tears in seattle is one of the largest and most do a surely an economically diverse public housing in the city with five hundred sixty two units providing for twelve hundred people but a big change is one of the oldest how does the city of seattle expect small businesses to be affected by this project during construction and after construction is finished but whenever there's a construction project that goes on it's always a challenge for small businesses in the u s their terrorist redevelopment area  which goes right up to little saigon there's actually a new space that's going to be made available at tiered rates for small businesses because we want to make sure that you don't necessarily lose those small businesses within the redevelopment area because of the project we want to make sure that they're included in the project and that they can continue to provide those small business services to residents when we spoke to soufan for meso despite having to be relocated you had an optimistic redevelopment that's happening and yes are terrorists right now and basically we're trying to raise awareness about what's going on and what the residents that live in that area think because right now we're only getting like words and you know images from sh who are managing the project but we never really get the true the true meaning of what the project will be about and so we went around and we found issues that i mean documentaries regarding the issues that will concern the residents living in us are terrorists and we tried to convert convey their opinions as best as we could and so in total we made six documentaries from three different groups and it was a really fun experience know we also did this project to document the change it would be occurring over the next twenty years because this is meant to be a twenty year plan by the seattle housing authority it was the first of a kind to do it in phases instead of changing it at once so we wanted to see the difference over time and how people  future or do you have any idea of what kind of the driving forces behind this program are intending to do with the youth and the documentaries that they've been able to produce so the main point behind this project of the people doing that we've ever been to seattle housing authority would not be so truthful to them and we documented their worries and we also talked to see a housing authority themselves to connect their miscommunication as well as we went to small businesses and talked to how they fear that we develop and might affect them in a bad way and actually had a better outcome than we expected and do you feel as being produced with of this program and also you know part of the producing party of the documentaries that created because we spent about four weeks working on the videos and we really had a lot of time to really get in the community and see what was going on and have a very vivid picture of what things were what things were truthful claims or the truthfulness of the claims that the sh aim has made and my question would be besides that what are some other feelings or what are some other reactions you whether emotional or you know this community wise and how they reacted to the project and how do they feel as residents with kind of the redevelopment of their home for the past long you know multiple decades in all the history of they've had in all the rest of that they've developed in that community how do they feel or how they reacted well a century of got ari people are feeling you right now they don't feel very stable because they have to move out of a home people feel on this but it it's taking some time for people to get used to it so i understand that your main focus has been on the esoteric residence in the u s for tears community but have you branched out and kind of interacted with people that are involved in the development but not necessarily directly or not necessarily in the tears community yes we have actually leave we've contacted we are we've actually interviewed businesses on around yasser tears including restaurant owners and store owners and we've also got some we've also had an interview with the deputy mayor darryl smith and it's it's really eye opening to see the the difference in their their feelings about the redevelopment compared to the residents who are actually living in the community and it's really like it's like ignited a compression self and if you see feet he thinks the process is going on very smoothly and steadily as it is planned but your neighbors and you know your family or the people that you live with and then being separated you know being forced out of your own home and having to relocate somewhere else and anderson that they can this can be very hard for the residents and that this is one of the large problems  with this redevelopment is that it's putting up a very close knit and very enduring community it's been here for over one hundred years and so on whether that's one of the biggest one of the prominent aspects for the residents now my question is for you participants in the youth that have taken a part in this program what would be the one big thing that you've been able to take away or either learn or observe by watching kind of the progression of this redevelopment well i think one big thing i took away is how how to talk to people that are going in such a big situation these people they they tell them that we're going to give them a voice to document to show other people to see what ways they have and how much trust we can gain from these people show actually explaining their voice so i think i learned good communication skills with these people into being some of them knocking on the doors asking to be interviewed and i think that was a very big thing again the main the main skill that i learned was how to be a documentarian i learned all the skills of how to like just go on the street get some footage good footage for that matter and cut it up so that it looks like a logical piece that we could show to the masses and inform them about a certain topic and in this case it was about the redevelopment yes or tears and that's that's a skill that i'm more than positive that i use later down the line  i believe that you know one of those are really important and not only been a being able to kind of have a new perspective but also learn technical skills is a large aspect of the programs that we have it and so we will continue to host probably projects like this there will be more products involving these are tears community in the redevelopment as you said it's a twenty year process as i will be archiving and documenting every step of that redevelopment and also we have a lot of other programs concerning the community concerning youth violence issues you know teens choose the right path and you know for off the right path helping people get to a nice mindset and being able to be future oriented and go into the future thinking  your career and your education and your family rather than you know maybe drugs or alcohol or violence and so we have a lot of good programs ranging from that we also have technical programs where reteach you how to use  just one medium it's a large range of them and so we're able to take the technical skills that we learned here and then use them to kind of address and find solutions for the problems that the issues that we find in our community and in our area and so our job is to hope people and we want you to help us do that and so we ask for youth to come out to the office much office is on twenty third in jackson college that two zero six eight three eight six three five nine and kind of come get involved in these projects are not only beneficial to your community and not only do you gain the skills but there's a lot of rewards involved and so interchange that we have in partnership with university  n university on k o w they you know they pay students to come and work and kind of be interns so not only do you learn these skills but you also get experience in a work setting and in a professional environment and you get paid as well so that's an incentive for you to get involved and we ask parents to bring your youth and get them involved and support this in any way you can whether it's a by coming to our events and being a part of our projects or  everyone i mean everyone should join that program it is a really it is an eye opening experience and it is from the first day we started it will stay six weeks later it was just the ultimate learning experience and i learned so much and i want everyone else to have the same winning experience as well and it is possible the same learning experience so next year get involved i like to say this program is very good you learn much stuff you get to be in contact with presidents you get to understand how to speak with people you might not know and i speak before with you get good computer skills or you do as they do in life without doubt it is a very good program i believe you should join and that sums it up thank you very much for watching on the come out to support the the showcase of the documentaries made by the youth as a part of the  redevelopment you know the youth media project and so we have now and also want to bring up that this program is a nonprofit organization that is it's being run by viewers like you giving donations and we've started a new way of doing a pay pal if you go to mit i seattle dot org and you can donate today and it is also tax a talk to bill so you could be a member and come to an r t a and use all the tools we have a cameras in our editing software on the computer so in conclusion  on the note of supporting our program here at home archie i would like to tell you about a new way that you can support your community in this program as well as your youth and that is through donations at seattle dot org and you are able to donate money through pay pal and it's tax deductible so you'll be reimbursed for it in your taxes and so we really ask you to support the community and support the kids support our future and  support your children in your youth because when you invest in your community and you invest in your youth they will eventually give back to you and kind of help us become a stronger people and i would become a stronger driving force and a voice full access to our equipment here we have video cameras we have editing software computers and you're able to come in and get it anything you want your able to come in and use all the computers and our studio and so if you like to do that if you're either having an event or any kind of you know gathering of people and you'd like to record it or you'd like us to maybe come and help you document it  become a member and we're able to do that for you and so also any adults that would look to that would love to mentor you if you're with our program you're able to  can have the opportunity and to mentor either a young student a young woman or a young man coming into either a high school or college and you're able to give back to your community in that way and also kind of be a shining light shining light in a young person's life and so we hope you'll come and support hopefully donate become a member and coming in to come and mentor as well and help our youth and a lot of them the money that people donate goes straight to the youth and the programs that we have a lot of the programs that we have are taught by professionals and or sue that we have to pay for national for the time to come and either host workshops or teach classes and they usually do it for a very cheap price because they understand where nonprofit organization and we do it for the community and so we pay fifty percent off for these professionals to come in and kind of teach our youth but in order to make that possible we need june we need your support and we need the community