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Amendment of Municipal Code Creating New Section Entitled "City of Chicago Accountable Housing and Transparency Ordinance"
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, it is a public purpose of the City of Chicago (City) that all people in Chicago have safe, affordable, accessible, and long-term housing; and
WHEREAS, The City has determined that a shortage of affordable, accessible housing available to low- and moderate-income households is harmful to the health, prosperity, economic stability and general welfare of the City; and
WHEREAS, there is a scarcity of housing in Chicago for low-income individuals and families in need; and
WHEREAS, experts believe that there is a 120,000-unit gap between existing affordable housing units and those who need affordable housing units; and
WHEREAS, the City's publicly supported affordable housing investments must be marshalled to maximize access to affordable, accessible housing, and protect human life; and
WHEREAS, thousands of Chicagoans are forced to remain in congregate living facilities simply due to lack of access to publicly-supported affordable, accessible rental housing; and
WHEREAS, the existing decentralized waiting list procedures in city-supported affordable housing programs have demonstrably failed and continues to fail to match available people to available housing in anything like an acceptable amount of time i.e. the last independently evaluated average wait time being 4.3 years; and
WHEREAS, the City's investments in affordable housing are critical expenditures in the City's coordinated response to control, manage, and end chronic homelessness; and
WHEREAS, Ofthe 17,150 homeless families with children in Chicago 11,651 (68%) were doubled-up and 12,913 were minor children experiencing homelessness In addition, unaccompanied homeless youth, ages 14 through 24, totaled 13,966 individuals, of whom 12,706 (91%) were doubled-up; ofthe 26,206 homeless single adults (25 and older), 16,426 (63%) were dou...
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