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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing with aldermanic prerogative, HUD says

Chicago City Council members have been accused of “unfettered power over zoning, land use, city lots and public financing in order to decide where, if and how affordable housing is built in their wards.” (Sun-Times file)

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 Chicago Sun-Times. 

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