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Introducing LETS - LETS Studio

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I came to the Bay Area by way of Ghana, Chicago, Arkansas, Houston, and Boston. Settling into San Francisco in my first job out of college, I was soon unabashedly proud to call this place my home. But the more I fell in love with my farmer’s markets, bus routes, and neighborhood izakaya, the more I was forced to reckon with some of my city’s uncomfortable paradoxes. How is it possible that one of the wealthiest and most technologically-savvy places in the world somehow allows its teachers to live near poverty and its homeless to live on the streets? How is it possible that Black residents are continually forced to leave the city, priced out of homes they’ve lived in for decades or forced to flee toxic waste? And how can all of these shocking social inequities exist in spite of a multi-billion dollar city budget, and and the overflowing bank accounts of venture capitalists and technology companies? Despite the United States’ status as the “greatest democracy in the world,” most of its

Introducing LETS A creative studio dedicated to democratic social innovation. Humphrey Obuobi Jul 18, 2023 18 1 2 Share I came to the Bay Area by way of Ghana, Chicago, Arkansas, Houston, and Boston. Settling into San Francisco in my first job out of college, I was soon unabashedly proud to call this place my home. But the more I fell in love with my farmer’s markets, bus routes, and neighborhood izakaya, the more I was forced to reckon with some of my city’s uncomfortable paradoxes. How is it possible that one of the wealthiest and most technologically-savvy places in the world somehow allows

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