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Posted on 02/25/2026 8:17:09 AM PST by Libloather
As former President Barack Obama’s namesake foundation prepares to roll out the welcome mat to huge crowds of tourists flocking to the South Side when the Obama Presidential Center opens its doors in a few months, it is promoting Airbnb, a company with close ties to the Obama family that has faced international protests for its impact on local rents and housing supply.
“(We’re) committed to making sure that South Side residents and entrepreneurs are ready to take full advantage of this influx of new visitors,” Valerie Jarrett, CEO of the Obama Foundation, said in a December release announcing a series of community tourism prep sessions.
But for residents and organizers who have fretted about gentrification in Woodlawn and South Shore and pressed for housing protections since Obama announced Jackson Park as the site of his museum in 2016, the Obama organization pitching more short-term rentals as a good way to deal with tourism adds to their conviction that the center will exacerbate housing shortages and raise rents.
Ald. Desmon Yancy, 5th, worries about a future in which large numbers of short-term rentals become part of the landscape near the Obama center. He said he’s already seen outside investors snap up units in buildings where condo associations have dissolved.
If landlords and investors see so-called home sharing as more lucrative than renting, “it could make the community more transient, because you’ll have folks who’ll be seeking this additional income and, probably because property taxes are so high, they need the money,” Yancy said. The most recent round of residential bills went up 49% in Woodlawn compared with the year before, and 36% in South Shore.
“We already know there’s a shortage of stock..."
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LOL…” huge crowds of tourists flocking to the Obama flak tower.” Sure.
I wonder what the Soros budget has allocated to hire “visitors” to this laughable monument to hate and incompetence.
Not really convinced it will be the tourist attraction they are claiming it will be, but eh, maybe there are that many rubes in the world.
0 and the mooch were always yappin about the environment. That would include being fake tree huggers.
Who are they kidding? The Obama flak tower, I predict, will have few visitors from out of town. Birds will like it, I suppose.
All that raised laundered money’s going to the Demorats. Another scam job on the people.
That hideous building looks like it was built by an architect with dyslexia.
(flocking to the South Side)
I just bought a new Metallic Pea Family Truckster
We’ll get sandwiches 🥪🥪🥪 at the gas station ⛽⛽⛽
There was ample room in a rather featureless park west of the Midway. But this is the site of the historic Columbia Exposition of 1892, when modern America made her debut to the world. Naturally Obama was obsessed with erasing the last vestiges of the Frederick Law Olmsted- designed lakeshore park and the connection to America’s history.
I think it’s a great looking building...for a multi-story outhouse.
Influx of visitors?
Well, if Bammy is counting on me, he better not keep the light on.
What’s the over under on it providing the call to prayer 5 times a day?
How many visitors will want to stay overnight near there. This Obama center is in a bad neighborhood.
Will the presence of the Obama center generate gentrification?
If only Mike Royko were still around to write about it!
All the unions will force members to attend. Teachers, SEIU, Teamsters, AFSCME, etc....Schools will provide bus trips, yadda, yadda.
What is the over/under on the number of shootings during the ribbon cutting?
I hear there is a replica of Valerie Jarret’s command bunker inside the library, in the basement.
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