Last month, a group of 11 Chicago alderman sent a letter to Senate President Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) calling for the lawmakers to pass a bill they said would help address the city’s affordable housing needs.

“With every crisis comes an opportunity to look for solutions,” Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) wrote in a March 17 letter co-signed by Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20), Ald. Michael Rodriguez (22), Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25), Ald. Felix Cardona (31), Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33), Ald. Andre Vasquez (40), Ald. Michele Smith (43), Ald. Matthew Martin (47), Ald. Harry Osterman (48) and Ald. Maria Hadden (49).