Here at The Right Place we never forgot about renters — the majority of Chicagoans are renters. But the last five years of "eat-my-dust" real estate sales obscured what was happening in the rental market.
Now, it looks like some help has come for Cook County.
It seems the some important people who have the power and the cash to make a difference in Chicago's rental market have put their heads together and come up with a plan. The partnership of heavy hitters is called the Preservation Compact. Kate Grossman thoroughly reported on the announcement today in the Sun-Times Metro section but you can bet The Right Place will do some digging into this.
People will be able to view documents by pressing the Preservation Compact button on the ULI Chicago homepage.
I have also uploaded a few of them here.
Press Release
Partners
Action Plan
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