WOODLAWN HOUSING WORKING GROUP MEETING 1
Summary of DOH’s Community Engagement on Housing in Woodlawn from Oct. 2019 – Feb. 2020 Date Community Meeting In January alone DOH 1 Oct. 29 Housing Working Group Meeting # 1 has been part of meetings to provide 2 Nov. 5 Housing Working Group Meeting # 2 information and listen 3 Nov. 12 Housing Working Group Meeting # 3 to over 320 residents . 4 Nov. 19 Housing Working Group Meeting # 4 DOH has spent more than 216 staff hours in 5 Dec. 5 Focus Group meeting - Institutional Stakeholders 32 meetings in 6 Dec. 5 Focus Group- West Woodlawn Coalition Woodlawn since July. 7 Dec. 12 Focus Group meeting - Homeowners 8 Dec. 13 Focus Group meeting - Renters 9 Dec. 17 Focus Group - STOP 10 Dec. 17 Housing Working Group Meeting # 5 11 Jan. 27 Woodlawn, South Shore Stakeholders’ meeting 12 Jan. 28 Hairston Ward Office 13 Jan. 28 CBA Coalition meeting – listened to session 14 Jan. 28 NOW Meeting 15 Jan. 30 Open House 16 Feb. 24 Housing Working Group Meeting # 6 2
Housing Ordinance Goals: WOODLA LA WN ✓ Help protect existing residents from displacement AFFORDA BLE ✓ Create new rental and for-sale housing opportunities that HOUSIN ING are affordable to at a range of incomes IN INIT ITIATIVE ✓ Ensure that existing housing stock offers good quality housing for residents ✓ Promote housing options to support equitable and inclusive income diversity in Woodlawn H o p ✓ Support economic development opportunities e s F e a r 3 s
Section in Who Financial Goal / ordinance New Programs Affordability levels Benefits? Key Asset and page # Sec.1 Name: Woodlawn Housing Preservation WOODLA page 5 Ordinance WN 75% Affordable to families AFFORDA Disposition of City-owned land in earning up to $96,200 for a Woodlawn for the development of Sec. 2 BLE LE household of 3 (up to 120% Homeownership units . Sets affordability All page 5 AMI) requirements for residentially zoned City- HOUSIN ING Target goal: 117 affordable owned vacant land for for-sale units. units and 39 market rate units INIT IN ITIATIVE New developments of 15 units or more= 20% 208 city-owned affordability residentially zoned 10% at 80 % AMI parcels Disposition of City-owned land in 5% at 50% AMI Woodlawn for the development of rental 5% at 30% AMI Sec. 3 units. Sets affordability requirements for page 5 residentially zoned City-owned vacant land New developments of 6-14 for rental units. units = 10% affordability 10% at 80% AMI Target goal: 83 affordable units and 333 market rate 4 units
Section in Financial Goal / ordinance and New Programs Who Benefits? Affordability levels Key Asset page # Enhanced local hiring requirements: Requires enhanced local hiring for WOODLA All residents regardless of Sec. 4 page 6 residential developments that receive All income WN city land and a competitive selection process AFFORDA BLE LE Design Guidelines: requires all HOUSIN ING developments on city-owned land to Sec. 5 page 7 All follow design guidelines and to be in IN INIT ITIATIVE accordance with community plans PEAR: Preservation of Existing Affordable Property Low income households Rental - Helps existing apartment Sec. 6 page 8 Owners and $1.5 M 80% AMI or below building owners refinance to retain Renters Target goal: 100 units tenants and affordable rents Low to Moderate income Renew Woodlawn: For-sale program households Sec. 7 page 7 consisting of the renovation of existing 1- Homeowners $.5 M 60 – 120% AMI 2 unit homes Target goal: 20 units 5
Financial Goal / Key New Programs Who Benefits? Affordability levels Asset Very low to Residential Acquisition and $1.5 M City + $7 – moderate income Sec. 8 Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Fund: Help Homeowners and 10 M from banks households WOODLA page 7 create new housing units by Renters and lending 80 – 120 % AMI WN rehabilitating vacant buildings institutions Target goal: 150 units AFFORDA BLE LE HOUSIN ING Low to Moderate Sec. 9 Long-Term Homeowner Repair Grant income households page 8 Longtime homeowners $ 1 M IN INIT ITIATIVE Program: grants for home repairs 120% AMI or below Target goal: 67 units Tenant Right of First Refusal: Gives Sec. 10 All tenants renters the right of first refusal if a Tenants page 8 regardless of income landlord seeks to sell his/her building DOH preservation initiatives For 5 yrs. DOH will 1)track legally restricted Sec. 11 affordable hsg. in Woodlawn 2) All page 15 reconvene hsg. working group 3)work with DePaul IHS on data 6
Thank you Housing Working Group Participants! First Name Last Name Organization First Name Last Name Organization Alderwoman Taylor 20th Ward Alderman Duwain Bailey Network of Woodlawn Jeanette Sean Carr W. Woodlawn Coalition / NW quadrant Alderman Leslie Hairston 5th Ward Alderman Kimberly Webb COS = Hairston 5th ward Quandra Speights Woodlawn, NAACP, DuSable Joan Fadayiro 20th Ward Taylor office Linda Tinsley STOP and resident at POAH's bldg. West Woodlawn Coalition / NW Jeane Clark Sharon Payne STOP Quadrant WECAN : Woodlawn East Community Alex Goldenberg STOP CBA Venus Scott and Neighbors, Inc. Michele Williams STOP, CBA, ITTA Margarett Brewer Grove Parc Tenant Assoc. Aaron Garel Kimbark Tenant Association Myriam Weaver Woodlawn home owner Deidra McGraw Woodlawn Community Summit Hope Hundkey Woodlawn home owner Felicia Dawson POAH Benetta Young Cory Thames Obama Foundation Colleen Fuller Emerald South Economic Development Ghian Foreman Collaborative Liz Gardner U Chicago Community Partnerships Raven Devaughn Wendy Williams University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement Dr. Byron Brazier Network of Woodlawn Brown Evelyn Devondrick Jeffers STOP Mallatte Gregory Home owner Conswaila Sydnor Davis George Davis Maya Hodari Bennetta Young Quandra Speights Help One Save One Lena Bivins Bill Eager POAH 7
Next Steps ! • Please share info with your networks • Draft ordinance is posted on the website. City of Chicago Department of Housing • Email comments to email on website DOH@cityofchicago.org with a deadline for public comments of Friday, March 6 • Letter from Mayor • Follow-up with Ald. Taylor, Ald. Hairston and Mayor Lori Lightfoot 8
OPC Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance Item Summary CBA WIN DOH/DOL Response DOH has launched an Inclusionary Housing Task Force with results due mid-2020. DOH may eliminate all existing ARO pilots, so would A. ARO Pilot not make sense to create a pilot in Q1 that we undo in Q3. We plan to have a response as to how the ARO treats gentrifying census tracts citywide. B. Locally Controlled Community Land ✓ Existing. Chicago Owners Land Trust already exists, or residents can create a different Trust at any time. Trust City-owned Land - For Sale: All sales 100% affordable, w exemption for Yes. Based on feedback from the working group and in alignment with CL4WF, our city-owned residential land sales proposal is 75/25. ✓ City Lots for Working Families which C. We appear to be in agreement, although recently the request was made for 100% affordable. allows 75% affordable, 25% market- rate City-Owned Land - Rental Units : Development without city subsidy Not feasible. The market rents in Woodlawn are not high enough to support this proposal. The numbers we ran show a $220k D. requires 70% affordable at 30-50% operating deficit. This would mean no private residential development on city-owned land for the foreseeable future. AMI Not feasible. Each project serves different populations and demand changes over time. We can - and have already started to - push E. Large Bedrooms developers to do more 2- and 3-bedroom units but DOH is not comfortable with quotas on something that should be flexible. Land Trust - option to satisfy ✓ affordability requirements by Existing. The Land Trust already holds for-sale ARO units, and owners can opt into the Trust at any time. F. placing units in Land Trust Community Engagement: Public meeting requirements for ✓ DOH is proposing to reconvene the Woodlawn Housing Working Group every 6 months, and to work with DePaul IHS to update data developments and the Mayor's G. annually on changing land values in Woodlawn, South Shore and Washington Park. Office forms a displacement task force. ✓ H. Community Trust Fund Need not be in a City ordinance. I. Commercial Linkage Fee Not feasible. DOL had major concerns with this. J. Community Opportunity to ✓ Yes. The City agrees and has proposed a Woodlawn Right of First Refusal pilot. Purchase 9 This requires state-level action, which DOH is amenable to working on together. Note: the United Center has not enacted a property K. Property Tax Exemption tax freeze for surrounding residents and paid for it itself. In fact, the United Center received a property tax break.
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