By Sarah Rothschild | June 6, 2018 | Housing
File under: affordable housing, community development, Gentrification, opportunity gap, Poverty, Segregation
The Chicago region’s homes are under water and it is not due to the annual flooding from the Des Plaines River. Chicago ranks 2nd in the nation for the most homes that owe more money than they’re worth. And the majority of those homes are on the South Side.
By Pavlyn Jankov | May 23, 2018 | Housing, Justice, Schools
File under: community development, disinvestment, Segregation
Investment is flowing rapidly and visibly into the areas surrounding downtown Chicago. But many neighborhoods, some often just outside these zones of wealthy development, continue to shed jobs and public investment in a cycle of neglect. Chicago Public Schools had an...By Sarah Rothschild | May 9, 2018 | Health, Housing, Schools
File under: Environmental Racism, Segregation
The appalling filth and environmental hazards in our schools are driven by decades of neglect, particularly in schools that serve Black and Brown children. But Chicago’s working class communities of color have been dogged by generations of environmental racism, as well.
By Pavlyn Jankov | February 13, 2018 | Housing, Jobs, Justice, Schools
File under: Segregation
Amazon’s logistics footprint expands with the help of billions in tax dollars, but scholars find their promise of job growth empty.
By CTU Communications | June 19, 2017 | Immigration
File under: guest post, High School, Immigration, Racism, Sanctuary
Ed. Note: Today’s post comes to us from our allies at Logan Square Neighborhood Association, who have been working with young folks to build sanctuary schools that protect our students and their families. We’re excited to profile their work here. Students... 
By CTU Communications | June 16, 2017 | Further Reading
This week, we’ve moved our schedule around a little bit to accommodate and highlight yesterday’s story on dual-segregation. Here’s what we’ve been reading in the meantime. We’re focusing on the many ways racism rears its head in... 
By Pavlyn Jankov | June 15, 2017 | Schools
File under: Racism, Segregation, teachers
Recently, CPS CEO Claypool invoked the racist policies of the south to draw attention to inequitable state funding in Illinois. However, he refuses to acknowledge the ways Jim Crow policies have shaped school opportunity in Chicago, both in the past, and under his... By CTU Communications | June 8, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Broke on Purpose, Budget, Immigration, police brutality, Segregation, state budget
This week, we’re reading about Illinois’ regressive school funding formula, how Chicago communities are fighting deportation, and how CPS policies have worked to segregate Black students as well as Black teachers. A Just Chicago will have more on the new... 
By CTU Communications | June 5, 2017 | Housing
File under: affordable housing, homeownership, Poverty, tax policy
Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond recently published a piece in the New York Times Magazine outlining how flawed federal tax policies prop up home prices while leaving renters without the help they need to stay in their homes. The biggest culprit is a... By CTU Communications | June 1, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Budget, Jobs, Justice, LGBTQ, reparations, wages
This week, we’re looking at incarceration and how the city has started implementing reparations, what kinds of jobs bring real stability to low-income families, and how affirming our students’ identities impacts their achievement in school. 1.... 
