How City Politics Has to Led to a Housing Shortage – Chicago Magazine

"Affordable housing advocates have gone so far as to describe aldermanic prerogative as a 'tool of the new Jim Crow.' A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development investigation gave that criticism more weight: The nearly five-year civil rights probe found that Chicago had turned alderpersons into mini-mayors of each ward."

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