I wanna provide some context on what I see as a big DSA local win.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/943065809412395008 …
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There's nothing to suggest taxation is the barrier between continued blight and a completed project. Either Dewberry has the capital or it doesn't.
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Charlottesville has a hotel shortage and the Dewberry would only be the second major hotel Downtown. The profit model is there. The tax incentives were a needlessly bad deal. Enter the DSA.
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The DSA held a demonstration against the deal before City Council. And they've been doing groundwork to convince residents to oppose it, using the bad state of public housing as their catalyst.
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This worked. And two of the votes against the deal were from outgoing Councilors. This sends a message to those incoming: we won't stand for this.
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This has been part of a long running campaign to get the city to provide more resources to its low-incomw housing projects. There are places where elderly people have no AC in the summer.
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This is what grassroots activism looks like. Boring details, wrestling a few million here, a few million there away from bad deals made by craven politicians.
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Proud of Charlottesville's activists for doing this work.
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