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Regional Housing Initiative Brochure

  • Posted by Robin Snyderman, Vice President of Community Development
  • July 17, 2006

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The regional housing initiative is a new tool to make it easier to operate, develop, or rehabilitate mixed income, multi-family rental housing throughout the Chicago metropolitan region, particularly in areas of high job growth.
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