Efforts to Reduce Residential Segregation by Boosting Affordable Housing Supply Starting to Work, City Officials Say
“’If we are race neutral, we won’t get race-neutral results,’ Novara told WTTW News. ‘We know this. We had to change that. That’s on us.’
The revised law is creating more units that low-income Chicagoans can actually afford as well as more homes large enough for families than the version of the law that was in effect for six years, officials said.
During the first three months that the law was in effect, nine proposals that triggered those requirements were approved by the Chicago City Council, more than in similar periods in 2019 and 2020.”