Push Back on Being Pushed Out

We are the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition, of organizations from across Chicago. To stop displacement, we have introduced a CBA ordinance to Chicago's City Council.

​The Obama Presidential Center is coming home! This can help build the kind of communities that Obama fought for, OR it could displace longtime residents. Let's push back on being pushed out by outlining a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) around the Obama library, to
  • require that jobs be set aside for people in communities around the Obama presidential center
  • protect housing for working families, low incomes, and home owners 
  • support and create Black businesses
  • strengthen neighborhood schools
"Typically, when something major comes into a community, taxes go up, low-income residents are displaced, there is an influx of new residents who want to be in the area -- it's sexy -- prices go up. We want to be sure when it floats, we float with it."
​-- The late Deborah Taylor, Woodlawn resident and organizer with Southside Together Organizing for Power, on the Obama Center to the Chicago Tribune

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