The city’s Missing Middle Infill Housing program supports development in distressed neighborhoods.
The first project approved as part of Chicago’s Missing Middle Infill Housing Initiative broke ground in the North Lawndale neighborhood, a development that will bring seven two-flats to several vacant lots.
As Michael Liptrot explains in Block Club Chicago, “The Missing Middle initiative looks to revitalize and repopulate neighborhoods by building new, for-sale housing attainable to families looking to own in areas where such housing stock has been hollowed out. The initiative sells city-owned lots in the program to developers for $1, with the city subsidizing up to $150,000 per unit to develop for-sale housing.”
The first series of projects by Austin developer Citizens Building a Better Community is underway, and four more projects are expected to break ground this year.
According to Liptrot, “Funding for subsidies comes from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1.25 billion housing and economic development bond.”
Read the full story: ‘Missing Middle’ Housing Program Breaks Ground On 1st Project In North Lawndale
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