A push to raise real estate transfer taxes to fight homelessness in Chicago falters; effort to put question to voters appears ‘out of runway’
Activists and supporters advocate for housing solutions in downtown Chicago on Nov. 3.
“What has happened with the cancellation of the rules committee hearing today, in some ways, it’s cutting us off at our knees … makes it really very dim that we’ll be able to get on the ballot in February,” the Rev. Jacqueline Triche Atkins, a Bring Chicago Home member, told the Tribune. The mayor did not elaborate on the faults beyond saying, “No matter what, it’s going to be spun as a property tax increase.” She added that there is “no question” more must be done to get unhoused Chicagoans off the street, but that city officials were in fact making inroads with adding more housing in all forms.
Further complicating the efforts is the fact that the mayor’s allies have introduced three separate referendum questions that, if passed, would crowd out the Bring Chicago Home measure because only three questions can be included on the February ballot. The changes cannot be enacted by the Chicago City Council alone but only via a voter referendum or through the Illinois General Assembly.Bring Chicago Home has estimated that such a tax increase would provide housing and social services to 12,000 homeless Chicagoans in the next decade, and that inaction over the past two years has led to $300 million in missed revenue.
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