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    “All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Integration in Tompkins County” Bumper sticker

    “Integration in Tompkins County” Bumper sticker

    “Put the poor urban blacks and the poor rural whites together – somewhere else.” The County Comp Plan calls it “balance the burdens” – but it’s another name for the County’s policy to move everything and everyone they don’t want in Ithaca – somewhere else.

    When a drug rehab center marred their vibrant downtown – they found a better home for it in another municipality. Necessary public works in Ithaca’s “jungle” displaced the homeless; but they were found new housing – elsewhere. The County’s urban housing authority merged with rural providers and absentee landlords turned rural homes into subsidized housing apartments for the urban unwanted — and since agriculture is the only rural activity and land use that the County considers of any importance – those people [and their problems] effectively disappeared. Clever. And there are other words for it . . .

    Posted on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021Author dougabaird@earthlink.netCategories Rural Tompkins BlogsTags All Roads Lead to Cornithaca, Cornithaca County, government policy, rural community, rural poor, rural social justice, rural tompkins County, Tompkins County, Tompkins County and Tammany Hall

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