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The coronavirus pandemic has underscored housing disparities between Black and white people in Louisville, with Black residents more likely to face financial hardships that put them behind on rent, according to a report from the Metropolitan Housing Coalition.
The nonprofit agency, made up of more than 300 members, released its latest State of Metropolitan Housing Report on Tuesday, breaking down the struggles residents faced as they attempted to stay healthy at home over the last year.
According to the report, Black residents were more likely than white residents to experience layoffs, job losses and pay cuts through the pandemic, leading them to more often miss rent and utility payments.
When you think of eviction, it’s usually an individual tragedy. Someone gets cast out for not paying rent.
But here in Eastern Kentucky, millionaire Lexington developer Patrick Madden conspired with local governments to evict an entire neighborhood of residents who have paid their rent for years.
A whole community is being evicted in the middle of the most deadly pandemic in more than a century.
With COVID-19 raging late last year, Rowan County Fiscal Court and the Morehead City Council colluded with Madden and sealed the fate of more than 100 residents in the North Fork Mobile Home Park off Interstate 64 in Morehead. These folks have worked hard, raised families and voted for officials who set in motion their displacement.
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Some well-intentioned liberals are praising Kentucky Republican lawmakers for making it easier to vote in the Bluegrass State, instead of passing laws aimed at suppressing minority votes, most of which go to Democrats.
They’d never admit it, of course. But the Republicans approved voting “reform” legislation because it helps the GOP.
Last year, the deadly coronavirus pandemic led to emergency changes in voting rules to give Kentuckians greater and safer access to the ballot box.
Mostly rural, Bible Belt conservative Kentucky is one of the reddest of the Republican red states. Hence, the new rules were bound to work in the Republicans’ favor.