Mayor Lightfoot’s Affordable Housing Plan Hits Roadblock When Housing Advocates Cry Foul – Bisnow

The Chicago Department of Housing proposed at a Sept. 11 City Council committee meeting a series of reforms to the Chicago Community Land Trust, which provides affordable homes to city residents that meet certain income restrictions. Strenuous opposition came almost immediately from the very neighborhood groups Lightfoot had courted throughout her campaign.
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Astonished
6 years ago

Chicago’s usual approach to affordable housing is to export their dysfunctional population to other communities. When the high rises were closed, that’s exactly what they did, sending the poor to Rockford, Peoria, and even out of state.

All of these proposals are fake. Behind them are political hacks lined up to cash in on one tax-paid boondoggle after another. It’s the Chicago way.

debtsor
6 years ago

I’m not a progressive so I don’t understand why anyone has a ‘right’ to rent in an area they can’t afford.

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