Kansas City Activists Blame MAGA For Neighborhood Housing Beef

In sprawling bit of propaganda for an questionable effort to keep residents inside a sketchy building.

Check local activists lashing out because their haphazard plan didn't work . . . 

"This is what the people who teach housing as a human right mean when they say the commodification of shelter is a form of violence. The conditions in these buildings are not the result of accident or oversight or bad luck, but are the result of a deliberate calculation by an avaricious landlord several states away who has decided that the cheapest way to extract rent from working-class immigrant and Black families is to let the buildings collapse around them and bill them for the privilege of waiting out the collapse. 

"The man does not have to look at the sewage or listen to the children whose parents cannot bathe them in hot water. He lives hundreds of miles away and to him the buildings are nothing more than an asset on a spreadsheet and the humans living in them only viewed as revenue line items.

"The conditions on North Lawn do not exist in a political vacuum. The Trump regime has weaponized immigration enforcement as a tool of displacement. ICE operations targeting apartment buildings (particularly as we saw in Chicago) have made tenants in mixed-status households afraid to report violations, call 311, or show up at public meetings."

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