From the window of Ruth Long's apartment in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, where she has lived for 33 years, Long can see a McDonald's where a man was shot, a building from which five families were forced out by development before the housing crash, and a "big, beautiful grocery store" where she can't afford to buy her food.
Long is an 85-year-old African-American woman who relies on a combination of Social Security, food stamps and Section 8 subsidized housing to stay out of the nursing home that she says, "would be disastrous" for her.
She is also one of an increasing number of low-income Chicagoans whose vulnerable standard of living is further at risk from the austerity measures and cutbacks hitting cities across the country.
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3 comments:
So for 33 years we have been subsidizing her housing? Does anyone else find this wrong?
Obama has done more to hurt black people than any other President. All Americans should ask themselves before they vote. Are you better off now than you were before Obama became President. I think we all can agree the answer is no. So you should vote accordingly
7;41 really? Have any examples to back up your point?
Seems the huge downward spiral that got us here started well before he stepped into office. Seems also that it bottomed out and is recovering (albeit slow) under his watch.
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