Category: Affordable housing
A look inside Jackson Square at West End
AMS Realty's AnneMarie Garza and Phil McCall give a tour of Jackson Square at West End, a roughly 780-unit development rising on the site of the for [...]
MacArthur foundation gives $26 million to bolster Chicago neighborhoods
An initiative aimed at revitalizing 16 Chicago neighborhoods received $26 million Tuesday from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Housing in the northwest 'burbs becoming unaffordable?
Five northwest suburban mayors and The Metropolitan Planning Council plan to discuss affordable housing for the rapidly developing communities along I [...]
Sales progressing at Parkside of Old Town
About 75 percent of available units have sold at Parkside of Old Town, according to Catherine Hughey, director of sales for the project.
Developers [...]
Polishing Bronzeville: massive mixed-income communities replace projects in bold effort to remake a neighborhood
Rosemary Coleman has some disturbing memories from the 20 years she lived in the Chicago Housing Authority's Madden Park Homes - bullet casings litt [...]
Quote of the day: the condo-ization of Chicago
"When I walk home from the train and see apartments that are now condos, I didn't know how common that was. Now I do. The next question is, to what e [...]
Media / gentrification rant of the day
Thousands of volunteers arrived early Saturday morning to begin a day of repainting and repairing 49 homes in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood and 2 [...]
Amazing Grace – the girls on 56th and Wood
Today was National Rebuilding Day, and YoJoe and YoVal spent the day in Englewood, where Rebuilding Together Chicago was repairing 49 homes owned by [...]
First phase at Park Boulevard 50 percent sold
Park Boulevard, a 1,300-unit development in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, is moving along - currently, the 311-unit first phase is well underwa [...]
Some struggle to find affordable housing in Bronzeville area, advocate says
With affordable housing in the news lately, we thought we'd share some of our recent conversation with Holly Marshall, director of operations at Genes [...]
Quote of the day: affordable housing for the few
"If the mayor's ordinance were to pass right now as is, there is only one ward in the city - the 43rd - where the average household - with a median [...]
Civil rights groups to speak against predatory lending
Representatives from five civil rights groups will appear at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. tomorrow morning to call for "an immediate m [...]
Lake Park Crescent switches developers for second phase
The Davis Group, headed by veteran developer and investor Allison Davis, will take on the second phase of Lake Park Crescent, a mixed-income develop [...]
Revision of HB 4050 won't resolve main issue, ShoreBank exec says
The recently-announced revision of the infamous HB 4050 anti-predatory lending law, which would now apply to first-time homebuyers across Cook County [...]
Pace of mortgage applications steady in at-risk communities, ShoreBank exec says
Despite recent concerns about an avalanche of foreclosures expected to hit such areas as Englewood, Roseland, Back of the Yards and Auburn Gresham, Mi [...]
Scenes from ABLA Homes redevelopment, questions for the future
Yesterday, the sounds of the wrecking ball pounding away the concrete of this ABLA Homes high-rise could be heard from blocks away. Located near the [...]
Lake Park Crescent's first for-sale homes to break ground
The building boom underway in the North Kenwood / Oakland neighborhood continues with 68 new homes at Lake Park Crescent, one of the developments r [...]
Drug testing for every tenant required at two mixed-income developments
The new mixed-income developments that are replacing troubled CHA housing projects have stringent rules for former CHA tenants: to be allowed back, th [...]
Streeterville conversion approved
The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved a partial conversion of Onterie Center, a 59-story high-rise at 446 E. Ontario St. in Streeterville [...]
The last Robert Taylor Homes high-rise demolished
This video was posted by YouTube user artistmac as a response to a YoChicago video on "the Cha's daring experiment." [...]