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Snippet from Alderman La Spata’s newsletter indicating that the 2240 N Milwaukee development receives the 1st ward office’s approval

A flyer we posted in mid September urging housing advocates to show up to a virtual public meeting about this development, which helped ensure that this development will proceed.

Housing moving forward! 💪

“Overwhelming positive feedback” 👀

(We posted about this back in September)

Witness slip submission instructions

It’s witness slip time! 🚨

Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately!

The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip.

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thank you to so many who engaged in this community driven process! Our transit rich wards are some of the most diverse in Chi across race, class, LGBTQ+; Broadway land use means more opportunities for small biz & affordable housing opportunities near the red line. Now, let’s build better together!

Broadway Rezoning Fight Intensifies In Edgewater, With Some Neighbors Taking Out Billboards After a group of neighbors hired an attorney to fight the city's plan to allow taller, denser buildings, others launched a digital campaign in support of the rezoning — and they hope to see it move fo...

Rezoning: just one tool to make communities more affordable, vibrant & safe. We need investments throughout the entire landscape: $$ CTA, protecting SROs & NOAH, ADU reform, a culture for multimodal city living with accessible social supports to live with dignity blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/18/b...

Developments take time and back in 2021/2022, the narrative for the CRE crowd was cities are dead and the Sunbelt growth story is infinite (which of course turned out to be very wrong!). As a result, people over allocated to the Sunbelt and ignored markets like Chicago.

To Boost Housing, Chicago Kills Parking Minimums As part of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s efforts to eliminate zoning rules that block new home construction, the city joins a national parking policy reform movement.

My latest for @bloomberg.com Citylab:
Parking reform might be the rare issue that Chicagoans can agree on

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think most of it was going to be paid for by Sterling Bay and they were going to be reimbursed by the TIF district.

At the risk of getting yelled at, this is part of why I keep saying blue state NIMBYism is a travesty for democracy. When we make it so that low-income immigrants, LGBTQ people and pregnant people can't afford to live where they want, think about what they end up being subject to.

2240 North Milwaukee This is a feedback form for a new redevelopment proposal of a longstanding vacant lot at 2240 North Milwaukee. The lot previously had a Type 1 zoning map amendment to establish a 40-unit building, whi...

Tell the 1st Ward that you support *at least* 50 new homes (and fewer parking spots) on the vacant lot located at 2240 N. Milwaukee!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just walked out of this 2.5 hour meeting with two of my offline roommates, and they’ve totally been radicalized by the NONSENSE that happened during public comment.

Requiring neighborhood approval for housing is a nightmare. We shouldn’t expect normal people to spend their evenings this way.

Also let’s be real: the vast majority of people do not want to own a home where a community land trust owns the land. It’s not a bad idea if executed properly but the people advocating for this need to be more realistic.

Tell ILGA to Act on ADUs & Missing Middle Housing! Bills legalizing accessory dwelling units (HB 1813) and missing middle housing (HB 1814) have been introduced at the Illinois General Assembly! ADUs, also known as coach houses or backyard cottages, ...

We need your help to get two abundant housing bills over the finish line! Send an email to your State Representative today. 🏘️

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

What’s even crazier is that this happened with interest rates going up!

Montgomery County, Maryland is Building a Network of Social Housing at Virtually Zero Cost- Here is How They Do It. — The Center for Social Housing and Public Investment The incredible efficiency of Social Housing

The better answer here is that the entity can take advantage of the muni bond system which ultimately means this entity will offer much lower financing costs than a bank. www.socialhousingcenter.org/blog/in-mont...

Six people and a baby stand in front of the coach house. Pictured are the owner, mother in law, child, state reps LaPointe and Mah, and Ben and Steven are on the right.

This coach house was built in 2023 by the couple who own the property to have a place for their mother in law to live in and help take care of their newborn child.

The “granny flat” is real.

This one was tough to watch: www.instagram.com/reel/DIM1Jul...

Given clarifications from the Administration about the China tariffs, @budgetlab.bsky.social has updated its estimates to reflect a 145% maximum China rate from 2025 policy versus the 125% we assumed before. The report link is the same.
Some key takeaways...

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8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER

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Missing middle housing in Logan Square, featuring pride flag

This afternoon, the IL House’s Housing Committee moved forward bills that would legalize ADUs statewide and missing middle housing statewide! 🏘️ 🥳

Abundant Housing IL endorsed both of these bills, and our members sent over 1,500 letters of support to Chair Jimenez and Speaker Welch

#HB1813 #HB1814

We need housing now! In a bizarre turn of events, the Illinois House's Housing Committee didn't give any of the housing legalization bills a hearing. The Chair of the Housing committee failed to put four bills addressing ...

🚨 HOUSING ALERT 🚨

Today, the IL House's Housing Committee didn't give our ADU and Missing Middle bills a hearing 😱

If they aren't given a hearing before Friday, these bills could be dead for the year 😨

Tell Chair Jimenez and Speaker Welch to advance these bills!

actionnetwork.org/letters/we-n...

ARO does not kick in until a project has 10 units. Very unlikely to be relevant for small lots which this is targeting.

Logan Square's 'Corner Farm' Community Garden Could Be Razed For Condos — But Neighbors Are Scrambling To Save It The Corner Farm, which has become a vibrant community hub over the past decade, could soon be uprooted for the kind of development people have come to associate with gentrification in Logan Square.

Happened in 2021. Here’s block club’s first story about it. blockclubchicago.org/2021/04/07/l...

Here’s a frustrating one a 5 min walk from the L in Logan Square. A developer bought two empty lots and wanted to build a 6 unit building but Waguespack downzoned to RS-3. The result? Two $1.9 million SFHs.

blockclubchicago.org/2024/01/02/f...

Redevelopment potential of the Walgreens stores in Chicago There are 110 Walgreens in Chicago that are mapped in OpenStreetMap. If a bunch of Walgreens stores are going to close after the company’s acquisition by a private equity firm what would the …

if just about every one-story Walgreens store in Chicago was redeveloped as housing, the zoning map is set up to allow thousands of new homes

find my estimated quantity in this quick & dirty analysis: www.stevencanplan.com/2025/03/rede...

Thank you @abundanthousingil.bsky.social for bringing us together. Your volunteers rock! 🎸

Going to a plan commission meeting to support new housing last week felt way better than I expected it to feel. The other added benefit of getting involved locally is making new friends that share your passions!

Will Loux giving comment at the Plan Commission

Will Loux just gave a public comment outling how the community input process for development is unfair, because people like him who want to be a good dad and spend time with his family don't have time to go to the 10+ meetings to approve one development

Get the alders out of their bubbles!

Going there next Friday for the first time, so excited!

screenshot of Daniel Comeaux's letter to the editor explaining that limiting housing production, which is something that 2nd Ward Ald. Hopkins did to the Fern Hill proposal called Old Town Canvas. [the full text is at the link]

one thing that @abundanthousingil.bsky.social members do to support the need for more housing in Chicago and across the state is write letters to the editor, like what @danielcomeaux.bsky.social did today.

chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...