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Are you there, Erie? It’s me, Alayna. What would you think of me doing an op-ed on Erie’s Refocused Plan and our local government administration? You wouldn’t mind would you, Erie? I’ll tell you all my perceptions and concerns about it, and I won’t state anything without researching it first. I think it’s time for me to stick up for our community. I can’t go on saying nothing forever, can I? No, I can’t.
Here we go, again, on our own. It’s a familiar refrain in this community, but instead of being accompanied by sex symbols grinding to a soundtrack upon luxury vehicles, the lasting image symbolizing Erie’s journey is that of a sacrificial laborer strapped to the pilot of a locomotive rolling out of GE Transportation in Lawrence Park. That enduring imagery – the laborer, not the sex symbol – keeps people up at night, and rightly so.
In the summertime, with the outdoors calling, it can be harder to appreciate the value of a good roof over one’s head. But regardless of the weather — warm and inviting or cold and drab — all individuals have a right to decent and fair housing for themselves and their families. The federal Fair Housing Act was signed into law on April 11, 1968, by President Lyndon Johnson.
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