The Hare's Paupers

The Newcastle City Council breathed a sigh of relief when the hare won last November 5th, not that they weren't fairly sure what the outcome would be, given all the stops that they pulled for John Drescher.  Even though they knew that Mark Greene would never have gotten 4 votes on the Council in order to push through a people's agenda in Newcastle if he had won, they sure didn't want some dissenter on the council talking about poor and low income people.  Councilwoman Carol Simpson is the closest person they have to a dissenter willing to speak up for the lower economic classes every now and then.  So the Council's agenda of cozying up to real estate barons, gentrification, keeping renters in their place, and building up walls to keep the poor out of Newcastle will continue unimpeded, and as we said in a previous post, the hare will fit right in.  Any present-day apartment dweller, just about, that voted for Drescher is obviously uninformed about Newcastle politics or voted against their own interests for whatever reason. 

The so-called "Mutual Materials" apartments to be built will not be for the general workers in the shops of Newcastle's 2 strip malls, that's for sure, nor for Newcastle's government employees (by and large) for that matter.  The rents are not expected to be less than $2000 per month according to rumor, and probably much more than that in most cases.  This Council is not even hospitable to so-called affordable housing agendas put forth by the wider community, let alone actual affordable housing.

[revised on 11/25/13]