Posted on 12/13/2021 4:47:41 PM PST by Libloather
The ongoing, and years-long, fight over the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is heating up. Activists recently released a new set of demands for the project aimed at combating gentrification.
They aren’t protesting the center itself, but are working to stop development from displacing them.
“We’re not against the center,” Dixon Romeo, an organizer with the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition, told Insider. He added that South Shore residents were among those who sent Obama to Springfield as an Illinois senator and later the White House.
“The issue is if you’re not investing in community members and the costs are going up, there’s nothing in place for folks to stay, it becomes harder for folks to live there,” he added
Even though residents of the South Shore neighborhood voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat both in 2008 and 2012, they stand to lose their homes should the project cause rents and home prices to skyrocket even further.
Their demands include developing affordable housing from the city-owned vacant lots in a neighborhood whose residents are predominantly low-income and Black, as well as allocating money to the Chicago Low-Income Trust Fund for subsidized units in the area.
The coalition is also calling for expanded tenant protections, including the establishment of a Tenant Opportunity to Purchase program, and greater Fair Notice protections.
These measures would shield tenants from arbitrary punishment.
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You reap what you sow.
The phrase ‘useful idiot’ suddenly comes to mind . . .
I’m going to fix some popcorn and cheer for a long violent battle
Plenty of foolish white women helped get him elected.
Maybe they can persuade Biden to designate the Chicago slums as a National Historic Site so that they will be a perpetual source of deluded Democrat voters. The activists don’t want prosperity or they would lose out on all of their grift.
I have a daughter in Chicago, lives near this area. She said residential property rents have already begun to go through the roof and longtime residents, many black, are being forced out. Typical of the Stalinesque mentality of today’s totalitarian left.
“Even though residents of the South Shore neighborhood voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat both in 2008 and 2012, they stand to lose their homes should the project cause rents and home prices to skyrocket even further.”
Delicious irony. Unintended consequences. “Shut up and eat your peas!”
Real estate prices going to the stratosphere is happening all over the country. Big lib state money from California and Washington is flowing into the Inland Northwest. Everywhere you look, locals are getting squeezed out because of soaring property taxes.
Answer to the Blazing Saddles question from the new sheriff about their whereabouts is "They're at the polls voting Dem."
Come on people. Women loved the Kennedys but did Chappaquiddik stop them? Obama at least kept his pants on. With Michelle I’d have a hard time staying straight.
LOL. These people want their cut. It’s the mafia, just right out there in public. But it’s OK, because they are “people of color”. 😂
“Not an authentic black. “
Obama’s presidential library should be nothing more than an overturned porta-potty in the middle of the interstate highway.
0bama got elected because the other choice was Romney. Ugh. And no, I didn’t vote for either.
Suckers...
Obama does not care about black people. His seaside destination is WASPy Martha's Vineyard, and not Jamaica or Haiti.
What hubris! Could you imagine Jimmy Carter building a bejeweled Taj Mahal to himself? It's funny how liberals demand our money to give to others, but use their own money for temples of prideful sloth to themselves.
Obama got elected because BOTH parties wanted the natural born citizen clause neutered.
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