Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/housing/page/2/)
After years of unfulfilled promises and inadequate housing initiatives, it’s time for elected officials to get serious about integrating the city.
For nearly a century, aldermanic prerogative has stymied the development of affordable housing by creating a patchwork of zoning control unique to Chicago.
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, critics say poor administration hampered the Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) program in Illinois, creating confusion and missed opportunities for survivors looking for housing.
The city is overdue for rent stabilization measures that would help stem gentrification and displacement.
Fritz Kaegi is challenging Assessor Joe Berrios over an opaque system found to overtax low-income neighborhoods.
The mayor backs a gun law that will send more black people to prison and won’t support a Jefferson Park housing project facing racist opposition.
The businessman who feds say defrauded elderly women, mostly on the West Side, out of millions in a reverse mortgage scheme will remain jailed awaiting trial.
The Chicago Transit Authority plans to acquire some homes to extend the “L” and affected residents want to ensure they’re fairly compensated in neighborhoods that have been especially slow to recover from the housing crash.
The Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance gave renters legal protections from bad landlords, but a proposal to change it would leave certain penalties to a judge’s discretion.
Private developers behind a plan to demolish public housing on the North Side are accused of concealing financing uncertainties.