The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Urban Investigations

Good Cops? Bad Cops? More Cops? No Cops?

Let's Hang Out

Urban Investigations

Let's Hang Out

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

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

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting