Residents protest hotel proposal near Obama Center amid nearly $500 rent hikes – NBC5 (Chicago)

“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.
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Daskoterzar
1 year ago

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 »

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