Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday blamed a West Side porch collapse that killed a 53-year-old man and seriously injured two others on a “family home” that a brother and sister could not afford to maintain.
Lightfoot said the building in the 3400 block of West Jackson Boulevard is “in serious trouble.”
The mayor said she shared that tragic story to underscore a point: Having secure housing is “critically important.” So is doing “everything we can … to replenish the supply of affordable units,” particularly on the South and West sides, she said. “If you know somebody on your block that owns their home and has some challenges with keeping up the maintenance, please reach out to me or someone on my team because there are resources available. We’ve got to keep Black folks in their homes.”
Five annual city inspections did not flag the allegedly unpermitted, oversized porch that collapsed on that fateful night.
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