An in-depth look at Barack Obama's links to low-income housing developers in Chicago, from the Boston Globe. Among the big names are Tony Rezko and Valerie Jarrett, both guilty of running some of the worst subsidized housing operations in the country. They collected millions in government funds while the properties they managed rapidly fell into uninhabitable slums awaiting a wrecking ball. And many of these developments were in Obama's state Senate district. Of course, Rezko is awaiting sentencing on bribery and corruption charges, while Jarrett has just been named one of Obama's senior advisers in the next Administration.

"... some people in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are torn between a natural inclination to support Obama and a concern about his relationships with the developers they hold responsible for Chicago's affordable housing failures. Some housing advocates worry that Obama has not learned from those failures.

"I'm not against Barack Obama," said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. "What I am against is some of the people around him."

Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: "I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community."