Chicago’s Efforts to Keep Housing Affordable in Woodlawn Falls Short as Obama Center Nears Opening – Illinois Answers Project

A review of hundreds of pages of city records and dozens of interviews with residents, organizers and experts shows that the city’s promises often fell short of reality as it failed to spend enough money to run some programs, provided little supervision and abandoned others. One home, built in 2019 on a lot that used to be owned by the city, is currently listed for more than a million dollars.
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taxpayer
3 months ago

Can anybody explain why construction of the Obama thing made the neighborhood more desirable?

Free at Last
3 months ago

The government’s efforts to solve a problem fall short. And in other news, water is wet. The government, especially Illinois and Chicago government, has never fixed a problem. They only layer on cost and ultimately make it worse. But hey, keep putting your faith in government. Otherwise you wouldn’t be perfect Illinoisans and Chicagoans.

Taxpayer
3 months ago

Once again, promises made, promises not kept.
When are all these gullible fools going to stop believing democrat politicians in Chicago.

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