NO MORE CONDOS! Woodlawn Community Resists Gentrification

Members of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) + People Of Woodlawn took to the streets in downtown Chicago to protest the exclusion of low-income residents from neighborhood planning, leading to rampant gentrification and displacement. The New Communities Program, controlled in Woodlawn by the University of Chicago and its partner groups the Woodlawn Preservation + Investment Corporation and The Woodlawn Organization (TWO), has cut out the majority of the community and rubber stamped the gentrification already taking place. At the same time TWO was working on the New Communities Program and making claims to valuing affordability, they were trying to kick out 100 tenants from 5 subsidized buildings they own for a condo conversion. Tenants fought back and stopped the condo conversion and are organizing to take over their complex. This is the news coverage of one of their biggest actions in the campaign.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• New
• Communities
• Program
• NCP
• STOP
• protest
• Chicago
• Daley
• Woodlawn

[WayOutWardell]

New condos of today will become the poorly maintained tenements of tomorrow. The historic cycle of neighborhood boom and collapse will continue until planners, developers and city leaders realize this fact.

The boom that brought hotels and apartment buildings to Woodlawn in the early 1900s turned into overcrowded and ultimately blighted conditions by the 1950s.

[IBMeddling]

South side is known for houses. Not coundos.

[OccupyBrickCity]

@8House They usually end up in Suburbs outside the city.

[roughcoat09]

They are Racists!

[8House]

The long time residents of Woodlawn are screwed. The giant broom of gentrification will sweep them out. Who knows where they will end up? Cities are no longer for poor or working people. Just people with means. It's ironic isn't it? First the middle class was swept away and now the poor get their turn.

[Nacho773]

Condos do nothing for the people in the community.

Just for the flow of money in the community.

[HardBodyNyC]

Ha Williamsburg Brooklyn is the epicenter of gentrification in America. You dont have it that bad woodlawn.

[again2021]

Nothing will stop condos from being built because nothing will stop mayors and governers from wanting to attract a richer crowd who can afford these places. This will surely help bring in money to fund schools hospitals and other resources cities depend on. Other people have been warned of change, and others have ignored it, But time waits for no one.

[newyorklost]

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