Chicago YIMBY @ChiYIMBY
Preserve existing housing, and build more. We tweet examples of housing and people being denied in Chicago. #YIMBY Chicago, IL Joined October 2015-
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Show up to support more housing in opportunity areas like Lincoln Park. The CHA is proposing to build 80 apartments on land it already owns in a high-cost neighborhood of Chicago. Meeting on 8/19/19, 6:30 PM, 2701 N. Sheffield Ave.
Teen Homeless Shelter 'The Crib' Wants To Move To a [non-residential block of] Bucktown, But Some [people who have housing] Are Putting Up A Fight buff.ly/2XjyuR1 via @mina_bloom_
New Multifamily Housing on empty lots can limit the displacement effects of gentrification that follows transportation improvements. Especially when they are built in early stages before more expensive Single Family Homes can become the standard by which developers judge prices.
Tokyo could drown in tech dollars but teachers would continue living in cheap housing because Tokyo builds housing. If you stop building housing, you’re deciding someone doesn’t get to live there; market just tells you their names.
Tokyo could drown in tech dollars but teachers would continue living in cheap housing because Tokyo builds housing. If you stop building housing, you’re deciding someone doesn’t get to live there; market just tells you their names.
.@wald66 Your industry is currently driving mass displacement, evictions, & homelessness among our working class, immigrant, & historically oppressed communities of color. It is causing our immigrant businesses, people’s means of income, to have to relocate or shut down entirely.
Also of note for the consultants who help affordable housing developers figure out the public side of the funding stack.
This woman owns a 2-flat on a 9,000 s.f. lot in Morgan Park and had to get a zoning change to add one more apartment. And had to pay a $1,025 fee. And it looks like she did it without a lawyer. 👏👏👏 But did we have to make it so hard? buff.ly/2DTkrLj
Fair housing activists filing suit against aldermanic prerogative on affordable housing zoning decisions in Chicago. Urbanist twitter 🚨
Fair housing activists filing suit against aldermanic prerogative on affordable housing zoning decisions in Chicago. Urbanist twitter 🚨
It's still awful that so many schools were closed 5 years ago, but these two are being turned into 160 affordable apartments. buff.ly/2PtFyKH
"As a small landlord, and as a neighbor, I know that rent control is good for all of us. It’s good for me; it’s good for my tenants; it’s good for my neighbors." Judith Cooper from #RogersPark testifies in favor of #RentControlNow in front of @RepKellyCassidy and @repgregharris.
To be extremely clear: there are no new ideas in land use. "Hacker House" = Boarding House "Microunit" = Single Room Occupancy "Have you heard of transit-oriented development?" JFC yes. YIMBYs are not coming up with ideas. We're making them politically possible.
More of this, our empty lots can accommodate 2 families making 1/2 the income that would be required to buy 1 new construction single family home. Affordable family housing is supported by having more 2-Flats.
Thread: 1/6 #YIMBYTown - the annual gathering of the #YIMBY movement (this year in Boston) - showed the intense complexity of housing work & the diverse voices committed to creating housing affordability & stability. But in the end, that complexity boils down to a few things:
A new residential building was permitted at the corner of Belmont/Sheffield. It'll have 24 units and 7 car parking spaces. buff.ly/2Nw38VU
Chicago’s RLTO probably needs updating. This could be a good revision.
Glad to see this: "legalize existing English basement". In many residential areas, though, this homeowner would have to remove the third unit because the zoning wouldn't allow it. buff.ly/2OpODzm
A single-family house was permitted for this vacant lot in Humboldt Park. The lot's zoning allows only single-family houses, even though a vast majority of the lots on the block have multi-family housing. buff.ly/2OlrKx4
Luxury apartment project along The 606 approved by key city panel, @thedailylinechi reports buff.ly/2x9rZVe
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@ChiYIMBY Doesn’t seem too unreasonable. Possible risk in landlords hedging bets and declaring larger increases earlier. Timescales aren’t that long though, so probly ok.
@ChrisCwiak @ChiYIMBY @ward32chicago Nothing about any specific requirements but in the time they looked at, there were nearly 300 units added in his ward and 0 of them were affordable on-site
@ChrisCwiak @ChiYIMBY New developments in Waugespack's ward almost always pay into the ARO fund rather than built affordable units on site dnainfo.com/chicago/201707…
“Nuru estimates that half of his street cleaning budget – about $30 million – goes towards cleaning up feces and needles from homeless encampments and sidewalks.” For $30 million we could shelter our unsheltered residents. nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Dis…
Congress Parkway at S. Central Park in Fifth City (2013)
Happy to have provided photos for this article on Chicago's Jewish Modernist architects, and the talk Julia Bacharach is giving on the subject on March 11! jbachrach.com/blog/2018/1/30…
@ChiYIMBY San Francisco wishes it had just a *smidgin* of Chicago’s housing stock and transit. OK, maybe that’s just me.
At hearing for @ChicagoDPD new library+mixed income, @AldermanErvin warns opponents not to equate low-income residents w crime
@jvhawkins @ChiYIMBY must resist the looming manhattanization of Berkeley lol
@ChiYIMBY We're a neighborhood org that is pro-dev't, pro-transit, pro-cities. jeffersonparkforward.org/about/
That doesn't mean it's not "about" race--in Chicago, gentrification actively avoids black neighborhoods x.com/benrosstransit…
A reminder that gentrification is mostly about class, not race. In most cities it happened in white areas first nytimes.com/2017/02/01/boo…
"The streetcar will be faster than a bus and attract thousands more riders."
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