Category: Affordable housing
Will CHA ever find funding to complete mixed-income housing plans?
The Chicago Housing Authority has completed only 29 percent of the mixed-income replacement housing it said it would build for public housing resident [...]
"No room for people like us"
Reader Jason, in a comment on a New Homes Magazine article, expressed his feeling that "Middle income African Americans have become unwelcome as land [...]
Mixed-income Lake Park Crescent brings 480 units for-sale, rental housing to North Kenwood – Oakland
Take a drive around the 4000 block of South Lake Park Ave in North Kenwood - Oakland and you'll see plenty of signs for Lake Park Crescent, a spraw [...]
Mixed-income Parkside of Old Town opens sales on former Cabrini site
Continuing the Chicago Housing Authority's $1.6 billion Plan for Transformation, the mixed-income community Parkside of Old Town will bring more tha [...]
Work in Progress: The Arches at Oakwood Shores
After recently wondering whether The Arches at Oakwood Shores will some day be known as the neighborhood Oakwood Shores, we headed down to the develo [...]
TIF money helps convert Randolph Tower to apartments
As the condo craze cools ever so slightly and more renters are hustling for choice in apartments, the increase in the number of apartment buildings be [...]
Oakwood Shores' mixed-income housing gets a good review
New homeowners, who haven't moved in yet, and renters, who have, give mostly positive reviews to the new Oakwood Shores development that's replacing [...]
Saving graystones, building homes in North Lawndale
The Chicago Tribune made North Lawndale the poster neighborhood for urban blight back in 1985 with its "American Millstone" series, and despite at l [...]
Nearly 75% of South Side subsidized units in jeapordy
At the same time that public housing is being dismantled and the cost of renting and buying is on the rise, nearly 75 percent of the 12,400 low-income [...]
Cabrini-Green on NBC5 tonight, but real story goes unreported
Tonight's obligatory viewing on the tube: NBC5 is doing a segment on Cabrini-Green called Life on the Green, at 10 p.m. It will explore life in public [...]
Fisticuffs avoided at Plan Commission hearing on new Cabrini-Green high-rise
We were secretly hoping for some actual yuppie violence when we attended a Chicago Plan Commission meeting earlier today when plans for a 25-story hig [...]
Yuppie-on-yuppie violence mars Cabrini-Green housing redevelopment
One of the problems with being a carpetbagger is competition from the other carpetbaggers. A story in today's Tribune quotes buyers of pricey new home [...]
Chicago Metro History Fair this Saturday
If you're curious about how Chicago neighborhoods evolved, maybe it's time for a history lesson. Stop by Harris Bank Auditorium, 111 W Monroe St, on M [...]
Evanston affordable condo project stalled
A special Evanston committee formed to make progress on an impasse over a four-story affordable condo project proposed by the Housing Opportunity Deve [...]