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WELCOME! BIENVENIDOS!

AGENDA

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• Welcome & Why We’re Here:
• Bianca Jimenez (BAC and REP) & Rohini D’Silva (REP)

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• The Impact of Rising Rents on Schools in Our Ward - A Case Study
• Nick Ward; Goudy Technology Academy, LSC Member

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• Affordable Housing 101 & Why Advocacy Matters Now
• Chris White & guest speakers Mothership Baby Bubba (aka Rodney Dawkins), Lamont Burnett, ONE Northside

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• Innovative City Programs and Housing Resources:
• Alderman Osterman and Chicago DOH: Sendy Soto, Aja Bonner, Aaron Johnson

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• Next Steps and Q&A:
• Nicole Granacki, Pierce’s Racial Equity Parents Group (REP)

Why We’re Here: “Housing Policy is Education Policy” Gloria Ladson-Billings

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• Rising rents are pushing working-class families out of our neighborhoods and schools

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• We know that mixed-income neighborhoods like ours are becoming a relic of the past

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• Unless we act we are casting a vote against equitable access to our schools

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2017

1.First Map: UIC Voorheese Center 2. Institute for Housing Studies Depaul Univ

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• Displacement pressure is highest along Broadway, by the Red Line, where there is lots of redevelopment

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• Segregation undermines educational outcomes and access to opportunity, especially for Black people and other people of color

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• The trend in rising rents has had different impacts on our schools depending on local demographics & boundaries, but they have been significant

Further Reading: Neighborhood Segregation and Educational Outcomes

Urban Institute, Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

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NPR.org Zipcode Destiny: The Persistent Power Of Place And Education (Raj Chetty)

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Elize Dison-Ross Can Affordable Housing Be an Effective Lever for Increasing School Diversity? Evidence from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

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Housing Issues & Examples

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ONE Northside

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Who is ONE Northside?

Mission:

Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities. We build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. We accomplish this through developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.

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We operate as volunteer teams of community leaders like you. There are teams that focus on Local Housing Issues, State & Federal Housing Issues, SROs, Education, Government Budgets, Mental Health Justice, Police Accountability, and Violence Prevention.

We focus on the area of Western to Lake Michigan, North Ave to the City Border, but are always working with other organizations and coalitions in other areas.

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What is Affordable Housing & AMI (Area Median Income)

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses Area Median Income (AMI) to define affordability. HUD calculates our median income by looking at the whole region Joliet to Naperville to Chicago to find the AMI and then define affordability by housing costs.

Then HUD defines an "affordable dwelling" as one that a household can obtain for 30 percent or less of its income.

A person is rent burdened if they spend more than 30% of their income on housing.

So a 60% AMI unit should cost no more than 30% of the income of someone who makes 60% of the AMI.

Area Median Income Limits in 2021

BUT….!

• Many families at all income levels are severely rent burdened…
• Often due to seeking high opportunity well resourced schools.
• Many Chicagoans do not make 60% AMI. A full time min wage earner makes about 8 grand less.
• Businesses suffer from employees not being able to find housing near work.

How Does the Federal Govt Provide Affordable Housing?

There are many different government housing and subsidy programs run by different parts of government.

• Public housing units: Units directly operated by government that charge income based rents. BUT Many in Chicago have been demolished and not replaced. Many Chicagoans have been on waiting lists for decades. The lists are not transparent.
• “Section 8”
• Housing Choice Vouchers that pay part of a person’s rent, but many landlords illegally refuse them or have trouble getting the program to work or charge above the maximum amount.
• Project Based Section 8: Units that get subsidies and charge income based rent.
• Tax Credits/HUD Mortgages: Units that get subsidies to build in exchange for a level of affordability for a certain amount of time. Affordable housing that gets built through tax credits results in the single largest affordable units within a building as receiving tax credits is a competitive process and generally results in the highest number of units available at affordable rents

How Do Local Govts Provide Affordable Housing?

There are many different government housing and subsidy programs run by different parts of government.

• ARO: The Affordable Rental Ordinance requires developers who get zoning variances or public funds to make part of the development affordable. Developers are allowed to build some affordable units offsite or pay in lieu of fees.
• Chicago Low Income Housing Trust Fund: Some in lieu of fees become dedicated funding for housing programs like the 30% AMI units in the building going up on Berwyn
• Other Funds Like any building in Chicago, developers often use TIF funds or other subsidies to get buildings built. The recent State Housing Omnibus provides gap funding to AH developers through IHDA (Illinois Housing Development Authority). These can also fund maintenance and preservation costs.
• Property Tax Relief For Affordable Housing: The State Omnibus also grants property tax deductions for affordable housing.

What do these buildings have in common? Why are they changing and becoming higher rent now?

They are close to the new Redline!

Two things make the redline extra attractive to developers:

1.Redline Modernization

• A shiny new building they can sell.
• A newer, cleaner, quieter redline that you can have next door to your home.
• Land that will open up for development and possible buildings on top of stations.

2. Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

• Zoning changes that allowed bigger, more profitable buildings near transit.

What is Equitable Transit Oriented Development?

What is Transit Oriented Development: An ordinance passed in 2013 that allows developers to increase profits by allowing them to build bigger buildings with less parking when they built near train lines

In response to criticism that Transit Oriented Development was gentrifying the blue line and doing nothing for investment in the South and West sides, Rahm passed the Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) ordinance.

This expanded the TOD incentives to areas with less investment like Southside bus lines.

It also required the Lightfoot Administration to make an ETOD Policy Document with ideas of how to fix TOD.

The Chicago Department of Housing will talk about this more!

What is Our Campaign?

The redline modernization means our advocacy today matters more than ever.

We are in a campaign to get Aldermen to push Council to follow the recommendation of a zoning overlay around the new redline with more affordability!

We have been fighting for this on our own AND it is also part of the Chicago Housing Initiative Citywide Affordable Housing Preservation & Expansion Ordinance (being drafted)

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Advocacy Works

• SRO residents like Lamont Burnett fought for affordable units above the ARO requirements when the Wilson Men’s Hotel was sold.
• Formerly homeless people like Mothership BabyBubba are fighting to get housing authorities do their job to house himself and others.
• Pilsen Alliance and Logan Square Neighborhood Association won a pilot making it more expensive to demolish buildings with the funding dedicated to housing initiatives.
• Lakeview Towers Resident Association bought their building when the HUD mortgage matured.
• Neighbors won funding for affordable housing on key pieces of land like when a coalition of long time residents, business owners, and officials fought back against hateful opposition at Western and Leland..

Recently because of community leaders like YOU…

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1. The Alderman announced the sale of a city lot on Broadway to an affordable developer and granting of tax credits to VAI to develop affordable housing on their parking lot.
2. The city announced putting a Billion dollars into new housing.
3. The Alderman is planning community meetings about what to do with CTA land that will become vacant.

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What Can We Do?

• Click To Send A Message to your Alderman about having more inclusionary housing near transit: bit.ly/redlinehousingjustice
• Show up with others to Ward Meetings, Community Meetings, Public Hearings, and Church Meetings to share this message.
• Support the campaign to #LiftTheBan on rent control.
• Support “Bring Chicago Home” which would create a graduated real estate transfer tax
• Help us turn folks out for a City Wide Zoom Teach-In 1pm Jan 29th! https://www.facebook.com/events/703139754191693?ref=newsfeed