The Bring Chicago Home campaign, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, awaits the results of a ballot referendum that aims to increase taxes on more expensive city property purchases. The campaign argues that raising the real estate transfer tax for property purchases above $1 million will help address the city's lack of affordable housing.
As polls in the March primary closed Tuesday evening, the Bring Chicago Home campaign backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson awaited results in the ballot referendum that was the culmination of a years-long drive by homeless advocates to increase taxes on more expensive city property purchases . The measure, which seeks to raise the city’s real estate transfer tax for property purchases above $1 million, has taken a bumpy and winding road to voting booths across the city, including an.
A coalition of homeless advocacy organizations, labor unions and other progressive groups who christened themselves the “Bring Chicago Home” campaign first mobilized behind the idea in 2018. The grassroots movement backed by Johnson has long argued the city must address its dearth of affordable housing by raising its levy on higher-end property purchases, betting on the one-time real estate transfer tax to be more politically viable than other proposals such as raising the annual property tax. In making the case for Bring Chicago Home, Johnson as both candidate and mayor has evoked the personal story of his brother, Leo
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