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Obama Adviser Shapes City Housing Policy

Jason Grotto and Laurie Cohen 6 July 2008 One Comment

Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to Barack Obama, stands at the center of Chicago’s controversial efforts to redevelop public housing.

Jarrett has pushed to integrate new developments by limiting the number of residents, mostly poor and black, who can live in the new communities. From the beginning, that stance clashed with efforts by residents and housing advocates to ensure the number of units set aside for the poor was as large as possible

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  • cassius king (author) said:

    If she does the same great job for public housing she did for the CHX we’ll be seeing people in tents.

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