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The tenants living at CHA's Washington Park Homes say they've had to live with mysterious rashes, lack of heat, mold, lack of repairs, and sewage water leaking into their kitchens.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Buy $8 cleaner at Home Depot and clean the dang mold yourself. Go to home depot and make the $10 repair yourself. Take some pride where you live, fix something yourself. I’m so tired of helpless people that want big government to take care of the most basic stuff for them.
If they speak English and are American citizens their voice will not be heard. That’s unfortunate.