Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements and Housing
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Publish Date02/08/2019
AuthorSarah Freishtat, ERIN HEGARTY
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Edited BySuneela Farooqi
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Naperville’s Missed Chances to Create Affordable Housing

Naperville, Illinois, USA’s municipal has been wanted to fix the city’s affordable housing problem. They knew that this issue is very complicated and they will make a commitment to look at the issue and a training session to help city staff to define affordable housing. The city officials are failed to make any affordable living for their people. The affordable housing advocates said that the People come from a place of fear and don’t understand the benefits of creating a diverse community and also Politicians are not familiar with the process of building affordable housing. This is the main issue of the city of Naperville. Naperville has allowed a slew of residential developments to be built without prioritizing affordability. But now City council members will have to set up a policy for major developments including the Fifth Avenue project in which housing, retail, and office space on 13 acres of city land near Naperville’s popular Metra station.

Affordable housing advocates have suggested an ordinance that dictates a certain percentage of units in new residential developments be built as affordable. But local elected leaders have varying opinions on the proposal. Mary Beth Nagai with the DuPage Housing Alliance is one advocate who said Naperville city leaders aren’t doing enough to move the needle on affordable housing. The Illinois Housing Development Authority cited Naperville for not having enough housing that would be considered affordable for families making below the regional median income. In a 2013 report, the agency found just 6.3% of housing in Naperville was affordable, and in a 2018 report, 7.5% of the units were affordable.

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