Articles tagged 'Affordability'
City nabbing land near Obama Presidential Center
Gentrification, affordable housing and the fight for Pilsen’s public schools
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.
Mayor's New Housing Commissioner is Ready to Fix City's Affordability and Segregation
Housing in Chicago: Pushing Out the Poor?
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.
The Daily Line’s Aldercast: Diagnosing Chicago’s affordable housing shortage
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.
Analyzing Neighborhoods with Intensifying and Emerging Housing Affordability Pressure
This analysis examines IHS’s updated displacement pressure maps and ways that market pressure may be changing in Chicago neighborhoods. The goal is to give neighborhood stakeholders a timely resource to understand shifting levels of market activity and highlight which areas in the City of Chicago may be experiencing increased displacement pressure.
Mapping Displacement Pressure in Chicago, 2018
IHS’s Mapping Displacement Pressure in Chicago project supports ongoing and future public investment decisions by creating a leading indicator to identify neighborhoods where vulnerable populations may be experiencing affordability pressures and displacement risk from increased housing costs.
