Preserving Neighborhoods by Aaron Passell

Author:Aaron Passell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC026030, Social Science/Sociology/Urban, POL026000, Political Science/Public Policy/Regional Planning
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

I don’t know what the answer is. All I know is, that the value of our homes has been impacted. The dream that we had was literally halted when Urban Renewal came to be … and we were told that Urban Renewal and Preservation could co-exist…. What I am trying to do is appeal to you as a governmental body and also from a more humanitarian standpoint. We came in [to homeownership in Union Square] and we had a dream and our dream became threatened when the wheeling and dealing began almost like insider trading…. I am begging you to help us retrace what happened and to see to it that no other neighborhood goes through it, and to ask the City to immediately stabilize the properties in our historic district and there are a number of them.

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