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City website. Composition data Race :. African American Are there downsides to growth? Seema Iyer: Absolutely.
So in those growing neighborhoods, like I mentioned earlier, like a Canton or Fells Point locust point, there are issues related to growth. You get congestion, you get traffic, you get a lot of construction. And those are issues that those neighborhoods are dealing with now. In neighborhoods that saw a decline, they're dealing with a completely different set of problems.
And you know, there are growth problems, but there are decline problems, and the number one indicator for decline is, of course, vacant and abandoned property.
People that have left that neighborhood either moved away or potentially passed away. There was nobody behind them to replace those, those units. And so what the neighborhood sees now is essentially that white elephant of of a vacant building that nobody is maintaining.
And once you get those vacant buildings, then you'll get all these other things, like potentially illicit behavior because there is nobody looking at those buildings. And when you get population decline in the neighborhood, you start to lose everything else that you might care about that your neighborhood needs like retailers. Retailers will not go neighborhood where there is population decline, and retail includes food like a grocery store, and it includes like a retail bank, like a banking institution for financial assistance.
And then it also means that's where we're going to see school closures because we have lack of enrollment, because we have declining student population. And so it becomes a terrible, vicious cycle when you start to see population decline in a neighborhood. And I will say that it's this lack of access that's leading as the root cause to the decline in some of these neighborhoods becomes not just a physical lack of access.
Some of our neighborhood indicators have shown that there is a lack of access to so many other domains of of connection. You know, low internet connection in the same neighborhoods where we see lack of access to transit, transit and transportation. Low capital access.
Lack of access to funds. Kind of low social access to other parts of the city. And so the reason for the decline is a little bit like we have put a tourniquet around some of our neighborhoods. It's not that there's necessarily anything particularly wrong.
Is it that there's a lack of flow into and out of these neighborhoods and that's why they're declining. Sheilah Kast: Sean wrote us to share his concerns about the city not keeping up technologically. Here's part of what he said. I have loved this city, but it has not always loved me back. I now work in a job where I could literally be anywhere on the planet. The city has missed so many opportunities to be a center for technological and economic growth, and all of the opportunities in cybersecurity and information technology, for example, have remained suburban.
Sean continued to grow again. The city needs to give communities what they need to thrive organically rather than for some development model on them and uproot communities in the process. The city needs to rebuild, modernize and revitalize early childhood and elementary education, rethink middle schools, integrate social support more deeply into the fabric of communities and schools, and give everyone access to not just the internet but emerging technology early.
That was Sean's comment to Sean's point about attracting jobs in cybersecurity, and it is it that companies follow people to the suburbs or the companies are their first move. Seema Iyer: Their first companies are absolutely looking for good quality of life for their workers, and that's where they're going to move. Because here's the thing. As Sean mentions, many companies are basically competing for workers, especially skilled workers. And so what they want is a neighborhood or or a city or a place that provides their workers with a great quality of life.
And the business itself is not necessarily responsible for neighborhood quality of life. That's our job, our city's job, neighborhoods, jobs. And so to provide that good quality of life, which is, I think, actually what is really kind of prescient that Sean is talking about, that's the route that's the soil that a neighborhood might provide.
And I mean a figurative soil providing digital access, providing access to transit and transportation for your workers, providing kind of this social infrastructure like education. And if we have those things in place, businesses will come. And so we're seeing that happen in some of our neighborhoods, but not all of them.
So, for example, we know that Port Covington, which is going to be a brand new neighborhood in South Baltimore, is slated to be, you know, that's exactly who they're attracting cybersecurity industries because that is a growth industry, not just here in Baltimore, but in the nation. But like I mentioned before, we can see in our indicators before the pandemic that there were some neighborhoods like Sandtown, Winchester and Greater Rosemont, where 40 percent of the households coming into the pandemic in did not have access to the internet at home.
And so when the pandemic hit, they were at a social disadvantage, a digital disadvantage up front and a lot of the work that we did in was attempting to try and get them connected. Sheilah Kast: Some of the big changes we've talked about a single neighborhood doesn't have much power to lobby for highway access or a revamped public transit system.
What can they do? Seema Iyer: We have got to do things on multiple prongs. So what can you do as an individual resident? One is really take a realm of thinking about who's moving in. What are the houses going on sale? The housing market actually went crazy during the pandemic.
What did that mean for your neighborhood? Did your neighborhood? Was your neighborhood able to take advantage of kind of bringing people into your neighborhood when they were looking for places to live? And then so that's at the individual level, but percent, we need to all be thinking about what kind of policy implications we need.
And the biggest one hopefully we can all agree on is that we have got to get a transportation system that meets 21st century needs now. Is that a light rail system or is that a new regional rail? I'm not necessarily convinced that it has to be something like that.
But what if right now? Because that might happen ten years from now, and we can clearly see that we need something today. We need something right now to get people in and out of our neighborhoods so that we can have flow into and out of our neighborhoods. So I think we have to think very boldly. The city of Baltimore has always been at the forefront of transportation. We are the home of the rail line. We are the home of, you know, all of these ports at the very beginning of our of our history.
We should be at the forefront of 21st century transportation. M aybe something like what if you live in the city of Baltimore and you get a free bus pass and you can use any bus in the city right now? What if we do things like that?
Maybe just in the neighborhoods? It declined. You can load a bus for free and those neighborhoods. But we have to think very boldly of how to address the issue of not just what's going on in the neighborhood, but how do you get into and out of those neighborhoods? That's what the data showing that where we have neighborhoods with clear movement into and out of, they are growing and we need to make sure that that occurs for all of our neighborhoods. Sheilah Kast: So as you delve into.
The census data, what's next, how are you going to be presenting it to the public? Seema Iyer: Population change, like I mentioned, is just one indicator, and that was the first and most immediate thing that we could do in the Census Bureau released the information earlier in August.
There's much, much more to dig into. We now have 10 years worth of information on over different indicators, so we are going to be pulling together a series of six different reports to look at how the quality of life change in the last 10 years. From its earliest days, Baltimore nurtured cultural innovation.
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