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hyde park, woodlawn + south shore for @blockclubchi. kalamazoo's son. what's so impressive about a diamond except the miningA draft proposal aimed at preventing displacement in Woodlawn announced by the city’s Housing Department Thursday would leave out key elements of a community benefits agreement ordinance already endorsed by 29 aldermen.
The new proposal would apply only to census tracts within three-fifths of a mile of the Obama Presidential Center, as opposed to the proposed community benefits agreement which would apply to all properties within a two-mile radius of the center. While Woodlawn would be included in the plan, most of South Shore and Washington Park would not.
City unveils scaled-back plan for preserving affordable housing near Obama Center
Community members, leaders and activists lay in the street in Logan Square to call on Mayor Lightfoot to deny the permit to move General Iron to the Southeast Side on the 30th day of the hunger strike on March 4, 2021. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]
This article first published in Block Club Chicago.
The city’s health department Friday rejected the final permit needed for a controversial metal scrapper to open on the Southeast Side, a victory for local activists who spent years organizing to block the industrial facility’s move from the North Side.
City denies controversial metal scrapper southside recycling’s permit after activists wage years-long fight
The four-story, mixed-use 4400 Grove development on Cottage Grove Avenue in Bronzeville. [Chicago Housing Authority]
The $38 million, 84-unit complex will bring 38 affordable apartments, 21 public housing apartments and 25 market-rate apartments to the old CHA site demolished in 2002.
BRONZEVILLE — Bronzeville residents, elected officials and developers celebrated the grand opening of a 84-unit mixed-income housing complex nearly a decade in the making Thursday.
The 4400 Grove complex, named after the Cottage Grove Avenue block it inhabits, features 38 affordable apartments reserved for those making up to 60 percent of the area median income, or $43,680 annually for a two-person household.
Lightfoot, CHA tout opening of $38M ‘4400 Grove’ affordable housing development
South Shore residents took state officials on a tour of the neighborhood’s lakefront Wednesday as they try to secure funding to protect private homes from worsening erosion and rising lake levels.
Officials with two programs within the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Coastal Management Program and the Office of Water Resources were on hand for the tour.
South Shore Residents Fighting For Lakefront Erosion Help Give State Officials A Tour Of Damage
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