For a group of people that are so concerned with saving point breeze, I didn’t see you out there on April 10, 2010 cleaning up the city with a huge number of participants. As a black women who has lived in Point Breeze for a number of years, you should be ashamed at how you guys sat back and watched the area dilapidate instead of truly being “concerned” when things first started getting out of hand. Someone who is “concerned” would help the elderly people who can’t afford contractors keep up with their properties and they would clean-up lots like the Point Breeze Pioneers do. Why can’t you be like the Newbold Neighbors and have Saturday morning clean-ups, free yoga and wellness classes, and gardening day, etc. The only people who will follow you damn sure are not us homeowners. Your lies to people that they will somehow be displaced are unfair and deceptive. There are plenty of low-cost $30,000-$60,000 (mortgage of only $300- $600 a month) properties with good brick and stud structures that only need sheetrock and updated electrical work that low-income residents can find and fix up like my husband and I did. Instead of disabling people and telling them they are too poor to do it themselves, let’s help them find financial backing for properties that need renovating, which will help keep them in the neighborhood. If they are solely looking to section 8 for their housing needs, instead of doing it themselves than of course they will eventually be displaced when fed-up homeowners decide to sell. Please respond and let me know what you think. BTW, I will also post this online and a few of us will be waiting to see what your response will be to helping these people fix up properties rather than wait for hand me outs.