Prof. Christopher Berry cited in piece from The Chicago Defender
April 24, 2024

In a piece from the Chicago Defender entitled "Chicago’s Enduring Legacy of the Black and Unhoused," reporter Nicole Jeanine Johnson consulted Harris Prof. Christopher Berry as a source on the failure of the Bring Chicago Home ballot referendum: 

Prof. Berry affirms, “We’re in a different moment now economically in the city than we were back when the Fair Tax was proposed. The real estate crisis [is] just a broader marker of the crisis surrounding the future of downtown. [And] that’s for real. I think most Chicagoans know it, and they can see it, and we all really need to be worried about it because it is the economic engine of the region.

Chris Berry
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Christopher Berry
William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor; Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation

Christopher R. Berry is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the College. He is the academic director of the Center for Municipal Finance. He studies metropolitan governance and the politics of public finance.