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The Department of Justice is attempting to sabotage a reparations initiative that compensates victims of historic housing discrimination in Evanston, Illinois. For decades, Black residents of Evanston were subjected to redlining and other forms of housing discrimination, which prevented them from obtaining bank loans to purchase property. \u201cThroughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, housing has been the primary way that families have built wealth, and we are in a country where there is 10 times as much wealth in the white community as there is in the Black community. \u2026 [T]hat gap is a result, primarily, of this type of dispossession on the grounds of housing,\u201d explains Howard University law professor Justin Hansford.<\/p>\n

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Evanston\u2019s reparations program, funded through donations and a local tax on recreational marijuana sales, grants Black residents and their descendants up to $25,000 for property down payments, mortgages, home repairs and other related fees. It is the first of its kind in any U.S. city and seen as a model for similar initiatives across the country and the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe effort to bring a lawsuit to stop this particular program is meant to send a message to programs in cities and states around the country that this is something that is dangerous or illegal,\u201d says Hansford, who is helping Evanston city officials defend their reparations program from the DOJ\u2019s claims that its race-based criteria are unconstitutional. \u201cWe want to make sure that everyone knows that it is constitutional to pursue reparations in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice is attempting to sabotage a reparations initiative that compensates victims of historic housing discrimination in Evanston, Illinois. 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