We recently spoke with CBS Chicago about the results from our analysis on CPS board appropriations. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/07/25/who-gets-what-in-the-new-cps-capital-budget/
How Chicago aldermen are squashing affordable housing and reinforcing segregation, according to a new study. https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/07/23/study-aldermanic-prerogative-is-reinforcing-chicagos-segregation-problem
The department is aiming to roll back Obama administration attempts to curtail racial, ethnic, and income segregation in federally subsidized housing. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/ben-carson-hud-fair-housing-discrimination.html?smid=tw-share
Scrap metal shredder General Iron has announced they are are moving from their current Lincoln Park site to a proposed site bordering the South Deering and Hegewisch community areas in 2020. The move…
By Jeffrey Wozencraft, Jessica Kursman, and Nick Zettel|Posted on July 25, 2018
As part of our ongoing research on growing income inequality in Chicago entitled “Who Can Live in Chicago?”, the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center investigated Chicago Public Schools investment into schools by ward since…
By Jessica Kursman, Nicholas Zettel, and Jeffrey Wozencraft|Posted on July 19, 2018
Our last blog post mapped out the change in spatial distribution of income between 1970-2016 and found three distinct “cities” within the City of Chicago: City One includes all Census Tracts that increased their…
By Jessica Kursman and Nick Zettel|Posted on June 06, 2018
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, and in response to the growing income inequality in Chicago, the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center is working to answer the question “Who Can Live in Chicago?”. We will be…
Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/chicago-segregation-poverty/556649/?utm_source=twb
Janet Smith, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and co-director of UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, is interviewed during a Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-FM 91.5) news story about Illinois’…
