Pete Buttigieg pushed an aggressive plan to revitalize South Bend. Not everyone felt its benefits
Then 29-year-old Buttigieg won office on a plan of urban revitalization and data-driven governance. Newsweek had recently tagged South Bend as one of America's dying cities.So he laid out a plan: Get rid of urban blight, revitalize downtown and attract the kind of economy that had eluded South Bend ever since the car manufacturer Studebaker left town decades before, leaving a gaping hole -- both physically and mentally -- in the city of just over 100,000 Hoosiers.
But in the wake of that, people lost homes."Pete Buttigieg's unlikely rise as a symbol of LGBT progress The experience lit a fire under Williams-Preston, who went on to create a group of local organizers that has become a force pushing against the Buttigieg administration. She then successfully ran for South Bend Common Council, the city council, in 2015 and is now running for mayor, looking to replace the man who motivated her to get into politics.
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