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Side By Side: Revitalizing Urban Cores And Ensuring Residential Diversity, Andrea J. Boyack
Side By Side: Revitalizing Urban Cores And Ensuring Residential Diversity, Andrea J. Boyack
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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Freeing The City To Compete, James J. Kelly Jr.
Freeing The City To Compete, James J. Kelly Jr.
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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Home Sweet Home? What Massachusetts Can Tell Us About The Prospects For The Illinois Affordable Housing Planning And Appeal Act, Christian B. Hennion
Home Sweet Home? What Massachusetts Can Tell Us About The Prospects For The Illinois Affordable Housing Planning And Appeal Act, Christian B. Hennion
Chicago-Kent Law Review
By most accounts, it is apparent that the United States lacks sufficient affordable housing to satisfy its needs. In an effort to remedy its own "affordability gap," Illinois enacted the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeals Act, a largely market-driven measure that will provide frustrated developers with a new appeals mechanism from unfavorable local land use decisions. This new mechanism will empower a statewide appeals board to override local zoning decisions, under certain circumstances, in an effort to remove roadblocks to affordable housing construction. In taking this approach, Illinois follows the example of Massachusetts, which has had a similar measure in …