Black Homeowners Pay More Than ‘Fair Share’ in Property Taxes – PEW Charitable Trusts

June 26, 2020

Chicago offers a glimmer of hope, according to Aneel Chablani of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, which represented three housing organizations in a 2017 lawsuit alleging that Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios violated state and federal civil rights and housing laws by producing assessments that were unfair to poor and minority homeowners.

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