
Bring Chicago Home
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Oct 9, 2026
AIPAC Spent $5M in Her Race. Here's What She Built
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26:09Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And one of the things that...
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26:12Annabelle MendozaGUEST
We saw was there was a real estate tax called Bring Chicago Home, and that tax would have actually made an effort to essentially anybody who was buying a home over a million dollars would face a slight tax increment.
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26:30Annabelle MendozaGUEST
increase, whereas those who were buying a home that was valued under a million dollars, which is the vast majority of us here in Chicago, I certainly can't afford a home that's a million dollars, you would have a lower tax increment there.
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26:44Annabelle MendozaGUEST
But what happened with that tax proposal? Well, we saw the real estate lobby get involved.
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27:01Annabelle MendozaGUEST
You would not think twice.
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27:03Annabelle MendozaGUEST
I want Chicago to be affordable, but there's a deliberate effort to take these real estate lobbyist groups agenda, slap a label on it that people would not bat an eye at.
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27:16Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And ultimately that PAC was able to defeat the bring Chicago home real estate tax.
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27:22Annabelle MendozaGUEST
They defeated that tax from moving forward.