[the urban politician]

^ Fascinating stuff. It’s too bad that people and bloggers oversimplify. They see metro population and just assume that “this region is dying”

What I find fascinating is the sheer number of permitted units in Chicago despite population stagnation. That can only mean that large numbers of units are being built while other units are either being abandoned, or family sizes in those are declining.

This would fit the narrative of gentrification and black households leaving town.