“Our downtown commercial corridors still bear the scars of the pandemic, with higher vacancy rates and lower foot traffic. And as a result, too many in our city go to sleep unhoused, and too few families know the security of owning their own home,” Johnson said. “Rent in Chicago continues to go up year after year after year, while the development of both affordable and market-rate housing stagnates. Our public transit is unreliable and unsafe - so much so that many parents refuse to let their children ride even when the CTA could be the pathway to opportunity and enrichment.
“Too many Chicagoans fear for their safety when they walk down the streets to get groceries or drive to the gas station because our city’s homicide and violent crime rates have consistently outpaced our peer cities. Inauguration Day is about fanfare Tuesday is about getting to work.
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