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b'My name is Luke Keck, and for the last few months I\\u2019ve worked as a reporter for Our Town Reno. I moved to Reno when I was 17 and fresh out of high school. I\\u2019m 24 now, and I\\u2019m getting ready to finish grad school in the next few weeks. I\\u2019ve spent seven years in the city, most of them around the University where I went to school, nestled in the suburban neighborhoods around Kings Row. \\n\\nIn the summer of 2019, I moved downtown, and the experience shocked me a little bit because I started to see how many people we\\u2019ve left behind as Reno grows and moves forward. Everybody who lives in Reno knows the city is evolving, we\\u2019ve heard the speeches from politicians and developers about the new Reno we\\u2019re looking to build, and we\\u2019ve heard the talking points about housing inequality and homelessness and how it\\u2019s a problem that needs to be fixed. And that\\u2019s the story we hear, but it\\u2019s not the real story. \\n\\nThe real stories aren\\u2019t told by numbers and statistics, they\\u2019re told by the people left without shelter in the shadows of luxury apartment buildings and giant offices, the people who can\\u2019t afford rent, the people who were put out on the street after the motel they lived in was torn down.\\n\\nThis is an audio diary of me reporting for Our Town Reno, from sleeping by railroad tracks to dealing with coronavirus while on the streets to failed bailout plans for small businesses.'