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      1. 7/20: Cardinal George backs housing effort
           From: Grant <grant57_99@yahoo.com>


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   Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:47:20 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Grant <grant57_99@yahoo.com>
Subject: 7/20: Cardinal George backs housing effort


--- Stephanie Lane <stephlane@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> George backs housing effort
> Cardinal wants low-cost units saved
> By Ray Quintanilla
> Tribune staff reporter
> 
> July 20, 2002
> 
> In a move to build public support for preservation of
> affordable housing across 
> Chicago, Cardinal Francis George joined housing advocates
> Friday in a call for 
> city leaders to do more to encourage developers to set
> aside affordable housing 
> in rapidly gentrifying areas.
> 
> "I can lend my moral support," George told a group of
> about 150 housing 
> advocates in St. Sylvester Church on the Northwest Side.
> 
> "What we are seeing in parts of the city is economic
> segregation. And it's not 
> good," George said.
> 
> The group is backing an ordinance they believe will
> generate more affordable 
> housing in Chicago. That ordinance, still being drafted,
> would require 
> developers to set aside three units of housing for low-
> and moderate-income 
> people for every 10 units of market-rate housing they
> make available.
> 
> The group is targeting such neighborhoods as Bucktown,
> Albany Park, Uptown and 
> Logan Square.
> 
> "This ordinance would fundamentally change the city of
> Chicago," said Diane 
> Limas, a leader of the Albany Park Neighborhood Council,
> one of 10 groups that 
> form the Balanced Development Coalition.
> 
> "As our existing buildings get rehabilitated and turned
> into condominium 
> developments, which most of us can't afford, we are
> seeing lots of our longtime 
> residents being displaced," Limas said.
> 
> The coalition comprises Limas' group, Bickerdike
> Redevelopment Corp., the 
> Garfield Area Project, the Lakeview Action Coalition,
> Lugenia Burns Hope 
> Center, Logan Square Neighborhood Association,
> Organization of the NorthEast, 
> Metro Seniors in Action, the Resurrection Project and
> West Town Leadership 
> United.
> 
> Group officials note the proposed ordinance has no City
> Hall sponsor.
> 
> City Housing Commissioner John Markowski said he isn't
> sure mandating that 
> developers set aside units is a good idea because it
> could discourage long-term 
> investment in neighborhoods.
> 
> What's needed, he said, are incentives that reward
> developers with "density 
> bonuses" for setting aside units for low- to
> moderate-income people.
> 
> "With a density bonus you let a developer build a few
> more units of housing 
> than you would ordinarily, as long as he agrees to set
> some aside as affordable 
> units," he said.
> 
> 
> Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune 
> 


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