How Chicago's affordable housing system perpetuates city's long history of segregation
Government-backed affordable housing in Chicago has largely been confined to majority-Black neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty over the last two decades, a design that has perpetuated the city's long history of segregation.
As the neighborhoods faced rising divestment, gun violence and food deserts, the lack of affordable housing in other parts of the city restricted many people of color from leaving.
But now, using its largest pot of federal housing funding, Chicago wants to chart a corrective path by aggressively pushing for more affordable homes in high-income, well-resourced areas, which housing experts say would unlock previously unavailable opportunities for communities of color.
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On Wednesday, President Biden announced and outlined the next priority on his legislative agenda: a climate-centered infrastructure bill.
At $2 trillion-plus, the American Jobs Plan is a far-reaching proposal to modernize and transform the built environment and infrastructure of the United States. The scope of it is impressive. The plan would, if passed, provided a total of $115 billion for roads and bridges, $85 billion for public transit, $80 billion for passenger and freight rail and $111 billion for water infrastructure including $45 billion for lead abatement, to prevent another Flint, Mich., or Jackson, Miss.
Read moreAmerica’s dual housing crisis and what Democrats plan to do about it, explained
America’s dual housing crisis and what Democrats plan to do about it, explained
A crisis of low incomes and a parallel crisis of tight supply.
Matthew Yglesias, Vox, July 30, 2019. Available Here.
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The Power Of Purpose: How Jonathan Rose Is Creating 'Communities Of Opportunity'
Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, April 30, 2019. Full article available here.
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