The plan to build a training facility for the Chicago Fire Football Club on Chicago Housing Authority land once home to thousands of families violates federal civil rights laws and should be blocked, according to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of groups.
A rendering of the planned Chicago Fire Club practice facility on former Chicago Housing Authority land.
“CHA should be creating new housing for the thousands of families in need in Chicago — but instead they gave up valuable public land to a billionaire and his soccer team,” said Kate Walz, associate director of litigation of the National Housing Law Project. “To add insult to injury, HUD evaded its own civil rights obligations by approving this deal at the expense of low-income Black households and persons with disabilities.
Mayor Brandon Johnson campaigned on a platform that promised to “freeze on the transfer of CHA land to non-housing uses.”
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