For the past decade, market-rate construction has leaned heavily toward studio and one-bedroom units
Safia Matariyeh and her four children, Amelia, 8, right, Alina, 6, left, and 2-year-old twins Dina and Zayn hang out in the kitchen of their apartment at the Optima Signature building on Aug.17, 2023, in Chicago. The family has lived there for nearly three years.
A 2020 report from the Chicago Department of Housing finds that for the past decade, market-rate construction has leaned heavily toward studio and one-bedroom units, which, in turn, has shaped affordable housing production.
Hertz said since 2021, under the Affordable Requirements Ordinance regulations, the department has tried to nudge developers toward building more family-sized units by crediting developers for more than one unit if they turn a smaller unit into one with multiple bedrooms. The department has historically been better able to shape projects that receive city funding, he said.
In 2019, the Department of Housing put out a request for proposals for the redevelopment of the site, which the Trust for Public Land had originally acquiredduring the planning and construction of The 606, according to the news release. The development of Encuentro Square — which sits on the site of a former factory — is a collaborative effort between local nonprofit housing developer Latin United Community Housing Association and Chicago-based Evergreen Real Estate Group.
While they did not get this feedback in Logan Square, Block said one of the challenges to building family-sized housing can be that it brings out people in the NIMBY camp — those whose response to increased development is “not in my backyard” — since people tend to assume that more kids around the neighborhood means more trouble. Evergreen does not currently have any other developments in the construction pipeline focused on family-sized units in Chicago apart from Encuentro Square.
Smith said the question of if there are enough family-sized units in the city is in some ways “a chicken and egg type of question”: Some people argue rising rents and the limited housing stock for families are pushing people out of the city, whereas others argue that families are voluntarily leaving the city, with developers then building smaller units to meet the demand for those smaller households.
Teneisha Robles, 30, moved to Lathrop three years ago and lives with her husband and three kids in a three-bedroom apartment.
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