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Housing 1-2-3 helps communities weather the storm

The latest entry in MPC’s 1-2-3 series, Housing 1-2-3 will help communities make better decisions about housing, no matter what the housing climate. | » More

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New Data Quantifies Benefits of Employer-Assisted Housing

Analysis of Milwaukee hospital data shows that EAH participants are long-term, high-performing employees.

MPC’s public housing forum revisits the rehabs

The first Building Successful Mixed-Income Communities forum of 2008 explored the rehabilitation of CHA’s remaining family properties.

Access, Amenities, Opportunity: MPC launches Reconnecting Neighborhoods project

In partnership with the City of Chicago, Regional Transportation Authority, and HNTB, in November, MPC convened citywide stakeholders in community planning initiative in three neighborhoods.

Loyola University Chicago joins REACH Illinois

The school's new University Assisted Housing program is designed to help employees buy homes closer to work, with a particular focus on communities served by the CTA Red Line.

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Metropolitan Planning Council Media Guide to the 95th General Assembly: Affordable & Workforce Housing

Employer-Assisted Housing 2006 Year-End Report

This is the 2006 Year-End Report on Employer-Assisted Housing

Rolling Meadows: Preserving Local Housing Options in the Path of Redevelopment

The Metropolitan Planning Council’s work in Rolling Meadows is a part of its Community Building Initiative, which supports communities throughout the Chicago region in determining solutions to local development challenges, testing and refining policies and strategies, providing models for other communities, and creating a network of regional partners and contacts.

CHA Plan for Transformation — November 2005

One of the key principles that civic leaders embraced was the creation of affordable and market-rate homes side-by-side the redeveloped public housing.

U.S. Legislators Reviewing Housing America’s Workforce Act

Contact Information for Senate and House Committee Members

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