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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,512 - Springfield Residents “Displaced” As Landlords Triple Rent Prices To Accommodate Haitian Migrants
Description: A resident of Springfield, OH, has told a city commission meeting that locals are being displaced from their homes to make way for Haitian migrants.
The man, who has not been named, said the federal government was paying “triple the rent” for Haitians arriving in the town, thus incentivizing landlords to prioritize immigrants over existing residents.
Addressing the city commission, the resident – who said he’d worked with the homeless community for more than 25 years – said he didn’t know of “a single homeless Haitian in this town because they all got v...