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Chicago Fair Housing Agency Closes Its Doors

Posted by: Nate Berg

3 June 2006 - 5:00am

Formed with the help of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and legions of African Americans discriminated against during the Civil Rights era, the agency that helped pass the federal Fair Housing Act will close.

After 40 years of ensuring fair and open housing in the city of Chicago, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities can no longer afford to operate. The agency received little funding in recent years and could not sustain costs. The Chicago agency became one of the most prominent fair housing agencies in the country and is best known for its 1976 Gautreaux program, which relocated 10,000 families in urban public housing to varied and diverse suburban areas.

Full Story: Fair-housing agency closing
Source: Chicago Sun Times, June 2, 2006
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