through that the families are able to move back because there's a richness here that's has a long tradition it's hard review our university of  washington plan on increasing the number of clinics which is there's no i think that they see the the service that this clinic the pediatric clinic provides a new plan on sustaining that no question about it but in terms of developing more clinics like this and on a daily basis more and more residents will be stripped from their community and tore from their neighbors unlike water the residents will be washed away most of the youth are hard they're the ones impacted by the redevelopment you meant to say they had to move to a new neighborhood go to a different school and meet new people which means they will lose their community their friends that they have no for the majority of their lives and we don't think that's fair for anyone especially kids to deal with park in is some other stuff the terrace is home to me i don't get why they turn it down i just love us are so much nicer to us big family and different from other communities because like thank you for watching all these documentaries will be online in short on t v shewn and with the help of you guys this also happen again next year thank you thank you