Obama adviser shapes city housing policy - Chicago Tribune; July 06, 2008Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to Barack Obama, stands at the center of Chicago's controversial efforts to redevelop public housing.
Jarrett has pushed to integrate new developments by limiting the number of residents, mostly poor and black, who can live in the new communities.
Planting Seeds of Disaster ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party.
National Review Online; By Stanley Kurtz; October 7, 2008I’ve already told the story of Obama’s close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN’s campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN’s coffers to finance “counseling” operations like the one touted in that Sun-Times article.