A Buckeye Reporter investigation has confirmed that Mayor Rob Rue of Springfield, Ohio, is renting out apartments in buildings that he owns to Haitian immigrants—a move that some local residents are calling a conflict of interest.
The Haitian community in Springfield has gained national attention after former president Donald Trump’s debate comments on Sept. 10, alleging that Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs.
However, locals argue that they’re the ones being put through the meat grinder due to a strained local economy from the influx of Haitian immigrants that now comprises roughly 25 percent of the population in Springfield.
A few blocks away from Little and Rue Funeral Home, also owned by Rue, a 37-year-old man who introduced himself as “Works” lives in an apartment on an estate worth an estimated $1.3 million.
Works told Buckeye Reporter that he and other Haitian immigrants reside in properties owned by Rue.
