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"No one should have to live like this"

Steve

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Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy
The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.

CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

But it's not safe to live here.

About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama's state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.

"No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it," said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government

"How didn't he know?" said Johnson. "Of course he knew. He just didn't care."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/


In the nine pages it is a damning article on what Obama failed to do.. and how he profited from the poor,.. and the media ignores the truth..
 

Cal

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It doesn't matter, his intentions were good :lol:

This is merely foreshadowing on how his entire laundry list of entitlements would end up.
 

Cal

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.....but they're probably better taken care of than his brother that lives in the little hut. Pretty shameful for some rich bleeding heart liberal to not care for his own.....oh wait, Government's Job, even if it's in a different country.
 

Sandhusker

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This is just another entry on the long list of reasons that Obama is bad news - the same list that liberals ignore and pretend isn't there...
 

Steve

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funny how a liberal can find time to defend a wife-beating child abusing trooper,

yet not have time to defend Obama and his cronies who pillaged Obama's former district, before joining his national campaign.. I guess after making millions fleecing the poor and elderly of Chicago, they have set their sites on the screwing the nations poor and elderly..

I wonder how much they'll make in their National heath care scam..
 
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