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Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff.

Co-op members, city officials and organizers weigh in on whether limited-equity housing co-ops can provide affordable and sustainably priced housing.

Tired of city officials’ promises to bring more grocery retailers to their neighborhoods, urban farmers and local organizers aren’t waiting around.

Barred from federal stimulus and living paycheck to paycheck, undocumented tenants rely on community groups—but both are running out of options.

Should Illinois residents who take in more income pay a higher tax rate? At its core, that was the matter at the top of every Illinois voter’s ballot this November. With huge amounts of resources ...

The pandemic made Chicago’s guaranteed income pilot possible—but at the federal level, the push to solve poverty through government-backed income is nearly a century old.

This story was reported and published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that ...

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