The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate will meet Wednesday to vote on the renewal of an agreement that helps low-income disabled households upgrade their units to make them accessible, issuing loans to preserve several affordable rental buildings and a low-affordability designation of a planned residential development to take advantage of a property tax incentive.

The housing committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in City Council chambers.

Ald. Bennett Lawson (44) chaired Thursday’s meeting of the City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

Despite a full agenda, Thursday’s meeting of the City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards finished in under two hours as alderpeople approved dozens of developments including a proposal for a new six-story, 43-unit affordable housing development in South Shore.  

Ald. Bennett Lawson (44), the committee’s vice chair, helmed his first zoning committee meeting following Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa's (35) resignation earlier this month from his chair position. Ramirez-Rosa remains a member of the committee. 

A rendering of the affordable housing development proposed for South Shore. [City of Chicago presentation]

A proposal for a new six-story, 43-unit affordable housing development in South Shore heads to the City Council’s zoning committee after the Chicago Plan Commission gave an initial OK to the development Thursday. 

A rendering of the affordable housing development proposed for South Shore. [City of Chicago presentation] 

The Chicago Plan Commission is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Thursday to consider a short agenda that includes a proposed 43-unit affordable housing development in South Shore.

A rendering of the development proposed for 1633 N. Halsted St. [City of Chicago presentation] 

The Chicago Plan Commission Thursday approved a development that if approved by the City Council would bring a nine-story, 131 residential unit building with 4,500 square feet of retail space to Lincoln Park near the Steppenwolf Theatre.