“When you can fast-track a luxury hotel — while everyone around that hotel lives in blight, knowing that that’ll raise the price to push them out — you’re intentionally trying to gentrify a neighborhood,” said Dixon Romeo, an organizer with the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition.
That’s not a problem, let’s just build a coalition or faith leaders, community leaders, local representatives and other interested grifters, fund a giant project to study the impact, file suit and start a program that pays for the rent or better yet, the mortgages, of all the people impacted by such a gentrification intrusion. It should only cost the tax payers $10 to $20M for the study and $500M annually. Pocket change. This approach should provide the Democratic representatives a deep opportunity for the needed money laundering, graft, hand-outs and patronage jobs that are part of the fabric of living… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
That’s not a problem, let’s just build a coalition or faith leaders, community leaders, local representatives and other interested grifters, fund a giant project to study the impact, file suit and start a program that pays for the rent or better yet, the mortgages, of all the people impacted by such a gentrification intrusion. It should only cost the tax payers $10 to $20M for the study and $500M annually. Pocket change. This approach should provide the Democratic representatives a deep opportunity for the needed money laundering, graft, hand-outs and patronage jobs that are part of the fabric of living… Read more »