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Upcoming Joining Forces meetings
Joining Forces Monthly Member Meeting 1st Monday of the Month, 1-3PM Register for Monthly Meeting Here If you would like us to run a Affordable Housing 101 session for your group, please let us know at joiningforces@connect2home.org. Action Alerts
Participate in Our Last EZP Focus Groups
This is your last chance to give your input for the Equitable Zoning Project! Sign up now to secure your spot and make a difference. Calling on Skokie Housing Activists! Joining Forces for Affordable Housing is supporting efforts in Skokie to get an affordable housing plan in place and increase the amount of affordable housing. We are partnering with a new advocacy group, tentatively called Skokie Housing Justice. Action 1: Watch Listen & Learn Session held by the Village Watch January 19 Plan Commission video here. Action 2: Skokie Housing Justice Planning Meeting Sunday, January 29, at 3:00 P.M. Click here to access the Facebook event or search "Skokie Housing Justice - Open Community Meeting" if link doesn't work. Action 3: Attend Public Hearing #1 February 2, at 7:30 P.M. Click here for details. This is a good place to share your perspective! Action 4: Attend Public Hearing #2 March 2, at 7:30 P.M. Click here for details. This is a good place to share your perspective! hot topics and blog posts
Joining Forces' 2023 Goals
Here are the goals that Joining Forces for Affordable Housing will be focusing on in 2023: Read more here. Advocacy Spotlight: Rodney Dawkins
We'd like to introduce you to Rodney Dawkins. As the youngest of five, Rodney was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, in Bronzeville. He lived in the Uptown area for several years, then moved up to Skokie in 2021 and has lived there ever since. Read more here. How Zoning's Influence on Density Affected My Life -- Written by Nathaniel Hagemaster For a variety of reasons, I am not a car owner. This has put a variety of obstacles in my way, particularly when I lived in rural Texas and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. When I moved to Chicago and got a job at Connections for the Homeless and started learning about zoning, I came to realize how many of these obstacles weren’t created by my car-lessness but, instead, by a societal expectation that everyone drives and by the zoning that reinforces that expectation. Read more here. WHATS HAPPENING
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Looking at the City Code Through an Equity--and Affordability Lens
Joining Forces has identified changes the City of Evanston should make to its City Code to erase all traces of red-lining and increase affordability. We think surrounding municipalities should do revisions as well. Learn more here. in illinois
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Information from our national partners: housing in the news
Evergreen Plans Renovation of Historic Cleveland Building - From Affordable Housing Finance Going Green a Win-Win for Affordable Housing - From Affordable Housing Finance Prioritization in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs; A Framework of Strategies, Policies, and Procedures to Better Serve Priority Populations - From the National Low Income Housing Coalition Build Modular Housing Factories Near Areas with High Housing Costs - From Shelterforce What the US Can Learn from Rental Housing Markets across the Globe - From The Brookings Institute Bills to Increase Affordable Housing Resources Introduced in the House and Senate - From the National Low Income Housing Coalition How Biden Hopes to Fix the Thorniest Problem in Housing - From Politico Amy Klobuchar Has a Plan to Build More Housing - From Vox media Why Are Zoning Laws Defining What Constitutes a Family? - From Bloomberg CityLab Affordable Housing Forever- From The New York Times Study Examines Complexity of Financing LIHTC Developments- From Affordable Housing Finance |
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