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 | November 16, 2016 | Justice
File under: community development, police brutality, Racism, Segregation
One thing is certain, however, that when mourners gathered around the family’s home shortly after the tragic shooting, they were greeted by an angry group of flag waving white men who shouted racial obscenities and told the mourners to get out of “their” community.
By Sarah Rothschild | December 9, 2015 | Housing, Jobs, Justice
File under: Anita Alvarez, community development, disinvestment, incarceration, Jobs, police brutality, Poverty, Racism
Chicago Police Department superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired by Mayor Emanuel last Tuesday, after protesters have been demanding it for months. Back in October, members of the Black Caucus of the city council demanded his replacement because crime is still... 
By CTU Communications | August 30, 2015 | Action, Schools
File under: #fightfordyett, #wearedyett, Broke on Purpose, brokeonpurpose, Charter Schools, community development, disinvestment, Dyett, High School, KOCO, Outsourcing, Privatization, Racism, school choice, STEM education
They were gathered in the name of Dyett, the high school that the leaders of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced in 2012 would be shuttered at the end of 2015. This group of parents, community members, and students sat in the 95-degree heat to demand a meeting with the alderman, Will Burns. They wanted…
By Dr. Monique Redeaux-Smith | August 24, 2015 | Action, Schools
File under: #fightfordyett, #wearedyett, Bronzeville, Charter Schools, community development, disinvestment, High School, opportunity gap, Outsourcing, Privatization, Racism, school choice, Segregation
These are the reasons why I go hungry for Dyett. Because I refuse to accept that the current state of education is the best we can do. Because every child deserves a world class education in their neighborhood.
By Sarah Rothschild | July 10, 2015 | Housing
File under: community development, disinvestment, Poverty, Privatization
The CHA has been sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves. On Wednesday, July 8 the secretary of the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office reiterated this fact at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the former site of the Stateway Gardens public housing development, now re-christened as a mixed-income development called Park Boulevard.
By Sarah Rothschild | June 9, 2015 | Housing
File under: Chicago aldermen, community development, disinvestment, North Lawndale, West Side
Why does it take a rock festival attended mostly by young white people to wake the city up to the disinvestment on the west side? Both aldermen whose wards cover Douglas Park are hoping that Riot Fest will bring much needed attention and resources to their... 
