A Housing Agenda For Chicago’s Next Mayor

By Daniel Tucker
Fair housing testing conducted over a year by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights reveals housing discrimination in the Bridgeport, Clearing, Hyde Park, Jefferson Park, Mount Greenwood, and Near North Side community areas.
Fair housing testing conducted over a year by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights reveals housing discrimination in the Bridgeport, Clearing, Hyde Park, Jefferson Park, Mount Greenwood, and Near North Side community areas. Arionne Nettles/WBEZ
Fair housing testing conducted over a year by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights reveals housing discrimination in the Bridgeport, Clearing, Hyde Park, Jefferson Park, Mount Greenwood, and Near North Side community areas.
Fair housing testing conducted over a year by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights reveals housing discrimination in the Bridgeport, Clearing, Hyde Park, Jefferson Park, Mount Greenwood, and Near North Side community areas. Arionne Nettles/WBEZ

A Housing Agenda For Chicago’s Next Mayor

By Daniel Tucker
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Affordable housing, gentrification, displacement. Just a few of the issues that Chicago’s next mayor may have to contend with when he or she takes office in May.

Morning Shift discusses housing policy ahead of the February 26 mayoral election.

GUESTS: Geoff Smith, executive director of the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University

Alden Loury, senior editor for WBEZ’s Race, Class and Communities desk

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The Mayoral Housing Forum That Almost Wasn’t (Chicago Reporter 12/13/18)

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