Cook Co. treasurer wants to help Black homeowners who could lose houses to unpaid property taxes – ABC7 (Chicago)

Of the 38,000 homes on the tax sale list, nearly 75% are in Black communities. "We need to keep people in their homes," Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said. "If you don't have a home, you don't have a life."
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PlanningAnExit
5 years ago

How do we refer to actions that treat people differently based on the color of their skin or their ethnicity?

Platinum Goose
5 years ago
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Very simple.
actions that treat people differently based on the color of their skin or their ethnicity=democratic policy

Eugene on a payphone
5 years ago

I am worried that people who have not paid property tax for multiple years will have their debt to the County wiped clean. This sounds like a straightforward wealth transfer from the tax payers of the United States to the minority scofflaws of Cook County.

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