Articles tagged 'Affordability'

Reports   January 15, 2020

Displacement Pressure in Context: Examining Recent Housing Market Changes Near The 606

This report goes “under the hood” of our Mapping Displacement Pressure in Chicago data to highlight how house prices are changing in the neighborhoods around The 606 and identifies potential opportunities to preserve affordability in surrounding communities.

January 7, 2020

Anti-gentrification ordinance would freeze development near The 606 for 14 months

SOURCE: Curbed Chicago
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January 6, 2020

City nabbing land near Obama Presidential Center

SOURCE: Crain's Chicago Business
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December 3, 2019

Gentrification, affordable housing and the fight for Pilsen’s public schools

SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times
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October 31, 2019

Using Data to Inform Community-Driven Decision Making in East Garfield Park

We are starting a new blog series that highlights examples of IHS technical assistance projects. In this blog we describe a recent partnership IHS worked on in East Garfield Park.

June 12, 2019

Mayor's New Housing Commissioner is Ready to Fix City's Affordability and Segregation

SOURCE: Curbed Chicago
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May 29, 2019

Housing in Chicago: Pushing Out the Poor?

SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
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State of Rental   April 23, 2019

2019 State of Rental Housing in Cook County

The newest release of the State of Rental Housing in Cook County updates key data on changing rental demand, the supply of rental housing, and how these dynamics affect access to affordable rental housing for Cook County's lowest income households.

March 29, 2019

The Daily Line’s Aldercast: Diagnosing Chicago’s affordable housing shortage

SOURCE: The Daily Line
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February 18, 2019

Understanding the Relationship between Opportunity Zones and Displacement Pressure in Chicago

This blog highlights how Chicago’s designated Opportunity Zones align with displacement pressure in the city’s neighborhoods and discusses what this means for the implementation of Opportunity Zone investments.