Protesters decry ‘broken promises’ on affordable housing at Lathrop Homes

Protesters walk outside boarded-up buildings Saturday on North Leavitt Street near the Lincoln Park neighborhood during the 10th annual “Las Posadas,” a procession that was organized by the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance, Lathrop leaders and Palenque LSNA to demand Chicago Mayor Lightfoot and the Chicago Housing Authority rehabilitate Lathrop Homes and make it available for low-income, Black and Brown families. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

For the 10th straight year, the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance gathered Chicagoans Saturday morning to demonstrate against vacant buildings and a lack of affordable housing in the Lathrop Homes development on the North Side. 

This year’s march had more than 100 attendees following dramatists performing scripted acts between the biblical Joseph and Mary and a Chicago Housing Authority official.