Yeah Little Italy residents are really awful. God forbid they have to share the neighborhood with some lower-income families. I can't believe they'd rather have a vacant lot. Fortunately Ald. Ervin doesn't really give a crap about their NIMBY complaints. He might be sensitive to parking complaints but I doubt he will downsize the buildings. Can't believe I'm saying this but thank god for our gerrymandered ward map. If there was a white alderman representing the Near West Side it would be a NIMBY paradise like Norwood Park or something.
Any phasing for Roosevelt Square is basically a joke. Related keeps tweaking the income mix but per their agreement with CHA, they can't build enough market-rate units to actually be profitable. So they have to rely on a trickle of LIHTC tax credits to build everything, and those credits are highly competitive every year.
What I don't get is why Related claims they can't make market-rate townhouses pencil out in Little Italy, when the market for SFH and townhomes is the hottest we've seen in decades (condos not so much). Seems like you could literally print money with those.