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March 22, 2005
Newark seeks delay on demolition plan
Deleware News Journal:
A reminder that all politics is local, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) defends low-income housing from the wrecking ball in Newark. Located on a former city landfill, questions of contamination have arisen on the site of the half vacant housing complex.
"I think we're being misled by Jackson," said John Kowalko, an ACORN member and advocate for the Cleveland Heights residents. "Their homes are not unfixable. ... They want to maintain their community."
This is in stark contrast to ACORN's chants of "Tear them down, tear them down...," during Forest City Ratner's presentation last November, when James Stuckey claimed that the Prospect Heights homes and businesses they are seeking to condemn were blighted.
Posted by lumi at March 22, 2005 6:26 AM