Men moving furniture
Nate Hudson, a driver with Chicago Furniture Bank, unloads a dresser for a pair of asylum seekers who are moving into an apartment in a North Side neighborhood on June 14, 2023. Tessa Weinberg / WBEZ
Men moving furniture
Nate Hudson, a driver with Chicago Furniture Bank, unloads a dresser for a pair of asylum seekers who are moving into an apartment in a North Side neighborhood on June 14, 2023. Tessa Weinberg / WBEZ

Chicagoans are facing rents that increased by 1.4% in the past month compared to the national rate of 0.4%. This is on top of application fees and various fees associated with moving.

Reset learns about the screening process and the pressures prospective tenants and landlords are under.

GUESTS: Michelle Gilbert, legal and policy director at Law Center for Better Housing

Michael Glasser, president of the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance

Ahmadou Dramé, director of the Illinois Justice Project

Men moving furniture
Nate Hudson, a driver with Chicago Furniture Bank, unloads a dresser for a pair of asylum seekers who are moving into an apartment in a North Side neighborhood on June 14, 2023. Tessa Weinberg / WBEZ
Men moving furniture
Nate Hudson, a driver with Chicago Furniture Bank, unloads a dresser for a pair of asylum seekers who are moving into an apartment in a North Side neighborhood on June 14, 2023. Tessa Weinberg / WBEZ

Chicagoans are facing rents that increased by 1.4% in the past month compared to the national rate of 0.4%. This is on top of application fees and various fees associated with moving.

Reset learns about the screening process and the pressures prospective tenants and landlords are under.

GUESTS: Michelle Gilbert, legal and policy director at Law Center for Better Housing

Michael Glasser, president of the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance

Ahmadou Dramé, director of the Illinois Justice Project