The next phase of the Roosevelt Square affordable complex is up for tax-increment financing assistance after having been granted zoning approval by the City Council last year. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development] 

Aldermen are scheduled during a packed Committee on Finance meeting Thursday to line up tens of millions of dollars in direct and bonded funding for nearly 500 combined units of new affordable homes across the city, including a more than 300-unit new phase of a Chicago Housing Authority complex planned alongside a rehab of the National Public Housing Museum in the University Village area.  

The finance committee is also set during its 10 a.m. meeting to approve $4.4 million in settlements to end four separate police misconduct lawsuits against the city, including a $1.7 million payment to end a lawsuit by a woman who was dragged by her hair by police at the Brickyard Mall in summer 2020. And the committee is scheduled to green-light nearly $10 million in tax-increment financing for various Chicago Park District projects around the city.