And that was still the dominant fact about the life of our city. When I arrived, our per capita income was in the neighborhood of $18,000 per person. Whole neighborhoods on the west side of our city had more vacant houses than people living in them. And a huge part of how we turned the corner on that was an alliance of civic leadership, government, business, other anchor institutions, realizing that no one of us had the means alone to turn things around. (27:15–27:21)
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