Since 2004, our efforts are geared at challenging gentrification and preventing the displacement of Chicago’s oldest Puerto Rican community. We hope to engage residents in a serious dialogue meant to insert longtime residents into the process of building the future of Humboldt Park.We are an initiative of the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center, a 35-year community organization. We developed in response to the lack of educational resources on gentrification and how residents of the Humboldt Park community can resist it. The “¡Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE!†campaign, during its first phase, has therefore began to conduct community surveys, host community educational and resource events, and disseminate through multiple media outlets truthful and hopeful views of Paseo Boricua-Humboldt Park. We also organized a 250-strong community march and housing summit.For more information or if you want to get involved, please contact us at
[email protected] or call (773) 227-7794. Check out our website www.prcc-chgo.org/pdemocracy or www.facebook.com/humboldtparknot4sale
