Deerfield Man Accuses Other Village Residents of Trying to Keep Out the Poor

Residents of Deerfield who have voiced their opposition to the Zion Woods project that seeks to allow people with lower incomes to move into the village have convinced one resident that accusations of xenophobia, racism and general disdain of the poor are “dead-on accurate” in the village.

Brian O’Donnell - a resident of Deerfield himself - charges that others who call the village home are “vehemently attempting to defeat a proposition to allow lower-income residents, many of whom already work in Deerfield, to live in the community they work in” in a letter to the Deerfield Review.

“Instead, the residents of this mostly white enclave are perfectly happy telling these hard-working people that they can be servants but not neighbors. Using thinly veiled double-speak, they assure this plan to lock the poor out is in the interest of traffic or school overcrowding, but it’s not.”

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