I know if I watch that video I am going to get sick.
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
I heard about this earlier. I don't know why Obama is involved in this (hell, let this be a Michelle project).
Maybe they think the spillover benefits from the games will give the city some money to help those that are struggling? I don't know.
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Originally Posted by agzg
I don't think so, but you can call me a pessimist.
In some instances, it's going to push neighborhoods out and into other neighborhoods (when they build the various stadiums/housing for athletes/etc.) and that's going to cause more problems.
This is just my opinion, but these low income neighborhoods aren't going to be lifted up, they're going to be moved over, and then the city will ignore the same people, just in a different geographical area.
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The Olympics could be a wonderful opportunity to increase the standard of living for residents of Chicago, but I don't have faith that it will be handled effectively. Sure the Olympic Village Housing could be mandated to become affordable housing after the Olympics, and there could be a program for a certain amount of jobs associated with the Olympics to be filled with displaced workers. However what's going to happen for these people before 2016?