Iberville tenant leader denounces developer and his ethnic and class cleansing designs
Friday morning, September 15th, Iberville public housing resident Glenda Goins led four other C3/Hands Off Iberville members to confront millionaire Michael Valentino on the 4th floor of his new hotel/visitor center located next to the Iberville development. Valentino was holed up there with about 30 other or so people as part of a so-called undoing racism training session. The developer unveiled plans recently to turn Iberville into a ‘mixed income’ community--the new capitalist code word for racial and class cleansing--along the lines of the St. Thomas development. He was using the undoing racism session as part of his political strategy to legitimate his racist capitalist plans that calls for, among other things, shrinking the number of public housing units from the current 865 to only 300, imposing work requirements, and placing time limits on how long people can stay.