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Resident speakers at council meeting decry gentrification and urge more action on affordable housing
Summary
At the council meeting, community members described displacement, rising food assistance needs, and urged city officials to protect low-income neighborhoods and preserve housing affordability.
Several members of the public used the council's public-comment period to urge Greenville officials to address housing affordability and neighborhood displacement.
Minister Clarence Thornton told the council that low-income and long-term residents are being pushed out by higher-end development and that the number of people seeking food assistance his group hands out rose from about 100–120 bags per day to more than 200. "We still have to…
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