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Dannetta Smith purchased her home in Park Forest with assistance from her employer's Employer-Assisted Housing program.
Communities Working Together to Address Shared Challenges
MPC is helping communities recognize and unleash the benefits of working together across governmental borders to tackle shared challenges. Even if all of the municipalities in the region had the staff capacity, political will and expertise to develop, implement and monitor the programs and policies necessary to address local development needs, many issues - such as housing, transportation and workforce development - do not adhere to municipal borders and can be more efficiently and effectively dealt with on an interjurisdictional basis. MPC is working with a variety of community collaborations around the region to help them address these issues.
Collaboratives:
South Suburban Housing Collaborative – Blue Island, Calumet Park, Country Club Hills, Dolton, East Hazel Crest, Ford Heights, Glenwood, Harvey, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Lynwood, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Orland Hills, Park Forest, Phoenix, Posen, Richton Park, Robbins, Sauk Village, South Chicago Heights, South Holland, Steger
West Cook County Housing Collaborative – Bellwood, Berwyn, Broadview, Forest Park, Maywood, Oak Park
North Suburban Workforce Housing Collaborative – Highland Park, Highwood, Lake Forest, Deerfield, Northbrook
Northwest Suburban Workforce Housing Collaborative – Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Rolling Meadows, Palatine
Articles
Model housing strategies in north and south suburbs share common theme: collaboration-
- Despite Illinois’ famous appetite for local control, with more units of local government than any other state, a new way of doing business – municipal collaboration – is proving effective and attracting both political and media attention. A group of communities in the south…
Disappointed, but still hopeful, in the wake of NSP2-
- The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced awardees for the second round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program foreclosure recovery funding. While MPC and our partners appreciated the significant allocations to the City of Chicago and Evanston, we also felt a sharp…
Recent federal announcements may bode well for the region-
- “We don’t have enough direct bus transportation. Everything feels just a little bit out of the way,” complained a resident of Chicago’s Near West community. These sentiments were echoed by many others living in Chicago’s Near West, Near North, and Mid-South communities…
- Federal incentives fueling Illinois progress
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- While social and economic progress never moves as quickly as policy reformers and advocates wish, the State of Illinois’ 2010 Comprehensive Housing Plan underscores how federal incentives can fuel local innovation.
Congratulations are in order for the state and its innovative plan, which…
- Local efforts aim to bridge the best of both worlds
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- Growing numbers of mayors are working across boundaries to meet local housing needs.
Multimedia
Map: Interjurisdictional Collaborations-
- As of Oct. 30, 2009, MPC and its partners are actively building several interjurisdictional partnerships throughout northeastern Illinois. Partnerships listed as 'potential' reflect initial conversations with local decision-makers.
Linking Housing to Prosperity: Successes & Opportunities-
- Listen to this recording of MPC's Oct. 23, 2009, roundtable featuring a panel discussion on local workforce housing successes and opportunities to shape federal investments to promote more livable communities. Panelists were Dorothy Shaw, director of state & local affairs for Northrop Grumman…
- Back to the Drawing Board? Revisiting local housing strategies during the market meltdown
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- Following the dramatic downturn in the housing market, local advocates and policymakers gathered to re-assess the primary housing policy initiatives they relied upon for many years. Suburban workforce housing, the Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation, and employer-assisted housing were…
- Bridging Boundaries: Mayors Partnering to Close the Jobs-Housing Gap
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- Local towns and employers in Chicago's north and northwest suburbs are showing how they are addressing shared housing and economic development challenges -- and helping more people live near work -- by working together.
Welcome Home: Housing Our Community-
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- September 22, 2005
- Welcome Home: Housing Our Community brings together mayors, developers, residents, and business people to talk about local solutions to housing - a growing crisis in our towns, in our region, and in our state.
This video is intended to help your town begin a constructive dialogue about how best…
Links
Regional Home Ownership Preservation Initiative- Arising out of a series of planning meetings held in the fall of 2008, Regional HOPI is a network of organizations working collaboratively to address the foreclosure crisis in order to develop and implement more coordinated and robust regional responses.
Working together, public, private and non-profit agencies are developing and implementing joint responses which: build on existing efforts; are actionable and feasible to accomplish; are replicable across the metro area or scalable to the… More info »
- Housing Trust of Santa Clara County
- The Housing Trust of Santa Clara County is a nonprofit organization created to be a catalyst for developing needed housing in Silicon Valley. Contributions from local employers and employer foundations, the County government, and all 15 Santa Clara County municipalities fund the trust. MPC hopes to emulate the strong corporate support achieved by this entity. More info »
- A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH)
- ARCH is a voluntary organization in suburban Seattle created in 1992 to establish a collaborative approach to solving local housing issues. Three cities and King County started ARCH, which has now grown to include 15 cities and the county. Members pool financial resources through a joint Housing Trust Fund, share best practices, and coordinate planning efforts. ARCH has served as an inspiration for MPC’s work on interjurisdictional housing strategies. More info »
- Metropolitan Mayors Caucus Housing Action Agenda
- The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus is a caucus of metropolitan Chicago’s 272 mayors working together to address shared economic development and affordable housing issues and more. Through the Housing Action Agenda, the Mayors Caucus is working to create safe, decent and affordable housing opportunities for all people in every community in the region. More info »
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