Jacksonville’s Eastside community is demanding more accountability after The Together Eastside Coalition released findings on how redevelopment dollars are being spent.
The community advocacy group presented a report showing what they call a “coordinated influence network” linking nonprofits, developers, and city leadership to the allocation and management of Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) funds for the Historic Eastside.
“We classify this as profits off of poverty,” a coalition member said. “The currency of collaboration and corporation is trust, and as we begin to look at the people who came into the community and were supposed to help develop, enrich, and serve the community, they ended up providing those services more for themselves, for friends and family, instead of the community they were serving.”…