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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These people clearly don’t understand “the big picture”. Individual sacrifices must be made so that the proper people can have what they deserve.
Ungrateful, I’d say.
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Translation: We don’t want to live with people different than our own skin color.
Twice how about a half a dozen times each election
Yeah, just follow who gets the contracts.
Then the top staffing jobs will all be filled by crony insiders when it’s built.
The measuring criteria for success for democrats is how high you can go by doing as little for others as possible. Obama and Biden are the best
The problem is the media and sheep just can’t identify that “lady” Michele is Big Mike. We were being screwed from the beginning and they won’t let up. Example: those trees killed for these dudes.
Streetview of the ‘hood:
I suspect for the past 40 years every white person that walked on the street wore blue.
Some new townhouses:
There’s lots of vacant land to build more.
This new housing has got to be “affordable”:
There’s more than enough room for any rich folks that would want to live in the ‘hood:
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.
Step 1: Keep your legs together
Step 2: Go on birth control
Step 3: get an education so you can get a job that’ll support you & your kids.
Ahhhh, liberals and hipsters. They love everyone so much that they have no problem running folks out of their homes. Same thing is happening in Boise.
Make you wonder how many of those properties are owned by him and Jarrett, through summit corps.
Wasn’t she reported to be some big time slumlord back in the day?
Follow The $$$$$
Gentrification is an irredeemably racist term, figures it would be used by NBC.
For whatever it's worth this section of Chicago was once white, high class and an expensive area to live in... Hyde Park still has mansions build by white Americans ... so boo hoo.... there's an ebb and flow to ... to cities, to neighborhoods - to life.
God willing the neighborhood will become middle class - home to all races...
Where ever Obama goes ... turds.
This poor lady just got one deposited in her punch bowl.
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