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?"
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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 |
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| 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, |
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| 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
