Quantcast
Channel: RHPolitics
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4207

"A low-income senior living center in downtown Detroit’s Capitol Park district will be converted to..."

$
0
0
“A low-income senior living center in downtown Detroit’s Capitol Park district will be converted to market-rate apartments under the new owner’s plan. A new partnership called 1214 Griswold Apartments LLC, created by developer Richard Broder of the Broder & Sachse real estate firm in Birmingham, recently purchased the 127-unit, 12-story residential building. In a statement issued by a public relations firm, the partnership said current residents of the senior center were given a one-year’s notice on March 29 that their current U.S. Housing & Urban Development Section 8 rent assistance vouchers for living there would expire in one year on March 31, 2014. Until then, the statement read, “The owners are working closely with HUD and Wingate, the property managers, to ensure all residents are fully informed of their options, the Section 8 program voucher process and available resources.””

-

Griswold Apartments low-income housing to be redeveloped | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

so—this is the *FIFTH* housing space in the cass corridor area that has been bought up in the past month or so. all low income/senior housing—all bought up to kick people out. limited paper trails on who is buying all this land/space up is making it hard for people to understand what is going on, but the most prevalent rumor is that this area is where the Illitches (who own the tigers/red wings) want their new hockey rink/entertainment zone.

poor and old people are being given from one month to one year to find new homes while on section 8—and they are being “informed of their options.” 

this is “progress.” this is “development.” this is what the white suburbs and business owners “dream” for detroit. #OpportunityDetroit, y’all. the destruction of communities—so that white people have a “safe” place where they can puke alcohol and pee on the sidewalks on the weekends. 

not only is this gentrification, land grabbing, resource hording, and white supremacist heteropatriarchy—but this is also just the most self-centered, selfish, egotistical, mean thing i’ve ever seen. white folks are nothing but pure spiteful mean selfishness.

(via iinventedeverything)


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4207

Trending Articles