Chicago launches $3.5M grant fund for community-owned properties – Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a news release: “As we celebrate Juneteenth, we are recommitting ourselves to the critical work of repairing past harms through investment and opportunity. The work of repair and restoration is central to our mission. This is collective work that impacts our entire communities, so we are putting these funds to help build up collective ownership models in neighborhoods that have been shut out for far too long.”
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Old Joe
10 months ago

Hmm….I smell a connected griftt.

Chercher
10 months ago

Will the collective owners pay the real estate taxes every year? Or are they getting a break?

anna
10 months ago

Conehead violates the Constituion by using skin color as the sole determining factor in awarding taxpayer money for whatever reason- contracts, promotions, “reparations”

Anyone accepting this money will be on the hook for it being repaid once the courts step in.
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Call my shrink
10 months ago

It could be more, but we’re a sanctuary city and we have to spend money we don’t have on future voters Oops I mean illegals

Hello, Indiana!
10 months ago

“ Umm hmm. We gonna get our Reperationisms one way or nother! “ explained Homie to an approving, nodding audience of the underserved.

daskoterzar
10 months ago

Yeah, yeah…juneteenth…who give a crap. Just another reason for the PinHead to pull a race card, whine and spend more money. Likely a waste of time and money – as usual.

Brian Jones
10 months ago

“Collective ownership”

Ok, Karl Marx. You sure you want to head that way? The Soviets style?

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