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 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...
