- Tenants want voice on condo task force Trib
- MCM evicts artists from Acme building Chicago Journal
- MCM, Smithfield planning strip mall Chicago Journal
- Evanston unveils downtown plan Daily Northwestern
- Seller takes new tack for W Loop house Chicago Journal
- New on market: hillside home in St Charles Chicago Mag
- Archeworks founders to step down Trib
- Another bank coming to Wicker Park Chicago Journal
- Daley’s real reason for tax hikes: Olympics Reader
- Residents: dissolve Campton Hills Daily Herald
- Oak Forest encourages building of porches Southtown
- Chicago-area home sales down 27 % in Sept Crain’s
- New residential sales, Sept 07 Dept of Commerce
Attention all activist types, Attention all activist types, now hear this:
The condo conversion boom has been over for more than a year now, and it will remain that way for some time. In the intervening years, move on to champion other liberal causes.
Folks – in the end, good ‘ole capitalism, yes the free market, the law of supply and demand will dictate terms. If you prefer a centrally-planned economy, this may not be the city or country for you. States such as North Korea, Cuba, and increasingly Venezuela and Ecuador may be more to your likeing….
Let’s create an agency that can decide which buildings can go condo in the city. Of course individual alderbeasts will get final say over condos and for that matter any other business in their wards.
I fully expect no scandals will follow.
If you want to control the real estate market look at rent control in NYC. When you pay 2000 yankee dollars or more for a studio apartment in a questionable neighborhood partially blame the activists who wish to control the market.