@ father.nature
It sounds like Cleveland started to do what we did and the political hacks put a stop to it.
We saw people who made their living off running programs to ASSIST the poor that fought every proposal brought forth.
Building duplexes where a 6 tenet building burned down to relieve neighborhood congestion, splitting a property so 2 abutters could have real yards or building a community garden, it did not matter. Anything that improved a neighborhood and peoples outlook on life was opposed.
We had to fight through it. Several neighborhood groups stormed city hall with hundreds of people for repeated city council meetings holding them accountable to keep the project rolling.
At the next election 3 obstructionists on the city council, all democrats backed by the city unions and the people who made a living off the poor, were kicked out of office and replaced with people willing to follow through on the land reuse project. Our city is a better place for it.
Good luck.
