Posts Tagged ‘Supportive Housing’
Windy City Times: LGBTQ-inclusive La Casa Norte to open new facility
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 MoreCrains’s Chicago Business: Who says a homeless facility can’t be dazzling?
Crain’s Chicago Business published a great read on our long-term client La Casa Norte and their executive directors, Sol Flores, big plans the organization. The article highlights La Casa Norte’s Pierce House covering Sol’s vigorous fundraising and other accomplishments of the organization. We’re thankful for the opportunity to work with Sol and La Casa Norte as they…
Read MoreChicago Sun-Times: Activists want $500M from city to preserve single-room occupancy housing
Meet the newest LBBA Labs team!
We are excited to announce cityLab 2017! In its 8th year, LBBA Labs hire high school students to research an issue facing a neighborhood and offer design recommendations through a current LBBA project. The focus of each Lab is developed in partnership with a community organization. In partnership with Heartland Housing, cityLab 2017 engages five high school students and three college mentors in…
Read MoreCurbed Chicago: “Supportive housing development for young adults, families heads to Humboldt Park”
La Casa Norte Pierce House was featured in a Curbed Chicago article by Jay Koziarz, highlighting the multi-use building’s amenities and sustainability. “More than simply a housing project,” the supportive housing facility and community center will have a food pantry, teaching kitchen, teen center, and many other spaces for critical programs and resources. The full…
Read MoreNext City: Designing Dignity in Housing for Chicago’s Most Vulnerable
Corporation for Supportive Housing Summit
The 2016 Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) summit, “housing as a platform,” took place last week here in Chicago. The 3-day event focused on the most pressing topics for supportive housing today, and aimed to bring more dialog and collaboration to solutions that could improve the lives of the most vulnerable and maximize public resources to…
Read MoreBrent Brown to lecture at AIA Chicago on 2/18
“I think community-oriented design is only going to grow. Right now the questions are: Is it a specialty? Is it a credential subset like LEED, or is it a market segment? You do hospitals, you do schools, and you do public interest design. I completely reject that. I believe that every architect should ethically perform…
Read MoreWest Humboldt Place Allows The Children’s Place Association to Double Multi-Family Housing Capacity
Work has begun on West Humboldt Place, a new housing development on the West Side of Chicago to serve low-income families with disabilities. Located at the corner of West Chicago and North Drake Avenues, the new, three-story building will include 13 apartments on the two upper floors. The ground floor will provide supportive services for tenants…
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