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Planning is our Middle Name: MPC represents at the 2013 American Planning Association national conference
While MPC works on a broad range of issues from community development to transportation financing to stormwater mitigation and more, the thread that connects it all is found right in our name – planning. MPC’s long history and expertise in planning in the Chicago region and beyond is…
Anchor Institutions: Revitalization through Housing Investment
When, how, and how much should businesses invest in comminuty revitalization? At MPC's Feb. 27 roundtable, two employers made the case for housing investment. Speaking to an audience of employers, financial institutions, hospitals and universities, developers, municipalities, and community…
Tune in at noon for live broadcast of Employer-Assisted Housing roundtable
Streaming live at noon CST: Two Anchor Institutions, One Story of Revitalization through Housing Investment, an MPC roundtable about Employer-Assisted Housing. Watch from your desktop or mobile device!
Making single-family rental homes work for communities: Part 2
As the foreclosure crisis enters its seventh year, a growing number of single-family homes in the Chicago metropolitan area – some already foreclosed, some in the process of foreclosure – are being rented. Some are being rented by people who have lost their homes, while others are being…
Carpentersville business leader redeveloping foreclosed homes for local workers, families
Business leaders can help address their employees’ housing challenges in many ways, such as offering lunchtime credit counseling sessions, letting employees know about local and state rental and homeownership assistance programs, working with community leaders to market redeveloped homes in…
Employers help revitalize Philadelphia neighborhoods
  • By Christopher Waters
  • Aug 28, 2012
Last July, the City of Philadelphia re-launched Home∙Buy∙Now, our Employer-Assisted Housing (EAH) program, a public-private partnership to help working families buy homes in Philadelphia. The City’s $150,000 has leveraged $320,000 in employer dollars, which has led to $10 million in home…
Engineering firm reduces car fleet, saves money with I-GO Car Sharing
  • By Christopher B. Burke, PhD, PE, D.WRE, President, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.; Member, Metropolitan Planning Council Board of Governors
  • Aug 16, 2012
Our company, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. (CBBEL), of Rosemont, Ill., is proud to announce a unique partnership with I-GO Car Sharing, Chicago’s only local, nonprofit car sharing company. As we reduced our car fleet by more than 50 percent, we came to I-GO as the solution and became…
The Cities That Work Series: Employer-Assisted Housing a strategy for our mega-region
When business leaders ask why an employer might invest in employer-assisted housing, I often point to Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care’s model. Aurora Health Care provides $3,000 in downpayment assistance to help employees buy homes, and refers them to Select Milwaukee for credit counseling…
MPC invites area employers to partner in promoting stable housing market, workforce
On June 7 and 8, I joined business and civic leaders from around the country at the Clinton Global Initiative CGI America Meeting to identify solutions and make commitments to promote economic recovery. There was plenty of inspiration – from former President Clinton’s encyclopedic…
President Clinton addresses energy efficiency and other economic recovery strategies
While in Chicago for the Nobel Peace Prize winners’ summit, President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of business and nonprofit leaders – including me – on domestic economic recovery, including workforce development and energy efficiency initiatives. The conversation will…

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