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Subsidized Housing

Landlords receive millions in housing subsidies while their properties remain in woeful condition.

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Subsidized Housing

January/February 2012

Landlords receive millions in housing subsidies while their properties remain in woeful condition.

Table of Contents

Subsidized money pit

Angela Caputo

Officials look the other way as millions in housing subsidies end up in the hands of landlords with abysmal records. 

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Cover Stories

Fosa de dinero subsidiada

Los oficiales miran hacia otro lado mientras que millones en subsidios de la vivienda terminan en manos de dueños con pésimos antecedentes.

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Cover Stories

Preserving affordability

A nonprofit transforms subsidized buildings in disarray.

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Cover Stories

Following Finney

Is the Woodlawn pastor an overextended do-gooder or a political rainmaker?

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Editor's Note

Time to deal with dilapidation

It’s a new year with new resolutions. And I’ve got some for local and federal housing authorities.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development should resolve to be courageous and slow the money that flows to landlords running an arsenal of dilapidated housing stock...

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Inside Stories

Grounded by tips

Chicago airport workers are earning less than Illinois’ minimum wage and paying taxes on income they say they never earned.

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Inside Stories

The Cabrini kids

Families still living in the area after the high-rises were demolished struggle to find child care centers that accept government vouchers.

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New Voices

Making the save

An educator imparts financial savvy to teens.

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Spin Offs

Black youth take biggest hit for pot

The news: A study published by the Archives of General Psychiatry found that African-American teens are less likely to use drugs, including marijuana, than their white or Latino counterparts.Behind the news:

A Chicago Reporter review of criminal...

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Spin Offs

The economics of homelessness

The news: Chicago Public Schools identified 10,660 homeless students from the start of the school year through Sept. 30, an increase of about 1,500 from last school year.

Behind the news:

Of the homeless students—more than 98 percent of whom were...

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Spin Offs

TIFs, even with reform, center around downtown

The news: Shortly after taking office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledged to reform the Tax Increment Financing District program and return the city’s use of the economic development tool to its “roots” of revitalizing blighted communities.

Behind the...

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Spin Offs

The faces of the '1 percent'

The news: Occupy Chicago, rallying behind its slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” entered a fourth month of protesting.

Behind the news:

Nationwide, white households are three times more likely to earn more than $200,000—the highest income bracket...

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6134 S. Kimbark Ave.

Despite decades of federal subsidies, the courtyard building at 6134 S. Kimbark Ave. has fallen deep into disrepair because of poor management. In late November, the city filed two lawsuits against the owner for heating problems. Since 2008, the city has initiated eight additional legal cases...