Harvey $15 million senior apartment rehab ‘a new beginning,’ with work expected to wrap up next year
Chicago Tribune story
Standing outside the South Suburban Senior Housing Apartments in Harvey Thursday, resident George Ellis said that it’s a new beginning for the place he’s called home for nearly seven years.
The 120-unit building, on 155th Street just west of Park Avenue, is undergoing a $15 million renovation that will see apartments updated along with common areas of the building, formerly owned by the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
“I fell in love with the place when I first moved here,” Ellis said at a news conference detailing the project.
Housing nonprofit eyeing Obama Center deals to blunt gentrification
The Real Deal story
A Chicago nonprofit is buying residential properties near the Obama Presidential Center in the hopes of keeping rents in check for longtime residents.
Preservation of Affordable Housing is “open to opportunities to buy more apartment buildings for the purpose of keeping them affordable,” the group’s Bill Eager told the Chicago Business Journal at an event for two buildings the organization bought in 2019.
POAH awarded grant to provide internet access to residents at Oxford Place/Gardens in Providence
Access to affordable broadband internet service is a prerequisite to full participation in the American economy and POAH is working to ensure access for our residents. On May 19, RIHousing announced that POAH has been awarded a $75,000 grant for start-up costs toward providing free internet to all units at Oxford Place & Gardens in Providence. Read the story here:
Study finds resident input is key to Woodlawn’s redevelopment
A Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) study about the redevelopment of Woodlawn has found that input from the residents was key to redeveloping the community and ensuring residents weren’t displaced when redevelopment occurred.
Understanding HUD’s Section 3 local hiring provisions is key to complying with developer/contractor obligations
A year ago, HUD’s Office of Field Policy and Management published guidance for developers, contractors and subcontractors to help them comply with Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C § 1701u) requiring the hiring of low income workers at affordable housing developments that receive federal funding.
Decade of investment boosted household income, homeownership in Woodlawn: report
Over the past decade, thanks in large part to the work of one nonprofit group, Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood has seen big increases in median household income and homeownership rates, according to a new report.
That report, released Thursday, credits the national nonprofit group Preservation of Affordable Housing with attracting more than $400 million in federal, state and city funding in that time.
City Commission Approves Garfield Green Affordable Housing To ‘Counteract Pressures Of Displacement’ In East Garfield Park
EAST GARFIELD PARK — An affordable housing development is coming to an area of East Garfield Park with abundant public transit options to “counteract the pressures of displacement” in the changing neighborhood, a developer said.
Zoning Approved For Garfield Green Development In East Garfield Park
The Chicago City Council has approved the rezoning of a mixed-used development at 201 S Kedzie Avenue in East Garfield Park.
Sagamore Affordable Housing Project Gets $1M Boost
An affordable housing complex proposed for construction in Sagamore has been given a $1 million boost to its financing. The project has been afforded federal funding from the America Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA.
David Quinn is director of housing development for the Housing Assistance Corporation. HAC is one of the proponents for the 40B complex proposed for construction on Cape View Way near the Bourne Fire Department’s headquarters.
City reveals winner of Chicago Ave Invest S/W RFP
In an announcement that was linked with the two-year anniversary of Invest South/West, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the winners of three more RFP’s, including the Chicago Avenue RFP in Humboldt Park. This RFP, as well as the other two, were selected from a pool of developer responses that came after the RFP’s were announced in April by the Department of Planning and Development (DPD).