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Illinois' Scavenger Sale law, which was passed to make delinquent properties productive again, has done little to solve racial inequities, a recent study claims.
A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods
The discriminatory lending policy led to “vast swaths" of vacant and boarded-up buildings in minority neighborhoods, the study by a team at the treasurer’s office found.