Kate Walz

Love the outdoors, hate dirty dishes, and the children often question my musical taste. Works @NHLP - Views are my own.

[Brett Chase @brettchase]

BREAKING NEWS: Feds say the city of Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing by allowing Council members to reject developments in their wards. https://t.co/4g5efI1uAA

[Cat Vielma @catvielma]

Not a good day for Chicago #affordablehousing between the @HUDgov OIG investigation of aldermanic prerogative impacting AH & @BlockClubCHI reporting @theCHAtweets 500+ vacant SFH units… 1/?

[Becky 🧟‍♀️🔮🏳️‍🌈👩🏼‍🦯 @BuryTheCastle21]

Leaving older and disabled tenants w/o air conditioning in such temperatures is tantamount to criminal negligence.
#ResistMillennia

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

An elite, white majority determining after just 50 years of weak, half-hearted
affirmative action efforts, that they are the ones to decide that enough has been done to address centuries of explicit racial exclusion against Black people is the most American ruling ever.

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

Today's decisions from the Supreme Court on Affirmative Action represent a significant setback for Civil Rights in the U.S. and are a cornerstone of the conservative movement's coordinated effort to roll back access to opportunity for systemically marginalized Americans.

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

The Chicago Housing Authority’s agreement to lease land to the Chicago Fire soccer club did not undergo proper local and federal reviews, a lawsuit filed Thursday by three community organizations alleges.

https://t.co/OxIC4rDupu

[Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights @ChgoCivilRights]

Chicago Lawyers’ Committee, @NHLP, and Legal Action Chicago, filed a federal lawsuit today against HUD and CHA on behalf of the Coalition to Protect CHA Land, Chicago Housing Initiatives, and Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

[Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana @FairHousingIN]

According to the report, credit scores, stringent criminal screenings, evictions, and even eviction filings kept people from securing housing. Due to vague screening policies, people are spending lots in application and hold fees.

https://t.co/KSzvhSpurN

[Kate Walz @KateWalz2]

Low income families are yet again asked to sacrifice, even now, when the housing crisis is at a breaking point.

[Diane Yentel @dianeyentel]

Yes. HUD needs an estimated $13B - $16B increase next year just to *maintain* current assistance. “Flat funding” = cuts, which means families could lose rental assistance and face steep, unaffordable rent hikes.

[Diane Yentel @dianeyentel]

Time limits for food assistance. Expanded ineffective work requirements for food & cash assistance. Effectively cutting (by not providing needed inflationary costs increase) rental assistance during already worsening homelessness crisis. Cruel & shortsighted.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

A Harvard study found that Black and Latinx communities have more "forever chemicals" in their water, in part because "redlining and segregation often situated their neighborhoods near industrial sites, airports, and military facilities."

✍🏾 @schilukuri1
https://t.co/QBYLF2cwu9

[Becky 🧟‍♀️🔮🏳️‍🌈👩🏼‍🦯 @BuryTheCastle21]

Continued gratitude to @stacyjacobsontv from @3onyourside for her dedication to shining a spotlight on these injustices and human rights abuses.

#ResistMillennia

https://t.co/rYF3g1fxeM

[Brett Chase @brettchase]

As Illinois lawmakers consider handing road projects to private companies, residents in overburdened communities worry about more air pollution. From @aydalicampa and I. https://t.co/d7YidkWsXy

[Peggy Bailey @PeggyBaileyDC]

The cruelty is the point & that shouldn’t be overlooked. We can’t pretend this is truly a “negotiation” when one side is just trying to hurt the people who need help the most.

Taking benefits away from people is not the way to make us a stronger country.

[People for Community Recovery @pcrchi]

Another huge environmental justice win this week! Shoutout to our sister organizations and all of our allies who work tirelessly to fight for environmental justice in Chicago. This is just the beginning 💪🌱

[Kate Walz @KateWalz2]

100%. Localities w/ industrial zoned parks be warned - there are finally consequences for this age old practice of environmental racism.

[Kate Walz @KateWalz2]

Excellent reporting. Unhoused people need our assistance, not criminalization. This is a solvable issue.

[Katie Prout @katie_prout]

This week's cover story for @Chicago_Reader is a new one from me, questioning what we really mean when we talk about public safety on the CTA: https://t.co/cldduXnTm1
But the story I want to share first happened this morning.

[Heidi Stevens @HeidiStevens13]

“We use to have real ambitions to abolish poverty in this country and we lost that moral urgency. And I’d like to ask us to rekindle that.”

Tremendously powerful “Poverty, By America” conversation between @just_shelter & @reubenjmiller at @UChicagoCrown, thru @FamilyActionNet

[Natalie Y Moore @natalieymoore]

Here's my take on #ChicagoMayoralElection and what Johnson's win means for the Black establishment who backed Vallas. https://t.co/dIkBcCyq1u

[Millennia Resistance Campaign @ResistMillennia]

Southern Oaks Village in Florence, Alabama #MillenniaHousing https://t.co/L43qlcGSAe