Snowballs in hell - IndyStar - Buttigieg - community housing grants

[IndyOp]

I read the article braced for attack after attack from the IndyStar - it is their MO - they wrote a fair, largely positive article. Excerpt:

Stacey Odom said she approached the mayor after learning of preliminary plans to redevelop her neighborhood, a historically black area called LaSalle Park, on the city's west side. She said she told Buttigieg the city should help the people currently living there keep their homes.

The redevelopment plans, which she characterized as not having progressed very far, were abandoned. She asked the mayor for $300,000 for a grant program to help homeowners with repairs. He countered, she said, with $650,000.

Odom, whose family has lived in the neighborhood for four generations, was spurred to found a community development corporation that connects area homeowners with resources to help keep them in place. She has an aggressive goal of her own: to repair 60 homes in two west-side neighborhoods and build another 28.

"That’s the kind of person you want in office," she said. "Someone who is looking at your best interests. And if they’re not (at first), if you go to them and tell them what your interests are, then they will take your concerns and make them their concerns."

Buttigieg said the city has decided to budget $1 million annually for such programs.

https://amp.indystar.com/amp/3165477002?__twitter_impression=true

More on Odum and the project
https://www.wvpe.org/post/home-repairs-strengthen-community-ties-south-bend

[murielm99]

1. This is an important article.

Thank you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That first clip is really well done.

It shows Pete's own personal growth as Mayor trying to help get the town back on its feet. It shows his errors and his acknowledgement of them which led to better plans for all the neighborhoods.

This needs to be seen more widely!

[IndianaDave]

3. Our candidate is a good-hearted, open-minded person who truly cares about other people.

THIS is the person I want to represent us to the world, and to determine our national priorities. Pete has presidential character, and I'm staying with him to the end.

I'll be there for his (inevitable) misstatements, through fluctuations in the polls, through the (also inevitable) name calling, attacks and belittling remarks by people who support other candidates, and -- as has already occurred -- in the face of false statements or disgusting accusations against him.

I'll support him, contribute to his campaign, and promote him as our next President. I'm proud to support Pete Buttigieg.

[IndyOp]

4. Cheers!

[leftofcool]

5. + a gadzillion