By Marcus Evans, Jr. These days, it is harder than ever to make ends meet for hardworking families in Chicago, particularly in our city’s Black communities. Rapidly rising costs have exacerbated longstanding inequity and injustice rooted in our city’s historical and contemporary actions, such as redlining and discriminatory housing policies that stagnated Black homeownership rates … Continued

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