Promoting Viable Public Housing across Metropolitan Chicago
Since its formation in 1934, MPC has been committed to the success of public housing, and to the integration of quality homes affordable to very low-income households within the fabric of healthy communities -- with good jobs, good schools, and other amenities. In recent years, this commitment has led MPC to focus on promoting the success of the Plan for Transformation underway in Chicago, by providing local stakeholders with the information and resources they need to stay informed and engaged in building successful mixed-income communities.
In 2006, the private sector developers selected by the CHA to create 10 viable mixed-income communities within the footprints of former CHA highrises, presented MPC with a challenging assignment: What will it take to bring needed transit and retail to these new communities? The outcome of that assignment was the creation of Reconnecting Neighborhoods.
Articles
MPC by the numbers, 2009-
- From jobless rates to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, from Illinois’ budget gap to foreclosure trends, news reports in 2009 were awash with gloomy figures. It’s been a challenging year, and the numbers don’t lie.
Yet, fortunately, they rarely tell the whole…
It's in business's best interest to back affordable housing-
- This op-ed by MPC President MarySue Barrett ran in Crain's Chicago Business on Nov. 16, 2009
Across the Chicago area, local government officials are hearing increasingly from employers that maintaining homes affordable to their workers isn't a maybe — it's a must.
One might be surprised to…
Cabinet secretaries discuss federal reforms to support metro regions at record-breaking MPC Annual Luncheon-
MPC's 2009 Annual Luncheon featured a conversation with officials from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about their new Sustainable Communities Partnership, and Chicago's role as a laboratory for change.
- Building Successful Mixed-Income Communities: A compilation of MPC forums and publications
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To explore the many ingredients necessary to promote successful mixed-income communities, MPC and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation co-hosted over a dozen forums, in collaboration with the CHA, showcasing national best practices, local innovation and opportunities to explore how housing developers, policymakers, community-based organizations and other stakeholders could promote the success of the Plan for Transformation. Frequently, these forums also provided an opportunity to release relevant publications and data..
- IIT offers EAH benefit in support of CHA transformation
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- IIT is offering down payment assistance to help employees buy homes in the new mixed- income community replacing the former Chicago Housing Authority Stateway Gardens development.
In 2002, building off of lessons learned from the Regional Rental Market Analysis, the Regional Housing Initiative was launched to encourage the integration of public housing resources and quality rental options in neighborhoods near jobs and transit.
Collaborators
Partners
Chicago Housing Authority
City of Chicago Dept. of Community Development
Partnership for New Communities
Funders
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
The F.B. Heron Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
