Saturday, January 20, 2007

* News From RPCAN

This just in from Rogers Park Community Action Network Newsletter - Winter 2007.

* Alderman Moore's campaign contributing, slumlord pal, Jay Johnson refuses to hold public meetings on landlord accountability. RPCAN has called to discuss concerns of many of his building around Rogers Park, in wake of the fire that killed six members of the Ramirez family, and the beating death of Wayne Jones in front of the Morse Avenue Senior building. Jay Johnson has not responded.

* Displacement getting worse. Minority renter households have been displaced for white home-buyers.

Don't forget to pick up your copy at the local newsstand today.

5 comments:

Craig Gernhardt said...

Related stories:

Fire kills six.

Alderman's Pal Slapped With lawsuit.

The cover-up.

The cover-up continues.

Toni said...

Johnson's lawyer(s) have probably muzzled him. That's why his friend the alderman covers both arses by speaking on his behalf just as he did for the 'media' over and over and over.

That's probably also why the zoning minutes disappeared from the ward website. If readers want to do some proactive civic duties, then send a FOIA email to ward49.org requesting to see the minutes of the zoning committee, who the members are etc.

Toni said...

WARD49EMAIL

Please send your FOIA for all zoning committee minutes to this email address for Ward 49. They can't possibly ignore SEVERAL requests without bringing more negative attention to the secrets they hide.

Toni said...

ward49@cityofchicago.org

The North Coast said...

Jay Johnson is someone who has sacrificed his right to own any kind of public accommodation in this ward or any other, or to develop property anywhere in this city. When has he not lied? He has only one property that he can say he did the right thing with, a low-income co-op of what appears to be about 18 units, and it was not solely his work. Every other property he owns or has developed is a reeking sump.

He's proven he isn't capable of being anything other than a slumlord. His buildings are stuffed with criminals, dopers, and prostitutes, and are replete with dangerous code violations that are never corrected. Woe to the hapless poor family that gets assigned a place in one of his vermin-infested firetraps by one of the city's social workers.

After the fire on Marshfield, you would have thought that our mayor would have ordered a thorough investigation of Johnson's buildings and practices, but we can see that this did not happen, nor is it likely to.

Mr. Johnson's property rights do not include subjecting his tenants and their neighbors to the miseries of living in and next door to buildings replete with criminal activity and obscene populations of rats and roaches.

The usual remedy for these types of repeated violations is a court-ordered sale of the properties involved. We need to get started on a campaign to get these properties into court.

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