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HISTORICAL FACTS: 10 - Caught on Camera

Lori Lightfoot’s showdown with the feds: What’s at stake for people in Chicago

The mayor calls HUD’s accusations that City Hall has engaged in environmental racism “preposterous.” The funding that’s threatened by the dispute includes money that keeps 650 people with HIV or AIDS from living on the street.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago violated civil rights by moving polluting business to mainly Black and Latino area, government report finds

Housing department also warned mayor’s office of funding losses if no action taken

The Independent UK

HUD accuses Chicago of environmental racism, Gov. Pritzker catches COVID and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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HUD accuses city of Chicago of environmental racism by moving polluters to Black, Latino neighborhoods

City Hall could face losing hundreds of millions in federal housing money. A spokesman for Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls the HUD findings “absolutely absurd.”

Chicago Sun-Times

House Lawmakers Filed Cannabis Protection Amendments For Veterans And Folks Living In Federally Assisted Housing

House lawmakers recently introduced new amendments to a series of cannabis laws to fund parts of the federal government for the coming year, reported Mariju

Benzinga

Facebook Agrees to Safeguards in Ad Discrimination Case

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to change its ad targeting technology and pay $115,000 to settle US government allegations the social media giant allowed discrimination in who saw housing advertisements, authorities said Tuesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

California county offers a perk to landlords who rent to homeless veterans. Will it help?

Placer County officials believe just a few dozen veterans remain in the foothill community’s homeless population, and the local agency has a new program to help those former troops find places to live.

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Labyrinthine Zoning Rules Restricted Homeless Shelters During the Pandemic

As COVID-19 spread across the country, complex rules around land use and building permits made housing the poor and vulnerable effectively impossible.

Reason

A year after South Side apartment residents asked a judge to address awful living conditions, it’s decision time

City Hall and HUD now agree: People shouldn’t have to live in the conditions faced by residents of the badly run, federally subsidized Ellis Lakeview Apartments in North Kenwood.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden administration announces plan to ease housing crunch

The Biden administration opened the week with a sweeping proposal aimed at making homeownership and renting more affordable and attainable by addressing the national housing shortage over the next five years.

Tribune News Service

DOJ secretly issued subpoena to access Guardian reporter’s phone records

Newspaper decries ‘egregious’ move by DoJ to obtain details of Stephanie Kirchgaessner as part of investigation into media leaks

The Guardian - US

$20 million HUD grant doubles size of eviction legal help

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is doubling the size of its eviction protection program, designed to fund legal assistance for tenants seeking to stay in their homes

The Independent UK

Joe Biden Takes Another Stab at Zoning Reform

The administration is proposing to spend $10 billion over ten years incentivizing local and state governments to remove regulatory barriers to new housing construction.

Reason

EPA refuses to open new civil rights inquiry into General Iron

Southeast Side community groups hoped the environmental agency would look into the city’s role in a planned move of a North Side metal shredder to their neighborhood.

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Hurricane Harvey still causing suffering

Texas turned disaster aid for Harvey into a competition. Guess who’s losing out?

Benzinga

Cannabis Greenhouses On New York City Public Housing Rooftops? What Is Mayor Adams Thinking?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing cannabis cultivation in greenhouses on the rooftops of public housing buildings, a proposal that’s not likely to go down well with tenants of the buildings nor the federal government that funds them.

Tribune News Service

Chicago’s undocumented seniors face slim and dangerous housing options

CHICAGO — In the three days before Lilia had to vacate her basement apartment last summer, she cried herself to sleep each night. Her husband, Cipriano, 70, was in a hospital bed recovering from an emergency amputation of his left foot due to gangrene complications. But their landlords of more…

Benzinga

The Crisis In Housing, Part 3: Unequal Opportunities

The old cliché that “a rising tide lifts all boats” is not applicable to the U.S. housing market. Two demographics within the U.S. population, Black Americans and the LGBTQ community, have painful histories of real estate disenfranchisement. Even today, obstacles remain for these groups to enjoy the opportunities that others…

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The Independent UK

HUD to send out nearly $3 billion in disaster relief grants

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is allocating nearly $3 billion in disaster relief to cover recovery efforts by multiple state and local governments

The Independent UK

HUD says Texas agency discriminated in flood relief funding

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says Texas’ administration of flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey broke federal law by discriminating against Black and Hispanic residents of the Houston area

Texas Observer

Houston Is Hailed as a National Success for Fighting Homelessness. But the Reality Isn’t Quite as Rosy.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

The Independent UK

HUD prioritizes environment, economic equity in bloc grants

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has laid out new guidelines for the disbursal of $2 billion in disaster-relief bloc grants, with an emphasis on climate-change mitigation and equity for underserved communities

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