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Originally posted by taxwonk
Is it possible that the tax base has been dropping because the section 8 housing has a lowr value?
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That would be a great theory, but there are like 50 different communities out there (basically due South), and they are all slowly slipping under as the subsidies on Chicago's south side are sent a-packin. U of C/Hyde Park? Sorta, no. I lived all over Chicago at one time or another. My parents were the last white folks on their block. The experience of fleeing was common, in fact pervasive.
Sorry if you misunderstand the racial overtones to this. I'm not saying that you were the first guy to pack up when a black family moved onto your block (South Shore used to be Jewish, as did the area around Douglas Park). Nor the second. Or the third.
But at some point, in huge swaths of Chicago, whites who lived on the south side and the west side were between the first and the last. And I'm not saying any of y'all are any more guilty than me... though I once was an original gentrifier.
So if the proposition is acceptable to you and Sebby that section 8 would be okay (really, in some small measure) in your neighborhood or all others (and sure its okay in mine, just not 25%), than I feel like we are making progress here.
Great progress.
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