Taxpayer money set aside to curb white flight helped some flee city - Chicago Sun-Times

Taxpayer money set aside to curb white flight helped some flee city - Chicago Sun-Times


Such a shame our government does thing in such a underhanded way. That money could have been used for hiring more police, fire, rebuilding schools, and our streets.

The apparent thing that concerns them is "White Flight" and not creating jobs. Creating jobs is the key for diversified neighborhoods all around this country, Yet we let these elected officials, and bottom line corporate big wigs do backroom deals and ship those jobs overseas. They then turn around and cut funding for much needed things like fully staffed police, fire, social services, and teachers. Meanwhile they throw money at people selling homes that normally would not sell, if they had jobs in such community's.

Talk about some ass-backwards, underhanded fleecing of taxpayers, all for stopping a particular race from selling a home where they have zero prospects of finding gainful employment. Put the jobs back into the community's and people would rather fix up their homes, as opposed to selling them. And by the way, some of that money could have been put towards building affordable housing. imagine the jobs that would have created.