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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has joined a lawsuit against the city of Evanston, a Chicago suburb, alleging the city\u2019s housing reparations program is unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The <\/span>lawsuit<\/span> alleges that Evanston has maintained the \u201cracially discriminatory\u201d program since 2021, and that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fair Housing Act. <\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit estimates Evanston has distributed $3.525 million through this program to at least 141 applicants in total. The Chicago Tribune put the number at $5.03 million distributed to 203 applicants, according to a September 2024 report. The Chicago Tribune claims the city put $1.36 million towards home improvement for black residents, mortgage assistance for black residents, or the down payment for a house for black residents. The city spent $3.69 million on \u201cdirect cash benefits\u201d for eligible black applicants, according to the Chicago Tribune. The cash was reportedly tax exempt. <\/span>(RELATED: I\u2019m A Georgetown Student. Here\u2019s How My University Hides Its Illegal DEI Agenda)<\/b><\/p>\n

The lawsuit also notes that Evanston allegedly permitted participants in the program to \u201creceive an unrestricted cash payment\u201d in the name of reparations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Plaintiffs claim the city \u201chas offered and distributed unrestricted cash payments and financial assistance for purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing, or maintaining housing in the City, exclusively to current or former black residents who lived in the City as adults between 1919 and 1969, and to their children, grand-children, and great-grand-children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Evanston city website has a detailed <\/span>page<\/span> regarding \u201clocal reparations,\u201d including the \u201c<\/span>Restorative Housing Program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The website claims that any Evanston resident who is black or African American and has<\/span>\u00a0\u201corigins in any of the Black racial and ethnic groups of Africa\u201d is eligible for participation in the reparations program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The goal of the Restorative Housing Program is to increase black homeownership and \u201cbuild the wealth\u201d of black Evanston residents, among other explicitly race-based goals meant to improve the financial standing of black residents. <\/span>(RELATED: DOJ Accuses Yale Medical School Of Race-Based Discrimination)<\/b><\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims that Evanston proceeded with its reparations program even after being warned by former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray that the program was likely unconstitutional, given its race-based nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the pretext of paying reparations for events more than 100 years ago, the City of Evanston has chosen to distribute millions of dollars in cash and housing benefits to people because of the color of their skin or the color of the skin of their parents, grandparents, or great grandparents,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division in a <\/span>statement<\/span>. \u201cThere are sound ways for a city to remedy past discrimination or direct resources to its most vulnerable citizens and neighborhoods. Simply handing out money based on race, however, is not the answer. It is race discrimination, pure and simple. And it is illegal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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