Newsletter: April 2025
April 22, 2025
We helped approve so many homes in April that we had to write a blog postabout it! Highlights include:
🌇 Multiple Housing Wins in April!
We helped approve so many homes in April that we had to write a blog postabout it! Highlights include:
- Old Town Canvas (Fern Hill)
- 349 homes, including 20% on-site affordable
- 3819 N Kedzie (Base 3)
- 50 homes, including 20% on-site affordable
- 5853 N Broadway (Bickerdike)
- 90 affordable, all-electric homes
Thank you to everyone who attended a community meeting, wrote a letter of support to their alder, or gave public comment in support of these projects at Plan Commission or Zoning Commission. 489 new homes are now approved thanks to your efforts.
Check out our housing wins blog post
🗞 AHIL Members in the News
Remember when we got excited about being published once per month? Those days are long gone! We just checked out our press page and counted at least fourteen AHIL member op-eds or interviews in 2025!
April highlights:
- AHIL member Eshan's op-ed on the threats that manufactured home residents face from investors was published in the Chicago Tribune
- AHIL member Alicia's on replacing Chicago's mega-developments with courtyard blocks was published in Crain's Chicago Business
