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Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing with aldermanic prerogative, HUD says

Por: Chicago Sun Times Politics November 28, 2023

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The city of Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing by allowing City Council members to reject developments in their wards through the use of their aldermanic prerogative, federal investigators say.Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is being asked to enter talks for an “informal resolution” of an almost five-year civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a letter obtained by the... + full article



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