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City backs housing to help 'people rebuild their lives'
December 3, 2006
BY JANET RAUSA FULLER Staff Reporter
A slew of new "supportive housing" -- for recovering addicts, those formerly homeless, grandparents caring for their grandchildren and young adults transitioning out of state care -- is going up on the South and West sides.
Mayor Daley on Saturday detailed plans for
developments under way in North Lawndale, Washington Park and West Englewood totaling 164 new housing units.
In addition, the
run-down Viceroy Hotel at 1519 W. Warren, which dates to 1929, will be redeveloped into 150 units of single-room-occupancy housing, Daley said.
The city will cover
$42 million of the $64 million total cost of the projects, as well as provide 27 city-owned lots to be used as sites for the new buildings, which will offer residents on-site social services.
The developments, which will offer one- to four-bedroom apartments, are for people with incomes that are less than 50 percent of the area median.
"You can build any homes you want. But also you have to rebuild, I call it, the souls of people. It's helping people rebuild their lives," Daley said.