A new affordable housing development is underway in Logan Square, aimed to provide families and longtime residents with 89 affordable housing units in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
by the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University. The report found that the share of affordable units in the area went down from 40% in 2012-2014 to 25% in 2019-2021.
“Logan Square is starting to become known as this place of really expensive studios and condos,” said Gary Jimenez, housing organizer at Palenque LSNA, whose organization supports the Encuentro Square development. In addition to housing unaffordability and concerns of displacement, Jimenez said longtime Logan Square residents tell him they feel they’re losing a sense of community as their friends and family move out of the neighborhood because of higher rent.
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