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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question was about economic disparity between races in the ward.

Goulet went first and immediately equated persona of color in Ward 3 with voucher recipients. The racial disparity in the ward is because voucher recipients don’t have enough support services from the city.

The other candidates immediately castigated him for assuming all persons of color in the ward are voucher recipients. [/quote]

I’m sure, disproportionately, they are. People of color, particularly African Americans, are at the bottom of every demographic comparison across every and all systems we measure. Health, education, housing, income, wealth, employment, and crime.   That’s what systemic racism is. So was he saying he’s trying to improve access for people of color? Or was it actually nefarious? [/quote]

There are two solutions.

!) improve wraparound services for people in the lower strate across the city and in the Ward
2) expand housing opportunities for all people, but partocularly people of lower and working class income.

On the second, Goulet has come out against the basic affordable housing opportunties that others in the race have been working for or achieved. The bottom line, we need more housing density in the Wad, along the avenues and better access to services for the people who need it. It is simply not helpful to drop people into the limited housing that exists without the support necessary to make them successful.[/quote]

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