[Peace-discuss] Fw: [Announce] Bristol Place Relocation Plan on the agenda at this Tuesday's Champaign City Council Meeting

[David Johnson]

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From: "Jesse Phillippe" <japhillippe at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:20 PM
Subject: [Announce] Bristol Place Relocation Plan on the agenda at this 
Tuesday's Champaign City Council Meeting


> This Tuesday at 8 PM, the Champaign City Council will be voting on the
> Bristol Place Relocation Plan and Intergovernmental Agreement.
>
> Please come and voice your opinion about the relocation of people who
> will be displaced by the city's plan to demolish an entire
> neighborhood and develop it into "mixed income" housing (the famous
> term for the more expensive housing that has replaced the demolished
> Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, after which many people are
> still displaced).
>
> Encourage the city to put funds into making repairs to existing
> residences where they are needed, not into displacing people by
> demolishing an entire neighborhood and redeveloping it into a so
> called "Mixed Income" neighborhood.
> The city may have already made deals with the developers, but we can
> still voice our opinions and opposition to gentrification.
>
> It is only the voices of the community that can force the city to
> remain accountable in this whole process: relocation, public housing
> vouchers, etc...
>
> Come out and show your opposition to unjust displacement of poor
> people in a largely minority community.
>
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