They are barking up the wrong tree. When it comes to "the folks", there is only one bloviating expert:
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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They are barking up the wrong tree. When it comes to "the folks", there is only one bloviating expert:
This woman is a worthless journalist, just worthless.
You piqued my interest so I looked up the Obama Presidential Library. Your description is spot on. Good grief ‼️
If the library is surrounded by the hood, visitors will stay away in droves.
If they own their house how do they get forced out?
HAHAHAHA. Sorry to say it but you blacks who supported this grifting Kenyan are idiots. You actually thought he cared about anything but his Marxist revolution. Did you not read his own books? Wake up black Americans. You are the democrats marxists’ pawns. You are treated worse then hookers. They use you and spit you out like a tissue. Obama will get his monument to his ego, and you will look at it and marvel at Obama’s greatness, or not. He doesn’t care.
They had New Orleans gentrified as well with liberal whites, and now many of those welfarians are here in the suburbs. or moved into other parts of Louisiana or Texas such as Houston.
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