Standing outside a city-owned building on South Fifth Street last month, advocates with the tenant union PUSH Louisville held signs saying “Stop playing, we’re staying” and “Fight displacement — use the tool.”
Jessica Bellamy, a tenant organizer with the group, called on Louisville officials to finish implementing anti-displacement measures that were signed into law almost two years ago.
“Six hundred days ago, our city passed one of the most powerful housing policies in this country, a policy that was supposed to end the days of our government handing out money, land and deals to developers who raise our rents and drive us out,” she said. “But here we are.”…