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The news is heavy on affordable housing
Published on May. 25, 2017 by Steven Vance
Neighborhood news
- Brainerd Park Apartments received its first construction permit to build senior citizen housing next to a Metra station on formerly city-owned land purchased for $1 (Curbed)
- Mayor Emanuel created a program to loan $3 million to 100 first responders to buy houses and live in “challenging neighborhoods” on the South and West Sides (Sun-Times)
- Oak Street Health opens a doctor’s office in Englewood Square, the same strip mall where Whole Foods opened last year (Chicago Defender)
- Maya Dukmasova tells the history of how rent control was banned in Illinois in the 1990s, even though no municipality had it (Reader)
- Opponents of an affordable housing proposal in Jefferson Park (from the same organization as the Brainerd Park Apartments above) say they object to its height, not its future tenants — get the current and full backstory from Alex Nitkin in DNAinfo
- 18 percent of the land in North Lawndale, the community creating a “quality of life” plan, is vacant (WTTW)
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