"Like his friend and like his son, Mike strongly believes in caring for what and who are already here. In every one of the many conversations we have from May 2

"Like his friend and like his son, Mike strongly believes in caring for what and who are already here. In every one of the many conversations we have from May 2020 to February 2021, he shares with me, in his quiet, passionate voice, his vision: shuttered schools across the south and west sides remodeled, their doors opening like petals for women and children fleeing violent homes or for other Chicagoans in need of shelter while they wait for housing vouchers to come through, classrooms converted to dormitories, cafeterias serving whoever needs to eat." It should be noted that this is unlikely to happen, unfortunately. https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-closures-and-gentrification-black-metropolis https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/school-closures-and-gentri... https://prospect.org/education/gentrification-school-closings-displacement-chicago/ https://prospect.org/education/gentrification-school-closing... Like Campus 805 in Huntsville, Alabama, they're much more likely to be torn down or redeveloped into a play-space for new transplants. Any sort of public service runs directly counter to the purpose of shutting down those schools in the first place.