DuPage United assembled more than 250 residents to celebrate an affordable housing win in Glen Ellyn and to call for five similar developments across DuPage County
Affordable Housing
DuPage United assembled more than 250 residents to celebrate an affordable housing win in Glen Ellyn and to call for five similar developments across DuPage County
We have long called for more affordable housing in suburban Chicago.
Hardworking but low-paid workers should be able to live in the counties where hey toil. Young people just starting their careers should be able to afford a home in the towns where they grew up. And older empty nesters shouldn't have to leave their communities to downsize.
But affordable housing has not always been a priority for elected officials in the suburbs.
That appears to be changing in recent years.
CHICAGO - July 17, 2022 – Gun safety, mental illness and affordable housing were the key topics during a community action meeting Sunday afternoon at “House of Hope” on the South Side.
There, hundreds of faith and community leaders called on Senator Dick Durbin and other officials to provide the funding necessary to implement policies to improve the well-being of residents across the city and state.
Read more in the WGN News report.