 As a bench ruling in Avery v Pierce neared , Shiller proposed an ordinance that directed the city to settle and accept a consent decree . The consent decree would have put most vacant parcels in Uptown into a land bank for future affordable housing , administered by a community development corporation , funded by the City with $ 100 @,@ 000 over two years . The consent decree also would have made a " desirable " goal of 3 @,@ 000 low @-@ income housing units in Uptown . On November 16 , 1987 , the Committee on Finance of the Chicago City Council , chaired at the time by Shiller ally Alderman Timothy Evans , voted 21 to 2 to recommend the consent decree . Shiller gloated during committee hearings that , with Mayor Harold Washington 's backing , the decree could not be stopped . Pulitzer Prize @-@ winning commentator Mike Royko wrote in the Chicago Tribune : 
