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Frank Canzolino's avatar

Worrying about more affordable housing is putting the cart before the horse. Look no further than a quick drive around town to see the loss of manufacturing, closed storefronts in the neighborhoods, etc. Without employment,there’s no reason to live in the city anyway…

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Eric Novak's avatar

The urban immigrant class that rents in the city commutes to suburban industry and manufacturing because suburbs have no housing for them. It’s a ludicrous mess.

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

Chicago, through zoning, environmental, other regulations, and taxes, made industry far too expensive to remain in the city. Whether these were conscious decisions or unintended consequences is debatable, but ultimately are because of the interference by elites “helping” the little guy too much…

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