CHICAGO (WLS) — Leaders in Logan Sq. wish to make reasonably priced housing extra accessible of their group.
They took to the streets in protest on Saturday. The group is asking out the Chicago Housing Authority, landlords and others.
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A coalition of the group and households gathered as soon as once more to demand reasonably priced housing from the town.
The thirteenth annual Las Posadas for Public and Inexpensive Housing rally marched by means of the Northwest Aspect group Saturday morning. It’s an effort organized by the Logan Sq. Ecumenical Alliance.
“This can be a group of pastors and religion communities who’ve doing actions like this for years as a result of the combat to get public and reasonably priced housing in our neighborhood goes on,” mentioned Pastor Erin Coleman Branchaud with St. Luke Church of Logan Sq..
Members of the group accuse the CHA of permitting usable properties to fall into disrepair as a substitute of renovating them and renting them to households languishing on wait lists.
They used a reenactment of the holy journey to Bethlehem, the place Joseph and Mary pregnant with child Jesus had been turned away from an inn for instance their level.
In keeping with the company, a property on North Spaulding Avenue is likely one of the CHA’s scattered web site properties. It has practically 2,900 public housing items situated individually or in small teams all through a lot of the metropolis’s 77 communities.
Scattered web site items supply a wide range of housing choices together with single household and multi-unit buildings.
Whereas neighborhood resident Catherine Serpa mentioned she helps the company’s Restore Residence initiative, which may supply some scattered websites areas for reasonably priced homeownership alternatives, she says folks want to have the ability to have reasonably priced rental choices now.
“You will have these items, you are saying its not good for low revenue households, however you wish to promote and make that revenue,” Serpa mentioned.
In an e mail response, CHA spokesperson Matthew Aguilar says building on the Spaulding handle is anticipated to start out in early 2025 and that the company has made important progress on its Restore Residence initiative.
The company wrote partially, “as of this month, building is completed on 36 items and 10 extra items are very near completion. Three single-family properties have been accomplished and are occupied. 13 extra are underneath building. CHA has made important progress on its Restore Residence initiative.”
This comes some on this group are vowing not to surrender their combat for reasonably priced housing.
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