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The Community Economic Advancement Initiative, an organization founded in 2015 to support the African American community in Cincinnati, has loosely broken ties with The Port over ideological differences. CEAI claims the development group may inadvertently gentrify neighborhoods.
CEAI Board Secretary Gene Ellington said his organization and The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority have sort of divergent concerns and issues, and the relationship between the two organizations has been challenged over the years. When you look at some of the areas that they build houses, it kind of feels like gentrification, he said. I m not saying that that s their intent, but it s certainly the outcome. When you start building $300,000 houses in a depressed neighborhood, what that tends to do is gentrify the community. And so, the indigenous people who live in that community could never afford to buy a house that has been either built or renovated by Th
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In addition to covering the big stories of the day, WVXU has launched a community storytelling initiative to seek out the people, places and events that make Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky unique.
For Round the Corner, a WVXU reporter will spend several weeks getting to know residents, business operators and leaders in one neighborhood, suburb or a community of folks, like say, veterans.
First up: The Cincinnati neighborhood of Roselawn.
Cincinnati Public Radio listeners heard the first stories last week, when Jolene Almendarez reported on Cuc Le, 74, the Vietnamese refugee and mother of 10 who has been cooking at her family s Song Long restaurant since 1985.