Posted on 12/31/2021 4:02:11 AM PST by Libloather
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“I’m ecstatic about the Presidential Center’s location in Woodlawn, especially since Obama was our first African American president,” said Woodlawn homeowner John Odom in an interview with The Maroon during the town hall. “I just hope he doesn’t unintentionally displace his own African American community and cause an influx of Gold Coast residents. 63rd Street was once a thriving, safe African American community, and I would like to see the Obama library bring back some of that.”
Patricia Tatum, a longtime Woodlawn homeowner and former nurse at UChicago Medicine, suspects that rising property taxes and pressure from land developers may force residents such as herself to leave the community. She feels that government officials such as Mayor Lightfoot are apathetic to these threats and are willing to displace residents in favor of development.
“We should have a voice in what happens. Our vision isn't [the mayor’s] vision. Our vision is to have a diverse community that includes everyone that is here who wants to stay here,” Tatum told The Maroon.
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Brown also said that the University should pay reparations to surrounding South Side communities for its history of gentrification by funding affordable housing.
“The University is greatly responsible for displacing folks, and so they should be doing their fair share if they want to live in the community and receive its benefits. If they're going to continue to bring in things in the community that further pushes residents at a disadvantage, they need to do something to counter that.”
Since May 2015, UChicago has helped plan and fund the construction of the Obama Presidential Center. Construction on the Center began this past August.
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If there was ever a monument that should be torn down.
One more reason not to go to Chicago.
These people are out of their minds if they think Woodlawn will be back as a thriving African American Community. 63rd and Stoney Island is about as ghetto as it gets.
The Obummer site will not change anything.
As long as they stay in their general area and don’t move into the good parts of Illinois, that’s fine. They can believe anything they want about their savior.
If you look on Google maps, 63rd and Stoney Island (a terrible neighborhood ... I used to live on Blackstone just north of The Midway), the Obozo site is relatively small. You can seen the construction. What is the concern? Jackson Park used to be a wonderful park in the 40s and 50s. But playing golf is Jackson Park was always a risky business (robbery or worse was always in the cards). I despise Obama and used to see him on campus (what a smug creep), but worrying about building on a small spot in Jackson Park causing gentrification is nuts. Just get on Stoney Island and take a drive (even on Google Maps). With a decent mayor you might see gentrification, but with people leaving Chicago in droves, I sincerely doubt it is a problem.
“Brown also said that the University should pay reparations to surrounding South Side communities for its history of gentrification by funding affordable housing.” Hyde Park was a singular mess prior to UofChicago buying land and destroying the tenements and bars. It was a sewer and the university cleaned it up. There was only one bar remaining (Jimmy’s) when I lived there and a few have opened since. But it went from run-down tenement buildings to decent area. Safe? We were robbed several times and my wife got robbed at the local co-op. We eventually fled to the burbs. So, reparations should be made for cleaning up an area? This is getting insane.
My daughter lives on Woodlawn. 61st street. They are in a co-op so rising rent is not an issue, but recently while waiting to pick up her son from daycare witnessed a street shooting right in front of her in broad daylight. You have to go block by block in that part of town, some quite stable and safe, some bad “Indian country.” According to her, the Indian country is spreading and this monstrosity of obama’s is making things worse. Needless to say they are pulling up stakes asap and will be out of there in another month or so.
California City Giving Blacks Housing For ‘Theft’ Of Homes To Build Highways
Breitbart ^ | 12-31-2021 | Penny Starr
Posted on 12/31/2021, 8:37:03 AM by blam
The California city of Santa Monica is offering housing to black families that owned homes in the path of Interstate 10 and other urban renewal projects built in the 1950s.
Beginning in January, those former residents and their descendants will receive “priority access to apartments with below-market rents in the hopes that they’ll come back to the coastal city in Los Angeles County.”
Nichelle Monroe, who said in a Sacramento Bee article that her grandparents were forced out of the Pico neighborhood, said she doesn’t think the program goes far enough. She wants help buying a home of her choice.
“But what else is there?” Monroe said. “The theft is still there. The generational wealth is still gone.”
The Bee reported on the history of “racist harms related to housing and property” in California infrastructure projects:
Santa Monica’s act of civic penance is an attempt to recognize the harm done to largely black communities during the post-World War II era of freeway building and urban renewal, the [Los Angeles] Times said. The program is part of a nationwide movement to compensate residents for racist harms related to housing and property. In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that authorized the return of shorefront land known as Bruce’s Beach to the descendants of a black couple who were run out of Manhattan Beach nearly a century ago.
Affordable housing will also be available for families removed when they city bulldozed another Black area, Belmar Triangle, to build the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Children and grandchildren of those who were displaced will be eligible. Some 600 families lost their homes when Interstate 10 was built through the Pico neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The city program initially will be open to 100 displaced families or their descendants...
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“63rd Street was once a thriving, safe African American community,”
Safe community. I’m sure the crime rate will sky rocket once the rich white people move in.
“Sounds like that community could use some organizin’.”
Would make a good Babylon Bee story:
“Barak Obama goes back to what he’s best at, community organizing - this time to protest the Obama Center planned for Chicago”
Used to take Stoney to the Skyway when the Ryan was backed up - it got too damn dangerous.
Also we would take the Skyway to Stoney Island when we went to the Science and Industry Museum - not no more - it is just too risky.
Why not build his shrine where he lives on Martha’s Vineyard?
What’s the opposite of gentrification?
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/04/03/chicagos-disappearing-middle-class/
“… Some 600 families lost their homes when Interstate 10 was built through the Pico neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Times….”
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So will the tens of thousands of OTHER families displaced (and, just like the Pico families, financially reimbursed at the time their property was take) along the length and breadth of the interstate 10 also be allowed to DOUBLE-DIP financially?
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