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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Looks like Rosa’s little pet affordable housing project came back with a NIMBY inspired redesign.
To summarize:
Just as ugly
Now shorter with more parking
Yay for NIMBYs!
Yay for Rosa!
Dumb people are why we can’t have nice things
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Is this the Emmett St project? Where do you see this news?
The only way we can ever have affordable housing in gentrified or gentrifying parts of town like Logan Square is to build non-market housing. Bickerdike's plan does this without squeezing market-rate developers, so I don't understand why you're so opposed.
If the height has come down - don't really care so long as the unit count remains the same. They could have changed the massing to keep the same number of units at a lower building height.
If there is more parking - this is troubling, as the site sits right next to the CTA station. Regardless of where poor people work, this housing should be incentivizing them to take transit, or incentivizing people who DO take transit to apply for an apartment here.