Evanston and Skokie residents voiced their concerns on housing affordability Saturday at Homing in on Housing, a housing forum hosted by Community Alliance for Better Government and Skokie Neighbors for Housing Justice. Held at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, the event brought together speakers to share about their housing struggles and successes and invited attendees to.
Northwestern established a research collaborative last year to study Evanston’s first-of-its-kind reparations program passed in 2019. The Evanston Reparations Research Collaborative — spearheaded by the University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy — found widespread support for the program in its first public opinion survey, released Tuesday. Results showed the program enjoys overwhelming.
Current ward map in Evanston At this time last year, Evanston's redistricting committee went into the city's first remapping in 20 years, aiming to bring
In March, City Council approved a direct cash payment option for all recipients of the city’s reparations program, following years of community advocacy for the option. However, many local activists still feel the Restorative Housing Program currently does not do enough to repair harm against Black residents from decades of discriminatory policies. The program was.