The Preservation Compact, a collaborative effort to preserve and expand the number of affordable housing units in Cook County, is looking for landlords to participate in their market survey. From their announcement:
This is the first in a new series of posts on integration-related news from around the web. If you have an item you'd like us to include just drop us a note.
Chicago, America’s most segregated big city
"The paths taken by Colin Lampark and Rosalyn Bates help illustrate why Chicago is the most racially segregated big city in America.
Both are young professionals with handsome earning potential. Both moved to the city a few years ago—Lampark, 28, to Lincoln Park; Bates, 31, to Bronzeville. And both chose neighborhoods reflecting their race, a practice common in Chicago.
Their personal stories, and many others, explain why blacks in Chicago are the most isolated racial group in the nation’s 20 largest cities, according to a Tribune analysis of 2008 population estimates. To truly integrate Chicago, 84 percent of the black or white population would need to change neighborhoods, the data show." from the Chicago Tribune
