Comments on: Where’s the bailout for the poor?

By: tyrone

tyrone — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:23:29 +0000

I was saddened when I read the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday Dec, 13 article “City cites progress in public housing overhaul” paean Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago for progress in overhauling public housing. Life was once so beautiful for me and exciting (like so many other former residents before displacement) when I received my first apartment as a freshman in college at Northeastern Illinois University as a single male parent and leaseholder in the now demolished Robert Taylor Homes on the State Street Corridor. When the overhauling of public housing first took place, I like so many other residents begin to question the Mayor’s and City of Chicago motives for it. I wondered what would happen to me and all of my other neighbors who lived there. Where would we go? Now after 10 years, while the City of Chicago were over at the ‘University of Illinois at Chicago’ for two days boasting about the progress of the overhauling with politicians, HUD Officials, Lawyers and a few handpicked residents chosen with a fine tooth comb telling their story of success and change like Crystal Palmer–which got her hand greased by the mayor being given a hush hush job working for the redevelopment company who rebuilt Abla Homes as Westhaven in –which she supposed to be the resident leader of. Yeah right, some kind of progress from the mayor. I know where alot of my neighbors went. Right here in the homeless shelter sleeping in the next bed to me. Moving from homeless shelter to homeless shelters as time run out, we are now competing for beds over carts or the floor. I was also appalled also that as a former graduate of U.I.C.s Great Cities “Urban Developer’s Program” , I was uninvited because I was going to raise the issue of 12,000 homeless children attending the Chicago Public School from shelters like mine. Being traumatized and teased at school by other students because they have no place to call home since the public housing overhaul. I would just like to thank Mayor Daley and the Chicago Housing Authority for their 10 years of progress in overhauling Chicago public housing children from a bed at home to a homeless shelter cart. This corruption has to be stopped by the people. Especially when you see the U.S. Attornet General Eric Holder having lunch with the Mayor at A Hotel instead of meeting with the public as its servant.

By: Claire Bushey

Claire Bushey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:04 +0000

“Where’s our bailout?” What an excellent, pointed question. It gets to the heart of the matter rather nicely.

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:31:24 +0000

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By: iamhumanrights

iamhumanrights — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:47:17 +0000

1 Strike and your out in America? If not explain Lenise Forrest situation? What would be the purpose of evicting someone out of public housing if the City will eventually have to find them housing(homeless prevention programs,shelters,rental assistance, ARRA funds).
Would a debt forgiveness program work in public housing after someone filed bankruptcy?