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Latest blog post Thursday, November 07, 2019

Where the ARO units are
by Steven Vance

The Chicago Department of Housing published its interactive Affordable Requirements Ordinance dashboard today. The website shows where residential units have been built as a result of the City’s ARO law, in place since 2003.

The ARO is a form of inclusionary housing, a group of rules used in cities all over the country that require market-rate housing builders to provide affordable housing. In the ARO generally, the developer has to rent or sell 10 percent of the units in a project as affordable in exchange for a zoning change.

And it’s one of the many affordable...

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Sterling Bay has proposed an 18-story office building.
A proposed building with 45 units of all affordable apartments. (This version of the design was replaced as of 9/5/2019.)
AIDS Garden Chicago will be the city’s first public monument to memorialize the early days of Chicago’s HIV epidemic, and to honor those who continue to fight against the disease today. Set to be complete in 2020, the Garden will be built along Lake Michigan just south of Belmont Harbor at the original location of the historic Belmont Rocks. Anchoring the Garden will be ‘Self-Portrait,’ a 30-foot sculpture by iconic late artist and activist Keith Haring.
A proposed charter school that would have net positive energy supply. The renderings shown here are by Studio Gang, but the final architeect, per the zoning change application O2019-7971, is Eckenhoff Saunders.

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