Local issues are being discussed at Occupy Chicago, and some of the discussion involves real estate.
The Reader’s Ben Joravsky, who’s lavished more ink than anyone else on the subject of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing districts, outlines his take on how TIFs have been misused in Chicago. See the Reader’s Reader’s TIF archives for more.
In the above video Mary Pattillo of Northwestern University talks about public housing and focuses on a number of the developments involved in the CHA’s Plan for Transformation. Mary’s name is misspelled in the video.
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