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A “Fourth Leg” Agenda Stabilizing a
New Vision of Economic Possibility for Baltimore City
Around Developing the City’s People
A presentation to the Baltimore Economic Democracy Conference
Imagine trying to build a sustainable City
Balanced precariously on three legs
of a four-legged stool
Business
Government
Not-for-profits
This image is more
accurateThan anyone would like to believe
Consider the challenge that Baltimore City really is
Examine median
household income
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23rd of 24 Maryland Subdivisions
Baltimore City
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Consider the Median Value of Owner Occupied Dwellings
Baltimore is 22nd of 24 subdivisions
Baltimore City
How about the educational attainment of its residents?
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Baltimore is in the
middle of the pack
11th out of 24 subdivisions
Baltimore City
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Where then is Baltimore Economically Competitive?
With its average weekly
wage
Baltimore is 4th of 24 subdivisions
Baltimore City
But even here, Baltimore was more competitive in 2003
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In 10 years,
it fell from
No. 2 to No. 4
Baltimore City
But where is Baltimore most competitive?
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The relative magnitude of
the poverty that engulfs the lives of
so many.
Baltimore is 1st among all 24 subdivisions.
Baltimore City
In Not Graduating High School Students
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The % of Baltimore
residents age 25 and over
not completing
High School
Leads the other 23 subdivisions.
Baltimore City
So then, what is it about . . . Leading State jurisdictions in the % of
adults never completing High School and falling just in the middle of the pack on adults with a graduate degree
Leading all State jurisdictions in the % of its population in poverty while holding down the 3rd lowest rank on the value of owner occupied dwellings
Having the 4th highest weekly wage while sustaining the 2nd lowest median household income
OR
OR
That says conventional development alone can turn around these trends undermining the future
stability of Baltimore City?
What most complicates Baltimore’s stability?
RACE
The desirabilty of living in Baltimore City varies depending on whether you consider its White residents or its Black residents
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For example, the % of Baltimore’s adults holding management, business, science, and
arts occupations
The relative size of this occupation group correlates with income, housing value, and education loom in the middle, but . . .
Baltimore City
Black Baltimore
White Baltimore
Consider . . .Statistical Category
Rank of Baltimore City
Rank of White Baltimore
Rank of Black Baltimore
Change in Rank with White Baltimore only
% of people age 16 or over employed
22nd of 24 jurisd’ns
15th of 24 jurisd’ns
22nd of 24 jurisd’ns
Increase by 7 positions
Mean Household Income
22nd of 24 jurisd’ns
14th of 24 jurisd’ns
22nd of 24 jurisd’ns
Increase by 8 positions
% of people age 25 or over with a graduate degree
11th of 24 jurisd’ns
3rd of 24 jurisd’ns
Tied for 22nd and 23rd of 24 jurisd’ns
Increase by 8 positions
% of civilians employed age 16 and over in management , business, science, and arts occupations
14th of 24 jurisd’ns
3rd of 24 jurisd’ns
24th of 24 positions
Increase by 11 positions
Baltimore City’s Black
population
Would cooperate by just disappearing
Going awayOr simply refusing to be counted.
Do these statistics make the City only look desirable if
Most of Us Treat the Mass of People as . . .
Separate
StaticPassive
– if not invisible
Or can we do better?
What happened to the people who now live in that space? What might be if only
we had the imagination . . . ?
Is the illusion of stablity enough to sustain its reality?
Consider this vision for the Oldtown
community in East Baltimore
Which possible Oldtown do you prefer?
The Oldtown of Planning Consultants
The Oldtown of Resident Aspirations
What makes the two Oldtowns Different?
The new building
constructed
The new people
developed
To displace the old population
To emerge from the old population
If we are not to keep trying to stand on that stool?
Balanced precariously
without an absent fourth
leg – Business
Not-for-profitsThe people of
Baltimore City
Then we need to understand a stability that includes ALL of Baltimore’s people.
Government
Business
Not-for-profits
Government
Community
With a “cooperatived” platform for social mobility
Self-employment exponentially expands the productive economic value of work
Comparably expanding available income among
existing residents in those neighborhoods of
perceived need
Where the neediness of people
Moves beyond human tragedy to become . . .
An economic opportunity in which the needy can both meet their own needs and, by so establishing their own enterprises, eliminate their neediness.
C O M M U N I T YC O M M U N I T YC O M M U N I T YC O M M U N I T YC O M M U N I T YC O M M U N I T Y
Imagine . . .
As a fundamental economic component and as an indispensible tool for development
Community has always worked this way
To sustain social mobility in the manner
embodying a characteristically American ethos
portrayed in many classic Hollywood
movies
Where ordinary people achieve extraordinary things
When you connect
individual activity to
create collective wealth for
the group You empower people with meager existing resources to have and own more than each could all alone.
The picture we must change
What are the requirements for radical economic change?