Public Newsroom 73: Are Aldermen Keeping the City Segregated?
@ Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, August 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
UPDATE: We have moved this event from Build Coffee to the big room within Experimental Station to accommodate more folks!
Are Chicago aldermen using their aldermanic prerogative to keep neighborhoods segregated? That’s what a recent report co-authored by the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA) and the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law suggests.
Patricia Fron, CAFHA Executive Director, and Kate Walz, Director of Housing Justice at the Shriver Center, join us Thursday evening to break down the report, “A City Fragmented: How Race, Power, and Aldermanic Prerogative Shape Chicago’s Neighborhoods”. They will go over how affordable housing decisions are made in the city of Chicago and how these decisions often result in geographic imbalances in affordable housing development. Then they will dive into aldermanic prerogative, which they say is the central vehicle driving this imbalance: the mechanics, the history, the roots in racism, and the effects.
Stop by to learn more, and to be part of a conversation on how to create more equitable decision-making in Chicago. You can access the report at http://povertylaw.org/aldermanic-report.
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This event is part of City Bureau’s #PublicNewsroom programming, a series of free, weekly workshops and discussions aimed at building trust between journalists and the communities they serve while shaping a more inclusive newsroom.
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