Progressive organizer faces affordable housing developer in lakefront 48th Ward
“It’s palpable: people are excited, and we’re very excited we were able to execute our field plan and our grassroots program with no money from Super PACs or developers,” Sida told the Tribune.
The ward has been grappling with higher housing costs and vacancies along some of its economic corridors. Dunne, who has worked with the nonprofit Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, argued heequipped to usher through more affordable housing options. Manaa-Hoppenworth backs lifting the ban on rent control.more frequent police patrols. Manaa-Hoppenworth favors alternatives to traditional policing, but emphasized that does not “use the term” abolition when talking about the future of policing.
“We’re spending a lot of our budget on policing, and not everybody feels safe,” she previously told the Tribune. “So we have to look at not only the dollars that we’re spending, and not only the number of officers that we have on the force, but how we’re actually using them, where they’re being deployed.”
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