Carl Webb's Blog About Housing Austinites Lobbying for Municipal Form

Instructions and help about Carl Webb's Blog About Housing Austinites Lobbying For Municipal

[Music] after spending his birthday at City Hall Thursday Steven Brown spent Friday evening celebrating in the neighborhood he calls home it's about spending time with people that you love and in the in the place and homes that you that you created Brown was born and raised in East Austin it's the people it's the community I mean right over across the street here is uh kein El kein Middle School where I went to middle school since the vote Thursday didn't go his way he's worried about what the housing options for Middle inome empowerment or home initiative might do to his neighborhood home initiative is utilizing the Land Development code in a way that we seen historically perpetuate gentrification gentrification that he fears will lead to marginalization what will that that das look like in the future will black people have a voice here but supporters believe the home initiative won't push people out but instead bring people back into the city I I was owed the dignity we all are the d