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Yeah. Yeah. Well I think it's a good example of what can be done. We've just gone two of the homes through two of the homes that have been remodeled with the $3,500, loan that's been made available to the residents here who own their own homes. I

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think it's an excellent example of what can be done in terms of rehabilitating and bringing up to standard to where there can be pleasant places to live. I think as a example of what The worst is across the street, we have just finished going through one

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which is an absentee landlord type of things. Some six families in a house that was originally designed for one completely run down. An example of the two extremes in terms of living conditions. Mr Williams. How about the youngsters? I saw these boys really going at it

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out here and is this, is this typical of the reaction of the people in the neighborhood here to this project? No question about it in the center area and I think much of this has been stimulated by the desire of our redevelopment agency and much of

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the desire, the mayor of the city of Oakland for example, to engage our youth in in beneficial activities and what you saw out here today is the redevelopment effort to make certain that the youngsters in this community are involved in constructive ongoing programs and they can

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take a certain pride in what happens in that community