City leaders in South Bend have passed a plan to use American Rescue Plan money to revitalize many troubled neighborhoods throughout the city.
Mayor James Mueller outlined the budget proposal outside a newly renovated home in one of those neighborhoods.
The plan calls for $25-million in federal rescue funding to repair, rebuild, and re-imagine housing in South Bend.
Critics of the plan say that not enough money is being pushed towards the city’s west-side — which is a predominantly black neighborhood.
The city is receiving nearly $59 million.
Groups including Black Lives Matter South Bend, and the Kennedy, LaSalle, and Lincoln-Bendix Neighborhood Associations are demanded at least $30 million housing, neighborhood planning and infrastructure.
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What does that spending have to do with COVID, which is (ostensibly) what the American Rescue Plan was for?
Though to be honest, that was a misnomer. It should have been called the “American Bankruptcy Plan” because that was the point of it all.
Regardless, what right does BLM and those neighborhood associations have to demand a darn thing? Those funds should benefit EVERYONE, not just the people who rely on handouts to survive.
100% with you on that one.
YES!