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40%, medium income $10,000 a year. they closed 50 public schools and around those schools, al, the housing value went down, the businesses closed. so it's a disaster zone. we need a plan for reconstruction. >> now, when you talk about a plan for reconstruction, i remember when i was a teenager and was youth director under you and reverend william jones, i would go to chicago and we would see where martin luther king stayed on the west side, you would show us in the youth of the black businesses, john johnson and george johnson and others. what happened to all of that? why is all of that gone a...

. >> but the key point is the blacker the neighborhood, the higher the percentage, the lower the value. >> so it's not an absolute. >> so 10% starts the slide. 20% increases the slide. it's when you get greater percentages. so the fak is fact that we can provide appreciation is low percentage. it's not 50/50. >> if you are not depressed about the ideas that your housing value will decrease, wait until i tell you the air quality will decrease. it turns out housing is not just housing. it's all kinds of things. we'll talk habit the details of the alarming new study when we come back. . cars are ...

Of the activity that we have seen in courts a and in settlements today. this is probably different in degree. but let's take a step back. during the crisis, you had some 20% or 30% of housing value in the country decline. which meant that $5 trillion $6 trillion disappears. the rating agent -- everyone has been suing everyone else for five years. and when you have between thing a gags of bear stearns and washington mutual and jpm, very large mortgage originators, if they were problems broadly, which there definitely were, you ought to expect some pretty big numbers. >> we need to make sure tha...

And they made a lot of money in the run up to the crisis, during the subprime period. my understanding that the doj -- under, in the midst of the crisis, jpmorgan chase acquired washington mutual. washington mutual did a lot of shady stuff. they assumed that business. can you clarify this for me? this settlement doesn't actually touch the washington mutual stuff? >> i don't know all the details, but i do think it's important to realize that this is probably not different in kind than a lot of the activity that we have seen in courts a and in settlements today. this is probably different in deg...