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Tag: disinvestment

The Wrong Side of Ashland: Skinner, Dett and Brown

Pavlyn Jankov May 23, 2018 May 24, 2018Housing, Justice, Schools
Investment is flowing rapidly and visibly into the areas surrounding downtown Chicago. But many neighborhoods, some often just outside these zones of wealthy development, continue to shed jobs and public investment in a cycle of neglect. Chicago Public Schools had…

What we’re reading this week: May 18th

Lauren Dean May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017Further Reading
Shelves of books in a library This week, we’re reading about the mechanisms that drive Chicago’s continued inequities in a few different sectors. First up, some new information about how CPD uses computers and profiling to track folks without arrest records. Then, a look at how…

What We’re Reading: April 27th

Lauren Dean April 27, 2017 April 27, 2017Further Reading
Shelves of books in a library This week, we’re reading about CPS’s lack of plans to back their new mandates, how communities are fighting back against racist immigration policy, and how institutional racism impacts the ways students of color learn math. 1. What Will Happen if …

Contract Selling is “Racially targeted disinvestment”

Sarah Rothschild March 20, 2017 May 11, 2017Housing
A Chicago bungalow with boarded up windows For people who thought the housing crisis was behind us, a drive through Englewood, North Lawndale or Austin will quickly dispel that rosy notion, as a recent investigative report in the Chicago Reader explains. These communities are among many in…

School Segregation Continues

Carol Caref August 8, 2016 May 11, 2017Schools
Recent investigations by education reporters detail actions taken by Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education that clearly further racial segregation in Chicago Public Schools.
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