{"id":20678,"date":"2020-07-01T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=20678"},"modified":"2020-07-13T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T20:47:16","slug":"liberty-city-needs-to-be-its-own-municipality-for-change-to-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/liberty-city-needs-to-be-its-own-municipality-for-change-to-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty City Needs To Be Its Own Municipality For Change To Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve all heard the sayings: the \u201csqueaky wheel gets the oil\u201d or \u201cclosed mouths don\u2019t get fed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until the residents of unincorporated Liberty City have a local government of their own, they will continue to be governed by people who don\u2019t understand their distinct needs, and will be helpless to enact change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberty City\u2014commonly known as Model City\u2014is home to more than 23,000 residents in Miami, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120210125458\/http:\/\/www.miamigov.com\/Planning\/pages\/services\/Census.asp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to 2010 Census Bureau data<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. More than 94% of people who live there are Black, the data reads.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They deserve their own body of government\u2014like a mayor and city commission board\u2014in order to craft legislation that is specific to their community needs. Similar systems are in place in 34 municipalities across Miami, including the City of Homestead and City of Coral Gables, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/management\/municipalities.page\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">according to the county\u2019s website<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, Liberty City\u2019s residents are nomads in a desert, looking for a community to call home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would help Liberty City to adopt essential government services, such as a police, fire and a public works department, as well as establish an operating budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enacting these services would also help stimulate the area\u2019s economy: with the establishment of these government sectors, residents could apply for new jobs in their community.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As someone who has lived in the area for most of my life, I know how residents could benefit from this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a necessary step for a city that has a wealth of history, and residents that have made it a special place to live in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unincorporated Liberty City evolved into a community when Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Liberty Square Housing Project\u2014a 753-unit public housing apartment complex\u2014in 1933. It was the first public housing project for Black residents in the United States. At the time, segregation laws prohibited them from living anywhere outside Overtown, according to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.fiu.edu\/tequesta\/files\/1988\/88_1_04.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">research conducted by historian Paul S. George and Thomas K. Petersen, a former state attorney and public defender<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberty City eventually blossomed into an ideal Black neighborhood. But crime spread across the area in the 1960\u2019s when integration took place, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewtropic.com\/liberty-city-history-moonlight\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The New Tropic<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 1980\u2019s, the neighborhood made headlines when it was at the center of three race riots, after three Black men were killed by local police on separate occasions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given Liberty City\u2019s unique history, the area should be designated as its own municipality so it can stand on its own two feet. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the sayings: the \u201csqueaky wheel gets the oil\u201d or \u201cclosed mouths don\u2019t get fed.\u201d Until the residents of unincorporated Liberty City have a local government of 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