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Old Posted Jul 29, 2019, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright View Post
^^^ That's because the "affordable housing" rabble rousers aren't actually interested in housing people, they are interested in maintaining segregation in their political divisions so they can maintain power.


Honestly it's totally absurd that the CHA lands in areas like Bronzeville and Chinatown have been left fallow. Thousands of units could have been built on them to allieviate housing shortages all over the city.
Yeah but it's not just the politicians - there are lots of housing nonprofits in the city that continue to focus on things like the ARO in the pointless hope that it will reduce segregation and just because they want to own the libs... er, I mean developers.

And these same nonprofits turn a blind eye to the fact that we have thousands of acres of vacant or under-utilized land. We have manufactured our own housing "crisis" through counterproductive attitudes.

I have some hope that Lightfoot will give the new Housing Commissioner free reign to whip CHA into shape...
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