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Posts tagged "housing"

Should Illinois pull out of the nationwide 'robo-signing' settlement?

Should Illinois pull out of the nationwide 'robo-signing' settlement?
California did. New York did. Now Nevada, Massachusetts and Delaware may follow suit. And today, citizens of Chicago are calling on Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to join the growing number of states that have pulled out of a legal settlement that attorney generals from across the nation struck with banks as punishment for improperly... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
January 17, 2012 at 1:18 pm
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Subsidized housing and slum landlords

What do you have if you put together a prominent landlord, $300 million in development projects and apartments without heat? Today, tune in to the  Barbershop Show on Vocalo at noon, when we’ll look into what the conditions are in subsidized housing managed by one polarizing figure on the South Sider–Leon Finney Jr. Finney is a... Read more »
By YanaKunichoff,
January 13, 2012 at 9:59 am
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How one family drew a one-strike investigation

Around this time last year, Patricia Reed, her husband Albert Sims and I were catching up on the third floor of Cook County’s criminal courthouse when she filled me in on her moving plans. I was working on a piece about 17-year-olds in the adult felony system at the time and was lucky enough to... Read more »
By AngelaCaputo,
September 13, 2011 at 11:43 am
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In Chicago, even wealthy black families live in poor neighborhoods

Unlike the Jeffersons, affluent minority families aren’t always “movin’ on up.” A new study of recently released census data shows that wealthy black and Hispanic families often live alongside much poorer neighbors. White families in Chicago making more than $75,000 a year live in neighborhoods where only 7.6 percent of their neighbors make considerably less... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
August 8, 2011 at 3:14 pm
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Rental help for poor folks on chopping block

You can’t point to any particular affordable housing project in Chicago, in another city in Illinois, or in any other part of the country and say it was financed by the National Housing Trust Fund. The fund does indeed exist, but its coffers have never been filled. And now the fund–intended to help people with... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
July 19, 2011 at 4:58 pm
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The devastated housing market on Chicago's South and West sides during the Daley era

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley will be remembered for the rise of shiny, new downtown condominiums and the fall of towering public housing buildings. But his tenure should also be remembered for declining homeownership and the dramatic rise of cost-burdened renters and home owners in many of Chicago’s South and West side communities. In a... Read more »
By CRIntern,
June 5, 2011 at 7:45 am
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Daley agrees on compromise to Sweet Home Chicago ordinance

The first time I heard of the Sweet Home Chicago ordinance was on a chilly December day in 2009. A large group of protesters gathered outside of 2nd Ward Alderman Bob Fioretti’s office on a very chilly day, demanding that Tax Increment Financing District dollars be used to fund affordable housing. It was so cold... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
May 4, 2011 at 8:52 am
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Why moving too much matters for children

Imagine moving six times in six years. It seems like you’d never really get unpacked before you had to pack up again. Moving vans, crumpled newspaper, address change forms. Finding a new bank, grocery store or a new school for your children. Six years of always being the “new kid” in class. A new report... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
April 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm
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What do the homeless need? Ask them.

Most every day, I struggle with the same question many city-dwellers do: If someone on the street asks you for money, do you give it to them or just pass by? A study out of the United Kingdom is telling us something pretty surprising. Giving can work, but not just the spare change you have... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
March 23, 2011 at 8:17 am
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Sweet Home Chicago: If not now, when?

It’s clear that Chicago needs more affordable housing. Nearly half of Chicago households paying a mortgage and nearly half of Chicago households paying rent are spending 30 percent or more of their household income on housing and associated costs, according to an analysis of foreclosure and census data by The Chicago Reporter.. Twice this year Chicago... Read more »
By AldenLoury,
March 9, 2011 at 9:11 am
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