Chicago Newsroom 11/15/18

Published on Nov 15, 2018

Ken Davis is joined by the Chicago Rehab Network’s Executive Director David Jackson. They discuss yesterday’s City Council action which sought to create pilot programs in Pilsen and Little Village that could stem the rapid gentrification and Hispanic displacement in both communities. The Council also re-established the Department of Housing, which had been disbanded in 2008 (although with considerably less funding than it had a decade ago.)

They discuss the effect on affordable housing that the loss of Amazon might trigger in Chicago, and the long-term result of Mayor Emanuel’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance, which collects fees from developers who opt not to include affordable units in their buildings.

In the second segment, The Better Government Association’s Madison Hopkins tells us about her investigation into the multiple failures of the City’s Blue Cart recycling program, which is turning in the worst recycling rate of any major American city and is mired in charges that a private contractor, Waste Management, is incentivized to reject carts-full of recycling, because then city crews haul the content away, often to landfills owned by Waste.

This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).