Fighting for housing after The Battle of Lincoln Park
Sep 16, 2026
During the 2010s, there was a renewed awareness of predatory and speculative housing practices such as redlining, contract buying, blockbusting, and segregationist violence—which had fueled disinvestment across broad swaths of the south and west sides. Daniel Kay Hertz, who had been writing for t
he online outlet City Observatory and finishing graduate school at the University […]
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