[remote or in person] Committee on Housing and Real Estate

Chicago City Council

Housing

Politics

Wednesday, July 10, 2024
1:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. CDT

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121 N LaSalle St Chicago, IL 60602 (Directions)

City Hall, 2nd floor, Council Chambers

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Reporting

Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team

Note-taking by Sheila Lewis

ChiBlockBuilder, Theaster Gates, Bickerdike, Low affordability areas

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Live reporting by Ahmad Sayles

ChiBlockBuilder, Theaster Gates, Bickerdike, Low affordability areas

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles

Good Afternoon! I’ll be live-tweeting the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate meeting for @CHIdocumenters #CHIdocumenters. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. 🧵

12:55 PM Jul 10, 2024 CDT

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 2/26

Agenda here:

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Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 3/26

Chairman Sighco-Lopez (25) calls the meeting to order. He begins the meeting with a roll call to establish a quorum.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 4/26

We have a quorum with 13 members present. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the June 2024 Rule 45 Report. That agenda item is passed. Now on to the public commentary period. The first speaker is George Blakemore.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 5/26

The next public speaker is Zoe. They voiced a complaint about her mother’s property being torn down without her say so.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 6/26

The next public speaker is also accusing the city of stealing property from Black property owners.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 7/26

The public commentary period has been full of election predictions, xenophobia, and homophobia.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 8/26

The public commentary period is over. Chairman Sigcho-Lopez moves on to the agenda. O2024-0010117 Acceptance of reconveyance deeds from Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation for properties in the 26th Ward.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 9/26

The total value of the 5 empty lots being returned to the city is estimated at 971,000 dollars.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 10/26

The addresses of the vacant lots being returned to the city: are 1256 N Artesian Ave, 1353 N Maplewood Ave, 3301 W Crystal St, 1020 N Kedzie Ave, and the release of 3047 W Wabansia Ave.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 11/26

The agenda item is passed on to the City Council meeting next week. Now on to the next agenda item aldermanic introductions.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 12/26

Designation of Alloy Real Property at 2031-2033 N Kingsbury St and
Annexation Real Property at 2032 Clybourn Ave as a low-affordability community. The property would be turned into affordable apartments in the 2nd Ward.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 13/26

The agenda item passes on to the next meeting. (O2024-0010159) Designation of 2418-2430 N Milwaukee Ave, 2930-2950 W Fullerton Ave a Low-Affordability Community. The project will have 62 units and will include 12 affordable units for the community in the 1st Ward.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 14/26

Ald. Taylor (20) asks the Chair for more details regarding affordability. The agenda item moves on to the next meeting.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 15/26

The next item on the agenda is another aldermanic introduction in the 1st Ward. O2024-0010155 Designation of 1628 W Division St as a Low-Affordability Community.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 16/26

(O2024-0010155) Designation of 1628 W Division St as a Low-Affordability Community moves on to the next meeting.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 17/26

The next agenda item is the sale of city-owned property within the ChiBlockBuilder platform at 1953 E. 72nd to Walter Green and 6903 S Dorchester Ave to Theaster Gates.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 18/26

Ald Taylor and Ald Dowell want DPD to update the ChiBlockBuilder program to make sure that people who are buying side lots are maintaining and improving that property.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 19/26

These side lot properties are sold to Chicagoans at 10% of the market price in hopes of curbing vacant lots in the city.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 20/26

Ald. Taylor wants the DPD to do something about the market speculation driving the purchase of side lots in the Woodlawn community.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 21/26

O2024-0010198 passes on to the next meeting.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 22/26

O2024-0010195 sale of city-owned property within the ChiBlockBuilder platform at 7630 S Blackstone Ave to Evelyn Hurde and at 1316 E 73rd St to Andrea Carter also passes on to the next meeting.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 23/26

Agenda items 7-10 are passed as well. These properties were also sold under the ChiBlockBuilder program.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 24/26

Agenda items 11 & 12 are the sales of properties owned by the city to someone who resides in the adjacent property. The agenda items will be reported at the next meeting on July 17th.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 25/26

With no further business before the committee, Chairman Sigcho-Lopez calls for a motion to adjourn. The motion is seconded. The meeting is adjourned.

Ahmad Sayles @ahmad_sayles 26/26

Chicago City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate meeting ends at 2:28 p.m. This ends my coverage for @chidocumenters, find more information through Sheila Lewis’ notes at

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Attachments

Committee on Housing and Real Estate Agenda

By Sheila Lewis 7/10/2024

Committee on Housing Rule 45 Report

By Sheila Lewis 7/10/2024

Meeting details

By India Daniels 7/10/2024

Agency Information

Chicago City Council

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@ChiCouncil

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The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago and consists of the Mayor and Aldermen elected from each of the City’s fifty wards. Source

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