Dear Senators: My name is Jon Adams, and I am a leader at ONE Northside. I also am a resident of Wilson Men’s Hotel (and a member of our tenant’s assocation), a Single Resident Occupancy building in Uptown where tenants [...]
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Loris Tillet, Education Team Leader Loris Tillet is a parent leader on ONE Northside’s Education team. She came to the United States as a child, from Belize, in order to receive the best possible learning opportunities. “School for me, [...]
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The Convention is ONE week away — have you registered? We’re spotlighting leaders on each of our issue teams each week until the Convention. You can see previous weeks here. Bea Westrate, Economic Justice Leader Bea Westrate is a long-time resident [...]
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ONE Northside’s anti-gentrification team is joining the Lift the Ban coalition, statewide coalition of organizing groups fighting to to lift the ban on Rent Control in Illinois. ONE Northside’s team decided to join this coalition because because our communities are some of the most impacted in Chicago by gentrification and extremely high market rents. The […]
Yesterday, January 31, 2018, ONE Northside, along with affordable housing developers (including Heartland, NHP, Garfield Park Community Council, Lightengale Group, Trilogy, IHDC, the Shriver Center, and realtor SVN Partners), met with the Mayor’s Office and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) around Single Room Occupancy (SRO) preservation. SRO preservation has recently been in the […]
ONE Northside has officially revoked our support for City Pads Chicago’s 6145 N. Broadway proposed development. Starting in late 2016, ONE Northside and Edgewater community members had many fruitful discussions with City Pads Chicago’s Founder and Managing Principal, Andy Ahitow, as he purchased and made plans for housing and retail development at 6145 N. […]
Ready to fight for affordable housing? Get involved with ONE Northside. As HUD Secretary Ben Carson visited Chicago today, renters and tenants in affordable housing demanded he address the national affordable housing emergency, holding signs that said “This is a housing crisis!” and “Renters are the real affordable housing experts.” As Jane Addams Senior Caucus […]