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Here's a tough thing to talk about, though we must -

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Rich people are going to have to allow, 
or be forced to allow

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lower income people to live near them.

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Which is what we fail to do in this country right now.

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We force lower income, working Americans to drive
one, two, three hours

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in either direction to get to their jobs -

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very often minimum wage jobs, so they're working

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two or three of them right now.

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What if, as we propose to do, 

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we invested in housing that was closer to where you work?

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Very often mixed-income housing meaning the very wealthiest are living 
next to those who are not the very wealthiest in this country.

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to make sure that they can both afford to go to the same public schools,

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that we really have that as a place where in this divided country
right now, you can come together

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without regard to your income or your race or your ethnicity
or any other difference that should not matter right now.

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What if we invested, as we propose to do, in high-speed rail
and in transit in all of our cities to make sure that

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if you do not have a car or do not want to use a car,
you will not need to have one, 

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or you will not be penalized for not having one right now.

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So having cities that are smarter, that are denser,

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that have people living closer to where they work
and where their families are

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to reduce our impact on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions,

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but also just to improve the quality of life
in these built environments.

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That's an extraordinary opportunity and in our plan to confront climate change

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we make those investments.