CHICAGO June 17.2015
To the President and Members of the City Council:
Your Committee on Finance having had under consideration
A substitute ordinance authorizing the Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development to enter into and execute a Loan Modification and Subordination Agreement and to enter into a New Loan Agreement for Newberry Park Preservation Associates, LP.
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Amount of New City Loan:
Having had the same under advisement, begs leave to report and recommend that your Honorable Body pass the proposed Ordinance Transmitted Herewith
This recommendation was concurred in by
of members of the committee with
Respectfully submitted
Chairman
Document No.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE TO THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF CHICAGO
SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a home rule unit of government under Section 6(a), Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois and as such may legislate as to matters which pertain to its local government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the continuance of a shortage of affordable housing to persons of low and moderate income is harmful to the health, prosperity, economic stability and general welfare of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City, pursuant to the HOME Investment Partnership Program, received from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") an allocation of funds (the "HOME Funds") to make loans and grants to increase the number of families served with decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing and to expand the long-term supply of affordable housing; and
WHEREAS, the City has also received certain funds from HUD to make loans and grants to expand the long-term supply of affordable housing through, among other things, acquisition, new construction, reconstruction and moderate and substantial rehabilitation in low-and moderate-income areas ("Multi-Family Funds"); and
WHEREAS, the City...
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