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( Paper 1 ) Housing Stats
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Housing turnover by income Household Income, Child Living Arrangement 19902000 % population above 50K1735 % population above 100K1.05.7 % Children in two-parent household7969
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Housing turnover by race Racial Demographics197019802000 % of Hispanic persons in total population 3.368.1 % of white persons in total population 94.129.4 % of African-Americans in total population 0.11.0
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Reason for demographic shift Gentrification? Smith says NO; Need the following qualifications: No housing deterioration No rent gap No Suburbanites or “outsiders” Eastside has low land values
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(Paper 2) The Housing Bust and Assessment of Alternative East Side Single Family Housing Sales/Transactions Year# Foreclosures Total # TransactionsPercentage of foreclosures 2001173954% 2005175343% 200694642% 20072234413% 20083124313% 20093923117% 20104420222% 20112214115.6%
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Alternatives to Save Eastside Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) ↓ City of Chicago ↓ Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS) ↓ 2 Eastside Stakeholders
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(Paper 3) Components of New Urbanism In Lake Calumet and Eastside
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Specified Components for the “Greening” of Eastside Walkability -Most things within a 10-minute walk of home and work -Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets) -Pedestrian streets free of cars in special cases Access to Nature -Eastside is “land-locked”; must drive to access water and natural habitat Connectivity -Would need to raze housing -Add “rails-to trails” and pedways
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Stakeholders: Southeast Environmental Taskforce Openlands Project Sierra Club- Illinois Chapter Bird Conservation Network Historic Pullman Foundation Vet's Park Improvement Assn. Lake Michigan Federation Friends of the Parks Pullman Civic Organization Peace Pipe Prairie Project Calumet Ecological Park Assn.
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Lake Calumet Vision Document Proposals North turning basin: open water used for non-motorized recreational watercraft. Western peninsula: proposed public recreational area with picnicking and fishing lagoon. Southwestern shore: restored wildlife habitat. Northern slip: proposed wooded camping area. Floating bicycle bridge: to connect western Calumet with eastern Calumet and protect watercraft in north basin (4)
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