Affordable housing developers collaborate on Playter Street revamp
Comment by Professor Taylor: “An apartment that cost $900 a month for either a one or two bedroom apartment is not affordable for most Blacks, Latinx, and immigrants. You need to make around $40,000 a year for such an apartment to be affordable, and 56% of Black Buffalo earn less than that. The share of Latinx and immigrants making less than $40,000 is even greater. This move is an intensification of the gentrification of Broadway-Fillmore. Call a spade a spade.”
Jonathan D. Epstein October 17, 2023
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