it isn't just removing blacks, its removing anyone not wealthy enough to afford to stay. row housing in Chicago went this way as older units got bought up, modernized and it felt like it went one block after another. Taxes went up and if you didn't sell for the good sums offered those taxes usually ate into your limited income. The gated community mentality started in cities and while it went out into the wild it never really left.
to not take action eventually results in situations like what they fixed here. decades of indifference on the part of the politicians of the city including those representing the district is what put the residents into these positions. Take it this way, the city government and perhaps even the state all had ample opportunity to fix the situation and failed. The bureaucracy of the city likely doomed all effort and far too often activist simply cause an existing situation to persist.
the take away is, people should be demanding city governments do something before areas become so bad that draconian measures are all that is left.
to not take action eventually results in situations like what they fixed here. decades of indifference on the part of the politicians of the city including those representing the district is what put the residents into these positions. Take it this way, the city government and perhaps even the state all had ample opportunity to fix the situation and failed. The bureaucracy of the city likely doomed all effort and far too often activist simply cause an existing situation to persist.
the take away is, people should be demanding city governments do something before areas become so bad that draconian measures are all that is left.