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Community leaders from Evanston and Chicago discussed the history of redlining, fair housing policy and how these issues connect to reparations in a public forum Thursday. The forum was hosted by Open Communities, an Evanston-based non-profit housing agency focused on fair housing, and was moderated by Shorefront Legacy Center founder Dino Robinson. Panelists looked at housing discrimination through the lens of politics, religion, and business and included Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) and Black Coalition for Housing Executive Director Courtney Jones. Rue Simmons said Evanston’s initial repa...

The building was two stories, brick without detail, three small windows over a metal roll-up garage gate—an eyesore if there ever was one, crammed between two taller neighbors. The proposed replacement was in gray brick, the creaky gate swapped for a glass-and-metal storefront, the windows making way for a delicate brick screen, to let the light in. Let your own eyes judge: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Advertisement Advertisement This is what the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission thought: The old brick building, said commissioner and architect Michael Goldbl...

“Housing policy is at the nexus of so many other policy outcomes,” House Majority Leader Jason Rojas said. “It is...central to the larger debate were having right now about equity and racial justice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and also in the wake of the disproportionate impact COVID has had on lower income communities and communities of color.”

Open Communities, a fair housing non-profit serving Chicago's North and Northwest communities, is partnering with Cook County to assist suburban residents in paying missed rent and utility payments due to COVID-19.

The University of Malta’s Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education, in collaboration with Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar (FAA), is currently coordinating an artistic research project. The project, entitled Batman Gżirjan, will be contextualised in the town of Gżira. It  forms part of a wider European research study – ‘AMASS, Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture’ – that examines the impact of the arts on social challenges. Project organisers will be holding a series of creative workshops collaborating with two working groups: • Gżira locals, who curren...