Snowballs in hell - IndyStar - Buttigieg - community housing grants

[IndyOp]

I read the article braced for attack after attack from the IndyStar - it is their MO - they wrote a fair, largely positive article. Excerpt:

Stacey Odom said she approached the mayor after learning of preliminary plans to redevelop her neighborhood, a historically black area called LaSalle Park, on the city's west side. She said she told Buttigieg the city should help the people currently living there keep their homes.

The redevelopment plans, which she characterized as not having progressed very far, were abandoned. She asked the mayor for $300,000 for a grant program to help homeowners with repairs. He countered, she said, with $650,000.

Odom, whose family has lived in the neighborhood for four generations, was spurred to found a community development corporation that connects area homeowners with resources to help keep them in place. She has an aggressive goal of her own: to repair 60 homes in two west-side neighborhoods and build another 28.

"That’s the kind of person you want in office," she said. "Someone who is looking at your best interests. And if they’re not (at first), if you go to them and tell them what your interests are, then they will take your concerns and make them their concerns."

Buttigieg said the city has decided to budget $1 million annually for such programs.

https://amp.indystar.com/amp/3165477002?__twitter_impression=true

More on Odum and the project
https://www.wvpe.org/post/home-repairs-strengthen-community-ties-south-bend