The $25 million program is designed to invest in new ideas that will expand access to affordable housing, with winners ...

More than a year after Mayor Brandon Johnson launched his “Cut the Tape” initiative to speed up housing development, affordable developers say the city still isn’t moving fast enough and that the cost ...

There’s been a lot of ink spilled recently on the high cost of delivering affordable housing. At a time when the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University estimates that 120,000 more Chicago ...

Chicago alderpersons approved a new approach to creating affordable housing in the city at a council meeting Wednesday. The “green social housing” ordinance creates a city-owned, nonprofit developer ...

The plan is designed to leverage the city’s financial power to build what the city calls “green social housing,” permanently affordable, mixed-income and environmentally sustainable housing. Chicago ...

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