HOPE AND CHANGE IN ONE HAND AND POOP IN THE OTHER...SEE WHICH ONE FILLS UP FIRST

The land that hope and change built.

As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

And here are the hope and changelings. They seem pretty pissed off. They are, however, a little misguided. Openly blaming their plight on whitey, instead of the master of hope and change who was supposed to fix all this.



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