“We Are All at Risk of Getting Displaced”: Woodlawn Residents and Local Organizations Host Town Hall to Protest Gentrification – Chicago Maroon

Don’t think Woodlawn will ever compare to existing Northside housing-stock in regards to potential attractiveness for future yuppie-homeowners. Woodlawn’s existing housing stock and blocks of vacant lots have zero appeal to those feared “gentrifiers”. Are these Woodlawn activists fearful of POC CPS teachers and city employees purchasing homes there? Obama doesn’t even live in his own mansion in “gentrified” Kenwood. (Does that property still have homeowners tax-exemption status?) Nope, he lives in his mansion in ultra-wealthy neighborhood in DC, has his estate in Martha’s Vineyard – no mixing with the riff-raff yuppie-types. Obama Center itself serves as no magnet for… Read more »

Protesting gentrification is like protesting lower crime, more amenities, more grocery stores, less riff-raff, better schools and safer streets. And ultimately, safer neighborhoods attract more diversity (of skin color and identity, not of thought or ideas!) Anti-gentrification literally makes no sense. Unless you think about it from the angle of race (as our Democrat counter-parts always do). They don’t want white, brown or yellow people moving in ‘their’ neighborhood. Just like in the 1950’s, the whites didn’t want blacks moving into Woodlawn, in 2021, blacks don’t want any other colors moving back in. They say rents will increase (they have… Read more »