Coronavirus
ROUNDUP: As Illinois reopens, pandemic response leaves hardest hit behind
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Here’s what we’re reading as Illinois and Chicago prepare to advance into the next phase of reopening businesses and public spaces.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Emergency housing relief proposed in Illinois to stave off mass evictions, foreclosures
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To make rent cancellation work, legislators want to maximize a fund for landlords to recoup lost rental income while waiting for federal action.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
A model to prevent a wave of evictions in the wake of coronavirus recession
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A new coalition in East Garfield Park is aiming to head off displacement, gentrification and a land grab by speculators by protecting affordable housing and heeding the lessons of 2008.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Growing housing crisis must become a priority in coronavirus response
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As residents wait on rent and mortgage relief on the state and federal levels, Chicago officials are using costly hotel rooms instead of vacant public housing units to shelter the homeless.
Perspectives
The coronavirus pandemic is making the US housing crisis even worse
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Even as Americans are all told to remain at home, millions are now unemployed and must scramble to figure out how to pay for that home.
Coronavirus
ROUNDUP: Power plays in COVID-19 fight as peak remains out-of-sight in Chicago and Illinois
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With the state stay-at-home order extended through May, officials spar over how best to manage relief and respond to the still escalating pandemic.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Illinois changes Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment policies in response to COVID-19
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Advocates praise Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new measures meant to help low-income communities survive the crisis, but say much more is needed in a variety of areas.
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‘Green gentrification’ and lessons of the 606
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A six-month development freeze around the new Northwest Side trail gives community groups a chance to explore strategies to preserve affordable housing — and park projects like El Paseo and the Obama Presidential Center could benefit from its lessons.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Lightfoot’s only option to ease perpetual budget deficits may be city income tax
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To win support from voters and the City Council, the mayor will have to address budget shortfalls while reducing regressive taxation and responding to demands for better services and economic development in long-neglected communities.
Perspectives
Los Angeles is far from ending homelessness – but other American cities can still learn a lot from it
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Donald Trump has some ideas about how to end homelessness in the US. Los Angeles’ recent experiences may be an important part of the discussion.