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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