Posted on 11/28/2021 8:35:42 AM PST by Salman
Yolanda Anderson had owned a property gem in Austin for decades before she had no other choice but to put it up for sale.
She didn’t want to do it, but when she was unsuccessful in securing funding to do extensive renovations on the pink-and-white Victorian — a marvel among passersby — she had no other choice. When the house sold in March, she moved her family to Oak Park, where they rent a condominium.
“We really put our all into it,” Anderson said. “We reached out to the mayor, to our alderman, and there’s just no help for situations such as ours.”
Many Black Chicagoans have made the decision to move out of the city after finding it difficult to justify living in neighborhoods that have been stripped of amenities and resources for its residents. The city lost 85,000 Black residents between 2010 and 2020, according to census data.
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Anyone who can move out, will move out.
Austin and Englewood are probably the worst neighborhoods in Chicago. They lead he city in murders and violent crime.
To officials: Records show 43 cemeteries are located in Chicago. Try searching there. Or save walking to cemetery offices and just check the current active Dem. voter registration list online. Nobody ever leaves that one.
So... who’s living there?!
Disinvestment. No one wants to have a business in these neighborhoods and all of Chicago outside the condo and walled and gated communities, especially since police protection has been significantly reduced and stores have a tendency to autoconflagrate. The people keep voting for the politicians who condone riots and hobble the police, though in Chicago it is likely that if they suddenly began to vote for a different set of people the official vote count would register the same Democrat thieves and moonbats as “winners.”
Looks like many vacant lots and boarded up buildings.
Maybe they weren’t really there. Fraud in 2010 ?
Gone but not forgotten and they still vote.
That doesn’t look like the YMCA...
On behalf of Yolanda’s new Oak Park neighbors, let’s hope she maintains her new home better than the dump she is now living in.
LOL it fits no pun but so does your handle.
Born and raised in Austin area, we had two catholic grammar schools one block from each other in the 1960’s on my street. White flight was a real factor in the decline of the old neighborhood. The new arrivals didn’t maintain their homes and their kids were predatory animals.
Maybe this woman could’ve gotten some help to fix up her Victorian “mansion “ if she didn’t paint it up like a whorehouse.
moving on up ... it’s what America is all about ...
My Mom and Dad did the same thing when we were growing up in a wretched neighborhood. It was “Ok” growing up during pre-teen but as teens, the area just went downhill fast. They knew the trend and moved us a FAR better and safer neighborhood.
The bigger question is where are those homeys who moved out and did/will they bring their ghetto mentality else where?
You can get them out of the ghetto, but you can't get the ghetto out of them.
any sane person is trying to get the hell out of Chicago...
(there have been several quite nice predominantly-black neighborhoods (Chicago has always been quite segregated, like WashDC), with thousands of good people. but these, along with the rest of Chicago, are being dragged down seriously by the politicians...
just as Chicago’s Sears Roebuck was destroyed by its management, Chicago city is being destroyed by its “leadership”
and yes, this hurts everybody in town (not just the “one percent”)
It is a crying shame.
of course they bring their ghetto attitude with them..That’s why safe neighborhoods go downhill so quickly.......
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