The city’s Housing & Community Development Committee on Tuesday, Jan. 17, recommended providing $4 million in gap financing to a non-profit developer partnering with a local church to create 44 […]
Tag: Affordable Housing
City purchases property on Howard Street for affordable housing
Revitalization is under way in Evanston’s southern business district. The City Council voted Monday, Jan. 9, to purchase the Clothes Pin Laundromat, located at 729-739 Howard St., for $950,000 on […]
Council OKs increased fee to firm administrating affordable housing waitlist
Evanston City Council approved an increase in the fee a Libertyville-based firm receives to manage the city’s waitlist for affordable housing — a list that continues to grow and is […]
Housing committee votes to renew waitlist administrators
The Evanston Housing & Community Development Committee on Tuesday unanimously renewed Libertyville-based Community Partners for Affordable Housing (CPAH) contract to administer the city’s inclusionary housing waitlist. CPAH will be paid […]
Fifth and Eighth wards get zoning, budget and housing briefings
In a five-hour-long meeting Thursday that stretched past midnight, Fifth and Eighth Ward residents and homeless advocates tangled over the affordability of Evanston housing, the impact of zoning on homeless […]
Open Communities to host housing workshops
Open Communities, the leader in Fair Housing Advocacy for Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs, is hosting a series of free workshops and events throughout October for landlords, tenants, homeowners, and […]