Chicago’s Affordable Housing Fiasco: A Global Cautionary Tale Served with Deep-Dish Irony
Chicago’s “Affordable” Housing Experiment: A Global Parable, Now with Deep-Dish Irony by D. Lockhart, Senior Cynic-at-Large The first thing you learn covering housing crises from Lagos to Lisbon is that the word “affordable” is multilingual: in Chicago it currently translates as “only moderately soul-crushing,” while in Mumbai it means “a bunk bed you can sub-sublet…