Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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Metropolitan Planning Council
For the past two years, MPC has provided support and guidance to the City of Chicago as it has conducted pre- and current planning activities for the We Will Chicago citywide plan. Now, in preparation for the next phase, MPC proposes a 12-month grant for $200,000 that advances solutions towards two very specific needs and opportunities: 1) creating inclusive and sustained community engagement in planning; and 2) meeting challenges presented with current implementation of the zoning code. Activities over the next year include: Meeting in a Box revision and rollout, Global Pillars Events Series, Historical Acknowledgement Planning Process, and the development of a research methodology and coalition building for a Zoning Assessment, which is a key tool to produce a more equitable, healthy, and resilient community.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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WE ARE ABLE
We Are Able, a 501c3, in partnership with the Chicago Police Board, launched the Chicago Youth Council for Police Accountability (CYCPA) in 2021. Our mission is to spark a dialogue about policing issues in Chicago, empower young people from across the City to engage in the work of the Chicago Police Board, and amplify young people’s voices that have been historically underrepresented and underutilized. The CYCPA is comprised of 11 young people ages 16-25. Their work includes: • Attending and providing input into police board meetings • Researching and drafting policy recommendations that are presented to the board • Performing outreach and awareness-building to increase engagement with the police board, and • Facilitating community-building events that foster inclusive communities
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Cicero Independiente
General operating support to ensure that Cicero Independiente can continue to meet the information needs of a bilingual, immigrant community and provide paid opportunities for people of color to acquire journalism skills and increase civic engagement.
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Growing Home, Inc.
This grant application is to support the early stage development of the Wood Street North lot. These funds will be used to conduct the activities necessary to fulfill the vision of Growing Home for the expansion of facilities that will support further growing and availability of local food and enterprise opportunities in Englewood.
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INHERENT L3C
Inherent West Humboldt Park is a development of a cluster of 23 single family homes in the area immediately adjacent to Laura Ward Elementary School. Each home is two-stories, 1,445 square feet, all-electric and high-performing, and built in a controlled indoor production facility. Our strategy of building these homes within an indoor production facility allows us to reduce construction time of each home considerably and thereby deliver the 23 single family homes rapidly to their respective parcels. The development will begin with 2 demonstration homes on land that we currently own that showcase our first single family home model and will continue over the next 2 years with the construction of 21 additional homes on land acquired from the City of Chicago. Currently, our application for this land has been preliminarily approved and is pending final approval by the City Council during their June 2022 meeting. Our choice of West Humboldt Park is motivated by the need to stabilize home prices in the area due to rapidly rising home prices in the north and east portions of Humboldt Park. In selecting a specific area to focus on, we chose an area anchored by a Chicago Public School, Laura S. Ward Elementary School, that is in close proximity to a significant block scale development at 3831 West Chicago (approx. $33 million dollar development) and 3601 West Chicago (approx. $ 25 million dollar development), both part of INVEST South/West. We hope that the effect of our work will be to transform the community in a far more rapid manner than possible with a traditional construction technique. Such a transformation will contribute to an enhanced tax base as well as families that may elect to send their children to the nearby elementary school - increasing overall funding of that school in the process. We are applying for this Pre-Development Grant to help cover the cost of environmental services required for land. For environmental services, we plan to engage Victoria Green of Naturally Urban Environmental, Inc, a local African American, women owned and operated business. We also plan to utilize the grant funds to cover architectural, community engagement and legal services related to the acquisition and revitalization of the Project neighborhoods.
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Regents of the University of California, Davis