Monday, November 3, 2008

The Battle For Wilson Yard

The student newspaper of Truman College has a great front page story on Wilson Yard. Check out the .pdf of the entire October edition here.

11 comments:

  1. I was hoping the name of their paper would be something amusing like "The Truman Tattler".

    Oh well I hope the parking lot Truman is getting with TIF money works out for everyone.

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  2. Preferential treatment will be given to those who have been forced out of Uptown due to gentrification?

    Has Ms. Odell been hitting the pipe, or is she willfully ignorant?

    Does she not know that there is already an agreement to give preferential treatment to displaced CHA residents who are not from Uptown?

    The Alderbeast and her minions just keep saying the same things over and over, hoping that one day their statements will become truth. Either that, or they hope they can shovel the shit just long enough to make the truth not matter.

    The ends always justify the means.

    I like to call it the Bush/McCain/Palin method of public policy advocacy.

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  3. I find it odd when I come across people who distort the facts in order to promote their cause. If a reason to promote a cause must be distorted, what does that say about the cause?

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  4. I like to call it the Bush/McCain/Palin method of public policy advocacy.

    Yikes, talk about a "reach". I could say the same thing about the Dems and their rattling for "Healthcare for all" or "gun control".

    Please leave national politics out of this discussion.

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  5. Colin:

    Who left you in charge of what I can and can't post here?

    If and when I get censored, it will be by the moderators of this blog, and not you.

    But thanks for your concern nonetheless.

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  6. I'm not in charge. I asked nicely to leave national politics off this post.

    You're assertion that this is like "Bush/McCain/Palin" is a reach, at best.

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  7. *I find it odd when I come across people who distort the facts in order to promote their cause. If a reason to promote a cause must be distorted, what does that say about the cause?*

    James did you come up with that yourself? That is a great quote!

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  8. Yvonne Odell, assistant to Ald. Helen Shiller ... displayed a book with contact information for approximately 50 people. Odell said the names are only part of a waiting list for the new development, claiming she had many more names “filed” elsewhere in the Alderman’s office.

    "preferential treatment" for those forced out of Uptown is bizarre enough, but consider this broader question:

    why is an alderman, an elected legislator, a member of the legislative branch of local govt, maintaining the waiting list for a nominally "private" housing development?

    seems like our City Dept. of Housing or the private developer Holsten might be more appropriate for that task

    to this j student Shiller's asst exposed the quid pro quo of subsidized housing development in Chicago's neighborhoods: in return for support in securing public taxpayer subsidies the alderman gets to dole out the grand prizes

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  9. the 178 winners of this property taxpayer funded Grand Prize Game, will not necessarily be the most needy of our neighbors, but will surely be those deemed most deserving by a Chicago alderman, by whatever criteria that alderman chooses

    this is a consequence of the "privatization" of public housing championed by this project: less oversight

    if HUD had not pulled out, federal guidelines for eligibility would apply and political line-jumping would be more difficult

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  10. alderman maintaining waiting lists for publicly-subsidized housing projects is not unique to WY, it is endemic in Chicago wards

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  11. say you're helping plan for an elderly relative, and you notice a senior high rise going up in your neighborhood, and from your civic involvement you happen to know it is City subsidized

    so you call your alderman, if you are a considered a friendly, you will be put on their list, if not you will be told to call the developer or the City, good luck

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