With multi-unit dwellings giving way to single-unit homes, neighborhoods like Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Pilsen, La Villita, with a historic high number of Latino residents, are seeing their numbers dwindle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gentrification is driving out Latino residents and with them the ethnic and cultural identities of neighborhoods that were once major gateways for new immigrants, primarily from Mexico and Latin American countries. Now those neighborhoods are attracting wealthy, and often white, residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As property taxes spike and community members remain on fixed incomes, many homeowners feel they\u2019re being pushed out of the neighborhood they\u2019ve lived in their\u00a0whole life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cook County Assessor\u2019s Office wants the public to understand what programs are out there to help them. Angelina Romero, Chief Communications Officer at the Cook County Assessor\u2019s Office, was a guest on the podcast,\u00a0\u201c3 Questions With\u2026\u201d<\/a>, hosted by\u00a0Hugo Balta<\/a>, publisher of IL Latino News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n