Cities: November 2024 Archives

The Affordable Housing Crisis May Have Cost Us An Election | by Kenya Gibson | Nov, 2024 | Medium

A grassroots Democrat city councilor in Richmond, Virginia, writes that Democrat databases are not keeping up with voters displaced by gentrification: "Software company NGP VAN, in partnership with the Democratic party, sells access to voter databases. NGP VAN is extremely costly and impacts crucial races nationwide. Because they are effectively a monopoly, when NGP VAN makes cuts to help their bottom line, their decisions could have massive implications on our national democracy. On numerous occasions, we personally knew people who had moved in or out of the district, and their voting address was only updated after they voted. The DNC and state parties owe it to us to audit its processes to maintain voter data and to investigate possible ramifications of NGP VAN's 2023 layoffs after their sale to a private equity firm in 2022."