Posted on 10/09/2021 3:28:43 PM PDT by Libloather
CHICAGO - Less than 3 miles from where former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama broke ground last week on their long-awaited presidential center on the South Side of Chicago, Tahiti Hamer lies awake at night thinking about the limited time she and her family have left in the neighborhood where she's lived her whole life.
Following the announcement of the center in 2015, neighborhoods adjacent to the 19-acre planned site have seen skyrocketing rents and housing prices, and Hamer, 42, a single mother of three, is one of several facing displacement.
Hamer, a teacher at a local YMCA, said she’s tried to buy a home for the last two years, but it’s been out of reach in her neighborhood. She found a house she could afford 12 miles south.
“I do not want to leave. I want to stay, but I’m barely keeping my head above water now,” she said. Hamer’s rent has gone up from $800 to $1,000, and she said her landlord has already told her there’s another $100 hike coming because the area is “coming back up."
“It’s sad that the place that I’ve lived my whole life I can’t stay in anymore," she said. "And once I leave, it will be impossible to ever come back. It's the same story with so many people in this community."
Despite the Obama Presidential Center being built for the benefit of historically underprivileged communities of color, housing experts say without timely and robust housing protections, it may become a catalyst for displacement, pushing out the residents it intended to help.
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By Whom? I mean, seriously, BY WHOM?
They never intended to help anyone. So much bullsheet is hard to take.
“Despite the Obama Presidential Center being built for the benefit” of historically underprivileged communities of color, housing experts say without timely and robust housing protections, it may become a catalyst for displacement, pushing out the residents it intended to help.”
Obama never intends to help anyone, he just uses them for cover, MSN idiots.
I hope they put a life sized sasquatch statue in it.
“I hope they put a life sized sasquatch statue in it.”
Of course Michelle will be there!
I would suggest they all install picket fences gates that flip off the library.
Five boards with a prominent middle board.
What I was wondering as well.
“All this for a Kenyan Socialist Islamic Sympathizer?”
Guess who is going to make a killing on all this? (Hint: democrat politicians and connected scum).
What’s the matter? Don’t these people want to give up their property to the massa’ for his plantation?
“Despite the Obama Presidential Center being built for the benefit of historically underprivileged communities of color,”
Propaganda much?
It’s the OBAMA LIEBRARTY.....it will be a SLUM in NO TIME!!
I bet the vast majority of those residents voted twice for that charlatan. Enjoy the suck.
How many voted for the asshat?
Obama has never been a member of the black community.
He has been a privileged one percenter leftist.
“Despite the Obama Presidential Center being built for the benefit of historically underprivileged communities of color..”
Gentrification will just bring the prey closer to the hood so the brothers don’t have to go to the north side for carjackings, robberies, rapes etc.
One might consider “gentrification” to be associated with Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota boy and his corrupt, sordid, and quite loathsome associates - not to even mention the most vile of all - the media. To consider that “gentrification” is to consider placing one of those odor generators into a toilet to be removing the stink.
The obama’s hate everyone including trees
So they hate Gore double
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