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'Can't stay anymore': Residents near new Obama Center fear being pushed out by gentrification
NBC 'News' via MSN ^ | 10/09/21 | Safia Samee

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: center; chicago; gentrification; hamer; hussein; illinois; lorilightfoot; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; obama; obamalegacy; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; presidentialcenter; safiasamee; slums; tahitihamer
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To: Libloather

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.

Do I really need a </s>


21 posted on 10/09/2021 4:24:53 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Libloather

Translation: We don’t want to live with people different than our own skin color.


22 posted on 10/09/2021 4:26:00 PM PDT by Salvavida (Even now, come Lord Jesus!)
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To: tflabo

Twice how about a half a dozen times each election


23 posted on 10/09/2021 4:35:52 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Bonemaker

Yeah, just follow who gets the contracts.
Then the top staffing jobs will all be filled by crony insiders when it’s built.


24 posted on 10/09/2021 4:37:33 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Libloather

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


25 posted on 10/09/2021 4:48:56 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: bwest

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.


26 posted on 10/09/2021 5:36:19 PM PDT by mcshot (OMG! Really? WTF! I don't think we're OK. Is that the drain I see? Oh noes!)
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To: Libloather

Streetview of the ‘hood:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7751678,-87.5888207,3a,75y,179.53h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXnCn9G-75lCVnzC-zl2Tng!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I suspect for the past 40 years every white person that walked on the street wore blue.


27 posted on 10/09/2021 5:36:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Libloather

Some new townhouses:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.776067,-87.5891347,3a,75y,194.93h,102.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srHpp0jkVRNltpw4ZH1TVfA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

There’s lots of vacant land to build more.


28 posted on 10/09/2021 5:39:10 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Libloather

This new housing has got to be “affordable”:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7764869,-87.5907969,3a,75y,52.96h,85.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHe782eKFNmyz-pS1QkIH0A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


29 posted on 10/09/2021 5:41:09 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Libloather

There’s more than enough room for any rich folks that would want to live in the ‘hood:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7764869,-87.5907969,3a,75y,162.14h,77.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHe782eKFNmyz-pS1QkIH0A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


30 posted on 10/09/2021 5:43:37 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Libloather
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.

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.

31 posted on 10/09/2021 9:58:13 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: Libloather

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.


32 posted on 10/09/2021 11:52:59 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Bonemaker

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?


33 posted on 10/09/2021 11:54:29 PM PDT by qaz123
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Follow The $$$$$


34 posted on 10/10/2021 10:45:28 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Gentrification is an irredeemably racist term, figures it would be used by NBC.

35 posted on 10/30/2021 8:26:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dforest
The purpose of a Presidential Library is NOT to 'help' the neighborhood.

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...

36 posted on 10/30/2021 9:08:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (If liberty means anything ...it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Orwell)
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To: Libloather

Where ever Obama goes ... turds.
This poor lady just got one deposited in her punch bowl.


37 posted on 10/30/2021 9:10:43 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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