Asiaha Butler is on the front lines as her community battles gun violence, food deserts and a battered public image as president of a civic group in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
Like many cash-strapped neighborhoods across the country, Englewood, on the city’s South Side, is preparing for what experts say could be a deluge of evictions by the end of July, when the federal eviction moratorium is expected to end.
“If you’re savvy enough to be online or savvy enough to check for it, you might get that assistance,” said Butler, whose group, R.A.G.E., short for Resident Association of Greater Englewood, works in a neighborhood with a poverty rate of over 40 percent. “But the average person is still trying to eat, you know. They’re still trying to feed their families.”
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