Financing for Sports Stadiums Could Count as Helping the Poor

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Helping the poor by bulldozing their homes.

Admittedly, the homes that are displaced are usually old and run down, but that's why the real estate is attractive. Where do those people go? Hard to say because they didn't own the housing and have to find a new place to rent. Good luck.

60 years or so ago Cleveland "relocated" minorities during "urban renewal" for stadiums and an entertainment district. It might not have been a terrible idea because they provided low cost loans to buy homes in a rural area SE of the city. It's kind of weird because you drive through miles of farmland and small white towns on the way to Cleveland, then you get to Mespotamia and see small houses and black folks everywhere. Then into the wealthy suburbs of Solon and Cleveland proper.