Poverty is a serious problem in the city of chicago and hundred of thousands of people have to suffer because of it everyday. Mayor Lightfoot herself even said “Poverty is Killing Us”, “Literally and figuratively killing us. All of us.” Chicago has a 20.6% poverty rate which is roughly 500,000 out of 2.7 million people that are below or at the poverty line. To put that into perspective the city of detroit which has a population of 639,000 which means that chicago has almost as many people in poverty that detroit has in population. This isn't a new issue though the city of chicago has been in poverty for many decades now and the government still hasn't done much to fix it. The people that face this don’t deserve it at all and while the government sits and asks them for money and bills and taxes they have to work multiple jobs or face eviction and when these families have to feed sometimes 3-4 kids its just not fair or right. The city of chicago should do more to help these people instead of building towers and fancy things that only so many can afford to accommodate.  According to Mayor Lori Lightfoot “We did this historically by using government as a tool to create and enforce race-based discrimination that killed, crushed, and systematically reduced the lives of too many over generations,” Lightfoot said. “A whole infrastructure, perfected over time, and savagely enforced for centuries which at its core embraced an ethos that black and brown, Asian and indigenous lives did not matter, period.” and that “housing discrimination and the absence of affordable choices have been central to creating poverty in Chicago,”