Committee OKs tool to reclaim distressed properties concentrated in communities of color – Chicago Sun-Times*

Maggie Cassidy, program director for the planning department, said abandoned and distressed Chicago properties are “concentrated in communities of color” for obvious reasons. “This is a pernicious legacy of segregation, residential redlining and the 2008 foreclosure crisis,” Cassidy said.
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Pat S.
4 years ago

“This is a pernicious legacy of segregation, residential redlining and the 2008 foreclosure crisis,”

I tire of the constant drumbeat of racism. If it isn’t racism, it’s Putin’s or Trump’s fault.

This tendency to attribute any deficiency to anyone but the people responsible is wearing thin.

Always remember the little boy who cried ‘wolf!’

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