Coalition for Equitable Community Development
Promoting an Economically and Racially Diverse Community in Chicago's Hyde Park-Kenwood Neighborhood

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

Here: Mission, Membership/founders, Officers and Committees, Contacts and Co-sites, Meeting/other reports
Meetings, Events, Publications:
Board: February 20, 2012 ,4:30 pm, Concord House, 5225 S. Blackstone (3rd Mondays)

CECD'S 2012 ANNUAL MEETING AND FORUM FEBRUARY 25, Saturday, 10 am-noon. - What's Happening to RENTAL HOUSINGin Hyde Park-Kenwood: Who Can Afford to Live Here Anymore? Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn.
Speaker: Geoff Smith of the Depaul Housing Institute (which has recently issued a report on rental housing in Cook County); panel of local rental real estate management; questions may be submitted on cards at the start. Free, with refreshments.

THE DECEMBER 2011 UPDATE NEWSLETTER.

APPEAL: On Wednesday, January 18th, please call Attorney General Madigan at 312-814-3000 and tell her:
My name is _______________ and I am an Illinois voter. I am urging that you pull out of the 50 state Attorney General settlement unless the big banks pay the $700 billion they cost defrauded homeowners, and are only absolved of liability for robosigning* and nothing else. Do not let the Wall Street banks off the hook!
(* "robosigning" was the set of widely-considered fraudulent methods by which buyers were steered from conventional mortgages for which they may have qualified to unconventional, and/or documents fraudulently executed.)

Recommended: January 24, 25, 27. Charrettes on Plan 2.0 on homelessness in Chicago, by Coalition to End Homelessness in Chicago. At Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington. Jan. 24 Tues- 9:30 Employment, 12:30 Permanent housing supply, 3 Systematics integration. Jan. 25, Wed- 9:30 Coordinating Access and Prevention, 1 pm Alternative and rapid rehousing, 3 pm Youth. Jan 27, Friday, 2-4 pm. Public Feedback.

2011 CECD ANNUAL MEETING AND 4 TH ALD. CANDIDATES FORUM WAS HELD SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5 2011. Report is with the following.
REPORT ON THE 4TH WARD ALDERMANIC CANDIDATE FORUM and annual meeting minutes.

Membership dues and contributions are also timely. Send to CECD 1525 E. 53rd St. #907 60615
SEE THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER

Report: October 18, 2008 Public CECD forum: "Will the Olympics Affect OUR Housing in Hyde Park-Kenwood?"
Report: February 28 2009 Annual Meeting: Updates on state and federal efforts to make homes affordable and keepable.
In "2008-2009 Agenda" see outcome of push for afforable housing in Olympics benefit agreement, current board and committee actions.
View/print CECD 2009 in Review (presented to 2010 annual meeting).
****View/print CECD Summer 2010 NEWSLETTER

CECD Brochure in pdf
Olympics issue paper

Read article on Sr. Affordable rental options in the city and area.

Read Draft 16 of proposed ordinance allocating 20% of total city TIF fund to affordable housing. Read about in http://www.hydepark.org/affordablehousing/affhsginfo.htm. Vote on rival ordinances deferred to at least Jan 13.
September 20 2010 the CECD board voted to endorse this ordinance- see letter and more about this evolving issue.
Read Letter Sept. 2011 from CECD to Hyde Park Herald on Metra fare increases.

THREE MEMBERS OF THE CECD BOARD SERVED ON THE TRANSITION TEAM OF ALD. ELECT WILL BURNS:
Gary Ossewaarde, George Rumsey, and Pat Wilcoxen