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Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over preside over a Chicago City Council meeting to deliver the 2023 Budget Address at City Hall last month.

Ashlee Rezin

Mayor Lori Lightfoot

Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over preside over a Chicago City Council meeting to deliver the 2023 Budget Address at City Hall last month.

Ashlee Rezin

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Lightfoot and allies blocked a hearing for Bring Chicago Home ordinance

In 2018, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless proposed an ordinance that would tax home sales over $1 million at a higher rate in an effort to fight homelessness in Chicago. On Monday, Mayor Lightfoot and her allies in City Council blocked a hearing for that ordinance, known as Bring Chicago Home. Reset breaks down what happened and what’s next with a grassroots leader and two alderpeople who sponsored the ordinance. GUESTS: Carla Johnson, grassroots leader with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Ald. Matt Martin, 47th Ward Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th Ward

Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over preside over a Chicago City Council meeting to deliver the 2023 Budget Address at City Hall last month.

Ashlee Rezin
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In 2018, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless proposed an ordinance that would tax home sales over $1 million at a higher rate in an effort to fight homelessness in Chicago. On Monday, Mayor Lightfoot and her allies in City Council blocked a hearing for that ordinance, known as Bring Chicago Home.

Reset breaks down what happened and what’s next with a grassroots leader and two alderpeople who sponsored the ordinance.

GUESTS: Carla Johnson, grassroots leader with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

Ald. Matt Martin, 47th Ward

Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th Ward

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