Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2022-3614

• Record #: SO2022-3614
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 11/7/2022
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Housing and Real Estate
• Final action: 11/16/2022
• Title: Designation of 1321 S Wood St as low affordability area
• Sponsors: Ervin, Jason C.
• Topic: CITY DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES - Housing, - TAX INCENTIVES - Miscellaneous

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/16/2022	56730	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
11/15/2022		Committee on Housing and Real Estate	Recommended to Pass
11/15/2022		Committee on Housing and Real Estate	Substituted in Committee
11/7/2022	55816	City Council	Referred

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WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a home rule unit of government under Section 6(a) of Article VII ofthe 1970 Constitution ofthe State of Illinois authorized to exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, the City has determined that the continuance of a shortage of affordable rental housing is harmful to the health, prosperity, economic stability and general welfare of the City; and

WHEREAS, the City's Department of Housing ("DOH"), through various programs, endeavors 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 Illinois General Assembly, pursuant to Public Act 102-0175, amended the state's Property Tax Code by adding Section 15-178, as the same may be hereafter amended, restated or supplemented from time to time ("Section 15-178"), to create a new program that provides a reduction in assessed value for property on which there is newly constructed and rehabilitated affordable rental housing ("Affordable Housing Special Assessment Program"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 15-178, the Cook County Assessor's Office (the "Assessor") is implementing the Affordable Housing Special Assessment Program; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 15-178, the City may designate a jurisdiction within the City as a "Low Affordability Community" by passage of an ordinance specifying a census tract or property by permanent index number or numbers; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 15-178, residential real property located within a Low Affordability Community may be eligible for a reduction in assessed value for such property, upon successful application to the Assessor, if the owner ofthe residential real property commits that for a period of 30 years after the newly constructed residential real property or improvements to existing residential real property are put in service, ...