Jenny Justice
http://socialistworker.org/2011/04/22/kicked-out
This is some of the groundwork behind what is now happening to Benton Harbor,- good books to read on this issue, and the topic of revanchist gentrification, are Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day, and Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block. What happened in Chicago - via city-wide plan to reform public housing, that was actually intended to take away lakefront land and homes from the poor and the black so that the rich and the white could have access to that prime real estate, - is exactly what the GOP plans for Benton Harbor, and whatever lake front town is next, - they want the water, they want it all.
This is some of the groundwork behind what is now happening to Benton Harbor,- good books to read on this issue, and the topic of revanchist gentrification, are Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day, and Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block. What happened in Chicago - via city-wide plan to reform public housing, that was actually intended to take away lakefront land and homes from the poor and the black so that the rich and the white could have access to that prime real estate, - is exactly what the GOP plans for Benton Harbor, and whatever lake front town is next, - they want the water, they want it all.
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In 2002, Socialist Worker reported on the Chicago's "Plan for Transformation" of public housing and talked to residents about its impact.
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