Posts Tagged ‘affordable housing’
Next Generation SRO Housing in Chicago: Securing the Future Success and Long-Term Stability of an Endangered Housing Type
Next Generation SRO Housing in Chicago offers an overview of key challenges and best practices as it relates to supportive services and operations, policy and finance, as well as design and construction. The paper also includes case studies of successful SRO preservation projects that required a range of approaches, from light rehab to gut and historic…
Read MoreEast Park Apartments Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
East Park Apartments a newly rehabbed 5-story 152-unit single room occupancy building in East Garfield Park had its ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday! The rehab includes a new roof, masonry repairs, mechanical upgrades, improved common areas, and unit upgrades. This project was developed by The Habitat Company in collaboration with GMA Construction Group, Carsello Engineering, WSP, Prism…
Read MoreGrand Opening: McCrory Senior Apartments
McCrory Senior Apartments had their Grand Opening today! The project is 5-stories, 62-units of affordable housing for seniors on the Near West Side of Chicago where they’ll have access to amenities such as a theatre room, community room, on-site management, and a fitness room. Artwork at the main entry and decorative moments that refer to the neighboring…
Read MoreChicago Cityscape: Local affordable housing developer is first to build a multi-family Passive House
Grand Opening: Tierra Linda
Today LUCHA celebrated the grand opening of its first sustainability-oriented affordable housing project, Tierra Linda! As a scattered site development, Tierra Linda offers affordable housing in 3-flat and 6-flat buildings across Humboldt Park. The ribbon cutting was held in front of the first multi-family Passive House in Illinois.
Read MoreThe Architect Newspaper: Facades+ Chicago will explore structural and facade systems at dizzying heights
Grand Opening: Highlander
Today Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp. hosted a ribbon cutting for Highlander Phase I, a 117 rental units and 61 senior living residences! This phase is part of a larger redevelopment plan aimed to break the cycle of poverty by creating a healthy, sustainable, mixed-income community. Landon Bone Baker Architects collaborated with Alley Poyner Macchietto…
Read MoreChicago Sun-Times: Activists want $500M from city to preserve single-room occupancy housing
Quigley, LGBTQ housing advocates meet with HUD Secretary Carson
Landon Bone Baker has been working with LaCasa Norte and Pride Action Tank on a tiny house project in Chicago. Tracy Baim from Pride Action Tank recently met with government officials to explain the need and reason for tiny houses. Read more here.
Read MoreTierra Linda Passive House Tour
Yesterday Eco Achievers hosted a tour of Tierra Linda’s Passive House, the first multi-family Passive House in Illinois! Guests gathered inline outside of the mid-constructed project showing the completed STO Gold coat installation on the exterior sheathing. The tour began with Charlene Andreas, from the project’s developer LUCHA, introducing how the Passive House became a…
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