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Homes for a Changing Region

Solutions for balancing the region’s housing stock

As Chicagoland residents’ housing preferences change, MPC, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning are working with municipalities to create and update housing plans through the Homes for a Changing Region initiative and online Homes toolkit.

Issue

As the shifting housing market alters people’s housing preferences—and vice versa—many communities are struggling to re-evaluate their current and future housing plans.

Solutions

The groundbreaking Homes for a Changing Region planning process enables municipal leaders to chart future demand and supply trends for housing in their communities and develop long-term housing policy plans based on sound market research and input from their residents.

Homes for a Changing Region is a collaboration between municipal officials, their staff and community residents, led by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and Metropolitan Planning Council.

Since 2005, Homes for a Changing Region has crafted housing policy plans for more than 30 communities. The three most recent Homes processes were conducted as collaborations between clusters of four or five adjacent communities, enabling them to pursue shared strategies and access new resources and tools.

 

 

Benefits

See the case studies in Home Grown or our five-part Homes for a Changing Region blog series to learn how communities are already taking advantage of the recommendations laid out by their Homes plans.

Collaborators

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus


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