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The Cook County Land Bank hits milestone of 2,000 rehabbed homes
A Cook County program that helps redevelop abandoned homes in disinvested parts of the city and suburbs celebrated a milestone Thursday on Chicago’s South Side. A gray, 4,500-square-foot Victorian home on a double lot in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood is the 2,000th property developed through the Cook County Land Bank Authority, officials said.
City Selling North Lawndale Lots For $1, Subsidizing Development Through New Middle Class Initiative
NORTH LAWNDALE — The city is working to increase North Lawndale’s housing stock by selling vacant lots for $1 and subsidizing development on those lots for those willing to build housing for the middle class. The Department of Planning and Development on Tuesday announced the Missing Middle Infill...
Englewood's shuttered Charles Warrington Earle School getting new life as affordable apartment community
Developers are kick-starting work to convert the former Charles Warrington Earle School into affordable apartments after the Englewood property was one of 50 schools to close its doors more than a decade ago. Wisconsin-based Gorman & Co. anticipates the project — with 100% affordable units — will welcome its first...
Paul Roldan retiring from Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
CHICAGO (CBS) -- After decades of dedication to his mission to make Chicago's gentrifying neighborhoods more affordable, Hispanic Housing Development Corporation president and CEO Hipolito "Paul" Roldan is retiring.As he prepared to end a remarkable career, Roldan recently showed off his newest accomplishment – an apartment building in the heart of Humboldt Park, where tenants pay only what they can afford. But his journey started decades ago with a mission to stabilize gentrifying communities like Humboldt Park."I was the first employee of Hispanic Housing back in 1976. So that's how it got started," he said.Now, at 81 years old, his...
Real estate pros on how $1 billion could be invested in Chicago
The White Sox and the Bears are seeking public funds to build new stadiums. Here are other ways taxpayer money could be used. The Urban Land Institute and the Real Estate Center at DePaul University recently asked 300 real estate professionals to weigh in on how $1 billion in taxpayer money could be invested in Chicago instead of having it go toward new stadiums for pro sports teams.
City allocates $75 million in bond funds to market rate housing initiative on South and West sides
Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development is launching a $75 million program to build “missing middle housing” in neighborhoods on the South and West sides in an effort to provide lower-cost, owner-occupied for-sale housing options and repopulate communities after a decadeslong population decline, the department announced Tuesday. The program — officially called the Missing Middle ...
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