July 27, 2022

Source: Grist

Excerpt:

A decision by the city of Chicago to relocate a scrapyard from an affluent white neighborhood to a majority-Black and Latino area has sparked years of public outcry, a hunger strike, national media attention, and multiple federal investigations. Now, one of those investigations has found that the city’s approval violated residents’ civil rights, representing a pattern of discrimination against a community already burdened with pollution and health issues, federal housing authorities said last week. 

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