A City That Works
Conor Durkin, Richard DayPolicy analysis and ideas on how to make Chicago work better.
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| Publishes | Weekly | Issues | 48 |
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The long road out of prerogative
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest post - our first! - and is authored by Lionel Barrow, a member of Abundant Housing Illinois. If you have any ideas you’d like to pitch for a future guest post, please reach out.
Construction costs for affordable housing are skyrocketing
It won’t be news to regular readers around here, but Chicago has a housing crisis. The DePaul Institute of Housing Studies estimates that the city is short 120,000 units of low-cost housing. Estimates of the number of homeless Chicagoans mo...
S&P just downgraded Chicago. What does that mean?
Last week, ratings agency S&P downgraded the City of Chicago, lowering our general obligation (GO) bond rating from BBB+ to BBB. This wasn’t particularly unexpected, considering that they had placed the city on negative watch in November of...
Scoreboard: How did Chicago do in 2024?
On any given day, City Hall can be preoccupied by a million different controversies. It’s easy to focus on the scandal or fight of the moment. Some of that is necessary: voters care about all sorts of stuff, and politicians have to be respo...
Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Mostly transit, housing and state capacity. Always Chicago. Opinions here are my own, and don’t reflect the views of employers, past, present or future. I also write occasionally for Streetsblog.
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