Citywide Meeting on Fair Community Development

February 21, Wednesday, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn

DEVELOPMENT FOR STABLE AND AFFORDABLE COMMUNITIES

The landscape of the city is rapidly changing. Apartments and factories are being changed into condos and lofts. Large chain stores appear replacing locally owned shops. Flowers are planted and streets repaired. New luxury apartments are built while affordable housing is demolished. This development supposedly enhances and makes our communities more livable. Though does it? Development also means higher rents and higher property taxes which are forcing low and moderate income residents to move from the community. In other words the development is for those new residents who are to move in. This is not fair! Development must benefit the residents living in the community. Development for the community, not to the community.

Join us for a citywide planning meeting to implement community oriented principles of development that prioritize people, keep housing costs affordable and maintain our communities. Every day we lose more affordable housing. We must act now to stop the bulldozer of development. These are our communities, our homes and we will have a say in what happens.


Sponsored by the Coalition for Fair Community Development
Endorsers and Sponsors: Access Living, Action Society of Albany Park, Bethel New Life, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Eighth Day Center for Justice, Lawyers Committee for Better Housing, Metropolitan Tenants Organization, New Northwest Neighborhood Network, Nobel Neighbors, Queer to the Left, South Chicago Neighborhood Housing Collaboration, 47th Ward Organization

Child care provided / Wheelchair Accessible

For more information call 773-292-4980 x 224