Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Urban Investigations

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Print What Is Affordable Housing? - Chicago Edition

The phrase “affordable housing” seems plain enough, but it doesn’t always mean what people think it does. It actually has a technical definition, which can determine what gets built and who gets to live there. What Is Affordable Housing? Chicago Edition helps communities answer the all-important question, “Affordable to whom?” The guidebook uses pictures and diagrams to walk you through affordable housing policy in Chicago. It includes the first-ever illustrated survey of Chicago affordable housing programs and is conveniently pocket-sized, so you can bring it along to your next community meeting.

Check out the New York City version of the Guidebook–part of our Affordable Housing Toolkit–here

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

Space Jam

Urban Investigations

Space Jam

It's Not Just Personal

Making Policy Public

It's Not Just Personal

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents