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The South Shore community area is home to a handful of new single-family homes and condos participating in the Find Your Place in Chicago initiative, through which buyers can apply for incentives ranging from public grants for down payments and closing costs to annual tax credits for the interest paid on a mortgage.
Yesterday Mark and I drove down to South Shore to track down the neighborhood’s three Find Your Place in Chicago developments. We started off by driving to the intersection of 67th and Dorchester, site of some of Revelation Pointe LLC’s new infill homes. The 2008 Good Neighbor Award winner plans to build 30 single-family homes and 14 two-flats throughout the area bounded by 67th and 71st streets and Dorchester and Stony Island avenues.
The homes range in price from the $240s to the $350s, according to the Find Your Place in Chicago Web site.
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Seeing your drive around, South Shore still looks rough. Especially judging by the boarded up apartments down the side streets.
Levois,
South Shore has been rough as long as i’ve known it.
Years back people tried to talk me into buying property down there. I spent quite a bit of time looking, tryng to find some justification for it.
What scared me off was the fact that most of the apartments I saw had sliding grate burglar bars, locked with padlocks, to keep marauding thugs out of the apartments. That’s something you don’t see until you get inside the buildings. In an emergency, a fire for example, people would have died in their apartments because of those grates. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night thinking I owned a place where people had to live that way, and where there was nothing I could do to change it.
I haven’t spent any time around South Shore for a few years, but my impression was is that the housing stock is still largely intact. By “intact” I mean possibly vacant, but still existing in a condition conducive to rehabbing.
There are some very beautiful streets down there in terms of housing stock.
Jackson Park Highlands rivals parts of Beverly in terms of beauty.
There was a significant amount of small scale condo activity going on last time I was there, but that may have slowed or stopped.
I’ve heard, anecdotally, that there is a slow trickle of gentrification by white ‘pioneers’* in South Shore, but that may have stopped due to the recession. It’s a great area with better housing stock than a lot of popular areas up north. I have it on good authority that Sandi and Jesse Jr would like gays to start moving there to promote the property values (there are already two gay bars in SS).
Funny you mention the bars, Joe. I recall overhearing a conversation about them on the IC years ago. A couple from, probably SS or Chatham, talking about the firemen being angry at them for having the bars, because it made it hard for them to fight a fire. They were quite happy, because it also meant no burglars. They were also talking about another friend (a single woman) who had just moved to Woodlawn because “there were lots of opportunities there” and how crazy she was – their families had all fled in the late 70’s or earlier.
*There is still a sizable white minority there, heavily Jewish, esp. in JPH.
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