CAN TV News Activists fight housing crisis Wrecking balls loom over people s homes throughout Chicago these days. Affordable apartments, public housing complexes and neighbor-hood businesses are coming down.
Some people say it s an inevitable side effect of economic expansion and urban reinvestment.
But to hear the Chi-Town Low Down tell it, this process is not inevitable. When low-income and minority communities organize around their common interests, they have the power to stand up to the wave of displacement to take control of their own futures. Down s new documentary. People will see themselves and their communities in this video, making change through direct action, says Tamara Claude, a founder of Chi-Town Low Down. With training and technical support from CAN TV staff, Chi-Town Low Down members videotaped people from Cabrini Green, Robert Taylor, West Town, Humboldt Park, Uptown and Rogers Park.