But we want to know that everybody will have apartments to return to. We want guarantees. The city's plan matches the number of existing Dolphin and Lee apartments, and more than doubles the number of existing bedrooms. Tenants, however, say it's not enough. And so far, the city hasn't done much to ease their worries, leaving the door open for opportunistic activists looking for a fight.
City officials say they want to buy the land and maintain low-income housing in perpetuity.
But when they failed to bring Spanish-speaking tenants into the discussion, homeless activists and apartment management willingly picked up the slack. In the process, tenants have become convinced that the city wants them on the streets. I know a lot of the people will be homeless. They say no criminal checks, but they are going to look into everyone's past. Politicians are politicians.