>Highland Park — Protesters angry over a City Council deal involving an affordable housing project in Chinatown staged a noisy demonstration outside City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez’s home on Sunday
>Hernandez was present as protestors, organized by Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, held a banner that said “Stop Breaking Families Apart” and denounced her compromise settlement with the landlord of the Hillside Villa Apartments, an agreement approved last April.
>Under the agreement, the City will pay $15 million to subsidize lower rents for many tenants, who faced large increases. Hernandez also committed $250,000 of council office funds to help pay the tenants’ unpaid rent.
>However, activists wanted to force the owner to sell the building to the City through eminent domain, as was proposed in 2020 by Hernandez’s predecessor, Gil Cedillo. Critics also said the City Council deal gave the landlord too much power and allows evictions.
>Hernandez said she also favored eminent domain, but the rest of the City Council did not, leading to her compromise settlement.
>”I wasn’t going to just walk away once it became clear that acquisition wasn’t moving forward,” Hernandez said in a statement. “That’s why we fought to extend the affordable housing covenants and ensure that this building didn’t just flip into market-rate housing.”
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LMAO this is sweet karma. Hernandez ran and won courting insane anti-housing leftist protesters. How the turn tables!
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> However, activists wanted to force the owner to sell the building to the City through eminent domain, as was proposed in 2020 by Hernandez’s predecessor, Gil Cedillo. Critics also said the City Council deal gave the landlord too much power and allows evictions.
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>Highland Park — Protesters angry over a City Council deal involving an affordable housing project in Chinatown staged a noisy demonstration outside City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez’s home on Sunday
>Hernandez was present as protestors, organized by Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, held a banner that said “Stop Breaking Families Apart” and denounced her compromise settlement with the landlord of the Hillside Villa Apartments, an agreement approved last April.
>Under the agreement, the City will pay $15 million to subsidize lower rents for many tenants, who faced large increases. Hernandez also committed $250,000 of council office funds to help pay the tenants’ unpaid rent.
>However, activists wanted to force the owner to sell the building to the City through eminent domain, as was proposed in 2020 by Hernandez’s predecessor, Gil Cedillo. Critics also said the City Council deal gave the landlord too much power and allows evictions.
>Hernandez said she also favored eminent domain, but the rest of the City Council did not, leading to her compromise settlement.
>”I wasn’t going to just walk away once it became clear that acquisition wasn’t moving forward,” Hernandez said in a statement. “That’s why we fought to extend the affordable housing covenants and ensure that this building didn’t just flip into market-rate housing.”
LMAO this is sweet karma. Hernandez ran and won courting insane anti-housing leftist protesters. How the turn tables!
> However, activists wanted to force the owner to sell the building to the City through eminent domain, as was proposed in 2020 by Hernandez’s predecessor, Gil Cedillo. Critics also said the City Council deal gave the landlord too much power and allows evictions.
Completely unserious people