How Chicago's affordable housing
system perpetuates city's long
history of segregation
NBC News,
by
Safia Samee Ali
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/4/2021 9:58:21 PM
CHICAGO — Government-backed affordable housing in Chicago has largely been confined to majority-Black neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty over the last two decades, a design that has perpetuated the city's long history of segregation. As the neighborhoods faced rising divestment, gun violence and food deserts, the lack of affordable housing in other parts of the city restricted many people of color from leaving. But now, using its largest pot of federal housing funding, Chicago wants to chart a corrective path by aggressively pushing for more affordable homes in high-income, well-resourced areas, which housing experts say would unlock previously unavailable opportunities
Reply 1 - Posted by:
OhioNick 4/4/2021 10:10:25 PM (No. 744914)
The ultimate goal shouldn't be desegregation, it should be teaching life skills to a large group of people who have been on the public dole, for generations, ever since President Lyndon Johnson established the modern welfare state.
Want to escape poverty? Get a proper education at a non-government school, learn to speak proper English, don't give your children ridiculous, unpronounceable names, marry the father of your child, stop rotting your brain with rap music, stop worshiping athletes, drug dealers and rappers and, most importantly, abandon your victim mentality.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SALady 4/4/2021 10:12:30 PM (No. 744916)
Let's turn the nice neighborhoods into slums, and watch all the people with the money leave very quickly. And I don't just mean whites. All the middle-class and above blacks who worked so hard to escape the ghettos are not going to hang around and watch their new neighborhoods turned into the same cesspools of crime and drugs they escaped from
Lie-beralism turns everything it touches into poop. It already destroyed Detroit, now Chicago is in it's cross-hairs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/4/2021 10:19:04 PM (No. 744920)
NBC is not a factual source.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/4/2021 10:27:47 PM (No. 744921)
Move them into new neighborhoods and those neighborhoods will become slums. The whites will move away, and then what will Chicago do? I'd say let Chicago go down the rat hole, but this will be tried elsewhere.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ARob101 4/4/2021 10:35:31 PM (No. 744925)
When Dr. Ben Carson was over HUD, he and Senator Tim Scott of SC were working together on an inner city program that apparently had good success. After reading many of your posts I thought of today’s stereotypical “blacks.” I must say in all my years on this earth I have not meet that person. Oh I’ve seen the pictures of young blacks potting stores, but that certainly isn’t the norm where I live. Do you ever think the media is trying to brainwash us? Don’t you think the black communities are just as concerned about the depiction of their race as it is now? They believe that other races believe they’re all like that - take the record number of black men that voted for Trump as proof. The press is creating all this! They want us divided so illegals can be brought in to bankrupt our country. When we’re looking at that race, they are labor focused on destroying us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 4/4/2021 10:59:03 PM (No. 744937)
#5, you have clearly never lived in a town with a ghetto area. They are as bad, if not worse, than any stereotype you can find. Gangs, drugs, violence, fatherless children everywhere, no ambition and no drive except for the next "fix" or getting revenge on those who "dissed you" by wearing the wrong colors. My mother was a public health nurse back in the 1970's and early 1980's, who had to go into the "projects" in our home town. She finally had to quit when it just got too dangerous and she was threatened and verbally abused one time too many. And that was way over 40 years ago. It has gotten far worse since then thanks to the gangs and drugs (and Demon-Rat city "leaders"). Public health doesn't even dare go there any more.
This article is not talking about low-income neighborhoods. Many of the people in all of those areas (of all races) do care and want a better life. But not by a handout, but by hard work.
But that is clearly not who is going to get to move to the nice neighborhoods. It's the ghetto folks who will quickly bring crime and drugs and violence wherever they go.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Omen55 4/4/2021 11:03:14 PM (No. 744940)
Yes.
Lets move dem into those lefty hoods & watch dem embrace each other to show US they are not white supremacists.
We can start with those 2 girls who killed the Uber driver in DC.
I'm sure they throw a block party for dem.
Think of the nightly fun:)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/5/2021 1:16:42 AM (No. 744992)
What part of the adage "You can take the people out of the slums, but you can't take the slums out of the people" do Chicago leaders not understand?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/5/2021 1:33:02 AM (No. 744995)
It will provide ghetto residents with " previously unavailable opportunities". Yes, looting will be much more lucrative if they live in rich neighborhoods during the riots that occur the next time some black thug dies of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest.
And, oh by the way, NBC fails to point out Democrats are the ones giving all the affordable housing to black neighborhoods which has "perpetuated the city's long history of segregation." They did it on purpose to concentrate large voting blocks of Democrat votes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/5/2021 3:20:40 AM (No. 745006)
Chicago is run by criminal demonrats, so it's not surprising that blacks are forced into black housing projects.
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Couldn't bear to read all of it. Remember before going to Washington ValJar was head of Chicago slums. Not sure when it was posted here but there was an article about placing one of these people in a Chicago high rise among the wealthy.
I am in the community all the time. The government has set it up so if you succeed, benefits are cut off. Ferals spend their whole lives as tools for a bigger check. When they turn 18, you want them to get a job to support themselves. Doesn't take long to figure out selling drugs equals more money than Micky D's
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/5/2021 5:13:57 AM (No. 745026)
Not just Chicago. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/5/2021 7:32:28 AM (No. 745076)
Here in northern Mi, the state/feds (thanks Obama)will not let developers build high end subs unless they set aside a few acres of land for low income units. So far, so good in the sub -as far as outward appearances- but it's noisy with all the sirens round the clock.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
homefry 4/5/2021 7:40:05 AM (No. 745084)
Thats where dim-0s keep their blacks nowdays. Used to be slave shacks. Used to feed them chittling and collard greens, now they send them to the store with food stamps. The crop used to be cotton, now its votes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/5/2021 8:24:22 AM (No. 745137)
is NBC trying to put the final nail in the coffin of Chicago? A Demtard City, segregated? Impossible
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
downnout 4/5/2021 8:28:08 AM (No. 745141)
If you push low income housing into high income locales, the high income areas will become low income areas...and the cycle will continue.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/5/2021 9:16:56 AM (No. 745188)
Once 'good neighborhoods' going bad is an old story. I'm in my 70's have have seen it many times. It takes a few stolen cars, invasions and muggings to wake up and move out.
If you are young, ask your parents and grandparents.
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For one, how will low-income residents afford the stores in high-income neighborhoods? The prices are almost always higher. Also, it's mostly white liberals in the wealthier urban areas. They have largely kept the black residents fenced-in and away from their enclaves.