After yesterday’s article on DHS and Beacon, a few questions came in. One of them:

“Hey Katie: What is your take on what the Mayor said at the Townhall meeting about ICE?”

Katie’s answer:
“I found him stronger in delivery than he usually delivers. He seemed like he cared as he read the statement. Cared in a defending of the People of Beacon kind of way.
Like his chest was out. Ready.

“He’s not like that about housing and rental price problems. But for ICE over-reach, he was firm.”

To lengthen the answer:

Mayor Kyriacou is firm about housing and rental price problems in that he does not want to fix them. He presents everything that exists now that in theory should keep prices down. The devotion to free market and the invisible hand that would keep prices down. But we all know that doesn’t work in real estate. And there are other issues that are not discussed that keep people locked out, like:

3 month rent savings to rent a condo (Hudson View, Vista Point)
No co-signers allowed (Hudson View, Vista Point)
Landlord accountability (hardly any)
Selective Building Inspections that can result in eviction (commercial or residential)
Select realtors driving prices up by creating bidding wars, encouraging cash offers, and pitting buyers against each other by threatening to kill a sale with another offer.

That said. Mayor Kyriacou was firm in his protective tone of ICE over-reach. Which I suppose is an oxymoron because ICE should not exist and was created for selective removal of people to maintain white supremacy.

I will also say that in Beacon, many citizens have their hope and faith in the City of Beacon Police Department, that they are not willing to become accomplices of ICE. That is a hope and belief I have, but I am not in the trenches to see what really happens. I do have faith in the Beacon Police Department that they are not looking to become accomplices.

See you in the next article about the upcoming protest.