Rogers Park – Community of Opportunity - Housing

October 01, 1999 / Teresa

CURL supported 6 community-based organizations to create a collaboration to develop and implement policies to maintain and create affordable housing in Rogers Park. This was one of the projects in a 3-yearinitiative funded by HUD’s COPC grant.

categories / Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Housing
tags / Past

Asian American Institute Senior Citizens Housing Needs Assessment

March 01, 1999 / Teresa

Asian American Institute (AAI) sought to address the housing needs of Asian American (specifically Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cambodian) elderly in the Uptown and Albany Park neighborhoods. CURL assisted by completing a housing needs study. Current housing options were mapped and a survey of housing needs among the target population was done.

categories / Community Need / Asset Mapping, Housing
tags / Past

Housing Discrimination and Economic Opportunity in the Chicago Region

January 01, 1999 / Teresa

Persistent racial and ethnic segregation has continuing implications for the social, political, cultural, and economic vitality of Chicago region. This report demonstrates the reality of such concentrations, and analyzes why they persist. We are particularly interested in assessing the impact of housing discrimination on job and wealth opportunities for people of color. Findings and recommendations are drawn from reports on this subject written since the last series of reports commissioned by the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago in 1990.

categories / Economic Development and Employment, Housing, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Black, White and Shades of Brown: Fair Housing and Economic Opportunity in the Chicago Region

May 01, 1997 / Teresa

In May 1997 the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities commissioned CURL to write a report answering the questions, “What is the state of fair housing in the Chicago region today, especially related to race and ethnicity? What are its implications for economic opportunity and development?”

categories / Housing, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Kenmore/Winthrop Corridor

January 01, 1997 / Teresa

A survey was conducted to determine the ownership of buildings, data on rental units, number of condos, rental rates, and other factors as a way of allowing the Edgewater Community Council (ECC) to better evaluate means of sustaining quality affordable housing in this lakefront community. Data were transferred to base maps as a guide to ECC's strategic planning.

categories / Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Housing
tags / Past

The Role of Property Management of PRIDE in Improving the Life of Tenants

June 01, 1996 / Teresa

A participatory evaluation process was used by PRIDE (People’s ReInvestment and Development Effort) to address property management issues and the quality of life for PRIDE's tenants. The report focused on indicators such as frequency and types of repairs, the speed of repairs, and entry captains' perceptions of quality of and satisfaction with maintenance of buildings.

categories / Housing, Participatory Evaluation
tags / Past

Saving our Homes: The Lessons of Community Struggles to Preserve Affordable Housing in Chicago’s Uptown

May 03, 1991 / Teresa

In collaboration with Organization of the NorthEast (ONE) a community organizing group on Chicago’s north side, CURL worked to produce a study of nine affordable housing buildings in Uptown and the tenants’ and community organizations’ efforts to keep the housing affordable. The story of each of the buildings provides different lessons for tenants, housing organizers, community organizations, government policy makers in Chicago and in every other city of the country. This report is an effort to give voice to some of those working poor who have been struggling to preserve the affordable housing that is their road to self-sufficiency in the diverse neighborhood of Uptown on Chicago’s north side.

categories / Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Housing, Race & Ethnicity, Diverse Communities
tags / Past

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