Johnson said he’s taking a deliberate approach to being mayor and says he being held to a “different standard” as a Black man.
— two activist-backed demands to reopen the city’s shuttered mental health clinics and raise a tax on luxury real estate sales, respectively — does have a timeline that will now be longer than he had promised. Still, legislation to place the latter initiative on theJohnson’s comments came during the monthly “First Tuesdays” political discussion forum, hosted by journalists Ben Joravsky and Maya Dukmasova and held at The Promontory in Hyde Park.
During Tuesday’s event, Johnson was asked to address beliefs from moderates and those on the political right that he is being influenced by Davis Gates. Johnson previously was a political organizer with CTU, which helped jump-start his once-longshot mayoral bid that culminated in his election as Chicago’s most progressive mayor in generations.
Asked about reopening mental health clinics under the Treatment Not Trauma campaign, Johnson said he intends to pass the legislation but set caveats on its scope.Real estate transfer tax would drop for homes below $1 million, but increase for higher-end sales under revised Johnson homelessness plan“How many we can reopen within the first four years — to be perfectly frank with you all — that’s still to be determined. There are real budgetary dynamics that we have to address,” he said.
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