The Real Impact of Gentrification on Chicago's South Side | My Family’s Story

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  • @dellontobin282
    @dellontobin282 Місяць тому +68

    We can gentrify our own neighborhoods. I lived in a black suburb in SC for 2 years and it was amazing, and this is coming from a man who grew up in BedStuy, Brooklyn. Black neighborhoods can be improved by black people!

    • @againstthegraingolf301
      @againstthegraingolf301 Місяць тому +12

      Then the word is not gentrification. We don’t want to move our people out, we want to move our people UP! Rejuvenation would be a better term to describe what we actually want to happen here. Not moving out the poor so the rich can move in. Enliven the whole hood, enrich EVERYONE’S lives.

    • @dellontobin282
      @dellontobin282 Місяць тому +7

      @ gentrification just means the transformation of a neighborhood from low to high value. We somehow just equate it to nonblacks moving in. We, as black people gentrified places in the past, making it better than it was before. We shouldn’t be afraid of that term.

    • @dee6524
      @dee6524 Місяць тому

      AMEN 🙌🏾

    • @TheDarylMack
      @TheDarylMack Місяць тому +2

      I grew up in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn on Hancock Street between Marcy and Nostrand Ave . I now live and own my own home in Warwick Rhode Island.

    • @dellontobin282
      @dellontobin282 Місяць тому +2

      @ congrats, I love to hear stories like this. I grew up on Monroe between Franklin and Classon, also Monroe between Throop and Tompkins.

  • @renewyou9901
    @renewyou9901 Місяць тому +24

    They try to low ball black property owners. Sista you right!! Much love to the city and thank you❤❤❤

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +4

      @@renewyou9901 thank YOU! I have started the rehab, I will post the videos here soon..

  • @user-st6nt4ou6f
    @user-st6nt4ou6f Місяць тому +35

    You are totally right. A creeping Black removal. I remember all u are talking about. This young man is a sad example of many young Black people. No knowkedge of history, and what weve been through to maintain what we have .I hope u cqn get suppirt for what u envision. I lived in Chatham and frequented 87th street fir shopping. Thank you, this saddens me.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@user-st6nt4ou6f thank you for responding. It is really sad to see our people being replaced… now the local grocery store is selling lots more produce items, has real authentic tortillas, still. Plantains! Catering to the immigrants whereas before it was a liquor store that sold toxic food items….

  • @jfm14
    @jfm14 Місяць тому +22

    Love your vision for a better neighborhood, with art and fresh foods for all! I wish you all the best in that endeavor. 🌱

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@jfm14 thank you! Some days I wake up thinking I must be crazy! But I know it is my mission & my destiny to establish a center of healing & aboriginal spirituality. Right here on the south side. Then I will continue my passion to travel the world & uncover ancient mysteries

  • @danimo17
    @danimo17 Місяць тому +27

    💯💯💯 DO NOT SELL!!! Fight the powers that be as best you can and pass on that generational health & wealth! I'm so sick of developers coming from out of state or out of the country to make a quick buck by gouging yuppies for "luxury" units and leaving the rest of us begging for simple maintenance requests until we're so fed up we leave. This is a war for affordable housing and gentrification is on the wrong side of history!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +2

      @@danimo17 that is the goal! So hard though……

  • @Rudolph_Manor
    @Rudolph_Manor Місяць тому +10

    Salute To Chicago. 💯

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +2

      @@Rudolph_Manor ✊🏽🙌🏽🤗💃🏽

    • @Rudolph_Manor
      @Rudolph_Manor Місяць тому +3

      @TchiyaAmet Much Love & Respect From Cincinnati. 💯

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @ thank you! I graduated from Oberlin in the last century….

  • @devalyngolliday4652
    @devalyngolliday4652 Місяць тому +16

    I grew up in West Chesterfield in the 70s and 80s, and I agree with you. It was wonderful back in the day and full of middle and working class Black citizens. My grandad was a business owner, and there were also many other professionals on the block, including a dentist and a construction firm owner.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@devalyngolliday4652 now it is mostly fake hair salons, nail salons, of course barber shops, daycare, cell phones and alcohol. They finally closed Happys on 79th & Cottage!

  • @fstanley2.0
    @fstanley2.0 Місяць тому +18

    Though I now live in L.A., I have lived on both the north and south sides of Chicago. West Ridge/West Rogers Park on the northside was fine, especially with its proximity to Evanston. All my children were born and partially raised there. Streets were always well-maintained. Snow removal was not a problem during winter months. Trash pickup was never an issue. However, when I moved to South Shore (68th and Oglesby), though my home was still nice and within walking distance to the beach (good, kind, working neighbors also), I noticed that the City's response to road maintenance, snow removal, and trash pickup was not quite the same as on the north side. Of course, we know that more of Chicago's "African-American" population resides on the southside. Taxes for property and sales constantly rose in Chicago, but tax-supported services for Chicago neighborhoods were not offered equitably based on my observation.

    • @danimo17
      @danimo17 Місяць тому +1

      Yes, exactly! I'm born & raised in LA and you can tell the difference between the rich & poor neighborhoods at a glance. And of course they do everything in their power to keep the rich communities as white as possible. They're tearing down our historical landmarks to pave new "luxury" options literally NO ONE asked for. All we want is the basics we all pay taxes for and it shouldn't take gentrification and pushing out of our communities to get that!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +2

      @@fstanley2.0 oh my goodness! The streets are filled with trash in my neighborhood! It blows down the streets like tumbleweed. In the alleys, people go thru the trash looking for treasure, but leave all unwanted items on the ground. The people of today have no interest in Nature or keeping the area clean. I know it is due to the way they are treated by society, like trash or less than human, so I do not blame them or judge them. The problem is western imperialism & caucasity, not my neighbors…

  • @KerryLuckett
    @KerryLuckett Місяць тому +13

    Gentrification is very different from development. When people in their communities can develop where they live, they can thrive and prosper where they live. Gentrification dispossesses people from where they live so that they remain perpetually homeless.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@KerryLuckett excellent delineation of these terms! Thank you!!!

  • @TheIntrovert83
    @TheIntrovert83 Місяць тому +7

    You tell em Sis!
    Don't Sell!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@TheIntrovert83 sigh… well if I have to start a gofundme, if everyone donates one dollar, I could make it eh? 🤔🤗✊🏽😂

  • @Legally_Bomb
    @Legally_Bomb Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for this message. The Gentrification is occurring in every majorly American city. I’m glad to have found a community that supports Black property ownership.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@Legally_Bomb thank you. I just am not able to turn my back on them or my mom soon… so I must continue no matter how he difficulties

  • @LaKeislaLoves
    @LaKeislaLoves Місяць тому +20

    He sounds like a foreigner. He need to ask the previous owners of those buildings about how did they lose their property. I am born and raised in Chicago, the West side. Many of my childhood friends’s family owned their buildings for generations and owned multiple buildings. Now when I go back to explore my old neighborhood, the WHOLE BLOCK IS FULL OF CONDEMNED BUILDINGS‼️‼️‼️ He need to talk to the Black people that are still there that own their properties, listen to them, they are fighting the city to keep their property. He need to listen to my ppl that are at these city council meeting voicing over and over again of how the city is NOT TAKING THEIR CALLS BUT HAVE SENT LETTERS CLAIMING FALSE OWNERSHIP OF THEIR PROPERTIES. The city is STEALING PROPERTY FROM THE ELDERLY IN CHICAGO. He needs to learn how the property value brings down the equity of existing properties in the area and it effects the wealth of the ppl and the up keep of the community. OUTSIDERS have NO CLUE OF HOW CORRUPT CHICAGO IS BUT ARE QUICK TO OPEN THEIR MOUTH. We have people that look like us that are constantly looking to put us down if that means that they can profit off of our pain. These ppl rather run with a degrading narrative than to search out the EVIL Truth.💯

    • @ruidean72
      @ruidean72 Місяць тому

      That is right, especially when our community started voting for the evil racist Dem Party, the party of slavery and the KKK. Dem Party has destroyed our neighborhoods and families as they have planned.... TRUMP 2024

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@LaKeislaLoves you NAILED IT! You are a Nail FACTORY!!! OMGG! I have nothing to add to your comment. THANK YOU! Well actually, realizing that I am an elderly person fighting to maintain ownership of this property hit me kinda hard! 😂🤣😆

    • @Alan_GA
      @Alan_GA Місяць тому

      I'm not from Chicago, but clearly understand that the struggles in terms of building sustainable communities and housing are similar nationwide.
      Sad thing is that many young people apart from being unaware are not interested in learning about such important aspects of our urban history.

    • @gwensmith6
      @gwensmith6 Місяць тому

      Its bought up and rent is 3 times the former rent.

  • @WAY2RIL
    @WAY2RIL Місяць тому +4

    The park manor area from 71st king Dr. To 71st and state to 79th and state To 79th king Dr. Was also a very upgraded area back then and a lot of people used think it was Chatham to. Also the area called Roseland’s heights just west of Chicago state university, the other area on 95th side where the loop skating rink was at, was also like a suburb.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@WAY2RIL it seems like it was a lifetime ago… but it really wasn’t that long ago. I remember when things were much different around here. Now I am one of the older people in this neighborhood! So strange…

  • @elisahorhn9071
    @elisahorhn9071 Місяць тому +8

    I agree 💯 with you my Sister ! When my family moved on 89th and Bennett we were the 3rd black family in the neighborhood! It was beautiful and it was safe! We never locked our doors and left our bikes in our front yard! We got along and we enjoyed block parties and decorating durn all seasonal holidays!!
    Suddenly an unsuspecting element began to invade the community, as a child adults I looked up to started going to the once prohibited casinos and loosing their homes which were purchased by HUD and rented out to people whom did not have a stake in the community preservation,
    Theift and crime creeped in and suddenly families lost hope and moved out relocating to the Douth Suburbs and beyond!
    Today, I admit to leaving not only the neighborhood but the State to California! I still have retained the family home with family occupying the home and maintaining its integrity! I miss the chatham neighborhood and its once splendid ambiences d I have seen some development which has great potential!!! An because of the hope I have for the community I will never sell and continue to contribute even from afar!!!!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@elisahorhn9071 I also moved to California: on an Indian Reservation which is just another hood! I moved back when I inherited the building. I intend to maintain ownership of both places, somehow… both will be healing centers. The one in Cali can be a retreat center. I had considered leaving USA forever but decided to stay & make a difference with my gifts. Sigh. It will never be the way it was, SO LETS MANIFEST THE BEST VISION WE CAN FOR OUR PEOPLE! For Humanity!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@elisahorhn9071 when we have the GRAND OPENING OF THE LIGHT BEING WELLNESS CENTER, perhaps you can attend…

  • @cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess
    @cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess Місяць тому +5

    Exactly Sistar 🤞🏾

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess we finished the lead abatement phase. I will be posting the progress very soon. Thank you!

    • @cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess
      @cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess Місяць тому +1

      @@TchiyaAmet okay thanks

  • @SkacyMaeTarot
    @SkacyMaeTarot Місяць тому +12

    Gentrification is abuse and any black person who agrees that it's beneficial must have a mental issue. If you want to see a prime example of it go to Inglewood California and look at what gentrification did to the city. All of that over a stadium.

    • @LarennPBel
      @LarennPBel Місяць тому +5

      I think ppl are not informed properly and think its a good thing without knowing what it really means long term

  • @veronicastewart4722
    @veronicastewart4722 Місяць тому +9

    Some Blacks just don't respect their neighborhoods I care about blacks building up and buying properties and affordable rents and new buildings

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@veronicastewart4722 they don’t respect the neighborhood becuz they don’t own anything and also because they are treated as less than human. It is caucasity, not them…

  • @dnporter5506
    @dnporter5506 Місяць тому +17

    Stop.
    Making statements and ask questions. Why are there so many abandoned properties on the Southside? They took people's property because of back taxes. They removed people from these buildings and then left the building to decay..

    • @missnlahi
      @missnlahi Місяць тому +2

      Bingo. And the current mayor 😢 is ready to raise the taxes again

    • @jones2277
      @jones2277 Місяць тому +3

      Why didn’t they pay their taxes? Why the criminal element preying on their own community

    • @ruidean72
      @ruidean72 Місяць тому

      That is what you get for voting for the evil Dem party, the party of slavery and the KKK since the late 1960s. When we voted majority Republican Party, we were doing so well and our communities were strong. We never needed any white people to help us. We helped ourselves. Dem party over the last 60 years have achieved what they wanted.... Wake up brothers and sisters, TRUMP 2024

  • @CS_1989
    @CS_1989 Місяць тому +1

    Yep my OG told me about how Chatham use to b a hard neighborhood to get into & bronzeville was another Mecca, southshore also.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@CS_1989 yes I also lived in south shore as a youth. Neighborhood changed from Yt to black in less than 2 years….

  • @lyndaslocs
    @lyndaslocs Місяць тому +3

    Brooklyn, NY. Property prices went up and alot of people became displaced or homeless. I ended up moving to another borough of NYC and the process is happening at a faster pace here.

  • @O.J.S.
    @O.J.S. Місяць тому +1

    Excellent video!

  • @YolundaWilliams-ko8hh
    @YolundaWilliams-ko8hh Місяць тому +5

    Gentrification is in every city in the USA it is a big problem🎉🎉🎉

  • @lamontwilliams575
    @lamontwilliams575 Місяць тому +7

    HE JAS NO IDEA THAT GENTRIFICATION MEANS GET YO BLACK ASS OUT SON.

    • @danimo17
      @danimo17 Місяць тому +2

      That part! Maybe he's too rich & sheltered to know they don't care about your accomplishments, your bank account, none of that. Like she said it's not one big bombing like in Oklahoma but it's the same result spread out over time. That way they can keep telling themselves that only white America is "great."

  • @swee2th30
    @swee2th30 Місяць тому +10

    Auntie get him allllll the way together #cause #he #dont #know #nan 😉😊 #bronzeville

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@swee2th30 he’s just a child, an ignorant one tho…

  • @marionstearns9501
    @marionstearns9501 Місяць тому +1

    Well spoken from a Chatham, real Chatham property owner, I was born and raised there, it is the only up scale all copper color people community around that's still holding on, it's still very good area considering. They have destroyed it with rezoning and section 8, so the reputation is killing the area. They did the same thing to other copper color people areas pill hill, south shore, ext. But Chatham has tough skin, and a professional base ,may be changing now.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@marionstearns9501 you are so correct! This building has been in my family for 3 generations now. My intention is to make it to the fourth. But things are changing rapidly these days… peace

  • @AminahHanan
    @AminahHanan Місяць тому +2

    Wealth is legislated. Black Americans haven’t done real collective politics since the Civil Rights movement. No real politics no protection. The work that needs to be done some of us aren’t ready to do cause everyone is our friend when we really have none. We’re the bottom for everyone to build upon, even the people who look like us.

    • @TheBLACKboard65
      @TheBLACKboard65 Місяць тому

      The rest of the groups didn't do "collective politics" either. They were simply handed everything by the dominant group. How else do you think non-citizens and foreign born groups are able to buy houses, cars, land and build businesses within 10 minutes of being here?🤔 Surely you have heard of the super-sized EBT cards they're getting. That alone puts them light years ahead of us.

  • @implicit7
    @implicit7 Місяць тому +1

    I agree and support this message ❤
    Me & 7 other ppl have built an hub for our ppl to be creatives, work on health & wellness, comedy shows, mini gym, spa and business center for ours. I would love to network with anyone ready to add to the vision of separating us from things that no longer serve us we are located on 40th Western

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@implicit7 wait, IN CHICAGO? I am ready!!

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@implicit7 I just got my e-bike. When should I drop by?

  • @tianabrown3074
    @tianabrown3074 Місяць тому

    I remember Chatham in the 70s and 80s when it was called the heart of Black middle class America. Could you please do a video on how the "officials" destroyed Chatham? This is the first time I have ever heard that and I would like to know the story.

  • @dnporter5506
    @dnporter5506 Місяць тому +14

    Long Live Black the Southside.

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +2

      @@dnporter5506 the immigrants were sent here to replace us by the demoncrats…. Many were already shipped to the suburbs…

    • @ctgal9698
      @ctgal9698 Місяць тому

      ​@@TchiyaAmet💯 Say it loud for the folks in the back!

  • @robbjobsdone
    @robbjobsdone Місяць тому +3

    Extract the resources and this become all destruction and failure by design...!!!🙁

  • @Nohandleno1238
    @Nohandleno1238 Місяць тому +8

    Well done Aunty.

  • @Murkanics
    @Murkanics Місяць тому +9

    She Onn Point For Chicago

  • @LoneWolf42389
    @LoneWolf42389 Місяць тому +6

    Based on what the woman is saying about the new train station and other things being constructed, gentrification has already begun; AND, ALL of you who want that neighborhood to remain a 'hood are too blind to see that change is coming and is for the good of the neighborhood. Wake up or get left behind.

    • @RahYisrael99
      @RahYisrael99 Місяць тому +2

      The real Chicagoans won't be able to afford to live there.

  • @LMan-by6mb
    @LMan-by6mb Місяць тому +2

    You need the rich yt. People to stop bringing drugs and liquor into the neighborhoods.

  • @edwardbrown7243
    @edwardbrown7243 Місяць тому

    I've been telling black people since this started they are slowly moving us out and once they start to build we can afford to live there

  • @jones2277
    @jones2277 Місяць тому

    Should they just leave the neighborhood alone? Do you still live there?

    • @fstanley2.0
      @fstanley2.0 Місяць тому +2

      She stated several times that she still lives there and owns the building that was once her grandparents.

    • @danimo17
      @danimo17 Місяць тому +2

      They should treat the north & south sides equally, giving resources to both equitably and letting each of them live in peace. It's literally tearing down your home and then complaining that you're a homeless bum. They caused the problem and if they want to fix it so bad, they need to do it for the communities that have already been living there for decades.

    • @jones2277
      @jones2277 Місяць тому +2

      @@danimo17 well, we could increase property taxes but i have a feeling that no one wants that. and if we want businesses to invest in the community, then all the criminality has to stop. but that aside, there are just basic things that could improve the neighborhood like people picking up the trash and homeowners keeping up their homes and taking care of the lawn care.

  • @sameras3789
    @sameras3789 Місяць тому +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @ljljlj9263
    @ljljlj9263 Місяць тому +5

    Exactly 💯💯💯

  • @mizsevenoneeight685
    @mizsevenoneeight685 Місяць тому +1

    Who is “they”. People with the resources to obtain, improve and maintain neighborhoods that are historically black and have now been turned into virtual war zones through poverty, criminality and degeneracy are buying property. Why haven’t the black people in those neighborhoods collectively done the same since that opportunity existed for anyone to take advantage of?

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@mizsevenoneeight685 when I said they, I was referring to foreign shop owners that make money by feeding the communities toxic foods. The people in this neighborhood are treated like less than human and this is reflected in the way they live their lives. BLAME THE CAUSE OF OPPRESSION NOT THE VICTIM! WHERE US YOUR HUMANITY?

    • @Robert-ur8mi
      @Robert-ur8mi Місяць тому +1

      Exactly!! No accountability

  • @fallonaurielle
    @fallonaurielle Місяць тому +1

    ❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @justiceguru100
    @justiceguru100 Місяць тому

    This was end sooner than later.

  • @SingleFosterDad
    @SingleFosterDad Місяць тому

    after the war the Jewish people are going to California and New York Netanyahu said it 10 mil

  • @highlovevibration
    @highlovevibration Місяць тому

    🩵💎💙

  • @UnaversalTriumph1one
    @UnaversalTriumph1one Місяць тому +3

    💯

  • @BluuJourney
    @BluuJourney Місяць тому +1

    Yep!

  • @derricklangford4725
    @derricklangford4725 Місяць тому +3

    Girl bye Chatham is a dump, I'm in Uptown and I remember it before gentrification. You're leaving in the past

    • @T-Mr.Unknown93
      @T-Mr.Unknown93 Місяць тому +2

      You mean, living in the past?

    • @derricklangford4725
      @derricklangford4725 Місяць тому +1

      @T-Mr.Unknown93 BOTH 🤨

    • @MyGoose24
      @MyGoose24 Місяць тому +1

      You can see she's not all there ,and iIl, bet her house hasn't seen a paint brush in 40 years

  • @mztira4702
    @mztira4702 Місяць тому

    Mamma please don't ever, what have you gotten in the last few years outside of trump gave?

    • @mztira4702
      @mztira4702 Місяць тому

      I personally come from here and refrain this because I hurt too, do I matter too?

    • @mztira4702
      @mztira4702 Місяць тому

      Until we close the borders mammie, it will continue

  • @monamartin9915
    @monamartin9915 Місяць тому

    I like your thinking and will follow subscribe to your channel.

  • @skylaindigoink2013
    @skylaindigoink2013 Місяць тому +2

    Indeed! Many thanks for this! 🖤🗝️👣🧩💯

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому

      @@skylaindigoink2013 thank you for reaching out…

  • @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1
    @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1 Місяць тому +4

    Love the video! You have a new subscriber in me. 🫡

    • @TchiyaAmet
      @TchiyaAmet  Місяць тому +1

      @@LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1 thank you! I will post the videos of the rehab here…. I usually just post my music however my music is about this too! Peace