Tax Sale Reform Bill addresses longtime displacement of Black and Brown families – Chicago Crusader

“The Cook County annual tax sale has been robbing South and West side homeowners of their assets for far too long,” said Sarah Brune, of Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago. She added, “Even those who administer the tax sale agree that it’s time for change.” The annual tax sale has been shown to have significant disparate impacts on Black and Brown communities.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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