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Development Project Aims to Create Affordable Housing in Englewood
A collaboration of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture students, a local developer and Ald. Stephanie Coleman aims to create affordable housing in the South Side’s Englewood neighborhood.
Houses or classic Chicago two-flats are slated to be built on more than 20 empty lots southwest of the intersection of South Halsted and West 63rd streets. Englewood Connect, a $13.9-million development project under the city’s INVEST South/West initiative, will sit across the street.
Families that move into the area could spark further growth. “Once we develop a community where customers are, businesses will come,” said Coleman. “There is a tipping point we need to get to.”
The plan began to take shape last year when Kenny Smith, CEO of the nonprofit Wholistic Community Development Association, walked into IIT’s S. R. Crown Hall and asked for help designing homes for a new project to reinvigorate the Englewood neighborhood.
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