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investment in infrastructure structure in our school. we have been calling for the whole of last yearfor been calling for the whole of last year for reinvestment in beds delay —— in ventilation in our schools. and we have been calling for that through covid—19 because we know it is known to reduce the spread. improving the amount of oxygen and decreasing the amount of c02 in the room actually helps learning. but we clearly need ventilation now, as well, for the heat situation that we are facing. so we are calling for the government to invest in our young people because my education. the outgoing labour government in 2010 had a programme first calls for the future. that was one of the first that their incoming coalition government cut away. we still haven't got back the spending that sort of level so there is increasing dilapidation in our schools and a lack of investment. a lot of projects have to be done from
will be about this young man. >> katherine schwent, thank you so much. >> happy to be here. i want to bring in the president of the buffalo common council and bishop at true bethel. darius, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you for continuing to cover this. >> how you doing? >> not good. i keep saying okay, but the truth of the matter is not good. >> i understand you live two blocks from the supermarket, right, and you knew aaron salter, katherine massey. talk to me about what's been taken from your community, the loss of these folks, and really so many others, darius. >> you know, across the country when you talk about african-american neighborhoods, so many people think about crime or dilapidation. it's not like that here. it may not be the best
structural engineers will figure out what happened, and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: records show a surfside building official had reviewed the 2018 report detailing major structural damage yet told residents that it appears the building is in very good shape. the records made public show no sense of urgency to launch repairs as the home owners association took three years to review inspections, hire engineers and begin assessments to start work. an attorney for the condo board cautions patience. >> there's other buildings out there with engineering reports as they near their 40-year certification that reveal more drasting spalling and pitting, dilapidation, rebar corrosion. we need to figure out what were all the factors that went into making this building fall. >> reporter: drew griffon, cnn, atlanta. >> thanks to drew griffon. now i want to bring in albert.
and that area. >> absolutely. this area had experienced disinvestment and dilapidation for over three decades. nobody wanted to invest. johns hopkins university cut their development off at the train tracks and they had caused displacement of thousands of residents and gentrification and nobody had a plan for this area. the southern baptist church being in the community for 80 years said the church can't just build a mega church building without having affordable housing and mixed use property development so we made it our business to invest and find partners that would do what was needed to transform the community. >> now, i understand you were out in the community working, trying to deal with the protest and the violence on monday night when you got word that your center itself was being burned down. tell us what happened and how you reacted. >> when the riots came and i saw it on the news after the funeral, i went quickly to new shiloh, and in the office of