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Housing Justice for Health Equity Health and Medicine Policy Research Group August 27, 2018

The Chicago Housing Initiative (CHI) is a low-income housing coalition dedicated to preserving, improving, and expanding low-rent housing options in Chicago. CHI aims to promote community stabilization, racial and economic inclusion, and equity.

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Housing Justice for Health Equity Health and Medicine Policy Research Group August 27, 2018

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  1. Housing Justice for Health EquityHealth and Medicine Policy Research GroupAugust 27, 2018

  2. Organized in 2007, the Chicago Housing Initiative (CHI) is a low-income housing coalition. Today, CHI is made up of eight community organizations. Mission: To amplify the power oflow-income Chicago residents to preserve, improve, and expand low-rent housing options, promote community stabilization, and advance racial and economic inclusion and equity. Chicago Housing Initiative

  3. Median price for two-bedroom apartment rising Lowest range: Bronzeville & Pilsen- $1400 Humboldt Park, $1550 Lincoln Park, $2,125 Bucktown $2,600 South Loop $2,800 Incomes are not keeping pace Chicago minimum wage: $12/hr = $1,920 per month = $23,040 per year Need for affordable housing:

  4. Price of housing a full-time minimum wage worker can actually afford: $576 per month rent (30% of income) 97,000 families with children making <$35,000 Majority of these families will end up paying more than half their income on rent each month Last time CHA opened its waiting list Over 280,000 families applies for 40,000 spots on a waiting list - That is roughly one in every four Chicago families Need for affordable housing:

  5. Treating housing as an investment rather than basic human need “Commodification” Intensifying income inequality Produces areas of extreme wealth and then on the flip side, geopolitical “sacrifice zones” Federal & local defunding of affordable housing Rising market rents + privatization of affordable housing programs = Limited public subsidy dollars can’t serve as many families Broad Factors driving housing crisis:

  6. Number of low-rent apartments demolished: 18,650 Number of public housing units re-built (0-30% AMI): 2,560 Net loss of apartments serving families (0-30% AMI): 16,090 Net loss, “affordable” apartments (families 0-60% AMI): 14,369 Local factors intensifying housing crisis Public & Affordable Housing Loss Under the Plan for Transformation 2000-2018 Source: Bowlby’s ‘The Poor House’ for original unit counts & Habitat Construction Reports to the Gautreaux Court for replacement housing delivered

  7. CHA Track Record of Rebuilding After Demolition: 49% of promised units

  8. Overall impact, over 200,000 black residents were pushed out of Chicago during the last census cycle. Source: Build / Preserve / Lead – A Housing Agenda for Chicago’s Neighborhoods: City of Chicago - Affordable Housing Plan for 2004–2008 (p. 10)

  9. Latinx families are increasingly being pushed out of their historic communities and into neighborhoods further from the city center. Source: Build / Preserve / Lead – A Housing Agenda for Chicago’s Neighborhoods: City of Chicago - Affordable Housing Plan for 2004–2008 (p. 10)

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