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D.A.R.E. to Gentrify! ! !
Gentrify This!
This house on Camp Street, which sat unsold on the market for over one year, is undergoing renovation: new paint, new appliances, new cherry kitchen floor, granite and tile in the kitchen and baths, a perfectly clean basement, upgraded electrical in order to make it perfect for some new home owner (most likely a first time buyer) to move into and enjoy without ever lifting a finger.
I suppose that is a bad thing.
Or so D.A.R.E. would have you believe.
Here is the message that D.A.R.E. left yesterday:
Sarah called from D.A.R.E. and she invited me to a workshop about gentrification organized by D.A.R.E. and MHNA tomorrow, August 30, at 6:00 P.M. at the MHNA, at 199 Camp Street.Sarah said, "We will be looking into what it is, how it has happened that communities have been displaced in the past, how we can work together to prevent that from continuing to happen especially since housing prices have been going up so much”.
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Let's Take a Look and Shine a Bright Light
It's time we took a good look at D.A.R.E. Who are they? What are the principal's backgrounds? How are they funded? What other organizations are they connected to.
Start by visiting their website: D.A.R.E. Then look at the URL: that tells you something.
Sounds like some rich, academic know it all outsiders (most likely from upper-middle class suburban backgrounds) coming into our neighborhood to tell us poor ignorant Mt. Hopers how to improve our neighborhood and to tell us what we are doing wrong. At least according to some academic theory that they just learned from some book written by a guy who never lived in an inner-city neighborhood.
Anyway, the meeting is at 6:00 pm this evening, so hurry home from work and learn how to stop EVIL GENTRIFICATION from spreading in Mt. Hope.
Posted at August 30, 2007 12:10 PM
This house looks AWESOME!!!!!
To all the GOOD, HARD WORKING members of our community, lets keep up the hard work, and although frustrating many times lets try and stay positive. Mt. Hope has drastically changed in the past 5 years, never mind the past 10 and it will continue to change!
Posted by: D.Creggg at September 5, 2007 11:32 AM
Visit the D.A.R.E. website and you will not find the name of one member. In fact, you won't be able to tell anything about them, the names of their leaders, the names of their founders.
Just some rhetoric coming out of a University as the URL indicates.
http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/dare/
Could it be a bunch of political science students?
Posted by: John at August 30, 2007 04:26 PM