Maria Elaine Hadden

Jul 9, 2024 | resilience.org | Maria Elaine Hadden |Josh Lerner

Has your city been making cuts to schools, libraries, firefighters, and social services that you are not happy with? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? There is a way in which  you can have that opportunity through a process called “participatory budgeting (PB).” Currently, residents of over 7,000 cities around the world are deciding how to spend their taxpayer dollars, and you could follow their lead by starting PB in your city.

Jul 28, 2023 | blockclubchicago.org | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Maria Elaine Hadden |Quinn Myers

CITY HALL — A longstanding proposal to potentially raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the city’s efforts to combat homelessness got a symbolic push forward Thursday. The Bring Chicago Home plan aims to hike the city’s real estate transfer tax rate on property sales over $1 million, with the additional funds raised dedicated to provide permanent affordable housing and wraparound services for unhoused Chicagoans.