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: May 21, Monday, 4:30 pm, Hyde Park Bank Bldg. 4th fl. conference room.

CECD'S 2012 ANNUAL MEETING AND FORUM FEBRUARY 25, What's Happening to RENTAL HOUSINGin Hyde Park-Kenwood: Who Can Afford to Live Here Anymore, with speaker Geoff Smith of DePaul's Institute for Housing Studies and a panel of rental housing managers, was a smashing success. For IHS report on Affordable Rental Housing in Cook County, go to ihs.depaul.edu. Key data tables charts. Annual meeting report. Notes on what speaker and panelists sadi about rental housing. See pictures below.

CECD in May 2012 has received funding for a market demand and supply study of rental, affordable housing in Hyde Park and environs. Thank you to funders- details to be released soon.


Membership dues and contributions are timely. $15 individuals, $100 orgs. Send to CECD 1525 E. 53rd St. #907 60615
SEE THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER

THE DECEMBER 2011 UPDATE NEWSLETTER.

RECOMMENDED:
Through early April: This House Is Not A Home at SHoP, 5638 S. Woodlawn. Doug Shaeffer and 32 other local to international artists' work on display. Asks, what is a home to the exiled, abandoned, gypsy, foreclosed, and homeless? How is a home a commodity and a stage set for social interactions and social capital? How does on address the gap between the gated community and the housing project? What about the home and homeland security? What does this community need re housing?

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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.

As of April 1, 2012 there will be a new one-stop website for all recorded information on all property in Cook County:
www.cookcountypropertyinfo.com.

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

Pictures from the 2012 Annual Meeting, "What's Happening to Hyde Park Rental Housing?"

 

 

 



  The mission of the Coalition for Equitable Community Development is to convene residents, faith-based communities, civic, educational, and social organizations, and the business community in planning, guiding, and monitoring housing and related activities that will support the maintenance of an economically and racially diverse community in Hyde Park and Kenwood.

Membership and founding members/institutions

 

The Coalition for Equitable Community Development (CECD) is a 501c3 membership organization consisting of individuals, organizations, congregations, and businesses that live or do business in Hyde Park and Kenwood.

If you live or work in Hyde Park-Kenwood, you can become a member. Just download the membership application and send it in with your membership dues made out to Interfaith Open Communities (our fiscal agent .) Membership page and appeal.
Checks can be made out to Coalition for Equitable Community Development (or CECD) and sent to CECD at 1525 E. 53rd St. #907, Chicago, IL 60615. Phone - leave messages at 773 955-4455.

Our starters:
Winston Kennedy
John and Brenda Murphy
Pat Wilcoxen

Organizational Charter Members

Hyde Park Cluster, Interfaith Open Communities
Hyde Park and Illinois chapters Older Women's League
Hyde Park and Kenwood Intefaith Council- Peace and Social Concerns
Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference
Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce
K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Social Justice
University of Chicago Office of Community Affairs
Racial Justice Task Force and Social Justice Task Force, First Unitarian Church Chicago
57th Street Meeting of Friends
University Church Chicago

Officers and Committees

 
President George Rumsey Board of Directors- elected February 25, 2012
1st Vice President Pat Wilcoxen  
2nd Vice President Linda Thisted  
Secretary Gary Ossewaarde  
Treasurer Allison Hartman  
     

Board Members

   
    Martha Crosby (students/Southside Solidarity Network)
    Mark Granfors
el. 3-yr Feb. 2012   John Marlin
el. 1-yr Feb. 2012   Allison Hartman- Treasurer
    Betty Jackson
    John Murphy
    Rahsaan Morris
    David Nekimken
    Gary Ossewaarde
    George Rumsey
el. 3-yr Feb. 2012   Linda Thisted
el. 3-yr Feb. 2012   Pat Wilconxen
     
     
Committee chairs    
Affordable Housing Advocacy (AHA) Linda Thisted  
Community Planning Pat Wilxoxen  
Fundraising John Murphy  
Membership George Rumsey  
Research Mark Granfors  
     
Liaison-Interfaith Open Communs Ken Oliver  

Contacts and Complementary Sites

 
CECD President Pat Wilcoxen,

1525 E. 53rd St. #907, Chicago, IL 60615,
773 955-4455 (Computer Res.) or 773 288-8343
(Gary Ossewaarde in the office)

 
Interfaith Open Communities & Transitional Hsg. http://www.iocillinois.org/
   
Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference- hydepark.org coalition info (links to more) www.hydepark.org/affordablehousing/HPKaffordSteeringC.htm

hpkcc@aol.com
Sputhsiders Organized and United for Liberation  
Illinois/Hyde Park Older Women's League (OWL) http://www.owlillinois.org
Allison C. Hartman

General Meetings and Reports

 
April 29 2006 Forum (See announcement at top for upcoming meetings)
May 19 2007 Summit  
December 5 2008 CECD Organizational Meeting  
To Dec 5 State of Hsg HP Report- Ken Oliver  
February 20 2008 Kickoff  
May 14 2008 1st General Mtg (in preceding)  
May 14 Statement on the 53rd Cornell development (in preceding)  

October 18 How Will the Olympics Affect Affordable Housing in HPK?

 
Issue Paper on Olympics and Housing- Oct. 2008  
Reports February 28 2009 Annual Meeting

 

Stimulus Bill housing; Proposed for Illinois
SUMMER 2010 CECD NEWSLETTER
Changes coming to TIFs and departments
CECD endorses Sweet Home Ordinance-some TIF funds to affhsg

Final Sweet Ordinance (as passed watered down)
(more about ordinances and fight)
47th-Cottage development leverages subsidies into afford. hsg.

REPORT ON THE 4th Ward CANDIDATE FORUM Feb. 5, 2011 and Annual Meeting 2011.
Read Chicago Transition Team report
CECD Letter to Herald on Metra Fare Increases Sept. 2011
December 2011 Newsletter
CECD Feb. 25 2012 Annual Report. Key tables on rental housing from DePaul
Report on the rental housing talk and panel


 

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