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Posted on 04/03/2023 4:24:39 PM PDT by dynachrome
Chicago residents are in uproar after the Obama Foundation's $500million new 'presidential center' caused a huge spike in property prices that forced many longstanding residents out of their homes.
The nonprofit founded by Barack and Michelle Obama told residents that the sprawling new build on Chicago's South Side will transform it and the surrounding neighborhoods - and provide local job opportunities.
But since the center was announced in 2015, median rents in the immediate vicinity have jumped a staggering 43 per cent, while house prices have risen 130 per cent.
The area is a historically black one, with many of those since forced to up sticks and move particularly upset at being booted from their homes thanks to the actions of the United States' first African-American president.
Among those who've been forced to move is Tahiti Hamer, 42.
The single mom-of-three had to leave the only neighborhood she'd ever lived in after her rent rocketed 40 per cent in 2021 - the same year construction started on the Obama Foundation's center.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Obama gentrification. He destroys everything he touches
Reparations are a bitch when they are given to a foreign invader...
Cry all you want...
No sympathy from me...
You made the bed...
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!! EMBRACE THE SUCK< you DUMBASS DEMOCRATS!!
Obamas cause gentrification.
No one cares.
Wow! Usually a house of ill repute has the opposite effect.
Enjoy the suck.
are these the same people that complained that they deserve reparations because their homes didn’t go up in value the same as the white neighborhoods (in the 1970’s) and thus they missed out on making generational wealth?
If you don’t like high taxes elect Republicans, but don’t complain when your house value goes up, that is AMAZING!!
Zero can help offset his self-worshipping temple.
Frankly, it’s retarded to have these lie-Braries for all our former presidents. There is a Library of Congress, we can keep all the crap there.
Rents going up? Why don’t they just get a beachfront place on Martha’s Vinyard?
I would have expected Obama moving into the neighborhood would have driven down prices.
Eat your peas.
Stalinist nightmare destroying the indigenous Black community.
The 0bamanation of desolation! “May his name and memory be erased!”
I bet the complainer from the headline idolized him and voted for him (at least) twice.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas!
That would be ill-advised.
They would lose their investment when the sea levels rise and swallow the place, in... 5 years, isn't it?
Another “save us from ourselves” story.
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