WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.320 For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female homebuilder with a passion 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:08.080 for design, a mastery of detail, and a commitment to her crack. 3 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.640 With daughter Samantha Stumpo by her side, I don't need my whole family on 4 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.359 a date with me. That's a good note. It's goddemn weird. See. 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.960 Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction company in the country. 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:23.760 You're crazy, You're a wacko, You're insane. I mean, it just 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:28.640 doesn't end together. Cindy and Samantha welcome guests to explore the world of construction, 8 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:32.840 real estate, development, design and more. Here unpredictable. Every time 9 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.159 I think I know what you want, you'd switch it out. But that's 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:39.240 what makes sure houses all Udy discuss anything that happens between the roof and the 11 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.159 foundation. Nothing is off limits. You truly do care about everybody. She 12 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.479 can yell at, you can scream, but when you get her alone, 13 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:54.479 she's the best person on the planet. Cindy Stumpo is tough as nails and 14 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.320 welcome to Cidey Stumpo Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty and I'm Cidey 15 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:06.439 stumpo and I'm here with who and La Kenya Rivers? Sure, yeah, 16 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.400 okay, as long as you know your name? Okay, please, how 17 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:18.640 is your bio? Yes, so I'm La Kenya Rivers. I am a 18 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:25.519 wife of almost thirteen years. Yeah, it's going good through the pandemic, 19 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.200 right, that's all? Oh, yes, exactly. I am the mother 20 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:37.519 of five children. Yeah, three that I birth and two of my bonus 21 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:42.599 children. What's bonus bonus? My step daughters? Okay, yes, five 22 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:47.079 kids? We got the Brady Bunch trouble. Yeah, almost, and then 23 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:53.560 I raised my sister and then birth a nonprofit. Okay, what is your 24 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.879 sign? What are you? I'm a liver, so i am. I'm 25 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.359 a little bit of booth. I have some good son and I have bad 26 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:05.359 side if you get on my good side, but you make a decision. 27 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:10.199 Oh yes, okay, Oh yes, So you've been nominated for So I've 28 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:16.639 been nominated for several awards. But back in I want to say, I 29 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:23.520 can't think of the year, but I was unsunged. Right, my brain 30 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.680 is already a scrambled egg with cheese. Not what I always tell them, 31 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.319 But yeah, I was an unsung heroin with the State House and the Women's 32 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:39.560 Commission. And I took that and leveraged Family Movement, which is a nonprofit 33 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:45.840 agency working with homeless families. And I started by just building self worth. 34 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:47.360 Okay, but I'm still I want to build your bio here. Okay. 35 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:52.479 You were featured in Boston Herald as a success story from young mother to role 36 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.879 model. Yes, okay, let's not forget that. You're also featured on 37 00:02:54.919 --> 00:03:00.840 the Chronicle right on wcvbm HM. That was one of my hottest interviews, 38 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:01.879 was the Chronicle. By the way, I know, and I don't know 39 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:06.719 why I had. No, I had a panic attack and I ran out 40 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:08.280 the front of him and I had to walk up and down the sidewalks and 41 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.319 then come back in like, yeah, I don't know it was I had 42 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.280 panck attacks. Oh my god. But people should know you're back. Yeah, 43 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.080 all right, go ahead and I'll let you go. Yeah, so 44 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.159 people to know. Yeah, no, thank you for pointing that out, 45 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.759 because when it happens so long ago and then you're in the trenches, yeah, 46 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.960 you do forget. And I'm a mom, I'm a wife, you 47 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:34.080 know, in the community in church. Here's my question too, as another 48 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.680 woman that seems to think she's superwoman too. Did you get ten minutes yourself 49 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:39.680 a day or do you wait till like late at night that you get that 50 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:45.719 time to yourself late at night too, when the house goes down everybody's sleeping. 51 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.199 Yep, you get that half an hour, forty five minutes and like, 52 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.439 yeah, it doesn't matter it t one o'clock in the wine, you're 53 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.400 gonna stay up and enjoy that exactly. And at least once a month, 54 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.199 I try to do some self care, but then my husband goes, oh, 55 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.159 let me come along into a spot day with you, and you're like, 56 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.240 yeah, how about let's not and say we did? Yeah, yeah, 57 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.159 okay, But then it's nice to have him around. So I don't 58 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:11.240 know, listen, it is what is is? I've learned Superwoman doesn't exist. 59 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.479 I think you've learned that. How old you know? Oh gosh forty 60 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.160 two? Okay, So last time you on my show was what five years 61 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:19.519 ago? Five years ago? A lot has changed in five years. I 62 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.920 see beautiful, Yeah, no, you look beautiful. She looks beautiful. 63 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.759 I'm five years older now you're still hot. Yeah you still I'm a milf? 64 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:30.680 Yeah? Is there a new word? Is there a new word? 65 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.199 After milth. Did anything new come up? I don't think so. So, 66 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:39.360 but in that five years that one stuck, That one stuck came along 67 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.759 because that was before what was that dilf? What's a dilf? The opposite 68 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.639 of milk? Oh? Whatever? That means. Okay, you'll fill me 69 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.639 in later. So in five years, how much has your life changed? 70 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.839 Wow, because every five to seven years it changes. Oh yes, yes, 71 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.439 and I don't mean personal growth. I mean in your business. Along 72 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.480 with personal growth, you see life differently. Yeah, years later, yep, 73 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:04.560 five years ago. I think we were on the show before the pandemic. 74 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:11.040 Then the pandemic happened. Yes, through the grace of God, we 75 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:17.959 did not lose any income. We actually the nonprofit actually gained income during the 76 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:25.519 pandemic because we were helping more families that was losing income. So my personal 77 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:30.199 household, we actually with all that free money that was going around, I 78 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:35.439 know, I know, And so it helped the families that we serve in 79 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:41.720 the community. But in my personal life, I felt like it it pivoted 80 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.199 us to just kind of relax. You know, my job went virtual. 81 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.040 So a lot of the workshops that we were doing with the families and the 82 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:55.600 shelters. We went one virtual, which was new for us because we've done 83 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.480 work inside of the show. So what has really tell me how you guys 84 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.680 are doing now because a lot of people might miss the show five years ago, 85 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.319 So bring us back from then to now absolutely, and what you guys 86 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.279 have accomplished in that fart? Yeah? Yeah, So Family Movement was birth 87 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.319 for my own personal experiences in two thousand and nine, and we became a 88 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.399 five to one C three in twenty ten. And the reason why you did 89 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:25.720 all this, Yes, let's go there. I am a product of a 90 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:30.040 mom who was a substance abuser, so I constantly ran away from home. 91 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.560 And in the midst of me running away from can you imagine her running home, 92 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.879 running away from home? No? No, she's like so polyanna right, 93 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.600 why she had kids there? You go, right, yeah, but 94 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.160 you're so you just don't look like a girl that would run away from home. 95 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:46.360 Like you look like a girl that'd be afraid to run away from home. 96 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:48.519 And honestly, I don't like a girl that would run away from home, 97 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:53.319 right, but you don't look like a girl that would run away from 98 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:58.800 home like you was just like two eloquent and articulate and like, I'm the 99 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.720 good girl in school, and yes, that's our thing. Homelessness doesn't have. 100 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.240 You can go to a Dunkin Donut and that person be homeless or living 101 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.839 in a homeless shelter. So in the midst of me running away from home, 102 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:13.319 I became a teen mom. I was eighteen years old when I had 103 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:17.680 my daughter, and I was in the shelter for a whole year, and 104 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:23.000 I got every aspect of what I needed to know as a teen mother, 105 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.240 moving into my own apartment, transitioning into the work and field, going back 106 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.040 to school at night, and then I said I want to go back into 107 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.639 the shelter. Then that's where the Boston Herald article came from, because I 108 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:42.040 went into the homeless shelters and just started pouring into these mothers that just needed 109 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:46.000 to know that this is not where you're predestined to be. You're going to 110 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.560 leave here, You're gonna have an amazing life. You're going to set your 111 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:57.519 goals and a sword from there. And what's the percentage in the homeless shelters 112 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.759 that can do what you do. It's a lot of tenacity to do what 113 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.639 you did. I would say, you give yourself a lot of credit for 114 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.959 that. Absolutely, absolutely, I will say on an assessment base, because 115 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.279 the nonprofit Family Movement does do assessments for every single client that we work with. 116 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:24.639 They it's probably fifteen percent walk out of there and are willing to go 117 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.800 back. And that's what we do. We hire families that move out of 118 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.720 shelter into their own apartments, and we pay them to go back into homeless 119 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.360 shelters around Massachusetts and do workshops. We do twelve months. So hold on. 120 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:45.360 You pay these women whoever that live there and have moved on with their 121 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.759 lives the fifteen percent to give back their time. But they won't go give 122 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.039 back their time for free. They charge the organization. They know they won't. 123 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.559 They'll go back, but it's just our love offering to them. It's 124 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.720 not even a payroll, it's a stipend. You go back and you teach 125 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.360 the women what you knew. We do have experts that do the workshops for 126 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.120 the families, but that workshop leader is the one who kind of runs every 127 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:16.120 day. Okay, well that I thought we're gonna go to break. I'm 128 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.639 Sidney Stumborley. Listen Toughest Nails on w Z News Radio. Ten thirty views 129 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:39.240 were sponsored by Floor and Decor, National Lumber, and Village Bank. And 130 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.039 I'm Sidny Stumbley. Let's send toughest nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty. 131 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.960 Pick it up where we left it off for sorry. Yeah, so commercials 132 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.720 make our radio show keep going, no worries. So yeah, you had 133 00:09:52.759 --> 00:10:00.039 asked about the moms us paying the mom's UH stipend, And yes, we 134 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.519 do compensate their time. We value their parenting because one of the workshops that 135 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:11.879 we do with these families is parenting skills. And so if they are going 136 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:18.279 to leave their child to help us do something to better another person's life, 137 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.480 I got it. Yeah, we do help daycaree exactly. Yep. Okay, 138 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:30.200 so it's fifteen percent how the homeless shelter is doing. Right now. 139 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.639 I don't even want to go there with you because right now I'm going to 140 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.919 be very disappointed because I'm very disappointed in our own city. What's going on? 141 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.320 Right So here's this is my feeling. And I don't shave the truth, 142 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.159 and I don't care. I don't care. If I cared, I 143 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.720 wouldn't have a radio show, right, Like, I believe, take care 144 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.759 of our own people first. Absolutely. Okay, so I have a problem 145 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.320 with what's going on in our state. I won't deny it. We have 146 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.080 too many people in our state that need our help. Homeless kids going to 147 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:07.080 bed, hungry. We can get into this deeper, right that. Now 148 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.360 you come in across the border and you're in Massachusetts, and you get a 149 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:11.480 credit card, you get a cell phone, you get a school, and 150 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.679 you get medical, you get this, and that this is going to be 151 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:20.039 making your organization crazy, like you want to pull your hair out of your 152 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.440 head. Yes, so explain to my listeners. Yes, because there's a 153 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.840 lot of us that feel your pain. Okay, we feel the same way 154 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:33.200 as well, but we have to be a little bit more non biased because 155 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.919 they're also homeless. Right, So let me back up Family Movement. We 156 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.159 are a nonprofit agency, So if you look at us, look at us 157 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.000 as kind of like a once sit you can be politically correct. That don't 158 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:48.120 have to be, but go ahead, Okay. We're like a one stop 159 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.159 shop. So we work with the client and then we also work with the 160 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.440 homeless shelters, the property managers, realtors when they get to that homeowner stage, 161 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.799 and all of the resources in between. So if they need a mental 162 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.279 therapist, if they need anything with physical awareness, and mental therapists are very 163 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.440 hard to find right now, Too's talk about that, right. Yeah, 164 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.960 they're not on every street quarter anyoth No, they're not no education, workforce 165 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.159 development, financial literacy. So we work with those experts inside of the homeless 166 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:26.840 shelters. Right now, it's a housing crisis like no other. In general. 167 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.399 If we get a referral for a family that's looking for housing, the 168 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.679 list is bookoo long because of the migrants that are coming in. So as 169 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.039 the migrants come in and we don't even know these people. We don't know 170 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.039 where they grew up, we don't know where they live, we don't know 171 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.120 what they're coming in with. We don't know if they're rapists, good people, 172 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:46.360 murdered. We have no idea. No, Okay, at least you 173 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:52.240 can background check somebody that's homeless in Massachusetts and figure out where they're raised, 174 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.440 maybe who their parents were, weren't young, you know, a teenager whatever. 175 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.559 You have no cluees coming, but you have to let them in and 176 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.320 come together in these homeless shelters exactly. And a lot of them aren't even 177 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:13.120 going into the homeless shelters because there's no room. How's that going? So 178 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:18.039 when they make room, then it's probably a handful of families. So right 179 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:22.120 now, a shelter, let's just say shelter A, has twelve families in 180 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.080 it. Usually when we do workshops, we don't do no more than twelve 181 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.159 because we like to make a more powerful impact. So if a shelter has 182 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.720 twelve families and it one person moves into stable housing, then maybe a migrant 183 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.279 from wherever their house will go into that shelter. So it's not like it's 184 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.120 a group of them going into these emergency shelters. What they have done with 185 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.039 the migrants is they have they're now opening up community centers. I know, 186 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.360 they're opening up buildings. Some probably are still at the airport, so they're 187 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.399 housing them. And it's not just the state of Massachusetts issue. This is 188 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:05.000 a government issue now and because the state allows it, these families exactly. 189 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:11.480 So we've taken away a lot of inner city areas for kids that go play 190 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:18.840 basketball, hangout schools, that the cafeterias. I'm surprised that the inner city 191 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.799 kids and parents aren't actually losing their minds because they should be. No, 192 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:31.919 they are and We're hearing the complaints as well because we are hoping to build 193 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:37.879 our first brick and mortar in Dorchester area, which is maybe about two blocks 194 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:45.960 from where one of those community centers was taken and turned into a migrant stationery. 195 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:54.679 We were recently asked from the state to be at one of the locations 196 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.039 and help with the migrants. So we do have interpreters to help with the 197 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:03.960 families. So it's it's by these people to be calm a little off. 198 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:09.840 I mean, what's been your running So what I'm seeing on Twitter is not 199 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:18.320 good. Yeah, I mean not a lot of locations are provided with the 200 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:24.000 workshops that these families need to get back into the workforce. I'm seeing more 201 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.960 men than i am seeing women and children, so that's another thing. I'm 202 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.679 not really on the South Shore. There are women and children and limited men, 203 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.600 so I'm not sure if maybe they have the men at different locations. 204 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:43.399 But we have not started working with a migrant cohort. We do work inside 205 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:52.240 the shelters where we may have one or two Haitian speaking, uh Spanish speaking 206 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:56.679 migrants. No, it's it's it's actually funny because I always say this. 207 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.080 I leveled up with the Brazilian community they like fifteen eighteen years ago, right, 208 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:08.519 and they came in. They were hard working people, no trouble, 209 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:15.320 never ever had any trouble in construction. They wanted to. They follow the 210 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.840 Sabbath like Jewish people's Saturdays, the day of worship, good husbands, good 211 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:25.799 father like I of all the South American Brazilians I've worked with in construction, 212 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.600 and anybody that's listening knows that's a big part of Massachusetts construction community. They're 213 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:36.559 good guys. They own homes, they've leveled up. They came here and 214 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.799 said we're gonna go. We want to work. We're not here to start 215 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:47.200 trouble. And that's not what I'm seeing. Like what I'm seeing, and 216 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.879 I got to get off Twitter. I gotta be perfectly honest because I go 217 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.759 home. I go to bed every night watching twenty twenty five videos. And 218 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.879 that is absolutely for somebody like me born on the cancer side. I'm so 219 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.759 EmPATH and which my next time I'm coming back as a Gemini, watch that 220 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.400 night after night after night. Now my whole algorithm is like that, right, 221 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.240 you don't change your algorith I guess start looking at birds and winding unicorns 222 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.960 to change tonight, change my algorithm. At this point, you could even 223 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.880 just talk about it and your phone here's you, and it targets you, 224 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.759 time, everything, everything on my So I'll sense my friends and they'll go, 225 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.799 stop changing my When you stop watching this, it opens your eyes to 226 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.880 the real world. And I like to live in the real world. I'm 227 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.519 not living in a world with flying pink unicorns. My neighbors can do that 228 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.160 in Brookline. My neighbors can do that in Newton, right, they can 229 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:34.400 do that in west and they can do that in Wellesley. Yep, I'm 230 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.839 real life. I want to know what's going on. That's me and I 231 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.200 think you know. And I have a fiance that goes, why do we 232 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.960 need to see this? Because this is the world we're living in. And 233 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.920 if you like this world, then good for you. But I don't like 234 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.759 this world. And we've had conversations, real conversations as to why would you 235 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:59.720 put migrants in a low income area versus putting them in a area like Wellesley, 236 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:03.119 New and exactly, But it doesn't happen that way, does it. 237 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:08.640 So again, it's tough, and it's a year in with all of this. 238 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.920 Don't worry because there were the governor, don't worry, are trying to 239 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.400 figure it out. They're all coming out. They're just robbing. Yeah, 240 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.279 okay, so we have a high theft rate right now, extremely high theft 241 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:21.880 rate. So they might not be living there, but they're getting they're getting 242 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.599 the Prodder and the Gucci and the Rimez and the Rolexes and everything else and 243 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:30.079 going somewhere else. Right So, looking, we're all living in crazy times, 244 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.440 crazy time, and the only ones that have can change this is the 245 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.880 politicians. Exactly and where that's going, I don't know, because Massachusetts as 246 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:42.160 we know it seems to be look at it's it's all over the world right 247 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:47.240 now. Yeah, New York is worse than us. New York's terrible. 248 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:48.400 Yeah, Like who wants to go there? I don't even want to go 249 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.400 there anymore. Like, don't even you invite me for a wedding. I'm 250 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.319 not coming. I'll send you a beautiful gifts. Do not I'm not coming. 251 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.480 Don't expect me there. Last time I was there was a year with 252 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.519 I got COVID. I'm walking out. Gosh, Saint Regis. They tell 253 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.400 me put my pocketbook, my jewelry away. This is crazy. Don't go 254 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.960 out there. I'm like, where am I? I'm a Madison fifty fifth. 255 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.480 What's gonna happen to me? Oh? I see what's happening now? 256 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.640 I just went across street to get a hot dog advanced. I'll have a 257 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.680 hot dog when you landed. You you gotta get a hot dog, right. 258 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.599 I'm like, Okay, that's not for me, but for what you're 259 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.720 seeing out there is not making your life any easier. It's making it heart 260 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:30.240 tiring. And to any CEO leader that's in the nonprofit world, I would 261 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.839 like to just personally just make sure you are doing some self care. Okay, 262 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.640 hold that. I thought we got to go to break again. I'm 263 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.839 sitting stumping you. Listen to Top the Nails on WBZ news Radio ten thirty 264 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.279 Right Back, sponsored by Pillow Windows of Boston, Next Day Molding and Kennedy 265 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:56.680 Carr. Could you see? How could it be? No? No, 266 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.519 And I'm sitting stump Listen The Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty. 267 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.160 Sammy, how are you doing, honey? I'm good? How are you 268 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.400 you? Hold on over there? I am okay. I can't even call 269 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.039 you my blondie anymore. You really got to get over this. I'm sorry 270 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.279 you've been a blonde up until six months ago, Like seriously, Like you 271 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.279 just go and change things after thirty five years? Yeah, I do. 272 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.599 Okay, Well, now I can't call you my brunette because you're my blondie. 273 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.359 She's my bondie now she doesn't I don't know. She's beautiful. Yes, 274 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:29.880 okay, she's got a kind he Yes, Okay, we'll go back 275 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.319 finish where we talk about because I always love talking to you. I know, 276 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.079 I think we were we were, you know, just talking and I 277 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.319 won't even tell you anybody why I love her husband by to love her husbands. 278 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:44.279 She'll tell her husband later, but go ahead. Oh he'll love to 279 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:48.480 hear that. Yeah. I think it's just a matter of this whole housing 280 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:53.079 crisis with the migrants and what are they going to do here in our state? 281 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.160 Tell me what the plan is? Do you have a plan? No 282 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:59.319 one has a planting off their hip, right, I think it's just going 283 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.960 off the hip and trying to see what the needs are. There was just 284 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:07.000 a call last night with I don't mean to interrupt you, but how many 285 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.839 homeless people do we have on the streets right now? In Massachusetts. So 286 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:18.519 Family Movement works with emergency shelter families. The difference is these are single moms 287 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.640 with children, so we work in the homeless shelters. So I think overall, 288 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:27.480 without dividing those, it's about eighteen thousand, probably more than that I've 289 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:33.880 seen in the numbers lately. It can vary between thirty six thousand. I 290 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.400 know the mayor just did a whole nother consensus on you know, couch surfing 291 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:44.640 is also considered. Anyone that's doubled up sleeping on a family roomer's couch can 292 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.839 also be considered homeless as well. All those numbers can vary between eighteen and 293 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.920 thirty six thousand. And now with the migrants, I haven't seen those numbers, 294 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.039 but we're sure we don't want to do it. I'm sure they have 295 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:02.880 grown because they're everywhere. Now, you being where you are in life, 296 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:03.880 and you don't have to ask this question if you don't want to answer, 297 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:08.039 it's you don't have to. I'm an open book, Okay. Would you 298 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:12.960 just take strangers like this, not American people? Would you take people not 299 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:15.519 boring our country and just bring them to your home with your five children? 300 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:21.440 So and you have a big heart and this is what I have and a 301 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:23.799 big, big heart. And my husband's like, you need to chills a 302 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:30.640 little bit. I would say no, but I will find them a place, 303 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:36.839 okay, And I make I respect the honesty because some people won't answer 304 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:38.960 that honestly, right, And you just did and you give your whole life 305 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:47.400 to this to homeless? How many people have ended up from homeless to home 306 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:53.319 ownership in our program? We now have four families and our first male who 307 00:22:53.599 --> 00:23:00.640 just got preapproved to purchase his home. So we in Massachusetts so expensive. 308 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:04.319 Yeah, yeah, this is our program though, but there are other programs 309 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:10.519 out there. We're literally the families that are moving into home ownership they have 310 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:18.039 experienced homelessness. So that's our program. Where this person that in our program 311 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.759 that is purchasing a home, they have been homeless before within the past ten 312 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.759 years. Okay. Do they have a job, yes, so we make 313 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.680 sure oh yeah, there's definitely rules. We make sure that they are over 314 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.559 kind of middle class, so about fifty to sixty thousand dollars at least, 315 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.720 and how they go from homeless to making fifty sixty thousand and so they find 316 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:47.440 programs like ours, but we are starting in the homeless shelters because we want 317 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:52.759 these families to be very aware of your financial literacy, your your financial security 318 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:57.160 for your life. You teach them how credit, every how credit works, 319 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:00.200 yes, and how not to get back in a problem that you got into 320 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.599 in the first place, exactly, and to not rely on the government, 321 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:07.480 which we were just talking about, right, they do not rely on the 322 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.839 government. You work, you'll be making more than what the government can give 323 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:18.880 you if anything happens. Yeah, it's yeah, we pride ourselves on the 324 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.880 work that we do. Right now, the state has a program it's called 325 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.960 home Base, So these families they don't get vouchers anymore. They get the 326 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:30.599 home base, which is eighteen months. Explain that to me, yes, 327 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.960 all right, So we always had Section eight yep, vouchers. What do 328 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:37.880 we have now? So now it's home base. So it's kind of Section 329 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:42.279 eight is still out there, but there's no new applications going out. They're 330 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:52.599 trying to make the families become more economic, you know, aware of where 331 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.279 they're at currently on a Section eight voucher and trying to wean them off of 332 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:02.599 it. So now they have Section eight to home ownership. Okay, so 333 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.079 let's go, let's go back there. So home ownership, who writes the 334 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:10.559 mortgage for that? Yeah, So there's many banks that we have as a 335 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:17.920 mortgage lender that will write like a one plus Boston mortgage that is income restricted, 336 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:22.559 and then because it's income restricted, they are they can go into a 337 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:27.880 mortgage loan that might have a lower interest rate that might give them a little 338 00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:34.359 bit more down payment assistance, family movement. Whatever our clients save over five 339 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:41.319 thousand, we match them five thousand dollars towards their down payment and or closing 340 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:45.680 cost. So okay, so where does that get them in Massachusetts as a 341 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:49.559 home like we're the most Yeah, so right now a lot of our families, 342 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:59.920 we do have one that purchased right in Chelsea. So we have South 343 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:06.839 Sure for our families. One end Central Masks give me so Brockton Stoughton. 344 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:14.759 Yeah, we have a family that just purchased in around the Framan yep, 345 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:22.000 Framingham area. And then our mail is just signing into a lottery to be 346 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:25.839 placed in Boston. So he will be our first one that will be in 347 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:29.279 Boston. And he's married, he has two children, He's not on any 348 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:33.799 government assistance, he has a savings over twenty thousand dollars and right now he 349 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:38.960 is couch surfing, so him and his family is living with family members. 350 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:45.799 So he is literally our product of homelessness to home ownership. So he's gone 351 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.640 from homeless to couch surfing and now he got a home. Yep, he's 352 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.559 pre approved. So we haven't found his home yet. Hopefully we'll have a 353 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.559 follow up show for the yeah, and we'll bring him in. Yeah. 354 00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:00.880 Yeah, that would be a great success story. We need to bring some 355 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:07.279 of these people in so the You couldn't have ask for worse timing though for 356 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.079 all this, right, I know the interest rates are not where we would 357 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.119 like them to be, but we do encourage families if you see something that 358 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:19.079 is within your pre approval, you know, purchase and then kind of you 359 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:25.400 know, refinance in the next six six months or so. I don't know 360 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:29.279 if you read the statistics on Massachusetts. Massachusetts is a great state, right, 361 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.839 So I looked up like it was something that came on my phone, 362 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.359 so I looked it up. Massachusetts is number one for IQ. You know 363 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.240 that number one? Yeah? Google that IQ highest of all the states. 364 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:47.559 Is Massachusetts best place to raise a family? Raise, raise children, have 365 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.640 a family, Massachusetts number one. We always made Newton, Massachusetts always made 366 00:27:52.759 --> 00:28:00.640 up until COVID the number one city in the country as one of the most 367 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.799 safest cities in the country. But mass is changing, and people that live 368 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:11.279 here are leaving, and they're low They're going, you know, the rich 369 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.440 are going, the middle class are going, and the aulter rich are going. 370 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.359 And this is when the politicians gott to sit back and say, hold 371 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.680 on, we're losing good people here. We're losing people that donate a lot 372 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:25.559 of money, they give their time, they give to organizations, work hard. 373 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:30.599 You start losing those billionaires and millionaires. You're running is stay down because 374 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.039 there's too much reason. Look it, we don't live in Masters's for the 375 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.720 beautiful weather, as you can say, right right. We live here because 376 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:41.200 we make a living here. We live here because I think we like the 377 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:45.000 culture. There's so much culture here. We get to live among many different 378 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:49.599 type of people, which is great, right, Like not we have a 379 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:53.319 friend Sammy. What to s always say in Texakonisha, everybody's just white or 380 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:56.559 black. I'm like, yes, shah, there's no such things just white 381 00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:59.680 people. Yes there is, they're just white. There's no white Italians. 382 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.079 No white Irish, no white Jews. I'm like waiting all the time. 383 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.000 She says that wow and in Texakana in her brain. So when she comes 384 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:12.519 and she interns with me every month for a couple of weeks and shaman Nique 385 00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:19.640 mannon and she's like, I've never knew like white Jewish differre white Italian people, 386 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:23.279 white Irish people. You people talk about this, like, but that's 387 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.480 what we do here, Like we could be at home depot, Hey, 388 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.599 where are you from? Where are you from? Oh? I grew? 389 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.880 Oh what's your mother? What are you from? It's just like kind of 390 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.319 normal here there. It's just no. She calls me to see stumble it 391 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:41.119 just white. She say white Conca when she say white white people, but 392 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.319 she use another word, no whatever, and she's like, that's just how 393 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:49.440 it is. I'm like and then she asks people what are you? They 394 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.039 don't say white, Irish, white Italian. We're going to break hold. 395 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.319 I thought, oh my own thought. I'm sitting stumping lit tough his nails 396 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.160 on WBZ News Radio ten thirty and be right back. Small by Newbrook Realty 397 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:06.200 Group, Boston Wood Smaller Insurance, World Auto Body and Tasca Drive Auto Biddy 398 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:12.680 last many trying to get out of this place. I was looking for something 399 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:18.160 I couldn't repeat. I was running from it all, and I'm soon stump 400 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.359 on your back on WBC News Radio ten thirty with Toughest Nails, I'm here 401 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:27.000 with who Sammy's Temple and La Kenya Rivers pick up where we left off. 402 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:32.160 Yeah, so, I think you know, with the transition of the home 403 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:40.079 ownership after our family leaves stable housing, it's it's crucial for us, not 404 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:48.039 just Family Movement, but any nonprofit leader to really really teach the next person. 405 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:53.559 I don't care if it's a family member. Financial literacy, you know, 406 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.480 anything that is going to help your family grow and build generation no wealth. 407 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:07.599 We are Our model is literally to end generational poverty and build the generational 408 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.319 wealth. So we partner with three hundred financial advisors to bring them into the 409 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:17.480 homeless shelters and teach them one on one financial literacy. It's kind of like 410 00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.759 what Ray did this winter in Florida. Gave everybody one hundred dollars at the 411 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.079 pool deck, the kids and said, you're opening an eight corn account. 412 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.039 You've proved to me that you open it up. I'm giving everybody one hundred 413 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.400 dollars. And that's he's a wealth advisor of thirty seven years. And these 414 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.799 kids every day by the pool, like when it was days that were nice. 415 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:38.079 He comes out like one two o'clock after working, and we work and 416 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.440 we do both down there, you know, try to get out there like 417 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:42.920 three o'clock and go, hey, where's the sun? And they just run 418 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.680 over the way and they can't get enough information. You've seen it. We 419 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.720 look at this Ray, look at that right, But he gives back. 420 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.559 Yeah, because you've been doing something for thirty seven years, thirty six years, 421 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.640 you give back. That's it can't take this with you when you go 422 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.920 right. But there anywhere from working the pool deck fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, 423 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:04.680 even twenty eight, twenty nine, and they're running over to Ray. 424 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.400 Ray, look at look at this, Look at this right. Race has 425 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.759 put five dollars a month away, put ten dollars in it. Just teach 426 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:15.559 consistency matter correct. Yeah, and but somebody's going to show them. If 427 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:17.480 they don't have the parents to do it, then you help other kids. 428 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:24.960 We realize that the homelessness that we experience working with these families is that they 429 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.880 have not because they know not, and they ask not and they don't know 430 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.960 how to ask because they don't know. What is more? Okay, the 431 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.359 families that you work with, do we have white families? Yeah? Hispanic 432 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:45.400 we have maybe about five percent white majority, maybe eighty nine percent are people 433 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:52.519 of color of so black, Hispanic, Haitian, Creole, and then I 434 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:58.079 think we had one Chinese, one Asian failing. Where do you see? 435 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.000 Where do you want to go in the next year? Do you see coming 436 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.039 at you guys? Yeah? So what now do you need for help? 437 00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:08.519 Like my list is a listening Yes, so right now we need as much 438 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:15.160 support just to get our name out there, increase the visibility of family movement 439 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:23.000 in the community, and mainly right now we are having a building campaign launching 440 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:27.920 right now. We have eighteen months to build. The shovel to ground is 441 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.519 supposed to be in the fall of this year. So what are we building? 442 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.000 Yep, So we're building a our first office space, which round up, 443 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.799 build, ground up, build Mayor contractor. So right now Mayor will 444 00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:46.000 just awarded the lot to a developer MTK. So this developer is doing it 445 00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:52.119 in honor of a former general contractor who passed away. I never heard of 446 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.880 contractor. Who's this it's called MTK Development, Sammy, I never heard of 447 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:04.000 them either. Yeah, I think they're pretty MTK MTK. See that's weird. 448 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.480 See why would she not give it to somebody that's been around the Boston 449 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:12.079 area a long time and that help and gives some money towards it. But 450 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.960 that's the thing, because when you go with the notables, Yeah, the 451 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:22.840 notable people, then I think what the mayor is what she did was choose 452 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:28.280 people that are that have the knowledge, that have the wisdom, that have 453 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.119 the all of the eggs in the basket to be able to build on one 454 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:36.760 lot. There are many lots in the city of Boston that they're trying to 455 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:42.960 fill and they're trying to give opportunities to people of color, whether it's a 456 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:51.360 general contractor whether it's you know, architect. We're the first community partner that's 457 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:55.039 on this project. So there's a developer that bought the property and they're using 458 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:01.119 this builder. Yep, and then it'll be stayed fun for the way Yep, 459 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.760 city, city, m state funded. Cindy and city and state funded. 460 00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:07.880 Okay, I said, Cindy, I think, yeah, did you 461 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:12.480 look that up? No? Okay, So you're not fast enough. I 462 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.320 need Jonathan being here because he like gets things right. We know that you're 463 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.199 toughing my nails. My service isn't even not fast enough in here. Well, 464 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.320 then bring a left topic. So basically, the developer, like I 465 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.920 said, bought the land. Yep. We don't know what he pays for 466 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:30.280 the land. How many units are coming in yep. So the bottom we 467 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:34.199 will purchase. That's our goal to purchase, so that it will be a 468 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.880 one stop shop for the families and the community above. It will be twelve 469 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:43.800 to eighteen condos, not rental condos, condos, Okay, condos to sell, 470 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:49.039 yes by lottery? Yes, where were they at badly by? Where's 471 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.960 MTK out of? So they're out of Boston? I think Dorchester. So 472 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:57.239 if I do MGA Construction Services out of Pembroke, they're permanently closed. Yeah, 473 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.559 you must be the word Boston. Yeah, ye, Boston. So 474 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:06.000 the developer will so sing makes money because no one's working for free, as 475 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.639 we know in America right like, no one's working for free. So somewhere 476 00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:13.719 they make money, we just don't know. I think it's once they sell 477 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.360 the condos and once they sell the bottom storefronts. So it's gonna be the 478 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.719 first little commercial, yep, and then residential above them exactly, and it'll 479 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.679 be lottery sales only. But we're hoping, we're praying that we can get 480 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:32.719 at least two to four out of the condos they are, so we are 481 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.599 trying to raise funds for that. They only do affordable have the so okay, 482 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:38.880 so they only do affordable house and can I see that from it a 483 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:46.119 place so I can educate myself real fast? Okay? Hold on, And 484 00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:51.880 they are brand new developers in the community. Okay, so they're the empty 485 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.519 Okay, they're the developers. Then they hire the builders, yes, got 486 00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:59.440 it? Okay, And I think I don't think they've gotten to that point 487 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:04.400 yet. I think they're in the middle of permitting and zoning. Well, 488 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.039 hopefully they move it along fast because right now everything is a slow motion too. 489 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:12.639 But that's our you know, the mayor should be pushing this faster, 490 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.400 right Ye, we just had a meeting. They said about eighteen months for 491 00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:22.079 the So I'm looking at the building. Bottom is commercial, top is residential. 492 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:29.159 Every unit is affordable or only so many units. Every unit is affordable. 493 00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:32.119 But when we looked at the affordability. It's about it's not affordable. 494 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.920 Yeah, okay, but I can give you an educated reason why that is. 495 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:43.280 Okay. It's because to get skilled labor and to buy product is so 496 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:45.679 expensive right now, I believe it. Okay. So even if they give 497 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.760 you the land for free and say here, take this, they will have 498 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.519 to You're still got to build it out. And I'm telling you on boots 499 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:57.559 on the ground it's expensive. Yeah. So this is what I don't understand 500 00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.320 is what are they going to sell for because I know the price is to 501 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:07.559 build, especially that's a brick building by the way. Yeah, I think 502 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:14.440 they were saying about four hundred thousand per unit. Yep, and that gives 503 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:16.920 you hommy square feet you know, a pand or no, not off the 504 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.039 top of my head. I'd have to look it up. Yeah, but 505 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.440 that sounds even low too. Yeah. So the profits small, but it 506 00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:28.320 helps families that want to stay in the city at least stay in the city 507 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:34.960 because of the whole gentrification that's happening in the Roxbury Dorchester area. It is 508 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:38.679 an opportunity and we're gonna you know, the funding hasn't even been discussed yet. 509 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:45.440 Who's going to fund the construction, but we were having that things were 510 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.119 attendant. It's important because with you know, and we don't have enough skill 511 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.239 labor, we got product. That's ridiculous. If they got to pay a 512 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:58.199 stupid interest rate, it's it's just not feasible for them to do it and 513 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.320 be able to that. There lies the problems. So the governor, the 514 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:06.719 mirror, everybody's gonna pull in near the city they us, I guess, 515 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.880 but you can't tell a private bank. Okay, listen, if they want 516 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:14.639 two through basis points over what they're you know what the federate is, you're 517 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:17.599 gonna pay it right unless the federal government substance is okay, you can borrow 518 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:23.559 with this number. Well, there's definitely funding for these lots that's being sold. 519 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.280 So it's just a matter of the funding, and you got to diversify 520 00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:31.199 it. So funding from the city, how much are you raising, how 521 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:36.960 much are you putting up grants? We're applying for grants for this as well. 522 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.039 We are diverse and fying off funds. We don't want this opportunity for 523 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:46.239 us and for the families to be debt debt now, and what about trying 524 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:52.000 to do this outside the commuter rails like they can't aerate the Stote area where 525 00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:53.880 it's like a lot of where the train goes right through the Debs housing. 526 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:59.679 Yeah, we guys looked at that. We have been discussed to look into 527 00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:04.840 that, and I think our heart is just serving within the community of Boston, 528 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:08.199 of Boston, the low income area. Okay, let's go off to 529 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:29.039 break. I'm Sidy Stumbor you listen Toughest Nails on WBC News Radio ten thirty 530 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.039 And I'm Sidy stumporing you listen to the Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten 531 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:42.599 thirty. Bring us out, Yes, Sindy, Team Ross, Sammy, 532 00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.320 thank you guys so much. I've been trying to get on here. Yes, 533 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:51.760 so thank you so much. Please please please follow Family Movement www dot 534 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.840 Familymovement dot com. We have a community brunch coming up in June. We're 535 00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.760 still trying to lock down to the details for that, but stay tuned on 536 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.880 our website. We also have an annual galla that we do that's called Unlocked. 537 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:07.880 We are unlocking everything that pertains to poverty and building generational wealth. And 538 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:14.840 again, as I mentioned on here, we are we're fundraising for our new 539 00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:19.559 location wherever it will be right, Cindy, let us know, let's know, 540 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.519 and Ross took you a year to bring it back on. Everybody, 541 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:23.719 have a great, safe weekend and we'll see you next weekend. This is 542 00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:27.639 Citdy Stumbotop his Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty