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May

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Beyond Showerheads and Sprinklers: Water Governance Solutions for Illinois

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Chicago Green Festival

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Lake Michigan Watershed Academy Conference

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MPC ROUNDTABLE LUNCHEON Without a Safety Net: How can suburban communities prepare for new market realities and demographic changes?

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Illinois Tollway Board Meeting

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Housing

Led by the  Housing Committee, co-chaired by Joseph Gregoire and Bernard Loyd.

MPC’s public housing forum revisits the rehabs

The first Building Successful Mixed-Income Communities forum of 2008 explored the rehabilitation of CHA’s remaining family properties. | » More

ARTICLES/UPDATES

Access, Amenities, Opportunity: MPC launches Reconnecting Neighborhoods project

In partnership with the City of Chicago, Regional Transportation Authority, and HNTB, in November, MPC convened citywide stakeholders in community planning initiative in three neighborhoods.

Loyola University Chicago joins REACH Illinois

The school's new University Assisted Housing program is designed to help employees buy homes closer to work, with a particular focus on communities served by the CTA Red Line.

The secret of local housing success

Highland Park mayor testified before congressional briefing panel on Housing America's Workforce Act about value of employer involvement to create workforce housing.

Home Grown 2007

Home Grown: Local Housing Strategies in Action, the "living" collection of housing best practices implemented by local governments throughout the Chicago metropolitan region, has been updated for 2007.

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RESOURCES

Metropolitan Planning Council Media Guide to the 95th General Assembly: Affordable & Workforce Housing

Employer-Assisted Housing 2006 Year-End Report

This is the 2006 Year-End Report on Employer-Assisted Housing

Rolling Meadows: Preserving Local Housing Options in the Path of Redevelopment

The Metropolitan Planning Council’s work in Rolling Meadows is a part of its Community Building Initiative, which supports communities throughout the Chicago region in determining solutions to local development challenges, testing and refining policies and strategies, providing models for other communities, and creating a network of regional partners and contacts.

CHA Plan for Transformation — November 2005

One of the key principles that civic leaders embraced was the creation of affordable and market-rate homes side-by-side the redeveloped public housing.

U.S. Legislators Reviewing Housing America’s Workforce Act

Contact Information for Senate and House Committee Members

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MPC: Illinois needs to get back on the map with transportation innovations and investments

May 12, 2008

Children’s Museum collects another opponent: MPC

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Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Chicago Region Arts Scan

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